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‘NAPSA Housing Project in Kalulushi Are A Bunch of LEMONS’
Dear Editor,
The Quality of houses being constructed by the Chines in Kalulushi are LEMONS. The colour looks good at a distance, but it all ends there. I visited the site and noted how poorly they have been constructed. The low quality of fittings and fixtures, the strength of concrete floors, the paving on roads etc. NAPSA should engage a structure engineers to look at the quality of these houses.
Check the low quality of Floor tilings, the door frames have SIDO reverts, lighting fittings are of the poorest type from China’s Chisokone market. The Slab are poor and porous and the floor is already patching off. Even the trenches will not last.
This site will be a sore in less than Five years. The ceilings are not to standard. But the price of thse houses leaves a bad test, considering they will not last long before a heavy and costly maintenance is required. Who will be maintaining those poor roads when heavy rains start wearing them out.
Please people, before you waste your money on these houses, let a qualified builder have a look for you and give advice. It may not be worth it wasting or parting with the hard earned money on those Lemons. NPASA needs to be serious with those types of projects. The idea was great but the implementation seems very poor.
Concerned Zambian – Maka
Posted by Admin
on August 4, 2013. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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Slowthinkers
August 4, 2013 at 11:48 am
what do you expect from the chinese … Ma gonga
Pa Zed
August 4, 2013 at 11:52 am
What is the price for a house? Anyone with infor?
Pa Zed
August 4, 2013 at 11:52 am
What is the price for a house? Anyone with infor?
Pa Zed
August 4, 2013 at 11:52 am
What is the price for a house? Anyone with infor?
Panda
August 5, 2013 at 8:32 am
The lowest is around K300,000 (the round ones near Chibuluma township) and the so called high cost are over K900,000.
Anonymous
August 5, 2013 at 7:35 pm
DOLLARS???
kaya
August 5, 2013 at 8:29 pm
we chinangwa weeee……….. u cant see the k
Panda
August 6, 2013 at 8:01 am
Ba Kaya, Iam sure Anonymous is in the diaspora and is not aware that we now use “rebased” kwacha and was expecting to see figures like K300,000,000.00 (K300million). Enjoy your day
kabaso
August 6, 2013 at 8:16 am
You do not need to insult Anonymous. He just wants to know the equivalent of K900000 in US Dollars.
Blax
August 6, 2013 at 2:41 pm
what is k.. peanuts with no value iwe chimbwi
jesus!
August 6, 2013 at 2:49 pm
@kaya… waba noko itole lya mbwa mukanwa stanyoko!
de presedent 'ale'
August 6, 2013 at 8:02 am
then these damn houses are cheap and i can even get them for my garden-boy and the other guys who do my work especialy de 1 4 kr900. lol
Induna wa Silalo
August 4, 2013 at 1:57 pm
Maybe most of the cement was stolen by the zambian labourers on site..Work culture pa Zed..
pat
August 4, 2013 at 2:38 pm
Induna maybe right…pa Zed…buiders…alabwafya…when building my house I had to keep centry 100% even so,I was still swindled..even mixed cement will find its way out….bwafya pa ZED!
benshi
August 4, 2013 at 3:53 pm
Mpundu is a corrupt person. He gives deposits and invest monies by getting kickbacks from banks. He is a rotten egg.
Mwamelo Munalula
August 4, 2013 at 7:10 pm
May be that is what the money they paid can afford. Remember the saying “Cheap is Expensive”.
one me
August 4, 2013 at 7:34 pm
Ubufi show us the pictures
nshilimubemba
August 4, 2013 at 9:50 pm
The chinese people now lead the world in all sectors of work manufacturing etc now if they are doing shoddy work it is because they underate the project how ever they shouldnt take up a contract which they fail to meet standards
Toka
August 5, 2013 at 1:11 am
If the workmanship was poor, where were the zambian supervisors. Unless we the zambians change we will continue to have such kinds of works. I live in Kalulushi and I have seen how the houses look, they actually nice looking from outside, i should check the inside to see the works
soccer
August 5, 2013 at 12:44 pm
ama problems yabena zambia bamikulila ati tafiweme tabakulile ati pa z pafeki. learn to apprieciate may be you were omitted from the list of those going to rent or to buy. Tell the price.
Mukombe Wamano
August 5, 2013 at 3:31 pm
With this infor i wouldn’t buy until someone qualified confirmed the price.
Jeff
August 5, 2013 at 5:44 pm
For sho (For sure)
zimando
August 5, 2013 at 7:36 pm
Its zambitious. As usual.
kapuli wa ng'ongo
August 6, 2013 at 5:18 am
Could be true. I had the same impressions on the Napsa joint venture scheme in Lusaka North Park project or something…the homes I entered had poor construction standards even the sales office walls have structural cracks. PAM Golding who are the sales agents can bear me witness.
collins chalwe
August 6, 2013 at 6:11 am
show as the pictures iwe concerned zambian
mwai
August 6, 2013 at 8:24 am
I would urge those that are seriously interested to go there themselves and physically do their own inspection.
mwai
August 6, 2013 at 8:28 am
Like one writer said, send us the pictures of what you saw. You seem to have one picture. Tumfweko did you confirm what this person is saying?
ukwalinsoke
August 6, 2013 at 9:51 am
I AM A KALULUSHI RESIDENT AND THOSE INTENDING TO
BUY THOSE HOUSES MUST BE CAREFUL.
FOR THOSE WITH STOLEN CASH NO PROBLEM!
Siniq
August 6, 2013 at 2:45 pm
Is that picture of these new houses? The place looks well landscaped unlike the housing schemes we see in Lusaka
Zoona
August 6, 2013 at 8:46 pm
Moderation? What moderation when the pure drivel by the coward author was not even confirmed?
Zoona
August 6, 2013 at 8:51 pm
Out of unmitigated jealousy, one can actually write pure nonsense about a project he has no information about. How did he/she know about the strength of concrete? Where are the test results? Where in China do we find Chisokone Market?
Zoona
August 6, 2013 at 8:56 pm
Gentlemen do not lend yourselves to becoming useful idiots. Did you ever see the houses in question for you to make comments? By the way, the prices of the houses compared with their sizes are perhaps the cheapest in the country