Monthly Archive: July 2017

Sugar cane selling in Mufulira

Sugar cane selling in Mufulira

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 BUSINESS has become a one major source of income in Zambia which like late Aliya sung knows no aged limit as elderly and youthful citizens compete for a share of the national cake. With Finance Minister Alexander Bwalya Chikwanda presenting the National budget on Friday, 11th November 2011, traders are hoping that President Michael Chilufya Sata’s Letter of Intent to parliamentarians will take their collective concerns into consideration. A casual check on Zambian streets and market places unveils traders starting from senior-old age and children as young as five-year-olds. A case...

Poor roads hamper Mufulira agro activities

Poor roads hamper Mufulira agro activities

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 AGRICULTUE is one of the major sources of income generation more especially in rural Zambia, as formal employment is not readily available. And many young people, who drop out of school resort to farming activities as access to education is not as easy as on the line of rail in Zambia. The Zambian community has for time immemorial relied on subsistence farming activities more especially among female citizens, who produce most of the food. A local subsistence farmer, Elias Ziwa of Twikatane Cooperatives in Mufulira narrated that farming was one of...

Review Employment Act, ZAFOD prods Shamenda

Review Employment Act, ZAFOD prods Shamenda

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 RESEARCH and Marketing Manager at the Zambia Federation of Employers John Banda says there is need for Government through Labour, Sports and Youth Minister Fackson Shamenda to amend the Employment Act. Banda believes that amending the Employment Act will ultimately result in formulation of appropriate HIV and AIDS, a necessary safeguard from discrimination among workers. Banda explained that in its current form, the Employment Act did not adequately protect the plight of workers in relation to HIV and AIDS policies. Speaking during the Access Bank/ Friends Africa SME Workplace Policies Development...

Patriotic Front Government eager to create jobs – Timothy Hakuyu

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 MINISTRY of Labour, Sports and Youth Permanent Secretary Timothy Hakuyu has said the Government is determined to create jobs and ensuring that they are, among others, decent and providing social protection. And Hakuyu has reiterated that the Government of Zambia was making fair progress on the Decent Work Agenda (DWA) in Africa. Officiating at the Zambia Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) Advisory Committee Meeting at Mika Lodge in Lusaka, Hakuyu boasted that the country had since ratified major International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions promoting fundamental principles and rights at work. However,...

Human Rights Watch canes Chinese mines

Human Rights Watch canes Chinese mines

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 MINING firms with Chinese blood are back in the news for flouting labour laws in Zambia a characteristic that marked the last Rupiah Bwezani Banda regime which gave a deaf ear to poor working conditionalities. Following the September 20th 2011 elections which ushered in the Patriotic Front (PF) Government,  5th Republican President Michael Chilufya Sata has put his foot down on the need for Chinese mining firms to respect local labour laws. The concern raised by President Sata comes in the wake of complaints that flouting of labour regulations arose following...

DMMU ready for action-Mulenga

DMMU ready for action-Mulenga

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 IT is the rainy season again when farmers take centre stage in the socio-economic and food security activities spearheaded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MACO). But it is not all that rosy for other sectors of the economy as increased rainfall worsens the deplorable state of the road network in Zambia. The Disasters Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) is a Governmental structure located in Vice-President Dr Guy Scott’s leadership arm at Cabinet Office tasked with resolving disasters annually worsened in the rainy season. DMMU National Coordinator Domiciano Mulenga reiterated...

MacDonald Chipenzi laments law female MPs

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 THERE are few female policy makers in the Zambian Parliament thus making it impossible for the 2015 Millennium Development Goals ((MDG’s) to be achieved laments Foundation for the Democratic Process (FODEP) Executive Director, MacDonald Chipenzi. Chipenzi expressed regret that the outcome of the Tuesday, 20th September 2011 elections had worsened and confined women to the periphery of the Zambian political system as only 11 female Members of parliament (MPs) were eventually elected. The FODEP Executive Director cried foul that the reduced number of female MPs had further negated the Zambian dream...

BoZ reduces statutory reserve ratios

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 THE Bank of Zambia says the statutory reserves ration on both kwacha and foreign currency deposits have been reduced by 3 percentage points from 8% to 5%. With this reduction, BOZ estimates that a total K700 billion will be released, and that this liquidity will no available for non-lending to the various   sectors of the Zambian economy. According to a BoZ Press Statement made available last week indicated that the cost of holding this liquidity as unremunerated deposits of the Bank of Zambia had substantially reduced, as reflected in lower lending...

Ambassador Kanni Wignaraja regrets high school dropouts

Ambassador Kanni Wignaraja regrets high school dropouts

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 Only 25 percent of all adult women in Zambia have reached secondary or higher level of education compared to 44.2 percent of their male counterparts; and drop-outs rates are still very high, too high, for girls, says United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator Kanni Wignaraja. Wignaraja called for increased number of girls completing secondary school, and eventually proceeding to higher levels of tertiary education. Speaking during the Gender and Business-view from the top Breakfast Meeting, convened at the Taj Pamodzi Hotel in Lusaka, Wignaraja called for increased investment in girls and women’s...

Establish Youth Bank demands Amos Mwale

Establish Youth Bank demands Amos Mwale

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 YOUTH Vision Zambia (YVZ) Executive Director Amos Mwale has called on financial lending institutions to provide other innovative resources to cater for the young people. Youth Vision wants the Zambian Government to heed pleas seeking introduction of a Youth Bank. Mr. Mwale said that the move by lending institutions to reduce the lending conditions was a welcome which needed to be complimented by introduction of innovative resources  targeted at young people. “Young people want to venture in business but stiff scared to borrow from these lending institutions as collateral conditionalities make...

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