The Lusaka full council sitting yesterday heard that plans are under way to clear street vendors in the Capital City.
The full council further heard that the Lusaka City Council ( LCC ) has in this vain identified a piece of land in Chibolwa where it build a mega market for vendors.
ZANIS reports that this was revealed by Lusaka city council Director for Engineering Services Gilbert Sendama during the adoption of the Third Ordinary council meeting minutes, yesterday.
Mr Sendama said the clearing of street vendors trading along the Lumba and Cairo roads, respectively, will be done prior to the 50 years jubilee celebrations.
The full council further heard that a consultant from South Africa was engaged by the city council so as to help the council plan how to handle street venders.
It was also learnt that council officials from LCC recently travelled to South Africa to learn from that country how it has managed street vending.
And Munali PF area member of parliament Prof Nkandu Luo said that Rwanda was the only country in Africa were street vending has been dealt with successfully.
The law maker said council officials would have learnt more on the handling of street vendors if they had visited Rwanda.
BA LUSAKA CITY COUNCIL, MWAPUSA!
How do you travel o South Africa to learn how that country has managed street vending?Who introduced in the first place? You or Government or Your President or Unknown or South Africa?
That indeed shows how foolish our local government you are in mismanaging our public resources that should have gone for service delivery, but u end fattening for *****ic stomachs. Remember you sort out problems by finding the “ROUT-COURSE”. Ask the the introducer of street vending (PF) powerful Failures.
who looks up to South Africa on street vending? SA is just as filthy, with vendors all over the place
Vending was encouraged and even launched as a political decision by the PF to enhance its popularity. MMD were doing the same. The PF government knows what to do to remove street vendors. The consultancy awarded to a South African firm is merely to be used to delay the removal of street vendors until after 2016 elections. Politicians in this country are so scared of being voted out of power for fear of being unemployed and also to pay back huge loans contracted when get govt jobs. It is really sad how so-called politicians have continued to manipulate Zambians and plunder our resouces (tax payers’ money). Who will speak for Zambians? Themselves through radical voting. Depart from tribal voting please and start a new chapter in Zambian politics.
PF-CNP typical chimbwis no plans. Why is Mulenga Sata Lusaka mayor if he can’t solve the simple problem of street vending? If Mulenga Sata can’t solve this simple problem what national problems?
That money being paid to a South African consultant could have been better spent on developing a huge market for vendors. All the government needs to solve this problem, is legislate against street vending and enforce the law strictly.
PF has run out of ideas. Busy exporting jobs abroad.
What happened to the other consultants in Zambia?
PF simply have neither the intelligence nor the guts to deal with street vending.
My advice to them is just shut up and focus on this Friday’s looming parliamentary joke.
Eish…. Mxxm.
Thanks.
The realisation has dawned on them that street vending is not the way to appease and win voters over. It is an eyesore, dirty and unhealthy, subtracting value to the city looks. Prof Nkandu had an idea on how to end the plague but was stopped cold in her tracks as it was assumed she will de campaign the party; but alas it seems the appeasement policy has backfired.
consultant on street kids from south africa? my foot! are you serious??,,,, south africa itself has BIGGER street kids issues than Zambia,,,,, just get the economy right and there will no street kids period,,,,
What consultant? Balamililafye mane yenu. Come to Johannesburg CBD and see street vendors all over the place. Fyabufi.
Ati Consultant from South Africa, my foot!!!
Me I live here in Jozi. Like @Ndobo has said, you will find street kids/beggars, etc at every traffic light. Why hasn’t South Africa dealt with this problem? Just improve the economy then you will see them out of the streets.
By the way we have street vendors in power aka Bakaponya, how do you expect street vending to end?
I ECHO OTHER BLOGGER WHO SAYS PF HAVE NO INTELLIGENCE TO HADNL THIS SIMPLE MATTER.
PATRICIA NAWA WAS MAYOR UNDER THE MMD GOVERNMENT AND DID NOT NEED ANY CONSULTANT FROM ANYWHERE TO DEAL WITH THIS.
SHE SIMPLY STRATEGIZED AND ONE MORNING THE VENDORS WERE ALL OFF THE STREETS TILL MR. SATA CAME INTO POWER TO ALLOW THEM BACK.
MR. SATA IS THE ONE WHO HAS ALLOWED THIS AND IT ONLY TAKES A DIRECTIVE FROM HIM TO GET THEM OUT. IT IS CALLED “POLITICAL WILL.” MY ADVISE, DON’T WASTE MONEY THAT YOU SHOULD BE PAYING COUNCIL WORKERS TO GET A CONSULTANT FROM SA, GET PATRICIA NAWA TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO.
…and you called that a solution? Why did they came back after your Nawa solution?
Chamba, they came back because !diotic PF came to power and your dull president stopped Nkandu Luo from removing them, thats why they came back.
in a country where lawlessness is easily condoned i doubt if the PF government will sort out the problem of street vending. The culprits are the high level politicians who think they are rewarding their cadres by allowing them to trade on the streets.
Even the political leaders right now in power are kaponyas just masquerading as leaders, there is no solution to this impasse.
South Africans have a notorious street life in all sections of life’s activity as far as I recollect. It is funny that we have decided to hire one of theirs to ‘teach’ us how to end street vending when it is rife back there. Matter of fact one of the solutions you can implement is what is already happening: devolve your shopping areas by setting up malls in neighborhoods. Those rushing home will not be anxious to get what they need as they will find stuff near their homes. Is it rocket science really??? Eish!
A consultant from south Africa,are you people serious? Go to Johanesburg and see. Let us be serious please…
That’s money for nothing. We have nothing to learn from RSA about street vending. Clearing the streets requires political will. Vendors don’t want to be in markets because there’s little pedestrian traffic in those markets, except over weekends. The proposed huge market in Chibolya will be empty as nobody will sell in it. Also most sensible people don’t want to go to a drug haven of Chibolya.
And you had to get a consultant from south africa just for that. Wastage of resources. I remember the days council police together with state police would patrol and confiscate goods from vendors all over the CBD. The law currently does not permit vending. Bottom line. But since some dim wits want to please people, a wrong precedence has been set. Even this idea will fail as long as you continue to permit them to stay in the streets. Markets have become white elephants as everyone is now taking to the street.
Free Consultation
Simply implement and uphold the law. Remove all vendors from the street. Keep them off the street. Then continue to build more markets. Chapwa
Clueless empty tins indeed….this consultant must be surprised himself as this is easy money for him only in Zambia.
We are patiently waiting for deadwood president to show himself on the 19th!!
Satanomics at work – create a problem and spend money to be seen to be working – so called massive development! In Kitwe, a big market building has been deserted by the marketeers after spending so much money on it, due to lack of political will to fight this street vending. What will gurantee their stay at the proposed ‘Chibolwa’ Market Building, which I suppose, of all places to shop from, it will be in Chibolya Compound?
1. So how exactly will a consultant from South Africa help to stop street vending when the same happens there?
2. The PF President has publicly said the street vendors should be allowed to trade on the streets because they are the ones who voted him into power – is the LCC trying to go against Sata’s policy?
Next to madness of the highest order. Ministry of local government has hired a consultant on the same issue, the council also hires a consultant on the same issue. What is going on here. Can some one enlighten me. Our monies are being wasted under day light robbery through reckless behavior by our leaders. Our markets like Kabwata remain a sorry sight due to lack of maintenance etc. Can citizens complain about this officially?
Well this is very interesting reading. Masebo tried during the MMD period to fix this problem. Indeed it reduced substantially. It then flourished again when PF immediately assumed power. Nkandu Luo then tried to fix this problem again and the president stopped her and transferred her to another ministry. So it grew bigger and bigger as the PF nourished this problem of street vending. Now the PF wants to hire a ‘consultant’ from South Africa to ‘solve’ this problem. My foot! Do we not have local people who can think and find a solution to this problem? 50 yrs after independence, we still have no people in our midst who can help with such a non-technical issue! Just hire me you dull people. Why are you so keen on wasting forex. I am seriously ashamed of being a Zambian.
So, what is the plan now? What are the measures and solutions to handle this issue?
What will street vendors end up doing?
A lot of simple questions with no tangible answers …
Nkandu Luo is wrong Rwanda has street vendors, it is the scale that is low and besides every Saturday morning, Rwanda is closed to business to clean. The issue with street vendors is not them but the dirty surrounding the trade.
I am predicting this problem will never end!
I agree with you, what we can do is manage the issue.
i have said it before and i will say it again. zambia needs a white man (not the likes of Scott) to develop and to be clean. why? because Zambians respect white skin more than black skin. Sata created this problem and not you want to spend money for what Luo, chanda & Nawa nearly completed without a consultant from RSA. Even Masebo did her best in L/stone without a consultant. pf has brainless people. atleast Luo had told you that you should have gone to learn from Rwanda for free. the while man will be laughing all the way to the bank. who will go to chibolya? there’s filthy comesa market and Soweto market which you could have developed with multi stories for the Lumumba vendors to go in. here is free advise. but brainless pf will not take it.
How old are you?
@another Patriot.
Zambia does not need any white anything.
We need Zambians engaged in street vending to obey the laws of this country. Those street vendors should be controlled through the laws of Zambia.
We have the ability to deal with street vending through the current laws, it is the will of the gov’t that is lacking. The idea of an area for vendors is a good one as long as it is not too near city centre.
Zambians suffer from many kinds of ‘apathies’; as these responses indicate.
Voter apathy; we now have reverted to tribalism and pick your favourite politician instead of taking a democratic path.
Confidence in Government apathy; Zambians no longer have confidence in gov’t because of corruption.
Rwanda can help us with tribal divisions as they have successfully re-integrated. Not street vending. Deloitte not a good idea. Waste of revenue. Apply current Laws. Stop calling foreign help.
The editors need to check the flow of english in these articles. It’s pathetic to say the least. Utter nonsence and not fit for a grade five school boy to read.
Education standards have really gone to the dogs in our country. I can’t believe this.
Stop street vending? Really? This I have to learn, because as most Zambians know, even in so called developed Countries like here in England there is street vending. The difference is simply that it is managed and controlled well in most cities. So, I am looking forward to learn from this Consultant. Now, where did I put my pen and pad… I only hope they have not misquoted this Consultant… ah yes!, found my pen and pad. Good to go.
Even the opposition has become yuzilesi. if we had credible opposition, they would stop the pf council from wasting our tax payers money. just tell Charles Katongo Mwango to write another letter and tell tell the vendors to vacate the streets. he is the one who created this mess. so he should stop it.
@ Another patriotic: the white man Zambian people need is you. Stand up and take responsibility of your country. If you keep on hibernating in your office and house, voters will continue electing the likes of Mangango MP. We just needed to take responsibility and move our country forward. Leaving the management of our country to comedians leads to such kind of results and unwarranted expenditures of the likes of what is being projected here. If PF had sound leadership, they would have realised that allowing uncontrolled street vending is a recipe for arnachy. God forbid, the time we will have a serious accident along Lumumba rd between Comesa mkt and Lumumba/Mumbwa rd junction will be the time we shall realise how foolish we have been by allowing vending along busy rds.
Every day evidence keeps piling up fast that PF govt is not only daft but insane as well. What happened to the attempt to hire auditors to solve this stup!dly simple problem? 50 years of independence and they still have no ideas of their own and must look to newly independent states for help! You can tell easily their retardedness and incapacity by the simple problems they have failed to solve up to now. For example, although solutions to prevent the recurrence of cholera for example is cleanliness and proper sanitation, but this is a mammoth problem PF has not idea how to fix. So you can safely predict accurately that at a certain time every year cholera will always unavoidably break out.
The best thing to do is to close of one of the streets ie freedom street then allow them to sell in that zone while subjecting them to high levies and taxes for trading in that area after all its a lucrative trading area so use the area to make money.
So if Rwanda is the only country that has succeeded, why get a consultant from SA and not Rwanda???????
Problem of vending can be solved in the following ways
I. Soweto market is a breeding ground for vendors. instead of allowing it to grow to that level a shopping mall would have been the best solution.
ii. the council should have built a vegetable market just after the mall
iii. Organise and strengthen township markets to modern standard obviously with a provision of low capital business ventures.
iv. Taking advantage of new townships such as Kamwala South, Chalala, Garden and Mean wood to build modern markets and shopping malls.
v. Increase the vending fees to K50 a day and reduce market levies to attract more people to the market.
vi. Sensitization programme about the dangers of vending
v. We should be working towards the 24/7 business arrangements to regulate…
Ba Prof. Naimwe, don’t you know that Rwanda is a dictatorship? There’s no negotiation with Gen. Kagame. You resist, you get a bullet in your head. South Africa is not the best example to give. I was in Pretoria not too long ago and the city is full of street vendors. The only difference is that they clean after doing their business. Its not as filthy as it is in Zambia. Look for another consultant. The consultants should be looking at ways to keep the city clean even in the midst of street vendors. Street vendors are every where even in the developed world but they are not as prominent because they trade in very clean environments. They use trucks (food trucks) etc in places where people have access to clean facilities like toilets at the work place etc
Why hiring experts from SA because even in south africa there is street vending. Infact there it is wider than here because even barber men go with their hair cutting machines and car bateries on road sides.
It is only that in Zambia, street vendors have been allowed even at the heart of the city.
Why hire a South African consultant when RB, a Zambian , had ended this rot? Just consult RB and I am sure he will advise the government for free.
Just to add to my debate with @another patriot
I feel very angry at the current government’s lack of ability. They do not demonstrate competence in their time in power. Why do you keep spending revenue (borrowed money most likely), to give to foreign bodies to resolve our problems. What is going on?
To iterate;
Rwanda can help us with tribal divisions as they have successfully re-integrated after great divisions. Not street vending. Deloitte not a good idea. Waste of revenue. Apply current Laws. Stop calling foreign help.
Zambia deals with illegal immigration through raids and shows capability in dealing with complex problems. Gov’t show us your capability, for our votes 2016. Your reliance on costly foreign help is making us feel less Zambian. People are calling on…
Personally, I will honestly say, any more calling on foreign help from PF and I will drop my support (opposition need not apply yet)! You make us feel ashamed of our country. I am a patriot born in independence period, and we were at that time told to be proud of self rule. Patriotism was our mantra. Your reckless destruction of self pride and confidence in Zambia under this gov’t is the worst of any gov’t in the world.
Zambians need to understand voting for a mandate rather than popularity, tribalism etc which is encouraged by current politicians of all parties. We only need Rwandan advice on dealing with tribalism and surely, Prof. Lou can see the irony of her call. Her office is part of the campaign to re-introduce tribal practices and re-identity along tribal lines……
@Patriot Abroad @Peter
When I say PF -CNP is bunch of f00ls and chimbwis no plan, you PF minions take out your knives against me. If this move to waste resources exporting jobs which can be rightly done by Zambians does not convince you then what will?
THE IDEA OF LCC CALLING A SOUTH AFRICAN-SA COMPANY TO COME AND END STREET VENDING IS AS STUP!D AS INVITING ANOTHER MAN TO COME AND SHOW YOU HOW TO PRACTICALLY COME AND SHOW YOU HOW TO SATISFYINGLY MAKE LOVE TO YOUR WIFE. FIRSTLY, STREET VENDING MAY NEVER BE COMPLETELY GOTTEN RID OF. THE COMPANY MAY JUST CONTROL IT TO A CERTAIN LEVEL. SECONDLY, ONE WONDERS WHY ZAMBIANS CAN’T COPY GOOD THINGS FROM SOME NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES SUCH AS BOTSWANA AND RWANDA. RWANDA IS ONE OF THE CLEANEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD AND HAS NO STREET VENDORS. WHY EVEN HIRE A CONSULTING COMPANY FROM SA AND NOT JUST GO AND OBSERVE HOW RWANDA DOES IT? BECAUSE SOUTH AFRICA IS NOT AS CLEAN AS RWANDA. COMPARED TO RWANDA SA IS VERY DIRTY. MISTAKE NUMBER THREE. LCC WANTS TO BUILD ONE MASSIVE (OBVIOUSLY UGLY) MARKET IN…
from 30… CHIBOLIA TOWNSHIP MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE PREVIOUS GVTs HAVE ALREADY MADE OF NOT BUILDING MARKETS WHERE THE PEOPLE LIVE IN TOWNSHIPS OR AT LEAST ADJACENT TO SHOPPING MALLS WHICH SHOULD HAVE MODERN FEE-PAYING TOILET FACILITIES MANNED BY ELECTRONIC GATES AND WELL MAINTAINED. NOW, THEY WANT TO BUILD ONE MASSIVE AND UGLY MARKET AS USUAL IN ONE LOCATION CREATING EVEN MORE LOGISTIC, AND HEALTH AND SAFETY PROBLEMS THAN SOLVING THEM. HOW DOES A PERSON WHO LIVES IN CHELSTON, IBEX OR NGOMBE COMMUTE TO SUCH A FARAWAY DISTANCE? LOOKING AT THE FIRE FIGHTING CAPACITY OF OUR MUNICIPALITY- WHEN FIRE BREAKS IN THAT MARKET HOW DO THEY SUCCESSFULLY PUT IT OUT?
SO THE END RESULT IS VENDORS WILL STILL GO BACK TO THE CITY TO RE-OCCUPY THE STREETS. OPEN AFRICAN SET UP MARKETS SHOULD BE CONSTRUCTED IN CLOSER PROXIMITY WITH SHOPPING MALLS, AND IN TOWNSHIPS CLOSER TO HUMAN TRAFFIC. OR ELSE BUILD SPECIALIZED MARKETS IN A FEW LOCATIONS WHERE SHOPPERS WOULD GO, KNOWING THAT SEVERAL OF THOSE MARKETS ARE SAY MEET MARKETS AND OTHERS ARE FISH MARKET, WHILE SOME ARE ALSO FRUIT AND VEGGIE MARKETS SUCH THAT THESE WELL MAINTAINED MARKETS ALSO BECOME TOURIST CENTRES, ETC WHERE A GREAT SHOPPING EXPERIENCE CAN BE ACHIEVED. ALONG WITH THESE MARKETS WILL BE PURPOSELY WELL DESIGNED RESTAURANTS. DO NOT BUILD THE BUILD THE SIMOSON EYESORE. THESE MARKETS SHOULD BE MANAGED BY BOARDS OF DIRECTORS.
@Peter
Those are the actions of your aspiring president Mulenga Sata. Typical uchimbwi chabe.
PF nivipuba chabe
why hire consultants from SA to solve street vending in Lusaka, when we have more street vendors in Johannesburg than in Lusaka? Go to Kerk street in central Johannesburg and you will find street vendors from all over the world. Even New York has street vendors. The only difference is that most of those street vendors found in Lusaka are kabovas who do care about the conditions under which they trade. Generally as Zambians sanitation is not paramount. When you compare the cleanliness of the toilets of the bar in Soweto to those in “Dallas”(Kabwata) on average the toilets in Soweto are far much cleaner. Yet you will find the bars in Kabwata packed with the so called middle class who have to waddle through pools of water and urine to reach the urinals.