Barrick Lumwana Mine Managing Director Boyd Timler says his company has employed 5 000 employees directly and 15, 000 other
indirect jobs to Zambians through contractors since it the company commenced operations three years ago.
And North Western Province Minister Stephen Masumba urged the mine to consider employing qualified Zambians in managerial positions.
Mr Timler said most technical jobs have been outsourced mainly from the copper belt due to lack of technical skills by local people surrounding the mining area.
He explained that many locals in the mine area hail from agricultural backgrounds as compared to their colleagues from the copper belt and other parts of the country.
This came to light when North Western Province Minister Stephen Masumba toured the mine in Solwezi yesterday.
Speaking earlier, North Western Province Minister Stephen Masumba urged the mine to consider employing qualified Zambians in managerial positions.
He said it was disheartening to see that mainly expatriates take up managerial positions at the expense of qualified Zambians, a situation he said must be revisited.
Mr Masumba was on his familiarisation tour of the giant mine in the province since his appointment as provincial minister by President Sata in November after he scooped the Mufumbwe Parliamentary by-elections as the first Patriotic Front Member of Parliament in the province.
ZANIS
Awesome
Typical of our lame government ministers pleading to the muzungu yet all he has to do is tighten work permit regulations and requirements..how can it be disheartening to you? that’s liken to a farmer crying to everyone that its disheartening to see his chickens being eaten every night by wolves all because he has no secure fence.
why can,t the mines start job on trainings as ZCCM did so that locals can also be developed in terms of skills?
Masumba do your best as Mufumbwe is wainting to see the promised development regards
#2 Jay Jay is very wright. All the governement need to do is tighten workpermi and ensure, unless the Zambian do not have such qualifications then they can outsource. What the gorvernment need to know is that, it is deliberate policy for investors not to put local trianed staff in those positions simply because, they do nowt want locals to know how much worthy is being exploited. Here is an example. I know of Zambians qualified Geologist who are employed mining companies in Zambia but are sent to say Chile, Ghana, West Africa, Siera leone and in exchange they bring in outsiders to explore in Zambia. So you will never know the true picture of minerals in zambia cause it is in the hands of foreigners. The same is for those countries where zambians go to explore.the infor in not useful to zam
Why are you suddenly giving the mine a slave name? Mental colonisation? We know it as Lumwana but now you add some foreign name to it?
We should not even rejoice in some of these attention grabbing headlines. They give 5,000 labourer jobs and blow their trumpets while managerial and real business opportunities are given to Austrialian companies that never even set foot in our country. All engineers with decision making powers are Austrialian and you go and try and convince these guys that you have products that will compete with those from the native friends….
We should blame ourselves 4 what is happening.
(A cow grazzing in lusaka but milked in bombay)
In all fairness KK’s policy of nationalisation was the best way 2 go.
I know a section of society will disagree with my setiments.But I wld like them 2 tell me any tangible development privetisation has brot mother zambia.
Our nation will owaz b riped off our natural resources if we continue entrusting everthing in2 foreighners hands.Its high tym we started controling our destiny.Capitalist are only interested in making profits.
sundan
These guys are here to dig-out your copper for sale abroad…they wouldn’t do it as it costs money and would affect their bottom line; they would rather give a local football team $100,000 or sponsor the next live chipolopolo match as we are extremely credulous…easily swayed by cheap handouts and handouts are very cheap for them.
On the other hand gov’t could put into policy that these companies offer accredited management training schemes for local staff and restrict the number of expatriates to only specialist professional fields to encourage skill empowerment and skill training…backed by some innovative tax incentive. The day that happens they will advertising for staff training like no man’s business.
Masumba is the man of the moment, check he is already instructing the Muzungu to employ qualified zambians in management positions ..Thus why i voted for this ,man, he is a pusher
we vote poor people whom if ascend on that position will not even of us who voted for him. so he just went there for donation nothing else and zanis just blind folding us with story we hear always when a minister makes a tour to these companies. nothing has changed we just see more Indians Chinese south African and many more increasing in numbers.
we vote poor people whom if ascend on that position will not even think of us who voted for him. so he just went there for donation nothing else and zanis just blind folding us with story we hear always when a minister makes a tour to these companies. nothing has changed we just see more Indians Chinese south African and many more increasing in numbers.
There are lot of issues at kalumbila mine,Lusaka times follow up with chief musele and the mine itself .The displacmnte process is not being handled right.
Even Among Zambians there are local and non locals. The bets way is start giving work permits. but how will you know then since they are all zambians. How about the locals in Lusaka and Copper belt.
The problem is not about giving Zambians managerial jobs but about money they will pay the Zambian guy in the Managerial position.I worked for Lumwana for 2 years after relocating back to Z from outside and realised that as long as you are a local guy always the wage is low. I tracked back to foreignland to work in similar position i held at Lumwana and now paid as an expert.
Lumwana problem was created by government policy which is so weak when it comes to restricting who should come in the country. Lumwana has so many experts from Australia who came in name of Supervisors but in actual fact they are just mere Operators where they come from. However its great to know that our new North Western minister is looking into it and hopefully one day we shall come back when conditions improve.
TZ you are 100% correct. One only wonders how an expert can work at Lumwana for 4 years continously when most of them come in the name of trainers….
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