Comments on: The Loss of Zambian Skilled Talent Through The Brain Drain “Causes of Brain Drain Explained”

By: AM

AM — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:38:00 +0000

Good effort to try to explain a complex situation but unfortunately the same things we hear time and time again which unfortunately does not carry any merit.
Why should you be given soft laons if you have emigrated to make money Zambia cannot give you?
Car loans-we do not need car loans we need to be paid well commesurate with our work hard to buy vehicles ourselves or arrange our own loans, communism left along time ago!

Mediocrity is another. Foreigners come to work here because they are paid good money, we go to work in their countries to rejoice over the crumbs they have left behind.

The only thing I agree with is disregard of local skills. This is what needs to be addressed.

I hope were you are you negotiate for good slaries instead of accepting everything that is given to you just because it is out there.
It is late I could have gone on and on. In short your research has not added any value am afraid.

By: khoi Khoi

khoi Khoi — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:23:55 +0000

Am in SA,i send money to my mother more than her monthly salary(primary school teacher)that which i failed to do when i was in ZED.
Brain drain in Zed is a fairy tale,we hav never run short of professionals in zed,in every field,i can easly find 15 of them unemployed at a time becouse our industry base cannot accomodate them unlike SA where there is shortage of manpower.

By: Watchman over Watchdog-Galileo Galilei is back!

Watchman over Watchdog-Galileo Galilei is back! — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:18:29 +0000

A policy to create technical universities where people go to learn life skills for self employment is what we need. ENTREPRENUERSHIP, INNOVATION,SUPER ENGINEERING, BIG BUSINESS GURUS and FINANCE MAGNETS is what we need.

Africa lacks men like those who could go to convince a king to give them money to go sailing around the Globe. The Ferdinand magellans, The Vasco da Gamas. The Captain James Cooks and all of them great inventors and explorers. The French man who built the SUEZ canal sweated to find financing for his near impossible task. Yet he did it. WHY CANT WE “DID” IT?

We have no risk takers yet we would make a lot of noise from a comfort zone. That is what some of you in the diaspora are doing.

By: muntu usiya

muntu usiya — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:23:59 +0000

brain drain will always be there coz of an african tendecy to glorify politicians at the expense of professionalism.think about it, the word permanent means not easily and frivolously removed, but what hapens to a permanent secretary after change of govt, your gess is obvious!!!!!!Again zambians have tendancy to espous equlity as in being and having the same materils, atributes and tastes, which is very wron. imagine i spend 20 long years and money to get the skills while the other guy is drowning himself in tujilijili,then ishud be patriotic and be hungery while de other chap is doing nothing about patriotism in jils on rocks!!!!!this is ridiculous

By: Watchman over Watchdog-Galileo Galilei is back!

Watchman over Watchdog-Galileo Galilei is back! — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:18:37 +0000

Continue lamenting. Elyo nga ni Phiri he is earning a lot of money in RSA, we expect you Mbuya Phiri to come and build a hotel in Chipata where we can eat tu mbeba. That way you shall create employment. You people must understand Zambia’s development context, from a historical point of view to now. Unemployment was accelerated when we liquidated, privatised and pruned or downsized. Chiluba knew this well and there were reasons. The situation as it is now needs men and women of valour. Men and women who can stand up to the Challenge like Prof. CHIRWA tried to do. At least he tried. Many of you in the diaspora are cry babies who should keep quiet and watch things happening.

By: ZinCA

ZinCA — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:35:18 +0000

We treat muzungu’s better than our our own people. What do you expect? It was such an embarassment, to see the way Sata talked to Zambians living in Botswana – this is the reason we’ll never develop, and no they are not being selfish, these people want to come home often and in same and fast mannner. Waht you need to realize is that when they are home they spend money. Look at countries in West Africa, Ghana, Nigeria etc. – they all give dual citzenship to their citizens living abrorad, as a result, these people are not afraid to go back home and invest. How far ahead are they of Zambia? Ifwe ngatwaya ku Zambia, kuku chuchunganya as if teko wafyelwe. Come now!

By: mwewa

mwewa — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:57:13 +0000

you cant go to university only to become poor as a graduate. everybody need a descent life, period. give it to them they will come back!

By: Kanjani

Kanjani — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:26:26 +0000

Ba Gerabo ebashala ku zed

By: Phiri

Phiri — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:18:26 +0000

I am paid R25,000 per month as an Electrian in a factory here in RSA. I was trained at Lusaka trades and at Zimco instituite. I am ready to come home if i am paid the same amount and that is if that company is there. So President Sata create and biuld factories you are wasting time by apointing and firing.

By: vankestelrooy

vankestelrooy — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:15:01 +0000

with what i’ve read on top, then i can safely support my presidents statement that he made in bots, coz he’s got the passion for this country.
its only zambians who can develop zambia the expatriates just come to make money from zam, go back to their homes and build their nations.