{"id":11506,"date":"2012-06-15T11:23:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T09:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/factbox-political-risks-to-watch-in-zambia\/"},"modified":"2012-06-15T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T09:23:17","slug":"factbox-political-risks-to-watch-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/factbox-political-risks-to-watch-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTBOX-Political risks to watch in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Chris Mfula<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LUSAKA, June 15<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Campaigns in Zambia for<br \/>\nparliamentary by-elections next month have the potential to<br \/>\nspark political violence while investors are worried<br \/>\nprivatisation deals struck by the former president could be<br \/>\nreversed in a crackdown on suspected graft.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The government in Africa&#8217;s top copper producer, in place<br \/>\nsince September, has angered its political foes with the probes<br \/>\ninto corruption and may find it difficult to push laws through<br \/>\nparliament against an increasingly united opposition.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Investors were rattled by its move to double the royalties<br \/>\nit charges mining companies on base metals and frequent power<br \/>\nshortages look set to worsen the problems facing the industry.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ratings agency Fitch in March downgraded Zambia&#8217;s outlook to<br \/>\nnegative from stable, saying it was on the wrong path.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ELECTION CAMPAIGNS<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Elections are scheduled for July 5 in three constituencies<br \/>\nfollowing the death of one member of parliament and<br \/>\nnullification of results in two constituencies.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zambia&#8217;s parliament has 158 MPs &#8211; 150 elected and eight<br \/>\nnominated by the president.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Mfula LUSAKA, June 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Campaigns in Zambia for parliamentary by-elections next month have the potential to spark political violence while investors are worried privatisation deals struck by the former president could be reversed in a crackdown on suspected graft. The government in Africa&#8217;s top copper producer, in place since September, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}