FOREIGN INVESTORS AND JOB CREATION
The truth, the reality is that no matter how many foreign investors we bring in, we will never have those big armies of mine workers we used to have.
Today a few pieces of high-tech equipment wipe out thousands of mining jobs.The big numbers of workers we used to have on commercial farms are also gone. They have been replaced by more efficient machines – combine harvesters, digitalised tractors navigated by satellite.
The many jobs we used to have in the banks are gone forever and ever. Amen!
And with industry, banks and other sectors of our economy not creating sufficient and quality jobs, our survival will depend on increasing agricultural production and agro-processing.
Very little, if not nothing, will be achieved without forward thinking, without investing much in peasant agriculture, without planning ahead, without prioritising quality education upto university level, and without investing big in health services for our people.
There cannot be dignity without food on the table, without a job, a solid roof over one’s head; without meaningful access to land.
Fred M’membe
Mr. Mmembe you dont have the hair you used to have, do you?
In your article you contradict yourself. You suggest that automation has replaced labour in all sectors. And revert to the peasant farmer. Do you think he is static? When you speak from “ivory towers” without taking time to visit people who you expect to vote for you. You make statements like this Mr. Mmembe.
Life is not static, bwana. Its dynamic. CDF is caught up in the same position you suggest.
But the essence of CDF is to build capacity in Zambians. The same peasant farmers inclusive. This is why its directed to the wards and the big cities.
With this capacity, forward thinking leaders and peasants will
and increase productivity. Yes costs are similingly high; today, but as humans we are creative beings. We innovate to find ways to cut costs. But its a culture we need to develop bwana Mmembe, boma iyanganepo mentality wont take us anywhere. Boma took you to UNZA but Boma didnt study for you to have that degree.
We spend too much time arguing about things that dont help us address the issues that plague us, instead you spend time talking about HH, blaming him as if he is the problem. He created inflation?
God forbid, if HH passes on tomorrow. Who will you talk about next? Why not understand the direction HH is taking us, see the value in what he is trying to do. He is not God, and not perfect. But the direction is what we need to appreciate.
Being resistant will leave you in the clogs of when you HAD hair Mmembe. Its gone. Stop holding on to that “BIBO or WET LOOK or Jeery curls” you admired when you were young. Yester year is gone. Forward….is the way.
Lets grow up…as Zambians. Tantantameni wont help us…Work, work and more work we will learn what works and innovate.
Great write up!
Am sure he has heard unfortunately he fails to accept reality.
You called other tribes as bantustans ,that’s why I can’t vote for you. At one time I was glued to the Weekly Post. I used to walk from Olympia to Nortmead to buy it and at that time I was unemployed. Since you started using the word bantustan, I refrained myself to start walk away from you.