President Rupiah Banda arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, ahead of the 19th World Economic Forum on Africa which starts today .
The plane carrying the President touched down at Cape Town International Airport at 15:15 hours.
President Banda was received by Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Leslie Mbula and other senior government officials.
The President was later driven to the Table Bay Hotel on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean where he will be lodged up to Friday.
Mr Banda is today expected to be among five Heads of State who will take part in the 19th World Economic Forum on Africa under the theme ‘Implications of the Global Economic Crisis for Africa’.
The leaders include South Africa’s new President, Jacob Zuma, who will host the three-day meeting at Cape Town International Conference Centre, Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, Lesotho Prime Minister, Pakalitha Mosisili and his Kenyan counterpart, Raila Odinga.
According to the programme , President Banda will today participate in a private session of the World Economic Forum, entitled ‘Investing in Africa.’
Later on in the evening, President Banda is expected to attend an interactive session over dinner at which Zambia will showcase its investment and economic potential.
On Thursday, the President will attend a plenary session on ‘Africa: the world’s potential bread basket.’
President Banda winds up his programme on Friday with a Cable Network News (CNN) debate on Political leaders in Changing Times.
ZANIS
I wish i could attend the showcase and see what will be presented..Good Luck guys..take Zambia forward..we know we have the potential to be one of the most developed country in Africa.
Please Mr. President, what happened to delegating someone you being head of state ? You have indeed travelled in the recent days. Just after watching soccer in Chililabombwe you went to Zimbabwe for the COMESA and now South Africa. This time when you come home please ask Kunda to travel as well or someone to represent you so that you can also attend to national issues. Those showcasing please sell the nation and what quality we have so that people out there can start looking at our products as of high quality and standard.
well i hope one day we shall the the results that come out of these investment fimo fimo that the president has been attending. I surely hope we actually do have something to showcase as this is also another way of attracting investment
Good luck to those involved
good luck guys. But also find time to attend to national issues. The strikes will do harm to the nation. People are dying from simple curable diseases like no man’s business. Our children are not learning. So RB pliz put your house in order before you invite visitors.
this guy is a joke you see what happens when u vote for the wroung pipo they stay at hotels near the beach and drink red wine while people are suffuring
How about visiting Muizenburg beach? And, the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences just close by it.
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Sokwe kaamuleya katabi (The monkey failed to grasp a tree’s branch – one day).
Damn Globe trotter!
I hope the CNN debate on the last day is not going to be live on television or radio. Can’t trust RB enough not to fumble it
But Zoana ba RB, surely you can delegate…have you heard about the strikes by civil servants in Zambia? Please boss stay at home and attend to some of these issues..
Miss Daisy # 1. I want to believe your the same person as “Zambian Blogger” from the pic and posting material. After visiting your blog, I can safely say you re being sponsored by Leslie Mbula or you work for the Zambian Embassy in SA or somewhere else as shushushu. There is nothing that your Bwezani has done except sinking Zambia deeper into more troubles. Its worthless to prop up a regime that is not in touch with reality. All they are interested in is make money and let the people die. Please repent and join the silent majority that will emancipate our dear Zambia
dont worry about us diasporans, Lungwangwa assured us that RB said he was concerned about what was cuttin in the nation and would think about solutions to the strikes as he skinny dipped in the atlantic and then in the evening as he sips dom perignon and shoves caviar into his gob, he’ll sort out the corruption issues….so we cool.
right now theres a procession of striking govt workers marchin and chanting out in the streets holding up anti govt banners…one of them reads ‘Government should employ monkeys if they want to pay Peanuts’….damn, i see cops mobilising….
I dont think RB has enough energy left in him to actively attend and participate in the programme laid down for him. He will just be dozing and sleeping through out to the extent or discouraging and scaring away donors. Let him come back and raise more funds for Faz. We know he has no tangible solutions to what is transpiring in the nation since he became president. So help us God.
Miss Daisy #1. they have the “potential” by words of the mouth to develop Zambia but not the actual needed action which we’ve been longing for since 1991. How many these so called workshops, indabas, conferences, summits and name them that these guys attend and yet do nothing to the growth of our country? I tell you what they do after these conferences…they sit and chat about who they met and how the enjoyed their evenings and how many shirts and suits they got..please we need change and real change. By the way indeni is closed, dig that?
DAMN LT, i have posted comments five times mwanchinga..why? i didnt post anything duhh?
#10 thanks for visiting us at the zambianblogger
Please understand that every piece of politic@l information represents two sides of a coin. It could either be the truth or a m@ssive shift of blame to refocus peoples opinion. I personally do not support Bwezani, i posted that because it is detailed and insightful, something that takes you back to the root of corruption, do you think they stole all the money in the last 6 months and built and bought everything in the same interval? Lets read between the lines
Hi China, i dig that. Its really sad that our companies keep closing down. I only said we have the potential means us collectively as Zambian entities, was not allocation the thumb up to RB and his inch boys. So this change you , me and others are crying for. Have we asked ourselves how it will come about?
#10….I do not by any chance support RB. I think hes a waste of time and we all know time is money..so right now zambia is loosing money having that tourist in the hot seat. About my posting on zambianbloggerDOTblogspotDOTcom. I thought that writing was insightful and elaborated the route of all these scandals. I am by no chance saying RB has nothing to do with it, its all a plan, he wants to make like hes doing something about corruption when he knew what was going on from the word go..when he was VP
FELIX MUTATI would have ably represented zambia and aba bamudala would have come back to attend to the burning issues at home.SKY NEWS has it that the zambian civil service has collapsed.
i’ always wondered why other countries disintergrated into violence and stuff coz of politics…..that was at least before i met RB……and that thing Teta…
If the mention that zambia or Africa is a potential food basket one more time I shall take it upon myself to get Zambia into more definable hands. We know and have known this for the longest time. Time is ripe to invest in Zambia and Africa, here is the inter-country trade, but cu Africa ma leaders batu nibodabwa mwe. Nainswa God given protein is a tradeable commodity
being in America has opened up my eyes to things that we overlooked as a nation and a people. Hope the debate shall be televised here so as I can watch it lol. Mr. president please return to your home and clean house, Njala bantu. May the Lord Bless Zambia so as we break the bonds that keep us from liberty, for freedom God gives us within.
Todays word:
Isaiah 40:31 (King James Version)
31But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
“Munshebwa aile namafi kubuko”, People have told Government that things are not going o.k, need I cite? MoH, RP Capital, Dora, Kapoko, Miti Dr, GMO, the list is endless but the emperor will not listen. I hope bloggers still remember the story (mu grade 7) ,” The emperors new clothes”, otherwise ……. Ah I have mentioned on the outset kuti wasebana. God help us.