The factories in question are almost wholly publicly - owned and it is clear that their permanent closure will merely destroy Kafue and some gains of the past. Even structural adjustment should not go so far. The logjam has to be unlocked. Virtually, all its companies are in the red and many are operating only at the initiative of workers and management. This is no accident.
Government simply pays little or no attention to what it owns.
It starts with the appointment of boards of directors. They are simply filled with party loyalists and cronies with no idea of business management. Many of these boards are unable to delineate a course of action through sheer ineptitude and incompetence. This added to government's inherit failure to make timely decisions has only ensured that publicly owned companies continually walk the tight rope. This will of course not do in Kafue.