Mitch Mainza

Listen without defending; speak without offending.🇿🇲
Humble, easy to associate with, cheerful person and God fearing.

[Mitch Mainza @mitchmainza]

@CocoaMiwe One may be tempted to believe in climate change, seasons are no longer the way they used to be, today, they are very unpredictable.

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@SubetaMutelo Sharp PS

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@SubetaMutelo Beautiful

[OPP ZM @HonMushimba]

A good day today as Zambia adds 100MWs of solar PV to the generation fleet. Kudos to ZESCO/GRZ on this development 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[Ms. Chibwe 📷 @ChibweLumpa]

Reading for July 📖

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@SekayiTigere How much for this

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@BuyoyaJonah This is an insult, there is no deal (promotion) there, it's seeing clients as fools

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@DuncanSodala @alados I scoped 2nd Position at the inter district in Mathematics some years back.

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@SubetaMutelo Beautiful

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@missmwenya_ Beautiful

[Mitch Mainza @mitchmainza]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[SpurgeonBooks @SpurgeonBooks]

“The power of prayer can never be overrated.
If a man can but pray he can do anything.”

— Charles Spurgeon

[Dora Siliya-PhD @Dora_Siliya]

Solar, coal, more hydro and even open access discussed past ten years.. What's missing- not political will again? IT'S NATIONAL INTENT. The national focus on a critical mission beyond politicians: Power at all cost for INDUSTRIALIZATION.

[Sampa Kabwela @ukusefya]

Namibia has imposed visa requirements for non-reciprocating countries (street talk; tit-for-tat). List of countries includes the US and UK. “To ensure parity and fairness in diplomatic interactions,” says the government, using the principle of reciprocity in International Relations. 🧡

[Mitch Mainza @mitchmainza]

@ukusefya @LauraMiti Check this out

[Sampa Kabwela @ukusefya]

The staggering transformation of Nairobi as Lusaka sleeps

The ride from KK International Airport through Great East Road into Lusaka city, is a sad and emotional experience. You are assaulted by the stagnation, the decay, the failure, the lack of vision, and above all, the missed opportunities of the last 30 years. There is no other way of putting it other than to say Lusaka hardly qualifies as a city. The assault is harder when coming from Kenya or Ethiopia.

The first time I went to Nairobi was in 2004; nothing stood out, it felt and looked like Lusaka. I went back c2013, it looked and felt different; the energy was palpable. Today, Nairobi is on a different level. The amount of development, infrastructure, and industry is staggering. Kenya is on a path, in fact, the whole of East Africa, of unprecedented economic development.

Southern Africa, once a preferred region has been overtaken. Not even South Africa has developed at the same pace as #Kenya in the last 15 years.

The quality of housing, new neighborhoods, industries, roads, and the brand #MadeinKenya, owned wholly by black Kenyans is another level. Kenyans, I have been told (and it shows), always invest their money, even stolen public funds, at home (not offshore accounts). This way, one can argue that the population still benefits from what was stolen through jobs and world class infrastructure.

Addis, 20 years ago, when I first went there, felt like a big rubble. Anyone who has been frequenting or transiting through Addis in the last two decades can testify to its breathtaking transformation. I worked between Lusaka and Addis for seven years. The Ethiopian train has left us brethren. I have not been back to Tanzania in years, but I am told it's a country in rapid transformation.

In comparison, just look at GER, The only visible transformation is the number of Borehole Drilling Companies: I counted 40 from Chelston to Cairo Road. At night, driving in the pitch black airport road is like driving into the heart of darkness itself.

East Africa, led by Nairobi, is now Africa's promised land (forget SA). Its the most sort after hubs for international and silicon valley companies, and subsequently, one of the most competitive places to land a job. This was not the case ten years ago. Kenyans, from their sheer industriousness, love are transforming their country and themselves. More international companies means more money in the economy, more skills, more jobs, more everything.

Kenyans they say, can't see an idle piece of land without wanting to do something about it. Years ago, my young sister connected me to a Kenyan who had barely arrived in Lusaka to work for an international and was already renting idle land to plant maize. I recently connected a colleague to a fertilizer contact in Lusaka. One of the most sought-after fertilizers in Kenya is made in Zambia (by the way).

Kenya still has many problems, just like Zambia, but they are playing a far different game from Zambia in every possible sector from the economy, arts, media, to culture, and even the quality of discourse is another level. Read a Kenyan newspaper, the quality of writing, depth, arguments and intellectualism is nothing to the raw deal we are fed here. I belong to a WhatsApp group of Zambian International professionals, our overwhelming discourse daily is politics, tribal divisive politics. A similar group by Kenyans is mainly about pooling funds, investments and building new housing complexes, buying shares in new hotels and coffee estates (with political differences but aside). The famous multi-million dollar renaissance dam in #Ethiopia has been financed by Ethiopia diaspora.

Frankly, I don't see how Zambia will ever catch up.

[Diamond Media @diamondtvzambia]

LUNGU JUSTIFIES CALL FOR AN EARLY ELECTION

By Darius Choonya

Former Republican President Edgar Lungu has justified his call for an early election.

In a statement posted on his facebook page, the former President says the economic crisis and increasing high cost of living that

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@ConradMbewe My condolences

[Demi Farms @demi_farm]

Thanks