Government has said that it is a fallacy to claim that a country like Zambia can resolve unemployment in 90 days.
Minister of Labour and Social Security Austin Liato said in Lusaka yesterday that the claim is far-fetched.
Mr Sata said on Hot Fm Radio that he would create employment for all Zambians to the extent that the country would have to outsource, as everyone would be employed.
“Only untruthful politicians can take advantage of the unemployed by promising them jobs in three months. Even those who do not understand economics cannot believe that this is possible.
“Mr Sata is misleading only those who have little understanding of economics and taking advantage of the vulnerable,” Mr Liato said.
Mr Liato said Zambians cannot be cheated and they are wise enough to know that Mr Sata is politicking and does not understand what he is talking about.
He said President Banda has been working hard to improve the economy and create employment.
Government has put in place various policies to ensure that the country attracts investors and opens up employment opportunities.
He said Mr Sata should tell the nation why he failed to do what he claims can be done when he was in government.
“He should first explain to the nation what has changed now before making such promises,” Mr Liato said.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
This Minister is dull and no wonder Zambia shall remain backward in the hands of these leaders whose creativity and thinking is limited and blinded by the politics of the belly and bootlicking.
Let’s face it Zambia, as much as I hate the rogue blogger Mushota on some of her views on Zambia, she is often right when she says Zambia is dirty backward and all that.
So if a serious government embarked on serious public works to clean up the nation expand roads, build seriously infrastructure to support tourism, build world class airport to take advantage of Zambia’s central location, you can see how Sata’s claims are not far fetched. We could absorb all unemployed.
Even the most industrialised/developed economies still have a % of unemployment not because of frictional unployment and other factors but because not everyone could be employed.so what economics are u using to have zero unemployment isnt this is mere dreaming or cheap politicking
Umployment is defined as somebody looking for a job and not finding it. Of course there are people who would not look for jobs and just sit at home and you cannot include those in the employment stats
And ofcourse this has to be broken down per sector
Come on this is a real far fetched dream mwana. Do you really know what 90 days is? I have never liked the MMD, but on this one Sata is merely dreaming and taking advantage of the poor. And to be honest Sata is one of the dullest politicians I have ever seen. If he ever wins the upcoming elections it will be out of the desperation of people wanting change of our failed government and not because Sata was the best condidate based on merit.
Sata has dull guys like you to fool but Zambian are clever now believe me.in your heart you know how fooolish you are sounding,shame on you low thinking mate.
What a speech. BaSata balatontokanya saana. Amano yafulisha but anyway to answer Laito’s question: Sata will be the head of the snake and not the tail nor neck. Give a chance and prove him wrong when he fails. MMD u been in power forover twenty years and now is the time u realising to putting policies that would attract inverstors and employment uh? U failed to raise money to pay the famers yet u were able to raise 4.8 billion towards Kafupi’s funeral in three days, Mwebushi mweeeeeee.
mcs sata knows what he is talking about lekeni twineko naifwe ba liato
Look at most town interconnecting roads, they are all so narrow and a hazard to drive on. Look at the many shanty compounds that would need upgrades. Look at many vast tracks of land needing to be used for farming. Zambia is backward, Zambia is dirty , in fact I can advocate the building of a new capital City and that would surely create more jobs than our labour work force
That is why 90 days is too short a time for Sat to achieve his dreams. In the long run maybe.
Morning blogers, first of all we all know that change is inevitable in any given situation. But this does not mean that we must change just for the sake of it. Like I wrote yesterday we need serious and competent leaders who can offer quality alternatives not just day dreaming. Am not so much in support of the MMD but when I hear such policy statement from would be next presidents, I wonder whether we really need to change because like the saying goes, the devil you know is better than the angel you don’t know. Can someone in the PF come to the rescue of their leader and expunge more on this mirth of 90 days and outsourcing of employment. This is a fallacy and its ludicrous to say the least.
If it is not far fetched to create employment for all zambians in 90 days then the damage mmd has caused to our country is not so extensive. I for one would like to hear a leader who will tell me the extent of damage mmd has caused and worn us of the hard times a head as we together repair the damage. Saying anything to the contrary suggests inconsistency in advancing reasons wanting to kick out mmd.
What happened?when i left zambia this guy was still working for zesco and i think he was in union but is it government money making him so fat now he is paid to talk rubbish like all the ministers.
Lito is very dull and looks like a drum of oil!
MR liato is an I.D.I.O.T coz for sure Mr SATA  knows what he is talking about,En mr liato what have you offered as a minister just politicking I.D.I.O.T say what you are doing has a government just giving wrong figures of pipo in employment k250000 job where in yo Tami I.D.I.O.T
Sata has ideas and seems to know what he is on about. Revive all the councils and decentralise them, and you will see what will happen to the guys on the streets. They will be employed! There is a lot that can be done in a short time of period to create employment…
No 9 when the elected Zuma in South Africa, the said ” He knows what he his talking about” Â good luck with your SATA
Everybody’s using cheap tactics to ascend to power you fat arrshole piece of horse-sh/it. Your MMD busy building fake plastic projects and taking geysers to places with no water. We know all about you dirty filthy cane rats. Just play the game and let us the wise voters pick out who’s less of a retarded foo/l from the candidates. Rubbish Bin is a liar for saying development has trickled to the grass roots, so give us a break you rabid warthog swin/e!
IT IS JUST MORBID ANXIETY BY THE OLD MAN FOR PLOT 1.. HIS MENTAL AND PHYSICAL CONDITION IS TOO FRAIL TO DELIVER IN 90DYS
Number 1 you are very right and correct to the point ,that’s how our leaders should be thinking Mr Liato is from a union he failed to think no wonder why these people have been failures todate he is ever dull
Sata has pledged not to let down Zambians and most people believe in his leadership. He has promised that Zambians will see REAL DEVELOPMENT when he forms Government this October 2011. Currently what is happening not development but fake projects to woodwink those without memory. The height of campaigns will remind Zambians the terrible things MMD has done to Zambians in the past. For instance, if MMD is working why is the Kwacha so weak in the midst of the mineral boom? Surely we need leadership committed to Zambia and Zambians and not what is currently obtaining. Three quarters of Zambia’s work force is on casual or temporal basis earning between K300,000.00 to K K700,000.00. Do Zambiambias what to continue for another five years like this? The answer is a straight NO. CHANGE NOW
Who can pledge to let people down? He wants to cheat his way up,he ruled with Chiluba but did nothing he does not even deserve a chance .
Gentlemen, Sorry to move you away from the important topic, but I thought you should know more about Mushota, the person who usually irritates many on this site.I have just learnt that Mushota is a product of an unwanted pregnance. She used to stay in Kaunda Square in Lusaka before she met a middle aged disabled white fella in Livingstone. The white fella took her to Scottland where I am told, she abandoned him and married somebody else. Before that, she was co-habiting with a certain Mulenga who made her pregnant but unfortunately had a miscarriage and was abandoned abused, and neglected by this Mulenga. A close friend, who is a nurse at an institution in Scottland revealed that she is a show-off and is a problem with fellow migrants. I will update you more on her personal details later
Damn! Guys muliba data!Â
Lasa Lasa, i would advice you to get photo/ picture/character to your username via “Gravatar?.com”….to stop people hi-jacking your username…..that explains why that cunt is very bitter!! LOL!!
Liato looks like a drum cz of chinese money shame on you dull mimister
How can somebody believe that Zambia will out-source labour? Not even America is able to do that. Mr Sata is as usual obliviousabout a lot of issues, nut heads will ululate and believe these lies. The development we are seeing now did not begin now, it has taken years of preperations and a stable Gov’t. Most of this started in Mwanawa’s era. The 90 days development is a fallacy, it has never happened anywere eslse in the world. Can we have examples..please.
Any one got statistics to the following-
How many Zambians were in employment in 1964?
How many were in employment in 1991?
How many are in employment now?
If Sata creates 10 by bringing back the Task Force to bring our money back
I would be happy. Honest!
The 90 days fallacy is the same as the Village concerpt. I would have understood if it was Chama Cakuomboka expounding on some of these impractable theories. How I wish the literacy rate in Zambia favoured the majority, people like Sata would stand no chance at all.
When I look at the tummy of Liato and Peter Daka. I see where OUR Tax goes and how it is misused.
you can even see from his size that he is an id**t. only f***ls are clinging on to MMD. Nothing sensible comes from MMD and UPND anymore. They do not know what it takes to develop a country. Ask PF they will tell you!!!
Labour Minister Liato seems to have resigned to the fact that it is impossible to create more jobs in Zambia. No wonder he cannot implement a minimum wage in firms run by chinese theives. With morons like these we stand no chance. I like Sata’s dreams as they are uplifting and all we need to do is assist the guy to really create a Zambia for Zambians with dignity at the helm. I was in Zambia recently and I could not believe how the Govt overlooks zambians at the expence of foreigners. Vote wisely vote for your future and that of your children
If they were able to raise ZMK5bn(US$1m) in two days for Kafupi’s(the thief in every sense of the word!) funeral, then arithematically you can create those jobs Sata is preaching about! I believe GRZ has got a lot of bling(the loot!), what s wrong are the priolities!
Labour Minister Liato IS VERY HOPELESS AND A BIG FOOL ! WE WANT JOBS AND WE SHALL VOTE FOR PF/SATA
Look you guys, if govt can spend 4 to 9 billion kwacha in less than a month-30 days and still is not limping what is wrong if such an amount was used to build 3 more schools? 90 days or 2 days or indeed the so many years we have suffered are simply numbers but it takes people with a grip of power to steer the ship in the right direction. what we need as a leader is some one who will tell the minister to bring back the money or else he/she goes in the kalokoni.
we need a leader who works not flies around like this one who will be in sudan on saturday.
Aka kadaala nkanga SATA kalalota, He thinks running government is like a kantamba. We are tired of these job seekers who do not even have a farm where to live by. Wrong leader in all aspects. GO to rest shikulu twakomba.
On the dawn of plural politics in 1990, we saw the MMD as a party for the future with a Zambia full of milk and honey. It was perceived as a prmoised land, with a the late FTJ seen as as a Moses.
We had hopes and dreams as we grappled with poverty that was blamed on UNIP and its leadership. I can see the same euphoria today and I can hear another fake Moses promising to take us out of Egypt, through the wilderness to Canaan in 90 days!
Zambians, our memories are so short!
90 days…… How?
@26 I agree with you. In 1991 when MMD was campagning, there was hope for everybody because they promised that they will create employment. But they formed Govt nothing much really changed. They even started changing statements and said that change will come but it will take time. Chiluba used to say Rome was not build in a day!!!! MMD had even promised that when they come into power everyone will be driving. Ask Grey Zulu, he will explain to you. I remember him refuting a statement that there is no where in the world where every citizen owns a vehicle.
Maybe he meant 90 weeks! Who knows? After all he is admiring Plot 1.
the only pipo taking advantage of the vulnerable are those with the means to change current status but have chosen fail the majority. Ideas for LiatOOO – BOZ is a passenger in managing interest rates, Govt borrowing from commercial banks for politiking, mines to bank money in ZED after sales etc etc…. please think think and think man you dont need to be and economist to creat the right environment for all this to happen. u guys have no targets & by the way all these road projects are happening in less than 90 days!!
I find it hard to believe that people can sink so low not to understand that creating jobs in 90 days. Let us look at the current pace at what the govt is coming up with potato developments. If the govt had the will and passion to build all these roads, control out sourcing in the mining,
encouraging the local / overseas zambian businessmen and women to invest in Zambia and given them the same suppo and insentives that they give to FDI. Increasing shares in mining companies rather selling the shares that Zambia has. All this will sure increase jobs creation, productivity and can be developed by Zambians rather foreigners. We all understand we need FDI but this will only come when Foreign companies are making hefty profits as it is happening in mines/locals are not benefiting from copper
When you are this fat like liato, then you should be the last person to say anything because nobody will take your words if you cannot control your body (yourself).
Just because it didn’t work for your father,doesn’t mean it won’t work for you.
In Zed, we need to apply the same energy that we normally have when we have state funerals to achieve our goals and aims of reviving the economy. In death, we are so united, but in life, very wide apart! Why? Are we a failed nation?
We have zero option,Sata has no educational back ground not even just integrity and morals.90 days is how much he can think to convince us for vote so he can worm through to state house and torture us till he dies. Just imagine Sata with the powers of a president ,what will remain to call Zambia in 90 days? Just ignore him,learn to live with him.
I fear for this country if the lunatic PF had to take the reigns of government. The level of debate by PF cadres on this blog is a true reflection of their leardership at the highest level. What they know best is insults and vulgarity. When challenged to offer any convincing arguments, all they do is insult, insult and insult. I would like any one of you saying Sata has a plan to tell me how he is going to erase the 80% unemployment rate to 0% within 90 days. How I wish the literacy levels in this country were as high as they are in the Western world, then comical characters would have absolutely no chance of governing this country. I mean, what sane person would believe this nonsense of employing over 6 million eligible citizens within 90 days?
Sata means 90 days to rest Zambia back into Zambians hands. Zambians live in the colonial era were foreigners are boss and drive all the posh cars have the best houses. 90 days to give Zambian bussineses preferential treatment so as to nature competion on the world stage. Not Banda and his sons who prefere foreingers because they have to give bribes to them inorder to do bussiness in Zambia.
#1 you are bang on. Only stupid and laughable thing about Liato and other politicians of his caliber is that a minister can create jobs. So why can’t he (Liato) create jobs since he is a minister because Sata was just a minister like him and not a president like RB who has the treasury at his disposal?
#31 even your cheap illustration above can not be done in 90 days.yes we believe things can be done better than the fat liato has done but not what your ignorant Sata is promising.In to day Zambia you do not cheat your way to state house so plain,you actualy loose points instead of gaining.be honest with yourself and a good number of Zambian will scrutinise you and lift you up.Sata is using old politics of the animal farm so tomorrow he can change and say “I said 90 months”. I doubt even you have believed him but simply covering for him,what I call mopping his vomits.even if he was my father,I will save him from this daily public shame and lock him indoors.
It took him 10 years to have an undemocratic convention but he wants me to believe he can change the country in abracadabra 90 days? If it was that easy, then how come Sata himself is on record admitting that PF have failed to run the councils they control? How can an inconsistent sickly old man change a country in 90 days when  his party has lamentably failed in local govt?  But somehow this all makes sense if you apply pf tribal logic I guess. By the way, wasn’t Sata in govt when most of Zambian industry including the mines were sold off? If he cared so much about Zambia, why did he allow the nation’s assets to be sold to the people he now calls ‘infestors’?Â
From the email it is alleged Mr. Lubinda authored.
“(c)Am not for the view taken by the party in addressing the youth unemployment in lusaka and the copper belt.We cant make it compulsory for all unemployed youth to be drafted into the amry thru a 3 months crash coures and later on be sent to war torn countries like Sudan and Afghanistan as peace keepers. “
So is that how PF will create employment within 90 days (3 months)??
sata is taking advantage of the vulnerable and intellectually weak..
Ok to those people bashing my views on replies on comment #1 and #4, let me unpack it for you. There is a difference between employment creation and projects completion. We are not saying that all the projects that will create jobs will be completed in 90 days. We are saying that these projects can be initiated within 90 days and people employed. And these people can work on these projects for the next 5 to 10 years and the infrastructure they create will generate other service jobs on a sustainable basis.
For example just taking advantage of Zambia’s central location can create permanent jobs for years. Look at Singapore. The Airport alone as a central hub contributes $2 billion dollars to their economy in GDP. Why can’t Zambia use their central location?
#37 even giving back Zambia to the zambians needs good planning and long time frame. If you are thinking of taking over the mines and confiscating foreigners’shops and business and re distribute to zambians like Amin did yes that can be done in 90 days and that’s what your Sata wants to do but zambians don’t want such leaders. That  an cause more harm to the people of this country than good and we might end up as refugees else where.we know the dangers ofÂ
#37 Your analysis is rather naive. If foreigners have as much control in Zambia as you claim, do you think they will sit back and lose that control without inflicting some sort of damage on the economy? Do you think people would simply give up their interests without a fight? What happens if they pull out their money and their expertise? Who will end up suffering in that scenario? This is why this kind of xenophobic populism is very dangerous. You only have to look at what happened in Uganda or Zimbabwe to see the consequences of such a myopic view of the world.
#41 Mr capitalist
It is really a shame and an embarrassment that a person of your calibre who I had held in high esteem and followed your postings can taking leave off your senses and believe some cheap speculative e-mail doctored by some kid and take it as gospel truth.
Step back for a minute, do you know how much $45 million dollars is? Can you move that kind of money through the banking system without central bank noticing? And have you ever checked your spam inbox? Have you not ever seen e-mails addressed to yourself that you did not author? And how can you believe some e-mail to be true.
Please put on your thinking cap and lets have a rational debate you have been known for and dump this cheap e-mail nonsense.
That Liato was a unionist at Zesco, him and Mutayachalo conived with management so that they could benefit more from Zesco at the expense of the unionied employees. He was booted out the union because of his misdeeds. So people like that have very limited thinking. Because they have failed to create jobs, review the Barotse document etcc then they think no one can do it. What a blind way of approaching issues. PF will do it.
#35 & 36 which country has advanced using fear?? is that what being educated is all about?? are we so content ?? . NO to dead education- full education is practical.
cont from #46, $45 million dollars is a lot of money and not even MMD and all the political parties combined have ever spent that kind of money on campaigns and even money laundering , you can’t carry $45 million dollars in brief cases..and even if you managed you will still need to convert it into Kwacha cash and somebody is bound to pick it. that story is so nonsensical and it is shocking government media have even given it such credence.
Some of us have had a privilege to count $1 million dollars of $100 bills and it is some undertaking and you talk about $45m, that is some serious money my friend.
Guys what happened to critical thinking? No wonder Sata just said report the case to DEC because he knows there is nothing there. fake story
#37 The only Zambians who will benefit will be Bemba pf supporters. We have been here before and it did not work. The nationalisation of the mines was a big disaster which gave us the biggest per capita debt in the world.Â
“PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda’s government is secretly ‘compensating’ Western Province residents directly affected by January’s Mongu shootings and arrests while telling them that the Barotse Royal Establishment BRE caused their suffering.”Â
This is from the post,if it is true,it’s amounting to the shame promise above.why are our leaders like this?
@ #46 Chinondo
The email NEVER said the money was in the country. It said the money has been secured. It could be sitting somewhere else for all we know if at all the email is true.
The reason I am speculating is Mr. Sata has not explained to us how he’ll create all this employment within 90 days. What am I to think when he has not explained how he’ll do it? There is an email of which it is alleged was authored by Mr. Lubinda, and the email gives a breakdown of how employment (by PF) can be created within 90 days. Can you blame me for speculating on this email when Mr. Sata has not explained how he’ll create all this employment within 90 days. All I am doing is speculating. I never said I believe what the email says…you did.
SATA is an action man and can deliver given the opportunity. We are in a democracy ma Guys, lets go and vote (but wisely) and take Zambia forward. I knew ba Chilufya Sata when he worked as train conductor in the UK those good years gone by, he is an action man and can deliver within 90 days as he has promised. I also know that age has got up with him but with good policies and a group of talented young men around him, he should manage. God bless Sata…
Kaponyas deal with the topic at heart not individuals
#52 Public works will create jobs as I said in posting #1 and #4. Employment creation is not the same as project completion.
Your MMD has launched unprecedented number of projects in the last two months in record time like they have never done before and do you think that is not employment creation? And have you done an audit to see how many jobs have been created. And there are still many projects that could be initiated. If you just extrapolate from what the MMD is doing in an attempt to win votes , you can see that the 90 days jobs CREATION is not far fetched and is doable.
Politics aside this is doable. Zambia is such a small population. What is 13 million really? Our people deserve better from the resource boom we have now.
Reading some of the comments here leaves one with so much trepidation and despair. This mentality and delusion of big Government that employs everyone – the Utopia – will not take Zambia anywhere. Productivity is the order of the global marketplace.
Some of you appear to suggest that we go back to the Humanism welfare state days when we had dead end jobs – no self detrmination. Look around we opened up SADC, Angola, Mozambique, DRC, East Africa are all open for business. There is a drought in East Africa and they are looking for maize. Zambia had a bumper harvest. Wake up guys. We are in a globalised world, We have to compete otherwise we are doomed. Mr. Sata’s utopia is no way to go. Cont’d
Where there is a Will there is a Way. Everything is possible if you really put your mind to it. I used to fear mathematics at school, but I came to love it once I discored that it was easier than English- that was after I had put my mind to it
Mr Capitalist, you can do better. Lets work with facts and lets seek the truth rather than be lazy to engage our critical thinking ability and believe anything we read. I think you are capable of accurate thinking and accurate thinking requires working with facts. Leave that rumour mill e-mails to low life beings who can’t think on their own. Man, you can do better than that. You owe your followers on this blog accurate thinking and analysis than the rumour mongering you want to dub into. It is beneath you, my dear. Live up to your title-Mr capitalist
Put things into perspective. Hate Chiluba for the hunger he inflicted on us all, but the fact is that with his bold action he laid the foundation for private enterprise. The problem in Zambia today, and one empathise is that education (HDI) investment was non-existent in the 80s and 90s. Many of our folk are either unemployable or choose to remain in Chibolya when they could be earning a life in the Nkushi bloock, for example. In other words go find a job- they do not come to you. Cont’d
@ #54 Chinondo
Public works is not a convincing enough argument. The Obama administration started out with about $700m to $800m to spend and some of that expenditure went to “public works”. That did not put much of a dent in the unemployment rate.
Secondly, PF has pledged to reduce taxes. Where are they going to get the money to carry-out these “public works”??
The fact remains “Public works” is your argument and not Mr. Sata’s argument. I have not heard “public works” out of Mr. Sata’s mouth or any other senior PF leaders mouth. Mr. Sata still has not explained how he’ll create all these jobs within 90 days. I want to hear it straight from Mr. Sata or any other senior PF leader. Public works is your argument, not theirs.
Liato your thinking is bankrupt! Thats why the youths in Zambia are languishing on the streets while you continue pumping your stomach. Zambia has a very small population, its only 13m and yet unemployment levels are escalating. A proactive president can sort out this mess even in less than 90 days!
With respect to foreign investment this was always MMD strategy and it was always the right one. The issue for me is that SAP and privatisation could have been done more slowly to ease the pain. But we are where we are.
The climate is great for developing the country as evidenced by the investment that is continuing to come to the country. There is a problem of course and that isthe fact that Zambians (i) because of lack of entrepreneurial skills and (ii) lack of capital are unable to share in the profits. We need some discourse on this. The private sector should be encouraged to emply and train young people. Cont’d
@ #59 Chinondo
The question still remains, how is Mr. Sata going to create all these jobs within 90 days?. The other question is, has Mr. Sata explained how he is going to create all these jobs within 90 days?. If not, then there is room for speculation and rumor mongering.
Finally I repeat the Utopia being promulgated by the PF kaponyas is not the answer. The current business friendly climate is waht we need as a country. Period.
As for Government invest more in education to make the country more competitive. Granted, we need protection of labour rights too.
Empowerment is key, but that means CAPITAL ACCUMULATION, not free Unga.
Thank you
It pazzles me to see the so called government officials talking ill about their friends who have brains. If really they are a government that is performing why can’t they also talk about what they will do for us to vote for them rather than not raising real issues.It just shows you that Ba Liato and team have no vision for this country. What we want is to creativity and vision and you can find these in the current Liato’s. VIVA Mwa Mukolo
“A proactive president can sort out this mess even in less than 90 days!” end quote.
@ #62 RUIN POLICE (RUPO)
How would a proactive president solve this within 90 days? No one has explained this to me how.
I agree 100 %, zambia has a very small population, literacy levels and unemployment can be dealt with much better than what is the situation now. When somebody argues like this, it shows there is credibility to the argument and I concur. There is no reason Zambia should be in this poverty, we can make things better and RB has tried in the few years he has been in Govt. We don’t want people to be cheated with the 90 days story, and if by chance you are voted into power, you will start to twist the story, but you would have already been in Govt and it would be too late to do anything about it.
60 Apamwamba – Yes we can. Remember Israel has no water, but it produces more food than Zambia and every house has water 24hrs. Switzerland has no port but exports more goods than Zambia. Examples abound. Here the cry is we are land locked that is why we are poor- next Botswan is land locked but are doing better. You need a leader who is as bold as FTJ
MMD leaders are not visionary and we are in maningi Trouble
Apamwamba – with due respect am begining to think that u left ZED along time ago. those of us in businesses even in rural ZED dont find this envoronment good for local business. who has employed your relatives?? Issues are bad taxes on a few such that the risk on locally grown investment are punishing. the contribution on rate of failure is bcoz of Gov expenditure and much of it is largely due to waste on politicians like the one above. The POLITICAL COSTS are what is killing Zambia. everthing is protected form change for a few. SO lets lok & see who adresses these markers!!
Mr Capitalist. I rest my case. All I can tell you is that is is Zambia we are talking about here. Do we have leaders in MMD who can see beyond what is visible. Are they all fixated on the perceived view that Zambia can NEVER EVER CREATE JOBS for its people. Can our leaders dream big. Can our current leaders think big.
Which is an impossible goal: Putting a man on the moon or creating jobs a nation of less than 6 million people capable of working? Is it sinful to dream the impossible in Zambia?
Don’t judge book by it’s cover. Let us wait and see his 90 days. Remember how lsk became when he was local govt minister. No litr no urinating on streets. Lsk was clean day by day. So don’t judge book by cover
Yes, remember when he banned selling bread which didn’t have paper/ plastic wrapping…Sata is a doer and his passionate compared to what is in State House right now!!
Foolish Sata, how would he do that in 3 months?, only ignorant kaponyas ( Like some bloggers here) would believe that. Even richer countries like USA, UK, Greece, Portugal, Spain and countless more have the problem of unemployment. Don’t tell me they have only been in existence for less than 90 days. Creating jobs is not as simple as Sata puts it, it is more than that. I know Sata thinks you can just give everyone a job and print more money to pay then….. but no, that is not how this work you i.doitÂ
Foolish Sata, how would he do that in 3 months?, only ignorant kaponyas ( Like some bloggers here) would believe that. Even richer countries like USA, UK, Greece, Portugal, Spain and countless more have the problem of unemployment. Don’t tell me they have only been in existence for less than 90 days. Creating jobs is not as simple as Sata puts it, it is more than that. I know Sata thinks you can just give everyone a job and print more money to pay them….. but no, that is not how it works you i.doitÂ
To know that Sata can create employment for every Zambian in 90 days,one must find out how many jobs he has as of now created from his personal activities.Firstly,he has no Farm neither does he run any worthwhile company apart from his small advertising firm where he has employed 3 workers.In comparison ask HH and RB how many people they are employing in their private capacities? This then gives you the credibility of his 90 days dream.
Excellent reasoning if all people could think like you Zambia would be a paradise on earth
@ #72 Chinodo
Not a single person in govt has said Zambia can NEVER EVER CREATE JOBS. That is a strawman argument. What we are talking about is Mr. Sata and his promise to create so many jobs in 90 days. What we want to know is how he is going to do it. You cannot expect us to base our vote on “chance”. What some of us want is a policy breakdown of how he’ll do it. This is a nation of 13 million people. You cannot expect us to start gambling with leadership.
The ANC promised to build so many houses for black South Africans. Today majority of Black South Africans are still without adequate housing. We do not need populist politics. We have seen so many examples of populist politics in Africa to see the disastrous results. Let Mr. Sata explain how.
Cairo city has more people than the entire Zambia and they are in a desert with one river yet we have closed up and told ourselves that to creat jobs for about 3 million adults is imposible in a country with uncountable rivers, lakes, minerals and posible oil. NOTICE – failure is defended speading FEAR & by just CRYING utopia.
This is rather scary. ANY person making such promises is aware of (and feeds on) the reduced intellect of his supporters.
Kweshoni Maki??, thanks for your comment. I agree. There are challenges, but these are issues that can be fought, difficult as it is. I am merely making a case, on an ideological basis, for private initiative and protection of private property.
Most of the diaspora have choices where they invest their hard earned money, and believe me most of us do not have the most glorious jobs, but the preference is to invest back home.
They are not doing it for charity.
The GRZ inefficiencies and corruption are a sad reality. Unfortunately these problems are not uncommon in Africa. Even SA is reeling in it as we speak.
No that we should be complacent.
90 days to give levy center bussiness part foreign builders notice to involve at least 50% Zambian companies.
#73, Dont lie, i have never seen Lusaka clean from the time MMD took over power. Dont praise this SATA for things that are in your imagination. I remember him talking about public nuisance laws but nothing practical happened on the ground.
90 days is enough to inform all foreigners that all simple jobs like drivers should be left for Zambians. 90 days is enough to to inform companies exporting raw materials that instead of bribing the banda boys, they thave to add value before exports
Lameck Mangani has joined the party which is forming government this year.
Still getting stronger. Yeah baby!
Like some people have said already if  Sata initiated infrastructure development projects immediately after coming into office this can be achievable. To sustain the employment, we just make sure that repairs and maintenance is done regularly. Sata must prioritise manufacturing over services.Let the money they are using on boosting the service industry be spent on capital projects.Â
All these things will hopefully bring about immediate employment and provide the govt with revenue through taxes. Sata is right about taxes. Reducing taxes could increase the TAX revenue. Here in UK taxes were raised heavily in the 80s (I think) and this resulted in lower tax revenues. The higher the taxes the more people look for loopholes to avoid paying (fact).
The problem is the likes of MMD have been in power for far too long and don’t know nothing about the ways of the world. What the likes of Sata are able to do in their capacity as President and with a majority win in Parliament is change the labour laws; force Mr. Chinaman and the other investors to consider Zambians first for all their jobs. Encourage local Entrepreneurship through say reduced import duties of industrial/commercial equipment from abroad, as local Investors are they ones who can and will develop our beloved country ie.remember what happened in the 90s when Chiluba removed duty of importation of buses in Zambia.People politicians world over never physically create jobs the change policy that’s why the are called Politicians….policy change is very “doable” Â in 90 days
LATEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LAMECK MANGANI HAS QUITE MMD AND SOON HE IS JOINING PF!!
SATA is lying. Think carefully Zambians. What is claimed has not happened in UK, US, Germany or Japan. We’ll be laughing stock if we get him in state house. None oof these claims will happen and then we’ll not vvote hhim out. There will be no voting. TThink carefully Zambians.
We are a laughing stock already we have incompetent RB in power who rates patching pot holes, distributing solar water boilers to villagers with no running water and building primary schools as development, what can be worst than that!!
WORKS and Supply Deputy Minister Lameck Mangani has quit the MMD with immediate effect. Speaking in a phone interview with Hot FM Radio a short while ago, Hon Mangani said he has resigned from the MMD to join the Patriotic Front (PF). Mangani was also Chipata Central MMD Member of Parliament (zedleaks & radio phenix)
GIVE SATA A CHANCE, MOST OF THE ABOVE COMMENTS ARE FROM TRIBALIST TONGAS USING BEMBA OR NGONI NAMES TO INSULT OTHER TRIBES BECAUCE TO THEM TRIBALIST TONGA C.U.N.T.S ONLY HH CAN WIN
DREAM IN TONGA YOU I.D.I.O.T.S all you do is insult SATA mwanya ba kolwe we shall rule you , no tonga in state house not in this life time
I guess u lost your parents when you were a day old because you have no manners and respect for others
Viva PF!!! Viva pa Bwaaatooo…………………………..!!!
At #89 make it your first and last time to abuse the name of the church before Gods hand strikes you for defiling the name of the church with your filthy and abominable words. Watch out and stop it right now. Dont tamper with holy things lest God strikes you even to death. Go and ask for forgiveness right away while grace still lingers. This is not a joke.
@86 MAXWELL
Well said mate, words of a wise man say no more
WORKS and Supply Deputy Minister Lameck Mangani has quit the MMD with immediate effect. Speaking in a phone interview with Hot FM Radio a short while ago, Hon Mangani said he has resigned from the MMD to join the Patriotic Front (PF). Mangani was also Chipata Central MMD Member of Parliament.
#89 Seventh Day Adventist. I like your blogging name. Nice one.And most Tongas i know are SDAs and are all very hypocritical in nature. Donci kubeebabbbaa………………!!!
thus the problem with u bember u look down upon other people just do yuou things i think tribe has nothing to do with the running of the country’s affairs.moreover its u bembas who have failed zambia the most,all plunderers check the list and analyse the names
Just like the blogger no. 1 said about upgrading the Lusaka International Airport to make use of our central location, I would go even further and reduce Jet fuel tax to attract the bigger international airlines to Lusaka. Tell me this how is some Turkish Construction Company going to add value to Lusaka International Airport, if we want an award winning Airport we have to get the best people to the job not Turks. Look at Kenya its one of the biggest exports of flowers, that’s nothing to do with weather as it is grown indoors, now don’t think if Gov’t encouraged more local  florists like say Interflora by tax breaks or Cooperative schemes in this very highly lucrative international business you talking 20,000+ jobs for the unskilled right there.
juzz go to hell
Works and Supply Deputy Minister Lameck Mangani has resigned from both government and the MMD with immediate effect.
Mangani who is MMD Chipata central Member of Parliament is also planning to join the opposition Patriotic Front.
Mangani has since written to President Rupiah Banda informing him of his decision to quit.
In his letter dated 8th July, 2011, obtained by QFM Mangani has thanked President Banda for according him the chance to serve in his government.
He has also written to the MMD national secretary withdrawing his membership from the party.
He becomes the second senior MMD official to resign from the ruling party in a space of days after former MMD Chairperson for Women and Chongwe Member of parliament Sylvia Masebo who has since joined the Patriotic Front.
Mangani has resigned from MMD!
2011, wina azalilaa………………………………..!!! Donci kubeebabaaaa…………!!! Away with under5………..!!! We want mature leaders. Donci kebebbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Thank you my brother. I leave it to GOD to sort you out for your hard heartedness and unrepentance even after being warned and cautioned.
At #96 Thank you my brother. I leave it to GOD to sort you out for your hard heartedness and unrepentance even after being warned and cautioned.
#89 SDA. I want to know your mobile phone number. I live here in Alaska. And deep in the town called St.John. My number is +142 678 900713.I like your type of blogging. Forget about useless minions suc as Juzz.
83 witness says: That is what I call using the brain, applying all resources instaed of complaining
#101 Juzz. You are very childish.
Mangani – well, well and now Chander Chimber the Sad will create employement for more writers coz material for his program is now flooding his office.
cnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Viva pa Bwatooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…………………!!
#6 you are sport on. For sure if this is a messed up country, we expect Sata to tell us the truth instead of lying. Ngafyakosa ifintu, you dont expect to give them a short time frame to solve them. 90 days turnarround simply shows you we are not in a mess after all. Please stop your 90 days talk which is costing you potential votes. At one time i thought this man would work on strengthening our investment policy but now i know he just talks without analysing issues and this may even worsen the existing weak policy. He is a goat in a sheep skin.
Dandi crazy @ 94
Donchi Kubeba
UTA BAMBILI
These guys are tribalist and hypocrits, the believe only HH can rule Zambia, in their Tonga pea heads only a tonga is fit for plot 1.The go afar as to compare HH to President Barack Obama..unlike HH he appealed to all Americans inrespective of colour, hence he was voted into the white house to become the worlds most powerful man, had Barack Obama only targeted the black vote and only black people voted for him, he wouldn,t have won the presidency. Take note HH and Tonga peoples party, let most of you(not every tonga is a tribalist) vote the tribal way, your vote won,t get under5 past southern provience
@ 103 Wilombe JJJ
l shall call you after 6pm english time
#89 You are a piece of S.H.I.T. with no direction. You are the same people that draw us back in terms of development. SATANA is the one who is tribal and no wonder he can’t win. Lusaka and Copperbelt will be his as usual but dont forget that even here some of us will not give him chance Koswe Iweeeeeee
#111 Walasa. Ala uno mwaka, ni donci kubeebaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa….!!! This year we will add Western and NorthWestern provinces to our strongholds. Mind you, Sata is smarter than his tribal cousin RB. Chi RB ciili kagooneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Whilst MCS is busy penetrating MMD strongholds. For your info, majority Chongwe’s 35,000 voters will all vote for PF including Chieftness N.MukamamboII of the Soli. Urban N/W province will vote for PF. We will also get some good votes from Eastern as RB does not feed the entire province. He only feeds his househoold. Viva Pf!!! Donci Kubeebaaa…….!!!
Donci kubeebabbbaaa………………!!! Felix Mutati is aloso OURS……………!!! Viva pa Bwaaaatoooo………………!!!
Viva Pf………………..!!! No under5 this year 2011………………..!!!
Donci kubeebaaaa……………………!!! Viva pa Bwaatooooooooooooooooooooooo….!!!
YES, YES, NO UNDER5s IN THIS YEAR’S ELECTIONS………………!!!
Elo lwanya………………!!! pa Bwaatoo………………….!!!
Ba Samfya……………!!! Eyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Mwa Mwamfuli na ku beach mu 1982 to 1986. Names: Charles Wakota, Emmanuel Chikashi, Justin Mulenga, Ronald Chunda, Darwin Chapuswike, Mufaya Mufaya, Mulako Clement, Ngosa Mpamba, Jonathan Katuta, Maselino Phiri, Bwalya Foodmaster, Lottie Mulala, Chapakwenda Kelvin, Mwewa Harry, George Nsali, Buunda Christopher, Bronson Saviye, Patrick Saviye and many more.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee………………..!!! #118 Are all these people you have mentioned still alive?? Correction – Justin Musonda and myself.
Let’s also not forget the human element as we explore all these possibilities. A lot of adult age zambians are inherently lazy. Can only work under supervision and complain persistently
Donci kubbeeebaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..!!!
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Any leader who doesnt think of the future of his people is not fit to leader, what bothers a true leader is what his people will be ,and thinks about them all the time not only during elections
Only Recycle Bin (RB), and Jonji Coo-nder will remain in the MMD. Every one else is leaving to join a progressive movement. Welcom to the boat Hon Mangani
90 days for state funeral\:d/\:d/
THE MINISTER TOGETHER WITH SATA………. TO HELL WITH YOUR POLITICS!!!!!!
ONLY REAL ZAMBIANS……COMMON PEOPLE CAN MAKE IT BETTER…..
SO TO HELL WITH ALL THESE FAIRY TALE….YOU NEED TO BE MESSED UP REAL BAD IN YOUR HEAD TO BELIEVE SUCH CRAP WHICH HAS NO PLACE IN THIS ERA…
God have mercy on us all
:o WE CAN NOT GIVE CHIPUBA TO RULE ZAMBIA SATA IS FOOL ZAMBIANS DON’T BE CHEATED NO ONE CAN CREAT EMPLOYMENT IN 90 DAYS. THIS MAN SATA REMINDS ME OF LATE CHAMACHAKOMBOKA tabapusene naba sata FULL OF JOKES.
if you sata is cheating cannot do in 90 days how long as it taken RB govt to fund repairing roads,seelling houses, funding hospitals and universities and colleges and other projecct you have claimed to lounch unless you tell the zambian people that these projects are fake can not be done in this short period.
There are two types of voters. Those who are simply swept up by the rhetoric of a political leader and will support that leader regardless of what they say or do; this type of voter uses emotions more than they do reason in making a decision, it is this sort of voter that supported Hitler when they could have stopped his craziness and it is also this sort of person that was a Hutu killing a tutsi in Rwanda. The other sort of voter uses reason based on real facts and an understanding of prevailing trends in their country and surrounding markets. The voter who uses reason in their decision making also listens to both sides before making any decisions because they know that the ramifications of making the wrong choice are huge. The emotional voter doesn’t care, they’re too enamoured…
by their chosen leader to actually question their leader and force them to answer the hard questions. In any party you will find the people who do ask hard questions and those who just follow on the basis of how their leader makes them feel and the trust the put in them. In my experience I see more voters who use reason in MMD, they do say yes corruption needs to be dealt with, yes there could be improvements but they also understand the progress the government has been able to achieve and the economic principles its using. I’m hard pressed to see that sort of voter in the PF…there are some who reason that nothing can be as bad as MMD, I think here emotion is affecting reason…things could be worse, they’ve been worse before..this makes comments like these myopic.
There are those who follow the vague promises of reduced taxes….The republican party in the US usually makes promises of lower taxes, but its hardly ever a reason to vote for them…more is needed. So I sense that PF voters who say this are actually moderates who are aware of the intellectual short comings and hold on to this promise as a reason to continue supporting them…again this is not a pragmatic voter. On the MMD there are also people who vote for people without thinking, they are blind supporters who just treat politics as some social event, same is true of PF or UPND. The reality is that PF has MORE of that sort of supporter than any party…..like Mr Capitalist has said, PF has not actually gone on a limb and said how they will create change.
In the UK, it was known before the election last year that Cameron and Osborne were going to make serious changes to government spending and also make vast changes to the fiscal regime and also try to make social change via their “big society” idea. This was not a secret, in fact when they were elected in….the capital markets reacted to it because people knew what to expect. In Zambia the reality is that PF hasn’t said much beyond change in 90 days or vague tax breaks and being harder on labour laws. Something more substantive is needed for those of us who like to use logic and reason to make our decisions. Why risk the unknown? Tell us so we know what to expect and then can weigh the alternatives. This isn’t a game, this decision will affect 13 million lives….
My advise to every one who reads this blog is to focus on the issues that Zambia needs fixed and then critically think about how each party says they will fix these problems.
Before you vote write a list of the most important things that Zambia needs to fix. Then also write a list of the things that have been changed for the better in the last 20 years. Think about areas that have gotten worse over the last 20 years too and figure out why they have become bad- is it the Politics or the results of the Post-Kaunda collapse of Zambian socialism? THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT THE ISSUES. Then CRITICALLY EVALUATE THE POLITICIANS POSITIONS ON THESE ISSUES. Choose a leader who you think on the basis of reason is the most ideal person to fix these problems also considering a long term view of things
My personal opinion is that all these people who are jumping “on the boat” will lead Zambia down a waterfall if they are elected into power. In my view since Sata started running for the presidency in 2001 he has relied heavily on insulting others, using populism and promising people positions in his potential government. For these reasons I don’t think he is a good leader, that doesn’t mean he can’t win the election. To me it just means he is inept to be the President. The fact that he has lost 3 times already also emphasizes this……..but what shocks me is how the supporters of PF don’t care about the fact that he has lost 3 times. Why can’t you choose a new leader?..Honestly its this sort of blind support that allowed Hitler to become Chancellor in Germany!
Be critical of yourself, your beliefs and the people you support. Think critically about the people you support, their economic and socio-political plans. Think hard about these things and don’t be rash about your decisions……make your vote really count, make you vote hard for any politician to get. Don’t just give it away……make them work very very hard for it. If you give it away, the politicians won’t ever take us seriously, thats why they become un-accountable- regardless of whether they are MMD or PF. PF takes its supporters for granted by not removing Sata even though he has lost 3 times, the MMD takes its supporters for granted by not being more hardline over corruption in the civil service.
MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT, THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT WHO YOU VOTE FOR AND WHY
The greatest achievement the MMD has managed in it’s 20 years is to make people unemployed.
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