[civsoc-mw] 100,000 Jobs in Malawi

Keyboard Boyd Kilembey kkilembe at gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 11:35:40 CAT 2020


A good question my friend. I see a problem on the forum how they define
employment. I see their understanding always defaults to somebody working
for chisale revenue authority wearing a suit and in a tie and getting nut
peas at the end of the month. I have always thought ladies at tsangano
selling tomatoes or airtime time are employed albeit self employed

On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, 09:57 Maybach Woyee, <mbchwoyee5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> He has shared. What is unemployment?
>
> On Fri, 2 Oct. 2020, 07:57 KPD, <maluwakpd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Share with us. It is unfair to keep useful information to yourself when
>> we have so many unemployed.
>>
>> On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, 07:36 Dunstain Mwaungulu, <dfmwaungulu at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> My formula achieves full employment under 12 months. The labour market
>>> in Malawi is approximately 4 million. And my formula starts with an
>>> inventory and demographic data.
>>>
>>> On Thu, 1 Oct 2020, 13:16 KPD, <maluwakpd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There was a time Dunstain Mwaungulu came up with  secret formula for
>>>> creating jobs. Unfortunately it remained just that, a secret.
>>>>
>>>> Malawi government has been wasting money over the 50 years with little
>>>> to show for it.
>>>>
>>>> Here is an example. Malawi government provides farm inputs for 1000
>>>> subsistence farmers. Each person owning 2 hectare. That is 1000 hectares.
>>>> Any jobs created? Zero. Any industries created. Zero.
>>>>
>>>> Then Malawi government gives ADMARC billions of Kwacha to buy 2 bags of
>>>> maize from KB in Chamama, 3 bags of beans from SN in Thambani, 3 bags of
>>>> maize from TC in Euthini or MO in Mayaka. All this amounts to wastage
>>>> because the same ADMARC will go back to sell the same bags with losses when
>>>> one considers overhead to those far flung places.
>>>>
>>>> Let us look at a different model. Government encourages citizens to one
>>>> 1000 hectare farms. Provide minimal subsidy to those farms.
>>>>
>>>> 1000 hectare farm can guarantee provision of raw material to
>>>> manufacturing industries. It maybe for juices, barley or wheat for beer
>>>> production, export of bran to countries such as Botswana  and Zimbabwe,
>>>> production and export of maize meal to DRC and Zambia.
>>>>
>>>> Employment will be created through farm workers, factory workers,
>>>> transport and logistics workers, fertilizers producing industries,
>>>> machinery and spare parts companies, retail and warehousing.
>>>>
>>>> Many more jobs down the line would be created just from 1000 hectare
>>>> farm. Compare that to financing ADMARC and subsidy for 1000 people.
>>>>
>>>> Here we are, we can't export juices made from the various fruits that
>>>> we grow. We import from South Africa things that we can produce. At one
>>>> time a white South African was coming to Balaka. Buy mangoes and make
>>>> archer which he was then exporting in bulk to South Africa.
>>>>
>>>> Ife timangoganiza kwaphya tong'ola siudziwa mtima wa moto.
>>>>
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