Newly appointed Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry Margaret Mwanakatwe has pledged to promote and support the development of youth entrepreneurship in order to create jobs and wealth in the country.
Mrs Mwanakatwe admitted that she has a mammoth task of ensuring that youths benefit from government funding and support.
The Minister said she wants to see parastatals like the Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia to be operational and produce goods at full capacity.
She was speaking to journalists at State House today shortly after being sworn in as Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry.
President Lungu today swore in former Barclays Bank Managing Director Margaret Mwanakatwe as Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Joseph Katema as Minister of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs, Mulenga Sata as Deputy Minister at State House and Boniface Chimbwali as Luapula Province Permanent Secretary.
Others sworn in are Major David Muma as Zambia Air Force Deputy Commander and Kakoma Kanganja as Deputy Inspector General of Police taking over from Solomon Jere.
And new Luapula Province permanent secretary Boniface Chimbwali pledged to work closely with all stakeholders in order to foster development in the area.
Speaking shortly after being sworn in, Mr Chimbwali said he will implement the President’s directives to ensure that the civil service delivers quality services to the expectations of the people of Luapula.
Mr Chimbwali said he will utilize the endowments of the province such as minerals, massive water bodies and arable land to attract investments to develop the province.
Sexy face Maggie. You are cute!
Careful RB may react to such blogs. Hear he has interests in this machine
Girl Power……..Looking forward to the fulfillment of your promises. Hope you deliver.
Viva #ZambianGirl
Good luck madam Mwanahead. We need action oriented pipo rather than chaterbox, full of hot air bashi nono whose only action is in wrongly located bedrooms…
Happy for her and can’t wait to see her approach. Although any form of entrepreneurship in Zambia is still being hindered by the high interest rates
Agreed, but, why not instead firstly reverse last three years of incompetent inertia to help existing commerce, trade and industry from further damage which may be permanent if not fatal?
And bashi nono? Left in the cold. The man was an Intellectual masquerader and a political fraud!
His lips were moving at 3000 revs per minute with his eyes blinking simultaneously until technology recorded him as the indisputable, indomitable “bashi nono”. Kikiki!
Margie should be respected as a woman and wife of somebody respected in society. The past if at all was there, must be forgotten after all who claims to be Mr. or Mrs. or Ms. CLEAN hands. Our past and growing was always full of different mad. Some stole, some drunk sleeping in furrows, some lived as cone men and women while some practiced uncouth things. The past should not be measure as that is why nobody knows what he or she will be tomorrow. It is all by God’s grace we have lived.
Be careful, do not say bad things about RB’s girlfriend. Ni girlfriend wanyoko?
Such an amazing initiative by Ms. Margaret will definitely create jobs and wealth in the country. It becomes imperative that the continent’s successful entrepreneurs and business leaders come together and initiate a wave of change by creating opportunities for the youth to pursue entrepreneurship, and to create more jobs by utilizing their own talent & skill-set to further the economy of the continent.
For this reason, African entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist Tony O. Elumelu CON has launched the $100m Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) that will empower aspiring African startups and entrepreneurs.
YOUR IDEA CAN TRANSFORM AFRICA! For more details on the programme and to enroll, visit http://bit.ly/1EqMxUX
That’s a great news for all the youngsters!
To further develop the growing ecosystem, investor and philanthropist Tony O. Elumelu CON has launched a $100m programme. The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) empowers aspiring entrepreneurs to equip them with the essential skills required to launch and operate their businesses at the early stage of their growth. TEEP believes that entrepreneurship and business skills are teachable and learnable and has pledged $100 million to support 10,000 aspiring African entrepreneurs and startups over the next decade, by providing them with training, mentoring, networking opportunities and much needed seed capital funding.
YOUR IDEA CAN TRANSFORM AFRICA. *********