Namibian President Hifikipunye Pohamba says his country has an open door policy for Zambians wishing to study in his country.
President Pohamba says Namibia has come up with a policy to allow as many Zambian students as possible to study there.
Dr Pohamba feels much needs to be done in reciprocating Zambia’s goodwill and solidarity during that country’s liberation struggle.
He says Zambia provided places at different institutions of learning for many Namibians with the current Prime Minister Nahasangula having graduated from the University of Zambia.
President Pohamba said this when he officiated at the graduation ceremony for Teachers’ Education Diploma graduates at Katima-Mulilo in Capri Region over the weekend.
And Governor of Capri Region Lawrence Sampofu says Zambia and Namibia should work towards the attainment of the UN 2015 Millennium Development Goals.
And Namibia University Acting Vice Chancellor Professor Osmund Mwandembele says the institution has a lot in stock for foreign students .
And Sesheke High School Head Teacher Walubita Lubinda who led other Zambian officials in witnessing the graduation ceremony, said Zambia has a lot to learn from Namibia.
ZNBC
Meaning what? Free tution? It is just a marketjng gimick? Becareful Zambia.
Ba fi colour, you want to be given everything for free??? What you value, you pay for. In the UK and US, entire towns and cities are built around universities and these universities are funded by students who PAY, not facking free loaders on scholarships. And foreign students pay many at least 10 times more than local students. Meanwhile in Zambia you are giving foreigners tax holidays, tax exemptions and treating foreigners better than your own citizens. Bloody losers !!
Get some self esteem biatches. Go and read about how Lula transformed Brazil from second class mentality to proud hosts of the 2014 world cup and equals with the great nations of the world. Free tuition my arse !!
These are countries we nid to educate. Now this baby country is educating us. We have lost the plot.
The consolation is that most of the lecturers are Zambians, its just their infrastructure and better remuneration, and continuity of one’s education, I guess. You complete your studies on schedule – no closures. I suppose our own stone throwing learning students should find amicable means of resolving their issues than resorting to take the law in their own hands. It has proved to derail their progression due to many closures. Imagine taking seven years for a course of three years due to closures. It is retrogressive! Thanks that there are less and less of such vices.
Stop thinking Zambia; it is one world
Some chaps who write in are so thick  Its just unbelievable. Is this all Zambia can produce? I blame it on the Basic Schools.
Not basic school bwana; believe you me. I am one of the products of a basic school; if am to send you my qualifications, experience and exposure you would be shocked. A bad carpenter always blames the tools.
Good. We should be complimentary as neighbours.
We help liberate them and only got their independence in 1990 and now we have a lot to learn from them. What happened to our pioneer spirit? As for the gesture, it is very welcome, we just need to know what logistics will be in place for tuition, et al, and a policy needs to be in place for our high school graduates to go study in Namibia under Zambian bursaries initiatives. Every good gesture is welcome, we need to educate as many of our people as possible. I want my Zambia back!!!
Chinese Proverb: If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
wise words mudala
@ 3 man! comment here are shocking,some thinking is alerming ……………….. i would rather swap a civilised man with and educated one. trust me people i have met in europe with basic school standard education reason far better than so comments i read here from educated chaps. ———-some zambian has a long away to go en im afraid they dont have enough time to evolve before they die.
ya, mulibakali guys. ama comments yambi! aaawe!
but chachine, Nams should continue learning from us, they r a baby nation. nevertheless, gesture welcome. its not that we don’t have auniversity, it’s just that ours, ifimbusu tapaba nomba. abantu banyela muma corridors. the time namibians used to come to UNSA, it used to be UNZA. It was University of Zambia (UNZA) now it’s University of Sheeting Always (UNSA). Go there, ifimbusu nimu corridor!
We welcome the nice gesture but be careful.Too many zambian students there and you might somehow dilute the standards of education.With education theres quality in low numbers.How do the Namibian learning institutions stack up against the rest of the continent? Granted,they probably rank higher than Zambian institutions due to a very low population base and therefore better funding.
I thought it should be the opposite, i may be wrong but i doubt it.
Deejay says some old school love is in order. The playlist…
1. R.E.S.P.E.C.T. – Aretha Franklin
2. Imagine – John Lennon
3. Lazy Bones – The Witch
4. Can’t Be Wrong and Get Right – Jimmy Cliff
5. I Turn To You – Warren Mills
After you’ve soaked your brain in the mixture of emotions with a couple of laughs thrown in then top it with a choon for the night Ain’t It Funny by Ledisi… Life is the best teacher. God bless Namibia and Zed.
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:) very smart Namibia is treating Zambians with dignity and this collecting foreign revenue from enrolling international students. May you bless this young country Lord Jesus.
Jesus ever blessed a country? Which one?
The Vatican
Now here is a modern day leader who understands how vital forex is to his country’s economy…it doesn’t just have to come via Foreign Mining investors; it also comes from foreign students who not only bring foreign currency with them but who also stimulate growth in the local property (Rental) market.
The Oz have perfected the marketing of educational facilities to overseas students that the British Universities are losing out due their stringent visa requirements and hideously excessive charges.
Its time for our gov’t to start investing in Higher Education.
Jay Jay you are spot on, imagine advertising UNZA in its state now. shame and thats where our fathers graduated :(
Wow , some guys is got insight and brains on this here site. Why is it whenever i saw guys with jay jays mentality back home theyd never last long, its like some force just sucks them out of zed.
Are you going to provide scholarships? Or is it free tuition, food and accommodation?Â
Facking freeloader. Pay your own tuition biatch
Am one of the guys studying at yhe university of namibia,one thing is that unam has excellent facilities compared to our delapidated unza.That being said its a challenge to our gov to work on the facilities at unza to stop this embarrasment.
Soon we will have alot to learn from countries like Angola and Somalia etc.
Countries like australia make billions of dollars from foreign students because they have good facilities in their learning institutions. How can Unza be clean when the whole city is full of garbage and street vendors. compare our cities with the ones in Namimbia.
We even know what is required to be done in order to improve our lot. But we have a bad culture. UNZA is dirty and inadequate. Build me my BANGWEULU university for BUNGWES. Ka UNZA nakacepa. Expand infrastructure and let it remain the oldest and wisest Oxford or Cambridge of Zambia. Otherwise ndise cabe vipuba.
In Luapula our prestigious schools were Kawambwa Boys Technical Secondary (not High School), St Clement’s for boys and St Mary’s for girls secondary schools and BAHATI seminary under guidance of the Catholic church. So now we need to honour our only inland lake that is not shared with other countries and build ourselves a prestigious BANGWEULU UNIVERSITY “for Bungwes”.
Why cant we improve our own systems so UNZA, CBU, ZCAS, ZIBCT, ZAMIM etc also attract foreign students. We are now being educated by Namibia a country that we helped in its infancy. Shame.
# 11 you are the only one that understand business and know what these guys are up. Some people here claim to be smart but do not see or realize that Namimbia is looking to export a service to Zambia by taping into the Zambian education sector market. What open door policy is being offered its all propaganda.Â
Its only in zambia??????
Yes. The Namibian leader was short of also saying ‘we’ve also got an open door policy for your highly skilled and educated Zambians who you fail to employ’.
Nothing wrong with what he is doing. Free market enterprise machine. Recruiting foreign students is one of the ways an institution can raise money to improve services and expand.
How is UNZA doing in that arena? It’s time they started marketing that school and figure out other ways to raise some dough.
Zambia was knocked in to a coma by those entrusted with its care. Many around the globe are consciously watching but either incapable of by circumstance or reluctant to admit by choice that it will take some serious collective input to repair the damage done to our education system. It is not impossible to build a ‘diaspora’ funded school or university in each province that can play a part in aiding those who will not get the chance again. I would suggest a call out first to those who supremely benefitted from the Copperbelt Education Trust who interact in small pockets all over the net ‘itching’ to give back. Some are not even Zambian but all express the same desire to recreate the opportunity they had. Gotta start somewhere.
when u have thieves for president, thieves for ministers, thieves for mps and permanent secretaries, u end up like this. Now learning from the ones u taught instead of being role models. Shame.
DECENTRALISE the government and let each province run a University. That way we shall decongest UNZA and let it be a leading institution in service and excellence. ZCAS started to attract some students from the region, but with the new porn courses can people send their children there?
UNZA has never been audited since the days of LPM because they don’t maintain any accountable records! If we declared Sharia at UNZA, I wonder how many educated men and women will come out of there with both hands. Govt. is pretending to be funding UNZA, the senate is also pretending to running it
Speaking of the good gesture by the Namibian president. Please, can anyone in Namibia who knows Elizabeth Shikongo connect me to this lady. She used to be my girl friend way back in the late 80’s at UNZA. We met at UNZA when a group of Namibians came to Zambia from East German (by that time) for a few courses including English language. Her best friend (Namibian with very long hair) was called Helen. Eliza- I am pretty sure she’s a married woman with a family but we had such a wonderful relationship I would care to know how she’s fairing. I am equally, sure she also wonders were the hell I am.
Why don’t you use social networking sites to try and locate her?
Education and Zambians? The oxymoron leaves be beduffled.
Come to sweet Mzansi, the tution fees for people from SADC countries are the same as south africans and very affordable.
There is nothing wrong with what the president of Namibia has said. Take it or leave it. Many universities in a number of countries have an open-door policy for foreign students. It is a lucrative source of income. For instance if you were to visit the University of the Free State in South Africa you will find a very big number of students from the Far East including many more from other African countries. Unfortunately UNZA is still in a slumber with eight students sharing a room meant for two. What a shame.
What Policy they just want to tap forex namibia has a population of 2.5 million people Lusaka alone . Look at uk a foreigner pays 3 times more than a local why can’t Sadc have same standards as Eu and anyone from Sadc would pay the same amount of fees
Education is education and besides the university of Namibia is a good university.Let Zambians apply than roaming the streets doing nothing nd drugs.Scholarships should be given if theres a govt.Dont despice Namibians of cause some are not that good the same with us.I once taught at kamwala with a Namibian who went to class and greeted them as goodmorning teacher instead as class!Surely not the reason why you cant study in Namibia.Countrymen/women university education is paramount for any person and country.GOD BLESS ZAMBIA.
Sad that South Africa in particular has the best Universities on the continent and yet Zambia should have been competing by now!Standards at Unza and Cbu are too low compared with UCT,STellenbosch,University of Pretoria,WITS to name but a few.Uninam is also catching up whilst CBU is closed(has it opened by the way?)Shame………
Ever wondered why namibian population is low? Its cause those colonialists genocided the africans by driving droves of them to die in dersert, its so called “forgotten history”. They still have a ka ma strong africaner, boor, germanic presence that contributes to those so called high standards. It wont last. If you dont believe me just look at zimbabwe. So we are just fine pa zed, be patriotic to your own country and dont insult it.
We really appreciate the gesture but most Zambians who are there just rent rooms at a very high rate. the pay deposit which is never refunded at the end though the student doesnt’t destroy anything. Thieving of laptops and documents is too mush with the security forces doing nothing about it. Are the Zambian students going to be accommodated on campus because the landlords there have no courtesy when rentals are due. Failure to for a day, your items are thrown outside. Any rules put in place, Mr. President to protect a poor Zambian girl/boy?**==
What about zambians working in namibia/ we need Jobs PF is struggling to give us Jobs please, i can forward my CV immediately to katima mulilo…..i dont know whether its K.M upper school or university
What about some of us who want to leave Satanic Zambia for good? Â Mr Pohamba please give us citizenship also, not just university places.
Unam is ranked better than any of our universities in the country. At one time Unam was ranked No. 21 in Africa when UNZA was No. 69 and CBU has never been among the top 100. That is what happens when you vote criminals into office and it takes 20 years for you to notice that they
are thieves. KK started on a very good note. Â
ZASTI is rotten and I am at the Namibian Aviation Training Academy. Pohamba is just frank. Everything in Zambia is rotten. Kaunda left good education. UNZA is the dirtiest University in the world.
Thts great wonderful