As Zambia gears up for the presentation of the 2027 national budget, the President of the Association of Zambian Women in Mining (AZWIM), Namakau Kaingu, has urged the government to translate years of promises into concrete actions that address the longstanding challenges faced by women in the small-scale mining sector. In an interview with the Zambian Business Times (ZBT), Kaingu outlined her top three expectations from the upcoming budget, with a strong focus on empowering women miners.Kaingu emphasized that, despite repeated submissions and advocacy stretching back decades, the core challenges for women in mining remain unaddressed, particularly access to equipment...
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