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MONTHLY Socialist SOCIALISTPARTY ISSUE 7, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 A newsletter published by the Socialist Party, Lusaka, Zambia FREE OF CHARGE The 2021 elections give us a chance to change everything and build a AMBASSADORS OF CHANGE – Pages 6/7 more just Education, health and agriculture will drive employment strategy and caring society Jobs, FRED M’MEMBE, jobs, incoming president, offers #realchange with the Socialist Party’s policies based on jus- tice, equity and peace. Manifesto download details and info about how to join the party jobs! A Socialist Party team member trains Sinda farmers how to produce organic fertiliser – see Page 3 are on our back page Socialist staff reporter ers will not be left to manage and ploy more people. This will entail a health equipment of all sorts. This, is carried out,” he said. “Our plans run schools on their own. In or- need for more nurses, clinical offi- together with many other functions will involve many jobs being cre- – Page 12 THE SOCIALIST Party will der to have an effective, efficient, cers, doctors, pharmacists, radiog- that will be added to health ser- ated in the agricultural sector be- and orderly system, the running of raphers, and many other health and vices, will create many more jobs.” cause of the transformations we create employment once vot- schools will include other profes- general workers. Dr M’membe said another sector will make. ed into power with a job-cre- sionals and a broad spectrum of “In addition, our government that would be prioritised to create “Transformative peasant agri- ation strategy centred around workers, such as human resources will prioritise the manufacture employment would be peasant ag- culture under this government will the three pillars of its social personnel, information technology of some of the medicines we use, riculture. need new equipment, that is; appro- We need a and political programme; experts, accountants, marketing even under licence. We will also “There’s an urgent need to trans- priate ploughs, planters, harvesters education, health and peasant personnel, cleaners, drivers, me- need to create factories producing form the way peasant agriculture and other necessities. To produce politics of chanics, gardeners, nurses, clinical these, we will need to set up fac- agriculture. officers, and catering staff, among tories all over the country employ- Party president Fred others. ing engineers and their techni- values, not M’membe says that under the “Schools, colleges and universi- cians, human resources experts, Socialist Party government, ties will need to be supplied with accountants, IT experts, marketing schools will not be run the way all sorts of teaching aids and other and sales staff, drivers, mechan- pangas and they are at the moment. goods and services, and these will ics, nurses and clinical officers to “We will provide free education be produced in factories by our ran staff clinics, as well as catering from nursery at the age of three all people, meaning that education people to manage the staff cafete- violence the way to university, and it will will directly and indirectly be one rias, and so on. be compulsory up to grade 12,” he of the biggest employers.” “Of course, our reality, as it said. Dr M’membe said the health stands today, is that we may not Rehoboth “Education will be a major un- sector would also be used to create have all the engineering expertise dertaking in this country and will a number of jobs. required to set up and run these Kafwabulula be allocated not less than 25 per “By expanding Zambia’s health factories. We may have to rely on cent of the national budget. services, both in terms of quantity expatriate skills while we train our – Page 4 “Under this programme, teach- and quality, we will need to em- Socialist Party president Fred M’membe spells out party policies l Turn to Page 3 JUSTICE • EQUITY • PEACE Hiring of Highgate over debts ‘shameful’ Vulture-like cartel preys on clueless governments Socialist staff reporter sustainability could be achieved,” Residents in Kasenegwa with educational material used in the Socialist Party’s Fred M’membe Literacy Programme classes Dr Musumali said. THE HIRING of Highgate “Several workshops have been held, study tours conducted, econo- Literacy classes protect against swindles Advisory Ltd to advise on metric models developed and a debt restructuring and re- policy framework suggested. How- Kelvin Phiri our members end up accepting things they John Zulu and the Socialist Party for an- lated communication with ever, all these efforts were thrown don’t know or understand.” He called on the swering our prayers.” away and rubbished because the PF teachers to dedicate themselves to the and Zulu has called on members of the party all creditors and stakeholders THE SOCIALIST Party in Kasenengwa is to start teaching elderly people in the area. not to stop anyone from attending the leadership did not want a system- is “shameful, a waste of the offering adult literacy classes as part of the “Am appealing to elderly people to come classes because of political disagreements. atic structure and process for debt Fred M’membe Literacy Programme. taxpayers’ money and symp- in numbers and register to take part in these He said they were there for everyone “re- management. Speaking at the launch of the programme classes as they are very beneficial to our gardless of their political affiliation”. tomatic of the clueless Patri- “Transparency and accountabil- in the area, Socialist Party Mpunza ward community and the country,” he said. “Let’s all learn, the lessons are free, and otic Front government”, the ity were never top priorities. This is aspiring councillor Acklas Phiri said the One of the leaners, Mary Ngoma, has they are open to everyone regardless of classes would help reduce the risk of Socialist Party says. a government that thrives on chaos commended the Socialist Party’s John their political affiliation. Yes, the programme and disorganisation. It deliberately people being swindled because they could Zulu for his services in helping to reduce is from the Socialist Party but it’s for the The Socialist Party already not read and write. creates conditions under which illiteracy levels in the two wards. community. Together we can eradicate criticised the “unnecessary” “These classes will reduce the swindling debt contraction could allow high- “My fellow elders, let’s take part in this illiteracy in Kasenengwa constituency,” he US$5 million hire of the French in our area, and many people will also be wonderful programme so that no one can said. level corruption. able to start following current affairs,” Phiri Company, Lazard Freres, in cheat us into doing things that are not right He also stressed that no one should be “Today, GBP333,403.54 from said. for our families and our future. Let me also told to pay to attend the classes because May last year to provide advi- the taxpayer is going to be spent “When people from outside introduce take this opportunity to say thank you to Dr the party had already provided teaching and sory services regarding liability senselessly on Highgate Advisory projects they use the English language and Fred M’membe through our able candidate learning materials. management for Zambia’s debt Ltd! This company is by all stan- portfolio. dards a briefcase one and whose owner has a questionable back- “Our party had consistently giv- Threats ‘won’t ground. Pikiti: COVID-19 has driven many en GRZ free advice on debt restruc- “The picture emerging is that turing,” SP general secretary Cos- we have a cartel of former French stop us doing mas Musumali said in a statement. people to live in extreme poverty graduates, who went through the corrupt, elitist Grande Ecole uni- THE POOR have become poorer, about that. In some areas of Zam- mance. Poor production leads to what is right Parasitic versity system, worked in the fi- prices have risen substantially, and bia, we can see passion and the pro- poor rural development and, again, nance and prime ministers’ offices, many people have been pushed to active attitudes of people to want to poor health. It is a viscious circle. for our people’ “We warned of the immense then went on to work for a number extreme poverty during the CO- change their lives, but they don’t The poor get poorer in every way. hardships the masses of our people of dubious state actors that found VID-19 pandemic, Margaret Pikiti, know how to,” she said. This unacceptable cycle continues.” NO AMOUNT of intimidation will were going to face, as well as the themselves in debt traps, such as in Socialist Party parliamentary can- Pikiti said people needed to work Pikiti said inequality also created stop the revolutionary work under way in the country, the Socialist damage to the international repu- Greece and Ukraine. didate for the Malole constituency, collectively and organise them- mistrust. “People have failed over Party in Vubwi district says. tation of our country if no urgent “In vulture-like style, this cartel has said. selves to bring about change with and over again and no longer trust Commenting on the summoning action was taken. In the typical ar- has found out that corrupt, clueless “While millions of poor children good leadership in place to support the government and politicians. rogance and parasitic behaviour of missed out on education, those them. “Let people use their voices Hope is reduced. of Vubwi constituency coordinator governments, whose economies are Angela Zimba by the Vubwi police, the PF government, this advice fell from affluent families learnt online and be heard. How else can they “There has to be a redistribution dying under a debt burden, are the and intimidation by Patriotic Front on deaf ears.” or were able to access e-learning,” be saved without being heard? Let of wealth and the creation of equity easiest victims.