Comments on: Small-scale developments-our mud and our dust in Zambia

By: Mwebantu

Mwebantu — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:57:47 +0000

In reply to iye.

This is an opinion article, not a technical engineering report!

By: Navigator

Navigator — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:52:49 +0000

#21: This article is not a technical paper. It is written to be read and understood by lay people -non engineers. There isnt enough room on this platform to discuss technical details of engineering solutions. That kind discussion belongs in a technical engineering joirnal. It is neither necessary nor appropriate for this platform. The goal here is to simply convey an opinion of how things should be to the public.

By: Navigator

Navigator — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:33:21 +0000

In reply to NaganjaNawada.

#21: This is not a technical paper. It is written to be read and understood by lay people – non engineers; not other engineers. There isnt enough room on this platform to discuss the techincal details of engineering soultions. It is neither necessary nor appropriate for this forum. That discussion belongs in an engineering journal.

By: Enka Rasha

Enka Rasha — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:24:57 +0000

Great article.To those who say its too long therein lies your problem in lacking personal fulfilment.Yes,it takes very long things to make it in life-long work hrs,enduring long reads, and focusing on your goals for long periods.Therefore if you can’t read this long article i assume you also think other good things in life will come to you easy and thats why most zambians are not successful.They just want short term effort for big gains.Sorry life doesn’t work that way.Regarding dust,we can’t just blame LCC.We also don’t have discipline-on where we walk,where we toss trash or where we drain our waste water.USA is clean because its people are disciplined and don’t just wait for councils to do everything and they have a maintenance culture from their homes to everything else.

By: Gr. Matchona

Gr. Matchona — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:03:18 +0000

N.S. this is a well writen article .Thumbs up. It’s good that the education you got from KABOSS is well applied. I’ll call you to have more info.

By: NaganjaNawada

NaganjaNawada — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:54:34 +0000

‘If the distance to the street is too much, the developer needs to propose a landscaping plan that introduces grass cover or other non-erodible application between the roadway and the parking lot’

Quite an appreciation of the idea the Civil engineer has. There are too many short comings however. The main report as well does not bring out a professional engineering report. it all ‘booky’. a text book airlift in short. The engineer has failed to bring out the nitty gritty saliency of an true engineer. Very embarrassing to have such a report. Editors try to have such publishing be graded by professional engineers. i thought it as a joke at first when a Ugandan under graduate civil eng student showed me a printed copy of this, as written by a Zambian Civil eng

By: iye

iye — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:49:26 +0000

I think it is time we started to plant lawns, trees and make pedestrian walk ways in Zambia! Lusak in particular is pathetic esp Kaunda Square with the dust and wind greeting people everywhere must be looked into. Look at the photo above, it cannot take a lot to just put cement on the sidewalks bane plus draining furrows! Ba Sata twafweniko!

By: JB

JB — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:53:08 +0000

People need to stop thinking about drainages and think fresh water and waste water m management with a proper sewer systems. i mean the romans built sewer systems much more advanced that what Zambia has currently. Landfills and mandatory recycling facilities need to be built. putting all the responsibility on small business and home owners will only make things
worse and harder to start businesses.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:39:44 +0000

Yes if councils did their jobs and collected revenue were its due and put it were it belongs instead of their pockets our cities and suburbs will just be like south africa’s….This is GRZ and Councils ignorance and nobody else. period!

By: COMMON SENSE!

COMMON SENSE! — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:23:13 +0000

This is the only article that talks about things Zambians dont see to be a problem.this is a right at the end of the tunnel that we now have pipo who can see that we live in problems and that’s why we are dirty tho we are always defesive when others tell us the truth.This is what the public media is supposed to be doing.sensitizing pipo on issue of hygen and change of mindsets.This can reduce deaths in our country and contribute to development thru health pipo.VIVA CLEANILINESS ZAMBIAN!