By SIMON MUNTEMBAFOREIGN investors are not allowed to venture into block making and chicken rearing businesses because these are reserved for locals only, Minister of Small and Medium Enterprise, Elias Mubanga, has said.And Mr Mubanga has clarified that accessing Government empowerment funds did not demand for one to be a member of the ruling party, but accessible to all Zambian in cooperatives.Mr Mubanga urged skilled Zambians to organise themselves by forming cooperatives and take up domestic businesses and works done by some “foreign investors.”The minister said this in Lusaka yesterday when he officiated at a training session for community capacity building to create and manage cooperatives as social enterprises. He however challenged Zambians to take charge of some domestic businesses such as block making, rearing chickens and selling of second hand clothes by forming cooperatives.Mr Mubanga called on carpenters, bricklayers, drivers and others to form cooperatives as a way to fill up businesses and works […]
Foreigners told to keep away from block making, chicken rearing
