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Miners, Marketeers, Use Funds Prudently
RETIREMENT is just another chapter in one’s life. It can open a world of opportunities, especially for those who plan to use their funds wisely.
The mining companies on the Copperbelt are retrenching miners as a result of the negative economic impact they are facing. While retrenchment is not the best path for the worker, the company goes by that option, in some cases, to avoid a complete closure. For those who are being separated from their jobs, we want to say that this is not the end of the world.
The fact that they still have life in them means they have strength to do something for themselves and their families. Whether they are men or women, they still have a responsibility to contribute to the well-being of their families and lay food on the table is one them.
At separation, the retrenched workers are given their packages and this should console them in view of some former employees who have to wait for years before they are paid their money.
We hope the former miners have planned how they are going to use their money so that their packages accrue positive returns for years to come.
It is often saddening to see a retrenched worker walking the streets looking like he had never worked before, all because he had no plans on how to put his package to good use.
Those who have lost their jobs should remember that their packages may be the last ‘salary’ they are getting in their life (that is if they do not get jobs afterwards).
But fewer people look at it from this way and they go on to be consumed and excited by the large amount of money they have never seen before and it is a time to spend their money on those things they had only wished for. They are also never short of friends.
The Bible urges us to divide our portion to seven, or even to eight, for we do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth (Ecclesiastes 11:2), and this is profound wisdom from the scriptures. While one needs to live, they should seek ways of investing their money so that they are prepared when misfortune strikes.
There are a number of opportunities, like farming, and we know the Copperbelt gets a fair amount of rain to support such activities which also ensures that one has food throughout the year from a small holding.
With the Government’s initiative towards the co-operative movement, here is an opportunity for retrenchees to exploit by putting up their monies to form a co-operative entity run by themselves for the benefit of the community. They still have the ability to contribute to economic growth.
We also want to turn our attention to marketeers on the Copperbelt who will be the lucky recipients of the interest-free loans provided by Government through the release of K1.6 million.
We hope they already have plans on how to expand their businesses when they get their money next month.
Most marketeers are women who look after families and have to send children to school and we say the prudent use of this money should see their businesses grow and end poverty in their homes. In this way, they will have something to show for it.
Government wants to see its citizens lifted out of poverty though the provision of such facilities and all those who will access the funds should consider themselves lucky that they have the funds to boost their business ventures.
The recipients should also remember they have a duty to pay back the money so that more marketeers benefit and contribute to economic growth.
Posted by Editor
on November 28, 2015. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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Head Teacher
November 28, 2015 at 5:46 am
Good piece of advice here. Miners will need to be positive because this is yet another opportunity to contribute to the economic development. You can do it boys and girls. I wish you all the very best of luck. Have a merry Christmas and a successful 2016.
yongwe
November 28, 2015 at 5:52 am
This is timely advise…I hope people read this and think twice. I have know people who got their monies, got themselves a girlfriend and travel to livingstone , book themselves a hotel of their dream and spend all their money to the last ngwee while their families go hungry…thats a sad scenario..please people lets think and plan for this money. Good timely advise there
deja vu
November 28, 2015 at 6:30 am
Yongwe,you are wise. Only wish people can read this.
deja vu
November 28, 2015 at 6:34 am
I wonder what happened to Dennis Liwewe ‘s future search. This organization taught miners how to fit in life after retrenchment
Judge Joe Bidden
November 28, 2015 at 6:51 am
Why did the writer refer to himself/ herself as WE??, we want you this and that, who are these “we”? PF Govt campaign machinery. Now dig into the advice, see, the president lied to Copperbelt that he will create 500,000 new jobs – he lied. Then he jumped in serving jobs fray, he told Copperbelt miners no mine will ever retrench nobody “I will talk to them” – he lied. Now he has realised he need to face reality, what next oh ok as you lose jobs please use your money wisely! Really? The fundamental core issue was no one will lose a job from the mines in the first place. How I miss pinochio.
deja vu
November 28, 2015 at 7:30 am
Stick to the subject. There other story lines where you can vent this anger
Judge Joe Bidden
November 28, 2015 at 9:55 am
Anger?
am such a free spirit only that am allergic to bull shit.
deja vu
November 28, 2015 at 7:37 am
Wishing your president to fail is wishing your country to fail. It’s unpatriotic. Just wait for your time to become president yourself
Judge Joe Bidden
November 28, 2015 at 10:04 am
Do you really understand DEMOCRACY? Now go thru your statement again, If we were all praising and worshiping mediocre leaders would you call that democratic society? If a leader is voted out then those people who voted him out are unpatriotic… te? Indeed logic eludes most of you PF cadres.
deja vu
November 28, 2015 at 10:41 am
Democracy is not about undermining your country so that you can ascend to office. That’s treason.
LOGICAL ANALYSIS
November 28, 2015 at 8:50 am
Wow I have owez detested Lungu since the day he was elected party president.However on these two scores(giving land to the retrenchees and empowering the marketeers I am highly impressed.thumbs up Mr president,but it’s HH all the way!!!
Denkete
November 28, 2015 at 8:59 am
Good advice!!!!! To those who are still working, please start up a business whilst you are still working. Business is a learning process, it’s not automatic that it will thrive once you start. So it’s better to do a trial and error while you have a steady income than trying with your pension.
jimpunda
November 28, 2015 at 10:01 am
I a big kudos goes to denkete my man i love point on this topic.
New Educated Zambia©❤√
November 28, 2015 at 10:10 am
The issue here is that it is unacceptable for able bodied young zambians to be out of employment when they were promised thousands of jobs. You can go on and on about opening businesses but do not be naive to think that all Zambians have business acumen. Remember that a business also needs to mature before it can bring in profits. So all I can say is that by next year all these miners will be demonstrating due to hardships. They will then realise that the best alternative is upnd and will vote wisely.
facts
November 28, 2015 at 12:37 pm
Has future search been liquidated?Govt should have planned to educate these miners and prepare them physicologically for a new life after formal employement.you cant just throw people in the cold and tell them to survive on there own some are not used to ploughing the land they were used to blusting and extracting ore while the southerners whom they used to riducule are already used to farming.
Dictionary Mwale
November 28, 2015 at 1:37 pm
What the President meant when he said Copperbelt to get 10,000 new jobs is to be farm-owner and other farm workers. Simple and straight forward.And start earning a living from our natural resources as we doing with the mines.
final vedict
November 28, 2015 at 3:33 pm
Denkete thts the way to go…this is a major problem umufilika akwata,living lyk there is no tomorrow,shipwe shipwe tukafwaya shimbi ..let’s learn to invest in our futures,business uku ulebomba,not ukulachilishafye..at 45 no plot,no house,lets make empires that can pay bills even after employment not Lyonse boma ilanganepo!