{"id":239211,"date":"2026-07-21T19:11:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-how-a-canadian-mining-giant-infiltrated-zambias-democracy\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:11:44","slug":"africa-how-a-canadian-mining-giant-infiltrated-zambias-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-how-a-canadian-mining-giant-infiltrated-zambias-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: How a Canadian Mining Giant Infiltrated Zambia&#8217;s Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">A Global Witness investigation finds evidence that First Quantum Minerals and its associates have run a decades-long covert influence campaign over Zambia&#8217;s democracy, bankrolling President Hichilema, with revenues diverted away from the copper-rich nation&#8217;s indebted economy and its people<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">PDF: How a Canadian mining giant infiltrated Zambia&#8217;s democracy<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/globalwitness.org\/documents\/1035\/How_a_Canadian_mining_giant_infiltrated_Zambias_democracy.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Resource <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Since August 2021, when businessman Hakainde Hichilema was elected Zambia&#8217;s president, the copper-rich African nation has been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607210157.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Global Witness investigation finds evidence that First Quantum Minerals and its associates have run a decades-long covert influence campaign over Zambia&#8217;s democracy, bankrolling President Hichilema, with revenues diverted away from the copper-rich nation&#8217;s indebted economy and its people PDF: How a Canadian mining giant infiltrated Zambia&#8217;s democracy Download Resource Since August 2021, when businessman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,10903,4854,10414,43231,6477,257,254,881,8982],"class_list":["post-239211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-canadian","tag-democracy","tag-giant","tag-infiltrated","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}