The University of Zambia Business and Economics Association (UNZABECA) has called on government to ensure that the process of accessing funds from the Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission (CEEC) was not complicated.
UNZABECA President, Keegan Mwamba, told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka today that there was need for the youth to access the funds without unnecessary hurdles for them to be economically empowered.
Mr. Mwamba said easy access to the empowerment fund would significantly help reduce the high levels of unemployment in the country.
He stated that government should have a well designed and transparent system, which will not disadvantage any citizen, especially the young people whom he said were future leaders.
He noted that government should begin to actively engage the youth in the economic governance of the country, noting that easy access to national empowerment funds was one way of achieving this.
Mr. Mwamba said his association undertakes sensitisation activities at UNZA to ensure that youths understand economic governance and take up their roles in the country’s economic life.
He has since urged the youths to rise to the challenge and begin to take keen interest in the governance of the country so that their future is guaranteed.
Obama’s race is the ‘elephant’ in the voter booth
He is picking up black votes at 9:1 or 90%-10%
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s race and inflammatory racial remarks made by his former preacher negatively affect how likely voters view the candidate, according to a new Herald-Leader/WKYT Kentucky Poll.More than one in five likely Democratic voters surveyed said being black hurts Obama’s chances of winning an election in Kentucky, compared to 4 percent who said Obama’s race helps him.
Although more than half of respondents said his race isn’t a factor in the election, many of those surveyed also said racially charged remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright will play an important role as they decide whom to support in the May 20 primary.
Wright’s remarks are important or very important to 43 percent of those polled. Among white voters, his statements were important to 46 percent, compared to only 11 percent of black voters.
“Race is still the elephant in the room, and the Rev. Wright issue hits at remaining racial prejudices and fears that people here might have,” said Saundra Ardrey, head of the political science department at Western Kentucky University.
Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s gender is not a major factor for those surveyed. Eleven percent saw Clinton’s gender as a positive, which was only slightly less than the 14 percent who viewed it as a negative. Clinton’s gender didn’t matter to 63 percent of those polled.
The telephone survey of 500 likely Democratic voters was conducted from May 7 through May 9 by Research 2000 of Olney, Md. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
Some of the statements made by Wright over many years at his Chicago church included questions about the government’s complicity in the AIDS epidemic, praise for black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan and criticism over America’s foreign policy.
At first, Obama said he would not disavow Wright; after more public statements in which Wright repeated some of his former opinions, Obama denounced him.Kentucky’s population is only 8 percent African-American, and many of the state’s voters are older and more traditional. No black candidate has ever been elected to statewide office.“I’ll be very blunt,” said pollster Del Ali, president of Research 2000. “Even if there wasn’t a Rev. Wright controversy, I think Obama would have a tough time in Kentucky, for obvious reasons.”
The fact that 56 percent of interviewed voters said Obama’s race was not important could be due to something called the Bradley effect, Ardrey said.In 1982, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, who was black, was predicted to win the governor’s race by a comfortable margin but lost.“It’s not socially acceptable to say things about race and gender, but in the secrecy of the voting booth, they come out,” Ardrey said. “That’s why polls are not accurate when it comes to true feelings on race and gender, especially race.”
Sandy Ross agrees that people won’t always be truthful about why they vote a certain way. A math teacher at Menifee County Elementary School, she thinks her community has come a long way on issues like racial equality, but “frankly, we still have a ways to go.”“In Menifee County, race matters more than gender,” Ross said. “People are more inclined to vote for a woman than a black person.”Ross likes many of Obama’s ideas, but was definitely alienated by Wright’s remarks, which many feel demonized white America.
And for her, gender is the main issue. “Mrs. Clinton is a woman, she has common sense and I think it’s time,” she said. “Men have made a royal mess of things.”Still, Obama’s race and name are different enough for some people that they cannot support him. Bill Donovan of Inez says he’s not racist, and would love to support a black candidate like former Secretary of State Colin Powell.But he believes that Obama is a Muslim and therefore unsuited to be president. “He was born and reared a Muslim,” Donovan said. “He can say whatever he wants to say but he is what he is. We’re fighting a war on terror and we don’t need a fox in the henhouse.”
Obama spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, a Muslim country. He is a Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago.Aside from Rev. Wright’s remarks, the poll showed that voters don’t appear too bothered by two other mini-controversies for both candidates.Twenty-three percent of those polled said Clinton’s misstatements about whether she was under sniper fire in Bosnia were important to their vote. Twenty-nine percent of voters said they didn’t care about Obama’s comments about rural voters clinging to guns and religion.
“I think voters realize they are under scrutiny 24/7 and there will be misstatements,” Ardrey said. “What may be important is economic issues; we’re not concerned about flag pins or Bosnia, but about bread-and-butter things.”Kathy Purcell of Lancaster isn’t concerned about the Bosnian remarks, but does think that Clinton has lied about her experience.“Thirty-five years of being first lady of the United States and the governor’s wife does not give you elected experience,” she said. She believes that the Democratic party establishment has anointed Clinton because of her husband’s popularity.
hat might be true, says David Kinman. “I think people remember that Bill Clinton’s terms were eight very good years for us, as opposed to the past eight very poor years.”Certainly, Bill Clinton’s shadow looms large over any debate about gender, says Joe Gershtenson, director of the Center for Kentucky History and Politics at Eastern Kentucky University.“It is the working class support that Hillary is enjoying and Bill Clinton did alright by the working and middle class,” Gershtenson said. “Those folks enjoyed improving times over the course of his terms and I think that makes a big difference.”
#1-11, Why paste this news here? You think we don’t know which site to go to if we want to read about Obama? FYI this is Lusaka Times and not US Times. Either you comment on the topic at hand or go outside and get some frsh air. Your cranium desperately needs some. Ukutumpa!
I wish sister Samatha and all our women folks here a happy mothers’ day.
RED CARDS FOR NUMBERS 1-11.
Nowadays it seems there are ’empowerment funds’ everywhere you go. Apparently there are even GRZ bursaries for deserving students who want to study at UNZA. The problem is no one knows who gets them. I know at least a couple of young orphans studying at UNZA who are very bright but they struggle to pay their fees. I wonder who is more deserving of a bursary. In Mwanawasa’s government we are given the impression that all is well – until you find yourself in want of help. Because of lack of transparency, there is a danger that these funds will end up in the hands of people who do not qualify to apply, i.e. those who have the right connections.
Handouts should come to an end! Students should be given loans instead.
12 & 14,
Red card for the self appointed armcor policemen lazing out here!
#16 Student loans are definitely a way forward, but do we have people competent and selfless enough to run the scheme? I was horrified to hear that it is common practice among Zambian bank workers to award loans to ‘ghosts’. Someone else boasted that they had ‘borrowed’ K20 million from their employer (a bank) for three months and that they paid it back without their employer finding out about it. If only we can channel such ingenuity into more honest and productive causes!
I think this is a good idea. There should be transparency in giving out these funds.
#16
It is a form of loan. As you know, it is not easy for an average Zambian citizen to get a loan from a bank in Zambia. This is a form of loan because they’ll use these funds to start business, and from there profits, they’ll be paying TAXES and employing people who will also be paying TAXES, so the govt wins in the long run because it has earned new tax payers and gets its money back through the taxes that the businesses and employees will be paying.
#1-11
If Obama wins, it’ll mean disaster for the US economy. I think Obama will have better chances in the next election. As you know, most oil producing countries accept only the us dollar for there oil. However, some countries have lost faith in the us dollar and want to switch to the Euro. Some like Iran have already switched to the Euro. Now these oil producing countries keep there money in american banks so the money just goes back to the usa. So lets say you sell your copper to the usa and accept us dollars, with these dollars you pay for oil in us dollars, the people who sold you the oil put there money in american banks. So it has gone back to the usa.
cont…
But if they switch to Euro’s, it’ll mean the dollar wont be desirable anymore. Also the USA has a huge budget deficit and also a $8.2 trillion dollar debt. I dont mean to be cruel but what the USA needs is a second Bush who will threaten the countries which are thinking of switching to the Euro with war and someone who is going to bring up a significant level of inflation so this debt can be easier to pay back.
But with Obama, i dont see him threatening anyone, so Obama next election not this one.
Time is the best teacher.I hope Chapi and his fellow PF surrogates here cultured in insults are picking a leaf from Sata.Leadership is from God.Dissent is democratic but it must be done with dignity and love for the country.
“Sata wants talks with Levy on national issues”
PATRIOTIC Front president Michael Sata yesterday said he is ready to open dialogue with President Levy Mwanawasa when he returns from South Africa because politics of confrontation are long gone.
Time is the best teacher.I hope Chapi and his fellow PF surrogates here cultured in insults are picking a leaf from Sata.Leadership is from God.Dissent is democratic but it must be done with dignity and love for the country.
“Sata wants talks with Levy on national issues”
PATRIOTIC Front president Michael Sata yesterday said he is ready to open dialogue with President Levy Mwanawasa when he returns from South Africa because politics of confrontation are long gone.
Time is the best teacher.I hope Chapi and his fellow PF surrogates here cultured in insults are picking a leaf from Sata.Leadership is from God.Dissent is democratic but it must be done with dignity and love for the country.
“Sata wants talks with Levy on national issues
PATRIOTIC Front president Michael Sata yesterday said he is ready to open dialogue with President Levy Mwanawasa when he returns from South Africa because politics of confrontation are long gone.
Time is the best teacher.I hope Chapi and his fellow PF surrogates here cultured in insults are picking a leaf from Sata.Leadership is from God.Dissent is democratic but it must be done with dignity and love for the country
“Sata wants talks with Levy on national issues”
PATRIOTIC Front president Michael Sata yesterday said he is ready to open dialogue with President Levy Mwanawasa when he returns from South Africa because politics of confrontation are long gone.
Time is the best teacher.I hope Chapi and his fellow PF surrogates here cultured in insults are picking a leaf from Sata.Leadership is from God.Dissent is democratic but it must be done with dignity and love for the country.
“Sata wants talks with Levy on national issues”
PATRIOTIC Front president Michael Sata yesterday said he is ready to open dialogue with President Levy Mwanawasa when he returns from South Africa because politics of confrontation are long gone
Time is the best teacher.I hope Chapi and his fellow PF surrogates here cultured in insults are picking a leaf from Sata.Leadership is from God.Dissent is democratic but it must be done with dignity and love for the country.
“Sata wants talks with Levy on national issues”
PATRIOTIC Front president Michael Sata yesterday said he is ready to open dialogue with President Levy Mwanawasa when he returns from South Africa because politics of confrontation are long gone.
Time is the best teacher.I hope Chapi and his fellow PF surrogates here cultured in insults are picking a leaf from Sata.Leadership is from God.Dissent is democratic but it must be done with dignity and love for the country.
“Sata wants talks with Levy on national issues”
PATRIOTIC Front president Michael Sata yesterday said he is ready to open dialogue with President Levy Mwanawasa when he returns from South Africa because politics of confrontation are long gone
Time is the best teacher.I hope Chapi and his fellow PF surrogates here cultured in insults are picking a leaf from Sata.Leadership is from God.Dissent is democratic but it must be done with dignity and love for the country.
“Sata wants talks with Levy on national issues”
Front president Michael Sata yesterday said he is ready to open dialogue with President Levy Mwanawasa when he returns from South Africa because politics of confrontation are long gone.
Time is the best teacher.I hope Chapi and his fellow PF surrogates here cultured in insults are picking a leaf from Sata.Leadership is from God.Dissent is democratic but it must be done with dignity and love for the country.
“Sata wants talks with Levy on national issues”
PATRIOTIC Front president Michael Sata yesterday said he is ready to open dialogue with President Levy Mwanawasa when he returns from South Africa because politics of confrontation are long gone
Time is the best teacher.I hope Chapi and his fellow PF surrogates here cultured in insults are picking a leaf from Sata.Leadership is from God.Dissent is democratic but it must be done with dignity and love for the country.
“Sata wants talks with Levy on national issues”
PATRIOTIC Front president Michael Sata yesterday said he is ready to open dialogue with President Levy Mwanawasa when he returns from South Africa because politics of confrontation are long gone
Time is the best teacher.I hope Chapi and his fellow PF surrogates here cultured in insults are picking a leaf from Sata.Leadership is from God.Dissent is democratic but it must be done with dignity and love for the country.
“Sata wants talks with Levy on national issues”
PATRIOTIC Front president Michael Sata yesterday said he is ready to open dialogue with President Levy Mwanawasa when he returns from South Africa because politics of confrontation are long gone.
Time is the best teacher.I hope Chapi and his fellow PF surrogates here cultured in insults are picking a leaf from Sata.Leadership is from God.Dissent is democratic but it must be done with dignity and love for the country.
Sata wants talks with Levy on national issues
PATRIOTIC Front president Michael Sata yesterday said he is ready to open dialogue with President Levy Mwanawasa when he returns from South Africa because politics of confrontation are long gone.
# 23-33,
I appreciate your passion for my posts and indeed love your peculiar love for my Pragmatist name laden with meaning.However,i feel you are doing injustice to the General patronage here whom your actions mount to spamming the thread whatever your reasons.
I hope you’re willing to blame yourself should your privacy be blown up and your IP or exchange zone altogether blocked for spamming the blog. Methinks without making any chess yet that you are the same druggy back on “Oxycotin” with your usual problem of dripping froth on mouth.Watch your space.
Congrats Shikulu Sata. I personally open up a twine of many salutations for such a magnanimous decision synonymous with statesmanship in your message to the media.I hope you will ignore the ever disillusions and misleading futureless frictional rhetoric of cadres. They are in their tradition of flattering you at the expense of your legacy and health.HE President LP Mwanawasa is a leader of all Zambians you inclusive. Like it or not, he is our symbol of statehood. Insulting him is demeaning our institutions of power and the office he serves.Work with the seating President for the common good of Zambians.Such is democratic and patriotic. But certainly disagree where you don’t agree policy.
Some of us will critically side with good policies propositions only.Where the you or the administration is found wanting, we will engage the wrong side to review bad policies tabled. Fortunately in multitudes we are trained to dissect and recommend workable public policies in the best national interest.
There is a lot we can learn from what led to the demise of the USSR and rise of China from years of her humiliation that ended in 1949.
Sata, an ardent critic of President Mwanawasa, said when he comes back he would personally go to State House to thank President Mwanawasa for having saved his life and after that begin talks with him on national issues.“What I mean is we have to reduce the local tension, the local infighting,” Sata said. “I will go to him and thank him for saving my life. From there we will start talking.”
Sata said there was no need for leaders to merely respond to each other through newspapers. He said African leaders must begin to sit down and talk.
Sata said the problem was that opposition political parties in Africa did not see eye-to-eye with the government. He said conflicts such as the one in Zimbabwe between MDC’s Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe could be avoided if the two had been talking before elections.He said similarly, the problems in Kenya were resolved because Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki had been talking before elections. Sata said Africa should learn from the United States and Britain where leaders sat down to talk despite their differences.
Sata has in the past been very critical of President Mwanawasa. He has also never been to State House since former president Frederick Chiluba left.
And Sata confirmed that the government had released his passport. He said he had spoken to President Mwanawasa on two occasions and the President ordered home affairs minister Lt Gen Ronnie Shikapwasha to release the passport. He said Lt Gen Shikapwasha had been reluctant to release the passport and President Mwanawasa was not pleased.
Now Satana-Nyoko says he wants peace, only after a massive heart stroke nearly knocked him out and death landed on his son. No, there will be no peace you Satan, we’ll pursue you right to the very gates of Hell where your father Satan resides.
Pragmatist
Stop campaigning for MMD. Please stick to the topic.
If you come campaigning for MMD, wait for a political thread otherwise we dont want to hear it on this thread.
The topic is citizen economic empowerment. Talk about that.
Its surprising tht the Sata can now see the importance of dialogue wit the govt H.E LPM. Sata is a joker,at least he makes us laugh thts y we nid him in the opposition.
He has realised tht politics of confrontations is long gone,its a pitty he has realised late coz his time has passed.
Its surprising tht Sata can now see the importance of dialogue wit the govt & H.E LPM. Sata is a joker,at least he makes us laugh thts y we nid him in the opposition.
He has realised tht politics of confrontations is long gone,its a pitty he has realised late coz his time has passed.
Pragmatish,
LPM isnt going 4 a third so is Sata standing in 2011 (the chimney has cracked).So dnt campaign 4 LPM.Instead campaign 4 Hakainde Hichilema and UPND, after all he is the only Pres candidate making sense for 2011.
Guys what is the point of discussion here, this forum has really gone from bad to worse, I am back at Zambian Online where serious discussions take place.
#19, sometimes u ve very good arguments (contributions). But, then this one is misdirected. Put it this way my brother. The whole world has lost respect for US of A. The installation of Obama will maybe uplift America’s image on the international stage as a country which is truly democratic. The thing is, democracy in America is just amongst whites. When it comes to, especially, African Americans, democracy does not apply. They are mostly still in dire poverty. Look, if Senator Clinton was standing against a white male, she would have would have lost the bid long before-I don’t know. The fact its a black she standing against-she even have the courage to go on even if she hasn’t got a…
…popular majority. And this is coz she knows pipo will always think along racial lines. And then again-a slave will ever be a slave. While most of the whites are supporting their fellow white candidate, most former slave still pledge allegiance to white masters and therefore, even if Obama is popular are pouring their votes into senator Clinton. Senator Clinton is lying by saying or wanting to mean to say shes going to bring the jobs back from india or china. Eg china has invested a lot in america and europe and vice versa such that there is no point of return. I dont know why the Americans cant see thru that.
If clinton wins we may see the republicans coming back even if it is most…
…that they are catching the exit, right now. The reason being that they would pick on a man rather than a woman who has even started with lies (in Bosnia). But if Obama wins, the democrats will definitely lose. Common sense is that he is going to uplift the america’s image on the international platform. He may even be able to talk to both the Palestenians and Isrealites successfully as he will be fresh blood. At least amogst the arabs. He may not succeed with the jews but maybe this may expose them as people who do not want the regional problem solved. Thats my opinion but if you think about it, it maybe logical.
Chanda (44),
You have a disqualified mind. I don’t see where you are coming from or where you are heading to.So what is wrong with my acknowledgment of the wisest move Sata has decided to make? Life and time are the best teacher.HE President Mwanawasa SC has the Golden opportunity to keep building up his legacy and certainly you will keep seeing Zambians of sound mind and intellectual judgment adding at many fora to that momentum. Whatever confuses you my young man # 44, i could explicate issues over into terms and pieces you best understand.No need to stay confused when we visit this blog.
#46 Peter
I apologize if my post was well disappointing, i guess that was just my opinion since i was reading on the petrol dollar and that got me thinking. You dont have to agree with me on my post as you are also entitled to your own opinion and i really appreciate your input.
Im not saying that am an eintstien but even he was wrong on some things sometimes.
Pragmatist, Pansaka and #40, indeed you are fools. plse stick to an important TOPIC at hand you tribalists who hate bembas, but whether you like it or not Bembas constitute about 45% of Zedian population. The TOPIC at hand is CEEC. and not comments about SATA.