Comments on: Solution To Zambias Unemployment

By: kabwe mulembwe

kabwe mulembwe — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:26:14 +0000

The article is well written and researched. Allow me to add a few things in line with job creation in our beloved country. I believe that we all know countries that have prospered such as the US, China, Germany, Japan etc. The first step is to study different types of models that the countries who walked to prosperity followed. We may not copy what others did but we may borrow ideas and combine them to make a solid model as a roadmap towards prosperity. Germany is the biggest economy in Europe and its ways of doing things may not be bad to emulate. For Germany when students are in senior secondary school, they do vocational training or job on training in the industry. this prepares young minds into prospective careers and seals the gap of trade skills required in the industry. those that meet certain requirement proceed to university and embank on specialized disciplines, those who do not still remain useful to the country as they gain proficiency in their respective trainings. others attend technically colleges to be able to get vocation trainings, this means at all levels, the country is able to have the human resource they need, no one is completely left out, no. The other thing in Germany unlike many countries is that top management of corporations do not come from business or legal schools, that top leadership is a preserve of those who show enthusiasm and capability. This encourages people to pursue technical courses without thinking they will never rise to top positions if they put in the best. In Zambia its an open secret that lawyers or advocates receive Non private practice allowance while engineers and other professionals do not. The question is, are we determined to encourage people taking up other careers other than law or medicine? If a lawyer gets Non Private Practice allowance, why does’nt the engineer get the same, does it mean some professions are more superior? Coming back to the lessons to learn from this it may be important to balance the scale, the careers which require license to practice need to be treated the same without making others feel insecure or put off. Then every one will do a course of their choice without looking at monetary gains. Top positions should also not be a preserve of business or finance graduates, it should be based on perfomance, unless technically inclined institutions. China has used this model and it has worked, am sure it can work for us too. Educational curriculum too need to improve, in the end we can achieve a balanced middle income society and combat poverty. Finally we need to support our leadership and give them good proposals and not fight them coz now is time to develop our country not fight or insult. May God bless Zambia

By: DIGGERS

DIGGERS — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:49:55 +0000

Well writtern article.

By: wiza

wiza — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:08:37 +0000

@ Brilliant, the fact that this article begins by the writer stating that he is a PF supporter should not derail the key points of the article. If you have issues with the Government that is your own Ndaba (PROBLEM) but the fact of the matter is that our leaders should heed to such information. Zambians like condemning everything, i challenge you to write an article worth reading, you just condemn without providing solutions and that is what is making Zambia so backward ( What is it, that you are bringing to the party? If you commenting just for the sake of commenting then you should not. Another thing i would like to comment on is the fact that many good things happening in the country are being credited to the MMD and not PF, true, many projects were started by the previous government, My question to you ZANBIANS IS THAT SHOULD THE PF GOVERNMENT STOP ALL PROJECTS AND START THEIR OWN PROJECTS? PLEASE, ZAMBIANS SHOULD KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STATE AND GOVERNMENT. LET ME EDUCATE YOU SINCE SOME PEOPLE LACK THE BASICS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE:
1.The State is more or less permanent and continues from time immemorial. But the government is temporary. It changes frequently.
2.A government may come and go, but the State continues for ever. Death of a ruler or the overthrow of a government in general elections does not mean the change of the State. If the PF Government replaces the MMD Government, it involves no fundamental changes in the structure of the State of ZAMBIA.

My advice to you Zambians is to think before you condemn. I am NOT trying to start a war of insults as this is the order of bloggers! PEACE

By: wiza

wiza — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 05:09:04 +0000

My advice to you Zambians is to think before you condemn. I am NOT trying to start a war of insults as this is the order of bloggers! PEACE

By: mutibo

mutibo — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:41:04 +0000

well written article Eddy,i wish our leaders would embrace such brilliant ideas so as to create enough employment opportunities.

By: khuly

khuly — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:24:02 +0000

great work youngman especially coming from someone who is fresg from skool and will be needing a job soon. you really have a point though more jobs hve to be created so as to empower our people

By: Samson

Samson — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:02:21 +0000

This article is indeed a mouthful and delineates a practical sense to the problem of unemployment. I wish, the political office bearers would have much, but a chance to review these policy direction towards unemployment. Once again, its a great article

By: Truth2

Truth2 — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:52:23 +0000

Job creation is not only for the government.I think the concept of this article is about combined efforts in creating JObs.But the problem in Zambia is we all look forward to being employed instead of employing.For example,how many engineers have come up with construction firms where they have employed atleast 10 people on permanent basis?The answer is very few.The point in this article is let us come up with small enterprises those with the capacity to do this and let the gorvernment come in with the incentives just like those given to foreign investors such as tax exemptions for the firts 5years in operations and come up a policy that will compel financial institution both micro and macro lenders to expand the market to small scale enterprises instead of concetrating on people in formal employment only.All in all,it has to start with us the general citzens,its high time we started implementing our university/college education into practical projects that can help in employing the less privedged with the gorvernment help,we can reach far in the coming few years.

By: J K

J K — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:07:35 +0000

Very nice artcle.These are the people we need in order to have a good government.Bring another artcle next time so that these pipo in power can work had.I JUST WANT TO KNOW AS TO WHEN OUR UNION IS GOING TO NEGOTIATE FOR OUR SALARY INCREMENT (HEALTH WORKERS (NURSES)) FOR 2013. WE ALSO NEED AN INCLUSION OF RISK ALLOWANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
J K KUMAWA

By: Edwin

Edwin — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:15:46 +0000

Thanks tumfweko for adding this article online hope it brings change to our Mother Zambia!!!