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Chaisa youth bemoans high levels of unemployment

Chaisa youth bemoans high levels of unemployment
By Kelvin Tembo and Namakau Nalumango
Saturday October 27, 2007 [04:00]

ZAMBIA should not have such high levels of unemployment 43 years after independence, a youth from Lusaka’s Chaisa compound has said. Mubanga Kangwa, who trades from Kaunda Square Stage One market, complained that there were no jobs for young people, a situation he said was forcing them to get involved in crime.

“It was good we got our independence, but so many years down the line we are not seeing the benefits,” Kangwa said.

He said the government should seriously look into the unemployment problem because it was causing the increase in the crime rate.

“We do not have jobs so we are forced to get into businesses which are not even profitable,” Kangwa said Jerry Njovu,

same area, said it was good that Zambia got its independence, but added that it did not carry much meaning because its people were still suffering from abject poverty.
Njovu also complained that elected leaders like members of parliament and councillors do not fulfil their promises because immediately they are elected, they disappear.
“We used to see them walking around the compounds soliciting for votes, but we no longer see them now,” Njovu said.

He said he goes round in compounds with his trampoline for which he charges K100 for children to play on just to take his children to school.

Njovu appealed to the government to look into job creation as most people especially youths were being forced to go on the streets.

He added that the only good thing in the country was democracy because people were able to speak out because there was freedom.

Njovu said people in leadership positions should share the national cake with those at the grassroots.

Labels: UNEMPLOYMENT, YOUTHS

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