Vice President Guy Scott says Zambia is looking for ways to increase investment and employment in the country as the mining sector in Zambia is not creating enough jobs.
He said government’s top priority is to look for tangible ways of reducing unemployment which has been one of the challenges the country has been grappling with.
Speaking at a discussion hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), Dr. Scott said though mining generates profit and tax, it does not create the much needed employment.
Dr. Scott said government was looking for investment where massive employment can be created in the agriculture, tourism and manufacturing industries.
The Vice President further stated that Zambia is a country that respects human rights and has continued with liberal policies that are based on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).
He also said African countries were positive about the partnership with the US government.
Dr. Scott said this was the first time that the American government had brought together African leaders, a sign that they were ready to do business with Africa.
And Commerce Trade and Industry Minister Bob Sichinga assured the CCA that Zambia was a country that was conducive for investment.
Mr Sichinga said the country enacted a Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) law in 2006 that provides for a suitable relationship to the investor and its responsibility to the state.
He said ZDA is also responsible for managing and monitoring foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country.
The commerce minister said the country has 11 farming blocks in which government provides basic infrastructure such as water, electricity and roads.
Mr Sichinga said government was thus looking for core investors who can attract other investors to the farming blocks.
He said the farming blocks would help in agro processing and development.
And Corporate Council on Africa Vice President Stephen Hayes said the organisation was going to take a trade mission to Zambia and Zimbabwe later this year.
The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) is a non-profit, membership-based organization established in 1993 to promote business and investment between the United States and African nations.
CCA is the premier American organization devoted to US Africa business relations and includes more than 160 companies, which represent nearly 85 percent of total US private sector investments in Africa.
The CCA meeting was attended by various business men and women from America.
Zambia why are you sending people who can hardly stand and walk look at Scott in that photo it is so shameful only i.d.i.o.t.s can not see through this nonsense.
This colonialist Guy Scot is still in enjoying above the heads of poor black people,, this is sick! the guy got the best education and the best life colonisation could offer from his childhood,,,, he continues to this date to use his skin to get his way around,,, making poor blacks more poorer,,,,,, yet PF clowns dance for him.SICK!! It anonys me!;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;,
The man hardly speaks any Zambian language expect for chilapalapa (language for slaves an domestic workers), yet he claims to be born and brought up in Zambia all his life,,,,cant be compared to tonga speaking joe brooks of choma, suresh Desai,,,, many other who have embraced Zambia as their own
Ndobo I agree with you and we in Zambia are allowing this, the same people that our ancestors struggled to get rid of due to their avowed hatred and ill treatment of us, we then turn round and crown their son to be our Prince. No wonder things are twisted. We have a President (acting) in a European body AND European Mind and yet expect him to hold our best interests at heart….. and when we soon discover that it doesn’t work like that we are the same ones that ll be complaining.
We have much to learn and a long way to go
Would like to see him
Or wynter take over from
Me sata in 2021. Experience is paramount in
Politics something HH lacks and lags behind
Thanks
Warped reasoning. Talk of other things. We have different paths in life. If Guy Scott enjoyed his childhood as you allege, that is not a good enough reason to say he cannot enjoy now… First he is a citizen, enjoying all the rights that go with that.
So? If he has thrown himself in the political fray, if he has been hardworking and can do what all politicians do to get to the top, why not?
My friends, like in any other career, it does not matter where we are coming from, but what substance we have inside us. Your criteria cannot pass for a wise one. It is all laced with pettiness, jealousy, lack of substance and racism.
@Ndobo and Chibamba, view things in the substance of what he was saying and how well he is able to represent the interests of Zambia. Not your lousy skin politics. Our constitution talks about a Zambia that does not discriminate on the basis of colour, belief or creed. KK says it does not matter whether one is black, white yellow, brown, green or whatever.
Zambia needs all the best genes and brains to contribute to the growth of the country. For this reason, we should even remove the black colour in our flag. What for?
We know colonialists did bad things to black people, but we are not about to repeat the bad things, are we?
Look how smart and “beer belly” free that marine is in the background, only if our soldiers could look like that!
Dr Scott you wanted to sell land in the Zambezi valley to a firm that in secret were prospecting for Uranium and Oil and now you go abroad and ask American firms to come and start farming here..first of all if they do come this will put pressure on the country to begin growing GM crops which will over time make our local varieties obsolete affecting production from our small scale farmers who are infact still the main maize producers. But Guy Scott you have no shame with regard to lobbying for GM crops because you fed us GM yellow maize in 1992. Ati “Muzungu o pusa maningi”..I have to agree with HH on that.
Some of you fellows are so pathetic. You can’t propound issues without either bringing in tribe, race or age. Non or these can make you great if you don’t have brains and integrity. Chiluba e.g. tried a lot of young men in leadership positions but where are they? Most of them are in court for all sorts of things. This fellow who calls himself Ndobo, please can you show us your C.V that surpasses DR Guy Scott’s? The truth is that most of the so called young people don’t have what it takes to meet the current challenges that the country faces hence the continued dominance by the older generation. Stand up and be counted instead of exposing your racial hatred and ignorance on the web. You suck.
Lets get it clear. Come and farm but we want organic status maintained. No GMO and non of the fertilizers associated with the rapid decline in bee population that has affected the US and Europe. As for more employment within the mining sector….a little more regulation and policy is needed. And by the way, ZDA is probably the most corrupt “agency” who have no direction or idea of Zambias potential outside of mining, they can’t even under and the tourism and agricultural sectors potential because those are long term investments that don’t necessarily line their pockets quick enough. ZDA is a major hindrance and I personally by pass them as an investor.
@judy
iwe ka judy what makes yo think that a C.V makes oneself a something??,,,, its application of that C.V, application of that knowledge you have acquired along the way and know one`s identity,,,, ,,,Guy Scot have written alot of academic and professinal papers and contributions, briliant work!!!,,,, he has applied none of it in Zambia,,, thats typical white man mentality or colonial mentality if you wish,,,, keep black people in poverty,,,
To you Judy with a slave mentality in you brains,,,,,,,, feeling white and educated in a black skin because you have a white education and you are speaking a white language,,,,,,, and now you are duty bound to defend white interest,,,, sh!t ans!!!!
Mushota! As usual you are obsessed with HH. Are you worried he is going to win in 2016 or much earlier? I very well know you are just pretending. Keep us posted with your amusing jokes.
Thanks.
Good show ndobo, very good. kebe ka judy who thinks carrying white papers is making it in life.I take her with her papers to the kalahari and a khoi-saan and see what good it is out there.I know to most people this sounds very illogical but think of it this way.We are the saan people (africans) and we are using a white mans so called education (degrees and what not) to solve african problems in the kalahari. they wont work.Thats why you boast of having qualifications but you affect nothing good for your country because you dont tailor your training, education to suit the african scenario.Imwe chikulu nabamipela a degree and you only preach theories like bob sichinga and chibamba kanyama do.Poor brainwashed africans dont just understand.western education system wont solve your problems
I am JUST WORRIED of ths Ebola mwebantu !!!
I am also encouraging everyone to be health
conscious( b a Vegeterianif possible). These
diseases tht r coming on Planet Earth ve
strange Origins !.
Its your choice its your health. God’s face to
shine upon you people. Ths disease can WIPE
THE WHOLE OF AFRICA I beit you !
ebola like AIDS is made and meant for black people to reduce numbers ,,,, black people too much crossing to european coasts in canoes,,, thats its why its sruck west africa to shake up those numbers of black population
” I am also encouraging everyone to be health conscious ( b a Vegeterian if possible). ”
That’s never a bad idea.
However, there is a lot of politics and hysteria surrounding the ebola outbreak in parts of West Africa. There is no epidemic. There are probably about 1,000 cases in total, in a population of 6.1 million (6,100,000) Sierra Leoneans, or 0.016% of the population.
Meanwhile, this crisis is being used to push through dangerous drugs that were denied by the FDA, TKM-Ebola, because of their side effects, as reported in the New York Times.
LET’S AMEND CONSTITUTION AND ALLOW HIM TO STAND AFTER BA SATA.
He said it in parliament that he actually qualifies to act as Republican President and all the top lawyers know that. The parentage clause, he said was being misinterpreted. Haven’t you seen how Wynter is humbled now. From this we may suppose he also qualifies to stand for presidency. See how he handle himself confidently now.
These empty tins are always contradicting themselves. …how many times have we told you to boost other sectors. Were you not the selfsame people who sold land in a wildlife reserve?
Dear Dr. Scott. With all due respect, given the current advancement in technology, expecting the Mines to provide employment numbers to the same levels of yesteryears is living in the past, and quite frankly very misleading coming from you as a VP. Why don’t you direct your energies to secondary industries, i.e. making things within Zambia from copper as a main raw material, and not mention it as an after-thought?.
E.g. imagine how many sim-cards can be made from one tonne of 99.94% copper. How many switches, circuit boards, etc.. can be made. Imagine how many jobs can evolve from all that, ranging from small scale family cottage industry level like they do in China, to large manufacturing plants. Imagine if our secondary industry in copper related products rose so high that our giant ..
Cont’d… giant copper mining neighbour Congo DR began selling some of their copper to us.
I can forgive most PF leaders, including your brother Sata, for this oversight because they really are genuinely ignorant and lack basic education and basic exposure on how the rest of the World works. But for you Dr. Scott there is no excuse what so ever. Remember “For those whom more has been given, more shall be expected”. So, for the sake of your Country Zambia put the PF “Don’t kubeba” ideology aside and stand up and be counted internationally. Do the right thing.
In football terms, you sound like you are about to miss a penalty kick.
You are missin the point.All Guy scott is saying is that GRZ is looking 4 alternative source of employment since the mines cannot hire every Jim & Jack ,Cactus inclusive considering modern mines are using conversational (automated) method as opposed to outdated mechanical (manual) method which requires a chunk of manpower & is costly.Better shut up if you got nothin to say or if u did not have breakfast jst wait for lunch……
I have to disagree with Hon Sichinga on this. The approach here is very wrong land is our birthright, we shouldn’t be desperate to sell our childrens birthright , we ourselves can develop larges scale state owned farms that could provide jobs and boost food production for local consumption and for export. How do we do this, let’s engage ZNS and the Zambian Army first to do the land clearing, grading of feeder roads in and to these blocks, we then bring in Zambian not useless racist white Zimbabweans or South African farm managers that have the right experience to begin the planing and setup of where accomodation, market, storage and engineering facilities such as workshops will be constructed. We must have each farm block affliated to an agricultural institute…ctn
You are missin the point.All Guy scott is saying is that GRZ is looking 4 alternative source of employment since the mines cannot hire every Jim & Jack ,Cactus inclusive considering modern mines are using conversational (automated) method as opposed to outdated mechanical (manual) method which requires a chunk of manpower & is costly.Better shut up if you got nothin to say or if u did not have breakfast jst wait for lunch.>>>
@ Ndobo and Chibamba, your racial inferiority complexes will annihilate you. Your perspective of existence starts with skin colour and ends with skin colour. Have you bothered to delve into the heroic contribution that Guy Scott’s father gave to the struggle for independence? If you care, ask Dr. Kenneth Kaunda and other heroes still living who sacrificed for the liberation from colonial york. Scott’s father was on their side to dislodge the colonial domination. Guy Scott was born in Zambia, grew up in Zambia, like his father he has made tremendous contribution to the promotion of Zambian nationhood economically and politically. Doesn’t it strike you to note that Zambia under president Sata has demonstrated to the world that skin pigment is no barrier to human dignity and equality?
Ctn…Each block must be affliated or have on site its own agric training centre, so will provide the blocks with expertise in all areas from financial mgmt, marketing to mechanical maintainance and agronomy. The blocks must be independently run with no interefence from govt, they should be managed as a business focusing both on creating jobs and running at a profit. What we don’t want are firms like Zambeef, Chimsoro, Amatheon that have shady intentions to milk this country of everything and bring in foreign workers. So as for Guy Scott please stop supporting companies like Zambeef which are just useless racist firms that use stupid blacks as fronts while they poison us Zambians, let’s have state run firms run in a more proffessional manner than in the UNIP days. Cactus well said above.
@ Cactus, your analysis is valid. But don’t you think we are in a fix as a country striving to put our heads above turbulent waters economically. Technology promotes mass production and raises profits, yet it tends to replace human resource in industries from where thousands of households derive their sustenance through wages. While technology is the mainstay in modern industrial production, human resource input should never be ignored. Yes, secondary industries can create many more jobs, but we need to develop our own capacity to directly process crude minerals into finished products which in turn can be harnessed by sectors specialised in production of various things. I agree with Dr. Scott that mining companies should raise their employment levels, since the technological investment…
You can look at it both ways, more jobs can also be created by more firms that add value not only in mining but even in agriculture. Imagine if we had state of the art processing plants producing in industrial quantities condensed milk, cornflakes, fruiit juices, processed meats like beacon, ham for export. Yes Zambeef is there and its making tons of money from the same and yet pay their workers close to nothing, while poisoning people at the same time in order to maximise profits because they simply have the monopoly but this shouldn’t be the case. As for Copper processing whatever happened to Zamefa?? Why don’t we have more firms like Zamefa almost after 30 years of its establishment, Minister of Commerce please??
Gay scott. the production is low this decade
The secret of success is EDUCATION! You Zambians need to major in this area, You will then begin to have your own home grown geniuses to bring you into the 21st century.
History shows that in Africa moving forward has been held up a lot by tribal problems. You are ZAMBIANS per se this should be you mindset first and foremost. Keep this in mind.
Do not let your leaders lease your birth right , your land, to outsiders. Your citizens will suffer and you living standards will not improve.
You will never have enough gdp generated by ZAMBIANS if big international businesses take over your land. PUT MONEY INTO EDUCATION FOR ALL YOUTH
High levels ofcorruption is another destroyer of countries, if you have this all through the ranks from top to bottom, what chance is there for a country…
Dr.scott is a Zambian, born in livingstone, hard working, colour doesn’t not matter.
Example Obama, is black, ruling big entire America, what can you tell me about him?
Forget about racist and lets move in this civilized world people. After sata, if the constitution alllows him, let him stand. Stop yapping bafulwe.
At 1.5 I like your observation on the beer belly and fittness of the marine in the picture but believe it or not we do have men and women in our army and national service who might even be better looking and fitter than that marine. Learn to have confidence in your own things Zambians.
” Dr. Scott said government was looking for investment where massive employment can be created in the agriculture, tourism and manufacturing industries. ”
‘Investment’ has drawbacks over taxation.
Investment means that you a) share the ownership and profits with ‘the investor; b) pay interest to the lender, in case of a loan.
Taxation comes with no strings attached, doesn’t run up debt, and frankly taxation of natural resources is taxing something that is already ours, natural resources already belong to the future.
A stiff windfall tax that replaces all other mining taxes is the way forward.
Cactus, 100%! Scott has the right IT qualifications and expertise but has not shown any will to invite the right type of investments to help Zambia diversify. Copper…sim, great connection. But how about this, China leading mobile technology industry, yet they come to Zambia to build roads, rail tracks AND grow Soya Beans(!), BUT not to help us to start sim manufacturers from our copper(new employment sector), another of our investor buddies Japan, has Fujitsu; It is the world’s third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues (after IBM and HP) (also manufactures personal computers. How is it that Guy Scott has not been directing diversification in that direction. We need to start to start manufacturing stuff. It may lead to some loss of manual jobs, but hello 21st century!
Zimbabwe has Fujitsu creating jobs and a force in improving IT services. Why not Zambia? Also bear in mind that Agriculture, will improve create our own food basket, but most country’s now are mindful of locally grown foods Carbon footprints etc. it might not create much export. UK recently banned the import or sale of Indian Alphonse mangoes(or some type), this points to some problems in food exports.
Hats off off to Cactus, Vision 2020, Umbemba Inkoko and Searcher for POSITIVELY and NEGATIVELY (but diginified) debating the ISSUES & IDEAS & not tribal/racial sentiments and insults. Your approach is what will take Zambia forward. Sometimes I feel discouraged to visit LT due to lopsided political agenda driven hatred and emotional/tribal/racial outbursts that has been imported from ZW Galu and Tumfweko
Ndobo and other, what do you guys have against white people? Times have changed and you guys need to realise that all humans are the same. He may not speak your language which I think is not necessary but the fact that he speaks the national language is sufficient.
Re more mining There are a number of miners waiting in line for ZEMA to complete referrals so miners can go ahead there has been a number of promises of results at the end of a month However end of month see no further action just SILENCE How can miners plan their business in such conditions. How come Zambia does not have technical know how as do the world renown techies have in India.
As I mentioned in a previous post there well could be budding high flight Zambians who do nor get the chance because they cannot afford to pay for their own education. Your youth is your future, ignore it at your peril and you will always be looking for outside scientists.Look to the World bank with a business plan for Education throughout Zambia
Spot on. Our efforts seem to be short sighted all the time. Do we ever learn? Any sane government ready to invest in education will gather positive statistics that Zambia has made advancements in either, political, economic and to a standard we are now because of some positive decisions some leaders made.
My appeal why not improve on those decisions? I am happy Kaunda never decided for us to be taught science in Zambian languages. ‘ We now send our children to be educated properly to your country because of the wrong decisions we made’ said a friend from a neighbouring country.
We will do well to be proud to look around us and work on what we have available to build on. Zambians thinking jobs come from space are not helpful. I can see a lot of jobs around us because you can see…
Zambian youths in not African youths are starters who ought to be recognised as such if we have to stop only engaging them as cadres. So many starter efforts go down the drain with no support and facilitation. Only if a youth agrees with the dogma of a political party in power are they recognised, and for how long and for what? Independent minds will get frustrated and youth leaders with the wits too! Left are followers who are causing anarchy and all ideas will be lost in chaos.
Selfless leaders who know they have a term to work to change a lot are there, but a lot more on the way if we recognise the power of effective and true education for our youths.
In short create independent thinkers through an effect education. Pump more more money in education seal loop holes to…
Dr Scott’s a robotics expert if I recall correct? That is all the rage in research at the moment. Has he a Chair at university if Zambia or other universities in that subject? He could start a research unit (if he has not done so), passing his knowledge to young Zambians.
The lies by the Pack of Fools are finally trapping them. They have been claiming that they have created over 1 million jobs since 2011. Now Scott is acknowledging that there are no jobs PF have created and they want Americans to come and help. Well, there’s nothing in Zambia to interest Americans. They can make more money from oil in Angola and Nigeria than farming in Zambia.
Politics! Employment creation follows the economic lives of a people and not the artificial creations of Zones if any need to consider that basis.
More than 60% of Zambians live off the land they live, please start with that and make regulations and laws fitting this way of life first. Zimbabwe has given us an opportunity to be an agricultural giant. We have the rains and soils. One argument by some is is that traditional land land is one of the factors hindering economic development, but that can turned into a boost if cultural practices are enhanced with modern technology. This can only work if we take keen interest in education and skills for the rural areas and engaging the rural population on this rather than bring urban leadership to facilitate this.
Fititi what you say is right . self sufficiency in the use of all agricultural land in what is needed.You are in the position to be great organic farmers. In the West is has been found that certain types of flowers or other crops sewn near each other have properties that reduce crop infection. This is a science that is being looked at more. Too much chemical fertilzer destroys the vitamin content of the vegetable being grown Too much cooking also destroys vitamin content
@Fitit, well spoken. That is the kind of mindset that will make our Country advance in real terms. Thats the kind of thinking that exists in developed Countries and has advanced them to where they are today , e.g. here in UK.