Government has implored Mining companies in the country to consider revamping the trades training institution in their areas of operations in order to create a reservoir of skilled labour for the industry.
Mines Deputy Minister Richard Musukwa said this today during his tour of Kwambula training centre at Solwezi technical trades institute.
Mr Musukwa said it was the desire of government to see that the expanding mining industry had a reservoir of skilled human resource which will be able to continue running the mines long after expatriates leave.
He said once trades schools were operational the dependence on expatriate labour will reduce and this will result in more Zambians taking up skilled jobs in the mining companies.
Mr Musukwa also urged Zambians working in the mines to maximize on expatriate skills in various fields so that they remain equipped with skills that will eventually help them to sustain mine operations after investors leave the industry.
And SOTTI principle Charles Shindamba said the Kwambula training centre had added value to the institution as it would produce the necessary human resource for the mining industry.
The Kwambula training project is an initiative by First Quantum Minerals in conjunction with government to train local people in various skills necessary to support the mining industry.
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Ba Minister…. Â 48 yrs of Independence and we have a minister looking like a guard. And people expect this country to develop? Â The country has really gone to the DOGS.
Just take a look at how he has won his tie. A Dep. Minister sure in such a state! Nimvera nsoni even if am alone looking at it! I think even our President – Mr. MCS – is not happy about the way his Deputy minister has presented himself. You mean even his wife approved his dressing? I for one cannot allow my husband to be on the media the way this minister looking. I wish he had appeared just casual – even in a T-shirt. But alas!
LMAO, this is very true. Minster, then me i should be the permanent Zedian rep at UN.
You should be ashmed of your self you dull minister, after 48 yrs of mining you admit we still need foringners and we cant even sustain training schools. Mr minister some things are better done behind closed doors, stop embarrasing us just becasue you want to be on the news. You are acting like zambia got independence testerday and started mining yesterday. Just go back to your office and beg from there.
I hope he does not think the mining companies are BITTER.
Anything not PF is bitter to them
l hope #1 and 2 are not bitter
I hate this word bitterness please refrain from using it, PF has brain washed you to an extent you use that word without thinking
Mwinilunga Bull it seems begging is not a problem to you.
This only works where a company wants to source its workforce locally. Don’t think from yesterday. Think about today and tomorrow. If you wanted companies to do that, the first thing to ask them to do is to commit to employing local people.
What a tool! They are tax payers. You should use those taxes to build education infrastructure. You want them to build stadiums and now its Trade schools! And you as PF gov’t, what exactly are you going to do for Zambia?
Not only does he look like a casual worker, he thinks like one too. Take a leaf from your president. He has become smart and his skin is lighter too
The PF baboons cant reason…If you want such just make a policy don’t ask them to consider, i can assure you non will consider such
So many uncessarly insults and comments and some stic%k a taboo called tribalism.
Use the US$ 750 Million Eurobond to rehabilitate Trades Schools throughout the country & not cajoling mining investors to put their monies in moribund institutions which they don’t even control.
Perhaps we lost a lot of relevant trained personnel during the ‘great escapes’ post 1986. Mines would send people abroad who cough cough have found greener pastures. Hands up escapees. We know you’re out there doing well in foreign lands. Kinda ironic that your industry got so messed up they now have foreigners in to do what you probably do better. I raise a glass to you. As for the trade schools perhaps a new education partnership is required which is more hands on than calling for the mines to sort it.
Those little hip hoppers out there want to have swag and put on ties… neatly. Go figure :)
It is GRZ to train it’s citizens. Investors just pay tax and you must use the money wisely.
” Government has implored Mining companies in the country to consider revamping the trades training institution ”
Grow a pair and start collecting all the taxes that are due – and pay for trade schools yourself.
It is outrageous that the government is going around begging the mines to give them more scraps, when the mines are getting fat on OUR copper and cobalt.
From UN General Assembly Resolution 1803 from 1962, which deals with mineral sovereignty.
Google: un ga resolution 1803 1962
1. The right of peoples and nations to permanent sovereignty over their natural wealth and resources must be exercised in the interest of their national development and of the well-being of the people of the State concerned.
2. The exploration, development and disposition of such resources, as well as the import of the foreign capital required for these purposes, should be in conformity with the rules and conditions which the peoples and nations freely consider to be necessary or desirable with regard to the authorization, restriction or prohibition of such activities.
3. In cases where authorization is granted, the capital imported and the earnings on that capital shall be governed by the terms thereof, by the national legislation in force, and by international law. The profits derived must be shared in the proportions freely agreed upon, in each case, between the investors and the recipient State, due care being taken to ensure that there is no impairment, for any reason, of that State’s sovereignty over its natural wealth and resources.
How can we have such a calibre of ministers in power ruling us…the mines are not obligated to help you; they are here for business. These ministers are ill-informing the masses with such statements; why don’t the tax the mines if they are failing to raise the adequate funding for trade schools  On one hand you want to introduce a costly scheme called National Service and on the other they don’t funding for refurbishing trade schools
JayJay,
” How can we have such a calibre of ministers in power ruling us…the mines are not obligated to help you; they are here for business. ”
They are obligated to pay taxes and pay dividends, and they do not. That is why the government is trying to go the ‘corporate social responsibility’ route.
Start collecting the taxes that are due – including from previous years.
And for the bloggers here, stop defending tax evasion by the mines. Unless you want to officially state and agree that the mines and the whites are above the law.
This is exactly my point gov’t should concentrate on policy creation, tax collection and service delivery; yes collect all the tax from previous years as well.Â
These selfsame cabinet ministers don’t understand what CSR is in the first place; CSR is something you incorporate in your business model and  your expenditure at the start of your financial year. CSR policy functions as a built-in, self-regulating mechanism whereby a business monitors and ensures its active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards,…this is mostly targeted towards empowering the local community… sublimating Nkana FC’s wage bill is not good CSR as its not sustainable in the long term and its nothing to proud of…Â
A very dull chap indeed. Let me enlighten you Mr. Minister. As a graduate Chemical Engineer who worked for KCM Plc in Chingola for two years I will tell you that the so called expatriates are not  expatriates  in the first place but come to learn the job from the Zambians whom they later start shouting and abusing. Secondly the same expatriate people try by all means to conceal technical data and other information to justify their continued stay in the country and claim that Zambians are not ready to work independently. My experience with KCM was that most of the contractors installing and commissioning equipment were Indians and they left the technical data and other manuals with their fellow Indians.Â
……. continued Further these mining companies are there to provide employment firstly to their own people and secondly to Zambians so they care less about training the local people. Just go to KCM and see the number of low skilled Indians working as mechanical helpers, crane operators, fitters, welders,  boiler makers etc etc. It is pathetic and here is the the stupid compromised minister pleading with investors rather than taking swift action.
Damn c.o.c.k.s.u.c.k.e.r
[Mr Musukwa also urged Zambians working in the mines to maximize on expatriate skills in various fields so that they remain equipped with skills that will eventually help them to sustain mine operations after investors leave the industry.]
If this minister knows what he was appointed and elected to do as an MP and a Minister …he should be formulating polices presenting in Parliament for debate that encourage these Mines to equip Zambians with relevant skills, formulating policies that strengthening immigration laws and penalise lawbreakers; encouraging apprenticeships in these companies for school leavers and youth.
 We definitely need a think tanks in Zambia to help out ruling governments formulate win win fair business policies for all.
culture of begging seems to be ingrained. With dozy ministers like this Zambia is in trouble.
They want the private sector to do everything. They only want to look on and enrich them selves, leaving the development of the country to the private sector and forigners. They are saying since you are in my country, now you develop it for me, while i tax you massivley ,while i conduct my private bussiness,.
Are they really being taxed massively?
I support this move, am one of the product from such Training Institution. I was trained by Luanshya Mine at Luanshya Craft Training School. Let this be a policy of Government, it’s a good idea and a well come move. Please expedite it as soon as possible. Trained by the Mines, worked for the Mines my last station was Implementation Engineer and am thank full for the type of training I received. Â
You are a product of ZCCM era; today the mines are in private hands if you want them to contribute; Â let them contribute via tax at the moment they are contribute peanuts.
On a different subject… the selfsame minister in the photo; still has the designer label of his jacket still on it. You know what? you are supposed to remove them after purchase…that’s the reason why they are not fully stitched into the material.
Please be presentable Mr. Minister!
OF COURSE THE MINING COMPANIES ARE BITTER SO ARE THE MINERS
This deputy minister’s dressing is disigracing which need to condem on strong terms a kaponya looks more smart than him .his is married?
Oh dear, I took a closer look at the picture! Holy Moses! That face and the dressing belong to a dull person!
WTF!!!!!! he does not look like a minister to me.With that dress code.Any way..the mines pay alot of tax.So get some of it and develop the trade schools.
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