A civil society organization has challenged political leaders intending to participate in the 2011 tripartite elections to make the taxation in the mining sector, a political matter.
Caritas Zambia, Executive director, Sam Mulafulafu said that politicians need to begin discussing the failure to make the nation’s mining sector, a major contributor to economic growth during their campaigns.
Mr mulafulafu said that the reversal of the windfall tax and the inability to allow the mining sector thrive as the most active contributor to Zambia’s economic growth should be discussed by political leaders.
He noted that the discussions should be done extensively to attract the necessary attention that is required for the government to take action and bring back the right taxes into the mining sector.
The Executive director pointed out that it is shameful for the country to be made to beg for resources to fund developmental projects in the country when Zambia is a big time copper producer.
Mr Mulafulafu said it is inappropriate to describe the nation’s extractive industry as over used when the country has not registered any benefit from it.
He indicated that government has to derive the required benefit from the profits and proceeds coming out of the mining sector.
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Thank God, plunder of national resorces has come to an end through this illegal and incompitent body called NCC. The participants archieved nothing but only amased money from allowances and despised everything the people wanted. This NCC has been the most costly and yet useless undertaking Zambia has ever had.
Thank you Mwanawasa whereever you are for this great people’s constitution. You opposed the constitutional conference for the all inclusive NCC. Since 2007 great progress has been realized a new people’s constitution has been born! It has left armchair critics like my president Sata into irrelevant and incosequential daily noise gongs in vanity. Forward with the nation. Thank you progressive pro democracy PF MPs, entire UPND, geniune NGOs, the Church, traditional rulers and ruling MMD legislatures for serving the country judiciously at the NCC.
This is appreciation cannot end without saying thank you RB for staying the cause on the NCC left by Mwanawasa. You have kept proding much critical leadership on national affairs. BRAVO!
The only thing RB has given you in this constitution is the dual citizenship which has gone through. Thank you RB for your opposition to the Mpombo sponsored clause for a degree requirement to run for plot one though sponsor has none to his name.
Actually the same Mpombo fiercely opposed the Dual citizenship which RB has successfully pushed for inclusion in the new constitution. Mpombo’s argument was that Dual citizenship would compromise national security and some carders here bought that nonsense.
Bravo Mwanawasa and RB!
And those who refused to participate in the NCC should shut their beaks.
1 Red Card-Free : You are the only one who has followed what the NCC has done or rather failed to achieve. I wonder what the other bloggars are talking about.
In all, Mwanawasa and his NCC rejected the people’s wishes expressed in and presented by the Mwanawasa appointed MUN’GOMBA CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW COMMISSION priod.
Its good that this the so called NCC it has come to unend. Thie people want to finish our money bangwele bapushi. I know most of them are not happyof closing this NCC.Thank for this twachula sana.
Mr Justice Hamaundu said he had looked through the Zambian law for such an order, but did not find any.
“This means that the Foreign Judgements (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act does not apply to the United Kingdom at present,’ part of the judgment reads.
Judge Hamaundu said he has searched in all the laws, including the “Applied Laws” for any other statutory provision by which judgements obtained in the courts of United Kingdom could be enforced by direct registration.He said in the circumstances, the Attorney-General should have sought to enforce the London High Court judgement by recourse to the common law, under the principles of “private International law” or Conflicts of Law,’ as the principles are alternatively known.
And what will be the rhetoric now? If it is that RB interfered with the judiciary, please give us a break. I don’t think that any sensible person can challenge Mr Justice Hamaundu’s judgement, it is so plain and clear. It seems this case and others were either ill conceived or badly handled or rushed (all in Levy era, he of the legal fame). Look at all that “evidence” presentedto parliament to lift Chiluba’s immunity. Looks like we were all taken in by the “mighty” Post. And to think how much time we wasted and how much richer we made the Post and mmembe by buying their paper to read the stupid and now probably baseless stories, which were probably the same as the current Post vendetta against RB. and we continue to be duped as a nation by one mmembe. Well, ask UPND they know him…
Excellent comment but my main worry is with the Rupiah Banda administration on the wheel, it is practically impossible to find a way forward towards achieving such desired goals. The MMD and the Rupiah Banda administration are a disaster to Zambia because they promote the idea of giving out all the revenue generated from the sale of copper to the investors. Zambian miners despite their slave wages are heavily taxed such that they have got breathing space whatsoever. In short, the Banda administration is ignorant of whatever is happening in Mines because the guys are just there in government to eat taxpayers’ money. When is Zambia as nation going to benefit from its resources and when shall slave wages to local miners become a thing of the past ?