Total Life Care Ministries (TLCM) has noted with sadness the continued financial difficulties the University of Zambia and other institutions of higher learning are facing.
In a statement yesterday, TLCM Pastor In-charge Daniel Mwale said there is something wrong with the management of the institution and in the running the affairs of the institution.
Pastor Mwale pointed out that the inability to utilize the abundant land resources at their premises has resulted into conflict with the lecturers and the students who are resorting to violence.
He further said pointed out that UNZA is over enrolling the students which results in shortage of accommodation..
Pastor Mwale said there is need to encourage the staff to exhibit high levels of professionalism when discharging their duties instead of hiring staff from outside which is a costly venture on the part of government.
He said the numerous withdrawals of labour by lecturers and researchers have endangered the reputation of the institution which compromises the standards of education in the country.
The clergyman wondered whether the problems the university is facing is as a result of the management’s lack of foresight or it is as a result of political interference in the matters of the running the institution.
Pastor Mwale has since called on government to relieve the lecturers, researchers and administrators of their duties if found wanting.
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Running an institution like UNZA is not like running a kantemba ka church.
Ba Pastor!
Is this when you have noticed the problems at UNZA?
or you just want to make headlines.
UNZA has had these problems for the last 18 years. If you got nothing to say, shu.t up or go out there and do something.
Ask yourself what you have done for UNZA instead of making well known comments, even grade ones know what is happening at Unza.
Not all is chaos at unza. Being in School of Medicine at ridgeway camp, i have come to appreciate that at least management is trying, there are no strikes , closures , vivas ku ridgeway , mayb coz of ethics
#1 what the pastor is saying is true. Unza has been deteriorating slowly but surely over the years. What happened to the Unza land?I hear it was sold and buildings are coming up. Wasn’t that land meant for the expansion of the university?I wonder what the state of Lt 1 and 2 is these days.They were already deplorable in the 90s.The NELT was the only decent lecturehall. As for ridgeway campus- with 7yrs ahead of you I doubt students would like to go on strikes.Otherwise its one ugly campus! People are now sending their children to Malaysia, America,Australia etc. Think of all the money Unza is missing out on. Shame!
THE University of Zambia Students Union (UNZASU) populace has resolved to boycott classes this Wednesday as a way of expressing displeasure over the incompetence of the police and the reappointment of Dora Siliya as education minister.
UNZASU president Duncan Nyirongo said the student populace had also resolved to give the Inspector General of Police a 48-hour ultimatum to institute and effect disciplinary action against his subordinates that were in charge of operations at the Copperbelt University where an unarmed student was shot by state police.
These resolutions were arrived at during the UNZASU first quarter general meeting held on July 30, 2009.
Nyirongo said the students knew the levels of integrity that most current government officials encompassed and that in their…
Nyirongo said the students knew the levels of integrity that most current government officials encompassed and that in their effort to realise their uncompromised demands, the students at the meeting further resolved not to welcome the presence of Siliya at the forthcoming University of Zambia Graduation Ceremony scheduled for the August 13 and 14, 2009.
He said UNZASU expected President Rupiah Banda, as the appointing authority, to preside over these issues because the failure by the President to respond to these concerns of the union may seriously erode the confidence that the students have in his leadership.
Nyirongo said the student body resolved to uphold its union leadership’s decision not to welcome President Banda’s appointment of Siliya as education minister.
Nyirongo…
Nyirongo said the decision was based on a number of observations of the circumstances that surrounded her reappointment to the ministerial position.
“The union had to take this strong stance acknowledging the fact that as a dynamic, energetic and highly enlightened youth movement, UNZASU has a great responsibility bestowed upon it, as the future and destiny of our nation depends on it, in which the hopes of our fathers and mothers are vested. Some of the reasons for the union’s position are as outlined; It is well understood that the High Court did not delve into the merits of the tribunal’s decision, as the tribunal went beyond its mandate,” he said. “The implication is that the concerned parties and the nation at large remain suspicious of the irregularities or the breaches…
“The implication is that the concerned parties and the nation at large remain suspicious of the irregularities or the breaches that were highlighted by the tribunal. The report of the tribunal was ready on the April 16, 2009. It is however disturbing to note that the President never took interest to react to the breaches. But instead he was quick to reappoint Ms Siliya as Minister of Education on the June 18, 2009, two days after judge Phillip Musonda’s judgment on June 16, 2009. On June 22, 2009 Mr Harrington filled in a notice of appeal in the Supreme Court. But the President went ahead to swear-in Ms Siliya as Minister of Education on June, 28 2009.”
He said given that the levels to which corruption and abuse of authority had been entrenched were too immense, it was cardinal…
it was cardinal that a strong message of non-tolerance of the vice was propagated.
However, Nyirongo said the President had rather taken a passive stance on the Siliya issue despite his declaration to continue with the late president Levy Mwanawasa’s legacy of zero tolerance on corruption.
“Such selectivity does not inculcate any sense of responsibility in the general citizenry but rather erodes the vital trust that they may have in their President, the Cabinet and the entire government. It is therefore morally not right for the Republican President to continue having confidence, on behalf of the Zambians, in Ms Siliya to continue serving the public. In view of the aforementioned, the University of Zambia student populace has resolved to continue pressuring His Excellency, the…
The biggest problem we have with Zambian institutions is luck of implementation. Commissions after commissions are set to look at the problems and propose solutions, but these solutions just gather dust in some offices somewhere. Thumbs up for the current CBU management, things are happening at that institution.
Strikes or demonstrations are not solutions to the problems. Privatising the institution is necessary so that the Government remains with scholarship role and policy. This is the only way out. Different types of scholarships can be introduced for students to qualify. Political interferance will die a natural death and the school will be managed profitably.
perhpas the pastor wants to become the minister of education
Specifically Pastor, what I see as a major problem is what we hold as values and goals in our educational system. And I agree there is no capable management at UNZA coz with a farm, with many hostels, with “qualified” lecturers what product have we gotten which we can point to as birthed at UNZA? Lodges have sprang up hosting workshops but has UNZA risen to the occasion? Year in/out denkete problems, has UNZA provided solutions? We are exporting raw materials instead of finished goods which can create employment, has UNZA provided the answers? The problem of waste from which I always see a potential “Waste to Wealth Programme”, do people at UNZA see these opportunities?
The lack of proper management is what even breeds mischief by both lectueres and students because they have not found something which keeps them focused except always venturing in corner-cutting activities so that they feed their egos at that particular time. You can just see by what new Zambia has published – why go to demosntrate on such issues when you know it will just cause another closure? Besides, the CBU issue is even a joke because the record we have is that rioting was due to loss of a laptop. Surely, bamonko nangu bupuuba bwafulisha, tetimwabukontololako?
RENOWNED Zambian music artiste Exile (Kangwa Kapampa), has said that he did not intend to get food for free at a restaurant in Kitwe. The ‘I’m so lucky star’ seems to have lost his ‘luck’ last Wednesday when he was detained at Riverside police station for failing to pay a K73,000 food and drink bill in Kitwe.
In an interview following his detention, Exile said: “, nika small issue, only that ama guys aba taba chita understand” (It’s a small issue, only that these guys don’t seem to understand).
Kapamba said after he got some food and drinks he want to nearby Barclays Automated Teller Machine (ATM) but his card could not work.
He said he tried to negotiate with the owners of the restaurant, but they could not understand and instead rushed him to the police…
Exile’s overnight detention at Riverside police station was after he failed to settle the bill at Copperbelt Professional and Business Club (CPBC) popularly known by the locals as Dirty Dick’s or DD’s.
DD’s barman Boston Ngosa who served Exile said that the singer ordered food and a bottle of Autumn Harvest wine and that afterwards failed to pay the bill.
“He came in as a customer then he ordered food and said that ‘I want a drink’ and he took a bottle of wine,” Ngosa narrated. “He took Autumn Harvest.”
He said on being asked for payment, Exile kept on saying that he would pay later.
“He said that he was waiting for his friend to come,” he said. “When the friend came, he said he was just a taxi driver. We called Panorama security.”
He said…
Ngosa said the Panorama security officers took Exile back to DD’s and that later they took him to Riverside Police station where he was detained.
Ngosa said Exile’s wife Nalwamba Namukoko fondly known as Nalu went and settled the bill on Thursday morning.
#16 Yaba, it tells you how Zambians love free things. Probably the guy did not even have any cash in his account but just wanted to use his name to get the food for mahala.. “Baza Ulye” bakaamba eibomba.
Old stuff abot UNZA, Education in Rhodesia.
Pastor Daniel Mwale hands of UNZA. You dont understand the problems at UNZA. I wonder if you have gone through UNZA? Your intention is to acquire a piece of land and put up a chapel for your own gain. Unza’s problems were not created overnight these have bin going for decades now. It was not spared from the economic hardships the whole country faced in the past coupled with lito funding from GRZ or lack of priority. Those lecturers and researchers you are advocating to be relieved of their duties if found wanting is an insult to men and women who are patriotic and putting in their best under trying circumstances. The Mwale could do is not comment on things you dont understand. BETTER KIP ZEE. Please concentrate on spreading the WORD OF GOD FAITHFULLY if you are worth your salt.
Some Zambain muscians are a problem to deal with no wonder exile ended up in cells. May some one tell me the where bout of Ba Don & Twice. I have some promotion for them.
hey UNZA! when was this place last renovated? it is the biggest institution in zambia! i love zambia but am sorry ……………….