Hahaha we don’t have the money and the knowledge. Case closed

This mindset is crazy and will keep us poor! Foreign investment brings not only money (jobs) but also knowledge and it is our duty to learn as much as we can from them and then we will get the same jobs as expats and in the future we will be the investors!

Totally agree that Zambians we sleep 24/7. While other countries study more we give excuses for not doing it. Now every knowledge is in YouTube but if you see a zambian in his phone, is watching whatever thing but learning new skills.

As my Dad said: “A hill full of copper without capital (investment) is just another hill more”

In Zambia we don’t have that capital, so let’s not follow the communists that hate foreign investment

As my Dad said: “A hill full of copper without capital (investment) is just another hill more”

In Zambia we don’t have that capital, so let’s not follow the communists that hate foreign investment

Tell us more!

The mining company didn’t have to do it. Its objective was copper and you can see it in their contract with govt. The miner was to leave to the company, house and all services once he quit.
A people’s(i. e. a socialist) govt would have decided to use them differently: provide family homes and post employment health services. KK did try to do it with stuff like site and service but we removed him and threw him out with the bath water.

@gunner
The entire copperbelt was constructed like that. I have seen similar contracts in Katanga although weaker. Geccamines construct roads to and from mining centre’s.
That was how the then Northern Rhodesia mining companies were contractually engaged with government. Dont forget government only looked after its colonizer citizens.

When mining started in Mufulira, the place was bush Savannah. If houses were to be built, clean and treated water to be supplied, roads to be built etc, the mining company had to do it or there was nobody to do it.