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Government To Revive Mansa Batteries
From TEDDY KUYELA in Mansa
GOVERNMENT says it will soon revive the defunct Mansa Batteries Company in Luapula Province to promote economic development in the area.
Luapula Province minister Benson Kapaya said the move is aimed at creating employment opportunities for the local people.
Brigadier General Kapaya said in an interview in Mansa yesterday that Government is working hard to expeditiously revive Mansa Batteries Company so that it can contribute to the economic development of the area.
“In Mansa, we have a lot of manganese, which we should continue mining to create more jobs as well as wealth for our people. If we re-open Mansa Batteries Company, the mining of manganese will be enhanced,” Gen Kapaya said.
He said Government wants to revive Mansa Batteries Company to support mining of manganese in the area which is the main raw material used in the manufacture of batteries.
Gen Kapaya said Government has already conducted a feasibility study on manganese mining in Mansa.
He said Government is confident that once operational, Mansa Batteries Company will start producing electromanganese dioxide within the country.
He urged local and foreign investors to consider setting up a manganese-processing plant in Luapula Province so that the mineral an be processed within the region.
He also said Government is in the process of reviving Kawambwa Tea Company in the region.
Gen Kapaya, however, said it is sad that the Zimbabwean investor who took over the operations of Kawambwa Tea Company has abandoned the company without paying the workers.
“What is happening at that company is very sad, where the investor has run away and has not paid the workers a lot of money he owes them.
“This is what Government wants addressed as a matter of urgency so that people’s living standards can be improved in the area,” Gen Kapaya said.
He also said Government is also working out modalities to revive Mununshi Banana Plantation.
He said this will contribute to the creation of wealth and job opportunities for local people.
Gen Kapaya said Government has started looking for land which will be given to the Zambia National Service (ZNS) for a banana plantation in the area.
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accountant
January 15, 2014 at 9:10 am
nice clap
mulamu
January 15, 2014 at 9:11 am
When is this going to happen,is it backed by any budget allocation or it is a mere rhetoric???
Nigger Nature
January 15, 2014 at 9:12 am
PF = chimbwe No Plan = CNP
KUYABEBELA
swine
January 15, 2014 at 11:01 am
You will cry twice!…2016 PF nafuti!
JOHN CHINENA
January 15, 2014 at 9:15 am
ITS NOT POSSIBLE……..AS USUAL PF BUFI……WHICH BUDGET ARE THEY GOING TO USE………..BUFI,BUFI,BUFI,BUFI……LIES EVRYTIME
Isaac
January 15, 2014 at 9:50 am
How can it be impossible with Mansa batteries and yet it became possible with Nitrogen Company in Kafue? Anyone thinking in those lines is mentally defunct. This govt means it and they’re doing a commendable job. Only those who have chosen to be blind can say the way some of you do.
bufufwa
January 15, 2014 at 10:02 am
In 1976 Kawambwa tea had 1200 employees by the end of 1984, it had 3000 then 1999 it had 4000. Today they are less than 1000. We need action not pictures people have suffered a lot to the extent doing peace works to villagers out side the estate. REMEMBER ONE TEA TREE CAN STAY 45 YEARS.
muntu
January 15, 2014 at 10:21 am
Efyo balanda bar fee colour kale baamba
JOHN CHINENA
January 15, 2014 at 11:16 am
MEALIE MEAL NOW 95 KWACHA, WATER HAS BEEN INCREASED.ELECTRICITY HAS BEEN INCREASED,TALK TIME HAS BEEN INCREASED.THE LIST IS ENDLESS..BUFI,BUFI,BUFI,BIFI……2016 HERE WE COME
Reveal
January 16, 2014 at 3:31 pm
John subsidies are gone, just brace for Chikwandanomics, every year are price increases and the *Tighten your belts UNIP term will come*
All failed uNIP programmes are being talked about including the Zambia Airways.
The country is quickly descending into Kaunda era
PF are thieves
January 15, 2014 at 11:35 am
What year’s budget is this in?
Unplanned spending is sending every unborn child into debt.
Sata has already stole Zampalm land for himself.
Next he will steal a mine for manganeze.
mwamba mutale
January 15, 2014 at 11:48 am
This LP album was composed long time ago. Mansa batteries will never come to life again. Who will even buy batteries in this time and era. Government should jst consider opening a mangenise mine and name it Mansa mines. Let it be incoperated in the INDECO they want to form. They shud also open a fishing industry…plus the rice farm project coming, luapula will be second to Northwesten in terms of wealth creation
Trixy
January 15, 2014 at 12:38 pm
@ Isaac…always supporting PF even when things are wrong…awe sure!! Anyway as for me and my family I will never again vote for a smoked out president (like someone said)…never again. The guy is confused, a lunatic and extremely heartless. Surely how can he let the people who voted for him in such huge numbers suffer like this? He said he was increasing fuel and mealie meal coz he could not appease the rich. The rich rarely eat big portions of nshima because they have rice and pasta to supplement…its the poor who are hit the most!!! Malabishi!
swine
January 15, 2014 at 4:15 pm
Respect his feelings towards the same person you are calling a lunatic. In your own wisdom, or is it the lack of it,you think the incumbent is a ”loony”! Go on vote for a person of your choice, no qumas!In Isaac’s eyes the President is a gem…respect bane,respect, it does not hurt to respect elders!
Antendeka
January 15, 2014 at 1:29 pm
This is not viable! The cost of producing one battery at Mansa batteries was 7 times more expensive than importing from SA or Zimbabwe! That company cannot be sustained! Was this project in the budget? We have an illiterate mad man at state house who lacks basic understanding of economics.
JOHN PONDO
January 15, 2014 at 3:30 pm
@ Isaac. You need to go school. This is not biblical sayings of ‘Let there be this or that” There is need for detailed planning, resource allocation, specialized manpower etc.
id!ot!
January 15, 2014 at 4:21 pm
No need to get personal John! All you need to do is help Isaac understand the complications that come with such undertakings! Things like is the technology and machinery for making those same batteries not outdated filya fya so, not dissing awe bane! Lets blog to educate each other. Who knows from your sensible blog you might convince Isaac to vote someoen else in 2021!
Trixy
January 15, 2014 at 4:05 pm
Sata must be very careful with KK. KK is misleading him in the hope of making him fail. KK failed that is why we removed him. He wasn’t happy when this happened and he never got a chance to revenge on what the Zambian people did to him (Removing him from power). Chiluba never gave him a chance. Mwanawasa tolerated him but never gave him a chance to mislead him. RB didn’t give him a chance either. Sata has given him a chance via the Post and by the time he realizes, it will be 2016 and too late!!
Lwali
January 15, 2014 at 5:15 pm
BUT WHY CAN’Y YOU JUST GIVE MUNUNSHI BANANA SCHEME TO ZNS? THE INFRASTRACTURE IS STILL THERE.
Nkhuku
January 15, 2014 at 7:00 pm
The technolgy has changed,why should we be using batteries.
mr k
January 15, 2014 at 7:10 pm
we look forward to that mr Sata keep it up.
VIVA PF VIVA SATA
Manu
January 15, 2014 at 9:25 pm
We’re are those batteries going to be used and who is going to buy them. We do not use IIT or torch this days it is all electricity
Trixy
January 16, 2014 at 11:11 am
My point exactly…but again it is very difficult to argue with people who cant distinguish sense from nonsence. I therefore rest my case.
Master
February 19, 2014 at 12:13 pm
lets wait ed see