Government has revealed that the country has an estimated shortfall of 100,000 metric tones maize.
Information and Broadcasting Minister, Ronnie Shikapwasha, told journalists in Lusaka today that government has further established that the country will run out of maize at the end of February 2009 and that there will be need to import the shortfall to last until May 2009 when people will have harvested their own produce.
Lieutenant General Shikapwasha said both the Food Reserve Agency, FRA, and private dealers are encouraged to participate in the importation of the established shortfall.
“However, government is aware that availability of maize is not in itself a solution until this translates into what people can afford. To this end, the FRA has been instructed to and has started off-loading 20,000 metric tons monthly of its maize which is cheaper than importing maize to stabilize the prices,” explained Gen. Shikapwasha.
He noted that government will continue providing relief food to people, who are in areas which experienced floods last rain season.
Rev. Shikapwasha, who is also Chief Government Spokesperson revealed that so far government has
distributed a total of 5,714 metric tons of White maize countrywide saying government is assessing the situation on the ground.
He emphasized that contrary to Kalomo Central Opposition UPND Member of Parliament Request Muntanga, the maize government will import is non Genetically Modified Organism-GMO.
He assured Zambians that government has a source which will supply non GMO maize.
Meanwhile Rev. Shikapwasha said the formed Task force on rising food prices is expected to come up with a national Action Plan which will bring out the interventions needed to mitigate the ever increasing food prices in the short, medium and long term .
He noted that government has taken note of the concerns expressed by various people and organizations about that state of food security in the country.
Gen. Shikapwasha said government is taking appropriate interventions to prevent people in all parts of the country from dying from hunger saying government is currently assessing the level of food insecurity.
He said there was no need for people to panic or some people making political mileage out of the food situation.
“The mealie-meal prices should not be used as an issue to incite unrest in the country because government is taking all the necessary measure. Moreover it is misleading to suggest as the Patriotic Front has done that President Rupiah Banda promised to reduce the mealie-meal prices,” explained Rev. Shikapwasha.
He explained that President Banda had emphasized the need to increase food production and promised increased subsidy on fertilizer for beneficiaries under the Fertilizer Support Programme.
He assured the Zambian people that there was absolutely no need for planned protests by opposition PF cadres saying it is a shame that leader, Michael Sata, has decided to support the planned demonstrations by his cadres.
Gen. Shikapwasha noted that the Task Force on rising Food Prices is studying the variance of retail prices between urban and rural towns and will advise government on how best to deal with the situation.
And Gen. Shikapwasha said the fertilizer issue has been taken out of context because neither President Banda nor government promised to reduce prices across the board.
He explained that the subsidized fertilizer is not for the open market but for targeted people belonging to co-operatives and benefiting the Fertiliser Support Programme.
He said there is no conman in government as the issue of reducing fertilizer prices under the Fertiliser Support Progarmme was announced way before the campaigns by former Finance Minister N’gandu Magande.
where is the bunper harvest,typical Z no future planning
how Hmmm!
I miss LP
Hmmm! shikas is also a rev? so many titles pa zed
#3 achuuuu….
was #5 not bad at all..
ok #6. bangwele why amafast,,,,
beaten again. i give up. logging out…
The problem with us zedians is that of bosting before the end of the year.They were saying we ve a bumper harvest ,now where is it ?May we take back mrs luhila.
Lack of planning and adquetly forecasting our consumption requirements to take into consideration the growing population and other factors.
This was a serious lapse on the part of Gov and someone should admit and step down in the interest of the country. There is no way a country can make such a blunder. Export and later re-import? What a mess!!
It is sad Sata is taking advantage of a serious situation like this for his own personal gain.
One can only imagine what goes on in that mans head or what he would have done if he was head of state.
iwe n# 8 dont give up jst continue we nid u.talk to me nicely i kud sell my 5000 bags of mainze from my farm in kalomo west..
What? I dont understand. What else do we nned in this country? We have land we are the largest country in terms of water reserves if we can call it that. The government should take steps to empower the Zambian people so that they are encouraged to do farming as the case is in Botswana with cattle. Then we will have enough to feed ourselves and to export. I mean the Almighty God has given us all we need. And what do we do with it? Import maize ,its unbelievable. The Minister of Agriculture should begin working on a solid plan so that Zambia can become an exporter of food to earn ourselves income. Not mines, mines all the time mines it has become a song. Minister of Finance and Minister of
We should have never exported maize to Zimbabwe.
But it has already happened. We can only think of the future and solutions and what to do to avoid another occurrence like this one from happening again.
#11 Leave Sata out of this. This has nothing to do with Sata. In fact Sata is doing what he is supposed to do. Keep the Govt of the day on it’s feet. Do you want him to be quiet like Miyanda while these incompetent men run our country into the ground? This is not Sata’s fault and don’t use him as an excuse to explain away or deflect the focus from the issue. You and your MMD just own up.
Agriculture should start working around the clock. We need maize belts, potato belts, rice belts, cashew nut belts, groundnut belts, pineapple belts just to mention a few. All these can be grown in this country in various provinces on a large scale and enough to feed the nation. Awe mwandi. Not copper belt all the time 40 + years ni cooperbelt fye? YOu have seen that copper prices have faalen in the world market food will never lose market. Please we need pionners with vision. Zambia can be a food belt.
change your diet to yams, kandolo, tute, fipushi, rice, bread, noodles, matoke, cuscus, chapati, dumplings &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
Failing to plan = planning to fail!!!
Sorry but would it be wrong to call our govt leaders stup!d. I mean honestly how do you realize there’s not enough maize for the country 2 months before. What type of planning goes on with this muthrfkin government? We have !d!ots running a country and we seem to be content. 44 years of independence and still nothing to show we are capable of independece. Goddamn!
Maize should not be the only source of carbohydrates or staple food, bring the finger millet and cassava meals. Be innovative, sweet potatoes, irish potatoes and rice all can do the job. We seem to be so short sighted that we can fight over nshima when alternatives are in abundancy. Too much of village concepts pa Zed.
However, having said that, govt has no excuse for its failure to plan and look ahead. They were dishing out mealie meal without thinking as to what is likely to happen. My poor grandmother still needs her promised ration RB and Mulongoti ka!!
So as goverment, what are you doing about it???? Have you started the importattion exercise or you are waiting till we completely run out of the commodity??? This is no time to start pointing fingers.If anything you should thank Mr Sata for opening your eyes. had it not been for him…. You wouln’t have discovered that maize stocks were running out.You were too busy with calculating how much you will be getting per month after the increament!
Despite that i hate SATA i give him thumps up on this one bcoz he had warn the Gov’t not export maize.Nomba twalafa fe ma tax payers.
anyone seen that article saying ZAMBIA WILL AWARD farm LAND TO FOREIGNERS IN 2009
what is this again?why cant the government try to empower ZAMBIANS before turning to foreigners? this will probably put all small scale farmers at a loss and just plain annoying why does this govt not support its own? do we really need foreigners to do this? they will sale peoples traditional land and there will be a monopoly on agricultural produce i’m sure even the government will purchase from foreigners YABA
Can someone tell me what rioting will solve??
Free-Market-Capitlst, So why bring SATA’s name here, Man debate issues and not sata cause this is very serious.
You see can you trust this Govment even with serious issues like maize our staple food, its failing to forecast surely. The people who are suffering is us poor zambians because them, they have increased their salaries and they cannot feel the impact, only God knows.
iwe n#13 stop talking about enough land and enough water resources the problem is that u have a corrupt government which is busy giving zimbabwean white farmers land especiaaly here in southern provinnce,they are busy damming the sterams and we downn sterams dont have a water to irrigate our fields.follish govenment abash if u want proff come to my farm kalomo west a have a huge plantation of bananas but i use water feom boheholes coz our steam is been diveted by these white farmers if nothing is done am going to axe sam i with my tonga keembe””””
#11 and #15, Sata has no solutions to such problems. He does not even have a farm to grow his own food. How do you expect him to help the Country. We would be in a worse off situation with Sata actually because he would be blaming people when citizens are dying. I am sure RB has some solutions to some of these issues, let us give him time. Two months is 60 days and Sata promised to deliver on all promises within 90 days. He must be a genius in his dreams.
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it’s good if want you are telling as is true coz you are good at talking at implimenting you are slow?i want to see the priz going down.
Typical Mwalya Mweka Daddy (MMD) planning. The problem also is that Baptism certificates are now being used by some people to become reverends. Ati Rev. Shikapwashya? Let real politicians run this country before we starve to death in two months time
Taskforce on Corruption Press Conference in 10 minutes, Woodlands offices on Chungu’s arrival.
Leave Mike out of this.This govt must learn to listen.Where is FRA STOCK? Shame on govt .failing to plan with two cabinet ministers in agriculture is unacceptable.
Xavier Chungu comes back to Zambia
Wednesday, 03 December 2008
Fugitive former office of the president director general Xavier Chungu has sneaked into the country and he is being held at police force headquarters in lusaka.
#25. Rashid Jones
I bring SATA’s name because he is advocating for violence when Chituwo has offered him a way in which he can offer solutions to the problem (read todays times at “times dot co dot zm”).
Lets see the solutions SATA can offer if he has any.
#29 I find that website interesting, however, we need to know who is behind this party so that we can analyse the credibility of their leadership. Without leadership, i take it to be the same MMD policies that are good on paper.
Firstly let me say that Baby C ur contribution makes me even give u more pluses on score sheet. As for my contribution, am sorry to say that this administration is strategically impotent and have shown from day one in office of RB that they neither have the will nor the capacity to priotise the national welol being of our country and the majority of the poor people. What is the blotted cabinet and civil service been doing not forcast national issues like commodity stocks.
in the long run , i agree diversifying our consumption patterns is sustainable , but even with increased demnads for cassava rice and other cereals we still need to produce these or build up reseves. but out govts
Zambians let’s just admit we let COMPLETE and ABSOLUTE id!ots run our country the past 17 years. Even the one exception LPM- MHSRIP was outnumbered by these muthfking m0r0ns. If you think Zambia has hope with “influential men” being ppl like Sata, Mpombo, Mulongoti, Mabenga, Katele etc, forget our country reaching new heights. We will continue to drown. And I mean no offence to the children of the ppl I mentioned- let’s call a spade a spade- it just is what it is.
Akhulu Mpuno’s govt has no direction ni chiyeyeye fye, no bunga bwapwa.
At the rate that we are going as a country i am beginning to fear this will result in some instability GOD FORBID. but really people can only take sooo much rubbish,Even though all protests are being linked to PF, sata is not the issue here, pipo r simply tired of the way things are being handled, only rich people can benefit from this government poor people dont matter,WHAT DOES ONE NEED TO DO TO GET PROPER LEADERSHIP IN THIS COUNTRY? WE SHOULD BE ahead of where we are now, how can there be soo much potential,the govt borrows money to reduce poverty but never use it for any feasible plans, this is pointless. why not borrow money to develop a feasible agric plan where zambians benefit?
This is a nice topic let me knock off so that I can air my views
So Mr Ben Kapita will now be in charge of project monitoring.How is monitoring the agricultural blunder he was part of? This country really needs serious planners and not rely on political story tellers. Why don’t we have a permanent Think Tank for a change?
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God help us.
Prepare yourselves for this difficulty situation and dont attack individuals. Iam not Zambian but i think you cant develop with the contributions of some of the bloggers. Anything that comes up then is HH what, Sata what. solve your problems and stop attacking each other.
THERE GOES NYAMA SOYA THE LEADER WHO LACKS CHARISMA WE ARE BACKNIN THA DAYS WERE WE SHALL Q FOR MEALIE MEAL AND OTHER STUFF SO BA ZED GET PREPARED FOR A THREE YEARS OF UNPROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AND STOICAL LIVING.RB IS TOO SERENE FOR THE COUNTRY LOOK AT HOW THE DOLLAR IS INCREASING THA MEANS THE INVESTORS ARE LOSING CONFIDENCEBUT ONE THING RB SHOULD KNOW IS THAT IS BUILDING PRESSURE ON HIMSELF COME FEB WE SHALL DIN FROM STATE FOOD WILL BE TOO EXPENSIVE
cntd. the MMD agriculture policy and food security strategy revolves around maize. to them maize is equal to food security. all their policies do not create incentives for farmers to grow other things only maize. they fix the price of maize dostorting the market, they subsidise fertilisrs, all these are inefficient and unsustainable ways of ensuring food security.
they need to invest in extension services, training, infrasytrucre and market development for other food crops. the rest will take care of itself , u will see small scale and big scale farmers moving inot growing these other crops.
Imwe guys,
Muzilima, if you run out food its your problem becuase us farmers we are not affected. Grow backyard gardens and dont be affected by such small issues, to the extent where others are resorting to demos on issues they are to blame for not having gardens and farms.
Anyway its been a long day, im off untill tomorrow because i think Zambia will be in this situation forever. God bless you all
#40- I was in Zambia during the summer, even had the previlege of visiting my village in Chinsali- and you’re very right. The type of leadership we have- just from listening to them on tv you recognize just how dull and incapable leadership we have. These stup!d leaders find difficulty in reading a speech on paper, and even as they are doing so- you can tell he cannot even understand what he’s reading. I get so shocked and lose hope that these are “our leaders”. These muthfkers act superior to their own ppl, then you find them shrinking in front of foreigners. Spineless men with no vision. ALL if them.
It is good the world is about to come to an end. People like Rashid will have to account for their sins.
I am not saying I am perfect but no sin must go unpunished.
I have gone to bed. GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY
I blame those given responsibility to look after the affairs of farmers in relation to supplying farming in-puts on time such as fertilizer, etc. These pipo are not serious year after year we face the same problem – Why? Fellow Zeds lets be blest for the worst starvation to come this coming year, meanwhile we shall continue to boast of having bumper harvests even when its not available..! How can we have bumper harvest when a bag of fertilizer is costing K295,000.00? meanwhile the so called 50 pin per bag fertilizer is no where to be seen.
Do we have any strategic planners in Zambia? What are the two “universities” producing? Where is the bumper harvest that Zambia boasted about? Apparently a lot of it was sold to other countries. Zambia will end up buying back the maize it sold. What a situation!
#32, we are watching the space on the teskforce press conference. Please keep us posted. We need to hear what they stand for and why this Xavier Chungu waited until LPM died before he could return to Zambia. He must face the music together with Chiluba
KWENA BA LT, TUMA PHOTOES TWENANGU,SO MANY MEN SCRAMBLING FOR NSHIMA IN ONE DISH.THUS WHY CHOLERA KILLS IN MASSES,OVER 400 PIPO IN ZIM HAVE DIED OF CHOLERA.CAN’T WE CHANGE OUR EATING HABITS,USE TUMA PLASTIC SIDE PLATES FILYA,HYGIENE BANE.SORRY BUT KA PHOTO TAKAWEME,IT’S THE REALITY THO,BUT BEWARE OF SUCH HIGHLY CONTAGEOUS VIRUSES LIKE HEPATITIS B OR THE KILLER BACTERIA LIKE CHOLERA FIMOFIMO.
Iwe # 51 who told you thw world’s about to end? The white man came with his manipulated religion and you followed him. I know there’s a God, but he’s certainly not the one the white man uses to keep ppl like you and me down. Remove the veil from your eyes and figure out your own path. The owrld is ending- a story we’ve heard time and time again- what are we supposed to do- sit around, sing “kumbayah my lord” and wait as ppl are suffering. Some beliefs irk the hell out of me-pun intended.
#43 -you seem to know something about this CDP. Can you tell me who is leading the party before i can join?
It is being led by a think tank and not an individual. We don’t want individual parties anymore because once the individual dies the party vision is also lost just what happenned to my beloved UPND and what is about to the PABWATOO.
We must start eating the Bembas in February because they are too many
Typical of the dependency syndrome.we depend on copper,foreign investors,politicians and maize.lets think outside this list for once people and make progress.
After politicing it is time to work. A man is judged by looking at people who surround him. Great leaders are those who are surrounded by intelligent people. This way they are able to make infomred decision because the intelligent people give them all the information to base their decisions on.
Let us learn to work with people who will differ with us because they are convinced they stand for the truth,what is right and is good for this country. Muzungu anikonde type are good for nothing because they do not offer solutions siding with you all the time.
I think our President made a big mistake to get rid of Hon. Magande.
We shall wait and see.
#59 are u sure i can only imagine how they would taste
update on the Xavier Chungu story. Ama plunderers naba bwela coz atmosphere condusive for them. If VJ can get a job sure awe
I honestly do not know much about their actual leadership. I simply joined as a member because I was convinced by their approach that they are new people- not associated with failed people. I also talked to their interim spokesperson in Zambia Bill Kaping’a over the phone who explained their purpose in a very learned manner. I am going to Zambia in 2 weeks and will know more then. I also noticed some article in the post recenty- but surprisingly no names came up- which I believe is in line with the strategy to create curiousity.
ba ngwele mwamona nomba chi RB chenu
If we run out of maize, where will zimbabwe turn to? I am glad my dad stocks for eventualities. Viva HH 4 2011…………
#60 contd… and maize lets learn to leave outside this list and make progress
#61 i agree Bwezani made a mistake firing magande it was personal and not professional, just showing us what kind of leader he is, u shud put personal differences aside because magande was an asset to MMD and annoying at times he was at least trying to do he’s job. leading a country is not personal, differences should be put aside RB just showed us his character on that move MASEBO its ok but Magande was not
Its a sorry sight pa Zed.This goverment does not care about the welfare of its people at all. How about re-appointing the outspoken Mundia Sikatana ……???
Sorry RB *did* promise to reduce the prices… GRZ is losing it already mwe blaming PF, just sort the situation out
#62 and your counterpart- there you go with your bullsh!t. Fcking self-loathing ppl is what you are. Potential genocide criminals. Go fcuk yourselves hard. What makes you think there is any difference btn me a bemba and yourself? Do you breathe blue air and have piss for blood. Ppl like you think you sit on some pedestal- we are all the same- simple as that. I am Bemba and proud of it. But it does not make me better or worse than the next person. You are some of the reasons our country lags behind.
mwakula ilya bafi…kala mwab….ama…to..le mwe mb..wa mwe fi..nyo fwenu. if..inyo fwa nu..nka kwata fi..mbotela
fingi sanalelo
We had a bumper harvest pa ZED which could have taken us to the next haverst season.The problem is pipo in the govt loves money.they exported all the mauze to coutries like DRC and ZIM.Now you will see how measn the pipo in govt are.they will start importing maize at a very higher price than the price they exported our maize.one painful thing is these pipo in the govt wont even be affected by the shortage of the commodity,only poor Zedian like my family will be affected.
iwe Africanborn n#51 what nonsense are u talking about dont u know that indeed the world is cimming to and end and that the maker of this world will kam and take his own so please i hope he will find u ready by confessing your sins and accepting,believing that he is lord and saviour of our lives ohh i nid to repent as well so no axing sam i with my tonga keembe.
Lieutenant General Shikapwasha left the army looong time! – Don’t call him Lieutenant General!!
Rev. Shikapwasha? Is he really a practicing Reverend?
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RB is not a good leader. The only positive thing we (men) can learn from him is to plant seed (children) here in RSA. RB fathered a child here and set a good example for all zambian men living here. Let us follow his example, otherwise politically he is naive. Osama bin Zed, do u agree with me?
So what has task force to do Pulp. Pulp is a cheapthing that can be provided to everyone. In other countries, that thing is researcved for cattle. The problem is that GRZ again does not have competent people to plan. We are tired of this mealie meal thing????
Is there no alternative sure??? is it pulp only???
Why are you all acting surprised???..Zambian Governments have never been held to account for their un-thoughtout actions..we are the voters and should make our votes count…LOOK AT TAIWAN…The people have spoken and the PM has staepped down…The main problem is the majority of us are tempted by officials with “chibuku”..”beer” and empty promises..we always fall for this nonsense and then moan once they are in power
what has happened to the planning department of the ministry af agriculture? Nobody seems to be using there heads people are just living for the moment
eya eya, kano takaliko, elolwanya nomba, food is food bane, in the short term people have to be fed, obviously the price of mealie meal will go up, already in some rural areas a 25kg of roller is selling at 80 pin! In the long term we should learn to work with nature, the water from the last flood was still around until this rain season, why didn’t we plant maize in the dry season with the water from the last flood? It is just goes to show that we will never take care of ourselves, ever…Task force, task force for that, what about a task force for to investigate why brains are not used?
saviour chungu is in the country and he’s been formally charged at central police,i dnt knw y he’s come back.yet to hear more from closes sources
#59 I agree with you entirely these pipo are thieves we must start eating them.
I agree with baby C-#69, Please bring back the man who was fired bcoz he was sick. Any way,,he has since buried many who were fit at the time of his dismisal.
He did better than the man in the wheel chair.
Bring him back – Sikatana please. He is the rain maker you know!!!!!!!!!!!
The bigest problem in Zambia is that the country has been for a long time ravaged by corruption and therefore the process that was supposed to solve these problems were wiped by the cancer of corruption by GRZ officals. So the problems comes back to them and they are failing to solve. Surely, what is the point of stealing so much abd in the end you still staying in kabulonga close to people starving, being scared of the same corela. The thing that solves such problems is being open and let people know they are part of this country and it is only the very people who will solve these problems, not your silly skills.
#75- believe what you want to believe. There are too many stories and fairy tales. Some talk about killing others and you have 7 virgins waiting for them. Others say heaven awaits. How you justify them is sad. Reality is it is pointless trying to convince you. If your religion is closest to a God I have no doubt exists- where does that put others? My argument is only our creator knows where the world is going. But he sure did not create the world to end it. You wi;; die @ 100 waiting for your heaven.
Saviour Chungu back.
I smell a military coup pa Zed.
Heavenly Father,please help our beloved country.would you kindly impart knowledge in our leaders that will enable them to come up with a better solution to this shortage.help bless all Zedian with enouh food that will see them through to the next harvest season,Its in the name of our saviour Jesus Christ I pray with many thanks giving in my heart Ameeen!
Instead of setting up task forces, just consult knowledge people for free and they will tell you that again it you the GRZ confusing things. Honestly cant you read how tired people are that they can not trust anything. Immediately you start failing to organize peoplewho can think and solve these problems then resign and people will come up to solve them. Why are youblocking them
These are the issues we have been raising against this government.And people like Golyati are accusing me of being political. It was said that we had enough maize in reserves and this government exported some to Zimbabwe and Congo DR.How do you export and later have a shortage in your country? What sense is in that. And do you know that they wil import the maize at a higher price than the price at which they exported our maize.Hence spending more money from government coffers.This is poor planning and it is disheartening.
#91 you are correct mwaiche. Planning is necessary here
And do you think Bwezani Banda can step down if we scare him a bit????
meant #80
Not longer ago,ladies and gentlemen,we witnessed women dancing at state house for the bumper harvest.This was during the rule of man who left the legacy of a family tree.Where has that bumper harvest gone?RB also indicated to us that the major reason MMD performed well in rural areas is beacuse of good MMD agricultural policies,according to him there is plenty of food in rural areas.By his reasoning we do not expect our brothers and sisters in the conuty side to run out of food.This is completely a fallacy,becouse people at the backside of the nation are alredy the worst hit.M/meal in Siasowa a romte area in Maamba is costing 100,000 per 25kg.This is a disaster.
naiwe chi #84 u are agreeing with that sh!t?! Fcuk u faggots, talk some sense!! ndimwe mubweza ziko kumbuyo. Ubunga bwapwa, serious issue to talk about.
Just to confirm that Xavier Chungu came back to Zed and was arrested today.
USA Zed let us raise to fed our people back home, otherwise they will be problems that will fail to matigate in tthe future.
Bushe pipo pa ZED who has bewitched us aini?We can’t manage our resources on our own.God has blessed us with so many thing,unfortunately we can’t manage them.We had a bumper harvest,then we sold everything forgeting that oue staple food is nshima.
Anyway complaints overshadows God’s blessings so lets not complain but think of how we can help our pipo back home because there not the only ones affected we will be also affected.
Ati Xavier Chungu is bak
This shortage has been delibarately created by MMD for them to raise money through corruption that will be involved in emergency importation so that they can pay MMD debts ( including payments to RB image builders) incurred in the last elections. This MMD government should resign for incompetency. Not too long along Mpombo created a fuel crisis and now we have a maize crisis. The conflict of interest of FRA chairman in this nonsense has to be investigated. I can’t image the smolke coming, economic melt down conbined with insala. The crimes of these chaps are certainly worse than those of Xavier Chungu
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#15 iri
Exactly my brother! thse MMD and their supporters just want to deflect attention from their failings!
Sony ericsson Phiri where are you.ngadiwe waenda mukugwira mbeba,or you said ati your mbeba are imported ayi.Am sorry boyi no more mbeba for you after two months kaili nazeve mbeba maize ni staple food.so if you want more Mbeba talk to your Brother ba RB to make sure that our country does not run out of maize or else no mice for you Easterners.Haaa HAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa LOL!!!!
How on earth did they mess this up?
and I know for a fact that when MMD was campaigning in my mums neighbourhoood they specifically stated that RB would reduce mealie meal and fertiliser prices! its clear that RB and his people lied to get into office!( ontop of the vote rigging as well!_.
Let us pray for the Zed! becasue this same govt have voted for salary increments when the Zed will have to import maize in now! where are their priorities?
hey i hear Chungu is back in the country, hope he just came to vist us and then go back.
Thank you to Levy and RB and there administrations. Soon everything will be on the black market as before. FTJ changed Zambia for the better, Levy and RB took it back 20 years. More line to come at the stores again. Levy had 2 Ministers of agriculture and no one knew what they were doing. He fired the only one minister who was working-Mundia Sikatana because Mundia was making everyone look lazy and a waste of govt funds in salaries. Sarah and Kapita must explain how they let this happen in the midst of a bumper harvest. HANG THEM. Jesus was crucified for trying to save humanity, what do you think should be done those bringing poverty to people?
#105 I will get mbeba from State House MMMMMM! LOL
I wonder what Chungu wants, it must be some kind of a deal going on
Mukwai kuti baisa pokako ama potatoes. I have just thrown away some. They started growing.
That country is seriously a joke.
What happened to winter maize project
these fags were busy exporting maize to other countries,do these mafyonsos think
These are early signals of a nation-wide catastrophe. Everyone can see for themselves that MMD is no t competent at all. The country is nose-diving into a great disaster and there’s no rescue plan. At least not in the hands of Nyama Soya.
How can Zambia be going through this when a small country like Malawi a neighbour has this year produced so much maize that they are exporting. Why cant the Zambian ambassador in Malawi tell the Zambian govt what malawi has done. Whats the point of having all these people in these countries.
“He said there is no conman in government as the issue of reducing fertilizer prices under the Fertiliser Support Progarmme was announced way before the campaigns by former Finance Minister N’gandu Magande.”
The former Finance Minister saw this coming, and no one listened. Why should we be going through this year to year when there is enough land and rain!
Guys I am not worried about amataba ukupwa. Infact they are telling fibs. Let them suffer!
Just sipping on my Stella while waiting for my barbecue. Balafwa bakapoli.
Bloggers Party.
How do register a political party in Zambia? Bloggers you have all been genius in your debates today. Most of you have put in about five hours each. There is a genius politician among all of you. People are starving and some can’t even afford a decent education because they are poor.
#88, military coup Zambia in your dreams. This Xavier is just trying for a deal with RB. It shows how much of a powerhouse Mwanawasa was and even the ka FTJ seems to be rejoicing everyday these days. What has happenned?
Zambians are used to suffering. They should have got rid of this incompetent govt but they did not. It is good they are dancing to the MMD tune. Nyama soya is flying all over now because they gave him power. Let the villagers continue eating the roots, they have no brains. MMD is full of liars and the president is very dull.America voted for son of a migrant but Zambians are rejecting their own brilliant and promising leader and called him names. Let problems continue because Zambians are disorganised and selfish
Let them die. I will be enjoying my Stella.
I think Zambians and Southern Africans in general need to be weaned off maize, what about sorghum, millet, potatoes, rice… all these provide nutrition why are we just focusing on maize when there are a ton of other crops we can grow and be a food basket for the region. Minister of Agriculture what are you doing?
# 116 ifwe tuli bakapoli?? Ok what about you? Am a farmer and all my maize is going to Congo
#121 do not be a wum. Go to India and tell then they should stop eating rice and look at things like pasta. lol! by the way my wife is Indian. We always do two meals. She does her rice and then akabwali bakaamba for me. Fudu!
PF I will embarass you by ringing you up on your O2 mobile number.
#120 Nshakaye. Hope you die slow you muthfker. You cannot be that insensitve to your people’s plight just because you left the country. I just had to say that. Hope your Stella Artois kills you you heartless S.O.B. You cannot be human. Fcuk you and all that’s yours.
Anyway back to business of our country.; this Xavier Chungu is really back now that LPM is gone. One can only speculate on what type of agreement RB has made with plunderers.
#125, you guys who pray for the bad must be hopeless. You should read between the lines, the guy is saying that you elected wrong people in office. Why do you deserve to say what you want and others cannot? Sorry, it is a free world. Sometimes what you hope for others might befall yourselves. Look at your hero Levy, where is he? FTJ still smiling.
#121. You are right man. We don’t eat nshima everyday here in the UK. Well it can be mash today, tomorrow rice and day after tomorrow pasta and at lunch it’s tuna salad or ham sandwich. Actually Zambian meals are so expensive. Lunch- Nyama+veg+nshima. Super– Chicken+veg+nshima. Breakfast– 4 slices of bread buttered both sides+tea with 4-5 spoons of sugar. where as here for breakfast its just a bowl of cereal or a fruit.
#125 Walasa ka shetani kali ku UK kupipa bazungu ati Nsakaye
# 112,my friend the winter maize project was just rhetoric.Am so upset,how do you give a bag of mealie meal to your neighbour when you dont have enough for your own children. There are so many people who benefit through these transactions.Zambia if it was well managed we would have been having true surplus. We have vast land,enough water.We can take advantage of the availability water and revamp agriculture through irrigation.Lets look at Libya,it survived the sanctions imposed on it because of proper planning. Gadaff called interllectuals in different fileds. They put their heads together and solved a number of problems.But that is a desert. And Zambia today can even begg from Libya what a shame.All this is as a result of poor planing and tired old brains in government.
ho ho ho ho Viva MMD….thats what people wanted…they were told to vote for an economic manager they were beasy shouting the hour!!!!!, pa bwato!!!!! what a mess….let them hang in there and vote wisely in 2011. Zambians should be suffering is a self made problem.
#126- If you support insensitive statements in the name of freedom of speech then check yourself. I said what I said to specifically that character becuase he has displayed disregard for people. You cannot tell me people especially in rural areas dying from disease and hunger have only themselves to blame. Then you lack an understanding of what’s going on. I was in Zambia 4 months ago- and the ppl suffering is nothing to joke about. Then this muthfker Nshakaye is supposed to be saying insensitive sh!t like that and we defend him in the name of freedom of speech? Come on man wake up.
Someone sent the following article to my email box today a:
“For those of you who heard it, this is the article Dee Lee was reading this morning on a New York radio station. For those of you who didn’t hear it .
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Dee Lee, CFP Harvard Financial Educators
THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery Look at the current methods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.
Where are the MMD supporters. Tell us how your Bwezani is going to take this country forward. Its been a month three days and he has not proved to us that he can do better as people thought he would. In this one month we have heard that the country is going down the hill crushing into the Zambezi. My dear Bloggers has your president given us hope that things will be fine? So far the answer is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! He can do better than what he is showing us. He needs to act fast but he is busy making trips here and there forgetting about us who put his party in power. Well three years is not long.
Kalos 2020 …and as for Levy, MHSRIP- he may not have been perfect but he certainly deserves some respect. I won’t say much on a dead man. As for FTJ-he may be smiling but we don’t know if he sleeps well at night. He has devils on his back from the people he may have killed indirectly or directly. That smile may be a cover for a death wish.
#132:
“Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, “The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in a book.” We now live in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com, not to mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid blueprints to reach economic equality (which should have been their fight all along), but few read consistently, if at all…”
#133:
“GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars in total yearly income (2.22%).
Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it. Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing.”
#136:
“They would rather buy some new sneaker than invest in starting a business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, And they still think that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives them “Status” or that they have achieved their Dream.
They are fo ols! The vast majority of their people are still in poverty because their greed holds them back from collectively making better communities.”
on the web; type as ONE WORD;
|the citizens democratic party “dot” com|
Read their policy suggestions. A party for Zambia’s future. Youths especially this party is concerned for the future- support it.
“With the help of BET, and the rest of their black media that often broadcasts destructive images into their own homes, we will continue to see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeered them, saying he doesn’t want their money, and look at how the fo ols spend more with him than ever before!). They’ll continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits from our businesses that we market to them.”
Roughly 1063 days before the 2011 elections.
“SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, Dubois said that there was an innate division in their culture. A “Talented Tenth” he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that has achieved some “form” of success. However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn’t read that the “Talented Tenth” was then responsible to aid The Non-Talented Ninety Percent in achieving a better life. Instead, that segment has created another class, a Buppie class that looks down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner. They will never achieve what we”.
“The Man from ISP”- funny thing is no one has read your posts. talk about IRONY.
The Man from SP.
Whats with the comments? We can’t help it! Jammed up brains need unlocking. When an Asian goes overseas he thinks of openning a corner shop and stuyding at the same time. AS for WE the Zambians what comes first to mind? Each one of us is different but the majority are the same and the Majority are in MMD.
Then the enlightened Man from SP decides to post another comment from himself under Anoymous. This here is too funny. Priceless.
Maybe they need to resign on moral grounds for incompetency coz we need competent people who can manage the economy in this worldwide challenging moment.They need to be kept on their feet coz of their Campaign promises.This is not a time to take advantage of Zambians and asking for more time,we can evaluate them already by the decisions they have started making.If they started on a good note then we would be pleased but as for now pressure needs to be mounted so that they perform otherwise it’s better to bow down and resign with honour and let Competent people manage these challenging moments.
***on the web; type as ONE WORD;
|the citizens democratic party “dot” com|
Read their policy suggestions. A party for Zambia’s future. Youths especially this party is concerned for the future- support it.
#11 it is not about Sata; it is about the lives of the poor zambians who will not have no food in two months time, may be they slept hungry today. please zambians let us be realistic; how can Sata keep quiet when many zambians have got no food? How you #11 shun to speak the truth when your relatives are dying of hunger simply because you are MMD? I do not understand you; I am ashamed of you!!!
#11 it is not about Sata; it is about the lives of the poor zambians who will have no food in two months time, may be they have already slept hungry today. please zambians let us be realistic; how can Sata keep quiet when many zambians have got no food? How do you dare #11 shun away from speaking the truth when your relatives are dying of hunger simply because you are MMD? I do not understand you; I am ashamed of you!!! it is not about the party, the whole nation!
This govt is comedy. its like some british comedy that used to come on znbc in those days, i think it was “fawty towers ” something like that.
Thats what you get when you elect such people to power. you even fail to take action when the results get rigged in the name of peace and stability.
Now, PRAY, PRAY AND PRAY.
Hehee.
Zambians are kept in captivity of negativity! That ain’t gonna change, not until MMD is in power!! 17years of negativity in the MMD’s reign!!
kupwalala. how can you send maize to zim and the die of hunger before the end of the season. thats what you get for perfoming mis-guided acts of solidarity.bangwele..
Let us all go back home some day and own
productive Farms. We are the solution.
Lack of strategic thinking. Poor planning. [You can not export maize at a lower rate and import the same maize at a higher rate]
waliu adigun is my name i am a nigeria in south west africa how do i benefit on all your programme. because i have a land here but there is no a aloneve morney to do it in large way if you can assist me to give out morney so that we can be parthner together. thanks and god we bless you amen.