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I Stand By Stance, Says Sata’s Daughter ‘Graduates Should Find Means Of Making Informal Sector Work For Them’
Below is a statement from stella Sata:
“So tempers are still high and I am probably the most disliked person on social media at the moment.
It’s not about what I said it is more about how it was said and WHO SAID it.
For quite a number of things, I can apologise. For quite a number of things- I will not apologise.
To begin with, I am not my father, my father’s successes and my father’s failures are not my own. If my father had an opinion on a matter, that does not automatically make it my opinion. So I will not apologise for what my father did or did not do. That is not my battle to fight.
Also, I will not apologise for what privileges or hardships came with being the daughter of Mr. Michael Chilufya Sata.
Apparently a SATA, a former Minister’s child, a former President’s child has NO RIGHT to speak about several issues. I am presumably privileged and have never gone through hardships so I have to keep quiet.
I will not apologise for speaking. And believe me I will always speak. Because I have a voice. The family I was born into is not grounds for anyone to call for my silence. Every hardworking person here works hard so their children can live a better life. I do not believe any of them is working hard so that their children may never speak about anything in public.
I stand against public shaming of any kind and ESPECIALLY public shaming targeted at me. I stand against it for the sake of every presumably privileged child and I stand against it for the sake of my own (future) children. No person should ever bow down to public ridicule because of their opinion.
Here in lies what I will apologise for. I will apologise for pissing off thousands of unemployed people or their families or anyone who has ever been a frustrated job seeker. I will also apologise for I myself, publicly shaming the #Jobless6 just because I do not agree with their methods of dealing with unemployment. This resulted in those people who agreed with my view publicly shaming them too.
Perhaps, my delivery of the message left a lot to be desired and gave room for the wrong interpretations. For that, I apologise. Not every one will understand what you say, the way you mean it.
I still stand by stance, that if a graduate can not get employed then they should be able to find means of making the informal sector work for them. There is so much potential that people do not exploit because we feel we worked too hard to start from anything less than a good paying entry job in Government or in established Corporations.
Are their hurdles to jump in the entrepreneurship arena? Many. In fact, you will probably become much more frustrated than you were when you were job hunting. BUT that is no reason to not try just because there are several hardships.”
Stella Sata
Posted by Kunda
on March 26, 2015. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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Greg Kadimba
March 26, 2015 at 4:54 pm
Stella is right,I support your stance dear just like I supported your Dad.And please ignore the idiots who are castigating you for saying the truth.Did you insult them?no,
iwe chikala NEZ,we are who told you HH will employ everyone?Grow up.
Peter
March 27, 2015 at 2:45 am
STELLA IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. THE MENTALITY OF ALL GRADUATES LOOKING FOR JOBS IS STUPID. GRADUATES MUST BE PROBLEM SOLVERS. THEY MUST CREATE JOBS FOR THEMSELVES AND OTHER GRADUATES AND NON-GRADUATES. BE THINKERS AND NOT STINKERS. FORMULATE BUSINESS PLANS AND USE CEEC FUND.
kabimba
March 26, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Umwana wamubuchende! kekekeke, it she is also like the mother husband snatcher…careful buddies
Czar
March 26, 2015 at 6:13 pm
What about Kabimba’s son with Masebo, were they ever married?
swift change
March 27, 2015 at 8:20 am
The talk is not about Wynter.You are lost.
Czar
March 27, 2015 at 10:50 am
I said it because this chap obviously admires Wynter seeing the blog name s/he uses and yet talks about “Umwana wamubuchende!”.
New Educated Zambia©
March 27, 2015 at 7:47 pm
kiki simply english and this chap fails a simple comprehension excercise. It is not even about english. It is about comprehending simple things in life. ubututu ba pf
Greg Kadimba
March 26, 2015 at 5:02 pm
Leave her alone chikala,how do you know maybe your dad is not your dad either,black matherfaka
gmc
March 26, 2015 at 5:07 pm
Stelle wapala wiso amano.tell them hard so they can wake up from slumber.indeed there is plenty potential for hardworking pipo.the biggest failure is failing to try at all..
Ghetto
March 26, 2015 at 5:08 pm
Stella iwe namatata panse. Mwaba famous mwaleka nokufwala ifitenge ati? Ni ndolika ndaifulila chabe. Nice body though.
Greg Kadimba
March 26, 2015 at 5:09 pm
Ati DISTINCTION BUT NO JOB,Kuti waseka.Well come to the real world bafikala!
Greg Kadimba
March 26, 2015 at 5:11 pm
Stella you are just as intelligent as your late Dad,Keep it up gal!
Trixy
March 26, 2015 at 6:02 pm
In my opinion, Stella should have first attacked the Government for not providing an enabling environment for the youth to be self-employed. You ONLY blame someone for failing to do something if you have provided them with everything to enable them achieve their target. Believe me, most of these students have ideas but do not have the resources to move forward. Ofcourse there are some who are lazy and would rather depend on the Government for everything, but there are also others who are very serious and willing but lack resources to move forward. So Stella my dear, you are being biased towards the Government. We do appreciate that PF was Sata and Sata was PF and naturally you feel alighned to the party hence finding it difficult to criticize what is happening there right now. But guess what? you can fool some people sometimes but you cannot fool all the people all the time. The fact of the matter is this Government is a total mess. The dollar is trending at almost 8!
New Educated Zambia©
March 26, 2015 at 6:58 pm
I cannot add anything more to this well thought out and articulated comment. Trixy wasosa mune. Please keep up the good work,
KENNY .G.
March 26, 2015 at 10:46 pm
Not at all my dear. Life is a struggle man disappoint but God appoint.I worked for 20 years but can not point out anything that can motivate a new comer in workforce.However when i quit and start my own,it has paid off in less than two years.How i wish i started long enough time but again Gods time is the best.
tombanoko
March 27, 2015 at 5:38 am
Kikiki spoon feeding!hmmmm first work hard and then find means to start up something graduates,excellent thinking stella.
Kikiki kwena in this world their are low thinkers,surely from just a simple advise by a daughter of the past former head of state chabakalipa,iye! am also emphacising get to do something for yourself than stand in the streets with tuma boxes picked from a dirty dump site in the streets where school children are passing to go to school to aquire knowledge to help them shape their future,or just go and join the underworld which suites the lazy ones. Who knows how you graduated,its your secrete (remember exam mulpractice-leakage, cheating-buying A+,Juju-African margic just to attain a degree,sleeping with lactures-women,and many more evil activities just to get a degress) hmmmm kusebanafye,that’s why sometime just accept where life takes you ukuchila pa last ukwisa pena ati awe bamulowelefye.am not going to insult today because its a very funny topic.but for sure get you brains to doing something rather than wait for the govnt to employ a riferaf like you
Henrique
March 26, 2015 at 6:29 pm
Stella is basically stating the reality currently obtaining in the whole world. The fact that you have a university degree is no guarantee to a well paying job. There skills that can get immediately self employed . The likes of Plumbing, Bricklaying , welding and the list goes on. You will not wear a suit, but have a pay check every day.
China pours about 4 million graduates every year! There is no chance that 1 million will get employed. The question is what happens to the rest, go for a Masters or just be innovative.
Basically this is FREE advise from a young lady. You can take it or leave it. The fact that it has rattled a lot of people means a lot connect with the story.
amano ukubula
March 26, 2015 at 6:52 pm
Of course you are in a priveledged position. Your very name will open up doors for you.
It’s difficult to start a business when you have no money even to eat.
And you know in Zambia it’s who-you-know that counts, so apportion the blame where it belongs – your father’s PF.
And by the way, what qualifies you to make simplistic statements like this? Try Economics 101 first
mj banda
March 26, 2015 at 7:17 pm
@nez, ndiwe chipuba really, closing and opening late the university doesn’t qualify agricultural science as a seven year program. Can u show the public your level of education?
gogettr
March 26, 2015 at 7:33 pm
Spot on!
Wise Woman
March 26, 2015 at 7:44 pm
My mbuya MJ Banda I’m beginning to think that NEZ is very ignorant of many issues and that is why his only thread or line of argument is based on blaming the pf. An intellectual deals with issues intellectually and rationally. I have noticed that he lacks objectivity. Yes the pf government has failed us but as individuals what do we do? Ok he will say we change the government, which is fine. But which party can we vote for? As a representative of UPND he does not show maturity and he is not objective. NEZ give us something that will make us vote for UPND end of story.
New Educated Zambia©
March 26, 2015 at 8:49 pm
Wise woman some times it is wise to shut up or read through all comments before opening your dumb trap hole. If you go back and read you will see that we have given you points based on what the UPND will do and what they expect the PF to do. You do not expect us to repeat the same things over and over inorder to conveniently fit your slow reading culture. Now you want to talk objectivity when all we have offered you here is objectivty and the cry of it? Please read back and pick out points that are related to your questions because those have already being addressed. Very daft approach. You choose to see the irrelevant comments and concentrate on those. dumbness
club zero
March 26, 2015 at 7:50 pm
I like stella,marry me,my wife is UPND and I’m Hardcore PF,my wife out,stella in.@tutu boi ati bwa
saicool
March 26, 2015 at 8:05 pm
Stella u will never be like yo father.jst keep quiet mwaice.
someone
March 26, 2015 at 8:26 pm
Zambians will have to be shown the way. The biggest problem we have is wanting to start big. Start small, start with an idea, find ways to make that idea workout. Yes the environment is not the best it could be better but really it not that bad. People have run from worn torn countries to make it big here in zambia. These people started small
kanono
March 26, 2015 at 8:45 pm
This is a wakeup call to even work harder despite where we ar comig from and wat we hv, wat matters is the desire to do wat is best for yourself big or small,viva Stella
mj banda
March 26, 2015 at 9:02 pm
@wise woman, let NEZ chase all would be potential voters for UPND and will cry foul again come 2016. I can see UPND coming 3rd next year. Azalila ati ni rigging again.
New Educated Zambia©
March 26, 2015 at 9:06 pm
kiki mj banda let the best man and people win. The MMD were as pompous and even more confident than you are. Ni forward. Even all those starving relatives of yours are voting for change while you continue living in a bubble.
kakolwe
March 27, 2015 at 4:29 am
FALSE HOPE! Are these the winds of change you saw in 2008 when you said the nation had turned Hakainde-wards? Or the false hope you had in 2011 when you were duped to pacting with RB when he told you that no opposition can ‘unsit’ government. Is this the same hope you had when in 2015 you could not beat 2 divided parties that had given you a 2 months’ head start? Such a chance shall NOT be there in 2016.
Wise Woman
March 26, 2015 at 9:51 pm
Nez I’m not speaking from without, at every opportunity you get whatever the issue, your response is to blame pf. A woman kills her child somehow your response is its pf’s fault. A girl is defiled pf is to blame, a man is caught having sex with a cow somehow you manage to blame pf. You see all the wrongs and blame them on pf. Give us solutions; like what are you doing about some of these issues now and not what you will do when voted into power. When you look at some of these issues what you do today to prevent the similar incidents from happening is more important than what u promise to do after being voted into office. Give us solutions now because what you do today will determine tomorrow’s vote.
New Educated Zambia©
March 26, 2015 at 10:52 pm
If you could live upto your promises as PF and help us enact the constitution then may be we and the people of Zambia would actually implement and do things about certain things whilst not in power. How do you expect us to change things which are only changeable via the constitution. A constitution that has given the executive practically all of the power? That is what the constitution in zambia means; opposition can only talk and lobby which is what am doing. Until you change the constitution or facilitate such a change you should be the last chap to open your mouth. And if you had some sense you could realise that I give reasons for my links of PF as a causation to articles i comment on. That is why am saying you need to read more
kakolwe
March 27, 2015 at 4:40 am
Here you go again. Constitution will make you do this or that. I had asked you before, to compare the British constitution and “absolutism” then compare to Zambia. You failed lamentably. A woman asks you “what are you, as a party, doing NOW! You still come out wanting to have a constitution for to be able to sort out abortions, social unrests, voting patterns! Cornelius Mweetwa, mwaice wandi, have you seen how this lumpen is costing your party?
mujuku
March 27, 2015 at 7:39 am
Tumfweko where is my coment?
Manhimself
March 27, 2015 at 7:45 am
She said she has not changed her stance,from the previous post and this one she has just released,they are two different things,in the previous post she mentioned of scholars selling tomatoes, in this one she has totally changed her statement but my statement still remains “why can’t she tell Lungu and and Inonge to create their jobs rather than eating tax payers money?”
Why has she come out now? Is she a presidential hope fool also for 2016?
kakolwe
March 27, 2015 at 9:49 am
Bushe nidaala or it is in your nature to show scanty reasoning? Stella cannot be a presidential hope ‘fool’ as you suggest. She is 20!! Besides, how can Lungu go looking for a job when he already has one? Yaaah! Ubushilu bwamu U Pee stinks up to the high heavens. Have you seen Inonge wearing stoopid placards saying she needs a job? The only bigger & older fool is Hakainde who has been chasing after a job he has no experience about. Tell him to keep growing his ‘sole-trader’ empire or sit on his asss enjoying his loot.
pillar
March 27, 2015 at 8:15 am
iwe stella has a point,i know most of u useless UPND cadres its really difficult to understand what she pumping in your head.
mayo
March 27, 2015 at 8:16 am
ATI MY FATHER UMWANA WAKUMBALI WAMUCHIGOLOLO
nazu
March 27, 2015 at 8:18 am
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn0
satesate
March 27, 2015 at 9:13 am
@ mayo, nga iwe? wiso bamubepeshafye kuli noko ihule..atleast stella has a father. jealous swine.. waba ukuchula.
kakolwe
March 27, 2015 at 10:01 am
Forgive @Mayo. She had aborted all the Abana she conceived ‘mucigololo’. Now she hurts to see her friends’ chigololo products having titles to their names. My point to @Mayo is that we all do not choose how we are born or manufactured. If you choose to abort because a Minister without portfolio hit&run you, do think he wont be a President 16years later and that ‘sperm-ovum’ collision product will be your ticket to unlimited wealth.
chintu
March 27, 2015 at 9:26 am
nice opinion stella how i wish 90% of our graduates had that vision employmnt creation is there
Wise Woman
March 27, 2015 at 9:51 am
Tumfweko where is my coment? I thought this is forum where Zambians can give their opinions on issues affecting them!!!!
Francis
March 27, 2015 at 10:55 am
Nice thinking Stella go desperate now to the gvmnt
Francis
March 27, 2015 at 11:02 am
Nice thinking Stella go diper now to the gvmnt
UNZA Graduate-2000
March 27, 2015 at 11:07 am
At the graduation ceremony at Mulungushi Inter Conf Center in 2000, the then V-Chancellor Prof. Mutale Chanda told us we are sending you to society not to be employees but employers. Use the knowledge use have to create employment. So the #jobless 6 are dull chaps, attention seekers
Sly
March 27, 2015 at 12:25 pm
Young girl the trouble with your article is that its one sided. You seem not to have lacked in life hence your shallow and biased understanding. Consult people that have seen both sides of life before you disgrace yourself.
Ndaje Kahks
March 27, 2015 at 3:02 pm
A graduate librarian died of depression after losing his job. I ask wouldn’t he have started a bookshop or something with his separation package.
zibani
March 27, 2015 at 3:13 pm
Ba Sly,leave the young girl alone;imagine,she is the late president`s daughter and she has a point.You mean,in your sober mind,a graduate is only a graduate when he has a formal employment?Gentlemen,You`re in a wrong planet called the Earth.Do yourselves favour and migrate elsewhere.These so called graduates,am sorry to say are too lazy to do anything.Mvula ilokwa mahala,wake up get yourself a piece of land.Upuwa nimahala;It`s like German National football team beating Brazil at home 7-1.Hahaha!imwe nimazo cabe.Simujalika.
lcdata
March 27, 2015 at 4:12 pm
wasosa
Nshitobela Bupuba
March 27, 2015 at 4:37 pm
Mwaiche wandi Stella tell them the lazy people called graduates who cant even design or make a simple tool like a needle,spoon,shaving blade, comb ,buttons for cloths etc.All they dream of is to work for the GRZ so that they can start stealing taxpayer’s money and keep on disadvantaging the old and the poor.
Use your knowledge you have gained to employee others and not always snooping around to be employed.
Its a big shame those who have very little education are able to establish them selves by doing some welding and fabrication making window frames door frame gates etc in the streets while the so called educated graduates whatever they are called are busy chasing after jobs to be employed then after they are employed they start stealing from their employers. GET A LIFE AND STOP LIVING IN THE FANTASY WORLD.Napwisha ine tata I am my own boss with very little education and the so called educated graduates are working for me.
true son of his father
March 30, 2015 at 1:52 am
she is young,and arrogant. life is hard out here Stella. I for one sold house hold things to raise capital. I oppened a small bakery last year in may. Within 2 monthes flour increased from k196. 00 /50kg to k225. it kept shooting and as i write last week it increased to 275.00. but how do i make profits nor compete with big companies? because if i increase no one will buy from me but get spar, shop rite, agogo, harriets bread etc. with them even if they make 20ngwee as profit per loaf it counts because they have capacity to bake in thousands than me who cant afford an industrial oven at k30.000. I know Stella can afford such an oven. Have tried CEC but not even a reply. The next thing is ERB allowed zesco to increase power using a system that does not suport industry. the new sistem the more you use power, the more you pay/unit. these are the invironments we mean which the government should provide. can someone farmiliarise the new zesco tarrif charging, the 1st buying of power in a month i spend k80. 00 for 100 units, after 4 days i will buy the 100 units at k133.00, when i buy the 3rd time i will buy 100 units at k150.00. This system has killed us as industry. Really there is no hope, its frustrating Stella.
true son of my father
March 30, 2015 at 1:58 am
its not easy my niece. as i writing i have no option but to close and only God knows what i will do next.