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Brenthurst Foundation plays promoter of North American interests in Lusaka

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema at the launch of Greg Mills' book Expensive Poverty on 27 January 2022 in Johannesburg. © Hakainde Hichilema/Twitter

Greg Mills, head of South Africa's Brenthurst Foundation, is showing himself to be increasingly influential with Zambian head of state Hakainde Hichilema. He has recently brokered talks on such major issues as the opening of an Africom bureau in Lusaka and a multi-million dollar investment programme in Zambia by First Quantum Minerals. [...]

Published on 13.06.2022 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Brenthurst Foundation plays promoter of North American interests in Lusaka

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President Hichilema pampered by Biden administration in Washington

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African opposition figures mingle with elder statesmen in Italian village

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Air Force flies in to support Hichilema's mining strategy

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South Africa
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Lusaka looks to wind power to compensate for faltering dam output

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Hakainde Hichilema shakes up State House to eclipse ancien régime

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The Oppenheimers ambivalent about tax planning