Business came to a standstill when traders ran amok and attempted to destroy a Chinese shop alleging that the owner of the was killing their business because he sold commodities at lower prices.
The traders, who stormed Bamulela Shop at Katete business centre around 06:00 hours yesterday morning, were demanding the investor,Zhang Bing, to stop trading in the district claiming that his business was killing their sales.They accused Mr Zhyang of selling clothes and footwear at half the market price of the commodities.
Quick action by police in full riot gear stopped the angry traders from destroying the shop.
“This Chinese man is killing our businesses because all our customers are now buying from him since he opened his shop last Friday,” said Peter Soko.
The traders, who wanted to break windows of the shop, said it was unfair that such investors are competing with the local traders because they remain at an advantage as they quickly sell their products.Business, however, returned to normal by 10:00 hours and police were seen guarding the area thereafter.
But Zhang said he will not stop carrying out his business because the law does not forbid him to do so.
And Bread of Life Pastor, Humphrey Botha, said the behaviour of the traders is uncalled for, saying those that were engaged in the protest were ignorant about the conditions of a liberalized economy.Pastor Botha said people need to understand that they cannot force a person to sell goods and services at their preferred price as each one is free to sell at any price if they can make a profit.
He noted that people in the district are now happy with the reduced price of shoes and clothes as most of them can afford to buy something.
“This means more money in their pockets. It is for this reason that we need more Chinese investors in the district as Katete is growing,” he said.
Meanwhile, Katete District Commissioner, Col Peter Kaisa, condemned the unruly traders for their action, saying the Chinese investor was given a license to carry out his business.Col Kaisa said this when he held a meeting with eleven traders at Katete District Council this morning.
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the stuff the ‘chinks’ are selling to africans is cheap quality, when you buy a pair of shoe very first time you wearit the shoe sole remains on the tarmac! Their products are rejects europeans and the rest of the world dont want… malabishi!
Dude don’t buy from them, and I guess they’re cheap because of that….low quality.
True. akwende ukwabula insapato, makandi yobe.
kekekekekekekekekekekekekekekeke! i can imagine shoe sole remains on the tarmac whilst smartly dressed kwekwekwekwe!
Typical kombonic mentality.If he was African the first accusation could have been that he is a satanist.
Please people how can you call someone coming all the way from China to come and sell kaunjika an investor? Instead of bringing equipment to start manufacturing those shoes in Katete, Chinese are busy competing with locals in the selling of things like shoes. Inu mungalore munthu waku China kuti adzakuphunzitseni kuphika ndi kugulitsa nsima pa msika? Kupusa nkutani mmudziwa kuti anthuwa akutigwira mmaso. Abweretse investiment yeni-yeni, osati izi zopusa zomapikisana ndi eni dziko….. Malabishi.
True man……these chinese are more like street vendors!!!!
Can’t you articulate in English since the article you’re commenting on is in English. Just makes sense to me.
Natty if that is the case then market forces will intervene. People will not buy these products if they are that bad. They will go for other cheaper sources. Destroying up the Chinese shop doesnt help
Aso laiti………. fanika ni kudala, fanika amuchaya kudala mchinese uyu. Anthu apa Katete ulemu too much mukaona munthu wakunja maka maka ma China ndi azungu. Akutolelani cifukwa aona ngati ndinu atulo toliza nato mkonono. ini indaba so?
All this Chinese person did is he has given the traders competition so they also have to look for a way to buy their products from a cheaper source to compete with him. This is good for the country let the customers themselves judge what the best quality is when they buy and use. If the Chinese has poor quality they dont have to worry as people will go back to the other traders in a few weeks or months.
@Natty your very ignorant. Does your response to the story warrant the use of racist words in your comments.
SHUT UP :d
For sure we don’t need such infestors or sorry investors a shop business should be left to the locals even if the locals also abuse fellow locals by high prices so its a lesson learn t for these locals POVERTY minds full stop
FAKA MULILO WE DONT NEED THE CHINESE TRADING IN ZAMBIA ESPECIALLY IN RURAL AREAS.DURING THE 2ND REFORMS IN 1968 SUPER KEN BANNED ASIANS TRADING IN RURAL AREAS IF THEY WERE NOT ZAMBIANS BY BIRTH BUT THE MMD HAS BROUGHT THE CHINESE FILTH Y BUSINESS BACK. THE CHINESE SHOULD ONLY BE ALLOWED TO INVEST IN BIG INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS LIKE PRDUCING HEAVY INDUSTRIAL MACHINERIES AND NOT TO SELL CHICKENS, VEGETABLES AND SALAULAS.THE MMD HAD AGREED TO EXAMPT THE CHINESE BUSINESSMEN FROM PAYING DUTY FOR THEIR IMPORTS INTO ZAMBIA TO PAY OFF CHINESE LOANS FOR THE ZAM TAN RAILWAYS SO HOW CAN THE LOCAL TRADERS COMPETE WITH THEM..THE CHINESE NEEDS TO BE STOPPED IN TRADING FAST BEFORE ITS TOO LATE AS WE ALL KNOW CHINESE BREEDS FASTER THAN MOSQUITOS.
Our GRZ should do something tyola mutengo half price is too much although its liberal market.
Katete is a very poor rural district. Many people’s incomes are very low. Therefore they deserve a shop where they can manage to buy clothes for their children. And this is what the chinese man has brought. The traders are greedy and want to punish the people of Katete with exorbitant prices and make Katete even poorer. DC has done the right thing by protecting the chinese businessman. At least the poor people of Katete have somewhere to go. Zambians are so greedy and myopic, cant see the benefits accruing to a larger community. They only focus on personal gain. The chinese is focussing on the community. Thank you DC Katete.
Chasee
#4 what market force will you find in Katete or maybe you don’t understand the true meaning of it….. this is the classic example of true capitalist assumption of an economist and USA is equally failing to let free trade force operate and resorted to protectionism….Socialist system is prevailing and proving a capitalist mind wrong….it’s who has the money versus who also has that makes free market forces naturally assumed to work not where one has and the other doesn’t money power…its winner take all…..I do not support what happened but the best way to signal government to re-think their game is such–UPRISING hello
Katete Traders these a thing called “Competition”. If you think its unfair then prove it in the court of law. Otherwise find ways to compete with him.
If you can’t compete with him join him :) Lower your prices to match his or lowest to attract more customers and steal them from him.
The Chinese makes what he sells. You buy what he sells. HOW CAN THEY BE CHEAPER THAN HIS???? Amusing circus…
…I meant you buy and sell what he sells…
Does anyone understand anti-dumping laws enforced in many countries including the USA. Recently the USA banned the sale of solar panels from China because they were being sold below cost. Givernment interverns by imposing duty. Other people should not take the law in their hands they are civil ways of dealing with issues.
The government should protest its citizens from such investors. The USA has put in place protective measures to control goods entering American market esp from China.
Such problems will be exacerbated with Dual citizenship. Such chinese traders after a few years or months or after an arranged fake marriage with a local Zambian woman will claim citizenship in huge numbers? Read the Theory of Unintended Consequences of Purposeful Action. DUAL CITIZENSHIP NEDS TO BE THOUGHT THROUGH VERY CAREFULLY AND STRIGENT CHECKS PUT IN PLACE IF IT IS TO BE IMPLEMENTED WITHOUT UPHEAVALS LIKE THESE. Indian labourers/artisans brought by KCM also dont wanna go back
Its not the Chinese trader to blame! Its the free trade market policy! The government must educate its citizens about these policies full stop
Very much backward behaviour typical of a backward coutry like zambia where corruption, adultery,thugery,murder,rape,jealous,lazines is the order of the day, Compete with the chinaman, if u think he sells fake stuff, why buy from him ..ATASE
you are right, my people are very backwards
What is the connekition # 2 amafuus?
I am dissapointed that Zambians dont learn & forget easily. Dual citizenship is being peddled the same way PRIVATISATION was being championed in the early 90s. People were made to believe that everything was rosy about privatisation (by politiciand and paper “intellectuals”) until they started to lose jobs by the thousands. The privatisation “magic wand” suddenly turned into a devil’s harvesting sickle for workers in UBZ, ZRL, INDECO, ZAMBIA AIRWAYS, MANSA BATTERIES KAPIRI GLASS, LENCO, MONRACH ETC. ZAMBIAN DO NOT BE GULLIBLE. Dual citizenship is double edged sword. It is bound to have similar results as privatisation with an elite minorty beneffiting and the majority poor being overwhelmed and trampled by competition from outside.Result, Xenophobia and rebellion.
#21 I think iwe chigelo ndiwe satanist!
these chocholis should improve on the quality of the items..being sold..
#2
How much TAX ,if any has this Bruce Lee ever paid.So is he an investor .In his shop ,its only wife and brothers ,so did he create employment .KILL HIM
Under normal circumstances, the stakeholders in a given community should be consulted about a new business investment. This usually creates harmony among competitors.
How many residents of Katete are trully agrieved by this Chinaman’s shop? My guess is that one or two shop owners who have been exploiting the Katete residents are behind this cowardly incident. I don’t buy this awful piece of reporting by LT. Get to the root of the story before you start writing you punks.
ba #19 theoritician you are growing faster than an i.diot. you seem not to even know what you are trying to say. Dual citizenship has nothing to do with this scenario.All we are tring to protect is our chilldren so they can have a claim to where we come from.These are intelligent kids who are being educated by the west so they can easily go back home and contribute to the development.wE ARE NOT ADVOCATING FOR CHEAP SALAULA TALK..How do you think America or even Britain excels?The children born in Zambia are never denied their parents citizenship just because they were born in Zambia.You will never deveop mwefipuba imwe. That chinese just needs to be heavily taxed so he push up his prices.I rest my case.
Misleading title to article.
On what basis did this trader get his visa and right to trade in Zambia? isnt there a minimum investment value for investors? Selling in a shop does not meet that minimum investment value so this guy is probably illegal or bought his visa from corrupt officials. They should burn his shop.
Yes when South Africans did this to foreigners who were conducting business in their townships, you Zambians labelled them “Xenophobic”. Now lets see what you will call your countrymen doing the same thing.
#32,You got your facts wrong.The residents were protesting against a Chinese trader for unfair business tactics not against a Zimbabwean or fellow Africans.They did not beat him or even set him or his shop on fire like the you did.Shoprite,Spar,Pick ‘n Pay shops are everywhere but none has protested.Please don’t try to justif your evil actions.You shed innocent blood of poor desperate neighbors from SADC.The same people who sacrificed and shieded your gallant freedom fighters.Look at the way you boast about your football.You may have the resources but no talent.All you are good is toi, toying in the street and blaming the whites for your misery.Shame on you.
#23 well said i wish you would post your messege on all the articles on LT…at least there is hope that we still have people like you and me and many other that understand the implications of dual citizenship and privatisation….they is hope!!!
this is the reason why such cheap investors should not be allowed in the country,honestly what are zambians going to trade in the government should look into this,go katete residents go”
Leave this Chinese foreign investor alone. Aren’t you the same people who condemn the Barotse for not allowing Indian and Chinese shopkeepers in their area? Shopkeeping is an entry level business into the world of property ownership and capitalism. If you foolishly cede it you will forever remain buyers of what others produce and sell to you in your own land! What are Zambians good at if you unable to run grocery stores, pharmacies, petrol stations, but butcheries etc.
@ 30 Shinkatwa. This is about indigenous Zambians fighting off unfair competition from foreign traders which has unfortunately turned violent. If you cannot see a connection between dual citizenship and its potential to open floodgates to Zambia for undesirable immigrats from Nigeria, DRC, China india etc who will trade in tuntemba and compete for market spaces with locals then I am left to wonder who the REAL ***** is? Zimbabwe and RSA are examples of countries which are flooded with phoney Nigeran kiosk businessmen. With DC all a nigerian needs is to arrange a fake marraige with a zambian woman at the local courts to claim citizenship. I am not totally against DC but it ought to be handled with extreme caution. Not recklessly like Privatisation was handled.
:(( pf
The Chinese do huge business here in the USA also. We call it “Walmart”
Good Luck Zambia we know your pain. dammed if you do, dammed if you dont
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