Ndola was a great city when it was a production oriented are, it crumbled after production went low and consumption became high. Kabwe is now a consumer ghost town because of no production. Livingstone survives on foreign adventurers. Mansa would have ceased to be a village if that factory was still running and so is kapiri mposhi.
A shopping mall got opened last week and it made headlines about influx of development in a new chipata city (although still a village). Its indeed great news that our people will get good services and products as well as Creation of employement. The chain stores introduced have an unbalanced scale of who will benefit more, those from outside country. The owners will request a producer outside who will give their produce to a driver outside whilst crossing borders paying taxes outside and brings the produce to the store. As people in here buy, the chainstore manager who is hired from outside sends money outside and our tax man is given discarded coins only for shutting him up. The arithmetic is too long to decipher but in all honesty we need to get worried, many malls means more food and products getting through our borders because we can not satisfy ourselves with our own-we dont make them. There is total nothing to celebrate for about that construction, its a tse tse fly among herds. Milking every ounce from the host, we celebrated exploitation. There was happiness that the exploiters are in. Inviting a buglar for a bounquet, giving him your best sit and entertainment only for him to leave with sacks of drachnas at midnight when you are fast asleep. If what was commissioned was a production company, our celebration would have been a genuine and rewarding one. Bring back the bicycle factory and the village city will indeed be upgraded and not into its current mediocre state. Production over consumption.
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