Sun, 18 Dec 2016 10:01:11 +0000 By Sycorax Tiyesa Ndhlovu Some plans to demonstrate against the government’s failure to create jobs for some citizens need to be put in the right context for such job protests to be justifiable and helpful to the concerned citizens. Recently, some groups of individuals on the Copperbelt province said they were planning to stage a job protest against government’s failure to create jobs for them. And some other individuals supported such a move. But President Edgar Chagwa Lungu called such a planned job protest as politically motivated. Considering the above issues, firstly, one can argue that it’s a human right for citizens in any country to have access to employment. And such employment should be decent; thereby giving workers economic wages and monthly salaries; coupled with good conditions of service. Contrary, in Zambia, it’s reported that out of a population of about 14 million people, only about one […]
