Zambia's mines privatisation drive backfires

As Botswana embarks on the envisaged privatisation of its major parastatal companies like Air Botswana, the country would do well to tread carefully to avoid pitfalls that have crippled Zambia's once thriving copper mining industry and thrown thousands of workers onto the streets, writes TERENCE MUSUKU

NDOLA: Mining is risky. Judged empirically, working in underground mining operations is more dangerous than hunting man-eating lions in the Chobe or any other national game reserve in the Southern African region.

Far more people - underground miners to be precise - get killed in underground accidents each year in Zambia, as elsewhere in the world, than those who get mauled by ravenous lions.

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