Zambia’s High Commissioner to Australia with extra accreditation to New Zealand Frank Bwalya says the Government has laid a strong foundation for Zambia’s prosperity through the massive infrastructure it has built in various sectors of the economy.
Mr Bwalya made the remarks when the Divisional Manager, for Middle East and Africa at New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Stuart Horne paid a courtesy call on him at the Mission in Canberra.
He said the development of infrastructure by the Government provided a solid Launch pad for economic recovery and its offshoots of job creation, better living standards for all people as well as the lower taxes that a strong economy delivers.
The Zambian Envoy cited the recently commissioned Kazungula Bridge as a major economic infrastructure that will improve transportation within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) regions and accelerate economic growth for Zambia and the region as a whole.
“Zambia had done well in combating the first wave of the pandemic with an impressive recovery rate but that many people died during the second wave adding that Zambia looked to New Zealand for support in acquiring the much needed vaccines,” he said.
And Mr. Horne said Zambia was one of the countries in Africa that New Zealand wanted to continue working with because of its good development record.
Mr. Horne praised Zambia for the strides recorded in various sectors especially agriculture under which New Zealand is supporting the Zambia Dairy Transformation Programme (ZDTP) to help smallholder dairy farmers improve their productivity, milk quality and linkage to urban markets.
“We are willing to continue funding the project because it was vital in improving the livelihood of the Zambian dairy farmers. The five-year project was scheduled to end in 2021 but there is a likelihood of extending,” he stressed.
He said New Zealand would soon start helping some countries with the Covax vaccine to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mr. Horne further said his country had however, prioritized supporting the Pacific nations which depended on New Zealand for such support.
This is contained in a statement availed to ZANIS in Lusaka today, by First Secretary for press at the Zambian High Commission for Australia Herbert Mutabi.
These morons Lazy Lungy sends to our embassies
“Massive” infrastructure?
Receiving aid from a small country such as New Zealand with precious few natural resources, far less arable land, far fewer people than Zambia and led by a young prime minister Jacinda Ardern, born in 1980 the year Edgar Lungu was graduating from UNZA is quite frankly embarrassing. Wht does this small country do so well? It’s good government, stupid.
This is like the first born in the family praising the last born for feeding his children who are as old as the last born
Bwanya “Munshololwa”, fuseki ka chi.kala iwe!
But what’s wrong with these people from the North? Look at Nkandu Lunyo, Frank Bwanya, Kapasa Makanyo etc, they’re so unbeautiful and lend much credence to the notion that we are descended from monkeys. Maybe it’s the baboons and monkeys they eat that manifest in such canning ugliest “same same”.
It is big news for Zambia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This why Lusambo insult these ambassadors in diaspora.
And why ambassadors still working, they should be packing to get back to Zambia. August is just after next month.
THE CHAMBA THIS CHAP IS SMOKING IS MI(XED WITH SOMETHING
OR IS HE TESTING FROM HIS PLANTATION ?
We are working very hard here at home my brother. Continue working hard and representing us well there in diaspora.
Australia is a rich important country yet this useless cader ‘ do or die zambia ‘ has nothing to show in investment from Australia for his 5 years there……
Totally hopeless ………
“Adding that Zambia looked to New Zealand for support in acquiring the much needed vaccines,” he said.”-LT
New Zealand
Population
4,545,627 (July 2018 est.)
country rank: 126
Zambian
Population
16,445,079 (July 2018 est.)
country rank: 70
Say no to PF’s top-down leadership.
Why would a small Oceania country such as New Zealand, tucked away in a far away corner of the planet want to help improve Zambia’s dairy industry? Wht’s in it for them? I hope folk in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs know the answer. And why can’t Zambia do it on its own after decades of graduating agricultural science and veterinary medicine technocrats up to PhD level?
Kwena we have had the NRDC from the 60s, Samora Machel agriculture school from the 80s Choma school of agriculture from the 70s, Mpika college of agriculture from UNIP, Palabana Dairy Training Institute, but what agricultural products do we have to show for all these after 50 years of independence?
It’s increasingly clear that the PF base remains in thrall to the web of tribal bigotry spun by Luo, Lungu, Dora and Kambwili etc — and perhaps even more outlandish lies against HH, beyond those making of Nkandu Lunyokolola!
FORWARD IWE
Adding that Zambia looked to New Zealand for support in acquiring the much needed vaccines,” he said.”-LT
New Zealand
Population
4,545,627 (July 2018 est.)
country rank: 126
Zambian
Population
16,445,079 (July 2018 est.)
country rank: 70
Inflation 22% ,Kwacha down 55% ,GRZ debts up more than 100% ,Eurobond default …more like Zambia is laying foundation for impoverishment.
Every time something dumb is raved off by a foolish PF cadre masquerading as a leader somewhere, you can be rest assured Kainyokolola Zulu will be the first to joyously swallow the bull! Sometimes one wonders if this stupidity is a gift he has from God or the lumpen is on drugs to be so fu.cking gutless.