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MIKALILE, AN ENTREPRENEUR WHO SHOULD INSPIRE EVERY NORMAL ZAMBIAN-Actually, the government of Zambia borrowed 300 million dollars from Mikalile, at least 5 years ago to finance public service delivery.

As we talk about the famous debt restructuring, did you even know that Mikalile Trading Company of Hong Kong, wholly owned by a Zambian entrepreneur, Dr. Stephen Mulenga Mikalile is the only Zambian company on the list of Zambia's external creditors?

Briefly, Dr. Stephen Mulenga is the chairman of the Mika Group of Companies. Under this umbrella; he owns Mika Hotels & Hospitality which includes a number of hotels in Lusaka and Livingstone. He owns a major meat processing and butchery company with operations in Zambia and Tanzania called "Mika Meats". In importing and exporting of office and home furniture and building materials in 2006 he opened Mikalile Trading Ltd which remains operational and has expand across Zambia and beyond borders. He also runs Mika Clearing & Forwarding, which is more active in Tanzania. The company is also into farming as well as mining and has presence in Zambia, Tanzania, Angola, and China.

Echoing the above, according to Africa Business Pages website, Mikalile started business in the year, 2000. His main business was supplying electronic goods, furniture, baby gifts, and general merchandise to different shop owners on the Copperbelt, Kabwe and Lusaka.

His company imported the listed items from around the world: dealing directly with manufacturers from South America, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand and South Korea-which made their prices very competitive.

Mikalile has supplied and delivered goods to many institutions, both public and private such as; Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Local Government, Legal Aid Board, The National Assembly, Mulungushi Conference Center, Ministry of Defense (Zambia Army, ZNS, ZAF), The University of Zambia, Evelyn Hone College.

HOW TO USE K10,000 WITHOUT KILLING YOUR SIDE HUSTLE (READ THIS BEFORE YOU START)

The problem is not lack of ideas.
It’s how people deploy the K1m.

Most hustles fail not because they’re slow but because the money is misused in week one.

RULE 1: SPLIT THE K10,000 BEFORE YOU TOUCH IT

Never deploy all your money at once.

Correct split:
• 60% – working capital (stock, inputs)
• 20% – operating buffer (rent, fuel, shocks)
• 20% – reserve (do not touch)

People who use 100% on stock panic first.

RULE 2: MATCH CAPITAL TO SPEED

If your hustle is:
• Food / services / transport → rotate cash DAILY
• Trading → rotate cash WEEKLY
• Skills → protect cash MONTHLY

If money is sleeping longer than the hustle speed, you chose wrong.

RULE 3: PAY YOURSELF LAST

Side hustles die because owners:
• eat from stock
• borrow from sales
• mix household money with business

Rule:
-Hustle pays itself first.
-You get paid after replenishment.

RULE 4: AVOID “UPGRADE DISEASE”

Week 2 mistakes:
• bigger tent
• flashy branding
• unnecessary equipment
• lifestyle upgrade

Upgrade only after 3 full cash cycles.

Revenue first. Pride later.

RULE 5: KNOW WHEN TO MOVE UP

When should you upgrade?
When:
• capital rotates fast
• stock replaces itself comfortably
• stress is reducing, not increasing

Speed → Stability → Scale
Never reverse the order.

FINALLY

K10,000 is not small money.
But it is very impatient money.

If you don’t respect speed, structure, and discipline it disappears quietly.

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