Facts On Zambians, And You Expect The Kwacha To Be Strong

By Mwamba Peni 

-There is no innovation, no Zambian has ever come up with any product to sale to the rest of the world, not even in Southern Africa. 

-If you start a car-wash or chibuku business, everyone opens the same at every corner. 

-When fellow citizens start as entrepreneurs, you accuse them of having 'sold' their years in Dubai in order to be prosperous for a few years. Yet you believe in foreigners and support them at the expense of natives. 

-All major foreign exchange earning business ventures are owned by foreigners. 

-Our consumption is higher than our production as we spend most of the times talking about others and what they are doing with their lives as if that will pay the bills. 

-While you are asking yourselves where your fellow citizens got money to buy the latest vehicles they have, owning two or three private planes is now for many natives. 

-While you sit and complain about what Government and the Minister of Finance are not doing right, your friends in other countries are so innovate that their businesses thrives regardless of who the Minister or President is. 

-We have had Schools of engineering running for years both at the University of Zambia and at the Copperbelt University but what sort of product has come out of there that we can sell to the SADC community? 

-All you have are Lecturers who have been in the trade for years yet they have not ever written a book for their students to use or people who boast of 20 years experience yet there is nothing tangible they can show for those years-business as usual.