Zambia should focus on developing an export-oriented economy coupled with Foreign Direct Investment instead of continuously borrowing like the PF is doing, says opposition UPND president Hakainde Hichilema.
Speaking when he lectured to hundreds of University of Zambia students Mr. Hiichilema said there was need to concentrate on promoting manufacturing industries and stop importing stuff that can be produced locally.
“The only way we shall create meaningful employment for youths like yourselves is by strengthening the manufacturing sector and trumpeting to all Zambians that local products are is better so that we can import less and export more. That’s is also the sure way of strengthening the local currency that is currently on free fall,” he said.
He told the fully packed students lecture theatre that there was currently lots of policy inconsistencies on the part of the PF government which was not good for investor confidence.
“We currently have a president and his vice who say a constitution is just a piece of paper, which sensible investor would come to Zambia. I warned them on the negative effects of introducing statutory instruments 33 and 55 to the local currency and now they are panicking by revoking it which is too late,” Mr. Hichilema told the cheering students who kept shouting ‘data’.
He said current economics of continuous borrowing by Alexander Chikwanda would lead Zambia into another debt trap yet a lot of resources can be generated locally.
Mr. Hichilema said there was need for serious economic diversification and generate resources locally even away from mining activities so that meaningful jobs can be created.
“By the way, it is the same Chikwanda who led this country into a debt when he was Finance Minister in the 1970s under Kaunda. As a country, we have never changed leaders at all because even president Michael Sata was already a District Governor when some of us were still in grade two. So what knew things do you expect from such people?” he said.
Mr. Hichilema said poor economic policies such as revoking statutory instruments 33 and 55 on monetory policies was like just like revoking a driver’s license from a bad driver but leaving him to drive the vehicle.
“Does that solve the problem? Change the people handling finance. We need a really leadership change and have people that understand modern economic trends and not those old fossils like Daniel Munkombwe that are just there to eat. I have already heard Mr. Munkombwe is now telling people that when HH comes to power he will get another job. I can promise you that he wont get under my leadership. Let him forget,” he said.
Mr. Hichilema said it was surprising that people in PF were failing to comprehend and connect the importance of the new and better constitution to economic development and better standards of living for the people.
“It is through a good constitution that institutions of good governance can be promoted that will protect your resources from plunder and responsibly channel it to places like this university and other institutions of learning in the country. This university and other institutions of learning suffer from lack of academic resources, accommodation for both students and lecturers but because we have a constitution that cannot promote freedoms and independence of institutions such as the Anti-Corruption Commission, resources are being plundered without people being made accountable for such evil actions.
This is the man zambia needs and not dated leaders like sata,slave driver(scot)etc
I am sure UNZA management will be in trouble after this!
@ganja farmer
I have said so many times that HH abandoned well paying jobs in London to come and home contribute but you know what. companies followed him.
You are absolutely right ! HH is just the man Zambia needs right now to restore Zambia’s integrity and take Zambia further. Even Sata admits to his wife that if HH worked with him, Zambia would be a better place.
HH the HOPE and HELP.
UPND I am in!
am shocked! so you mean the PF govt didnt know all this time what HH is talking about,,, useless PF govt indeed!!!
I mean what has he said that’s any different to impress? And indeed what has he done that’s any different. Talking to those UNZA students will not deliver him to state house, go to Shangombo, Nchelenge….. and man does this man have a mountain to climb. In all honesty bloggers, do you think HH will be the next Zambian leader?
HH i appreciate your ideas and the way you articulate them, the only problem I have is the intended target. sata, he has not a single idea what these concepts mean. to him its money in coffers just create new districts and employ cadres as DC;s. “creating employment”. when chikwanda tells him there is no ,money, he is ordered to print some more.
I have never doubted the economic augmentation capabilities of Mr Hichilema. However, I’m persuaded that a tone down on his confrontational political stance will go a long way in averting the loss our country can suffer as a result of his expertise and broad knowledge in wealth creation being drowned in his now endless snide remarks, especially against his fellow leaders.
The export oriented economy is what we have. The issue is that we rely heavily on a single export commodity: copper, and that, in its raw form (about 70% of Zambia’s export earnings comes from copper). And then we import all sorts of junk electronic gadgets produced from the same copper.
We import cornflakes produced from maize, but we leave our maize to rot at depots. Strange!
@ Nigger of Nagasaki it’s not totally right to say HH was addressing a wrong target group for some of these students may have their roots in Nchelenge and Shangombo thus can also spread the message. However there is need for HH to visit outlying areas to share his ideas and deliver his message. In light of poor economic performance HH seems to be the only hope among the leading contenders to heal the national economic malaise. The political scenario in Zambia has not evolved with post independence generations.
@aibmaz, thats the reason why he is telling you and not sata only, so that when you go to vote you can make an informed decision and not just because someone said donchi kubeba! On top of what Hichilema has said, i would also say, when he comes to power in 2016, is that he should start telling people about the need to sacrifice to build zambia now before 2016. we all need to sacrifice, and i tell you zambians will sacrifice so long as they know and see proper direction and reason for their sacrifice. when you decide to build a house from a meagre salary, your family will endure as long as they are seeing the fruits of their sacrifice. lelo ka slab mwabika, a month later inganda yafika mu window level,6 months later yafika limbi pa roof level etc.People are not greedy they will understand
@Kolwe,
For my complete comment, visit the Zambian Eye site: (www.zambianeye.com), I find the 800 character restriction here at Lusaka Times is a bit constricting especially during times when I want to express myself. But I appreciate their consistency.
Why were they calling for Data?A Clear indication he had none to substantiate what he was suggesting. A Typical Zambian politician. All jaw and nothing more.
Actually they are in support of the fact that he as an individual has more ‘DATA’ than the useless government with all it’s useless ministers! That’s why they where CHEERING and not JEERING!
Nigger of Nagasaki ,
you are a moron, never bn 2 unza. When unza students say data, they are saying good data give us more not sense u r saying.
@FuManchu lets be realistic. Where do the numbers in votes really come from? 20% of the population or 80% and how many of those Unza students have relatives in Kabalenge and lukulu? We are basically just nit picking here.
In case you didn’t know, at UNZA, when some shouts ‘data!!’ they mean what u r saying makes intelligent sense. It doesn’t mean they are asking you to give more data, NO.
Iwe, if you have never been to a Zambian University, just ask us what we mean when we shout “Dataaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!”. It meant HH hammered the Power Failures badly…
And how do you turn a nation of consumers into a nation of exporters? A nation of lazy bums, thieves and tribalistics into a nation to produce exportable surplus? Do you intend to handover tourism sector, farming blocks to foreigners so that they can bring desired results and then after 10 years jealous Zambians start complaining, grab those businesses and go back to square one?
And how do you turn a nation of consumers into a nation of exporters? A nation of lazy bums, thieves and tribalists into a nation to produce exportable surplus? Do you intend to handover tourism sector, farming blocks to foreigners so that they can bring desired results and then after 10 years jealous Zambians start complaining, grab those businesses and go back to square one?
And how do you turn a nation of consumers into a nation of exporters? A nation of lazy bums, thieves and tribalists into a nation to produce exportable surplus? Do you intend to handover tourism sector, farming blocks to foreigners so that they can bring desired results and then after 10 years jealous Zambians start complaining, grab those businesses and go back to square one?
Bruce Lee, you are talking to yourself? Never generalise when you fail to see past the end of your nose. We used to manufacture almost everything imaginable in Zambia. We need to follow HH’s ideas and tell these investors it’s now under our terms or they are out. We have almost every kind of ore imaginable to extract most well used and known metals. Did you know that there is a considerable amount of gold found during the extraction of copper which I think is not gazetted by government and slips through the hands of government with their eyes wide shut ;-( I know this because I lived in a mining area and Malachite was one of the un-gazetted ores that miners could sell to Congolese who would shape it up into expensive ornaments for export. We need to stockpile copper bars and suffocate
HH is the only one as at now who can help mother Zambia to develop. Good economists do not just look at the present economic trends but they go further by predicting the positive and negative effects the economic trends will cause in both short and long term and HH is one of them because most if not all of things he said will affect the economy of the country negatively have come to pass
Africans have already learnt enough over the decades but it seems they have not yet reached the level of white people in terms of reasoning. Even animals in the wild learn how to hunt and avoid danger but thy can not think like humans. I am saying this because we can not make even things our friends used to make hundreds of years ago. We can not even make a stadium or an amphitheatre like the coliseum.
Take your inferiority complex elsewhere!
Julie Arse Scissors. Continue wallowing in superiority complex and see where it will take you, but the truth is plain for the wise to see. The first step in solving a problem is acknowledging that there is a problem.
So who do you think designed and built the pyramids? We did that when Europeans were still hiding from mammoths and sabre tooths in caves. We had Universities, Libraries (Timbuktu) and Cathedrals under the ground (Lallibela) until something called “Arrested Development” occured to us.
Lol, the name! Julie what? and spartan repeats it. Lol me Sunday is made!
Nine Chale. Ubulimi bwa kale. Don’t console yourself, Egyptians are not black.
@Spartan, please keep your ignorance to yourself. What do you mean “Egyptians are not black”? The period @Nine Chale is talking about Egyptians were full blown black Africans. This is before the “Arabisation” of the Country and most of North African region. Have you ever heard of the Nubians (Egypt/Sudan) and the Barbers (Libya)? The Egypt you see today is NOT the Egypt of King Tutu Kama (sp) and the Pyramid builders.
Africans have a proud history of science and economic advancements. After all, it is in Africa where the ‘BATA’ system flourished. The Whiteman came, told you everything about you is wrong (including your humanity) and you believed him, and then abandoned millenniums of African scientific, social and trade acumen. And going by people like U, it seems he succeeded!
@Spartan, do you also realize that the ‘Whiteman’ has tried to claim that the GREAT ZIMBABWE was not built by Africans? Yes, they claimed that the Great Zimbabwe and the civilization that built it was simply too advanced to be that of Black Africans. They claim to have been built by “Israelites”! But how the Israelites found their way into the interior of Africa, built the Great Zimbabwe and then completely disappear without a trace, only a “Racist” white folk can weave such a tale.
Nonetheless, this is the kind of social, cultural, economic, and civilizational genocide perpetrated by a “Whiteman” that Africa has been dealing with for centuries. And it will take more than a few decades of political independence to reverse this. So be careful what you believe @Spartan!
He! he he! he! iwe one hit wonder. so is mine.
This man is not presidential material! i recall he used to say his party does not endorse recycled politicians,today he embraces jonas shakafuswa and also he said old politicians must retire and yet william banda is in upnd! he is a hypocrite and also a guilty corrupt guy,as he tried to bribe workers at macha radio station in his strong hold to air his views but they denied him chance bcoz he did not follow procedure!!
Ninshi mwakaba imwe bene chis.ushi chenu? You sound like an imbecile who just ate some monkey ofals and kidneys.
Jonas is vibrant, you can compare Shakas to PFs over used MPs. Every else you said in rubbish, typical of kaponya, ng’wang’wazi making Zambia and economic desert. we are sick of u kwere-kweres.
Yambayamba, have your heard about the Lemba people of Zimbabwe?
Hahahahaha…..This boy cannot rule Zambia. The reason is simple,he is very childish.
I would not be proud to rule a poor country like zambia.
@And You: and you will NEVER be known anywhere on earth except at your local church. Who has asked you to lead Zambia anyway????
You think great and proud leaders are those who are satisfied with inheritance of “riches” and a comfortable life? Great men/women are those who BUILD FROM NOTHING. Those men/women who have taken their countries from economic, social, and civil despair to glorious heights. Not pretenders, scavengers, and moochers like yourself!!!!!!!!!
hh and politics of always attacking the PF government, you can even see how bitter he is just by looking at him, face full of wrinkles.
HH : but you will NEVER be president of Zambia. Heh, heh, heh, heh! Ukuilya, this dude, HH!
Thank you God since you are all knowing and pass my greetings to Jesus. By the way, could you send TB Joshua another clearer vision of where the MH370 crashed? Thanks!.
We as Africans are modern day slaves working for others. We have the best weather, minerals and other natural resources and multitudes of energetic youths but are impoverished. Lets stop following blindly the theories which are applicable only in developed economies. Lets use our Engineers to make things. Economic theories have no definite answer.
If politicians use local engineers,contractors etc how are they going to steal?they like using foreigners because they will hide their stolen wealth in countries,believe me or not the pf mission is to steal through getting loans,foreign construction companies.Zambia needs a new constitution and a leader who has a heart for the people.
It should be common sense that to sell a variety of products and services abroad is the quickest way to enrich a country. The problem we have in Zambia is dependence on copper alone as the generator of foreign money. And we are so poor at even doing this that we never add any value to copper and make it more lucrative. Most successful countries are those with a manufacturing and export led base. If Britain for example, focused only on exporting coal, nothing else but coal, they would have starved to death by now. It’s insane. One day we shall run out of copper and the so-called investors will vanish leaving us high and dry and looking stupi.d.
HH FEELS BEATEN BY THE PASTOR…
How do you export without sound communication, road and rail networks, and without manpower?
One needs to invest heavily in education and manufacturing to train and produce effective manpower in engineering, agriculture etc like the Pastor Mumba was barking about from South Africa. In other words we first need to build capacity.
The government is spot on.
Zambian people wht hv yu seen in sata? A grade four, a former victoria railway cleaner who managed to use lies to climb on top. What yu demand is too much for him to understand. Demand for insults, yu wl get just like his ministers not economical development. Economic understanding shud be left in the hands of intellectuals nt cleaners. Shame!!!
ka Under 5 (HH) its easy to theorize and criticize in front of university students. Cattle boy, useless herdsman with no practical experience in governance.
Try some constructive criticism. just try.
Kudos, Waawa. U r retrogressive forever. still want to make Zm an economic desert by supporting uselessly rotten leaders. Change for better.
Methinks Kudos has deep vested interests in the PF and faces financial ruin once they are kicked out of power. Thats why he always sounds rabid from panic. However, I really would rather believe he’s just a small schoolboy who has never paid tax in his life and I base this on his always childish posts.
I agree – Kudos! is right…
@Abaakaabaa!
I agree
Everyone knows that you cannot development an export industry on local finance only.
HH talks and let others do the walk, to defend his academic and childish pronouncements on any issue like tribalism.
Not long ago, he lambasted others for embracing RECYCLED politicians but where are Jonas Shakafuswa, William Banda, Mutale Nalumango etc?
As modern day slaves we go to the university so that we can work efficiently for our masters. However this cycle can be broken if we stop looking to others for everything. The starting point is allowing our own Engineers to start making things like roads buildings, cars and so on. Yes I said cars! Why not if our friends stared making cars more than a century ago. Also if some one with little education can disassemble and assemble an engine, an Engineer can at least copy the designs if he cant originate. Besides there is no need to re invent the wheel. Just reverse Engineer.
sense but the practicalities? Will the car sell in the face of heavy competition from the developed industry? just asking
Julie Arse Scissors. Think outside the box. In this case you don’t even need to think very much. If we make a ‘canter’ , just ban the importation of the ‘canter’ and satisfy the local market to begin with. South Africa is already doing it by banning Zambian grapes.
I like Spartan’s ideas and his thinking out of the ‘square’ mentality. Some ideas are crude but no idea is wrong here. We all need to do our part and not just criticise one another. Of course, government has to create a conducive climate in which to do business for us and the foreign investors. The attraction of the diaspora based Zambians back to base depends on our government of the day doing more to convince us that there is real democracy in Zambia. That begins with a good C, yes you guessed it right my dear friends – Constitution. I am pensionable here in the western world – meaning I have never worked in Zambia but got my elementary education in Zambia. All my tertiary education has been achieved here at a great expense to my host country. I have paid them back in taxes and…
….and still do with my many investments here. I have also invested heavily back home but my portfolio has taken a battering in the past few years. I will be straight with you brothers and sisters – I have lost about 25% of my business in as many years as the PF has been in government. I am not an economist but I know how to run a business. My expertise is in engineering and design but I am quiet well read to understand bad policies such as the ones called out here by Mr Hichilema. My deposits are in Kwacha and those have taken a pelting too as the Kwacha has lost about 6-10% head to head with the dollar in just a few weeks. You might begin to envisage how hard it is for a foreigner to consider doing business in an economy like that. I am only being brave and a patriot – otherwise..
…pardon my typos……quite well read^
@Spartan: how do propose the Govt achieve such a thing? Just throw money at the private sector or a few Universities we have without proper channels to monitor such investments? I thought it is through such governmental organs like INDECO, or whatever the ‘..DECO’ govt has proposed which can nurture and fund these ideas. But guess who is against that too; yes HH!
America did not go to moon without establishing and greatly funding govt organs/institutions such as NASA. Russia did not manage to send the first space probe into orbit without organized governmental institutions and funding education and research. They had/have dedicated govt bodies to spar and fund innovation. Sometimes at incredible losses to taxpayers. But that’s how great nations have been able to advanced.
Correct! Imagine almost 50 years after independence Engineers in institutions like Zesco can’t make a simple bulb or transformer? Do we have to depend on foreign countries like Egypt for prepaid meters? Our universities like UNZA have no tangible invention to show but Engineers have been graduating for years now? Our friends are aiming for Mars, we can’t even think of our own car and someone is busy talking of old Egyptian pyramids. I believe it’s important to accept where we have failed and try to do better. As a nation you’re busy importing even simple things like toothpicks, matches, needles, cornflakes among many more and you think all is well. Just look at things around you and count how many are manufactured in Zambia including the same cloths you are putting.
@Ben, thanks for Echoing my thoughts!
Zambians in general need one thing, I.e. Mind transplant!
I think the influx of the Chinese into the country will help to transform mindsets.
Let’s develop that sense of Pride in what we have and produce!
It starts by re-educating our teachers and Lecturers to teach things that are practical and walk the talk! Let us teach our people how to produce quality products!
Go to Buseko Market and see the poor quality Mukwa Doors our people produce.
How can we be proud of our own products. This is a business opportunity one of you can take up and help our young entrepreneurs!
Spartan we wouldn’t be able to ban Canter imports. We failed with Salaula which killed the local textile industry. We would find that importing a Canter is much cheaper than making our own. remember our local market ain’t big enough to sustain local production so the export market would naturally be our next target but we would find Canter with a stronghold there already. what would be your solutions to these obstacles?
Infrastructure is necessary to export oriented growth. This means that good roads, good railway lines, good airlines, good schools and universities, good hospitals and clinics are absolutely necessary to achieve meaningful economic growth.
Newly graduated IT cadres have been unleashed to crowd anonymous postings. Watch out out as we seem to be debating with an army of PF youths created just to harass reasonable people. With the likes of Chikwanda, don’t expect anything better that eroding kwacha of the seventies. This is not rocket science.
We have heard this song about developing an export-oriented economy time and again. There is nothing new that HH was saying. He should have spelt out specifics on how this can be done instead of being general. Only UNZA Students who do not read as much can be mesmerized by this.
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Typical of retrogressive analysis, your fathers have misruled Zambia, K2=?1 in 1964, K10070=?1 in 2014 making us 5035b times worthless which Levy+Magande tried to reverse. You want to make Zambia an economic desert? We will fight for HH to rebuild ZM.
“This university and other institutions of learning suffer from lack of academic resources, accommodation for both students and lecturers but because we have a constitution that cannot promote freedoms and independence of institutions such as the Anti-Corruption Commission, resources are being plundered without people being made accountable for such evil actions”. Don’t take your luck too far, just because the ACC did not touch you from the Luanshya issue doesn’t mean they do not have teeth.
By the way you have drunkard MPs that can amend the current constitution if you are not happy. Why did you oppose the reintroduction of corruption Laws RB abolished.
You cannot develop an export oriented economy out of visionless leaders like we have.Sata & co are just too petty to focus on the big picture and it always shows when they overreact to HH. Zambia badly needs this Tonga bull’s issue led and focussed vision.
Hi HH,
You are my choice for 2016, please up your game and stay focused.
Increase your coverage area including my village chitulika , chief chikwanda area in mpika
Lastly but not the least do not let satan outwit you!
Regards,
Mutale
HH’s presentation at the University of Zambia reminded me of the symposia; Socratic dialogues, Plato and Xenophon’s symposia.
His argument that Zambia needs an export-driven economy shows that he is a modern economist, a leader Zambia needs today.
How do you move the country forward with an ancient Minister of Finance who practices frugality?
Zambia needs an economy that is reliant on exports for growth.
Modern trends of economic development demand that export is the major component that provides the fuel for a nation’s economy to grow.
Without exports leading the way, prosperity in Zambia will continue to evade us.
Consider the case of Japan. They have no natural resources to speak of, but since after World War II, their ability to absorb new technology and adapt,…
apply and innovate has led to products that are now in great demand worldwide, for example vehicles and a host of other products that has made them an economic power third after the United States of America with China in the lead.
Japan’s ability to mass produce goods in high demand the world over has made their economy one of the most export driven in the world. Another example is the Oil producing countries, whose economies depend mainly on oil for growth. Remove the oil, and you see what I mean. Of lesser impact but not of value are developing agricultural based economies that rely on exports of raw materials and agricultural products to support their economies. Rule of thumb: the higher the percentage contribution of exports to the country’s Gross National product (GNP), the more…
Easier said then done. Has anyone thought that we Zambians are incompetent and fast buck seeking lay about corrupt business men and women.
HH is 100% right. Any economic modernists knows that exports make up a significant amount of gross domestic product in developing and developed countries.
Japan, China, Germany and some Asian economies used exports to increase their production while protecting their economy with tariffs and other barriers when they were starting to develop.
They have a positive trade balance, where the value of their exported goods outweighed the value of their imported goods.
This is the kind of thinking we need today.
Hingombe Hilede (HH) keep dreaming you chap! you are so disrespectful you even refer to some elders as “old fossils like Daniel Munkombwe”.
i can see that apart from your cattle rearing, you’re a good carpenter as you’re nailing those damn nails in your coffin very well.
(HH) hailing from the most primitive province and your region being the most unintelligent because you allowed clever politicians to steal your capital city and take it to Lusaka! kudos!
Kudos,
your fathers have misruled Zambia, K2=?1 in 1964, K10070=?1 in 2014 making us 5035b times worthless which Levy+Magande tried to reverse. You want to make Zambia an economic desert? We will fight for HH to rebuild ZM.
I dont think (HH) has the commitment to build or rebuild Zambia
Kudos, my ka tribal, heavily sodomised homosexual friend, like it or not, burst a vein, have a heart attack, I don’t care, but get this into your PF head; HH is the next Zambian president. Look in the mirror and repeat that statement ‘HH is the next Zambian president’ We shall stand aside and watched with amused expressions as you jump up and down with your tribal talk and insults and then when you sit down exhausted, we will say this to you, gently and without malice ‘HH is the next Zambian president’ The sooner you start dealing with this inevitability, the better for your health. OK old chap?
Hakainde Hichilema is the right man to be on the national driving seat. This man has great intelligence and experience. Export-driven economy means that most of the wealth of that country is earned because they make and export things that the rest of the world wants and imports. They usually export more than they import and therefore have a “favorable” balance of trade. The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are some of the fastest growing countries in the world because they export things that others want.
My family will vote for HH!
But if all the important industries are foreign owned, they will keep their money outside Zambia and there is nothing you can do about it as it has been shown with the SI’s. All you will remain with are statistics like good GDP, Kwacha trading at one to one with a dollar but the majority of Zambians wallowing in poverty and the youths unemployed like it was under the MMD for twenty years.
chenga its BRICS with South Africa at the end you useless half baked upnd potato. under 5 (HH) is not even half baked he’s a raw potato. what driving seat? you think Zambia is a chkochi koch donkey cart which any jim and jack piece of oxen chatter boxing scatter brain can drive?
Kudos,
your fathers have misruled Zambia, K2=?1 in 1964, K10070=?1 in 2014 making us 5035b times worthless which Levy+Magande tried to reverse. You want to make Zambia an economic desert? We will fight for HH to rebuild ZM.
Truth be told: the worst President Zambia will ever have is Sata with his evil goebels M’membe. He has destroyed the economy and the Kwacha is now getting to Mugabe dead Zim $
KK was a one state dictator loony whilst chiluba was a privatisation kleptomaniac. Both are from the north of Zambia like Sata. But Sata takes the prize for worst presido.
And yet his tribesmen still want the rest of ZED to think their ‘chipuba’ means well for ZED!
HH is my man for 2016. I will not change my mind despite the constant attacks he receives from PF and their Senior Choir Master based at Bwinjimfumu. PF is feeling the heat of HH. My advise to UPND is to quickly set up base in Muchinga, Northern, Copperbelt and Eastern provinces. HH need not to go there physically since state satellite dish is ever on him and they will try to block him at all cost. Why is PF government blocking him if he is not a factor in Zambian politics? PF knows that they have lost popularity and therefore they don’t want anyone to approach the people of Zambia and tell them the true story about the sufferings they are currently going thru. HH has data. At UNZA when we say “Data” we mean “quality information”. Let’s unite and remove useless people from…
HH: the fellow with very strange karma. To be avoided like leprosy!
You are sick.
The point HH has made is not supposed to be contentious.
I wonder what some PF cadres are making a fuss about. Tomorrow anothe sweet potato will say, He doesn’t offer solutions.
Best speech ever by HH
Best speech ever by HH. This is what I was waiting for, HH gets my nod for 2016.
What is so peculiar about that speech. You UPND chaps complain about Public Order Act but there he was addressing UNZA students. HH thinks developing an export oriented economy comes overnight. How is he going to implement all those issues without the infrastructure such as roads, National Airline, etc? All the issues he has raised has been raised before. Even a grade 9 knows that. If HH came to power does he think implementation takes a few hours or days or weeks? How is going to eradicate poverty overnight? Impossible. Talk is cheap. The PF is okey. I am not PF but I kinda like there vehemence to develop this country. So HH will not build roads, airport, clinics etc?
Go and learn how to write before commenting. You write so much stuff that does not make sense.
@kudos, prove that you are NORMAL and have a sound mind without a questionable upbringing.that way will justify how to handle yr crap from yr head
Julie @ 15.1 Think outside the box. In this case you don’t even need to think very much. If we make a ‘canter’ , just ban the importation of the ‘canter’ and satisfy the local market to begin with. South Africa is already doing it by banning Zambian grapes.
HH IS THE PREFERRED CANDIDATE FOR 2016
SHAME TO THOSE WHO WASTED THEIR VOTE ON PF. WE TOLD YOU THAT YOUR PF HAS NO PLANS TO MOVE THE COUNTRY FORWARD. SEE NOW CADRES ARE NOW INVADING PEOPLE’S FARM.
VIVA HH, VIVA UPND. HH WE HAVE TRUST IN YOU THAT YOU ARE GOING TEACH ZAMBIANS ON HOW TO GENERATE WORTHY FOR OURSELVES. YOU HAVE THE MODERN SKILLS AND INTELLECT TO DO THAT. YOU DECLARATIONS OF BILLIONS OF KWACHA AS AT THE TIME OF 2011 ELECTIONS . MAKES ALOT OF SENSE WHEN SOME WERE DECLARING GUNS. SO EVEN TO DAY WE ARE NOT SUPRISED WHY PF CADRES ARE GOING ROUNDS WITH PANGAS IN LUSAKA AND GRABING FARMS IN LUSAKA BY FORCE BECAUSE THAT IS THEIR CULTURE IN PF. VIVA HH. THE PRESENTATION AT UNZA WAS WELL THOUGHT OUT.2016 IS YOURS . THANKS MR.HH THE IN COMING PRESIDENT. VIVA HH. VIVA UPND. VIVA…
HH’s speech makes a lot of economic sense if no one else has said this before. The most important question HH should ask himself after giving such a speech is: Does Zambia have the capacity to accomplish such a vision at the moment? If the answer is a BIG NO; then how are his methods of building capacity any different from what the PF, and all other Govts before it, have done?
Zambia at the moment lacks the kind of infrastructure to sustain most industries which can effectively compete on the world market. And for as long as Govt is not allowed to take risks to bring sanity to our foreign exchange regime, the Zambian currency will forever be manipulated by foreign forces. Hence the capacity to develop indigenous industries will remain a pipe dream, no matter who is at plot 1!
Bushe ba LT ninshi mulensensela? I said what HH is saying is a rhetoric we are familiar with because it has been said for the past 50 years. I think good politicians should now be telling us HOW this can be done. Does the UPND manifesto address this?
HH knows what he is talking about. Just swallow your pride and learn from him.
@FuManchu lets be realistic. Where do the numbers in votes really come from? 20% of the population or 80% and how many of those Unza students have relatives in Kabalenge and lukulu? We are basically just nit picking here.
Export orientation indeed, but how much value can exports give when the proceeds are not expatriated back into the country [SI 55]?
The Minister of Finance simply threw the newly born baby together with the dirty water [ failure to implement, by the PF, a well unintended piece of legislation].
True leadership solves problem from bottom up and not the reverse as is the case with PF. You cannot start by giving people more money before you solve the issue of generating income. HH you are spot on we need to grow our manufacturing base especially through value addition chain and marketing for our agriculture-business. Agriculture has the potential to assist with two main issues, wealth distributions and wealth creation. This will be the magic of putting more money in people’s pocket and not the useless increasing of salaries without a base to support it. Inflation is the next evil awaiting Zambia.
PF government is blocking HH from meeting people on the grass root-the mass, they still using the POA. So address learned people in form of lecture is way to such as the higher institution of learning-UNZA. Go———-go——HH–2016—-I was shocked to hear that in rurals such as Chama-they now hear of HH as the next president.
HHHH——————-HHHH-2016
export oriented is easier said than done. most countries are protecting their industries, we cant even sell fruits to RSA so penetrating an export market wont be easy ans what do we do in the meantime
Ukuyumfwila pa ma ideas ya bane nu! ba HH be original
HH was complaining about the value of the Kwacha, now how would an overvalued currency fit with an export-oriented economy? He’s just trying to blind us with science because he assumes all Zambians are inferior to him, unfortunately many have attended better Universities than UNZA
Zambia needs a revolutionary man like HH for our country to grow the economy which pf has ruined.
VIVA HH, Zambia forward.