UNZA students are currently mobilizing at monk square to demonstrate over late payment of meal allowances.
The students are planning to block the Great East as some students have been heard chanting ” roadside road side.
The students last evening ran running battles with police when they blocked Great East Road.
Some students have been seen flocking to near by residential areas and shopping malls to avoid being caught up in the fracus in the likely event that demonstrations ensue .
Meanwhile, Police have arrested twenty six University of Zambia (UNZA) students in connection with last night’s riot at the Great East Road Campus.
Police Spokesperson Charity Munganga-Chanda has told QFM News in a telephone interview that the arrested students have since been charged with conduct likely to cause the breach of peace.
Ms. Chanda says the 26 students will appear in Court tomorrow.
She adds that Police officers are still keeping vigil at the campus to prevent the students from mobilizing.
Ms Chanda says Police will not hesitate to arrest any student found to be breaching peace.
Students at the University of Zambia yesterday ran riot demanding to be paid full bursaries.
This came barely 24 hours after students at the Copperbelt University also rioted demanding to be paid their meal allowances.
Go ahead and protest to the deaf, blind & clueless leaders of the PF. On August 11th, show your disgust by demonstrating through the ballot. Kick the imbec.iles out. That way you’re 100% sure you have been heard!
VIVA HH2016
Correct me if I am wrong but are these not the 1diots together with their CBU counterparts who were shouting “Pabwato” in 2011?
If UNZA academic years have been running without disruptions then the large majority of the current students was not part of the cohort that shouted “pabwato” in 2011. Chances are that those are now busy walking up and down wearing the soles of their shoes thin looking for jobs. Now the Pabwato guys have turned against this constituency. Never trust a politician, especially an African one – the Zambian one is the worst!
I think you are wrong! Some of them came to UNZA after the 2011 elections which infamously brought Sata to power.
YOU PARENTS/ GUARDIANS CANT EVEN AFFORD TO PAY FOR YOUR MEAL ALLOWANCES BUT GOVT PAYS FOR YOU THROUGH TAX PAYERS MONEY BUT YOU BUSY DESTROYING OUR PROPERTIES. I WILL BE AMONG THOSE THAT SHALL SOON PETITION GOVT TO REMOVE THE MEAL ALLOWANCE AND SEE IF YOUR PARENTS WILL PAY FOR YOU. YOU ONLY OPENED 2WEEKS AGO AND ANYONE STUDENT RESPONSIBLE FROM A CULTURED FAMILY CANT BE RUNNING TO THE ROAD ENDANGERING HIS/HER LIFE AND THE LIFE OF THE PASSER BY. YOU HOPELESS YOU DUNDERHEADS. ZAMBIA WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN HERE HAD WE BEHAVED LIKE DURING OUR DAYS AT CAMPUS. ASK THE SAME POLITICIANS MISLEADING YOU THAT ” WOULD YOU ALLOW YOUR OWN CHILDREN TO BREAK YOUR CAR IF YOU DELAY TO PROVIDE FOR THEM”? THEY WILL NOT ANSWER THAT CAN ASSURE YOU.
just close the institutions and wit for the elections to pass and see if you are going to mobilise yourselves once again and go and vote in your respective places,busy rioting but in the society no invention of any kind 50years down on the line ba swaini ati pa university mikongo shenu
Shoot the buggers!
those chaps come from poor families the gvt takes care of them and they are protesting. their fathers and mothers cant aford any coin on them they depend on tax payers money and they are misbehaving. mr kaingu can you stop giving them meal alloances with emediate effect. we see if their empoverished parents will give them. stup1d 1d1ots
Comment:these bustards are brainless their useless parents cant evn buy then food why sending them to university talkless giving birth to then.i sugest the govt shud stop givig them and let their useless parents pay for;jst shoot them
we can bet, all students from poor families are very responsible coz they appreciate the huge sacrifice the govt has taken to pay for them such that if it was left with their parents they cant be at the varsity. Its sons and daughters of these same rich fools who cant even input morals in their own children coz they have left the world to teach their children. Simple chaps beings used by m’membe and miles that they will cause student revolution. under 5 has also taken advantage of miles funding coz under 5 supporters are the same supporters df is thriving on in the varsities otherwise practically df has no supporters. They are active on electronic media supporting miles yet they belong to under 5 party. come election day, miles will cry of rigging yet he doesn’t have support. he thinks…
Monk square, memories of 20years ago, that’s where even the downfall of Super Ken was plotted and the removal of UNIP which MMD hijacked. That was where we used to hijack lost imports and many more things.
Delayed Student Loans happens even here. In 2011, I did not get my student loan until the following academic year. My university accommodation unit took me to court for student halls payments delayed by this. Many other students have delayed payments if they need to supply more processing document evidence to student finance officers. But parents, cousins, friends(not advisable), step in to help where they can until you can cope. It’s silly to damage other people’s properties because you are unhappy. Even worse to damage your own study accommodations. I think some nasty party has been encouraging them to riot. Some difficulties do occur in study payments infortunately.
Where is there, These flags are deceiving. You’re most likely in Russia. Not In Australia. HECS (Higher education Contribution Scheme)pays for students even before they are born. Systems my friend.
Delayed Student Loans happens even here. In 2011, I did not get my student loan until the following academic year. My university accommodation unit took me to court for student halls payments delayed by this. Many other students have delayed payments if they need to supply more processing document evidence to student finance officers. But parents, cousins, friends(not advisable), step in to help where they can until you can cope. It’s silly to damage other people’s properties because you are unhappy. Even worse to damage your own study accommodations. I think some nasty party has been encouraging them to riot. Some difficulties do occur in study payments unfortunately.
ZP have been embarrassed …what kind of cop leaves his helmet and teargas launcher behind…our officers need to be trained in modern crowd management strategies. Instead of building useless houses of prayer invest that money in better communication equipment and hardware for law enforcement teams.
Despite that some of the tax money from my salary is used to fund these unruly chaps, I could not allow my own children to go to these two universities because they are potential danger to society. Shut the school because the boys and girls do not know what they are there for. The poor fathers most times just read borrowed news papers for lunch just to save for them at unza and you can be so stupid for lack of a better term that you crown it all by damaging things that have nothing to do with your concern. SHAME ON YOU. Only your sponsors can take joy in your actions.
Go ahead and demand what is yos,
mind you yo money is been given to markets in form of to ma loan(K2000) coz of 11/08/16 nomba iwe ulye ishi.
Let them feel the heat.
In a poor country like Zambia, it would be disastrous and education would REALLY be only for the rich mafia’s children if bursaries were cancelled and 100% fees introduced. Even in the UK, students are still assisted with loans to pay fees and grants to help with living costs. If the system in place now in Zambia says students get meal allowances, why should it surprise government when they fail to pay the same for prolonged periods and students demonstrate or riot? Why should they go for days without eating and be expected to be in lectures? Not all the parents can afford to fill the gaps. It is a failure to implement a lasting and fair system. It also smacks of a lack of priorities and understanding of the value of education. Why are people ignoring governments yearly blame in this and…
Comment: This is the problem of getting used to free things, you begin to think its your salary. Busary is not a salary, its goverment helping you to pay for that education which your poor parents can afford. Its only here in zambia were we have such nonsense. I think goverment should altogether stop giving meal allowances, so that these ungrateful fools fend for themselves.
when was the last time any of the universities invented anything of value…no apps being developed from the school of computer sciences,no invention of any kind from the schools of engineering and medicine.so what are they rioting about…let go home and riot over the breakfast that they won’t be given by there guardians.
we see if they will go pa roadside and break cars!!hehehehehe
Degrees pa Zambia ba VM are just a way of survival (ukukwikala mwino,mumayadi) as the common silly saying among Zambian graduates, ‘am a graduate, give me a big job, cant do clerical or technician job!’
Actually very few come out with an innovative mind, no wonder we have to import almost everything, especially electrical and other machinery items yet we have been chunning out graduates for the past 50 years! Even the few with that innovative mind can’t excel because of chaos in the system .
These guys in the pictures look malnourished and dressed in rags, Surely guys you can do better. If not for the title i would have thought they are from a refugee camp or something.
Firstly they will need a lessons on how to dress and then Vote EL and PF out.
Do we still need a government owned university in Zambia?
Privatise the universities, but retain regulation of standards.
Think proactively about this.
They think that they are only people who look for help please punish them brainless
URGENTLY REMOVE THESE ALLOWANCES. THIS IS UNFAIR MY CHILDREN AT APEX,LUSANGU,DONT EVEN KNOW THESE. WE STRUGGLE TO PAY AND HERE IS A FULL FIGHTING FOR CASH TO SPEND ON WOMEN AND BEER UNDER THE PRETEX OF MEAL ALLOWANCE,BOOK ALLOWANCE.
#GOVT CHOOSE ONLY THOSE COMING FROM VILLAGE SECONDARY SCHOOLS NAMELY NYAKASEYA,NABWALYA,ETC THIS SHUD HAVE A GUD SCHOOL RECORD WHICH IS RECOMMENDED BY THE CHIEF NOT SOMEONE FROM TOWN WRITING THERE.
OR SALE THE AREA AND BUILD IN THE OUTSKATE OF LUSAKA WHERE THEY CAN BE BLOCKING GOATS
During our days at yunza, we would allow the association after the union was banned to negotiate with kaulungombe’s bosses and only vuvulad if there was a stalemate. We would gather in the LT1 and sing chiunzasu sichifuna oyoyoyo and bomba. We never stoned people’s cars.
Baiche don’t allow shonongo to mislead you.
What is Monk Square? Where is it? Reporters
Problem with pipo not at Unza/CBU is that u like putting all eggs in one basket…do u mean too tell me that all 25000 pipo at unza go to the roadside to riot….certainly not The biggest problem we are facing when it comes to curbing rioting problems is lack of professionalism in police officers……….. .imagine they fail to capture the pipo rioting ku roadside and decide to snick in thru kalingalinga to Vet hostels(whr thr know info takes long to reach if at all thyz something going on campus)
break the doors while pipo are studying and sleeping and nab the same pipo…it doesnt make sense …….jst how coward is that???!!!teargasing someone innocent no planing at all jst causing unnecessary stampede……plz the govt shud do something abt this ,innocent students are the…