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[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

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[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

@hatembo_edwin Any relationship with Pheluna and Milton Hatembo?

If so, how has their court case of abduction gone so far?

[Felix @FMwenge]

Ba @diamondtvzambia are conducting presidential debates for aspiring candidates. They asked on FB for some possible questions they would want the public to ask. Here are my top 8 sampled from my list:

1. Zambia’s urban housing shortage is a significant issue. The limited supply of affordable housing, often at inflated prices, is a major driver of the cost of living. Many households are forced to work solely to cover rent, leaving little for other necessities.

What's your plan?

2. Public transport in urban Zambia remains chaotic, inefficient and unsafe. After paying rent, the working class often spends the remainder of their income on commuting in hazardous conditions, which can take hours and negatively impact productivity. Some families resort to purchasing cars not out of financial means but to avoid the inconveniences of public transport. This exacerbates the cost of living due to rising fuel costs and the expenses of imported car parts.

What's your plan?

3. Water and sanitation are also critical concerns. Most urban and peri-urban areas lack access to clean and reliable water supplies. In larger cities where new housing developments have expanded, sewer services are often absent. Instead, households rely on septic tanks and boreholes, with shallow wells remaining a source of water supply in compounds. This situation poses a high risk of contamination, exposing the population to waterborne diseases.

What's your plan?

4. CDF: Since 2021 the CDF has increased by nearly 2000%. This is a significant development and presents a substantial opportunity. However, the projects undertaken with CDF do not appear to reflect the stated availability of funds. It would be beneficial to pursue more ambitious initiatives and undertake substantial community projects such as constructing houses for teachers, nurses and other workers in districts. This could include building modern schools away from the traditional 1:2 classroom blocks and ablutions, enhancing access to power (for example solar energy) in schools and health facilities and other infrastructure. What's the plan?

5. Mining Skills: Over 100 years of mining has made Zambia the largest exporter of copper and other minerals. However, the country has failed to establish itself as a global hub for mining skills. This is primarily due to the absence of an academy for mining. I’m not talking about some department in the corner of UNZA, CBU or Nortech. I’m talking about a mining centre of excellence with state of art research that supplies knowledge and skills to other countries.

What's your plan?

6. Town and Urban Planning: The country’s urban planning is chaotic. The lack of a clear plan for the movement of people and goods due to unplanned growth poses a significant challenge. This could lead to a situation where it becomes difficult for people to move around Lusaka and other big towns. And there doesn’t seem to be plans to address this. Developing towns close to big cities is a solution, others could include introduction of fast trains to nearby towns to stop people from having to live and work in major urban centres.

What's the plan?

7. How many kilometers of roads, both tarred and gravel are the candidates planning to construct when elected? Because we need Zambia to be strongly linked to easy movement of people, goods and services. Priority should go to roads leading to borders because these are trade corridors.

What’s your plan for the Livingstone Sesheke road?

8. Local enterprise: Zambian families are fed by metal fabricators in Kalingalinga and Garden compound, timber sellers at Buseko, furniture manufacturers at Nakadoli market, crafts traders in Livingstone and Cashew growers in Mongu to mention a few.

What’s the plan for enhancing these group’s productivity?

What’s the plan for enhancing quality of their products and facilitating markets for better value?

[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

@oskidobanoko Mwalilamfya CV Yama 🤣🤣🤣

[Fred Mukwelela Nzangwa @Mukwelela]

In 2014, I was a student at ZCAS studying for my CIMA qualification. We were in a lecture on how to prepare core financial statements when our lecturer (May His Soul Rest in Internal Peace 🕊) suddenly paused and looked around the room. “How many of you in here own or owns shares ?” he asked.

The whole lecture theatre went quiet. Not a single hand went up. He smiled and continued teaching, but then he said something that stuck with me:

“You’re at ZCAS. Intermarket Bank is just a walk away from here at Central Park. You can buy shares worth K500 instead of drinking alcohol all the time !”

After the lecture, I decided to take him seriously. I walked straight to Intermarket at Central Park, found a financial advisor, and told him honestly: “This is my first time. I’m a student. I just came from class learning about shares and I want to buy a well-performing one.

”He advised me to buy CECZ shares Copperbelt Energy Corporation. At the time, one share was going for around K0.66. I bought shares worth K800 from my pocket money for the month … and then I forgot about it. Life moved on. I finished my studies, my career interests shifted from pure accounting into financial services, and that single share sat somewhere in the back of my mind.

Years later, I went back to check on it. What I discovered blew me away. Everyone who had bought shares around that time (including me) had been given free additional shares through corporate actions. Specifically, when CEC restructured and created CEC Africa (CECA), shareholders received shares in the new entity equivalent to what they held in CEC. On top of that, the original CEC share price had grown massively over the years from under K1 to well over K17 in recent times.

That one small decision buying a single share at K0.66 because my lecturer challenged us had multiplied in both quantity and value. What started as a casual act after class became real wealth creation through capital appreciation and corporate distributions.

All in all, that forgotten share taught me something powerful: Capital markets are not just for rich people or big institutions. They are for ordinary students, young professionals, and anyone willing to take that first small step.Instead of spending that K500 (or even less) on drinks and short-term fun, I had unknowingly put it to work in a real Zambian company that powers our economy.

Time, patience, and smart corporate actions did the rest. Today, I’m more convinced than ever that every Zambian should participate in our capital markets even if it’s just the minimum !

[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

@chisekechiteta Ichi chikonko mukwete, Yama.

Bembas say,
"Iciweme, cinema chi ilombela umuchele "

[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

@chisekechiteta Arguably one of the best folktales done in modern music. Ba PK would've been so proud.

[MEIZIER MUYENGA @MeizierMuyenga1]

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[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

@ukusefya @joseph_kalimbwe @Mundubilebrian "Fifite waleta, ikakwimina ichiwa.."

[AQUILA @aquila_fpoz_]

@ZachPasha The average person never lived in any form of utopia so they allow themselves to accept this. It’s appalling how no one truly cares.

[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

@aquila_fpoz_ Zambian public infrastructure is treated the same. Uncared for: dirty dirty dirty

[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

One thing's I've loved about this Mundubile campaigns, they've shown some levels of inclusion. Very consistent. Carrying along with the sign language interpreter, shows that you care for the marginalised: deaf persons.

[Brian Mundubile @Mundubilebrian]

Zambians want a New President next month. We are grateful for the love you have shown us in each town we visit.

Vote Brian Mundubile for President of Zambia on August on August 13

[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

@thedukeofkitwe 😂😂NHIMA should be reorganised. It should be broaden to cover such shortfalls

[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

Next is to modernised markets and Bus stations to stop physical collection of fees by Council police.
We need to reach a level where, Council will also feel free to fundraise for major projects through the capital markets by issuing Municipal bonds

[Dingindaba Jonah Buyoya @BuyoyaJonah]

Lusaka City Council say their revenue has soared from just K61,000 in Jan to nearly K14m in June after moving services onto the govt’s e‑Council digital platform. Officials say the shift seals leakages, boosts transparency and will fund better local service delivery.

[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

@FxMalume So, which offshore assets are you banking for?

[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

@h_chileshe On paper it's not.

[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

UPND will not get 3m votes.
They will win. But not anything more than their last time performance

[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

@ClintonKasikila @FxMalume 😂😂😂 I know right

[The Molecule @ZachPasha]

@FxMalume Awe Yama. While we dream, Malume you live 😅