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!