Zambia’s President Hakainde \u200bHichilema on Wednesday appointed \u200cBrenda Tambatamba as the Southern African copper-producing country’s \u200bnew mines minister, among cabinet \u200bchanges after he won \u2060a second term \u200bin August’s election.<\/p>\n
Tambatamba served as \u200blabour minister in Hichilema’s previous cabinet.<\/p>\n
Before entering politics, she \u200bworked as a \u200bsustainability manager at Barrick’s Lumwana mine.<\/p>\n
Africa’s second-largest \u200ccopper \u2060producer is targeting annual output of 3 million metric tons, nearly triple \u200bcurrent \u200blevels, \u2060as it seeks to capitalise on \u200bgrowing demand for \u200bthe \u2060metal used in EV, power networks and construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Zambia’s President Hakainde \u200bHichilema on Wednesday appointed \u200cBrenda Tambatamba as the Southern African copper-producing country’s \u200bnew mines minister, among cabinet \u200bchanges after he won \u2060a second term \u200bin August’s election. Tambatamba served as \u200blabour minister in Hichilema’s previous cabinet. Before entering politics, she \u200bworked as a \u200bsustainability manager at Barrick’s Lumwana mine. Africa’s second-largest \u200ccopper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,33,30],"tags":[536,394],"class_list":["post-22455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-politics","category-southern-africa","tag-hakainde-hichilema","tag-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22456,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455\/revisions\/22456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}