Golden Party leader, Silavwe, calls for national indaba on job creation

The opposition Golden Party of Zambia (GPZ) leader, Jackson Silavwe, is calling for a multi-stakeholder and sectorial national indaba on job creation in the country.

Silavwe in a statement issued in Lusaka on Thursday said a multi stakeholder and sectorial national indaba on job creation should aim at proposing strong home-grown policies and strategies across all the sectors of the economy in Zambia.

He said the national indaba must consider, among other proposals, if ndustrialisation of all the economic sectors and a national venture capital fund to support Zambian led start-ups in all the sectors of the economy.

“A National indaba on job creation must provide a pool of strategies to policy makers and implementers to tackle unemployment,” Silavwe said.

He said a strategy to use the country’s mineral wealth to reduce unemployment must be formulated as well.

Silavwe is saddened that more than eight million Zambians of working age are unemployed and majority of adults in Zambia have no jobs or a stable source of income stating that this is a national crisis hiding in plain sight.

“Further, the Zambian school curriculum must be re-tailored to focus more on graduates starting local start-ups than job seeking centred,” Silavwe said.

He added that the impact of a job or a source of income on poverty reduction cannot be over emphasised.

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