President Mwanawasa desribed as malicious, calls from some sections of civil society
for the dismissal of thre two ministers adding that his administration has alot of
confidence in the two ministers.
Mr. Mwanawasa assured the the nation that the Mr. Kunda and Mr. Mulongoti would
maintain their portifolios in government they were hard working.
The president addressed scores of Ndola residents who gathered to welcome him at
Ndola International Airport this morning.
The president also said the national constitutional conference Bill would go ahead
in the interest of enhancing democracy in the process of enacting the new
Constitution.
Mr. Mwanawasa commended opposition political parties, the civil society and Zambians
for helping sustaing order and peace during the just ended Southern African
Development Community, SADC, ordinary Summit held in Lusaka.
And President Mwanawasa has instructed MMD Provincial Chairman, Terence Findlay, to
compile a list of primary schools that were still asking pupils to pay user fees,
despite government having implemented the free education policy at primary level.
This followed a concern raised by Mr. Findlay over complaints from parents claiming
that they were being asked to pay school fees despite government having scrapped off
user fees.
Mr. Mwanawasa, however, advised that if the fees being charged were Parent Teachers
Association, then there was no need to complain as such is not channeled to
government coffers.
Earlier, Copperbelt Deputy Minister, Mwansa Mbulakulima, in his welcome address
congratulated Mr. Mwanawasa on his assumption of the SADC chairmanship.
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Your excellence,
Don’t even waste your scarce time pronouncing that. These rambling quacks can hang or resign from their unelected party positions. They didn’t vote for MMD but in their shame for regime change now they are hiding in the civil society.You have our solidarity of maintaining team players and criticism when you do wrong. Politics, Puts the dollar where the mouth is.
#1 Veteran, Kunda has lost credibility. This whole Adminstration is just a joke anyway. When the’ll leave, you’ll see the mess the’ve made of this country. Believe me! Things are not what they are supposed to be right now, it’s a reflection of naivity, lack of quality and effective leadership and a misguided leader in state house. Zambians are super intelligent people and we deserve better than this. KK laid the foundation, FTJ built, LPM has sold everything to foreigners, even our heart and soul(MINES). All the’ve done is to widen the gap between the rich and poor, all to please IMF their masters.
Chuchu you are just telling the nation who you are and your boys! You have lost direction.
zambian (2),
It is difficulty to answer you because you are having trouble to bring home what you feel i need to get from your scriptic writing. I have only got where you are saying FTJ built something. You must be mentally challenged. FTJ building what? Don’t you know that the pain LPM is having to correct things is from the mess of wasted years under Chiluba? Was the disassembly of the Agriculture sector, mines to binani, selling 255 parastatal portfolios national building in your confused head? Was firing of Doctors and dismantling of the once strong cooperative movement national building to you? Was assassination of opposition leaders part of your national building. Do you really know why FTJ’s heart is failing today? You and him killed more innocent and potential leaders than the 27 years of KK. FTJ even went to staging Zero option and Black mamba blowing up the Chilanga water system and scratching plot one madness this country has never sen before. You call that national building?
Regardless of who you are debating with I get sick with people who idiolise FTJ because i now he did more harm to this nation than the two Presidents combined.
In today’s post newspaper,This Mwanawasa has been quoted,”People failing to pay school fees should not bear children”.Who is his Mwanawasa now?He claims to be a baptised christian and now discouraging things of God.
Indeed, one has to be mentally challenged in a stinking way to even dream Chiluba built anything (maybe numerous tuntembas, the clearest sign of a sick economy). You can bet it the article below was pasted bu a tubulu from somewhere near Kasailand, kusiyana siyan kwama office shuwa! Some people are Mandela, other are Kongolo Mobutu “munthu na munthu kuli bongesha” Sze Zse Ko!
I agree with FACT. FTJ destroyed the country. Bright potential leaders were cleared. FTJ created a society of plunderers and thieves.We have to give credit to LPM for the wonderful job he has done so far. There might be rotten eggs in his team, but he has done better than his predecessors.Well done LPM.
Terence Findlay is a pervert how does LPM mingle with him. It explains why he maintains Kunda and Mulongoti
FTJ is History,so is KK let us not even discuss them. LPM is current he is just disappointing us by maintaining pipo like Mulongoti, Findlay, katele Kalumba. Mulongoti and Kalumba are plain boot lickers, Findlay is a pevert.Mwansa Mbulakulima is simply an *****
MWANAWASA CHIDES SELFISH FOREIGNERS
PRESIDENT Mwanawasa has said that some foreigners have become rich and developed their countries using dubiously acquired Zambian gemstones which have an annual value of US$7 billion.The President said Zambia accounted for 20 per cent of the world production figures of gemstones with a value of $7 billion per annum most of which ended up remaining abroad.
Mr Mwanawasa announced that he would ensure that a new law which which will make the illegal sale of gemstones a criminal offence punishable with a jail sentence of not less than 15 years was enacted before his tenure of office was over.
The President said this during the official opening of the Gemstone and Lapidary Training Centre in Ndola yesterday.
He said it was unfortunate that the country was not earning much from its vast wealth of gemstones due to a number of factors.He named the factors as lack of skill and appropriate technology for value addition among the small-scale miners who dominated the sub-sector.
He also said the gemstone mining sector was characterised by rampant illegal trading which was estimated to account for more than 50 per cent of the total production.“The unfair exploitation of citizens by unscrupulous gemstone dealers must come to an end. Let people learn to create wealth from raw materials that God gave them by adding value to the stones and selling the polished products at established markets,†he said.
He said the birth of the training centre for small-scale gemstone miners was important for the advancement of the country’s mining sector.Mr Mwanawasa said he was happy to learn that the centre would train the small-scale miners in skills such as cutting and polishing, jewelry and entrepreneurship among others.
He said he was sad to see the continued exploitation of the Zambian small-scale miners by foreigners a trend which would this year come to an end.Mr Mwanawasa said he would soon start meeting traditional rulers with the hope of finding ways to end the practice in which the country was being swindled instead of benefiting from its gemstone wealth.
He said he was determined to see to it that the country started making more money from gemstones than copper mining.Mr Mwanawasa said new mechanisms would be put in place to ensure that local authorities use part of the money earned from the gemstone sector to benefit the locals through the establishment of a special account for the funds.The Government had spent a total of K2 billon on the creation of the gemstone training centre and the World Bank and the European Union provided $80, 000 for the equipment.
Speaking earlier on arrival at Ndola International Airport, President Mwanawasa urged small-scale miners dealing in gemstones to improve them so that they did not sell them at give away prices.He called on villagers who lived in areas which had gemstones not to be excited and sell the semi-precious stones cheaply.
Minister of Science Technology, Vocational and Training, Peter Daka said the institution, which was the first of its kind in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) would soon be transformed into a centre of excellence as far as training was concerned.“We intend to introduce diploma courses in gemology and jewelry for Zambian students first and later for people from within the region once the capacity is fully developed,†he said.
He added that already some mining companies from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Mbujimai region were following what was going on at the training centre with a lot of interest.The Gemstone and Lapidary Training Centre is providing training in collaboration with the Northern Technical Collage (NORTEC) of Ndola.
NORTEC board vice-chairman, Mutale Musonda, said the training centre was now ready to conduct educational activities in gemstone identification and processing and also act as an information centre for small-scale and marketing entrepreneurs.
A total of 50 students have been trained by the centre which was registered with the Technical Vocational and Entrepreneurship Authority in 2006.
# 2 z a complete !#$*,wat dd FTJ build iwe muntu apart 4rm buildin a thieving workforce.# 4 wasala
In Zambia,the time of elections is always of no option.2011 will be a time of, i dont know who to vote for.
MMD should remember the “gemstone” dealers of the Copperbelt bankrolled them in 1991 !!! Let us not forget the role bene “Shimpundu”/Aboulaye & co had in raising funds for MMD!!That is why MMD after 1991 turned a blind eye to the gemstone industry and allowed these unscrupulous chaps to plunder our resourcess with impunity!!It was payback time and we have paid big time.Thank you LPM for starting a movement to rid our economy of these thieves who had found zambia a safe haven for illegal gemstone supply and export.In the early 80’s you could mine emeralds and amethysts with a teaspoon…..now you need to sink shafts !! By the way, what happened to the trunks of grade A stones(emeralds) stolen from ZNCB Obote Branch Kitwe during the changeover from UNIP to MMD ??
#14 What about the trunks of emeralds sold by Matani’s Finance Bank purpotedly belonging to Moise Katumbi when in fact they belonged to Ka Chiluba.
#10 Iwe Mbulawa, stop attacking the president attack the Parliment they have a Bill of conduct KaKA is not in govt but in movement. This Findlay boy has to be proud guilty or innocent have you forgotten what your future presido SAKI said on Katele. The Plot 1 is not to blame but parliment with its immunity for MPs. #12 Ba Joze stopped me discussing FTJ all Iam waiting for is the money come 23.August 2007 the heads will roll.
Kuku Iam not lost I survived Dean and my mobile office is at peace I will write from the way on my way to Europe. You made my day yesterday with SAGE, Veteran und Pragmatist. Ngugi Wa Thiongo is on my favorist authors I have read most of his books like Weep not, child , The river betwwen, A Grain of Wheat, Detained,Decolonizing the Mind, Iam trying to get his new novel the “Wizard of the Crow” published last year. There was that other writer from east africa who wrote a book called “Because of Women”.
The performance of this cabinet is still below average despite the strides they are taking to re-dress the so called mess. The said performance is that low due to the tendencies of Zambian politicians playing the boot-licking game.
The writer of because of women is Mbelia S. Dipoko. This is a thriller I would encourage Pragmatist to read it. SAGE dont worry about my Zangalish I have to promote it because English is the language of colonial master I want to do away with it and introduce Bemba, Lozi, Nyanja,Tonga as official languages. Its worth it however our children have to learn chinese, Spanish, Arabic, english, french.
Easy, aren’t you being hypocritical? If you are so proud of the zambian languages, why then do you prefer to hijack & manipulate a foreign language & call it zanglish??? You are colonized to the core, you seem not to know who you want to be, decide whether to do away with the queen’s language & use indigenous tongues or stick with it & accept that you are viewed as crap when it comes to english, no one is forcing you!!
Ba Chitengi(18),there is no Cabinet in the world that doesn’t bootlick my friend!! Bootlicking is not a purely Zambian tendency but a worldwide one!! Blair bootlicked Bush for years….we didn’t read any comment from you about it.In politics bootlicking is an art form and a necessary evil for survival!!When people of different colour bootlick we percieve it as diplomacy but do not be naive…..it is strategic bootlicking !!!
Ba Chitengi(18),there is no Cabinet in the world that doesn’t bootlick its leader!! Bootlicking is not a purely Zambian tendency but a worldwide one!! Blair bootlicked Bush for years,Brown did the same to Blair, Straw to Brown, Rice to Bush, Manuel to Mbeki….we didn’t read any comment from you about it.In politics bootlicking is an art form and a necessary evil for survival!!When people of different colour bootlick we percieve it as diplomacy but do not be naive…..it is strategic bootlicking !!!
#21 Was Blair in Bush’s Cabinet?
#21 You seem to be proud to be a bootlicker – well good on you! Seems as far as you are concerned, as long as someone before you has enjoyed smearing “night manure” on themselves, you are more than happy to delve into the same – a very good attitude should i dare say!!!
Integrity & respect are borne of one’s convictions & ideals. We are all able to recognise the “squealers” of this world, without necessarily having to read animal farm! So we do know, that you do know which side you bread is buttered – you happily refer to it as, “Strategic Bootlicking!” – good on ya!!
zambian,what did chiluba build -go to ndola industrial area,selling council houses at K10,000,where are the companies KK left is that building Levy ena mwaume
# 21 you are indeed a bootlicker. i bet even at work you are a muzungu wanga. Just because you can do it does not make it a world wide trend.Bootlickers never go far
bauze(20).
Ndiwe Bazuka yo Bruiser tee? Mwana aphunzila chizungu ewe utailapa. I enjoy struggling through the young man’s mess. I’m just disappointed when he overreacts like yesterday to Masa lamusi yandalama when he used the s word. Nevertheless you have made my day.
Poor LPM, seems not to have learn’t a lesson or two from both his predecessors, the both surrounded themselves with “yes-men”, who blinded them from the truth. He goes further to show how stuck in time he is, by presuming that law school shut down when he left!! He needs some reality check. He seems to recognise criticism to be negative, someone needs to advise him, there is a term called,”Positive criticism” & that it could do him some good one day.
And….what presidential advice: “Stop having kids if you have no money!” Well , this seems to be good advice for the majority poor that voted him back for a second term, & whom he pits against the “chinese infestors!”
Ladies and Gentlemen, leave KK and Kafupi out of the equation. Those two are gone . Why do you dwell in the past.Be futuristic and concentrate on now and the future.Wether KK built what or FTJ sold what is all immaterial now.
Bauze,Veteran,Easy,Sage,Kuku,Pragmatist: could you help me out on the article about Magande and micro finance supervision.Your comments as always, will make good reading and be another opportunity to learn !!
(a bootlicking request in the eyes of some i’m sure!!)
What has LPM done that`s not connected to the foundation FTJ laid?I need answers from analitical minds and not cadres.
Ba Mbulawa(26), ndise bazungu kwamene tisebenza!!I don’t necessarily have to be black or Zambian to speak,write and understand several Southern African languages.Muzi tekanya po kamba ati banzanu ni bamuzungu wanga pantu kapena wamene ukambapo ni muzungu kudala !!
What Levy has done is failing to remand Chiluba and Katele.
1 – ANGOLA: Clean water is scarce despite oil wealth
LUANDA, 21 August (IRIN) – Two types of tankers compete for space on
the roads lined with shacks that lead to the docks in Luanda, the Angolan
capital: water and oil. More than half the people living in informal
settlements, called musseques, depend on private tankers for their daily
water in the oil-rich country.
More than 300 privately owned trucks bring water into the city every
day from a pumping station in Kifangondo, 20km outside Luanda on the
Bengo River, and the pumping station is run by the National Association of
Truck Water Distributors.
The public-sector water company in Luanda, EPAL (Empresa Publica de
Aguas de Luanda), was caught up in almost three decades of conflict that
ended in 2002, and has not had much chance to flourish.
During the war, thousands of people fled conflict in the countryside to
seek refuge in the capital, which was built to accommodate around
400,000 but now has about 4.5 million residents, according to the UN. EPAL
could never have kept up with the exploding demand.
“Despite impressive revenues from oil and diamonds, there has been
virtually no investment in basic services since the 1970s, and only a
privileged minority of the people living in Luanda have access to running
water,” said a briefing paper by the international medical charity,
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), called Murky Waters: Why the cholera
epidemic in Luanda was a disaster waiting to happen.
“The rest of the population get most of their water from a huge network
of water trucks that collect water from two main points [Kifangondo on
the Bengo River, and Kikuxi on the Kuanza River, both outside Luanda]
and then distribute it all over town at a considerable profit,” MSF’s
paper commented.
At dawn, the water tankers make their way down the narrow, dusty,
dilapidated road to Kifangondo. On most days, the drivers take at least an
hour to travel the 20km stretch, while the queue for water builds up in
the musseques.
Miguel Domingo, chair of the water distributors’ association, said the
private sector geared itself up 20 years ago, during the war, because
it realised the business potential in providing an essential resource
like water. It set up pumps and installed pipes big enough to fill around
450 tankers per day, about five million litres, according to the MSF
paper.
Raw water is pumped from the River Bengo into the waiting tankers,
which then go to a chlorination point, where the drivers buy a container of
chlorine and put it into the water before leaving the pumping station.
The chlorine can cost anything from US$0.13 to $13, depending on the
capacity of the container.
In 2006, when Luanda was going through its worst ever cholera epidemic,
with an average of 500 new cases per day, MSF found that many trucks
were leaving the station with having chlorinated the water, to avoid
queuing and make as many round trips as possible.
Cholera
But the 2006 cholera outbreak in Angola – with the world’s highest
fatality rate – in which 67,257 cases were recorded and 2,722 people died,
mainly in Luanda – shook the authorities.
Since then, a policeman and a water affairs official have been
stationed at Kifangondo to ensure that no truck leaves with raw water,
according to Maria Trajo, the Chief of Water Quality at the government’s
National Directorate of Water, and the police official checks the purchase
receipt for the chlorine before allowing the truck to go.
But aid agencies do not rule out the possibility that some tankers are
still selling untreated water. “Truck drivers can be in a rush and do
not want to queue to buy the chlorine,” said an aid worker who wanted to
remain anonymous.
The trucks usually sell to water vendors with underground tanks, who
then sell by the bucket to householders. “The chances of the water
getting contaminated are very high,” said Allan Cain, director of the
Development Workshop (DW), an anti-poverty non-governmental organisation.
“We don’t know if those underground water tanks are regularly cleaned;
besides, each time a bucket is dipped into the water tank to be filled,
the water is being exposed to the risk of being contaminated.”
Perhaps the biggest headache for aid agencies and the authorities is
monitoring the privately run water supply, because most of the truckers
are organised in a cartel-like association. “It is a business worth
several million dollars a year,” said Dauda Wurie, the Water and Sanitation
Project Officer of the UN Children’s Agency (UNICEF) in Angola.
DW found that people living in the musseques were paying private
sellers up to 10,000 times more for water than those who were better off and
living in the part of city with piped water were paying the provincial
water company for treated water.
MSF noted in its paper that the cost of water was determined by market
forces. “Water prices are … subject to speculation and can vary, even
on a daily basis, depending on access (distance from the water
collection point to the distribution point, and the condition of the road that
leads to the final distribution point) and demand (availability of
water in nearby areas)”.
IRIN found that a family of four in the musseques, earning less than
$50 a month, could spend as much as $60 on their monthly water needs.
According to Cain, “this often does not include the basic minimum required
per person per day – you might find families managing with a 20-litre
jerry-can per day”.
Domingo, of the distributors’ association, denied allegations of
profiteering and said they were willing to allow EPAL to take over the
pumping operation, provided the public-sector company had the capacity to
manage and maintain the station.
Pierre-Marie Achy, UNICEF’s cholera coordinator in Angola, said the
only safe solution was piped water for the entire population. Trajo said
her department in the directorate of water had plans to provide running
water to at least half the city’s population by the end of 2008.
Chapi (31),
What can you appreciate about progressive leaders other than Sata when you are an insulated foot soldier of thuggerly dictated to rant for your kith and kins in the club?
#35.Is that your answer?
No 31 Chapi,Everything LPM is doing is connected to the foundation that FTJ laid.
1 – He is recovering stolen money by the FTJ Regime
2 – He has Employed a minister who FTJ had married
3 – He is still using the services of Katele Kalumba,Derick Chitala etc
4 – He has continued using Vote rigging tactics in elections
the list is endless.You are right LPM has his foundation laid by Kafupi
Mwaiche Chapi,
When did you enter in your economic exile to confuse yourself that way? What foundation did pikinini lay that anything could be attributed to? You mean the bumper harvests of today in agriculture are attributed to the callous dismantling of the cooperative movements? The steady retention and inflow of medical physicians is attributed to the firing of those that demanded better conditions? The list is endless.
#38 Come on Veteran grow up and face reality.Chapi has just asked you one simple straight question and needs one straight reasonable answer not the rubbish you are putting up?when are you going to ever reason like a future leader? In your copy and paste in #11 who is supposed to protect the citizens of Zambia from exploitation? These are runts of a sick mind
#38 KA VETERAN.What is VJ doing in South Afrca if your BOSS has made any strides in the medical field?Put up arguements about the improvement in agriculture which can atleast hold some water.My point is that everyone knows that FTJ made alot of mistakes which he should be answerable for but saying he did nothing is being economical with the truth.Without SAP,there couldn`t have been HIPC and the benefits that followed.Let`s put our points across from a factual basis unlike cheap RHETORIC.
But pa Zed paliba ubufontini. We spend time dwelling on the past. For once let us discuss we must do. KK,FTJ and LPM are now history.
Utulo!!!!!!!!!!!!
#6 WANYAMA “People failing to pay school fees should not bear children”I wish to agree with LPM based on a biblical and logical point of view.Biblically,it`s a sin if we fail to leave an inheritance for our children and also that our kids should never go begging for bread.From a logical stand point,why do we have children if we can`t afford them.We need to break the dependancy syndrome in our culture if we`re to progress.It`s very common that physicall abled young individual can just wake up in the morning and go to town with the sole purpose of begging.Unfortunately little effort is put in exercising their physical and mental skills in order to make a living.Bearing kinds in such a state is totally unacceptable.That`s the reason why responsible families are not having the traditional #`s of more than ten kids but typically reduced such numbers to way below five children.We need a sense of responsibility incalcated within our society.I know life is hard but let`s be responsible.
#34 Kuku, are you disoriented in Place or Locale, time, person & subject?? Or did you just copy & paste the wrong article or are u Angolan??
#41 Seems as far as you are concerned, you have exhausted what we must do – Very clever indeed!! Leaves one to wonder who is sleeping!!
#41Akaamba to be fontini is better than to be Dull and foolish because you reach 40 years of age. I dont want to use the word idoit because will be offensive and abusive. Its only a person who knows his past can act to the present situation and have a vision for the future. So if you dont know where you are coming from then you are on standstill. #40 Chapi you mean there are not pipo that heal in Zambian hospitals? Kuku I hear you had a headache and went to see a Zambian doc in Zed after performing Sheli. Kuku remember we are Globalization and national protectism doesnt work what we need is to be innovative, Add value to our resoruces i.e bringing manufacturing industry to Zambia and exporting in the whole world. This will benefit us by Job creation. #29 Iam sure you want to cross a bridge before you come across it, temple panshi you will crushing. The computer you are using base it development on the past.The past is vital to collect our mistakes.
#10. It is just dead wrong and stupid to impersonate other people. Please Stop it! You are not Mbulawa and you will never be. Moron!Half-wit!
#30 # TOP, The traditional banking system requires that a borrower have collateral to receive a loan. The world’s poorest people have no such collateral. Further, traditional banks are not generally interested in issuing small loans — $50 to $150 — as the interest benefits do not exceed the transaction costs. That said, how has microfinance been so successful? On Saturday, October 14, 2006 PARIS, Oct. 13 — Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he created won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for leveraging small loans into major social change for impoverished families.
The Grameen Bank’s pioneering use of micro-credit has been duplicated across the globe since Yunus started the project in his home village three decades ago. Loans as low as $9 have helped beggars start small businesses and poor women buy cellular phones and basket-weaving materials. Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty,
Before i comment on FACT and VET collectivelly knows as Ngugi i would like to point out one thing. The economy of Zambia is booming under LPM. This is largelly due to the copper prices. These mining companies have money to invest in machinary and exploration studies. This my friends has nothing todo with LPM and the so called foundation FTJ layed. The dismal improvement you are seeing in other sectors are as a result of the gynomous profits being made by companies and individuals dealing with the mining sector. The challenge for LPM is how do make the economic gains reach someone in shangombo. in USA the economy has been good for past 4 years or so. But the difference between Clinton and Bush is that under clinton economic gains tricled to the poor while with Bush the gains cant even reach the middle class. That i see where LPM will be judged. How does he use the economic capital and invest it in sustainable ventures that will create employment. The other thing KUKU please help us ….
understand. With all the economic boom , why is the kwacha still at more than K4000.00 to a dollar. Ant these gains supposed to affect the exchange rate as well?
ctd 46 the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in its citation released Friday in Oslo. “Micro-credit is one such means.†The committee praised Yunus, 66, as “a leader who has managed to translate visions into practical action for the benefit of millions of people, not only in Bangladesh but across cultures and civilizations.†Susan grew up in a poor, rural area of Kenya. She was the only one of her siblings to attend school but was forced to drop out after fourth grade when her family could no longer afford the school fees. Her parents kicked her out when she became pregnant at 17. Hoping to find work, Susan and her infant son moved to Nairobi, where she married and had a daughter. Her husband left her when they learned she was HIV-positive. Unable to find work and with no means to support her two small children, Susan ended up in prostitution.### The Origin Pundit think of these before you critise MFI and Magande it has worked and it can help to achieve the MDGs. Can you imagine of a worl
ctd.. 2 where all adulties can earn monies and finance there Maslow hierachy needs and wants. Can the world be a better place to live in???
#48 SAGE Dont bring confusion with the Kwacha market this has to do with other factors like the oil prices on the world market. The prices of oil are increasing everyday because of low supply caused by the crisis in Nigeria and Iraq.SAGE who caused the crush yesterday was the whole network or the server just some clients problems
When Zambia got independence, there were only 100 male university graduates of which 3 were med doctors. In 1965 Mrs Mutumba Bull was the first Zedian lady to be part of the statistics of graduate then after that floodgates were opened and a lot had opportunity to achieve their educational goals like Chibesakundas, Luos, David & Manase Phiris, Mumba Kapumpes, Chisangas just to name a few chaps how had the benefit of free education. One may ask, where is free education? Honestly, how can the govt grant free education in halves and be proud of it? Let the govt grant free education fully and refrain from “wako ni wako†when accepting students for tertiary education and bursaries. In the 80s Zed exported educators to Botswana now in 2007 the literate figures shows that Bots has 78% while Zed lags at 65% (UN, 2005).
Kuku….nayamukupanga tea pa inters nokubelenga “ Jekisoni aingila ubusocaâ€. Ni page shani ulipo? Elo nafika page 68 when he was singing ati:
-Jekisoni bamwikete
-no mushanga webange
-ba mwipwishe icitupa
-iyo mwai shakwata
-ala ine cito….icito yandi kushata ifyamba.
Kuku send me a list yatubuku pakuti nkatwale ku CDC mailo… A lot of pipo are asking for these bemba books even Musadabwa Sakala, Tembos, Zulu. Link up pa 24 hrs
#52 Ba Joseblinah which inters do you mean is it International airport, intercontinental hotel or Intercity? Nikwisa muya bakalamba?
#47 SAGE.What has copper appreciation got the to do with the booming agriculture sector in Zambia?I still insist that after carrying out SAP then came HIPC.Some of the benefits meant that the funds that were supposed to service such debt were now being chanelled to agriculture and other sectors.The FRA is now even able to pay farmers for their produce.The agricultural boom hasn`t just happened by accident but due to some planning and ignoring such an achievement isn`t the way to go.
#51 it was a clients server. Thanks for asking. May be i didnt put in a clear way. My question to all of you economists and political pundits is why is the the dollar kwacha rate still the same despite the so called economic boom? isnt there a relationship between the countrys economy and the strength of its currency? EASY this what i want to find out.
Chapi who told you that there is a boom in the agriculture sector?Having 100MT of maize to spare does not constitute a boom. Zambia is one drought away from poverty. They are forcing the 60MT of maize on Zim because they have no storage facilities. The only sector booming is mining which has a direct positive effect on the banking industry.
#56.Learn to give credit were it`s due.When did Zambia ever have a surplus in the agriculture sector?We`ve always had rains mind you but reduced ourselves to the extent of importing yellow maize that is given to animals here in the USA.Remember GUY SCOTT.
Chapi we dont have a suplus. with proper leadership Zambia is in no position to be selling maize. We are supposed to have stock piles to last five years, but we dont. The agriculture policy in Z is hand to mouth. What happens if there is a drought next year? Yes Sikatana laid the foundation on agric upon which kapita has failed to build. My point is we have no boom in agric. Selling maize at this point can be categorised as irresponsible and lack of foresight.
According to Magande, 2006 economic performance snapshop(% growth over previous year):
Agriculture 2.4%
Manufacturing 3.3%
Mining 12%
Tourism 3%
Trans&Communications 13.4%
Overall GDP growth 5.8%
The Zambian economy is growing steadily. Poor infrastructure is letting us donw in many areas. But stock piling maize is perhaps not such a good idea. If our economy is strong we have to buy maize from overseas.
#58.SAGE.Surplus simply means that production is more than demand and that`s exactly what`s happening in Zambia.What happens to the surplus is a different topic but the fact is agricultural boom=surplus period.When you`re talking about having stock in reserve is something that needs to done so that we can have somewhere to fall onto.If you remember correctlly,KAPITA has already alluded to such facts that we have stock in reserve to last us atleast 2-3years.
#58 and #60 if one day i become presida i cant consider you for the position of agric you may be good for mining. Our agricultural system is sustained by God grace. We have no irrigation system and 60% of the maize is produced by peasant farmers.Do you understand the difference in cost between importing and growing maize?… Chapi you cant discuss agricultural econimics using bushinomics. surplus is anything left beyond the demand. That does not constitute a boom in agric….Francis the maize you by from Canada is more than 15 years old.
#61 SAGE.Agriculture secctor is headed in the right direction.You can`t compare Zambian agric sector with countries that have invested in agric for a long time.We`re coming from a sector that just relied on imports for more than 20 years.We need to appreciate the significant progress that`s taken place and obviously much needs to be done.About you not giving me the agric position IF you ever became presido.I am sure you know that I am above that level!!!Just join TEAM KUKU 2011.I can try a fix you a position.Anyway,I got to run,I`ll blog with you later.
SAGE you are partly right and wrong. Yes draught has denied Zambia in the agricsector but to put it that all is in the grace of God das ist übertrieben this what a German will tell you. Some planing and education on Farming have been down.Also the GRZ made it possible that fertilizer is available. There are many other factors that has helped the agriculture in ZED. Also the mentality of pipo to backout from being at the recieving end can be seen as an influence. We must be very care because price dumping can as well be very destructive to our economy. Diversifaction is the answer to the economic problems that we face this leads to availability of goods and services. In relations to the currency Zambia can not reduce prices over nite because we dont have surplus in our reserves Bank and the price of international commodities as i said which is oil will always affeect our currency because we still import this product either produce tones and tones of food stuffs.
#61. I agree a boom has to refer to a spike along some longterm trend, not mere surplpus. However, I havent seen any figures to judge if the bumper harvest of 2006/7 was a boom. Then stockpiling maize for years on end is not cheap, perhaps is more expensive than buying.
Maize is low value output but it gives us household food security because of the obsession with nshima. But, financing irrigation is not a simple equation. Of course we tried the winter maize and it was a scandalous economic experiment. We should think irrigiation in terms of the needs of a diversified commercial agriculture sector not for peasant maize farming.
#64. Winter maize may have looked scandolous because we dont have the patience to develop a system and let it mature. We want results now. Great inventions where developed at great costs and risk to those that pursure the dreams. If a donar came to develop the winter miaze project everybody will be happy. But the fact that we have to pay a project that would in future provide the addition maize we need is a problem. Zambians dont like to invest in research projects. You want to see a benefit yesturday, my friend the world doesnt work like that. look at flying? do you know how much money and human life was wasted to create a plane? look at the benefit now. Programs like the winter maize should be persued relentlessly. It may not seem beneficial today but it may be the key to our food security. The other thing is Zedians are not addicted to nshima. Its just that we cant afford rice,macaroni spargetti etc.
#47 Mwaice Wandi SAGE, we are an economy where capital flight is rampant, we sell the copper at high price but the money stays in the UK and goes to GOA to build that World class University.Here is what goes on the financial markets
Players
• Banks-through inter bank market
• Commercial companies
• Central banks
• Investment management firms who typically manage large accounts on behalf of customers such as pension funds and endowments
• Hedge funds -They control billions of dollars of equity and may borrow billions more, and thus may overwhelm intervention by central banks to support almost any currency, if the economic fundamentals are in the hedge funds’ favor.
• Retail forex brokers
The explosion in trading of financial assets (stocks and bonds) has reshaped the way analysts and traders look at currencies. Economic variables such as economic growth, inflation and productivity are no longer the only drivers of currency movements. The proportion of foreign exchange transactions stemming from cross border-trading of financial assets has dwarfed the extent of currency transactions generated from trading in goods and services.
Fluctuations in exchange rates
A market based exchange rate will change whenever the values of either of the two component currencies change. A currency will tend to become more valuable whenever demand for it is greater than the available supply. It will become less valuable whenever demand is less than available supply (this does not mean people no longer want money, it just means they prefer holding their wealth in some other form, possibly another currency).
Increased demand for a currency is due to either an increased transaction demand for money, or an increased speculative demand for money. The transaction demand for money is highly correlated to the country’s level of business activity, gross domestic product (GDP), and employment levels. The more people there are out of work, the less the public as a whole will spend on goods and services. Central banks typically have little difficulty adjusting the available money supply to accommodate changes in the demand for money due to business transactions.
The speculative demand for money is much harder for a central bank to accommodate but they try to do this by adjusting interest rates. An investor may choose to buy a currency if the return (that is the interest rate) is high enough. The higher a country’s interest rates, the greater the demand for that currency. It has been argued that currency speculation can undermine real economic growth, in particular since large currency speculators may deliberately create downward pressure on a currency in order to force that central bank to sell their currency to keep it stable (once this happens, the speculator can buy the currency back from the bank at a lower price, close out their position, and thereby take a profit).
In choosing what type of asset to hold, people are also concerned that the asset will retain its value in the future. Most people will not be interested in a currency if they think it will devalue. A currency will tend to lose value, relative to other currencies, if the country’s level of inflation is relatively higher, if the country’s level of output is expected to decline, or if a country is troubled by political uncertainty. For example, when Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed his Government on February 24, 2004, the price of the ruble dropped. When China announced plans for its first manned space mission, synthetic futures on Chinese yuan jumped (since China’s currency is officially pegged, synthetic markets have emerged that can behave as if the yuan were floating).
#43 Mwaice Bauze ulechampuka that story in 34 is there to show you how Africa has failed its people because of poor constitutions and an I don’t care attitude by greedy leader like Chuchu, mwaice ulecita kwati teiwe Dr.You should have done a real prognosis to see where Kuku Mukwai was heading to and for your own information Sikatana has been droped.
Anything more SAGE please call again
Worth point, Sage. Just one issue of contention. If we play our game well, there are major spinoffs from irrigation infrastructure. But every project needs to justify it with the right numbers about how much future output this scheme will give over rain. So we need to ammortize the $20 million Chiawa project (over its life span) and predict future rainfall or drought which is a scientific impossibility. If however you look back 15-20 years, the incidence of droughts countrywide isnt that bad.
Finally, the addiction to nshima is debatable. If you attend govt or co. seminars at Intercontinental, many people still prefer to go for nshima. Besides, you need some adjustment to enjoy macaroni with common relish like terere or the monkey liver.
#66. A couple additions.
1. You just forgot to include a 3rd reason, precautionary demand, which also is sensitive to the interest rate.
2. The rate you refer to is the REAL interest rate (interest rate minus inflation rate).
3. You need a sustained export response and capital inflow to reduce an exchange rate say to K2,000 per dollar. Otherwise an exchange stable at K5,000 is better than one fluctuating rapidly from K100 to K500.
Chapi we are going to claim that our agric sector has ‘boomed’ if almost overnight, Zambia has driven a historic global shift in food production that is turning the largely untapped frontier cheap heartland of the country into the world’s new breadbasket (change from monoculture to multi crop revolution-serious diversification).
i.e an explosion of farm exports globally not just maize. This growth must be fueled by a combination of market-friendly economic policies and advances in agronomy that should bring all unusable tropical lands into production and increased productivity levels beyond getting closer into those producers with a traditional dominance of the global farm trade taking advantage of the increased food demands abroad.
We need to make use of all climate seasons and embark on concurrent harvests non stop and if we can turn the clock to having agricultural products acccounting for 50% of our exports then we shall safely claim a boom
Above all we need to have a solid scientific foundation which will look at transforming poor lands into arable lands i.e use of limes , phospohorus to change the NP soils which are highly acidic etc, remove all taxes on tractors and all farm implements for longer periods.While doing this we need to put measures on the effects of this boom i.e environment, our agricultural policies need a lot of fine tuning,winter maize is one such intiative which should have been supported by devising cheaper ways of producing it in the long run,reliable transport ,railways,badge routes and storage facilities.
A good example is the brazilian and Indonesian agrian revolution
#66 KUKU .. Thanks for the info although most of it is french to me. Thanks guys for the info.
#68 that is why I said the major player all his proceeds from copper sales dont come back to Zambia but remain somewhere so the whole issue is lopsided its time our forex exchange controls were revisited,even RSA has not removed exchange control,as incentive for investors we need to revisit the issue to benefit the Zambian people,so that SAGE with his dollars will not be affected by fluctuations.
Exchange controls are old fashioned. They’ll hurt us more than they solve anything.
Mwaice Pragfimomo bushe ulishani lelo? Naumona umonobe chuchu efyo acita lelo?Incito yamoneka iwe teti ube Minister of Forex?
#69 KUKU MUKWAI.”AGRICULTURE BOOM” might have been overstating the facts but my basic point is that there has been some significant progress in the agriculture sector.You`ve got to realise that we`ve always been on the recieving end but there has been a radical shift and hence the surplus I was refering to in my earlier comments.We`ve still got a long way to go but atleast we`re headed in the right direction and for that I give LPM some credit.If you observe,there has been some increase in Tobacco,cotton & coffee production to add to surplus in maize yields.
Chapi#42,Do you know what you are talking about or are just fond of opening your mouth on all opportunities?Such utterances must and should not even be heard from a leader in the highest office.The thing is,people without heart will always think in those lines of discouraging child bearing.Why cant you encourage hard work.when you guys happen to attain a bit of cash,you always blame the poor for their children.Is it not true?are those without kids not sufferring aswell?bearing no children is not the way to wealth.are all the educated coming from rich families????
#75 WANYAMA.Who do you expect is supposed to look after your children?
#76 Chapi,Who is looking after your children?? if at all you have got any.
#77.WANYAMA.This gets us to the point I`ve been labouring to make.I had to exercise some descipline to the extent that I only had my two(2) kids when I was ready for such a huge responsibility.We need to be responsible in the way we advise the youth so that they only bear children when they`ve got the means of raising them.Gone are the days when people would bear 15 kids and expecting someone else to raise them.If you`re incapacitated or medically unable to perform such a function of raising your kids,then that`s a different issue but let`s NOT encourage any intentional irresponsiblity.
#78 you see Chapi the way you have put it well,Levy said “should not bear children”.You have spoken of discpline which impresses me very Much.I don’t know whether you got the words of our leader appropriately.Maybe the scribes misquoted him.The point here is that the leader was just supposed to pass a word of controlling the size of the family people should have.WHO is going to look after a person at old age?is it some other person’s children?
#76 79 You are confused what gone wrong with you. Which children is the president talking about those who are already living and are in school or those not yet born. Your suggestion doesnt not help in solving the current problems. As much give merit to the president on so many issues on this one he misfired just like when he refere the ZCID meeting with Sata as God and son. It forced him to and meet church leaders to seek forgiveness. I dont play about life of humans.
a very disturbing pattern emerges in poverty stricken areas: population explosion!! Is it nature ensuring a population is not completely decimated or are the poverty stricken so bored with nothing to do but procreate intentionally or by accident ??
Easy #80,Dont worry, I’m Done.
#74 I concurr with your line of thought, actually like I said we need to stregthen our scientific research centres to see how best we can make all seasons productive not just working during known productive systems and patterns.Brazil is one such brilliant country which has risen from ashes from 1995 todate and now their currency is 1:1 with a dollar and agro products account for 40% of GDP, Indonesia with its serious agrian revolution are excelling, you see we need a pragmatic approach, abasungu dont grow food for themselves they rely on outsiders , look at cocoa, it comes from West Africa but the chap who grows it has never tasted chocolate, we need to produce and process and take advanatge of AGOA-Africa Growth Opportunity Act- which clinton designed