I love PACRO and vote Felix Mutati for !

I admit that I'll normally be the first guy to throw rocks at Western media whenever they portray Africa in any light that I deem undeservedly negative. However, I have also come to realise that I am not helping to correct the situation when my tweets, facebook status updates and blog articles about government are usually written after a civil servant or minister has disturb me with their failure to deliver public service. There is nothing wrong with this kind of expression on my part except it would be good if I also shared the good experiences I have in government offices.

For example, when filing the registration of a company recently at the Patents and Company Registration Office (PACRO), I was shocked when they asked me to return the next day to pick up the certificate of incorporation. My plan to start the next stage of business normalisaton was brought forward six days because I had expected the process to take not less than a week. The good people (they better keep this up!) at PACRO have now reduced the time it takes to register a company in Zambia to a single day!

This is the kind of stuff I live for - good African news and I really should be ashamed for not having shared it earlier.

How did I come to remember though ... this morning a friend informed me that government no longer require you to declare a minimal capital of K5 million for your registration of a limited company that will operate in Zambia. This effectively means that many more people register amd legitimise their business ventures. The honourable (and I mean that sincerely) Minister of Commerce and Industry Mr Felix Mutati has announced that a whole bunch licenses that you may have also needed to apply for in order to get your business running will also been thrown into parliament's warm fire this winter.

Hon. Felix Mutati is my new hero and my inert African need to place crowns on everybody I think is doing their job well suggests that I should start a campaign to get the Hon. minister elected to high office ... if only he would join NAREP.

* The author is a non-partisan citizen