27 South African leading commercial farmers have arrived in the country.
The farmers that are prospecting to invest in Africa have chosen for its favourable investment climate and the leadership of President Edgar Lungu.
They were received by Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa Emmanuel Mwamba at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport.
Upon arrival, the group started with an agriculture country brief at the Zambia National Farmers Union(ZNFU) offices.
Meanwhile, all is set for the launch of the Zambia Chapter of the Zambia-South Africa Business Council (ZSABC) in Lusaka this Friday.
President Edgar Lungu is expected to officiate as guest of honour at the Gala Dinner that will bring together several South African investors operating in Zambia as well as those based in South Africa.
ZSABC chairman, Mr. Charles Kalima says that the launch in Zambia will complete the structure of the business council as the body will now have physical representation on the ground in both Zambia and South Africa.
“This will make it easier to serve the interests of Zambians and South Africans that wish to do business with each other. The Zambia chapter will help in responding to economic and social challenges posed by foreign investment,” Mr. Kalima said.
Mr. Kalima said the event was being organised in conjunction with both Zambian and South African authorities through the involvement of the South African High Commission to Zambia; the Zambian High Commission to South Africa; the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry; the Zambia Development Agency, and the Lusaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
He said the launch, to be held on 27th May, 2016 at Radisson Blu Hotel, will be graced by representatives from South Africa’s Department of Trade & Industry, and the Department of Small Business Development. There will also be major Zambian and South African investors and business executives, representatives from chambers of commerce and the diplomatic corps.
Mr. Kalima said as part of events leading to the actual launch, ZSABC has also planned a visit to charity on 26th May as part of its social responsibility programme. There will also be a Corporate Golf Challenge on 27th May, whose proceeds will be donated to charity.
He explained that the Zambia chapter will work in collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry; the Zambia Development Agency; Chambers of Commerce; Zambia and South African private sectors players and other institutions, in an effort to support the Government’s drive of fostering economic and social development through sustainable investment, transformative business partnerships, mutual trade relations and cooperation between Zambia and South Africa.
Mr. Kalima pointed out, as some of the successes achieved by the Council from inception, the facilitation of several trade missions between Zambia and South and Africa, and obtaining endorsement from both the Zambian and South African Governments.
ZSABC also facilitated discussions between Zambia and South Africa on the issue of energy solutions in Zambia which resulted in an agreement where South Africa was to supplement Zambia with electricity supplies.
The ZSABC, which is an idea mooted by Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa Mr. Emmanuel Mwamba, was launched by the Zambian Minister of Commence, Trade & Industry Mrs. Margaret Mwanakatwe and South African Minister of Small Business Enterprise Ms. Lindiwe Zulu on 30th October, 2015 in South Africa.
The Council aims at facilitating investment, mutual trade relations and business cooperation between Zambia and South Africa. It also strives to be a catalyst for private sector growth by encouraging and nurturing transformative partnerships between the Zambian and South African business fraternity.
Hehehe, he has just come to campaign for his party
what is Emmanual Mwamba doing in Lusaka??,,, HIS OFFICE IS Pretoria!!!
Zambia should beware these boers. They are intolerant and used to sjamboking bleks who they call kaffirs. These boers are not your friends. They introduced apartheid in South Africa and now want to extend that system to the rest of Africa. They are not coming to Zambia to do us any favours.
I will not be surprised if they where paid to come to Zambia coz the desperation being shown by EL to win the elections has never been seen in this country. The guy is wiling to do anything to win, To me he is a very dangerous guy and Zambians should watch out because a desperate man is a generous man.
Do you people even realize that the article refers to the farmers investment in Africa due to Edgar’s leadership…didn’t realise that ECL leadership is now positively impacting investment climate in Africa …please stop these campaign articles and throw in some investigative reporting …you are not even quoting anyone that side that
Welokamu welokamu! The mighty PF will see to it that your investments wont be in vain.
A Lungu anakangiwa kale. That is just lip service. Nothing will improve if Zambian small scale farmers are neglected and then their harvest is mismanaged. They are just empowering south Africans.
And some UPND buffon says Zambia is not attractive because of PF. This country is headed for better days under PF. We dont want UPND to come and celebrate for what they have not worked for. We have sucrifised alot to make our contry attractive through roads and other infrastructure. Its pay back time now. Shame to HH and his failed party. come August, its Lungu again.
UPND cadres have nothing to say. shame. did I hear someone say these rich boers where paid by Lungu? OMG. what a party of useless cadres. Come August we shall teach u a big lesson. Zambians have prepared a very big whip for u. We shall give u the last whip which shall bring an end to this tribal party.After August 11 all those defector will defect from your party leaving the usual tribal clique such as HH and Mweetwa.
The BOOTLICKER is licking the bottoms of ba Bunu!!
On 12/8/2016 RSA cops should catch up with this PERSONA NON GRATA!!
We have farmed our lands ever since White SA blocked us – why today should we have them to come & take our land for free???????? We have failed to provide services to our farmers, we have failed to provide inputs at the required times, THESE pamaFi thieves NOW WANT TO SELL OFF OUR LAND – ACTUALLY, they will just give away for free when given a few brown envelopes!!
Vote wisely 11/8/2016!! vote Zambia FORWARD!! Vote UPND!! Abantu baya!!
#chagwamustfall!! PamaFikuyabebele!!
I thank you!!
YES INDEED LUNGU’S DESPERATION TO WIN ELECTIONS IS BRINGING INTO THE COUNTRY ALL SORTS OF CROOKS AND CRIMINALS FROM OUTSIDE ZAMBIA JUST TO APPEASE AND FULFILL HIS MYRIADS OF RIGGING SCHEMES. LUNGU IS STINKING.
bringing boers to farm for you is a bad idea. you are selling zambia to these foreigners. we dont want them mwaumfwa? i can never support the invasion of foreigners (non africans, whites in particular) to come to our country. these are slave drivers mwebantu.
what kind of miseducation have you people received kanshi that you cant even see things in plain sight sure?
THESE FARMERS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ZAMBIA WHERE GOOD RAINS ARE GUARANTEED EVERY YEAR. THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ZAMBIA SUCH AS NORTHERN, LUAPULA, MUCHINGA AND NWESTERN PROVINCES HAVE VERY GOOD RAINS ON TOP OF VERY GOOD AND FERTILE SOILS AND LANDS THERE ARE VERY EMPTY. BUT, I CAN EVEN GUESS THAT NO ONE WILL EVEN MENTION THIS GEOGRAPHICAL AND WEATHER PATTERN FACTS TO THEM. THOSE FARMERS, UNLIKE, ZAMBIANS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THE BIG TOWNS. ESPECIALLY, THAT THE ROADS AND RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE ARE BEING RAPIDLY DEVELOPED. THEY SHOULD ALSO BE TOLD ABOUT THE BIG BODIES OF RIVERS AND LAKES OF THOSE PARTS OF ZAMBIA FOR IRRIGATION IN CASE OF ANYTHING.
There’s a trend taking place across Africa, Zambia included, where stupid, greedy and corrupt politicians are selling large swathes of land to big foreign corporations. They sell land from right under their people’s feet, making them squatters in their own country. If you want to see an example go to YouTube and search for “Large Scale Land Acquisitions: Impacts & Solutions for Zambia.” Remember, if you don’t have land, you don’t have a country. In other words, you end up owning a country by name only, but the physical land is owned by someone somewhere in America, Europe, or Asia. Wake up people and oppose this madness.
Please teach the 2016 most incompetent and idio.tic president of the millenium Edgar chakolwa wrungu how to manage the agricultural sector because he is too clueless,visionless,brainless,useless,needless,heartless,dullness,hopeless,spineles,ruthless and a drunkard.
First do we have a university where all pf members go to get their degrees in Idi.otic and incompetent or they are naturally born fools or by virtue of joining them you become a fool.
That’s the way to go.Zambia under ECL will be liberated. Our Good Lord has opened up blessings. That’s why we do not want people with mashamu to come and disturb us.Peace be still yes peace be still for Zambia.
Do you even know what the word liberated means?
@ CM
Yes Man. Zambia under president Lungu is headed for better days. God has blessed us with good rains and we are the bread basket in the region yet some UPND failed cadres and their very failed president want to potray that Lungu has done nothing to promote Agriculture. Shame. Come August its Kolopa dot com reloaded. After losing for the 5th time your UPND will be in disarray becuase u have attracted rubbish only fit for the bin.
There is the crook Emmanuel Mwamba, as if there are no junior civil servants or at ZDA in Lusaka to take care of this …he swiftly leaves his embassy in RSA to make sure no one gets his cut…how this man is still High Commissioner is beyond me. This mental slavery will never end…you have the whole Minister of Commerce at the airport…truly laughable.
First do we have a university where Pf members go for their degrees in Idi.otic and incompetent or they are naturally born fools or by virtue of joining them you also become a fool because have never seen such a collection of fools mumbi p,dokota ck,Davies c,frank b,ecl chakolwa or do you think it’s by coincidence that they all belong to the pangs family.
Failed party. only talking about Universities, degrees etc. No matter how educated you can be. If u have no brains you are nothing.you will die poor with your degree. Iam a BSC degree holder but I dont go round singing about it. I cant even remember where I have packed it becuase it just helped me to a little extent. Much of what Iam doing now is becuase of God my given wisdom and experience.
All they are looking at is markets for South African goods in Zambia that only has shopping malls and keeps building more.
You mean your UPND failed gvt will not encourage investment in commercial farming? OMG. we have a very wrong party wanting to rule us then. You have been singing about investment, but u are now against it. You devil worshippers good for nothing people. Dont take Zambians for fools. Everything the government does is bad for you. You are insulting boers and yet your President HH has partnered with boers in all his businesses. your president has also made south africa his second home. you even wanted ballot papers to be printed by the same boers. Come August we are giving u a big whipp of shame.
You fail to nurse local farmers and now you bring these boers foolish diplomat.
good one ambassador,with these kind of characters at play, food supplies will surely fall,excess in supply cheaper to buy,lesser on the market the more expensive they are,we havent had mealie meal prices shooting up due to millers being selfish, making profit on profit, let some dongote farmers do what they should in order to bring down these larfarge farmers,its about time
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They leave their own people instead of training and equipping Zambians. They go import human capital to exploit Zambian resources
Tell them wise,These PF fools will never learn.Just look at the whole 27 farmers.Its all white Afrikaaner Boers,the alfa & omegas of Apartheid.That tells you that,they ll use your land and resources to to help themselves only,just as the pictures show,and thats how it shall be!When they are settled and their businesses are booming,then they ll tell Lungu like this”””Fukoff””Jy Kafir”””.Once a Boer,always a Boer.watch the space you PF,filthy stinking chips(chipanzees).
Tell them wise,These PF mediocres will never learn.Just look at the whole 27 farmers.Its all white Afrikaaner Boers,the alfa & omegas of Apartheid.That tells you that,they ll use your land and resources to to help themselves only,just as the pictures show,and thats how it shall be!When they are settled and their businesses are booming,then they ll tell Lungu like this”””Fukoff””Jy Kafir”””.Once a Boer,always a Boer.watch the space you PF low life chips(chipanzees).
Whites and Boers know the importance owning land, this is one resource they would never trade for no ****….this is instilled in their children at a young age…its no wonder you don’t see a Zulu among those farmers.
All these western, middle eastern countries, Hedge-fund managers have been very busy buying up vast parcels of land all over Africa…they thinking 10 years ahead when land will be precious in their countries and growing your maize is not their plans ..this purchased land will be used to produce export commodities — including biofuels, cut flowers and specialized foods like palm oil — and are displacing millions of Africans from fertile farmland.
Meanwhile our docile corrupt politician like the slippery filthy Mwamba is merely thinking about winning the next election…
winning the next election and a few coins of silver in his pocket.
Perhaps some of you on this platform have questioned why am always using vulgur language everytime i comment.Leaving you to wonder if am truly Zambian or not.My friend,iam born and bred Zambian.Just that I now live and work with these very Boers.Swearing language is daily bred for them,especially when he is taking to a black man.If i had a country that i hated the most,i wud advise that country to invite South African boers to invest in that country.I rest my case here my friend…because u will find out about the rest for yourself.There are things you cannot teach a dog.
Zambia is moving towards localization of products to be supplied in super markets hence these guys have sensed that their produce will have no market. The only way they can have their produce sale is by moving closer to the big buyer himself. $tupid zambians don’t even like their local products. What will see is an influx of agri produce which will be exported to earn forex.
HH boasts of having thousands of cattle but his animals are diseased and can’t be sold outside Zambia.
When they come to to Zambia they even start communicating in africaan which we do not understand.
You can’t celebrate the re importing of racism. It’s back to northern Rhodesia
oh clarification from earlier post each of these farmers make $6.5 a year from farming so you could expect at least $60 million in investment in agriculture……also seeing zambia as ideal to feed S.Africa and Drc as S.Africa rains long term arent looking great
Are Zimbabwean white farmers behind Zambia Maize growth? No its Zambians?
According to a 2015 World Food Programme’s purchase for progress (P4P) bulletin, smallholder farmers account for 90 percent of national maize production in Zambia.
Official statistics also show that while commercial farmers are growing their maize output – they increased hactarage by 80 percent in the last season – smallholder farmers continue to produce more. In 2002/3, small to medium scale farmers produced more than twice the maize produced by commercial farms. By 2010, small scale producers were producing eight times more. In the 2009/10, season, smallscale farmers produced 2,5million tonnes of maize in Zambia, compared to 306,540 tonnes by the commercial sector.
The claim that “white former Zimbabwean…
well, this is awesome news for now but I thought this type of investment was needed at the time when Zimbabwe ceased to be the bread basket for south central Africa. I urge Mwamba and his government to ensure that the caliber of commercial farmers are well scrutinized before they are allowed to start because most Zambians will agree with me that RSA investors especially the retail supply chain in the name of Shoprite has never improved the standards of its local workers and God knows how many times the chain has been sold!!!!!
As Shoprite ever been sold? This is a public listed company so what exactly do you mean by ‘sold’? With regards to improving standards of local workers, what exactly are you referring to? Are the Shoprite employees treated any different or worse than employees in similar retail business in Zambia? Or for some reason you feel Shoprite employees should enjoy higher standards than similar business in Zambia? Do you maybe feel the standards for Shoprite employees in Zambia are worse than in the other countries that Shoprite operates in? I stand to be correct but I feel your comments are without merit nor base.
The negativity in reaction to this article is shocking. If the SA embassy was behind organising this business trip for the SA farmers then surely it makes sense that the SA High Commissioner be there to welcome them? We always complain about our ambassadors doing nothing to market Zambia and when ones does so he is condemned. The stereotyping of white South African farmers as all being racist Boers is not healthy either. How different is that from a white person labeling black Africans as lazy and dirty? Sure the white farmers are here to exploit business opportunities. It up to the Zambians to make sure that they also get equal benefit from whatever investments they are bringing for a win-win situation. If the SA farmers end-up exploiting Zambia it is not them to blame but fr Zambians…
READ THE STORY AGAIN, ITS THE ZAMBIAN HIGH COMMISSION AND COMISSIONER IN SA INVITING THE SOUTH AFRICANS TO ZAMBIA. AT LEAST THESE PEOPLE WILL GROW FOOD AND JOBS FOR ZAMBIANS WHICH IS BETTER THAN NOW WHERE THERE IS SHORTAGES. ZAMBIA HAD 53 YEARS OF MIS-MANAGEMENT.
Whether we like it or not, the black man needs the white man because on own we have failed in the past 51 yrs. Some of these white people are just coming back home because their parents ran away from Zambia when KK nationalised white own industries. So let the Boers come. we will teach them to use better language and to live in harmony with blacks. They were no different from PF who’re unwilling to live in harmony with those form UPND. So let us welcome our Boer brothers
Teach these Boers how to use better language? You must be very naive with very low education. These people have moved to Congo, and other parts of Africa, to buy large swathes of land there. Their racist attitudes never change. South Africa just passed land expropriation bill, and so maybe that’s what’s motivating these people to want to move to Zambia.. So great caution should be taken when dealing with these people, who still have a sick nostalgia for apartheid days. Foolishly giving away land to foreigners is not the way to go. Remember if you don’t have land you don’t have a country. Why don’t we help local Zambian farmers? It’s because the political leaders have no vision, and still think that they can do nothing without a white man’s help.
Teach these Boers how to use better language? You must be very naive with very low education. These people have moved to Congo, and other parts of Africa, to buy large swathes of land there. Their racist attitudes never change. South Africa just passed land expropriation bill, and so maybe that’s what’s motivating these people to want to move to Zambia.. So great caution should be taken when dealing with these people, who still have a sick nostalgia for apartheid days. Foolishly giving away land to foreigners is not the way to go. Remember if you don’t have land you don’t have a country. Why don’t we help local Zambian farmers? It’s because the political leaders have no vision, and still think that they can’t do anything without a white man helping them out. Colonial slave…
You mean there are no black commercial farmers in south Africa? “Just saying”
Under PF Zambia is becoming more attractive. UPND bola panshi. Mpaka litente.
https://www.change.org/p/citizens-stop-south-african-commercial-farmers-take-over-zambian-farm-land?recruiter=546978254&utm_source=petitions_show_components_action_panel_wrapper&utm_medium=copylink
These Boers are running away from Julius Malema in SA. I don’t know why we get so short sighted as Zambians.
Jam Jam! Negative guy! Your man is losing – again!
Zambia needs to decide where they are serious about dfi.
Look at the way government has treated the companies that
Have invested in copper mines with royalties going from 3 % in 2004 to 20 % in 2015. This tax is on turn over.
At the same time government spending went up 300 % between 2010 and 2015.
So if the people of Zambia were getting the value of this increased spending there would be no need for any other party to contest the election, as the ruling party would win.
So the question is , are the average Zambian benefiting from government spending?
They have come to register as voters.
It’s like this ka president only learns wrong things from Mugabe . One lesson he should have learnt is to empower your own farmers. If even farming is something these PF headless batts can’t take advantage of, what else can they manage?
But this is very unfair to our Zambian small farmers. Surely we are even proud to parade ourselves before the cameras by supporting foreign farmer leaving our own. We should have been coming up with ways of helping our local farmers realise their dreams instead of these foreigners. Our local small farmers have done very well to feed the nation only that they have not been adequately supported.
I will appeal to chiefs not to surrender land to these Boers. They are very bad people for us who have lived in Zimbabwe and South Africa we know how they treat blacks. Only Emmanuel Mwamba’s pocket will smile and Zambians. VERY FOOLISH MOVE. PLEASE STOP DON’T BRING ANOTHER DUBAI PROBLEM TWAPAPATA.