Sir APM Lukwesa: CRITICAL CONUNDRUMS ON ZAMBIA'S MINING QUAGMIRE: ARE WE A FAILED SYSTEM?

Perhaps it is high time we began asking searching questions on Zambia's mining governance and system.

How can Zambia have one of the #largest copper reserves in the world yet 60% of its #population still live in abject poverty and unemployed?

Where have we gone wrong?

Why and how did we allow #foreign companies (like the Swiss mining company called Multi #Glencore and others) to extract our #minerals and take them to other countries and live us in poverty and pollution?

Who #bewitched us, Zambians, that we can't even think on our own; even with #simple things and issues we want to involve outsiders?

What is the essence of our #education system if it can't #help solve our problems? Isn't our education #system suitable and #appropriate to help solve our problems?

Surely in every situation we have to engage #outside Consultants (like the #Rothschild and others) to help us with how to solve our own created mess? To talk to people we #owe money, we have to get a foreign #Consultant to help with debt restructuring! To understand the #challenges facing our own Mines, we have to #hire a foreign Consultant to tell us how to revive our Mines.

So, ifwe ninshi, our education system only #taught us how to read, write, speak and listen (and argue among ourselves) in English?? If it's so, then, methinks that UNZA should stop publishing that Directory of its past Students because it doesn't make sense to pass with flying colours yet still fail to #solve our own national challenges.

58 years of #independence with so many educated Zambians but still being #dependent on other people from #outside our country is worrying.

Perhaps President Michael Chilufya #Sata (MHSRIP) was hundred percent right when he said that all educated people are #cowards. However, do we now agree with his assertion that #educated Zambians are cowards? Do we also agree that educated Zambians are the ones that have brought down this country? Is it the educated or the #politicians or both?

We have leaders, engineers, accountants, human resource officers and other specialized interest #technocrates who worked and still have been working for the mines in Zambia who can offer #quality pieces of #advice for close to nothing (free of charge) but have been consistently #ignored perhaps because they are too #afraid to #raise up their hands and say “WE ARE HERE”. We have very qualified Zambians working in the #diaspora whom #government can engage in order to help #revamp our #economy but they too are TOO AFRAID TO SPEAK. Hence, we continue to bring the same people who have intermittently been fucking us up to come and finish us.

That's the problem with Africans. I don't know why we are #brainwashed to think only the #western and the #northern world can solve problems. The day we shall stand up and make our own plans and #decissions, is the day we shall see #development in Zambia. It will take a #generation for that time to come because the current generation of our #leaders were born before #computers and grew up believing that the #whites are more #superior than us.

And the other biggest problem is that incumbent governments never #listens to advice from the opposition.

But history is a fair judge. If we didn't make #mistakes we'd have never learned anything. First time was a mistake but we can't make the same mistake twice when we have living #witnesses because it won't be a mistake but #foolishness of highest order!

Sir APM Lukwesa

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ADDENDUM

The mining landscape in Zambia is covered by and/ or endowed with the production of multiple mineral raw materials, including Copper, Cobalt, Gold, Nickel, Manganese, Emeralds, Beryllium, myriad gemstones, Sulfur, Zinc, Coal, Iron Ore, Steel, Limestone, Uranium and other Platinum Group Metals. Mining has to be a significant primary sector industry and contributor to the Zambian Economy by providing export income, royalty payments and employment.

Our minerals ought to be internally used in power generation, building construction, car manufacturing, battery manufacturing et cetera.

“We only need to be exporting finished products of our raw minerals.”

(Perhaps we are a fail system)