The Zambia Sugar Company Plc in Mazabuka in Southern province has started offloading sugar on the market in a bid to cushion the prevailing shortage of the commodity in the country.
Corporate Affairs Manager, Lovemore Sievu, who disclosed this to ZANIS in Mazabuka today, said most towns in the province have already started receiving the commodity.
Mr. Sievu said 60 metric tonnes of sugar has been delivered to Livingstone but did not disclose the quantities dispatched to Monze, Choma and Kalomo districts.
He said Lusaka, which is facing a serious shortage of sugar, would receive 200 metric tonnes this afternoon or tomorrow morning.
Mr. Sievu said currently, there are 28 trucks that were waiting to load for supply to Lusaka and Copperbelt towns.
He said the rate at which the packing of sugar is done is impressive, adding that the company was working in accordance with the assurance it gave to government.
And Mr. Sievu has reiterated that tomorrow Monday, 2nd June 2008, the company would off load one million kilogrammes of sugar to the market while another six million kilogrammes would be off loaded by Friday this week.
He urged consumers to stop buying the commodity in panic saying the market would soon be saturated with sugar in all parts of the country.
But Mazabuka town, which is in the heart of Zambia Sugar Company, has been hit by a critical shortage of the commodity.
The price of a one kilogramme packet is now fetching between K 9,000 and K 12,000 in some retail shops.
The blame goes to the Nyengos from the western part of Zambia for the critical shortage of Sugar in Zed! Ino kai manyengo a juba sugar-can akaya kuli? Do I have to physically go to Kalabo, kaoma, limulunga & shangombo to recruit these nyengos just to make sure Mazabuka remains the sweetest town in the nation? Watch it Nyengos or your masters will change direction & start going to other parts of ZED to recruit Lundas/Luvales. Nywebo ncito yenu nku juba buyo sugar-can kwamana, then sugar will be mbwee the whole nation.
Wena singa Mukaintu. Unahana kuli musebezi wa ma Nyengo kiku lema miswati. Nyebo batolo, sugar kwina mulidila mu nyengo. Ba bbala mpoto. Mula kohya kuhwa zala mulikede. Aswebo buzuba bomyi tuyojula ikampani la sugar ku bulozi. Tuyomibona na ma nyengo waya yoboola ku gonka zimbe. There salaries would be better as befits a nyengo guy.
ha ha ha ha but bane this is the one, o mukaintu kobambila ba situkumba aba, they think they can hold us to ransom, ba ka kololo aba!
balozi, namutampa kale …
where is mundia sikatana..I miss this charismatic lozi who does not mince his words…
Word, lol
this is monopoly by Zambia sugar plc. controlling the prices of the commodity taking advantage of the situation poor people need sugar. the government needs to take tougher restrictions on monopolistic companies.
stop exporting sugar supply the local market first. the government needs to stop people exporting. i know companies will make more money if they export but what about the local market?
look to what is happening to cement? they are exporting and yet we need to build and construct right here in ZED.
Bane 9-12 gruddas! Now that is expensive even in countries like the UK where they dont even have Nakambala, a country where children do not even know what a sugar cane looks like!
#7. zambia1
If you feel that way then maybe you can stop Zambia Sugar PLC from being a monopoly by starting your own Sugar company or funding someone who wants to start a sugar company.
FACT, we are now in a free market economy so Zambia Sugar PLC can do whatever it wants. The fact that it has no competitors or is probably the only company in this field enables it to do what it wants. If you no longer want it to be a monopoly, then start your own sugar company, no one is stopping you.
#7 Do you know that Chilanga supplies the local market 83% of it’s produce but the chaps that buys this are the ones exporting? There are 2 types of bags for export and local as i know but go to Kasumbalesa and check how much much local cement in queue waiting to cross into Lubumbashi. The recomended retail price is not more than 55pin. It’s a black market over which the company has no say. Balaisula new plant and i see prices slump. Sugar is another issue….
# 3.
Wayasa.Inzya Mbaakakololo musa. Have you seen this ka-kololo of mine#2 Kashimani who claims that they will open their own Company!” tuyojula ikampani la sugar ku bulozi” Macchu, taakwe. They have to continue working for the betterment of Chuundu.
#2, organise the Nyengos please, we need more cheap labour ku Mazabuka and then we shall solve #8 ‘s problem. Sugar will become cheap.
what more ,or i need is to be i dont know,you complete secondary sechool,you complete college level or univesity level at last no job or a job where you get less mahafu and to be paid you have to wait when the eployer will feel like giving you mahafu and if you happen to find a good job at a good company{mining} kubalishamo first please government help us
mwanansu 2005