Guesthouses, Motels and Hostels

GUESTHOUSES, MOTELS AND HOSTELS
LUSAKA
ANDREWS MOTELKafue RdTel: 272532 Fax: 274798 andmotel@zamtel.zm
ANINA'S
LODGETel/fax:
01-279045Cell: 096-597657[email protected]
BARN MOTELGreat East RdTel:1-213163,
260-1-214002[email protected]
BELEVEDERE HOSTELTel: 263079Tel: 250006 [email protected]
BLUE CREST
GUESTHOUSEHse# 15 Sable Rd.Tel: 01
260536Fax:260536
CHA
CHACHA BACKPACKERS LODGE161 Mulombwa Close.Tel/Fax: 222257[email protected]
CHITA LODGE25 Chakeluka Rd Olympia Park[email protected]
COMFORT
ZONEoff the Kafue road Cell: 097812393Tel: 272610Fax :
225617[email protected]
CRESTA GOLFVIEW HOTELOn Great East Rd, 10 minutes from the
airport
DREAM VALLEY PARK & LODGEIbex HillTele/fax :
260-1-260175[email protected]
EUREKA CAMPING & CHALETSKafue Rd 10kms south of
LusakaTel: 272351Fax: 225491[email protected]
Forest Inn63km from Kapiri Mposhi on Great North
Rd.Tel/Fax: +260 21 5353003Cell: +260 966343600[email protected]
Guest House LeRose
143 J Close,
Avondale
Telephone
(211) 284948
[email protected]

JULS GUESTHOUSEPlot 5508 Lusiwasi Rd, (off Libala Rd), Kalundu.Tel:
292979 / 293972Fax: 291246[email protected]
KAINGO GUEST
HOUSETel: 01 263231Fax:01 263231 .
La Consolata Lodge
Tel: +260 21 129 0856
Fax: +260 21 129 5567
[email protected]
LECHWE LODGETel: (032) 30128Fax:704803[email protected]
LONGACRES HOSTEL01 250087 / 250006[email protected]
MARGARETS GUEST HOUSETel: 01 295356
MASIYE DRIVE-IN
MOTELLumumba
road,Cell: 0966597657[email protected]
MOUNT SINAI GUESTHOUSE [email protected]

MUMANA PLEASURE RESORT10446 Great East RoadTel: 260 1 291860/3Fax: 260 1
291863[email protected]
MWIZA
LODGEPlot No 9708 Chudleigh,Tel: 260 1 290352 / 293084Fax:
260 1 292553Mobile: 260 97 770709[email protected]
OF EARTH AND HEAVEN
B&BLeopards Hill RdCell: 00260 977844680 and 00260
9784446Tel : 00260 211 263919[email protected]
REED MAT LODGEReserve Rd, ChudleighTel:
293426Cell: 097 854768 [email protected]
PRE-CEM
MOTELKabwe RdTel:243613/243314
PIONEER CAMPING AND CHALETSFrom Lusaka: 2.5 kms past airport
turnoff going east on the Great East RdTel: 096-432700[email protected]
Ungweru Lodge & Peggy LodgeTel
+260-211-282-337Cell +260-977-766-182E-mail: [email protected]
VINEYARD GUEST
HOUSEPlot 6610, Mumana Rd, Olympia Ext.Tel:260 1 292361 /
291204 [email protected]
VILLA LODGE
GARDENSTel: 260875Cell: 784956[email protected]
WAYSIDE BED & BREAKFAST Tel: 273439Fax:274444[email protected]
YWCANational rd, LusakaTel: 252726 / 263630[email protected]
ZAMCOM GUESTHOUSE,Tel: 251811Fax:254826
ZAM-EARTH
LODGETelefax:294680
WASINGO INNTel-1-284854 [email protected] CHISAMBA
FRINGILLA GUEST HOUSE 01 233885[email protected]
PROTEA
SAFARI LODGE704600/704601/3 704800[email protected] KABWE
KABWE LODGE 05 224297[email protected]
MASIYE
MOTEL Tel:
223221 KAPIRI
MPOSHE
UNITY
MOTELMain RdTel:
271350 KITWE
BLUE GATES
GUEST HOUSEChinkuni Cresent Tel:02 226606
EAGLE GUEST HOUSE22 Frazer Cres. RiversideTel. +260 2 229748 / 230761
/ 230777Fax. 230153 / 230557 Cell 096 784895 / 780319 / 780320[email protected]
LeRose Guest House
4939 Chitambo
Road, Riverside
Telephone (212)
227360
Mobile
0955786674
[email protected]

LOTHIAN HOUSETel: 02 222889[email protected]
MUKWA LODGETel: (212) 224266 / 224277[email protected]
SHERBOURNE
FARM LODGETel: 260 2 222168Fax:226477[email protected]
THE TOWN HOUSE LODGETel: 0212 221855
Cell: 0966826810 /
0955 826210
[email protected]
THE HOUSE
OF JASMINPlot 4650 Buyantanshi RdTel: 215124Fax:
211142.
LUANSHYA
BALUBA
RIVER MOTELTel: 511324/034/5Fax:511215
CHOLWA
GUEST HOUSE3 Cholwa CloseLuanshyaTel: 510821Cell:
096907479 Fax:511591[email protected]
LOWDEN
LODGETel: 02 511324 511034 / 511035[email protected]
MUFULIRA
MASIYE
MOTELTel: 411460 .
NDOLA
CHIKUMBI MOTELTel: 610117
HENRY MAKULU HOSTELYemte Rd, NdolaTel:
611900/612261Fax: 02 610149[email protected]
KATUBA GUEST HOUSE4 Mwabombeni RoadNorthrise,
NdolaTel: (0212) 671341 / 616165,Cell: (097) 8450245[email protected]

KASEMPA
Selah
GuesthouseKasempa, Boma097-7324004

CHIPATA
CHIPATA
COUNCIL GUESTHOUSETel:21288
CHIPATA
GUESTHOUSETel: 22287 /22311
CHIPATA
MOTELTel: 22340 /
22484
CRYSTAL
SPRINGS MOTELTel: 21154
LUANGWA HOUSETel: 062 21223[email protected]
KATUTA
LODGETel: 21318
MAMA
RULASCell: 260 ( 0) 97
768021[email protected]

KATETE
NEW MPANGWE
MOTELTel:52311 .
LUNDAZI
LUNDAZI
CASTLE MOTELTel: 80173 .
PETAUKE
NYIKA MOTELMain RdTel: 71002 .
SINDA
SINDA MOTEL Tel:
56160/43 KAWAMBWA
PILU’S MOTELTel: 960063 .
MANSA
BUNDA
INNTel:
821245
CHUKWUMA
GUESTHOUSEMansaTel: 02-821560Cell: 097-794643[email protected]
MANSA
BATTERIES GUESTHOUSEKabundu Mission RdTel:
821685
MANSA
LODGETel: 02 821302[email protected]
MANSA
MOTELMain RdTel: 821606.
NCHELENJE
LAKE MWERU
WATER TRANSPORT GUESTHOUSE Tel: 972064
SAMFYA
LAKE
BANGWEULU WATER TRANSPORT GUESTHOUSETel: 830111 KAFUE
RIVER MOTELTel: 311309 MKUSHI
FOREST
INNTel/Fax: 362188[email protected]
SWEETWATER GUESTHOUSETel: 05 362271/362245[email protected] KASAMA
KASAMA
LODGE[email protected]
THORNTREE
GUEST HOUSETel/fax: 4 221615[email protected]
SERENJE
SIGA SIGA
RESTHOUSE Tel: 382362
LUNGA
LUSWISHI
CHAMAFUMBU
CAMP (Self Catering) Tel: 227027/ 236054Fax: 223747 .
SOLWEZI
CHANGA CHANGA
MOTELTel: 821572
SOLWEZI COUNCIL
MOTELTel: 821427
ZAMBEZI
ZAMBEZI MOTELMain RdTel:
371123 .
CHIRUNDU
GWABI LODGETel:250772515072[email protected]
NYAMBADWE MOTELChirundu BorderTel: 515088 / 515084
CHOMA
KOZO LODGETel: +3 220347/ 220062Fax:
002603220347Cell:0026097468975[email protected]
MAZUKU LODGEChomaTel:032-20225:Cell:097-760756[email protected]
MAMBUSHI
CHALETS Tel:20021Fax: 20054 [email protected]
KALUNDU MOTELLivingstone RdTel:
20028 .
LIVINGSTONE / VICTORIA FALLS
CHANTERS LODGE &
RESTAURANTLukulu Cresent(off Obote Avenue)+260 (0) 3 323412
or+260 (0) 3 323850[email protected]
CHAPPA CLASSIC LODGE & TOURSTel:+260 3
322065Cell: +260 977796710 / 955882969[email protected]
ELITE APARTMENTSTel: +260-213-320262Mobile: +260 978 170
155Mobile: +260 955 170 155[email protected]
FAWLTY TOWERSInternational
BackpackersMosi-o Tunya RdTel: 323432[email protected]

GUEST
MATE LODGE Phone: 03 323 939 [email protected]

KWESU
GUEST VILLAGE+260 977 7844763+260 977
596733+260 21 3 327073[email protected]
JOLLY
BOYSPlot
559 Makambo WayTelefax: 324229[email protected]

LIMBO
LODGElot no: 205/206 Lusaka Road Tel: +260-3-322096Fax:
+260-3-322096Cel: +260-97-7881567[email protected]
LISELI
GUEST LODGENkwame Nkrumah Road 102Tel: + 260 3 321058Cell: + 26
097 7106349 or + 26 097 9494003[email protected]
Little Paradise Hotel
Livingstone
Backpackers 216 Mosi o Tunya RdTel: (+) 260 3 32 34 32[email protected]
Lubamutu Guest House
Maramba River
LodgeMosi o Tunya RdTel: 324189 / 324106Fax:
324266[email protected]
NGOLIDE
LODGEMosi-o-tunya rd, LivingstoneTel: 321091/2 Fax:
321113[email protected]
JUNGLE JUNCTIONBovu Island on the upper
ZambeziTelefax:+ 260 3 324127[email protected]
Nkhwazi Guest
HouseAirport Rd, LivingstoneTel 03 322570[email protected]
THE STONE GUEST HOUSETel:/Fax
+260-3-320985
Cell:
+260-97859852
[email protected]

SUNBIRD
GUESTHOUSETel:
+260-13-320550Cell:
+260-955-795293[email protected]
THE WANE GUEST LODGETel: 03-324058Cell:
097-881536[email protected]

THE WATERFRONT
ADVENTURE VILLAGETel: 32060[email protected]
ZIG ZAG BED
& BREAKFASTLivingstoneTel
++260 3 322814 [email protected]

MAZABUKA
MAZABUKA MOTELTel: 30284 .
SIAVONGA
EAGLES
RESTTel:
511168eagles@zamnet.zm
KARIBA NORTH
BANK GUEST
HOUSETel: 511192 / 7
LAKE SIDE
MOTEL Tel: 511148SIANSOWA
LWIIMBO LWA
ZAMBEZI SAFARIS Lake KaribaTel: +260 99 493980[email protected] KAOMA
VIANNEY
CHESHIRE GUESTHOUSE & CHALETS07) 360 235 or after 17.00h.: (07) 360
040. MONGU
MONGU
LODGETel: 221501[email protected]

SIR MWANAWINA
III MOTELTel: 221485 .
MONZE
MONZE MOTELTel/fax: 50089
TRUCKERS GUEST
HOUSE

Hotels In Zambia

In an effort to do our bit for Zambia we are going to focus on giving information on various business. We will start with tourisim and from time to time we will give an indepth view of various services offered. Below is a list of Hotels

Lusaka and
surrounds

8 REEDBUCK HOTELBoutique
Hotel Kabulonga
Tel: + 260 211 264 788Cell: + 260 96 674 0004
Email: [email protected]

CHAMINUKA LODGEPrivate Game Reserve
Tel: 01 233303/4Fax: 01 233305
[email protected]

DREAM VALLEY PARK & LODGE
Family Resort.
Ibex HillTele
/fax : 260-1-260175
[email protected]

FRINGILLA GUESTHOUSE50kms north Lusaka
Tel: 01 233885
[email protected]

FAIRVIEW HOTEL
Central Lusaka
Church Rd
Tel: 212954
[email protected]

GARDEN HOUSE HOTEL
Just outside town,
Mongu Rd
Tel: 233004/3Fax: 251734
[email protected]

GOLDEN BRIDGE HOTEL
Great East Rd, close to town.
Tel: +260 211 239333 / 239888Fax: +260 211 227222
[email protected]

CHRISMAR HOTEL
Suburban Los Angeles Boulevard
Tel: 253036Fax: 253036
[email protected].

INTER- CONTINENTAL HOTEL
Haille Selassie Ave.
Tel:250000/250600Fax:251880
[email protected]

JJB COUNTRY LODGE
Cell: 0955394096 / 0966394096
[email protected]

KAFUE ROAD GARDEN HOTEL
Just outside
TownTel:274646Fax:252779
[email protected]

La Consolata Lodge
Tel: +260 21 129 0856
Fax: +260 21 129 5567
[email protected]

LECHWE LODGE
Private Game farm 45 mins south of
Lusaka
Tel:222083/84/73,Fax: 222684
[email protected]

LILAYI LODGE
Private Game Farm 10 minutes south of LusakaTel:
228682/3,Fax: 222906
[email protected]

LUSAKA HOTEL Downtown
Cairo RdTel: 229049,Fax: 225726
[email protected]

MULUNGUSHI VILLAGE
Suburban Hotel Complex
Tel (+260 1) 291416 / 292629Fax: (+260 1) 290830
[email protected]

MWIZA LODGE
Executive House in Suburbs toward airport
Tel: 260 1 290352 / 293084Fax: 260 1 292553Mobile: 260 97 770709
[email protected]

NDEKE HOTEL
Off Los Angeles Blvd. Suburban
centra
lTel:251734Fax: 252779
[email protected]

PROTEA HOTEL CAIRO RD
Cairo Rd, LusakaTel: +260 211 238 360Fax: +260 211 238 317
[email protected]
Protea Hotel Lusaka
Arcades Mall, Great East Rd
Tel: +260 211 254664
[email protected]

SOUTHERN SUN RIDGEWAY LUSAKA
Church Rd,
Ridgeway,Tel: 251666Fax: 253529
[email protected]

TAJ PAMODZI
HOTELChurch Rd/Addis Ababacentral suburbsTel:
254455Fax: 250995
[email protected]

CHISAMBA

IBIS GARDENS HOTELTel
0211 - 213764/66Fax: 0211-214736
[email protected]

PLOUGHMANS ARMS HOTELMain
Rd.Tel 10430

Protea Hotel Safari Lodge
Private Game Reserve, Chisamba
Tel: +260 211 212 843Fax: +260 211 212 853
[email protected]

KABWE

TUSKERS HOTEL Tel: (0215) 222076 - 7, 222498Fax: (0215)
222076
[email protected]

KABWE LODGE
Telefax: 05 224297

ZAMBEZI SOURCE LODGE
Tel: 05 - 223256, 222597Fax 05 - 224020

Southern Zambia

CHIRUNDU
NAMBADWE MOTEL
GWABI LODGETel:
250772[email protected]

KANYEMBA LODGETel:
252779

CHOMA

CHOMA HOTEL
Box 630805, ChomaTel: 20189

KOZO LODGE
ChomaTelefax: +260 21 3225347Mobile: +260 97
7761966[email protected]

MAMBUSHI CHALETS
Gwembe
SafarisTel:20021Fax: 20054
[email protected]
KALOMO

Bulo Bwangu Guest House
KALOMO
HOTELTel: 65188

Sika lodge
MAZABUKA

MAZABUKA GARDEN HOTELTel:
251734

LIVINGSTONEand VICTORIA FALLS

BUSHFRONT LODGE
LivingstoneTel: 03 322446Fax: 03 321248
[email protected]

BUSHBUCK RIVER LODGELiyoyelo Farm just outside the
Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, 16km upstream from FallsTel: (+260) 3
322769.Cell: 097 755429Cell: 097 846164
[email protected]

David Livingstone Safari Lodge
Telephone: +260 213 324601Fax: +260 213 324615
Email: [email protected]

ISLANDS OF SIANKABA
LivingstoneTel/Fax (+260) 3 324490Cell (+260) 97 779
1241[email protected]
NATURAL MYSTIC LODGE

NGOLIDE LODGE
LivingstoneTel: 3 321091/2 Fax: 3
321113Cell: 00 263 11 406712
[email protected]

MUTEMWA CAMP
Upper Zambezi50 km from the border at Katima
MuliloTel: +27 (0)11 888 2431Fax: +27 (0)11 888 5798
[email protected]

PROTEA HOTEL LIVINGSTONE
Mosi-Oa-Tunya Road,
LivingstoneTel: +260 213 324 630Fax: +260 213 324 640
[email protected]

STANLEY
SAFARI LODGE
SANCTUARY SUSSI & CHUMATel +27 11 438
4650Fax: +27 86 218 1482[email protected]

TAITA FALCON LODGETel+260 213 321850
(office)Tel: +260 213 327046 (lodge)
[email protected]

THE LIVINGSTONE SAFARI LODGETel:
+260-95 832168Tel:+260-977 403882
[email protected]

THE RIVER CLUB
THE ROYAL LIVINGSTONE
Sun International S.A.Tel:
2711 780-7878Fax: 2711 780-7061
[email protected]
THORNTREE RIVER LODGE

TOKA LEYA
TONGABEZI LODGETel: 03 324450Cell: 097 7771488
[email protected]

WASAWANGE LODGETel: 260-332-4066,Fax:
260-332-4067
[email protected]

WATERBERRY ZAMBEZI LODGE

ZAMBEZI RIVER TREE LODGE
Chundukwa Adventure TrailsTel: 324452Fax: 324006
[email protected]

ZAMBEZI ROYAL CHUNDU LODGETel:
321772Johannesburg:(2711)Tel: 9533224
[email protected]

ZAMBEZI SUNSun International S.A.Tel: 2711 780-7878Fax:
2711 780-7061
[email protected]

MONZE

MONZE
HOTELTel: 50089

SIAVONGA

EAGLES REST CHALETSTel/fax: 01 511168[email protected]
KARIBA NORTH BANK GUESTHOUSETel: 511197

LAKE
KARIBA INN Tel:
511269/249Fax: 511188Tel: 01 253768Fax: 01 252518
[email protected]

LEISURE BAY LODGE
Tel: 01 511135/6 orLusaka:
01 252779

LAKE SAFARI LODGE
Tel: 511148 / 511024 / 511200Fax: 511029
[email protected]

MANCHINCHI BAY LODGE
Tel: 511299/399

SANDY BAY BEACH LODGETel: 511353
LAKE KARIBA

CHETE
ISLAND LODGE
Tel: 260-32-324413, 321122, 321210
[email protected]

CHIKANKA ISLAND CAMPS

Gwembe SafarisTel:20021Fax: 20054
[email protected]

Kariba Bush Club
+260 (0)97 7493980
[email protected]



The Copperbelt
CHINGOLA
Protea
Hotel Chingola
Kabundi Road,
Chingola
Tel: +260 212 312 81Fax: +260 212 313 510
[email protected]


LIMA HOTEL
Tel: 311894

MUSUNSHYA HOTEL
Tel: 312105 / 311

HIBISCUS GUESTHOUSE

NCHANGA HOTEL
Kabundi Rd
Tel: 313332

KITWE

EDINBURGH HOTEL
Tel:222444Fax: 225036

KAMUNGA HOTELTel: 214119

MUKWA LODGETel: (212) 224266 / 224277
[email protected]

THE TOWN HOUSE LODGE
Tel: 0212 221855
Cell: 0966826810 /
0955 826210
[email protected]

LUANSHA

LOWDEN LODGE
On Kitwe - Luansha Rd
Tel: (260)2 -2511324/ 511034/035 Fax: 511215

MPONGWE

KAFUE LODGE
Tel: 02 - 311 642, 311
722Fax: 02 - 312 552[email protected]

MUFULIRA
MUFULIRA HOTEL

Tel: 411220 .

NDOLA

KAFUE LODGE LTD(self catering - Ndola
Rural)
Tel: 02 311642 /
722
Fax: 02 312552[email protected]

MUKUBA HOTEL
Tel: 260-2-651000/2/3Fax: 260-2-651007/651012
[email protected]

NAZININA HOTEL
Vitanda St.
Tel: 610425/6Fax:
614476

NEW AMBASSADOR HOTEL
[email protected]

Eastern Zambia
CHIPATA
Protea Hotel
ChipataGreat East Road,
Tel: +260 216 222 905 Fax: +260 216 222 909
[email protected]

NYIMBA

KACHOLOLA HOTEL
Tel:
74133

Western Zambia

SOLWEZI

SAKATANGO HOTEL
Tel: 821224

MONGU
LYAMBAYI HOTEL
Tel: 221138Fax: 221138

NGULU HOTEL
Tel: 221028/221258Fax: 221286

SIR MWANAWINA MOTEL
Tel: 22148Fax: 221856

Northern Zambia

KASAMA

KASAMA HOTEL
Main Rd
Tel: 221188

KWACHA RELAX HOTEL
Tel:221124

MBALA

ARMS HOTEL
Tel: 450585

NEW GRASSHOPPER INN
Tel: 450589

MKUSHI

FOREST INN
Tel/Fax: 362188
[email protected]

MPIKA

CRESTED CRANE HOTEL
Tel: 370694

MUTINONDO WILDERNESS CAMP
[email protected]

MPULUNGU

KALAMBO LODGE
Tel: 235382 Lusaka,Fax: 235381
MISHEMBETel: 04 221615.

NDOLE BAY LODGETel:
+260 (0)2 711150Cell: cell +260 966780 196

NKUPI LODGE
Tel: 455166
TANGANYIKA LODGE
Tel: 224248,Fax: 224265

SHIWA NGANDU

KAPISHYA HOT SPRINGSSHIWA
NG'ANDUShiwa Ng'andu Estate
Tel: 01 228682Fax: 222906
[email protected]

Seeing The Importance Of The Post Editorial of 25 December 2011 We Share It With You

IT will take us a very long time to move the great majority of our people out of
poverty if we do not drastically improve the way we manage our country's limited
resources.As Tony Cotter, the Irish Ambassador to Zambia, has advised,
we need to improve and strengthen our public financial and management
procurement systems to ensure accountability, efficiency, effectiveness and
orderliness.We need to make the best use of whatever financial resources
we are generating locally and whatever we are given by others through grants or
loans. We have the potential to develop. But potential has to be efficiently and
effectively exploited to be of value. Having the potential is one thing and
being able to develop out of that potential is another.Potential is not
development. We should not cheat ourselves that simply because we have all these
minerals and other natural resources, then we are rich. But here we are with all
our rivers full of water throughout the year and passing near our major towns.
But our taps are dry.Most of our people still live without efficient
water supply. They have to draw water from wells. This is simply because we are
not able to exploit the water resources of our country for the benefit of our
people.We are not able to pump water from these rivers into our homes.
In the abundance of water, the great majority of our people still don't have
access to clean running water. And this is one of the Millennium Development
Goals that we should be achieving by 2015.When you have little, you use
it efficiently to survive. You cannot afford to be wasteful when you don't have
much. Sometimes we behave like we have too many resources, like we live in a
rich country. Look at our government expenditure! In many respects, it is higher
than that of many rich countries.Our public officers travel in more
expensive luxurious cabins than their counterparts in rich countries. They also
stay in more expensive hotels than people of similar rank from rich countries.
Our public officers also receive much higher travel allowances which they don't
have to account for than their counterparts in rich countries.For
instance, our public officers are driven in more expensive automobiles than
their counterparts in India. Yet India is far much more a richer country than
Zambia. They even manufacture automobiles and have got transnational companies
that own expensive international automotive brands.But Indian ministers
and other government officials drive very small cars. If one wants an expensive
automobile, there is no need to push it on the taxpayer. One should buy it for
himself and the taxpayer should only meet thenecessary expenses, and not the
extravagance, of our public servants. Our costs of running government are simply
too high. There is too much wastage and too many unjustified
allowances.Our public servants have gone to the extent of holding
routine meetings far away from their stations in expensive hotels or lodges just
to earn allowances. Meetings that can be held in their boardrooms in Lusaka are
taken to the expensive hotels of Livingstone. Why should this be so? Why this
extravagance? Why this wastage?Our government procurement system needs
urgent review because we are paying far more than we should pay for goods and
services to the government. Those who do business with government are really
cashing in.We have departments in the same ministry acquiring stationery
at totally different prices. Why should this be so? There are too many middlemen
doing business with government who are simply buying things from South Africa,
Dubai or China and reselling them to government at exorbitant prices.We
cannot claim to know how best the government procurement system should be
arranged. But it is not difficult for us to know when things are being done
totally the wrong way. People are simply ripping off government. We have public
servants running small tuntembas under names of relatives and they use these to
do business with government at wild mark-ups.Even the practice of
producing two or three or so proforma invoices is useless because those in
charge of procurement just stage-manage the process, they manipulate things and
in the end, the business goes to them or those whom they benefit something from.
Goods or services that should cost the government amillion kwacha end up
costing the government millions more.Why should we be so wasteful when
even those with far much greater resources do not waste them this way? In fact,
the rich countries are more thrift, more accountable when it comes to public
expenditure. They don't waste public money the way we do. They don't fail to
account for public funds they way our public officers do and get away with
it.Look at the size of delegations we send to handle meetings abroad!
Instead ofgoing for the minimum, we always tend to go for the maximum
delegation allowed. Why? Is it simply because of allowances? And look at the
behaviour of our public officers at such conferences or meetings.Some of
them would only be coming back to the hotels from shopping when others are
coming out of the conference sessions. The only part of the conferences they
don't miss are dinners and other evening entertainment. We have even senior
officers who travel abroad to attend seminars, workshops or conferences that
should be attended by very low officers, by clerks.And when they get
there and find that it's a gathering for clerks, they simply resort to shopping
and other entertainment. This is how the taxpayers' money of this poor country
is being wasted.It is very difficult to understand why our government
should be buying such expensive automobiles. Every other expensive car you see
in town belongs to the government. What is the justification for this
extravagance, excessive love for luxurious automobiles? If there is proper
justification, we will understand. There are certain luxurious cars that are
needed for diplomatic assignments.We have no argument with this. We also
have officers who upon transfer to another town are accommodated in hotels for
very long periods. This is unnecessary expenditure.To all this, add the
retirement benefits given by the Chiluba regime to all sorts of people. Every
former president has to be built a house! Every former speaker has to be built a
house! Every former this and that has to be given this and that! Why should this
be so?Don't they know where banks are to go and get a mortgage? A man
becomes president at 70 or so and after being president for three years, he
loses an election and is forced into political retirement and the taxpayer
should build him a house! For what? What was he doing and where was he living
for 70 years?Why can't he go back where he came from? Why didn't he
build a house for himself? Of course, there are exceptions to everything. And
the exception to this would be the first leaders of our country like comrade
Kenneth Kaunda who had no opportunity to do anything else in their lives. They
entered the independence struggle at a very early age and stayed in public
service for the most effective years of their lives without giving themselves
any undue material advantage.These deserve the taxpayers' support and it
is justifiable for them to be given appropriate retirement homes. Why should
someone build Rupiah Banda a house with all that he could build for himself in
less than three years? This is a waste of taxpayers' money that needs urgent
review.We are not against anyone living well. And in saying this, we are
not against any individual. We are simply saying that this system of rewarding
our public servants is beyond the ability or capacity of our taxpayers. And let
us find a more justifiable way, a more meaningful way to remunerate those who
serve us. And let us find the best way to keep government expenditure under
control.Let us find a way to combat waste and practice strict economy,
that is the policy of building up our country through diligence and frugality.
We must pay special attention to economy.The principle of diligence and
frugality should be observed in everything. Thrift should be the guiding
principle in our government expenditure and waste should be a serious
crime.A dangerous tendency has shown itself of late among many of our
political leaders and other key public officers -an unwillingness to share the
joys and hardships of the masses, a concern for personal gain and luxurious
living.This needs to be stopped if we may harbor any hope of getting the
great majority of our people out of poverty.

Looking Forward To 2012

2011 saw the making of slow steps towards the much needed economic recovery, but we are far from achieving our goals. Our youths remain jobless and without businesses, our women still need more empowerment and the regions of Zambia that are not Lusaka are lagging behind the capital city in recovery.Zambians need to focus on bread and butter issues in 2012. The Economy! The Economy! The Economy!

THE ROUTE TO POWER OF MICHAEL CHILUFYA SATA IN ZAMBIAN POLITICS OF 2011 AND BEFORE

The 2011 general elections in Zambia have an interesting twist to it. It is a battle between two veteran politicians of the historical politics of the country. More or less like a fight to return to the past politics with a firm handed leader in control.

If Mr Michael Sata wins this election he will have achieved what very few politicians have achieved in snatching away a popular revolutionary change designed and implement through a new breed of youthful politicians and returning the political complexion to that of the then unpopular past.

He would also have brought back into play the nationalistic type of politics that young generation of the 1991 political technocrats replaced with a semblance of a socioeconomic and neo-imperialistic corporate type. At his age it will be quite a feat for him to run the country with a comprehensive and modern style of corporate governance. In comparison to preferring his last executive leader, he probably will be more nostalgic in pursuing the styles of his former UNIP leader Dr Kenneth Kaunda who still remains a respected political figure in African politics of struggling against Western dominance.

The beginning of his fight to take back power from the MMD started through his shrewd, cunning, populist and opportunist manoeuvrings that saw him shift floors to join the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) just before it won the elections in 1991,literally . As a skilled leadership servant, he worked his way to the heart of the then President Fredrick Titus Chiluba possibly via tribal and loyalist sentiments. This relationship apparently destroyed the original inner- circle of the founding members of the MMD creating Chiluba to single-handedly with the advice of Sata, to side-line the founding members of the MMD that included Akashambatwa Mbikusita Lewanika, Sikota Wina, Derrick Chitala , Kabunda Kayongo, Inonge Lewanika, Godfrey Miyanda,Dipark Patel and a host of many others including Guy Scott. This was his beginning of the political destruction of the change that the MMD brought in the country through the " The Ruling Tribe" elite. Chiluba was not clever to sense that. He was too power blinded and too unwise to figure out this plan and its progression. Chiluba, unwittingly, put his trust in a man that had been very close to a great man of African politics that had lost power.

Sata then consolidated himself in the power circles by playing the loyal servant to the next new powerful man in the politics of the country : Fredrick Titus Chiluba. He was elevated to cabinet ministerial positions where he served with such vigour and authority to not only impress, but to also engrave a name for himself in the modern politics of the country. His work always showed results and left landmarks that he could later claim as his own personal legacy.

In his apparent last attempt to completely win over Chiluba so that he may be a very powerful force in the MMD he played a part in attempting to convince Chiluba that he could run the country for the third term. Chiluba was made unpopular by this attempt at political engineering. Sata was left unscathed though some people recognized his role in this attempt at a constitutional breach. It left him slightly bruised, though.

Chiluba’s attempt to run for the third term further divided the MMD to Sata’s great advantage. Whether Sata planned this strategy for the destruction of the MMD it is an issue for speculation and debate, but it worked well to continue his path in destroying the most powerful political party in the country. MMD was destroyed by tribal factions, technocratic alliances, political differences, corruption and a complete loss of focus. It was only kept intact because it was in government. Most founding members had either left, been side-lined, disillusioned, defected, formed their own political parties or placed in obscurity through the political schemes of Michael Sata. Chiluba was the puppet and Sata was the seasoned master that convincingly played servant. Chiluba was too power complacent and too playful to notice all his manipulations.

After Chiluba had completed his term and Sata side-lined by the new no- nonsense head –of – state, Levy Mwanawasa, Sata had to re-group and start his second phase of his power assuming strategies. He had done the part of destroying the MMD well and this was confirmed when Chiluba was pursued and had arrested on corruption and theft of funds charges by the government of Levy Patrick Mwanawasa. Michael Sata was thrown in the wilderness, but was not out.His strategy was slowly gaining momentum, nevertheless…It had entered its phase of open activity that had a clear objective.

Michael Chilufya Sata now set out on his task to openly confront the weakened MMD. He formed a political party with commercial farmer Guy Scott- a former founding member of the MMD. The party was named the PATRIOTIC FRONT a derivative from the countries that grouped to fight apartheid and the Rhodesian government in Southern Africa in the 1970s.

He used an almost similar technique in winning his way to the hearts of his followers by manipulating his way with promises, quoting his self-made legacy and a constant change in his policy statements to play along with the grassroots mind-set that he was so experienced in organizing and working with.

He later lost two elections, but his popularity nonetheless was slowly rising and gaining momentum…..

In 2010, Sata’s Patriotic Front attempted to join forces with another political party, The UNITED PARTY for NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (UPND) to form a formidable electoral front meant to oust the MMD through the ballot box in 2011. The PACT collapsed. It is widely believed that that PACT collapsed mainly because of Sata’s insistence to be the presidential candidate of the intended coalition force….

In the 2010-11 period the MMD had a president that was people insensitive and had poor public relations skills, was deemed to be openly corrupt, nepotistic and lacked charisma. The MMD president further created enemies within the party causing defections of key big-wigs in that party who directly joined Sata’s party. This worked to Michael’s Sata’s great advantage who capitalized on this double weakness of this party. A weakness that he had created and that was now blossoming…..

Sata knows the power that lays in political leverage and applies it . He, however, retains one political characteristic: He is a non-democrat, a dictator and largely believes in himself as evidenced by the way he single handedly runs the party by avoiding internal party elections at a recent party convention. He does not believe and is even suspicious of modern technology, especially IT. He rarely quotes any socio-economic terminologies in his speeches. He speaks the ordinary language that any average person understands or misunderstands. He is able to listen to the people and speak their language whilst retaining an ungentlemanly or confrontational demeanor to his opponents. His character appeals largely to a tired and frustrated populace.

The question that will be the elephant in the room will be, “ If Sata wins the 2011 elections, will he ever give back the seat without fighting with all his might for a third-term or even perpetual term in office?”……………

One thing that will remain a certain is that no Zambian political history books will be written without the inclusion of this name: Michael Chilufya Sata also known as , “ The King Cobra.”

POSSIBLE PATRIOTIC FRONT CANDIDATES IN THE SEPTEMBER GENERAL ELECTIONS

Part PF Candidates leaked to Zambia Insights


LUSAKA

Chawama – Edgar Lungu (lawyer)

Kabwata – Given Lubinda (incumbent)

Kanyama- Col Gerry Chanda (incumbent)

Munali- Prof Nkandu Luo

Lusaka Central- Guy Scott (incumbent may change)

Mandevu – Jean Kapata (incumbent)

Matero- Miles Sampa (ex banker)

Chilanga – on hold

Chongwe – Silvia Masebo (incumbent)

Luangwa – Pastor Gent

Kafue – Mr Mwaliteta (former Mayor)



COPPERBELT

Nchanga – Wilbur Simuusa (incumbent)

Chingola – Dr Katema (incumbent)

Chililabombwe – Esther Banda (incumbent)

Wusakile – Mr Musukwa (ex MUZ chairman)

Chimwemwe – Mwenya Musenge (ex Nkana MP. Nsanda did no re-apply)

Nkana – Laxon Kazabu (former Kitwe Mayor)

Bwana Mkubwa – Emmanuel Chenda

Kwacha – Bonny Mutale

Kalulushi – Edmond Mbulu (ex-MUZ vice Chairman)

Chifubu – Susan Kawandami

Ndola Central- Fackson Shamenda (ex ZCTU President)

Kabushi – Elizabeth Kazunga

Lufwanyama-Rev Chimena

Kafulafuta – Patrick Mwanawasa

Masaiti – Steady Mwale

Roan- Chishimba Kambwili

Multinational Corporations:The New Colonizers in Africa

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Multinational Corporations:The New Colonizers in Africa

Before the end of the first colonialism African nations were properties of their colonial masters who did what they could to rape the continent of whatever resource they deem good for the development of their counties and citizens in Europe. Out of nowhere and without any consultation with the people in the continent the Europeans met and divided the continent amongst themselves in what has been termed the scramble for Africa.

Through the scramble France, Britain, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Germany and Italy all went on a looting spree raping Africa of her resources without putting any of the proceeds back for the development of the continent.

When US President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Gambia on January 13th 1943 he was so appalled by the conditions of Gambians so much so that he made this lamentation,

"It's the most horrible thing I have ever seen in my life..... The natives are five thousand years back of us....The British have been there for two hundred years - for every dollar that the British have put into Gambia, they have taken out ten. It's just plain exploitation of those people".

"I must tell Churchill what I found out about his British Gambia today". "This morning, at about eight-thirty, we drove through Bathurst to the airfield." "The natives were just getting to work. In rags…glum-looking.…They told us the natives would look happier around noontime, when the sun should have burned off the dew and the chill. I was told the prevailing wages for these men was one and nine. One shilling nine pence. Less than fifty cents." "An hour?" Elliott asked. "A day! Fifty cents a day! Besides which, they’re given a half-cup of rice. Dirt. Disease. Very high mortality rate. I asked. Life expectancy—you’d never guess what it is. Twenty-six years. Those people are treated worse than the livestock. Their cattle live longer!" US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1943. Source: The American Heritage.

And the exploitation was not peculiar to only Gambia. Gold Coast (now Ghana), Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Zaire (now DRC), Namibia, South Africa, Congo and Angola all suffered from the same colonial exploitation and underinvestment.

For almost three hundred years the Europeans who were supposedly devout Christians and civilised, irresponsibly looted Africa’s resources and made slaves of the natives without developing the colonies. When the local population protested against the exploitation without a reciprocal investment they were brutally crashed as happened in Congo (now DRC) where King Leopold II of Belgium looted the resources, made slaves, and killed close to ten million of the Congolese.

In 1904 to 1907 the Germans led by Gen. Lotha Von Trotha also committed their first genocide of the 20th Century by killing 90% of the Herero and the Namaqua people of South West Africa (now Namibia) when the people protested against the exploitation of their resources. And the sad stories of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Namibia, Kenya and Angola where people were denied access to land, citizenship and basic rights and had to take up arms before they were granted independence are in many history books.

We know how Nelson Mandela (now a hero in Europe) and a number of freedom fighters endured long prison sentences, torture, exile and deaths in the hands of their devout Christians and civilised European colonisers. The prevailling idea in Europe was that through the scramble for Africa they had bought Africa and had power to do as they wish hence the rape, torture, genocide and the mass killings. While Europeans became richer Africans became poorer.

For example with the loot of Congo’s resources, enslavement, amputations of hands and 10 million deaths, Brussels which now doubles as the capital of the European Union and Belgium was built. When they were given their ‘freedom’ the independent fathers inherited nothing more than empty treasuries. They realised that after more than 300 hundred years of colonial rule their colonial masters have left them with nothing, no money and no infrastructure. This bad situation and their eagerness to improve the lives of their peoples forced them to turn to the IMF and World Bank for assistance and when they went lo and behold the colonial masters were there waiting for them.

The colonisers used their majority votes to dictate to the Bank and IMF on how these former colonies should be helped. (Of the 185 members that make up the IMF, six colonial masters and their allies made up of the United States, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Italy control 42% of the votes). The colonial masters dictated to the IMF and the Bank that for Africans to be helped, they must open their economies to allow European corporations in. This underscores the numerous conditionalities that are associated with loans from these institutions. The conditionalities are nothing more than a smokescreen designed to ensure that Europeans never loose their grip on the resources of the colonies. Some of the conditionalities include instituting secrets memorandums of agreement, subsidies to foreign corporations and massive tax concessions (such as income tax, usage fees, property tax) -the primary source of revenue for "export-oriented" developing countries.

The sad thing is that Africans thought independence would give them respite to develop but this was never to be as the colonial masters used their corporations and intelligence services to deliver vengeance against the people: encouraging and financing civil wars; unashamedly polluting rivers, wells and the soil through their oil and mineral activities; understating their profits and falsifying profit documents; undervaluing their goods, smuggling and theft; false invoicing and non-payment of taxes; kickback to public officials and bribery; over pricing of projects; providing save havens for the looted funds; promoting the sale of guns; overthrowing African leaders; supporting dictatorships; and assassinating those who disagree with them. We know those who instigated the overthrow of Dr. Nkrumah and the tragic assassination of Patrice Lumumba.And we know the support the West gave Mobutu and other tyrants in Africa.In addition to these, the corporations who were forced onto Africa by IMF the Bank, US and Europe have been implicated in a number of cases for corrupting African leaders and stealing trillions of dollars worth of resources.

Global Financial Integrity says, "$900-billion is secreted each year from underdeveloped economies, with an estimated $11.5 trillion currently stashed in havens. More than one quarter of these hubs belong to the UK, while Switzerland washes one-third of global capital flight". Out of this $900b that is secreted away yearly $150b comes from Africa.

"The idea that Switzerland has a clean economy is a joke; it is a dirt-driven economy," says Richard Murphy, director of Tax Research LLP. The Swiss Bankers Association claims that four-fifths of the nation supports banking secrecy, which reveals a society deeply embedded in a culture of impunity and exploitation.

The fact is that those who steal must find a way to hide their loot and Switzerland provide the ideal environment for such crimes to take place. And it is not Switzerland alone that does not have a clean economy. Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg can all be described as vampires.

In an article by Khadija Sharife entitled Capital Flight: Gingerbread Havens, Cannibalised Economies she wrote: "The IMF and World Bank tax policies towards the developing world is very lethal especially where the poor are now caught in tax brackets, courtesy of the IMF and World Bank’s structural adjustment programmes (SAP), instituting policies ranging from tax holidays to the privatisation of state services, carving out huge slices of natural capital at corporate auctions. Africa has collectively lost more than $600-billion in capital flight, excluding other mechanisms of flight such as ecological debt (globally estimated at a potential $1.8-trillion per annum), the cost of liberalised trade (just under $300-billion)". Source:http://www.greenleft.au. Thus with the support and collusion of IMF and the Bank these corporations are paying close to nothing for the resources they take from Africa.

Africa has been labelled the world’s most corrupt region because multinational internal mispricing makes up 60% of capital outflow, with corporations declaring profits in tax havens, as opposed to the country of performance. Corporations declare about 40% of their profits in African countries where they operate and siphon the rest into their save havens accounts in order to avoid paying tax which could be used to eradicate poverty. And this is not the end of the corruption and the day light robbery story.

We know how Elf operated as an arm of the French state supporting dictators, looting the resources and establishing flush fund which was used to bribe African leaders so they will look the other way while Elf loot Africa’s oil and gas.

Nicholas Shaxson, author of Poisoned Wells, wrote of the subject: "Magistrates discovered the money from Elf’s African operations supplied bribes to support French commercial, military and diplomatic goals around the world. In exchange, French troops protected compliant African dictators." This explains why there are so many corrupt dictators in French-Speaking Africa than anywhere in Africa. Omar Bongo, Eyadema, Mobutu, Lansana Conte, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Blaise Campore, Sassou Nguesso and Iddriss Deby are some of the compliant leaders who were or have been protected by France.

And what happened to the non-compliant African leaders? Your guess is mine. Please find time to read more about Bob Denard, a French who made a career as a mercenary overthrowing African leaders. French author Jean Guisner says: "Denard did nothing that was contrary to French interests - and he allegedly acted in close cooperation with French Intelligence Services".

In the Elf corruption case Andre Tarallo the real boss of Elf-Afrique' "Told the court in June 2003 that annual cash transfers totalling about £10m were made to Omar Bongo, Gabon's president, while other huge sums were paid to leaders in Angola, Cameroon and Congo-Brazzaville. The multi-million dollar payments were partly paid to ensure the African leaders' continued allegiance to France. In return for protection and sweeteners from Elf's coffers, France used Gabon as a base for military and espionage activities in West Africa". Source: Guardian, Nov. 2003.

The real deal is that Elf, Shell BP and their counterparts in Europe and America pay bribes to African leaders to induce them to look the other way while they plunder the resources. Ask any Gabonese or Congolese whether they have benefited from the oil and diamonds and the answer will be a big no. What is so tragic is that the people know they have oil, diamonds and see these companies processing them everyday yet do not know where it goes, who buys them and where the proceeds go.

In UK former Prime Minister Tony Blair was accused of selling a device with an ageing technology to Tanzania. "The UK sold a useless air traffic control system to Tanzania in 2001 in a scandalous and squalid deal, the House of Commons was told." Clare Short an MP said, "The deal was useless and hostile to the interests of Tanzania". She said, "Barclays Bank had colluded with the government by loaning Tanzania the money, but lying to the World Bank about the type and size of the loan." Ms Short said "Tanzania could have paid much less for the same equipment which cost them £28m". Shadow international development secretary Andrew Mitchell said "BAE had used ageing technology and said the system was not adequate and too expensive." Source: BBCNEWS, Wednesday, 31 January 2007.

And it all happened after they had bought Tanzania officials to look the other way while a device with an ageing technology was sold to the country. BAE colluded with Tony Blair and Barclays Bank to sell a useless commodity at exorbitant price to Tanzania. This is nothing but a continuation of the contempt and impunity in which Europeans have treated Africa before, during and after colonialism. BAE is indirectly saying that Africans do not deserve the latest technology even if they pay cat throat price. It is also a message to Africans that they must develop their own technology and not rely on the generosity of others.

It is no secrete that Shell Oil Company colluded with the corrupt Abacha regime to steal oil, pollute the rivers, wells, creeks and soil and render millions of famers and fishermen in the Niger Delta jobless. Shell "admitted that it inadvertently fed conflict, poverty and corruption through its oil activities in the country. Nigeria contributes to about 10% of Shell's global production and is home to some of its most promising reserves, yet the country is steeped in poverty and conflict". Source: bbcnews 18 June 2004. So Shell in addition to stealing Nigeria’s oil and polluting rivers, wells and soils also promote corruption, poverty and conflict.

In DRC about five million people have died in a war whose motive is to satisfy the West insatiable appetite for high quality but low price cell phones, laptop computers, play-stations, jewels, diamond and coltan. And who cares about five million deaths in Paris, London, Brussels, Berlin, New York or Washington anyway? Why has the DRC war not ended? Who supplies the rebels their arms and for what and who buys the minerals they mine illegally? Why have Uganda and Rwanda forces crossed several times into DRC? And whose agenda are they pursuing? A report by the UN says it all.

The panel calls for financial restrictions to be levied on 54 individuals and 29 companies it said are involved in the plunder, including four Belgian diamond companies and the Belgian company George Forrest, which is partnered with the U.S.-based OM Group. The individuals named include Rwandan army Chief of Staff James Kabarebe, Congolese Minister of the Presidency Augustin Katumba Mwanke, Ugandan army Chief of Staff James Kazini and Zimbabwean Parliament Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa, BBC Online reports (Oct. 21, 2002).

The report also accused 85 South African, European and U.S. multinational corporations – including Anglo American, Barclays Bank, Bayer, De Beers and Cabot Corporation of violating the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's ethical guidelines on conflict zones.

The guidelines they were accused of violating relate to arming Rwanda, Uganda and Congolese rebels and profiting from their illegal looting of Congo’s minerals as the following excerpt shows: "Despite the recent withdrawal of most foreign forces, the exploitation of Congo's resources continues, the report says, with elite networks and criminal groups tied to the military forces of Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe benefiting from micro-conflicts in the D.R.C." "The elite networks derive financial benefit through a variety of criminal activities, including theft, embezzlement, diversion of public funds, undervaluation of goods, smuggling, false invoicing, non-payment of taxes, kickback to public officials and bribery," and added that such pillaging is responsible for much of the death and malnutrition in eastern D.R.C." Source:http://www.unwire.org.

And so while millions die in Africa with the complicity of the corporations, Europe and North American citizens with all their hypocrisy enjoy lavish holidays. And when Africans try to reach Europe the citizens say rain in on them, Europe is full no more immigrants. Where do the queens and kings in Europe get the diamonds and gold that they use to show off? Is it not from the blood diamonds from Congo, Sierra Leone and conflict zones in Africa that are smuggled out and sold in Brussels, Zurich, London and New York?

And this is not their only crime. We know how Halliburton established $180m flush fund and bought Nigeria officials to secure a $10b oil contract. We know Acre International of Canada paid $260,000 to secure $8b dam contract in Lesotho. We know Swiss, British, German and French economies and banking institutions have made fortunes by providing save havens for funds looted by Sani Abacha, Mobutu, Omar Bongo, Lansana Conte, Arap Moi and the rest of the dictators in Africa. And it is no secrete Belgium is angry with DRC government for inviting China into the country because they are privy to and beneficiary of all the day light robberies going on in the resource rich but economically impoverished country.

Africans know that these corporations are making fortunes but see no benefits from these fortunes. Ghanaians know gold and diamond are being mined at Obuasi and Akwatia but they do not know where it goes, who buys them and where the proceeds go and the same is true of the oil in Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon, Algeria, Angola and Equatorial Guinea and as for DRC a nation with one-third of world’s natural resources the little I say the better.

This corruption and day light robbery is what has been polished as globalisation which Europe, America, IMF and the Bank want Africa and the third world to join. My question is whose globalisation? Is it the globalisation that only those with blue eyes enjoy or what? If the answer is no then the IMF and the Bank should explain why the world is divided between the "whites haves and the coloured have-nots". Is this not the second colonialism dressed as globalisation?

Dr. Susan Hawley says it all: "Multinational corporations’ corrupt practices affect the South (i.e. Africa, Asia and Latin America) in many ways. They undermine development and exacerbate inequality and poverty. They disadvantage smaller domestic firms and transfer money that could be put towards poverty eradication into the hands of the rich. They distort decision-making in favour of projects that benefit the few rather than the many. They also increase debt that benefit the company, not the country; bypass local democratic processes; damage the environment; circumvent legislation; and promote weapons sales. Bribes put up the prices of projects. When these projects are paid for with money borrowed internationally, bribery adds to a country's external debt. Ordinary people end up paying this back through cuts in spending on health, education and public services. Often they also have to pay by shouldering the long-term burdens of projects that do not benefit them and which they never requested". Source: The Corner House, June 2000.

And in all these, the Western media have kept silence. They have not raise a voice against what their governments, intelligence services, corporations and businessmen are doing to Africans. They prefer instead to criticise China for courting the same African leaders Euro-Americans have been protecting for decades. A clear hypocrisy isn’t it? These are the same criticisms King Leopold II levelled against the Arabs who were competing with him for resources and slaves in Congo and we know what Leopold, the 19th century Hitler did in DRC in the name of Christianity and civilisation.

The meaning of their criticism is that with China as a fierce competitor, Africans now have a choice not to go to the World Bank and IMF for conditional loans. They also have a choice to either give their resources to Chinese companies or European and American cartels. It may be the beginning of the end of colonialism, slavery, instabilities, dictatorships, corruption and all the ills that Europeans and Americans have been exporting to Africa. It may be the beginning where Africa’s resources will be bought and payment made to the people and a new chapter that will usher in Africa’s development and close the poverty gap from five thousand years to perhaps one-hundred as observed by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

By Lord Aikins Adusei

The Author is a Political Activist and Anti-Corruption Campaigner.