RB leaves for Burundi tomorrow
- Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 17:48
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Mwai Kibaki
President Rupiah Banda will on Wednesday November 4, 2009 leave for Bujumbura, Burundi to chair the two-day International Conference on Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) summit.
His press Aide Dickson Jere has confirmed that president Banda, who is Chairperson of the ICGLR, is expected to spearhead the summit jointly with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Ugandan President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, which is aimed at raising funds for the implementation of the 2006 Pact on Security, Stability and Development.
The three Heads of State forms a Troika on the Great Lakes Region by virtue of their positions. President Banda is current Chairman of the Great Lakes Region while President Kibaki and President Museveni are immediate past and in-coming Chairman of the regional grouping, respectively
The Roundtable Conference on the Great Lakes Region is a follow-up meeting from the 3rd Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Lusaka, Zambia in August 2009 where President Banda was elected Chairman of the bloc.
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This neanderthal is really leaving a huge carbon foot print! when does he have time to run the country if he is globetrotting like a movie star!
I thought we agreed with R&B that no more journeys untill ALL PROBLEMS are sorted out, cos he doesnt have ministers to rely upon. Who has sunctioned his visit? is it Kavindele or Mpombo?
i wont say anything now, na lema manje, tokin of the same thing o the time and the clown doeznt listen! ni kamba na chi umba?
Somebody called him: Vasco da Banda!
lotus and all others who have a problem with RB’s travels.
For once you guys, get it into your heads that a democratic President does not “run the country!” Only dictators do. People complained about Kaunda’s invovement with the Frontline states because they thought he was not paying attention to their problems. Today, Zambia benefits from a free Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Rwanda, Burundi and Congo are startegically important to Zambia. It is in our interest that these countries have sustainable peace. After all is said and done, RB’s trips have been in the main, regional. These are ‘hop on hop off’ trips and usually take a day or two out. I think we are making a mountain out of a sand mound. The expressions of hatred and insults of a leader are unprecedented! Surely, why have we Zambians become so abusive to all our leaders? Why can’t we debate issues as civilised citizens? Why can’t we be constructive in our criticisms? In the Bible, the apostle Paul was angry and called the high priest ‘a white-washed tomb.’ He had to apologise when he learned that the man was a leader of the people. In the States and in UK as well, opposition politicians and the people respect the office of authority. Obama opposed Bush, but he never called Bush names. My fellow Zambians, if you want your country to be blessed, learn to respect those in authority, for ‘the powers that be are ordained by God.’ It does not mean that you should agree with everything they say, but respectifully disagree. HE RB may be a politician, but he is still someone’s father, husband, uncle, grand dad and at the end of the day it could have been your mum or dad in the seat. Honour your father and your mother so that your days may be increased in the land. It is the spirit of anti-Christ that leads ‘children’ to be disrespectful to authority. I hope this spirit does not overtake us.
SAINT, there is a saying that “charity begins at home.” Therefore, before RB goes out to quench the fire in his neighbor’s house, let him address the many issues in his back yard: fuel shortages which will soon lead to food shortages, a population that is increasing feeling cheated and will one day rise up like what those in countries he is “helping” did. When all is said and done, let’s be clear. There must be some gain financially in these travels (I really want to know how much allowances are involved each time this guy goes out both for him and his entourage); otherwise, why would a man the age of my grandfather be hoping from place to place for nothing, sleeping out all the time for nothing??? Can’t he send his vice president? In any case, all pictures at these meeting show him DOZING! How embarassing.
Ala mwachila mukuseya! RB ni Kamwendo munjila manje… whats going on pa Zedi kanshi????/
Saint or are you Saint something. If you have stayed in South Africa before you will agree with me that Malawians are more respected than Zambians and yet Malawi contributed nothing to their liberation so what are you talking about? In Durban, people think Zambia is a province within Zimbabwe, KK yes they know him and give him alot of respect but not you my brother. During liberation struggle of Zimbabwe and Namibia, Zambia sucrificed alot and yet…and yet no one recognises your sacrifices. We have to rebuild our Zambia before we can think of sorting out other peoples problems. Fwebenda tulomfwa insoni nga twatandala ku fyalo fimbi. Do you know that Tanzania is 20 times more developed than Zambia? We are not suppose to be mending pot holes, we are suppose to be building dual carriage ways and prefab flyover bridges, thats development. You visit Hongkong and Dubai and see for yourself whether your resources are safe.
Saint, umfwa, Zambia is the least developed nation in Africa. Mending pot holes in this centuary? Great North Road is impassable. I dont know many lives are lost each year. With the onset of rains, Northen Province will cease to be part of Zambia….no link. Kwati twalipitile munkondo, awe. Our airport kwati munthu mulilengombe. Only gate 1 exists, Ethopia airport, how many gates? Kenya airport you would think uli kumangalande. Durban airport and OT airport kwati niku Bulaya. I know you travel alot but you dont appreciate. There is nothing which can stop Zambia to be heaven on earth. Ni committement ya ma leaders chapwa.
You, RDA, who told you that mending of pot holes is engineering? which country have you visited which mend pot holes? How many times are we going to mend Mazabuka and Serenje-Nakonde Roads? Thats theft. Tell the government you want money to build roads not patching. Bring back Phoenics Contractors not bakabwalala ba Rhobex Contractors.
Alistoto, Bole international airport ku Addis yena balikuula bakapala.
Oh no, I love President Banda but you have got to be kidding! Sir we need you around…please stay and show our people your kind hearted and caring nature. You’re a great man and I know I will vote 4 you come 2011 but do me a huge favour and stay in Zambia and get down to business, Please Sir.
Uyu Cikamba RB!!! atupesha amano. I am completely maulesi!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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People, I think we misunderstand a few issues. Perhaps I need to elucidate:
1. Zambia is not self-reliant and by geographical location is a land locked country. All our imports and exports have to go through our neighbours with sea ports. It therefore goes without saying that it is indeed in Zambia’s interests to ensure that our neighbours, who also happen to be our trading partners, are at peace politically. The world is becoming more and more integrated, and countries around the world have realised that autarky is not an option for a national policy. In order to reap the benefits of globalization, and eliminate its shortcomings, a country has to be proactive place themselves strategically.
2. It follows therefore that Zambia’s diplomatic efforts to establish political harmony in these neighbouring countries, should not be (and has never been) about getting some form of appreciation or recognition from those countries that we help out, but rather for the reasons stated above. what is appreciation? Is appreciation going to put food on the table of that family in Shan’gombo? Its about something much more.
3. Furthermore, Zambia must continually seek strategic trading partners through or with whom we can exercise our trade. If we did a good job of that, some issues that we face today like the fuel shortages would be eliminated. If Zambia had solid bilateral trade agreements with say Angola, do you think we’d have to import oil all the way from the middle east? Would it not be cheaper for us to just get it from our neighbour here? It is these kind issues that should form the agenda of RB’s trips.
If that were the case, then his visits are justified. Dear bloggers, instead of just opposing these trips, why don’t we try to probe further, as to what this man is trying to bring to the table….
Alistolo and mpundu:
Thanks for your comments. I appreciate. All I ask people is that they contribute positively to the development of our beloved Zambia. It is NOT and NEVER will be ONE man’s job! President Obama said about American people, “Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions…” Zambians have not been wealth builders for a very long time. I believe that things are now changing. We have been a nation of employees and not employers. The great majority of our people live ‘hand to mouth.’ 90% of our University graduates are employees! If we as individuals create wealth, there will be enough tax revenue for the government to use to build infrastructure. Many people talk about how ‘rich’ Zambia was at independence! I beg to differ. We had 4 million people who did not own the means of production! A great majority were employees and the rest were subsistent farmers or small time retailers. Wealth was to own a grind meal! The 1980s times of hardship brought opportunities for real economic growth. ZCCM once employed over 50 thousand people, but the many who were laid off squandered their terminal benefits in loose living. ZCCM did not prepare people for life out of employment. Over and above all this, there were very few home owners. Things are changing and have changed. I have been to Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa among many other countries including US and New Zealand. There is only one thread that runs through them all for their development and that is self reliance and entrepreneurial-ism. Government interference must decrease and self must be empowered. Those who use roads must pay for them. The Roads development Agency must be changed into either a commercial entity or quasi-governmental body that can raise its own revenue and develop roads from its own resources. National and local Government can take over those roads that are non-viable and service small communities.
The Saint,
Even my father wouldn’t be as irresponsible as RB..Honestly i have no problem with a leader who addresses issues as they come not one that doesn’t do nothing..Look we are not saying he shouldn’t go but even u if yo home had problems u can’t go out and help out yo neighbours with more serious problems,u need to sort out yo house else it will be like your neighbours problems when u come back that’s why he has a VP or Ministers nomba abafyashi komefye mbonekele what a joke we have for a president!!!!
has this man come back from the mozambique conference already?
awe kwena dady u are indeed working for the african continent, hope u could do the same for your country……..
So is it the zambian tax payers money this guy is using for all these african conferences? what are ambasedaz fo then?
When is RB going to visit Zambia?
Last night I dreamt I was the president of a country with an ailing economy like that of Zambia and immediately I did the following:
1. reduced the over blown cabinet to save taxpayers money
2.removed DAs from my payroll.
3. cancelled all foreign unnecessary trips
4.prepared a schedule to visit projects being undertaken ie road construction
5.asked my ministers why I should allow foreigners to run companies involved in sugar production, construction and mining industries when we could do it effeciently ( we have done it before).
6.gave myself 1 year to build new roads.
7. gave myself another year to build rail line.
8.made a programme to put up or upgrade existing infrastructure ie land, water and air with the view to turn Zambia into a linking zone to the rest of the world. ( Ethiopia is doing it through air services)
9.revamped all research centres and equiped them with proper tools.
10.Identified all proffesionals,skilled and unskilled labour and made programmes to empower them.
11.embarked on blackempowerment programme similar to that in South Africa.
But, I only came to realise in the morning that it was just a dream, what a dream it was.
Hahaahaaaaaaahhahhaahahahah Vasco da Banda at it again. Where is our foreign affairs minister kanshi?
Alisto….just wanted to let you know it will never happen,as you said it i sjust a dream.To talk is easy to implement ask Obama, where are the soldiers he promised would be back home in a hundred days!
THE SAINT
As you have rightly pointed out, the biggest problem that Zambians have is this lack of self-reliance and the belief that development can only ensue by and through government. This is the reason why Zambia and other African countries are where they are in poverty.
The number of people who write in complaining certainly gives more than just an idea how serious this is. The few who have managed by their personal sacrifice are a complete contrast to the majority who as it were are still with their mouths open, looking to government for a miracle dosage. I am afraid, it has never happened like that anywhere in the world and will probably never happen in Zambia as well.
There is simply no easy way out, people must look to themselves and for goodness sake stop whining. It is do telling on the nations character not as much as on the leaders.
Alistoto
In one of your postings you write :-”We are not suppose to be mending pot holes, we are suppose to be building dual carriage ways and prefab flyover bridges, thats development”.
I really do not want to sound as though I disagree entirely with you but I am just wondering…since you seem to say a lot of things that look mixed up… you have really said a lot of things BUT….Are you sure that you know what “development” really means with respect to different countries? And can you determine which countries are more developed and which are less?
It is somewhat easier to say which countries are richer and which are poorer. But indicators of wealth, which reflect the quantity of resources available to a society, provide no information about the allocation of those resources—for instance, about more or less equitable distribution of income among social groups, about the shares of resources used to provide free health and education services, and about the effects of production and consumption on people’s environment. Thus it is no wonder that countries with similar average incomes can differ substantially when it comes to people’s quality of life: access to education and health care, employment opportunities, availability of clean air and safe drinking water, the threat of crime, and so on. With that in mind, how do we determine which countries are more developed and which is less developed?
We can go on and on but of course we do not have the time for that on this space….
Mr. Banda, muno iselanga mezi shuwa! you are an old man who accidentally assumed the highest office in the land and developed amnesia as quickly as you became president. You have neither an idea nor do you have an agenda for the country. You lack substance, thats why you have decided to do a bit of globe trotting before old age grounds you.Sorry Zambians, but this one is the wrong chap for this job.
Fellow bloggers, especially the likes of lotus, Alistoto, Kanitundila, etc., I think we have misunderstood a few issues. Perhaps I need to elucidate these:
1. Zambia is not self-reliant and by geographical location is a land locked country. All our imports and exports have to go through our neighbours with sea ports. It therefore goes without saying that it is indeed in Zambia’s interests to ensure that our neighbours, who also happen to be our trading partners, are at peace politically. The world is becoming more and more integrated, and countries around the world have realised that autarky is not an option for a national policy. In order to reap the benefits of globalization, and eliminate its shortcomings, a country has to be proactive place themselves strategically.
2. It follows therefore that Zambia’s diplomatic efforts to establish political harmony in these neighbouring countries, should not be (and has never been) about getting some form of appreciation or recognition from those countries that we help out, but rather for the reasons stated above. what is appreciation? Is appreciation going to put food on the table of that family in Shan’gombo? Its about something much more.
3. Furthermore, Zambia must continually seek strategic trading partners through or with whom we can exercise our trade. If we did a good job of that, some issues that we face today like the fuel shortages would be eliminated. If Zambia had solid bilateral trade agreements with say Angola, do you think we’d have to import oil all the way from the middle east? Would it not be cheaper for us to just get it from our neighbour here? It is these kind issues that should form the agenda of RB’s trips.
If that were the case, then his visits are justified. Dear bloggers, instead of just opposing these trips, why don’t we try to probe further, as to what this man is trying to bring to the table….
there he goes again… anyway it is typcal Rupiahian… He is Known by that… what do u expect????
Marcopolo
HH said, Ruppiah is busy gallavanting leaving ignoring the national crises. Ruppiah said HH is not my Mbuya and is my child who should respect me. in no time he forgot his official language and shouted Kanitundila to the Dipomats. Today he is still gallavanting. OK, RB continue soliciting foreign votes or prepare for your foreign home just like Musharaf did (now is in UK)running away from his own motherland. come 2011, RB will be a refugee in Mozambique,Zimbabwe,Burundi or Rwanda
Chabwerakumanda, how many times have you been outside Zambia and outside Africa? (mind you not on government ticket cos you have little time to appreciate the environment) God has given you brains to use them to maximum capacity. You need alot of exposure my little boy to appreciate what I am saying. That little knowledge you have with its limitations is what has made Zambia to be where it is .You think Zambia is about mending potholes. That is a 1958 mentality. Do not be associated with failure.
Chabwerakumanda, simple logic, I hope am not talking to a thief, do you think its normal for government to be spending billions of Kwacha every year ( they have been mending that road for 6yrs now) to mend Mazabuka Lusaka road. Couldnt we have done a better job once and for all, and in the remainig five years utilise the labour and other resource to improve education and health sector? Chabwerakumanda your contaminated type of thinking will take you no where. You have to live by standards.
People let’s be honesty with our country, let’s save this nation from collapsing! The government of today is not building the country, let’s face the fact, all the government is doing is to sell what was built by KK more than 30yrs ago… Just take a look at the capital city of this country, Lusaka! This capital town has one main road called cairo with 4 main buildings along it… This is the only town on earth where you can drive almost 2hrs to cover less a kilometer because of congestion, it’s even a taboo to compare Lusaka to other towns in Africa! Can you compare Lusaka to even neighboring towns like J’burg in S.A, Gaborone in Botswana, Dar-lesa-lam of Tanzania, Kinshasa of DRC, Luanda of Angola, Maputo in Mozambique even Lilongwe in Malawi is much more better than Lusaka! Shit! Here is the head of state called Rupiah Banda who’s on the presidential challenger jet every day with more than 10 cabinet ministers on board aimlessly! yet the country is facing heavy crisis day in day out! It’s very unfortunate that a rich country like Zambia is occupied by poor brains! We should one day surrender this country into the hands of Chines or Japanes for only five years, Zambia will be one of the richest countries on the continent, believe it or not… Let’s try it…
A reminder to Chabwerakugrave. up to 1975, Zambia had the best road network, rail line and airline. we had VC10 or nkwazi. We had good hospital services, our schools were simply the best. There was no cut and paste, umwembeshi, Zambia produced the best brains on the continent … the likes of proffessor Chirwa and others. we were very proud to be called Zambians, we thought we were next to British, Zambia was heaven on earth.Today,Swanas call Zambians ma kwerekwere, (economic refugees) South Africans call of something else but with the same meaning. Meaning that as Zambians physically you are dead, anybody can call you all sorts of dehumanising words. What a shame, when we have all these resources but fail to utilse them wisely.
Thankyou Bental your brain is function very well.
i just want to deeply,thank all blogers,of this story yr writ,g most of u this very informative,it shows that we are really alive to our to problems.
damba says
awe, you pipo, why are u passing silly comments to ur own president, it’s not fair to do that ka!
I love President Banda but you have got to be kidding! Sir we need you around…please stay and show our people your kind hearted and caring nature. You’re a great man and I know I will vote 4 you come 2011 but do me a huge favour and stay in Zambia and get down to business, Please Sir.
Alistoto my brother, you are brave and your brain works, now, the problem is that the country has very few people with normal brain like you! These chaps in government are puppets to the point where they can’t see what’s wrong and what’s right in their short sight eyes, all they know is to plan how they will steal from public treasury… Even some bloggers on this website, they are just a bunch of visionless tuma chaps who are sons and daughters of corrupt elements who are in government, their brain is so corrupted that it’s quiet difficulty to educate them! You can talk, talk and talk but they will never understand or get your point as long as they are able to consume what their fathers are plundering! Tell them but don’t argue with them, the bible says “Don’t argue with a fool because you will be a fool also”.
Alistoto
Sir, My contribution was not meant to demean you in any way at all and it is not based on political affiliations either-rather; I am merely trying to understand where you are coming from so I can, may be, someday change my perception of what I have always thought was DEVELOPMENT. Mind you, you are not alone who think like wise in Zambia-many I have interacted with; do share the same views as yours. And I am sure you agree this has nothing to do with whether one has travelled to South Africa, America or even Heaven. So, since you seem to have travelled worldwide, next time you are in the USA please visit the American Oil Chemists Society Library or even the National Library in DC. Check for “Thin film dialysis for Aerospace use” and see who worked on that now PATENTED industrial use innovative project. You will be amazed at what some Zambian Kaponyas have achieved.
That said, lets come back to our work in progress: For example you can’t compare Johannesburg to Cairo or call it ‘mini’ New York as some have tried to do, I have always held the view that different countries have different priorities in their development policies. But to compare their development levels, you would first have to make up your mind about what development really means to you, what it is supposed to achieve. Indicators measuring this achievement could then be used to judge the countries’ relative progress in development. Is the goal merely to increase national wealth, or is it something more subtle? Improving the well-being of the majority of the population? As in Ghettos Vs Soweto? Ensuring people’s freedom? As in Sweden Vs Sudan? Increasing their economic security? As in Switzerland Vs America? In a broader sense the notion of human development incorporates all aspects of individuals’ well-being, from their health status to their economic well being. And-
If Sir, you still think that the “simple” answer to this question is something like “maximizing people’s happiness,” think of the different factors that usually make people feel happy or unhappy. Note that a number of special surveys in different countries appear to show that the average level of happiness in a country does not grow along with the Increase in average income, at least after a certain rather modest income level is achieved. At the same time, in each Country richer people usually reported slightly higher levels of happiness than poorer people, and people in countries with more equal distribution of wealth appeared to be generally happier.
It is true that economic growth, by increasing a nation’s total wealth, also enhances its potential for reducing poverty and solving other social problems. But history offers a number of examples where economic growth was not followed by similar progress inhuman development. Instead growth was achieved at the cost of greater inequality, higher unemployment, weakened democracy, loss of cultural identity, or overconsumption of natural resources needed by future generations. As the links between economic growth and social and environmental issues are better understood, experts including economists tend to agree that this kind of growth is inevitably unsustainable-that is, it cannot continue along the same lines for long. First, if environmental and social/human losses resulting from economic growth turn out to be higher than economic benefits -additional incomes earned by the majority of the population-, the overall result for people’s wellbeing becomes negative. Thus such economic growth becomes difficult to sustain politically. Second, economic growth itself inevitably depends on its natural and social/human conditions. To be sustainable, it must rely on a certain amount of natural resources and services provided by nature, such as pollution absorption and resource regeneration. Moreover, economic growth must be constantly nourished by the fruits of Human development, such as higher qualified workers capable of technological and managerial innovations along with opportunities for their efficient use: more and better jobs, better conditions for new businesses to grow, and greater democracy at all levels of decision-making Conversely, I agree with you when you refer to the likes of Professor Chirwa and so on. We need 1,000 Chirwa for every Kaponya as indeed slow human development has slowed our fast economic growth.
WHAT EXPECTATIONS – MICHAEL SATA
By Hlatswayo Cele
The leader of the opposition Party PF whose appeal is among the urban class poor: the jobless, the illiterate, the Kaponyas – a class comprising the call boys, small item traders, short term hired hands and essentially all the desperate in and around the urban city centres scrounging for basic food, shelter and livelihood.
Sata presents to this group, in a convincing language, their very hopes and expectations, promising uplifted lives and a better living standard now, not tomorrow, if given a chance to rule. His coined campaign statement in the last elections was ‘more money in the pocket’. It is hardly surprising the kind of frenzy and euphoria such a phrase brought about amongst them.
Among the many outrageous statements he made, the one he promised the development of Power Stations in every Province within 90 days into office, was one of the funniest and cynical. But as you would expect from the desperation of his group, they swallowed the tosh with elated approval.
By the kind of open lies and cheap rhetoric, one is shocked to see how many actually fall under his spell to vote for him. But the numbers do not in any way mean that the policies presented are economically viable. Rather the numbers are telling on the growing effects of poverty in the country. The number of people voting for him is simply an indication of the growing number of the poor and not the feasibility of his policies.
The worst scenario for Zambia economic direction is to have such a one as Sata rise to leadership. His populist ideas have not a vestige of proof of implementation anywhere in the world least in Zambia but are simply hullabaloos to hoodwink the desperate poor, the very kind of politics found in some West African countries, to enable him fulfil his objective – power.
Sata’s populist idea condemning Chinese investment and promising to chase them away is enough to spell doom for the country once he is given chance to leadership.
Currently all signs are that Zambia is heading in the right direction economically and given just enough time of this direction, tangible benefit will be evident for all to see. Therefore, Sata’s political machine is a dark cloud promising to erase all gains achieved thus far. And what a drawback it would be.
To dress Sata’s ideas in ideological sense, they represent a kind of Socialist/Communist model of economy where state ownership is the chief cornerstone of development. One cannot miss the persistent reference to the ‘old good days’ of ZCCM from his philosophy. It is therefore not difficult to tell that he would not hesitate to re-nationalize private enterprise in Zambia. The writing on the wall is clear to read. Anyone who has correctly read PF’s statements will not fail to see this.
At a time when the major world economies have/are moving away from socialism, one wonders why Zambia alone should drift back into the bygones – that is what she will be doing if Sata was ever voted into power.
Clearly among PF, Democracy has a variant meaning suiting specific agendas and this was always the case in communist nations. Dissenting views are crushed with impudence in socialist/communist establishment and by practice clearly Sata does/will not allow criticism or any opposition by his very nature.
That is why it is most difficult to understand how a private media known for its critical role on government would yet abrogate its principles of free speech by openly backing a Party that is well known for its socialist/communist tendencies.
Such is the paradox that we have, democracy at the crossroads threatened by those that have an avowed determination to extinguish all and any resemblance of it, along with private enterprise using cheap propaganda aimed at the desperate poor.
Will Zambia again elude the fetters that Sata promises? Come elections in 2011 this question will be answered and hopefully by God’s grace yet again Zambia will hold true to its freedom charter.
Chabwerakumanda, my simple question, ARE YOU A THIEF? if you are not then dont dispute what am telling you. simple language, what comes to your mind when some one tells you that Botswana is more developed than Zambia? Is not infrastucture? Zambia has one of best human resourse, but are you utilising them? No. You prefer Chinese and fake white South Africans.
Do you know that Aka is a very educated economist but faces alot of challenges. If you asked him privately he would tell you that practically things are not balancing, if given chance he would prefer to lecture at the university than formulate, implement, control and evaluate those policies. Economics is dynamic and is a practical subject. How many economist do we have in Zambia and yet problems keep pilling on top of each other. Today they will tell you GDP has grown by so much % and yet we dont seem to see positive results. You are better of writing a book cos you are too theoretical. In Zambia we need people who can interprete those theories written by people like you.
Chabwera, am a strong believer in human resource
development. over a period of 15 years part of my task was to develop human resourse at different levels in very sensitive industries. I am well vest in both Zambian and South African mode of human resourse development programmes
( having been trained in South Africa). I know you wanted me to high light something on human resource development, except in the last few years otherwise Zambia was on top of the world. We are now producing half backed graduates in all areas due to poor infrastructure.
Problem maZambians tiyesa mabuilding ndiye development. Chiroad chikulu ati development. uncontrolled, that rubish destroys the environment, kuli njila inangu yadevelopment – it involves people. unganipase chinyumba chikulu manje nganilibe mutima na mutu – visunge chabe. humans need to be developed spiritually, mentally, socially, economically, to reach the levels God called them to. lets develop people, and infrastructure is important to do that. we should not be developing roads or buildings for their own sake, but for developing the human condition – mentally, spiritually, economically, biologically and all those noble things
Anon, I feel pity for you. Umwana ashenda atasha nyina ukunaya. Wise people have gotten my message. Read Proffessor Chirwas contribution on 2010 budget in todays postnewspaper probably that will change your distorted perception on countrys development.( Apparenlty Pro Chirwa is my former schoolmate) I hope you are not relying on internetcafe for your contribution. I am not just talking about enlargement of Chilimbulu road and the cabin where you squat. For development of any nation to occur certain infrastructure need to be in place. There must be less obstacles for you to do business. Remember time is very important. The policies and procedures (systems in place), the atitude of people, literacy level, etc all those are important in the development of the nation. It is an intergrated package. KK gave a good demonstration of what developing a nation means(he had his own weakness ofcourse) Human Resourse Capacity building was his priority. Thats how come the likes of Prof Chirwa were produced.
here we go again with the chalenger jet-weeeeeeeeeeeeee away we went