CIC EDITORIAL ANALYSIS
HAS SOMEONE EVER TOLD UPND HOW DANGEROUS CERTAIN FOOLS IN NUMBERS ARE?
It is one thing to talk about no opposition it’s another to ask oneself how PF a party in total confusion, without proper leadership and factions is still able to pull huge crowds like this.
Zambia is indeed a country that has no serious opposition but make no mistake, PF may not be active in politics at official level or with solid leadership but one fact you can’t take away from them is that they have the biggest weapon unmatched by any political standards-Structures.
CIC has covered by-elections countrywide where if these are properly unleashed they pose a huge challenge to UPND with all the best governance system at play brought by UPND through the republican president unfortunately politics wise they are non-existing.
If the coin was to be flipped and it is UPND that lost power to PF, by now, UPND would not exist at all later alone present itself to any normal person in public following the brutality it had in ruling with it’s cadres, theft of public funds, corruption, President’s children’s lavish styles that LEA’s are after them and so on.
How does one explain the massive job opportunities UPND has presented, the freedom that UPND has brought no more cadres, no more violence, economic reserve picking up, debt restructured, global recognition and so on.
In such a country one would expect that a mention of the word PF everyone will run away from shame and embarrassment because the new dawn really has no place for past instability that almost crumbled the very fabric of the state alas you still have people freely puting on PF with a face of a dead person and cheering they need change. This is a serious case study in modern politics and narrative of understanding the difference between governance and politics and understanding why the two must never be parallel.
PF is not alive because people wants it back or they miss it but because it’s structures that makes it from the foundation are intact and untouched. Whatever they did to keep them solid and get the faith they are enjoying in an overwhelming political environment that doesn’t seem to favor them one needs to ask what is UPND endgame strategy to counter such.
It is the battle of perception and narrative unfortunately as elections comes the Zambian constitution demands separation so that people gets divided and choose who they want in contrast to UPND’s (WE ARE ALL ZAMBIANS).
An army of coordinated ants in numbers can bring down a powerful lion.
The phrase “we are all Zambians” has affected UPND political structure, architecture and establishment to cause political weakness compared to the good deeds and intention it was meant to. At the end it’s politics that makes one be in government and not the other way round. Understanding this distinction helps to navigate the questions why PF still pushes to put up a face often dwarfing other political parties who can be the rightful challengers to UPND.
While PF structures remain solid and intact at grassroot levels amidst the absence of top leadership and instability at senior ranks on the contest to be president, UPND still can’t match them with months towards elections, UPND structures are in no solid base to put a fight sequel to 2021 as many complain of being neglected, forgotten, used and so on. The political paradigm itself is far from grassroot mobilisation but comfortable in the ruling elite circles, deals with people that don’t even help the party that put them in government and so on.
We borrow the narrative of Ms. Laura Miti that President HH may not be really worried about August 13th elections but his MPs are not in good shape, further, the President’s own words; he said he is not comfortable hearing that the President is safe and not his MPs he asks how he will rule if his MPs are not elected together with him: The answer lies how UPND Secretariat is being run currently is it in charge with it’s grassroot structures or not otherwise the MPs are indeed the gamers to watch come August it’s each one for himself and HH for us all. SALT SANA.
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There is a huge difference between marching a rented mob for a few hours on a national holiday. The size of the mob, the noise that mob will make, the colours they will display will invariably impress onlookers.
But that is a one day, a few hours display. It will impress the ignorant. Such as the author of the above article.
You can not however compare a 2 hour paid for display of cheap tee-shirts with the life changing impact that free education, meals for schools and meal allowances for higher education students have had on our children and young people. And the thousands of new civil servants who had no connections to help them secure a job in government.
So I must humbly decline the invitation by the author of the above article to be impressed or disturbed by mobs wearing PF regalia. Fools in numbers? Clearly you are numbered with the fools. Thanks, but no thanks – I can not join your fear mongering. We have been there before. We have seen the financial recklessness that those colours represent. We have seen the entitled criminals who are either fugitives or currently serving prison sentences that those colours represent. We are not moved. We have seen shameless “gifting” of someone’s child with 79 vehicles, 23 properties and a petrol filling station.
Let me tell you something. Those niggaz are going nowhere. They have cursed themselves to wander aimlessly in the political wilderness. Renting a mob does not equate with having political party structures. If I have 10 or 20 pin, a bunch of green tee-shirts, a few crates of cheap alcohol and several buses to ferry a mob of 100 people. I can walk into any compound and within 10 minutes, people will be fighting to be part of that rented mob. They don’t faken care which political party the sponsor belongs to. They get free alcohol, k200 each and a free bus ride around town. That is not the same thing as a political party structure. That is mob renting. Don’t equate it to or confuse it with organised political party structures.
100% accurate; fake dollar means real dollar is there too
Well said Malikopo. Besides, it is just that gang of thugs that is missing pilfered funds and regretting have burned a lot of it on braziers. Their hope is that a thieving tolerant figure can be propelled to state house, but, one thing they don’t understand is that Zambians are a wise lot.
They may not express themselves, but they have their eyes on the ball, the wining team that brought the Zambian economy and governance to it’s knees.
Hunger may loom around, but it is only part of the ripple effect of the damage caused by PF.
Zambians will not allow the same monster to return with it’s negatives.
Zambians are never known for going back to their vomit, no matter how spiced it may be.
PF may splinter into smaller groups and change names, front persons viewed as decent, but Zambians still know the difference between a sheep and a wolve in sheep’s skin.
Those muscle men they are parading are a sign of the violent nature of their package if given chance to return. Zambians will have themselves to blame if they made an emotional decision to return the monster called PF or it’s replica.
SALT SANAAA!
When you go to eastern province you will find supporter’s for UNIP therefore don’t say that UNIP party is popular no boss,in UGANDA amini adada is still talked.
It’s these Insults which put People off.
How do you label a segment of the Population exercising their democratic Rights of Assembly Fools?
It’s this same behavior which made the UPND to be in Opposition for 20 years.. Insulting those against them.
It’s like this group of people never learns. It’s some of these same people being labeled fools today who made it possible for Hakainde to be in State House in 2021..and the same people who will vote on 13th August, 2026.
Which school did you graduate from where the word ‘Fool’ is defined as an insult?
A school which taught me that you are a big fool to ask such a question.
You are not merely a fool, but rather an individual afflicted by a condition known as severe ignorance, who would desire to see PF regain power. You have become accustomed to receiving free money, tantameni. I blame the education system in Zambia responsible for this situation.
@SCRUTINY
A school which taught me that you are a BIG FOOL to ask such a question.
Sarcism is the most diplomatic way to insult.
Its only the uneducated and uncouth that exmplify such tact…
Ba Nkunku…dont prove us right…
A hog is a hog, whether you wash and put him in a well furnished hotel curtained with pure linen from Egypt, perfumed with charming deodorants from France; a classic table prepared before him with irresistible aroma, he will still opt for a junk of herbs in the crib lying besides smelly stagnant muddy water, WHY? it’s because a hog can never be better than a hog.
No decent minded human Zambian would still be dreaming of PF being an alternative Party to UPND. Fortunate enough, the majority Zambian know that our Country is now is safer hands.
Jesus was never loved by everyone; today sinners still do not love Him despite dieing for them and freely providing oxygen for their survival.
My leader An Idiot will always be an Idiot sir.This Nkuku guy wants to sound smart.He is just a pf fool.These Cadres are steaming from one grouping of losers who don’t want to recognize HH as head of state cause he stopped them from looting or benefiting from public resources. They hate the man.They would rather choose a monkey against HH cause of hatred.They know this deep down their hearts but we don’t care because they never share his vision.
The fact is PF was one huge gravy train and many benefited from the looted national treasury. Large amounts of money are still in PF hands and the so called structures still dream of syphoning money from bus stations, markets, plots and so on again. UPND cadres feel neglected because, they too, were hoping to pick off from where PF left once they were voted in.
The PF still has huge amounts of money at their disposal and can easily marshal crowds of hungry citizens in this harsh economic environment. The real test will be at the ballot. You can’t bribe all the voters, not even most of the voters for you to win.
Crowds can be deceiving. Showing up at a function is one thing. Being a registered voter is another.