Deputy Minister of Labor and social Security Simon Kachimba has appealed to local and foreign mining companies operatibg in Zambia to assist retrenched workers by giving them business contracts in order to boost their businesses.
Mr. Kachimba said this in a speech read for him by Kitwe District Commissioner (DC) Macdonald Mtine during a 5 days potential entrepreneurs training workshop organized by the concept for informal sector employment promotion (CISEP).
Mr. Kachimba said mine houses should be able to engage institutions like CISEP and future search so that they could carry out much programmes on a continuous sustainable path for the various people who are losing jobs everyday in Zambia.
At the workshop the participants were provided with information skills and knowledge necessary for self employment and entrepreneurship.
They were also urged them not to stop learning but to continue developing their new acquired skills.
And CISEP Manager, Dixon Moyo urged the participants to link themselves with various institutions to facilitate poverty alleviation through the organization.
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The problem is that people are generally greedy and would want to do solo businesses even when they do not have expertise in it. Why can’t some of these miners form a company using their little pensions to buy for example an emerald mine to run themselves? They should take advantage of GRZ sympathy and make companies in areas where the have expertise. And almost everyone wants to be the supplier. Vyakulolavye.
It seems people now are experienced in reading out good messages, lets be more practical. We need policies that are going to make us access funds from ceec. How do you talk about awarding contracts when the people dont have money. First sort out the ceec then awarding of contracts. How is a miner without any collateral going to manage get the funds?
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