MWILA NTAMBI, Kitwe

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has challenged the business community and mining houses to partner and revive the once vibrant engineering companies on the Copperbelt. The President said engineering companies were the backbone of the mining industry back in the 1970s and 80’s but because of free market policies, the industrial areas became deserted. “I want to encourage mining houses and the business community to work together and come up with proposals of reviving the local engineering support base for our mining industry,” he said. The President said this in a speech read on his behalf by Minister of Agriculture Rueben Mtolo at the opening of the Copperbelt Agriculture Mining Industrial and Networking Exposition (CAMINEX) show in Kitwe yesterday. He said since the structures are  CLICK TO READ MORE