Category: Sustainable Development

  Dr. Keabetswe Modimoeng has been appointed as Corporate Affairs and Stakeholder Relations Group Executive for Multichoice Africa with effect from January 2023. Dr Modimoeng will report to Collen Dlamini (Group Executive Corporate Affairs), and he will be a member of the Multichoice Africa Executive Team. Dr Modimoeng is the former executive chairperson of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA). His achievements at ICASA include the historic radio frequency spectrum auction in 2022, which was widely hailed as a key structural economic reform to improve competition in the South African economy. He is a former award-winning Sunday Times...

Book Review Title: Voters in Shadows Author: Hicks Sikazwe Publishers: HPS Communications Pages: 323 WHILE many scholars argue that only ethnicity drives voting behaviour in Africa, recent quantitative work finds government performance also matters. But under what conditions do Africans use ethnicity or performance to inform their vote? Veteran journalist and author Hicks Sikazwe answers all these electoral intricacies in his classic latest book Voters in the Shadow by arguing authoritatively that the importance of ethnicity and performance is conditional on whether voters evaluate co-ethnics and incumbent candidates. In chapter one under the title Violence, murder, fraud, intimidation in Africa...

Implement 2022 projects, ZEHEST’s Clarence Moonde Muzyamba prods Zambian Government  By Saeed Simon Banda Zambian Empowerment Hub for Entrepreneurship and Skills Training (ZEHEST) Executive Director Clarence Moonde Muzyamba has advised the UPND government to focus more on implementing the projects that they talked about more in 2022. Mr. Muzyamba says the UPND government talked more about good projects in 2022 that if implemented, could develop the country in 2023. Muzyamba says there is need for government to introduce more renewable energies that will be used in times of load shedding. Muzyamba urged government to increase funding for entrepreneurship programmes stating...