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5 Major Reasons Africa is Poor – Religion (Part 21) _A comprehensive study by Rev Walter Mwambazi

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5 Major Reasons Africa is Poor – Religion (Part 21)
_A comprehensive study by Rev Walter Mwambazi_

Any serious Pan-Africanist will easily recognize a quote attributed to the late President Jomo Kenyatta who apparently said, “When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.”

Odd and as funny as this may sound, it is a deeply troubling but true statement. All one has to do is look at the evidence, what Scripture calls “the fruit” and there you have your answer.

It is so ironic that Jesus said,

“Beware of false prophets [including many so-called missionaries and preachers], who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves [imperial elitists]. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit [peace, joy, love etc.], but a bad tree bears bad fruit [greed, murder, strife, exploitation etc.] A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them”

Look at the work of the colonial masters; tell me, does it qualify as good or bad fruit? The answer is obvious.

Even though there were those who genuinely brought the gospel and were ready to die for it as missionaries, they too were part of a larger plan by those behind them to accomplish their diabolical plan for control of resources, and what better way than through religion?

Below is the first of the five tools used to bring about the poverty we experience today.

CONTROL OF THE MASSES

Religion has been used time immemorial as a means to control the poor. This is done by instilling the “suffer now and benefit in the afterlife” mindset. It is this teaching that caused a great awakening of the protestant movement in medieval times when Martin Luther learnt the shocking truth about the mother church after his visit to Rome.

Religion controls the poor by teaching what is termed the “suffering” model. It is thus touted as a mark of piety and emphasized by “works”. If you suffer more, you get a greater reward in the afterlife epitomized by bliss.

Three key factors are erroneously emphasized.

👉 #1. Martyrdom
Taught and emphasized to young zealots who then senselessly commit suicide and suffer great pains to further the agenda of their leaders. Poverty and suffering are usually a great breeding ground for recruiting such people and then indoctrinating them with this teaching.

👉 #2. Suffering
“Pie in the Sky” is their lot, not “here and now”. Slavery, colonialism and the current status quo has been and continues to be fueled by this teaching. The idea is to show the poor that suffering is the greatest “works” that can be done to gain piety (holiness).

👉 #3. Money/Materialism is evil
Perhaps the worst paradigm as it opposes a “positive mental attitude” and justifies poverty in the minds of those who suffer from it. All money, property, ambition, assertiveness, confidence and the pursuit of success and wealth is seen as embracing worldliness and greed and thus are evil. Better is one to suffer and live in mediocrity than enjoy and live in success and prosperity.

Now The Law of Attraction declares that you attract precisely who and what you are. We are the sum total of our paradigms because these affect how we think and behave. What we think ultimately becomes who we are. Our character indeed shapes our destiny and that is always affected by what we focus our minds on all the time.

Now whatever we focus on, expands. And furthermore, whatever we believe, becomes. Unfortunately, for the majority of Africans under this religious spell, they do not realize that they already repel wealth. They view the wealthy as Satanists or evil worldly people.

They hold religious activities at a higher level than wealth creation activities. Anything connected to work and making a living is always placed at a lower place than religious activities. A typical church leader will reprimand a church member for missing church because of work. This reinforces the idea that work is evil, materialism is evil, career and financial pursuits are evil and that only church related activities are holy and right!

This could not be further from the truth!

I will be showing in subsequent articles precisely why this type of thinking is actually worsening poverty here in Africa. This type of thinking causes what neural linguistic programming calls “incongruence” and short circuits anyone’s efforts to create lasting wealth.

The irony of such thinking is that those who are in it still want and believe for money all the time as…
👉 It is seen in their endless tithing, seed sowing and other such giving which is done with the hope of becoming wealthy!
👉 It is seen in their endless prayers for “things” and declarations for breaking poverty and curses and screaming recitals against any generational setbacks.
👉 It is seen in the endless intercession whose focus is not souls and evangelism, or love and light but “bless me, bless me and bless me more Lord”!

How is that even right?

Sit inside a typical Charismatic intercessory session and hear what prayers come up. Most prayers are for financial breakthrough. Now if this is the case but poverty reigns supreme here in Africa including countries with the most powerful and richest pastors in Africa like beloved Nigeria, then something is inherently wrong!

If the pastors of these churches can become super millionaires and own private jets, but their congregants and nations still rank high in terms of poverty levels, then either the message is not true, or there is a problem with the receivers.

It is my view that the problem lies with the programming – that message which in its truest sense is not designed to emancipate and free people from the shackles of sin in its entirety – nope – instead it’s designed to free them from one form of prison, only to enslave and lock them in another prison – a prison for their minds.

This prison will keep them locked in poverty for their entire lives to the benefit of those elite who need to maintain this status quo.

It was a great African thinker who termed it the relationship of the horse and the rider and in this case, the common African man being the horse, and those who perpetuate this religiosity as the riders!

Next I will now tackle the concept of Kingdoms and Empires and show you how religion is used to justify such models and perpetuates it.

Do not miss!

RECRUITMENT OF TEACHERS FOR 2021

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TEACHING SERVICE COMMISSION
RECRUITMENT OF TEACHERS FOR 2021

The Teaching Service Commission is inviting applications from suitably qualified candidates to be employed as Teachers during the 2021 Teacher Recruitment exercise.

Candidates must meet the following:
1. Must be a Zambian National
2. Must be between 18- 45 years old
3. Must be registered with the Teaching Council of Zambia
4. Must be ready to work anywhere where their services are required for a minimum
period of four years before applying for a transfer
5. Must have completed and graduated in 2016 or earlier.

EARLY EDUCATION

1. Must have a Grade Twelve School Certificate or a General Certificate of Education
with five (5) Credits or better, including English.
2. Must be from an accredited Teacher Training College with a minimum training period
of two (2) years.

PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER

1. Must have a Grade Twelve School Certificate or a General Certificate of Education
(GCE) with five (5) Credits or better, including English, Mathematics and a Science
Subject.
2. Must be from an accredited Teacher Training College with a minimum training period
of three (3) years Diploma

SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER

1. Must have a Grade 12 School Certificate or a General Certificate of Education (GCE)
with five Credits or better including English Language and in the Teaching Subject.
2. Must be from an accredited Teacher Training College or University with a minimum
training period of three (3) years Diploma and four (4) years Degree
3. Candidates with professional qualifications of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Design
and Technology, Business Studies, ICT, Agricultural Science and Zambian Languages
will be given priority.

APPLICANTS WITH DISABILITIES

 

Persons living with disability who meet the following requirements are encouraged to
apply as 10 percent of the available positions will be allocated to them:
1. Must be a Zambian National
2. Must be between 18- 45 years old
3. Must have a Grade Twelve School Certificate with four (4) Credits or better
4. Must be from an accredited Teacher Training College
5. Must be registered with the Teaching Council of Zambia
6. Must have completed and graduated in 2016 or earlier.
7. Must be registered by Zambia Agency for Persons living with Disabilities (ZAPD) or a
Certificate of Disability from a registered Medical Doctor.

NOTE: Candidates ONLY in this category should submit their applications to the Teaching Service Commission, 3rd Floor, Government Complex, Lusaka.

Interested candidates who meet the above requirements should submit their applications on revised STA FORM 1 with all the relevant certified attachments (Grade 12 School Certificate, Photo Copies of Professional Qualifications, Teaching Council of Zambia Registration Certificate, Proof of disability and NRC) to the Human Resource
Management Committee based at the District Education Board Secretary Office, through the EMS at Zambia Postal Services Corporation.

The EMS service has an online track and trace system for the purpose of tracking the application letter. Applicants should indicate on top left of the envelope the category applied for and level of qualification. Closing date of receiving application forms is 26th April, 2021.

Candidates must only apply to one District.
Applicants should note that multiple applications will lead to disqualification.

The revised STA FORM 1 should be downloaded from the

Teaching Service Commission Website at www.tsc.gov.zm or the
Ministry of General Education Website at www.moge.gov.zm.

Issued by:
Zechariah Luhanga, MZIHRM
Commission Secretary
TEACHING SERVICE COMMISSION

 

STA FORM 1

UPND IS FACTORY OF TRIBALISM – Munir Zulu

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By Munir Zulu
UPND IS FACTORY OF TRIBALISM

*MINORITY AND MAJORITY*

• According to Central Statistics Office Census report of 2010 –which is the last report conducted on Zambia’s population so far – among the 13 million people there were 72 tribes.

• According to the census report, Bemba was the most populous tribal community forming 21 per cent of the total population, followed by Tonga, who formed 13.6 per cent of the total population. Chokwe were the smallest community forming 0.5 per cent of the total population. These statistics, clearly, answer the question of minority and majority.

*THE BIRTH OF TRIBALISM IN ZAMBIAN POLITICS*

• Before the coming of Hakainde Hichilema on the political scene, the word tribalism was mere a theory that was never practical.

• In 2006, after UPND founder leader Anderson Mazoka died, it was Hichilema and his friends who said a Lozi can’t win an election in Zambia. This was how Sakwiba Sikota who was then UPND vice president and legal person to take over Mazoka, was prevented from becoming even a substantive president until a convention, at which they needed to elect a successor.

• Before the post went into liquidation, it once published an editorial titled: “We do not hate HH but we hate his tribalism”

Part of the editorial reads:
“Hakainde has been known to say things like “if we give power to these Bembas, we will never get it back” … Hakainde is the only politician that we can think of in our country whose entry into politics was heralded by a tribal trumpet. After Anderson Mazoka died and the fight to succeed him had started, those who supported Hakainde said he should be given to run the party because he was Tonga. Hakainde has never convincingly, if at all, distanced himself from these statements”

• In 2016 it was late Hon. Daniel Munkombwe. (R.I.P) who spoke at a UPND rally in Southern Province, that it was time for a Tonga to rule. Hichilema spoke immediately after Honorable Munkombwe but never distanced himself from that tribal remarks. Why? Because he is a beneficiary of tribalism. As Fred M’membe used to write in editorials during the Post Newspaper days “You tell who a tribalist is by virtue of his behavior and not what he says”

• In 2016, it was reported in the media that some people in Mazabuka said “only a Tonga can replace Garry Nkombo in Mazabuka Constituency”. HH and his friends in UPND never condemned these tribal remarks. Why? Because tribalism is their blood.

• In 2017, NDC Vice President Saboi Imboela left UPND and revealed what we all know about this party, that, “only if you have a right surname can UPND can be your home”. These are words of a Lozi – a tribe which Hichilema and his friends said in 2006 that, it cannot win an election.

• December 19, 2019, Jonas Shakafuswa – a known UPND senior member wrote an article “ Let us face it. Zambian Politics is defined on tribal lines”. He said:

“Has the Bemba led PF managed resources prudently on behalf of all Zambians? Have the benefits trickled down to the lowest of society? Are the leaders sacrificing for the poorest of the poor? If yes, then I see no reason of not returning PF to power. For me it is also time for the Bembas to ask themselves if the so called leaders representing them in Government are the best reflection of its people”

• This year in another election year Jonas Shakafuswa at it again with another tribal rhetoric where he says “Zambians are tired of serving Northerners and Easterners and that Zambians should claim their peaceful and United country”. HH has never distanced himself from all that. Why? Again, because he is a beneficiary of tribalism.

• One writer Joe Mwansa Lombe Kaluba wrote, on September 15, 2017”

“The problem is that we want to pretend that there is no tribalism in Zambia. People are afraid to say it because they think others will tell them that they are the ones who are being tribal. Regional politics are real and they exist in our country”

• In conclusion, an attempt by UPND agents to accuse me of being tribal is yet another fruitless scheme of self-cleansing from their tribal identity. Clearly, it is not only me who see UPND for what it is – a tribal cult with members who think leadership must exchange tribal hands.

ENDS

IT’S FAILURE AND DESPERATION FOR PF TO START BRIBING PEOPLE – John Sangwa SC

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IT’S FAILURE AND DESPERATION FOR PF TO START BRIBING PEOPLE – John Sangwa SC

It is an indictment of failure and desperation when you start bribing people to vote for you, because you would not be distributing money if you have delivered, says State Counsel John Sangwa.

And Sangwa said Zambians deserve substantive debates from those seeking office, indicating that while PF has failed to deliver, those seeking to take over must provide practical solutions on how they will improve matters, rather than just vaguely issuing promissory statements.

Featuring on Radio Phoenix’s Let the People Talk programme this morning, Sangwa said if Zambian voters were stupid they would have voted retain former president Rupiah Banda into office in 2011, as he had more money than opposition leader then Michael Sata.

He said the people however, ate Banda’s money and voted against him, saying he believed the same could happen in 2021.

Sangwa said there should be a law to regulate how much money should be spent on an election, adding that the party in power inevitably enjoyed financial power, but there was no guarantee that money would translate into votes.

He questioned the genuiness of the same as money that was well earned could be used more responsibly.

“It shows desperation because if you have delivered you wouldn’t be distributing money,” Sangwa said during a radio programme monitored by Daily Revelation, adding that a government that had delivered simply needed to point to tangible things like jobs created and improvements in the economy, but to resort to bribing voters showed the failure to perform. “You start bribing voters, any reasonable voter will know ‘you will give me chitenge today, but am I going to eat chitenge’…it’s indictment of failure to start bribing voters…if you have delivered you wouldn’t be bribing them.”

Sangwa said “you won’t come up with crazy ideas like empowerment”, as doing so meant that one had failed but that they were going to do everything in their power to remain in power.

He said when politicians were singing “more money in your pockets”, the people must be intelligent enough to ask how that would happen, saying building three to five bridges in Lusaka does not equate to development.

He said the PF must provide figures and statistics to backup their claims that they had delivered, saying people must compare the state of affairs now to the way things were 10 years ago before the ruling party assumed office.

“There is no way a sensible person would say things are better,” Sangwa said, arguing that the government’s stated foreign debt position was US$12 billion, yet president Banda left it at only US$750 million.

He said he wanted to hear how the PF would carry out national development while servicing such a huge debt, and that this was a big issue but he had not heard from the PF, UPND and other parties how they would address this critical matter.

“How do you say you have delivered when you keep on adding debt?…you haven’t delivered, you have failed.

 

 

 

Kapambwe Mulenga – The Tough Tackling Defender Who Took No Prisoners

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By Ponga Liwewe

Kapambwe Mulenga – The Tough Tackling Defender Who Took No Prisoners

Kapambwe Mulenga, clad in the yellow of Power Dynamos, ran into space down the right side in the Kabwe Warriors half and called out for the ball at the top of his voice. ‘Summerbee!’ Wisdom Chansa looked up and played a beautiful pass into the path of the player nicknamed ‘Gentile.’

The sometime-midfielder who was imposing himself on the match in a closely fought encounter of the 1987 Independence Cup final later found himself on the right and spotted his teammates in the box. He curled the ball with his characteristic left foot, an inswinger that eluded Richard Mwanza the Kabwe Warriors stalwart to give his team a 1-0 lead. Warriors went on to win 3-2 in a memorable final.

What was odd was that Kapambwe was not playing in the middle with Wisdom Chansa for the national team but for Power Dynamos. A conflict within the Nkana ranks had earlier that season, seen him cross the Kitwe dual carriageway to join Nkana’s rivals. It was a move that split opinion in Kitwe and led to quite a few fisticuffs in drinking places across the city to resolve the arguments between fans in a way only Kitwe residents can understand.

The following season, however, he returned to familiar grounds, once again playing for the all-red Nkana Red Devil’s, the team he had grown up loving as a boy and that he would eventually play his heart out for, becoming a legend in the process.

With the exception of that brief moment in time, in 1987, Kapambwe Mulenga ate, drank, and slept Nkana. He had broken into the ranks of the team in 1982 stepping into the left fullback role. He made the position his own thereafter.

He was immediately recognised for his no-prisoners approach when dealing with strikers. The tackles came fast and furious, initially earning him several red cards in his early days and the infamous nickname ‘Gentile after the ruthless Italian Claudio Gentile who had ripped the shirt off Diego Maradona’s back at the 1982 world cup in Italy.

Such was his reputation as a hard man he brought fear and dread into the players he marked. In the 1985 battle for the league championship between Nkana and Power Dynamos that was to be decided on the final day of the season, Nkana, despite playing at the Arthur Davies Stadium, won 2-0. “Gents Power’s” shackling of Lucky Msiska played a pivotal role in determining the final outcome.

The Nkana team between 1982 and 1993 totally dominated Zambian league football. While the back four changed over time with Fighton Simukonda and Ben Bamfuchile giving way to Modon Malitoli and Eston Mulenga and the right fullback changing from John Kalusa to John Mofya to Wiseman Chizumira, Kapambwe stayed ever-present. Due to his versatility, he would often be found wearing the number 6 shirt, dominating the midfield with an impressive range of passing skills.

In the national team he was a fan-favourite. His first touch, an inevitable rubbing of the ball into the turf with hic cultured left foot, brought the crowd to its feet. He was immensely talented yet, unlike a lot of players with skill who do not endeavour enough because of their natural talents, he played like his life depended on it. This endeared him to the fans in both Nkana and the national team. Even the opposing fans loved him. Off the field he was a simple man. His speech marked by a lisp, he wore his fame with the humbleness many in such a position fail to maintain.

Once, watching a match from the vantage point of an elevated platform that gave the best view at the low-lying Nkana stadium, he walked in, having not made the team due to injury. He had obviously had a couple of drinks. The younger players watching from there fled in a hurry at the sight of him. He squinted in my direction, gave a wry smile and said hi. From there he began to call out to his teammates, issuing defensive advice, even though they were not in earshot. Later, he muttered to himself, ’I could play in this match while carrying my son on my back.’ He was a character.

As age began to slow him down he played more frequently in the midfield role which didn’t require the rigours of defensive duties. After Whiteson Changwe became the national team’s de facto left back Kapambwe was in and out of the team. Once at Garden Park stadium in Kitwe when excluded just prior to Zambia’s participation in the 1990 Africa Cup of Nations, he was played in a Copperbelt select team for a practice match against the main team.

That day he showed why he ranks among the greats of Zambian football. One minute he was at the back tackling to save the situation, the next he was in the middle of the park playing defence-splitting passes. He even found time to sprint forward to get on to the end of cross with a goal-bound diving header. He left the pitch to a standing ovation with fans chanting his name. The next day he was recalled to national duty.

Towards the end of his time with the national team ill-health began to slow him down. When the national team were killed in the air crash off the coast of Gabon he was no longer in the squad.
Yet after the tragedy he was brought back into the fold and fittingly played at the 1994 Africa Cup final in Tunisia where Zambia finished second. When he returned after the tournament he famously said, having shaken hands with the great Pele, he had nothing left to prove in the game. The curtain came down on his playing career shortly after.

He was key to Nkana’s winning of nine league titles between 1982 and 1993 and in their reaching the final of the 1990 Africa Champions Cup final where they lost to JS Kabylie 5-4 after a penalty shoot-out. He also played in 3 Africa cup of Nations in 1986, 1990 and 1994 where he won a bronze and silver medal.

After his death in 1996 Kitwe paid tribute to its famous son. Wusakile came to a standstill. There is a pub outside Nkana Stadium since named in his honour.

More important, he still lives in the hearts of Zambian football fans who saw him weave his magic and inversely, act as executioner when the going required it.

Pamela Bwembya: SOME REASONS WHY I WILL NOT VOTE FOR ECL AND PF

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By Pamela Bwembya
SOME REASONS WHY I WILL NOT VOTE FOR ECL AND PF
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1. ECL breaks the constitution whenever he wants (to his advantage) and examples abound…the illegal ministers, failure to let the speaker act when his election was petitioned. ECL does not respect our constitution. Proof lies in his allowing the police to detain opposition members without timely handing them to our courts as stipulated by our laws. ECL quietly released Spax Mulenga over a rape case and possible involvement in gassing and murder.

2. ECL is more interested in enriching himself and not the country. Proof of this is in his rapid accumulation of personal assets and, the plain rise to opulence of some family members.

3. ECL is a tribalist who has uttered words to that effect when addressing crowds in Eastern province. He has never punished ministers who have used tribalism as a tool in by elections.

4. ECL condones corruption and uses it as a critical tool to get things done in his favor. I am yet to fully understand how a bench of respected judges would become part of an effort to deprive a citizen of a fair hearing during the 2016 petition…or how non-PF leaders seem to get stiffer sentences than PF members. In fact, we have a murder case that occurred in Kaoma in which the deputy SG of PF was an eye witness and yet the president has been unable to encourage his men in uniform to do what is required of them. ECL is the kind of CEO who gets a report from an internal audit department that suggests that some managers are stealing from the company but the CEO sides with the accused while vilifying the audit unit.

5. ECL punishes civil servants that antagonize criminal operations of those he works with. That is how the police officers in Chingola got transferred after a PF IPS was arrested in connection with the gassing that indirectly killed about 50 citizens.

6. ECL mistakes his personal and party interests for national interest. Examples include retirement in national interest of officers and civil servants after doing what they are employed to do.

7. ECL openly intimidates the judiciary and allows his party officials to do the same. This is not good for a well functioning government.

8. ECL uses his brilliance to scheme against competitors within his party and outside the party. Such brilliance would help Zambia if it was targeted towards the best positions for Zambia in international dealings. ECL will borrow money and personally sign for loans without the involvement of parliament.

9. ECL does not seem to appreciate that the civil services and security wings must only benefit from a well-performing private sector. ECL will boast about building houses for security wings without realizing that such actions need to be backed by an efficient and expanded tax system. Zambia can have the best equipped and most motivated security wings, but if the citizens are not empowered to support the officers effortlessly, the business environment gradually becomes toxic. Thieves get away with theft of public funds and the cost of protecting citizens increases while officers make things even harder for citizens by demanding bribes from both the accused and the accuser.

10. ECL loves luxury….Ferrari in the sky, new suits, new shoes, being seen to be rich (dishing out freebies from unknown sources), overpriced massive infrastructure developments (that already need urgent repairs). The man believes civil servants and police officers that have three cars at their homes are a sign of a good performing economy and not corruption or wastefulness. Zambia does not make cars, not even needles or razor blades. Priding ourselves in imported finished goods is a sign of failure to understand why our people have no jobs.

11. ECL is a danger to our country because, the more we allow him to rule us the more wrongs he is likely to commit knowingly or unknowingly, the more afraid of losing power, and the more dictatorial he might become.

12. ECL has been mutilating our constitution to give himself a chance to avoid being investigated for possible crimes. BILL 10 aimed to dilute our constitution to an extent that would make changing critical laws using a simple majority in parliament. The current CYBER BILL is a snippet of what would have been happening frequently had Bill10 passed. Allowing ECL to win in August is likely to bring back BILL 10 in another form (The minister of Justice already promised that).

13. ECL abuses his power to manipulate electoral processes. Presidential visits that prevent citizens to campaign for their party candidates, closing of air space to local flights are perfect examples. ECL does not belief in democracy and the skewed number of registered voters in PF strongholds is a good example. He has taken away citizens rights to vote and probably given it to people that are not eligible to vote.

14. ECL IS NOT GOOD FOR ZAMBIA, the sooner ordinary citizens realize this, the better. Two litres of milk is now costing K40 instead of K14. Another 5 YEARS of ECL will turn grass into our favorite vegetable.

THESE ARE SOME OF THE REASONS WHY I WILL NOT VOTE FOR ECL this August.

ConCourt will stop Lungu from his third term bid

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Hypothetically, the ConCourt would be within its constitutional powers to stop Lungu from his suicidal third term bid.

Finally, there are only three super forces that can stop President Edgar Lungu from his suicidal mission to tear down our hard-won democracy and eviscerate our Constitution permitting only two term limits for each President. Lungu has already served the two permissible terms. He wants a third term for which he doesn’t qualify.

He is set on risking the peace of Zambia, the tranquility of Zambia; he intends to set Zambia on fire for his personal interests. He is set on committing treason for his unquenchable selfish interests to remain in power when he knows or ought to know that he doesn’t qualify. He is programmed himself to commit a crime against Zambia for his personal aggrandizement, knowing his leadership has brought nothing glorious to this country.

There are no redeeming qualities to Lungu’s leadership of Zambia that he can rely on. His legacy is pure wreckage of democracy, the polity, the economy and tribal balance in Zambia. He is not satisfied with the damage he has already done to the country. He is not satisfied with the wealth he has already illegitimately accumulated with a veneer of legitimacy here and there. He wants to destroy the only legacy Zambians have been holding dear close to their chests: the Constitution from 1991 which has permitted peaceful transfer of power from one party to another party albeit with rigging embedded therein for good measure.

Each amended Constitution from 1991 to the present, that is 30 years, has limited presidential terms to two terms; that hasn’t changed. One person comes who thinks because he doesn’t want to go to jail that he is the God- chosen one to change all that; that won’t be. That can’t be allowed. We didn’t sacrifice our youth and go to jail for seven months and sacrifice our families for someone to simply come in and take everything away. Everyone can tell their own stories about how they contributed to the germination and sustenance of Zambian democracy during the one-party dictatorship and beyond. And there are so many heralded and unheralded stories of heroes and heroines. One day the full story will be told.

But Lungu will be stopped by three live forces of democracy from taking this country down the precipice. Firstly, and hypothetically, the judiciary through the Constitutional Court. Secondly, the ever-present intraparty tremors within any party that is violating the constitution or heading towards an election has the potential of self-destruction and or self-purification forces within it. Here, I am referring to the impending internal combustion within the ruling PF party where factions will emerge to destroy other factions. Thirdly, the ultimate power of the voter individually and collectively.

This column today will only deal with the ConCourt and hypothetically because it hasn’t been summoned yet to stop Lungu from his unconstitutional suicide mission. But when and if the ConCourt is called upon to determine in the concrete case of the eligibility of Lungu to run a third term, the ConCourt properly constituted and alive to the constitutional provisions now engaged to address the specific case of Lungu, the ConCourt will have no difficult on pronouncing that Lungu is not eligible to run for a third term.

From time to time the judiciary has rescued nations from self-destruction in moments of crises. No matter how disappointing the judiciary presents itself across history, it has from time to time been the backbone upon which democracy and constitutionalism have rested. The impetus to judicial gallantry has always been the crusading lawyers who have either accepted difficult briefs from clients or initiated the suits to rescue democracy and the Constitution themselves. Without the lawyers the judiciary cannot make those momentous decisions. But lawyers need clients for this. However, lawyers can create clients in times of crises and necessity. This is such a time in Zambian history. Lungu has to be stopped. Zambia belongs to all Zambians and all those who live in it.

The ConCourt judges, if engaged, will first ask themselves what was the rationale for the two term limits? The ConCourt will read the constitutional provisions contextually and without adding words or numbers that are not in the provisions and will interpret the Constitution within the period in which Lungu took office and what the words meant at the time. The ConCourt will have at hand the Constitution (Amendment) Act No. 1 of 2016 which states without ambiguity that the new President will complete the term of office of the deceased President where it is not stated what the time frame of that term is. The completion of the term simply means what it is. If it is five minutes, it is five minutes as long as an election has been held and a person has been sworn in.

The ConCourt will be alive to the fact that Lungu never came into power from the position of Vice-President or Speaker or Chief Justice, so the Article in the new Constitution Act No. 2 of 2016 does not concern Lungu at all. Lungu is plainly not captured therein except the paragraph that prohibits him from running for a third term because he has already held office twice. And holding office should not now be conflated with term of office because Amendment No.1 already tells us that Lungu without qualification completed the term of office of Michael Sata. That term is done no matter how long it was.

In 2016 to the present, Lungu did a second term of office as he was elected and sworn in and not from the position of VP or Speaker or CJ. Only a person who assumes the presidency from the position of VP or Speaker or CJ is affected by the calculation of when they assumed the presidency and what time had already been consumed by departed president. Lungu is beyond all this debate, the ConCourt will pronounce.

The ConCourt will have researchers to do extensive literature review on what has been written in Zambia and outside Zambia on this point. There are many important articles written by Zambians on this. Perhaps the best article is by Mr Elias Chipimo junior on this point. Many interviews and articles have also appeared in The Mast newspaper and the Diggers Newspaper. Literature review clarifies the judicial and any other mind.

The ConCourt will have in hand publications by Professor Margaret Munalula on Legal Process; Sullivan on Construction of Statutes and many books in that genre. The ConCourt will have Supreme Court of Zambia decisions that state clearly that a court can depart from its previous decision if certain conditions are satisfied. Such would be the case here if anyone assumed that the ConCourt had already pronounced itself on the eligibility of Lungu for a third term. It hasn’t directly done so in my reading. If prompted the ConCourt will declare Lungu ineligible.

The ConCourt will have at its disposal the seminal and paradigm shifting election decisions jurisprudence from Kenya of 2017 and Malawi of 2019/20 signaling the new dawn in fearless constitutional interpretations based on the impartial and unintimidated constitutional reading by the respective judiciaries.

The ConCourt will also be guided by the behaviour of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States where even those who were appointed by Trump decided to follow the Constitution rather than the man who openly intimated that his secret weapons were in the Supreme Court of the United States. He was rejected by his so-called secret weapons. The same can happen this time in Zambia if anyone presumes Lungu has any secret weapons in the ConCourt merely because Lungu appointed all ConCourt judges. Lungu, of course has been winning a lot in the ConCourt but on the eligibility for a third term, my bet is that luck or whatever it is that made him secure those victories in the ConCourt won’t hold this time.

So much has been written in Zambia, the decisions of apex courts in Kenya and Malawi and the US on elections etc have combined to elevate the constitutional educational quotient level of all of us including that of our ConCourt. And we must never lose sight of why we have had a two-term limit for presidential office since 1991. If the ConCourt is engaged to stop Lungu from imposing himself, they will do it. If the ConCourt doesnt, dissent from within PF will derail him and if not, Zambian voters will stop him on August 12, 2021. It is written in the law and in the skies above us.

Dr Hamalengwa is the author of the upcoming book Commentaries on the Laws of Zambia, among many other books, including on the Judiciary. Send comment to: forthedefence@yahoo.ca

Mubita Nawa, Anthony Bwalya, and three others plead not guilty

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The case in which Mubita Nawa, Anthony Bwalya, and three others are been accused of theft by public servant, forgery, uttering false documents, and receiving stolen property has come up for plea in the Mansa Magistrate Court.

Appearing for plea before Mansa Principal Magistrate Dominic Makalicha was Dorothy Mukulusha 53, a Senior Human Resources Officer of House number 1388, Kamwala South in Lusaka, Edgar Maloba 29, an Assistant Registration Officer of D45 Rural Council Compound in Samfya, Graham Halumamba 48, an Accountant all under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Anthony Bwalya 39 a politician of house number 4 Ngwerere Avenue in Chelston and Mubita Nawa 45 a Businessman of 3974 Lusaka West.

Ms. Mukulusha, Mr. Maloba and Mr. Halumamba are jointly charged with one count of theft by Public Servant Contrary to Section 272 and 277 of the penal code Cap 87 of the Laws of Zambia.

Particulars of the offence are that the trio on unknown dates but between January 10, 2019 and October 18, 2020 in Mansa District, being persons employed in the public service, as Provincial Registrar, Stores Officer and Accountant respectively, jointly and whilst acting together with other persons unknown did steal 1,500 blank national registration cards altogether valued at K 3, 840.

In the second and fourth count, Mubita Nawa and Anthony Bwalya are jointly charged with forgery contrary to section 342 and 347.

The duo with intent to defraud or deceive, whilst acting together with other persons unknown forged a green national registration card number 429102/16/1 and also Received stolen property contrary to section 378(1) of the penal code Cap 87 of the Laws of Zambia.

The two jointly and whilst acting together had in their possession two green National Registration cards bearing serial number Z14228282.

In the third count, Bwalya is charged with the offence of uttering of a false document contrary to section 352 of the penal code Cap 87 of the Laws of Zambia where it is believed that he fraudulently did utter a false document namely a Green National Registration Card number 429102/16/1 bearing a male passport size photo of a renowned journalist of a named private Television station.

The five have since pleaded not guilty to all the charges, and Principal Magistrate Makalicha has since adjourned the matter to May 10, 2021 for mention and June 1, 2021 for commencement of trial.

Tribe that worships Prince Philip begins weeks-long mourning ceremony

A tribe in the remote island nation of Vanuatu who revered Prince Philip as a god has begun a weeks-long formal mourning period.

Based in villages on the island of Tanna, the group believed Prince Philip to be a reincarnation of an ancient warrior who left the island to fight a war, according to the Associated Press.

Chief Yapa of Ikunala village, Tanna, said: “The connection between the people on the Island of Tanna and the English people is very strong.”

A ceremony was organised on Monday to remember the Duke of Edinburgh. Anthropologist Kirk Huffman, who has studied the tribe, told the BBC that villagers will meet to conduct rites for the Duke for the next few weeks. They will likely hold a procession, display memorabilia of Prince Philip and conduct ceremonial dancing.

An expert told the Associated Press that the tribe will mourn his death with ritual wailing.

Prince Philip’s veneration is believed to have started in the 1960s when Vanuatu was an Anglo-French colony. Villagers at the time likely saw portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip at government offices and police stations before he visited the island in 1974, according to Reuters.

Former Buckingham Palace spokesman Dickie Arbiter told the New York Post that one of the oarsmen “taking them ashore was a chap from Tanna called Chief Jack.”

He said that the oarsman thought Prince Philip was a warrior from a long time ago who had come down from the mountains and gone to England in search of a bride.

Five members from a village on Tanna met the Duke in 2007 when they travelled to England to be part of a documentary. They met Prince Philip at Windsor Castle and took photos with him.

The mourning period will likely culminate with a gathering and there will be an elaborate feast, Vanuatu-based journalist Dan McGarry told BBC. He said this will include yams, kava plants and pigs.

It is now expected that the South Pacific tribe will likely turn to worship Prince Charles, who visited the island in 2018 and was appointed an honorary high chief in Vanuatu. He also took a sip of of special kava which was last consumed when Prince Philip visited the island in 1974.

Slay queens curse Rozina Negusei for clinging to Akon

Several slay queens have been silently cursing Rozina Negusei for “super-gluing” on the Lonely singer, saying she is standing in the way of Akon’s investment in their more salacious business.

Negusei has been by Akon’s side since his arrival in the Uganda, handling some of his deals. Several slay queens who had been hoping the Senegalese-born American RnB singer would “invest” in them with top dollars and probably a baby, are now frustrated.

“She’s even short like a pin,” one posted on Facebook. “Why can’t she behave like Tomeka Thiam, Rachel Ritfeld and Tricia Anna who are enjoying their shares from wherever without having to come and superglue on Akon in our face?”

Thiam, Ritfeld and Anna are said to be Akon’s wives or girlfriends too.
“That man loves Uganda and he knows what we got here but that tiny thing she came with has messed up all our chances,” another slayer said.

Leave my Fufa alone, Magogo tells Mutyaba
Fufa president and Budiope East MP has urged former Cranes international Sulaiman Mutyaba to invest his emotional wellbeing in Ramathan instead of looking for excuses at Fufa.
“This Fufa, I picked it from rubbish and made it what it is now,” Magogo said. “Suddenly, even a football failure like Mutyaba now thinks he can discuss Fufa.”

Magogo challenged Mutyaba to bring anyone who remembers him playing for the Cranes.
“As far as I’m concerned, you did nothing. In fact, your recent massive failure in local elections is a bigger achievement than what you allegedly did with Cranes,” Magogo fumed.
Mutyaba ran for Mutundwe Parish LC5 Councillor but failed in February.
“This is my Fufa, I made it. It’s not a place for political hangover. Go and fast, ask Allah for relief from that pain.”

Bebe Cool pins Alpha goal highlight on giant screen
Singer Moses Ssali, aka Bebe Cool, has mounted a 65” smart TV in his living room that is exclusively for playing highlights of the Alpha Thierry Ssali’s wonder strike for Proline in the Uganda Cup.

The youngster turned from a near-ballboy situation in U20 Afcon to leave Myda players shell shocked as he waltzed past them, nutmegging defenders to hit home a glorious strike.
The goal helped Proline thump Myda 4-1 in the first leg of Uganda Cup and proved decisive over the two legs as Proline advanced.

And his father Bebe Cool cannot have enough of it. He has been inviting whoever can find his way to his home to watch the clips that plays on repeat like a bar signage advertising drinks.
He invited Akon to watch the clip, and has asked Bobi Wine to his home too -sqoop

UPND REPORTS PF’S MUNIR ZULU TO POLICE OVER ‘MINORITY GROUP’ REMARKS

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*UPND REPORTS PF’S MUNIR ZULU TO POLICE OVER ‘MINORITY GROUP’ REMARKS*

Lusaka~12th April, 2021.

The UPND has reported ruling PF member and President Lungu’s close associate, Munir Zulu to the Police for championing divisive and hate speech.

In a recent interview with Muvi TV, Mr Zulu allegedly told an interviewer that “minority groups in Zambia cannot be allowed to rule over majority groups”, sentiments that has prompted UPND National Youth Secretary, Samuel Ngwira to lodge in a complaint at Lusaka’s Central Police Station.

In an interview shortly after lodging in a complaint to the Police, Mr Ngwira stated that the “unwarranted” remarks by Mr Zulu had the potential to plunge the Zambia into chaos and resultantly plunge her in flames.

“…Munir Zulu has issued derogatory statements that are also based on hate speech. So, as UPND, we found it necessary to come and report Mr Zulu to the Police for such criminality because in this era and age, we can’t afford to start discriminating against the weak and the strong-the tall and the short; the majority and the minority! Zambia is one and no one should claim that they are the majority,” he said.

Mr Ngwira also described as “strange” the PF’s seeming inability to dissociate itself from the divisive remarks.

“We find it extremely strange that no single statement has come from the PF trying to disassociate themself from Mr Zulu’s remarks. But we are not surprised because we know that this has been the PF’s agenda…where they have been trying to promote tribal talk and divide the people. This is what the PF has been all about,” he said.

He, however, described the Police’s uneasiness to handle the matter as unfortunate, adding that the Police kept tossing them from one office to the other for fear of being fired.

“Unfortunately, we have been tossed from one office to the other because the officers where so scared and afraid to handle this issue they term political especially coming from the opposition (like UPND),” he said.

Mr Ngwira appealed to Zambians across the country to take charge and ensure that anyone issuing hate speech and tribal remarks is reported to the police because that can be a recipe for dividing and creating hate among ethnic groups which should not be tolerated

*UPND MEDIA TEAM*

BUUMBA MALAMBO WINS BIG IN KAFUE, HOPING TO BE ADOPTED AS UPND KAFUE

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BUUMBA MALAMBO WINS BIG IN KAFUE,

HOPING TO BE ADOPTED AS UPND KAFUE

COUNCIL-CHAIR (MAYOR) IN THE DISTRICT PRIMARIES,

FULL RESULTS:

426 BUUMBA MALAMBO – MAGOBA CLR
78 KELVIN HAACHOMBWA, DIST-OFFICIAL
23 CHARLES SHALUPA, DEPUTY MAYOR

16 VENNAH ZULU CHANDA, PROV-IPS
04 JOHN SIANTANGA, DISTRICT V-CHAIR
04 BEATRICE KAYUNI, DIST-OFFICIAL
00 BRIAN GAMBINO NYIRONGO, BIZ-MAN

The Fire-Brand Magoba Ward Councilor, BUUMBA MALAMBO really Whooped Posterios, Winning by a Mega Land-Slide, as per her usual Sucker-Punch Knock-Out.

She got 77.32% or 426 VOTES out of 551.

This means that the three (03) names being referred up to Province and NMC for final Adoption are:

BUUMBA MALAMBO,
KELVIN HAACHOMBWA &,
CHARLES SHALUPA.

As Governance Strategist, although I forthwith profoundly congratulate Councilor BUUMBA MALAMBO for this Resounding Clean-Sweep Win, I anticipate a Myriad of hurdles blocking her eventual Adoption, by the Provincial & National Structures.

For Starters, her Detractors, Haters and, Fellow Contenders are already up in Arms, Crying WOLF, and are no doubt going to be lodging-in Petitions to have the Councilor Disqualified from the Kafue Mayoral Race, on accusations of all sorts of Delinquent Allegations.

Moreover, in the interest of the Party’s Tribal-Balancing Matrix, her case and that of her Runner-Up, KELVIN HAACHOMBWA, is not done much Justice owing to the fact that the UPND KAFUE MP Incumbent, Honourable MIRRIAM CHONYA (CHINYAMA), who is set for Re-Adoption, is also TONGA by tribe, like both Councilor BUUMBA MALAMBO and KELVIN HAACHOMBWA.

This then leaves the third-placed Finisher, Councilor CHARLES SHALUPA, as the most likely UPND KAFUE Council-Chair Candidate, because he is a SOLI by ethnicity, and Kafue being a SOLI-LAND, it only bodes very well for the Indeigenous Subjects and Her Royal Highness Chieftainess MUKAMAMBO NKOMESHA to have at least one 01) SOLI Person elected into the Office of either MAYOR or MP.

Besides, Councilor CHARLES SHALUPA has held this Mayoral Position before, when he Acted as Mayor, after former Kafue UPND Council-Chair THOMAS ZULU defected to the Ruling PATRIOTIC FRONT (PF), some two/three years ago.

BUUMBA MALAMBO, Congratulations once again, and I know the Shivers and Trembles have already afflicted the PF Candidates including:

SAMUEL BANDA,
CHIRWA &,
Out-Going Council Chair General SHIMAKOLYI,

Of course it’s any one’s guess what Campaign Road-Blocks the PF also may be ratcheting-up for Councilor BUUMBA MALAMBO, hahahahaha, should she emerge as the eventual UPND Adoptee for Kafue Council Chair Position.

God Bless Kafue & Zambia,

Analysis By:

MUNGELI YUDAH TEDDY MAKUNGU (Mr)
Governance Strategist,
ivitivicontact@gmail.com

PF is a party of ba kelenka abakote- Elias Munshya

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CANADA-based lawyer Elias Munshya has described the PF general conference as a mere award-giving ceremony that was spiced up with amasha (dancing).

On Saturday, selected PF officials gathered in designated provincial venues and at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka for the party’s general conference.

Edgar Lungu sailed through unopposed as the PF president.

Later in the day, names of those picked to be members of the central committee for the governing party emerged.

“At Mulungushi International Conference Centre today (Saturday), the Patriotic Front met for their convention. It was so hilarious!” Munshya said in a live video broadcast on his Facebook page on Saturday night. “That was not a convention [but] that was just like some kind of a meeting where people came together, like an award-giving ceremony that was poorly organised.”

He explained that he was commenting on the PF gathering because the party ought to do better as the one that is in the government.

“I’m talking about the PF because it is the ruling party. The way the ruling party conducts themselves is an indication of the way they are going to conduct themselves when ruling the country. What happened at Mulungushi International Conference Centre is an embarrassment,” he said.

He recalled that the UPND had elections for its National Management Committee (NMC) members and that: “it even took them days for them to properly count the votes.”

“Afterwards, they gave us the list of the 70 people they had elected. But Honourable Given Lubinda told us that what the UPND had held was a WhatsApp convention and laughed at the UPND,” Munshya noted, adding that Lubinda was trying to give an impression that the PF would hold one of the best conference.

“Everybody thought it would be an open election where people go and stand to be voted for. But when the day of the convention arrived, it was not a convention at all. Baciya fye mukushana (they simply went to dance). Bacibikapo ulwimbo ulucelo nokushana icipesha amano (they played a song in the morning and keenly danced to it).”

Munshya indicated that it was shocking that without anyone being voted for at the PF Mulungushi and provincial get-togethers, “to the shock of everybody, they started congratulating each”

“This one is congratulating this one and that one. This was confusing! What was the role of the independent electoral commission that Samuel Mukupa had created? If you say that’s what the PF constitution says [that people should not be voted for], does it mean all those people who were aspiring to be central committee members had no idea of what the Patriotic Front constitution says?” he said. “That’s why I say ifiteka ba Patriotic Front fyama dongodongo (the way the PF governs is flippant).”

He further argued that the PF could not sensibly govern a country.

“Patriotic Front is a party of kelenkas (crooks). Ba kelenka abakote (old crooks)!” Munshya charged.

Munshya also mocked the PF for not upholding gender parity and youth representation among the selected members of the central committee.

“The Patriotic Front is a party of confusion. So, you’ll see that now that people are reacting, they will release another list,” he said. “After my address tonight, President Lungu will appoint several youths [as central committee members], just as a stunt.”

Munshya continued that the PF leadership haphazardly hand-wrote the names of the central committee on a piece of paper, without any reflection.

“They call for a church service like convention where they call this and that one to briefly speak. Then they throw a piece of paper with names of central committee members. They even clap for themselves! How do they forget to add names of youths on the list?” he mocked. “I’m extremely disappointed in the way the Patriotic Front has conducted itself. They have utusaka utwa ndalama (they have bags of money) but baya panga conference iyama dongodongo. Conference iyamasha (of dancing)! It was a conference of Patriotic Front amasha. What an embarrassment!”

He stressed that Zambia’s youths should not vote for: aba ba kelenka (these crooks) in this year’s August 12 general elections.

“Don’t vote for them! The Patriotic Front has no respect for the youths and for the future of the country,” noted Munshya.

Lusaka cop admits to lying under oath over apprehension of 9 UPND supporters

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By Staff Reporter

A POLICE officer has admitted lying on oath that he apprehended nine UNPD supporters at High Court roundabout who went to offer solidarity to their leader Hakainde Hichilema who was being questioned by the police at Force headquarters.

During cross-examination, Sergeant Patrick Mawere based at Lusaka division headquarters operations, told Lusaka magistrate Felix Kaoma that the UPND supporters who were accused of conducting themselves in a manner likely to cause the breach of peach were apprehended near cabinet office and not the High Court roundabout as he had alleged.

This is in a matter where Eddy Nawa, Sydney Ngulube, John Wilima, Nelson Banda, Wellington Mwanza, a 17-year-old juvenile, Levy Malowa, John Kashokoto and Nicholas Matongo are facing a charge of idle and being disorderly.

It is alleged that on December 23, 2020, jointly and whilst acting together at a public place on Independence Avenue, the nine conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause the breach of peace.

The nine were reportedly apprehended on December 23, 2020 near the Lusaka High Court premises on Indepence Avenue when they went to offer solidarity to Hichilema, who was being questioned by the police at force headquarters over a farm he acquired in Kalomo in 2004.

In his examination in chief, Mawere told the court that on the material day whilst Hichilema was being questioned by the police, he came across a group of people suspected to be UPND cadres, who had blocked Alick Nhkata road at the High Court roundabout, chanting party slogans and dancing.

He said the group was told to leave the place but it did not adhere to the directive.

Maware said he informed his supervisor that the group had refused to leave the High Court premises to which himself, superintendent Gunduzani, constables Siwila, Kapenda and Siasilungana were commanded to apprehend every member of the group.

He said following the directive by his supervisor, he managed to apprehend four UPND supporters and they were taken to Kabwata police station.

During cross-examination by the accused’s lawyer Kamuwanga Phiri, Mawere confirmed that certain roads were blocked by the police.

He confirmed that the accused were apprehended near cabinet office and that he is a lier for saying that the nine were apprehended at High Court roundabout.

When asked if he was aware that it was an offense to lie under oath, Mawere responded in the affirmative.

And another police officer, Eugene Lukonde told the court that he was allocated a docket where nine UPND supporters were accused of behaving in a disorderly manner by stoning police officers and disturbing the free flow of traffic.

He said he interviewed the accused in relation to the alleged offense but they denied the charge to which he made up his mind and jointly charged them and arrest them for conduct likely to cause the breach of peace.

Magistrate Kaoma adjourned the matter to April 28, 2021 for ruling on whether or not the accused have a case to answer.

ABOUT INTRAPARTY DEMOCRACY! The case of PF and UPND…

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ABOUT INTRAPARTY DEMOCRACY!

The case of PF and UPND…

By Chanoda Ngwira F

Firstly let me congratulate President Edgar Chagwa Lungu and his team on his election as the Patriotic Front President and Members of the Central Committee respectively, in the same vein, I congratulate Mr Hakainde Hichilema on his election as UPND leader and all NMC members.

May we note with interest that precedence is of importance in everyday of our life’s being, we have always been faced and challenged by precedence and this we shall live by it no matter what. We have heard and seen people say and act based on precedence, courts have mostly based their judgements and interpretation of law based on precedence, meaning the issue of precedence will not be ignored.

That said, when Mr Hakainde Hichilema and his party the UPND went to their convention, they already had a Presidential candidate in the name of Hakainde Sammy Hichilema. This was sealed through an anonymous endorsement of his candidacy by the majority if not all members of the National Management Committee of the party, this is not only precedence, it is actually legally right according to the statutes of the UPND constitution. Then elections of NMC members came into play on the day of the convention, and this electoral process was as per prescription of the party’s constitution and yes all was followed to the later. This too is precedence….

On the other hand, the Patriotic Front, which is my party also held its General conference over the weekend last week. Before the actual day of elections, there was a central committee that anonymously endorsed the candidature of President Edgar Chagwa Lungu as a sole candidate for the Party’s top position. This was legally and morally right and still remains so as all the procedures and statutes where followed to the later.

In the same vein and according to the PF’s Constitution that requires that the Party President submits before the General Conference, his list of Memebers of Central Committee together with those other applicants for ratification or otherwise, the same was done and it so happened that the list of the Party President was endorsed anonymously by the General Conference. This was according to the statutes of the PF constitution. In short, no law was broken.

From the aforementioned, it is evil and hypocrisy of the highest order for one especially those of our colleagues from the UPND, to stand up on the mountain top and accuse the Patriotic Front of being undemocratic when almost the same process is what was used during their Convention. The two parties followed their constitutions accordingly and no short cut was used, no law was broken at all. It is morally wrong to point fingers at the Patriotic Front when infact it followed the law as per its constitution.

In my opinion, let us respect each other’s way of doing things, the two parties have two different party constitutions in regards to elections though with visible similarities. Pointing fingers at others using one’s constitution is moral bankruptcy.

Congratulations to the new team elected as Members of the Central Committee for the Patriotic Front.

KAMBWILI IS GONE…he is 100 per cent in PF – Akafumba

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JOSEPHS Akafumba says the honourable thing for Chishimba Kambwili to do is to give up on the NDC and say “bye, bye; I have gone to PF”.

And Kambwili yesterday attended the PF national convention Mulungushi Conference centre.

Akafumba, the National Democratic Party (NDC) interim president, also says Kambwili should be moving with tags of 1. handle with care, 2. fragile, 3. follow at your own risk, because of his political unpredictability.

There has been bickering in the NDC that has seen Akafumba and Kambwili deposing each other from the presidency of the three and half years old party.

Akafumba has been pulling those loyal to him to the UPND Alliance while Kambwili is stealthily, but visibly, matching into the PF.

“He is gone! In my view, that announcement of wanting now to work with Edgar who, for the last three and half years, he has been calling all sorts of names, means he is 100 per cent in PF. We have known all along,” Akafumba said in an interview at The Mast offices in Lusaka.

“So, the honourable thing for him to do now is to give up on the NDC and say ‘bye, bye; I have gone to PF’. You can’t have two positions – you can’t be NDC and at the same time be PF.”

He pointed out that Kambwili was no stranger to political moonlighting.

“You remember when PF expelled him; in the morning he was NDC, making appointments and so forth. But in the afternoon, he was PF MP. This is what we can’t allow!” Akafumba said.

“Even in the alliance, he wanted to introduce the same thing where he wanted to be vice-president and running mate and at the same time have an opposition party, the NDC.”

He noted that Kambwili was playing Stone Age politics where before his colleagues he waves: “a velvet glove which contains an iron fist.”

“[But] the alliance partners were able to see through the bluff,” he said.

Akafumba added that for now, if he had to have any credibility, Kambwili should gather some ‘leopard courage’ and plainly say that: “I have gone to PF.”

“All of us will say ‘thank you very much. It’s your political choice and we wish you well in your new party, PF’,” he said, adding that a leader must be predictable.

“You can’t have a leader who you don’t know where they are leading you. We have been vindicated [about Kambwili rejoining the PF]. We don’t know what detergent he is going to use to clean the PF.”

He further said since Kambwili markets himself as a political guru, “I’m very sure he will not run short of some chemical detergent to clean up the PF.”

“At the end of it all, all those who called us names, plants by Hakainde, which is unfortunate, paid by the UPND, which again is unfortunate, everybody has seen what we had said,” he noted.

“We have been vindicated that CK (Chishimba Kambwili) in the alliance didn’t mean well and he was just there to destroy the alliance. Now he has gone back to where he claims is his home.”

Akafumba also spoke to those who have remained, loyal to Kambwili.

“I want to believe that they are following him blindly; this is the time to know that he is going to the very people who have caused misery in this country. This business of being a zombie in politics, following without question, is a big issue,” Akafumba said.

“Those who remained with Kambwili should make a choice of whether they want to serve this country or they will be the one to help to bury it. And we’ll never run short of such people (sellouts).”

On Kambwili’s numerous wild claims at his media briefings, Akafumba answered that: “he was Minister of Information and he made us believe that what he was saying about the PF is right.”

“So, if you are to follow him now, he must be labelled 1. handle with care, 2. fragile, 3. follow at your own risk because the fellow can U-turn at the last minute and apologise,” cautioned Akafumba.

“We all believed him and then he turns around and says ‘I never verified such information.’ We must reach a stage where leaders’ word becomes their bond.”

And Kambwili told ZNBC’s Franklin Tembo that his attendance of the PF convention was indicative of political maturity and civility.

However, Kambwili said the NDC would condemn PF if it does something wrong that affects people’s lives.

He said he was in an alliance with UPND but the opposition party did not even invite them to attend their convention.

Told that many expected that he had rejoined the PF, Kambwili said she was flunked by Saboi Imboela, who has been appointed acting vice-president of the party.

He said he was also flacked by the NDC secretary general and chairperson and wondered whether they too were joining the PF.

“In any case if I decide to join the PF, what wrong has it got? It’s my choice. But here we have been invited…people forget that I am one of the five people who started PF and surely to be associated with PF is not a sin,” Kambwili, whose videos coarsely condemning President Edgar Lungu and the PF, calling them thieves and corrupt, have been unearthed, said.

Kambwili said when he seen Green (the PF colour), he reminisces the good old days and wished they could “come back”.

Kambwili said in the next two weeks he would start exposing the people he had been with for whom they are and that when he does that they would never rise on any platform again.

Asked if he would consider any calls for an alliance with PF, Kambwili said no single person in NDC makes the decision alone.

“If the members decide that we work with PF so be it. If the members decide that we go to UPND, God forbid,” Kambwili said.

We’re not headed for a battlefield – Fred M’membe

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless it’s a good place for all of us to live in. The election campaigns we are entering should not be confused with a battlefield where the aim is to destroy the other.

This is simply a competition to serve and not the annihilation of one another. To have peaceful, free and fair elections, certain conditions have to prevail in our country and in our hearts. There ought to be a conducive atmosphere. The major players have to agree on the conditions under which these elections would be held. The contestants have to conduct themselves in a manner that does not put others at unfair disadvantage.

In the light of this, I make a special appeal to the government and to the ruling party to realise that they have a serious responsibility. As facilitators of the elections, they should ensure that the concerns of all key players are adequately addressed. We all need to be open and constructive in participating in the electoral process and addressing the challenges we face.

The forthcoming electoral process will provide all Zambians with a unique opportunity to show their political maturity and their sincere aspirations for peace and harmony anchored in justice.

The test of good leadership will not therefore be how many trees it pulls up by the roots but how it fits into a continuous process of adaptation in which leadership is combined with sensitivity to national mood.

Everyone’s life in this country is inevitably mixed with every other life and, no matter what Constitution or laws we come up with, no matter what precautions we take, unless the people we meet are kindly and decent and human we going nowhere. Decency, integrity and love come from human beings, rather than from constitutions, laws and institutions.

In any true democracy, more is needed than just laws and institutions. We must hold on to some values and norms, some expectations and aspirations. This is the environment, the atmosphere, that makes democracy work. This is the so-called ‘political culture’ which I feel is so necessary in Zambia today if our multiparty democracy is to succeed.

The fundamental value we must have is a respect for diversity and acceptance of pluralism. Gone are the days when everyone was supposed to think the same way, belong to the same political party, and support the same programme.

Fred M’membe
President of the Socialist Party

April 12, 2021

Stop Advertising Ignorance And Spreading Misinformation – Antonio Mwanza

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STOP ADVERTISING IGNORANCE AND SPREADING MISINFORMATION

Following the highly successful and extraordinary PF General Conference, a small clique of some Opposition voices have been spending sleepless nights trying to fault-find and smear our General Conference.

They have without knowledge rushed to copy and paste OLD and REDUNDANT portions of the PF MANIFESTO in a futile attempt to mislead the Party membership and the general public that something unconstitutional was done at the Conference with regards to:

1. The total number of Members of the Central Committee and

2. The period one has to spend in the Party to be eligible to contest the position of Member of Central Committee.

HERE ARE THE FACTS

1. WHAT IS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS

The total number of Members of Central Committee was changed from 30 to 54 by the National Council in line with Articles 68, 69 and 70 at the General Conference held in 2015.

The said Articles empowers the Central Committee and the National Council to make REGULATIONS and STANDING ORDERS to assist the Party in the implementation of its Constitution.

The REGULATIONS and STANDING ORDERS made by the Central Committee and ratified by the National Council become part and parcel of the Party Constitution and can be implemented in the MEANWHILE.

So the copy and paste that the small Opposition clique and their surrogates are flashing around on social media showing the total number of Members of the Central Committee to be 30 is old and REDUNDANT therefore it is invalid. The actual number is 54 as elected at the just ended General Conference in conformity with the Regulations and Standing Orders of the National Council of 2015.

2. DOES ONE NEED TO SERVE 5 YEARS TO BE ELECTED MEMBER OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE?

Again, this provision was one of the other provisions of the Party Constitution that was amended in the 2015 National Council Regulations and Standing Orders; it is now null and void.

The Patriotic Front is the LARGEST political movement in the country with millions of followers and supporters. And like His Excellency, President Edgar Chagwa Lungu rightly emphasised in his speech to the General Conference yesterday, the Patriotic Front does not discriminate against anyone. In PF, there are no gods, just comrades with one agenda, to serve the Party and the Nation. So any one who is loyal, dedicated, competent, humble, with no criminal record is free to serve the Party in any suitable position.

ECL ALEBWELELAPO

Issued by:
Antonio Mourinho Mwanza
Deputy Media Director
Patriotic Front

Zambian Youths And Women, You Finally Got The Answer From The PF Convention Why You Are Suffering -Gilbert Liswaniso

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*PRESS STATEMENT*
*12th April 2021*
*ZAMBIAN YOUTHS AND WOMEN, YOU FINALLY GOT THE ANSWER FROM THE PF CONVENTION WHY YOU ARE SUFFERING*
We fully sympathise with our fellow youths and women in the PF who are currently crying for having been completely ignored and sidelined from the national leadership of the just ended PF SELECTIVE convention.

What is even more painful is that these youths and women were made to pay nomination or application fees for what they thought was going to be a competitive electoral process, as members of the PF Central Committee.

They spent a lot of money printing campaign posters and door to door campaigns, but only to discover that the alfa and omega already had a list of preferred tired old men and women as his MCCs. The number of men outstripped those of women by far.

Here is a clear case of a political party swindling and duping its own youths and women by obtaining money by false pretence. If they can corruptly swindle money from their own members, what more from the ordinary Zambian citizens?

We could possibly have understood if the youths and women were subjected to a competitive intraparty electoral process and lost. But since there was no ballot cast at the PF SELECTIVE convention, it should have been much easier to have more youths and women appointed.

For those who thought the PF has an answer to the youths and women problems in this country, you finally got the answer from their SELECTIVE convention.
All they want from you is to dance and chant for them at Airports and roadsides and also carry out violent acts against your own people.

We are actually not surprised why there is high level of unemployment and lack of business opportunities for the youths and women in this country because the PF, which is the ruling party, has no place for these groups on their decision making table.
They may want to appoint a few more now that we have reminded them, but that’s exactly what they always do by regarding them as an after thought.

That’s exactly what they did when they launched some kind of a youth and women empowerment programmes, when it took some gallant youths to demonstrate in the bush.

As youths and women of Zambia, you are already on the high table in the UPND party and there are already clear programmes and policies addressing your plight.
Gilbert Liswaniso
UPND National Youth Chairperson

I’ll never receive a govt vehicle which comes with electioneering conditions – Chief Hamusonde

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I WILL not and will never accept a vehicle from the government at this time because it comes with electioneering conditions, says chief Hamusonde.

And Hamusonde says unless it is the devil’s church, God’s church will not receive suspicious money being flashed at it.

Last Sunday, UPND spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa told Livingstone based journalists that the PF government had resorted to bribing traditional leaders with Toyota Land Cruisers on condition that they campaign for the ruling party.

“We have witnessed with growing concern the panic mode that the PF now finds themselves in. They are involved in a lot of electoral malpractices ahead of the August general elections; they have gone flat out to buy every willing soul to join their rank and file. They have gone to buy traditional leaders so that they become their campaign agents or managers in their chiefdoms. Just last week in Lusaka, 12 chiefs were bought motor vehicles (Toyota Land Cruisers)…it is our held and long cherished position that chiefs are community leaders for all regardless of political party affiliation,” he said.

“For PF to begin buying chiefs and assign them to be campaign managers is at variance with the tradition of this country and it is actually a mockery and an insult to the state of being a chief. We want to ask and urge the PF to look at chiefs with a demeanor of decency and stop lowering their integrity. This Tuesday, we are aware that four more chiefs who are currently in Lusaka, Kabulonga will receive Toyota Land Cruisers, one has since opted for a Toyota Hilux and a tractor,” Mweetwa said.

He added that one traditional leader has since been given a Toyota Land Cruiser following the defection of Kakoma (Charles) from UPND to PF.

He said recently the PF: “stormed Dundumwezi and gassed 500 bicycles to 500 headmen.”

But in an interview, Hamusonde of Bweengwa, west of Monze district, said despite not having a vehicle at the moment, he could not accept one from the government a few months before elections.

“I wouldn’t say anything much because I think I am a condemned chief by the PF government. That is why I have so far not asked for a vehicle. Where I am now, I have no vehicle but I would not love to receive one with a condition,” he said.

“I will never accept a vehicle during election time, because it will mean it has a condition of election. I can’t do that,” said Hamusonde.

And Hamusonde said churches should not accept suspicious monies donated to them.

Reacting to Zambia Council of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) president Bishop George Lungu who said its stance to decline government’s church empowerment funds still stands, Hamusonde said churches should only get money they request for or borrow.

Bishop Lungu, who is also Chipata Catholic Diocese Bishop, said donations which were followed by cameras and speeches and appearing either on the national broadcaster or private media often with political overtones should not be entertained.

“…In addition, the source of the so-called Church Empowerment Fund is not very clear, is not very well known. People need to know where the money is coming from and how it is going to be accounted for,” said Bishop Lungu who then ordered all Catholic Church organisations never to access the fund.

And Hamusonde said the Catholic Church was right to refuse suspiciously donated monies by the PF government.

“All churches should not receive monies donated with an underlying condition. They should not receive money with an electoral condition. It’s not only the Catholic Church but any God’s church, unless a church of the devil. But a church of God will not receive suspicious monies; God’s church shouldn’t receive monies with conditions. They shall also not receive money that they have not borrowed,” said Hamusonde.

“If a church borrows money, then it is okay, because they borrow with reasons and they know how to use it, but receiving money at this time whose source is not clear or known is very wrong.”

AKA ’inconsolable’ after tragic death of fiancée Anele Tembe at Cape Town hotel

“It is with the deepest regret that we, the Tembe and Forbes families, confirm the untimely passing of our beloved fiancé, daughter, sister and daughter-in-law, Anele Tembe (22). Anele tragically passed on in the early hours of this morning, Sunday 11 April 2021,“ a statement said.

“We are still in shock and are dealing with our emotions, as she was an exceptional and gifted young woman, with so much life ahead of her. She had a sweet nature about her and was always nurturing to those around her. Her fiancé, Kiernan Forbes, is currently inconsolable and is surrounded by family and closest friends. At this hour of our grief, we humbly request that our families be given privacy and time to heal.“

Tembe died after an incident at the Pepper Club hotel in Cape Town. Police are investigating the matter, but according to paramedics a woman had allegedly jumped from the 10th floor of the hotel.

SAPS spokesperson FC van Wyk said: “Cape Town Central police are investigating an inquest case after an incident at a hotel this morning at about 07:45 on the corners of Loop and Bloem Street, Cape Town CBD where the body of a 22-year-old woman was found deceased.”

Van Wyk said crime-scene experts were looking for clues at the hotel.

Netcare 911 spokesperson Shawn Herbst said paramedics had responded to a fall outside a hotel in the Cape Town city centre.

“Shortly after 08H00 Sunday morning Netcare 911 responded to a fall outside a hotel in the Cape Town city centre.

“Reports from the scene indicate that a 22-year-old female had allegedly jumped from the tenth floor, landing on the road below.

“Medics assessed the patient who had sustained critical injuries and was treated on scene by an advanced life support paramedic. While stabilizing the patient her condition rapidly deteriorated and she was sadly declared deceased on the scene,” Herbst said.

Just last month AKA confirmed that he proposed to Tembe and had paid lobola.

AKA shared the news on social media, posting pictures of himself accompanied by a group of men who appeared to be his lobola delegation.

The rapper simply captioned the post with cow and heart emojis.

In February the “All Eyez On Me” rapper posted a picture of a diamond engagement ring displayed on Tembe’s ring finger, revealing that he has popped the question and his 21-year-old partner has said “Yes”.

The two had reportedly have been dating for just over a year. – IOL

Move on with life, PF tells KBF

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KENNEDY Kamba has advised PF member Kelvin Bwalya Fube to form a political party of his own and prove his popularity.

On Friday, Fube described the PF party election process as undemocratic and a sham as the central committee’s mandate expired in 2016.

In a statement live on Diamond TV, Fube also said the surrogates nominated and appointed by President Edgar Lungu were the same ones that endorsed him as sole candidate at the PF convention that took place yesterday.

President Lungu filed his nomination for PF president on Wednesday and the party declared him unopposed.

But Fube said in the past few days, he and his team had been inundated with messages and calls as to whether he would file his nominations for PF president at the convention.

“I maintain that my elder brother the President Edgar Chagwa Lungu is not eligible to stand as President and as a lawyer he knows this. He has held the office of President twice having been elected two times. There is no third term in our constitution, the Republican Constitution,” said Fube. “The President, by filing his nomination has set in motion his first steps in his attempt to defy the Republican Constitution…. In 2014, we elected Edgar Chagwa Lungu as party president. He therefore stood in 2015 as our President and stood again in 2016 as our candidate. He can’t stand again…. The central committee was formally elected in 2011. Their mandate came to an end in 2016. We should have held that extraordinary conference to mandate the central committee to do what they are purporting to do now.”

He said very soon a very big signal would be given to PF members and they should be ready to change the game and some players.

Responding to Fube, Kamba, the Lusaka Province PF chairman and member of the party’s central committee, accused him of misleading the nation.

“These attempts by Mr Fube to try and mislead Zambians won’t help him in anyway in his attempts to cause confusion in the PF and further sway the minds of the people into believing his unsubstantiated claims,” he said.

“The best Kelvin Bwalya Fube can do is to move on with life, his law practice and maybe try to form a political party or join the existing ones and become opposition party president because he is not even part of the PF. The question is what is he fearing? If he has the numbers, let him form or join a political party and become party president and we will meet him on the ground. Otherwise, he has turned himself into a political joker full of rhetoric.”

He insisted that the PF would not turn back on fielding President Lungu as its presidential candidate in this year’s general election.

“We are not turning back on the issue of President Lungu and his eligibility. This is a closed chapter and President Lungu is our candidate and will be on the ballot on the PF ticket, come August. This country is a democracy and KBF has a right to form or join any political party of his choice since he is not part of us in the PF,” he added.

“The 2021 bid is the second term for President Lungu and not the third term as maliciously claimed by KBF. We warm KBF to stop issuing incorrect statements because they are embarrassing themselves. The law has provisions that will allow us to take action against them if this continues. President Lungu will be on the ballot come August. KBF must stop misleading the nation forthwith.”

And Kamba dismissed Fube’s disclosure that some people were positioned at the PF secretariat to attack him if he had gone to file in his papers for the PF presidency.
“Our advice to KBF is that he risks being categorised as a political joker if he continues to appear on social media with no tangible or traceable political muscle on the ground. President Lungu is a lawyer like him, who has constitutional consciousness and respects the rule of law. President Lungu has not abrogated any law,” said Kamba.

“Mr Fube has further claimed that people were positioned to harm him if he attempted to file in nomination papers yesterday and that the Secretary General was not at the secretariat. These are unsubstantiated and unfounded allegations that must be trashed. All these things will not help KBF to win the hearts of Zambians.”

Woman storms Uganda Parliament over son killed in Bobi Wine protests

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UGANDA; Ms Hajara Nakitto, the mother of a 15-year-old student who was shot dead during the November 2020 protests has stormed the country’s Parliament demanding to meet the Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga.

Amos Ssegawa, a senior two student at Lubiri High School is one of the 54 people who were killed in the protests which erupted in capital, Kampala and other parts of the country following the arrest of presidential candidate, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine in Luuka District on November 18.

Armed with placards with writings ‘We need justice. Police killed him. Rest in peace Ssegawa Amos,’ a distressed Nakitto and her surviving 12-year-old daughter said police have failed to help her get justice.

“My son was shot dead as I walked with him home on the second day of the protests (November 19, 2020). I have not never received justice because police failed to help me. I have spent everything I had to try and get justice. I’ll sit at Parliament until I see the Speaker said,” Ms Nakitto said on Monday.

Ssegawa was his mother’s first child. Due to the closure of schools, Ssegawa was free and because the festive season was approaching. Two weeks before the protests, Nakitto began taking him to her shop in Kisenyi, a Kampala suburb.

Ms Nakitto in an earlier interview with Daily Monitor said since she was 15 years older than her son, they understood each other well. They discussed business plans and he was obedient and also God-fearing.

“I had anticipated that the Christmas season would be busy so I needed help. I sell clothes in Kisenyi and his main job was to dress the mannequins in the morning. However, when the customers were many, he would help me to serve them. He had just begun to understand how the business is run.”

Nakitto said at about 11 am – on the second day when the riots seemed to intensify, she decided to close the shop and take her son home.

“We walked towards Usafi Taxi Park with our arms held up. Although our arms were up, my hand was on one of his arms. At Cornerstone Plaza, we saw a military pick up speeding towards us from Mengo. Their guns were pointed at us, but we kept on walking with our arms up. When the soldiers shot, Ssegawa fell down. I also fell away from him – in the middle of the road,” she said.

The bullet hit Ssegawa in the mouth and exited through the right side of his neck. He died shortly afterwards. Well-wishers, including a Spark TV journalist Joselyn Nakibuule, took him to Doctor’s Clinic in Mengo, but he was pronounced dead on arrival.

The family lodged a complaint with Uganda Human Rights Commission but she says she’s yet to get justice. Nakitto now has only one child, a 12-year-old girl.

PF Can Only Hold A Mini World War 3 Not A Convention – Percy Chanda

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PRESS STATEMENT

12 AUGUST 2021

PF CAN ONLY HOLD A MINI WORLD WAR 3 NOT A CONVENTION

PF is now using the UNIP undemocratic vetting system to choose its MCC members from a list of aspiring candidates. Vetting is a very sharp tool that dictators use to cling to power. PF has just graduated from using the show of hands and legs to vetting and hand picking. If PF is allowed to continue after August 12 general elections Zambia risk going back to one party dictatorship. In Kabwe PF held a mini world war 3.

What has come out of these two conversions clearly explains why PF cannot respect the Republican Constitution. It’s very clear now that the PF’s confidence of winning the August 12 election is based on manipulating the County’s constitution and the electoral system. ECZ must distant itself from the process of vetting candidates and hand picking winners. On 12 August Zambians must stand together and save this Country from dictatorship. Together it’s possible to kick out PF.

PF members applied and paid money in order to be voted for by the general membership. This is how democracy works and not one person sitting alone and vetting people on behalf of the party. ECZ should not copy these bad manners from PF of declaring losers as winners when people had voted differently. Currently we have a lot of problems from ECZ because PF does not believe in democracy. That’s why ECZ allowed PF to go round the Country campaigning alone. In any case this does not scare us because what PF has managed to do is lay a trail of foot prints that we will use to tear them apart.

Zambians must focus their attention on how their lives will be if PF continued. Life has become hell on earth now when PF is looking for votes from you. What happens if you voted for PF under the current circumstances? It will mean that you are endorsing more suffering. You will have nowhere to complain because PF will tell you that you voted for them when you had no job and food. We cannot continue sharing poverty. Our only hope lies in HH and his team to drive this country to prosperity so that we can all share wealth.

Percy Chanda

UPND – Chairman for Mines and Freedom Fighter

Tutwa Ngulube Urges UPND To Withdraw The Manifesto And Remove Stolen Photos And Images Within 48hrs

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It has come to our minds and knowledge with a sense of shock that the most publicised UPND 2021-2026 MANIFESTO is in fact a forgery and a product of stolen photos and images from other people’s websites.

We note with dismay that they did not just lift statements word for word ( Plagiarism) but went further to even forget to edit the photo stolen from the Website in Jamaica.

A close perusal of the manifesto on page 8 reveals that the bank note pasted in their manifesto is in fact a One Thousand Jamaican Dollar ($1000) bill writen Bank of Jamaica.

The shame and embarrassment of stealing ideas could not be hidden when they repeated word for word statements from a South African mining company Website and though HH condemned the Zambian government’s acquisition of 100 percent stake in Mopani Mine through ZCCM- IH after they were offered by Glencore the major shareholders. There was a threat to privatise the said Mopani mine on the copperbelt if the UPND formed government.

In a proper show of ignorance and in the spirit of usual uncoordinated contradictions between HH’s speeches and written documents, the UPND President in his manifesto contradicts Mr. Hichilema’s earlier statements when they stated page 11 of the Manifesto that the UPND “will put in place a policy and plan to facilitate local ownership and increased participation of Zambian players in the industry.”

This is not what he said about Mopani.

This is a sign of lack of foresight and the failure to come up with their own ideas. Its clear that the UPND lack original and authentic ideas to run their own future government.

We demand that the UPND IMMEDIATELY, but not later than 48 hrs, withdraws the forged manifesto from circulation or face criminal proceedings for infringement of section 17 of the Copyright and Performance Act.

We are taken aback to learn also that the UPND are saying they will start respecting court judgments only after they form government. We note that their President has never respected our courts everytime he has lost court cases. In 2016, after his Petition to challenge the presidential election was thrown out, he went on rampage disrespecting the Constitutional Court judges.

His disrespectful conduct continued after the concourt held that President Lungu was eligible to stand in 2021.

We demand therefore that the UPND must apologise to the people of Zambia for presenting a forged document with the hope of forming government using fake information and stolen images, explanations and ideas.

They did forge the manifesto and uttered it to the people of Zambia.

SIgned at Lusaka the 11th April 2021

HON TUTWA S NGULUBE MP, MCC

DEPUTY CHIEF WHIP ZAMBIA

HH says Zambia is in a crisis caused by PF leadership failure

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UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says Zambia is in a crisis caused by PF leadership failure.

During the launch of the UPND Manifesto 2021-2026 on Friday, Hichilema said lack of political will on many fronts showed that the nation needed a change of leadership this year.

He said a government that was preoccupied with winning elections as opposed to providing answers to the many challenges the country was facing needs to be changed.

“Today the 9th of April 2021 marks an important day in the life of our country. Everyone agrees that Zambia needs change. Not just change for the sake of change but change that is actually going to make a difference. 2021 presents Zambians a chance to experience real change for the better. We have done it before and we will do it again,” Hichilema said.

He further said if anyone doubts whether Zambia needs change, they should just look around themselves to see the pointers.

“Unemployment. Poverty. Rising Prices. Hunger. Falling education standards. Hospitals and clinics without medicine and many more problems. Patients are going to hospitals which have no medical staff and most importantly no medicine. Children are not going to school because parents cannot afford to pay school fees. Parents are struggling with putting food on the table. This needs to change for the better,” he said.

“We cannot imagine how Zambia will look like in another five years with the same party in office. This country will no longer be recognisable. It therefore should not be lost on anyone that the decision we make on 12th August 2021 will either make this country worse than it is, or give it a new lease of life towards prosperity and peace.”

Hichilema said in a nation like Zambia that was fertile and had plenty resources, nobody should be poor.

He said all that needed to be done to change the country for the better was included in the UPND Manifesto 2021-26.

“The highlights in this transformation plan include the following; create jobs for our young people; lower prices of fuel; lower food prices for all Zambians; empower our small businesses to succeed and grow; build a health system that serves all the people of Zambia; build an education system that is robust and prepares our young people to be the leaders and job creators of tomorrow; change a government that steals from the people, to a government that works for the people and bring real change, meaningful change,” Hichilema said.

Hichilema further said the manifesto explains how UPND would address the areas listed above.

He said at the top of the list was job creation, noting that while the country had capable and qualified young people, there were no jobs.

Further, he noted that the country’s small businesses which would also create employment need financing, business support and market linkages, so that they not only survive but thrive for sustainable job creation.

“We intend to support private sector so that it’s easy for them to do business. This will happen through policy consistency and law reforms that will support private sector to thrive and create jobs. We are also going to invest heavily into the agriculture sector. This will be done by increasing production and productivity as well as connect producers to profitable markets. Agribusiness, which is value addition, will also be supported for purposes of creating jobs. We will not rest until food is affordable and every Zambian has three meals or more a day,” he said.

The UPND leader added that education remained a top priority for the UPND.

He said UPND shall not rest until every child who needs to be in school is in the classroom and learning.

“Many of us, including myself, are products of an education system that served both the rich and the poor. We are also making an undertaking in this manifesto to reform the education system to a two-track system that is vocational and academic,” he said. “Under this system, there will be no failures as seen today. This is the same education system we would like to create. Until that happens, we are not resting. Until there is medicine in hospitals, we will not rest. Our government will work ceaselessly until the hospitals have healthcare personnel and ensure that a functional healthcare system is created for all Zambians.”

Hichilema also reiterated that UPND would fight corruption with everything at its disposal, adding that the vice was stealing from the public.

“People pay taxes, fees and fines, but they end up in pockets of individuals. Currently there is no medicine in hospitals because of corruption. People were supplied with faulty condoms and expired drugs because of corruption. New roads only last for one year instead of the recommended 10 years because of corruption. We cannot move forward as a nation without rooting out this cancer that is fast consuming our nation,” Hichilema said.

He maintained that the aforementioned were not just promises but commitment and social contract the UPND was signing with Zambians.

“This is a strategic document backed by a solid plan of actions and reforms, such that from the day we set foot in office, the people of Zambia will feel the difference. This election is not about the candidates contesting elections. These elections are about the people. God bless you and may He bless our country,” said Hichilema.

Part II : Who is Who in Zambian 2021 Presidential Elections

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By Field Ruwe EdD

GROUP 3: CONVICTS AND FRAUDS

I continue where I left off. I am cognizant of my intense writing and for that reason I may not be everybody’s cup of tea. I am intense because tone deaf politicians have led us in the fool’s paradise in which we can’t see their betrayal, their inhumanity and vanity. Election campaigns have already kicked off with a headwind of lies, bribery, corruption, and deceit—all a staple of Zambian politics. Among the candidates are convicts campaigning behind the artificial walls of the penitentiary in their unseen prison uniform. The politicians featured here have sullied their reputation beyond redemption their supporters must come to their senses and have nothing to do with them.

1. Chishimba Kambwili- National Democratic Congress (NDC)

Leader of the National Democratic Congress Chishimba Kambwili is the most irresponsible political leader who reduces Zambian politics to the level of silliness. His behavior is certainly outrageous by any standard, and particularly for a man who aspires to be president someday. Describing his political style as impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective is an understatement. A remarkably narcissistic individual, he shamelessly moves through politics like a child who suffers from poor impulse control.

Since Kambwili came in the limelight, we have watched him evolve from pettiness, ridiculousness to idiocy and absurdity. Inflated with a sense of self-importance, and troubled political relationships, Kambwili is the product of a political life in self-inflicted mayhem; one that often times metastasizes into erratic boundless behavior and unfathomable recklessness.

Often the combustible Kambwili whose gross rhetoric, and slapstick histrionics are his trademark, sticks his dirty foot in his mouth with no understanding of the consequences of his actions. When in trouble, he becomes a master of shenanigans. There are plenty of examples in the media demonstrating Chishimba’s immature tactics. For instance, on October 14, 2020, Kambwili became a convicted criminal and was ordered to serve a year in prison. He faked illness and exhibited his belly as evidence, all the while panting like a baby. The belly did the trick and he was let go.

On March 18, 2021, Kambwili found himself at the feet of Edgar Lungu shamelessly begging for forgiveness and a pardon. His gullible supporters didn’t know what had hit them. Kambwili the craftier of crooks jumped ship, leaving the NDC for the dogs and rejoined PF. Cruelty comes in many forms, but there’s a special sense of dishonor for political leaders like Kambwili who treat their followers like toilet paper. Such dishonest behavior has undercut his effectiveness as a leader of an opposition political party.

It shudders to think Kambwili can be a leader of a party, or worse still become president of Zambia with his illogical thinking and immoral behavior. Most Zambians see a president as the consummate role model. Kambwili models the opposite. I bet you, Kambwili will leave the PF party before August back to NDC or form another. We should all be worried as we watch Kambwili day after day exhibit behavior contrary to that of a serious politician.

2. Fred Mmembe – Leader of the Socialist Party (SP)

How did a capitalist begin to preach socialism, a dangerous and misleading doctrine to the poor? Here is how; with INTERPOL on his heels, Fred Mmembe was thinking fast. Like the Mexican drug lord El Chapo, he climbed the barbed wire and jumped into refuge, his hands blooded, metaphorically put. The most wanted tax-evading bourgeoisie-turned-convict had just outfoxed Zambian justice and landed in the hands of Cuban ambassador Nelson Pages Vilas; to be precise, in the hands of socialism an ideology he once despised.

Back in the pre-democratic era, The Weekly Post, of which Mmembe was front and center, relentlessly urged Zambians to reject Kenneth Kaunda for imposing a costly brand of socialism that enforced periods of starvation due to highly priced mealie-meal. Week after week, Mmembe and his colleagues exposed socialism for the utopian fraud it was, stressing the ideology always transmuted into tyranny and turned strongmen into serial killers. Between the Weekly Post and its demise as The Post, Mmembe who had become a political jailbird embraced Cuban socialism as his gateway to asylum.

In the 2000s, Mmembe whose major concern was the value of property and the preservation of capitalism, put on his toque (the chef hat) and cooked books for breakfast, lunch, and dinner until he became a bourgeoisie. When he heard a knock at the door, he flung himself into the Cuban Embassy. It was behind the embassy walls that Mmembe’s Socialist Party was hatched.

Zambians beware of capitalist Mmembe. He has entered politics to shield himself from criminal liability. This he is doing in collaboration with Cuba, a country which has proved to be the worst form of model which to improve the quality of life. It is the 21st century, yet Cuba, with one of the highest population of doctors and other academics, remains an insular museum—frozen in time—its dilapidated buildings, old cars, and pirate aroma are good only for tourism.

Please bear in mind as you prepare to enter the voting booth in August:; a vote for socialism is a death sentence.

Group 3 to be continued. Who’s next?

Footnote: Matters Arising: Peter Sinkamba—Green Party.

I wish to respond to Peter Sinkamba of the Green Party featured in Group 1. I do so because his comment about me is in the public realm. Responding to my take on his party, Sinkamba claims to know me personally, and alludes to my marital status insinuating he has some dirt about me which he chooses not to share with the public. I do not know Peter Sinkamba, nine years my junior, and don’t recall being in his presence. And one thing for sure he’s never been in the presence of my family. He may know my in-laws through the friend he alludes to, that’s about it. Above all, I don’t remember committing a crime of any sort in his presence. This goes to all back-stabbers, don’t dwell into my personal life maliciously under disguise just because you don’t like me. State your real name, tell your story and provide tangible evidence. If you heard it from a second party, a friend, or a fib-peddling relative of mine, or if you are a congenital liar seek help.

Sinkamba further claims that my facts about his party are wrong. Here I quote him: “Also, Field must countercheck facts. In 2016, Civil Society organisations that reviewed all manifestos, under the auspices of Action Aid Zambia, voted the Green Party manifesto as the best in 2016 elections. This information can easily be accessed through Google.” My response to Sinkamba is brief; a great manifesto wins elections and not polls. A Green Party score of 0.12% in the 2016 elections is as good as no manifesto.

Edgar Chagwa Lungu – A Shrewd Political Strategist And Tactician!

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By Yona Musukwa

President Edgar Lungu has officially closed the Patriotic Front’s General Conference and reappointed Hon. Davies Mwila as Patriotic Front Secretary General

Firstly, I always tell my comrades that when big people are playing chidunu, sojo or kalambe, watch and learn. It doesn’t matter whether you like them or not, whether you agree with them or not, watch and learn.

Secondly, if you look at the events at the conference and the names of the new PF MCC members, you see the political shrewdness of President Edgar Chagwa Lungu, that he is fully in charge and is already planning beyond 2026. (I will return to this point later in more detailed article)

At first glance, President Lungu gives an impression of a humble and weak politician, until you pay attention to his highly calculated political moves and outcomes, then you shockingly discover that he is highly sophisticated and a calculating political operative, a political machiavelllian. You never see him coming, always standing afar, with a big whip, controlling the political chessboard and the narratives around it, never on the crime scene or making his hands unnecessarily dirty. His strength is in being in charge of himself, never showing emotions, and talking less, always using others to do his bidding, without showing his political hand.

Before the convention, we heard a lot of stories; “He is not in charge,” “This and that are not happy”, “PF will be divided after the conference”, “Luapula united is coming”, “KBF this and that.” He defeated them without even uttering a word. When he said; “I carry a big stick,” He meant what he said.

The convention came, no sign of anything, not even a whisper or murmur of Luapula united or KBF, everyone was shouting; “Lungu! Lungu!”

He is fully in charge and in control. He makes himself appear small, making everyone happy to work for him. Even those who left, calling him incompetent and corrupt are getting back in their numbers, with screaming headlines; “Lungu 2021 and beyond”. He has humbled them because they lack emotional intelligence, he did operation koswe on them – biting nokuputilila.

President Lungu has gone further and built a very effective election machinery around him, efficient and proactive. It should be very hard and difficult for any political party to mobilise under these very difficult times; high unemployment, high poverty levels, rampant corruption, high cost of living, etc. But despite all these problems, PF is still in a better position with the voters due to its political shrewdness.

The PF Secretariat, run by Hon. Davies Mwila, and deputized by Hon. Mumbi Phiri is effective and efficient and on 24hrs political alert. They have built committees and always recruiting members to help with party mobilisation. Their media team is lethal, if not deadly, always alert and extremely sharp, controlling the narrative in our political space. They take no prisoners and make you work for your money.

And President Lungu is already ahead thinking about 2026 as PF President. That is the task for the new MCC. If he happens to win the 2021 General Elections, he will immediately embark on and set things in motion for 2026 general elections. You are likely to see things like Bill 11, Bill 12 etc. That is President Lungu for you, an underated political war general who is always calculating and moving pieces on the chessboard far ahead of his political opponents. You have to be ballot box clever to defeat him, that is, if you are even luck to get to the ballot box without him mounting several roadblocks to derail you.

We watch and learn!

“We sleep with one another in Nollywood, the profession is a blessed one” – Actor, Jide Kosoko drops bomb

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Veteran movie star, Jide Kosoko has made a striking statement as regards the Nollywood movie industry and how it is structured.

In a recent interview with Vanguard, the movie god highlighted some of the goods and ills that are inherent in the Nigerian movie world.

The 67 years old who made sure he didn’t leave sensitive issues untouched in the interview said:

“That is far from the truth. In fact, we are one of the professions whose members are very disciplined. People tend to make noise out of everything we do as public figures. That is not to say we do not date or sleep with one another. The profession is a blessed one and people should please see the good side of our profession too. We educate, entertain, admonish, enlighten the world through our artistic works.”

On how celebrities rise to fame, he said, “One film doesn’t bring an actor to the limelight rather continuity does. When people see a particular face in good productions, they will note the face and as time goes on, they will reckon with the face. And that is how the fame comes. That is why I detest some of my colleagues who believe they can turn one actor to a celebrity overnight. A continuous process of quality film productions brought me to limelight.”

Jide Kosoko also spoke on his life as a polygamist “I never envisaged being a polygamist though I am a product of one. My parents didn’t support it either. My first wife was a business woman. I craved for somebody who was in the same field with me. In those days, the best advice you can get is from your better half and that was how the second woman came to be. Along the line, I lost the two to child births within 11 months interval. I had seven children at that time, so I didn’t plan remarrying or having more children again. But after much persuasion from my doctor and relatives, I decided to have a woman with the agreement of not having more children but a complete African woman will not agree to that. One thing led to the other and I got two women again. So being a polygamist is not intentional but God’s design which I do not have a right over.”

Masebo, Princess Nkomeshya’s Competition Creates ‘headache’ For UPND Leaders

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MASEBO, PRINCESS NKOMESHYA’S COMPETITION CREATES ‘HEADACHE’ FOR UPND LEADERS…Masebo likens her previous loses to arguments that HH “nikaluza, when he in fact did not lose”

Daily Revelation Reporters

UPND officials are in a dilemma over the adoption process in Chongwe involving Sylvia Masebo and senior chieftainess Nkomeshya’s daughter, Princess Cholwe, which they feel will pose potential ‘headache’ for opposition UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema and the party leadership.

But Masebo when contacted for comment, said she is confident in the adoption primaries because of her “credible track record.”

Well placed sources in the UPND in Chongwe and the national management committee are hoping that Masebo and Princess Cholwe could sit down and decide on which one should actually contest the position, saying complicating the matter was the fact that Masebo was a senior member of the party, but also feel adopting the chieftainess’ daughter would place them in an advantageous position in an area they need to recapture from the PF column.

“That’s why as a leadership we are of the view that they should sit down and discuss so that the issue doesn’t become a headache for HH and the party leadership and they end up losing the constituency altogether,” the sources said. “Failure to resolve this they are going to cause headache for the authorities and even the chieftainess herself, because as you maybe aware she has been supportive of Masebo in the past, but this time it’s her own daughter having a go at the seat.”

But Masebo said she felt comfortable because the people of Chongwe know her good side and bad side, “and so I can fairly rate myself that I have a track record and that the track record is what will speak for me.”

“And if my track record is right then even the vote will be right. I am standing on that belief that I have a credible track record in the district and in the constituency. And if people are voting based on track record that gives me the confidence that I shouldn’t have a problem. I should be able to sail through,” said Masebo, further addressing the decision by her competitor to stand. “I feel that it’s her constitutional right right…and I think that she’s in order and at the end of the day it will really be up to the people to make a decision. So I have no issues with that because I feel that constitutionally she has that right, yah. It’s within her right to aspire. And I think there are no issues there.”

Asked who chieftainess Nkomeshya was supporting between the two, Masebo refused to address the matter, saying she did not want to draw the chieftainess into the matter.

Masebo instead said she wanted to address only aspects on why she felt confident of standing, saying if she were adopted it would be like a return match with the PF’s Japhen Mwakalombe as the people now have a history of the two.

“So it will be easy for them to say ah between these two people this is a better devil,” she said.

Put across to her that she had lost twice, consecutively to the same person in 2011 and 2016, Masebo said the people of Chongwe know what happened about the “so-called beaten twice.”

“You know it’s like this argument about HH that this guy nikaluza chabe, nikaluza, you know he’s going to lose blah blah blah, why do you think the party has unanimously still adopted him? Because we truly believe that HH did not lose the last election. We just did not protect the election ourselves,” said Masebo. “We allowed the PF to basically steal that election. And so because we truly believe that he won this is why we refused to change. But if we changed we may now lose. I can tell you that for me it’s the same feeling by the people.” – Daily Revelation

What Beans Can Kambwili Spill When He Is The Beans Himself – Edward Roy Makayi

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By Edward Roy Makayi

OH PLISH WHAT BEANS CAN DR CHISHIMBA KAMBWILI SPILL WHEN HE IS THE BEANS HIMSELF HE SHOULD BRING IT ON WE WILL TAKE HIM ON LIKE NEVER BEFORE THIS MAN IS TOO OLD FOR CHILDISH POLITICS BUT HE SHOULD GROW UP.

It has become so fashionable to these bad examples of leaders that have lost political relevance and direction to invest in childish politics of character assassination at the expense of serious topics in Zambia we should be discussing Dr Kambwili and his beans. Dr Kambwili with all due respect is a political pollutant contaminating Zambian politics. Are these not the same words that he said he will do immediately he was hounded out of PF? What became of him and the so called beans spilling project he embarked? Didn’t we see him fainting with his potbelly out, he thinks that can only be done by the ruling party?.

Honestly speaking who should be zipping his mouth between a convicted forgery leader, failed Presidential manager and a good for nothing trouble maker with a rich CV full of inconsistent records and a clean politician?.

This jealous will make Dr Kambwili live a hateful life not good for his health. Leave the stage while you can what political value can Dr Kambwili claim to bring today and to benefit who when his mouth is full of vernomous tribal politics are what he knows.

How long does it take to get to PF from NDC for one to keep pretending they are a president of a political party?.

We need sanity in politics as young upcoming generation we won’t allow tired and valueless leaders with no brains or plans to stabilize the economy, invest in innovations or think of development all they know and have are vernomous beans for political expediences.

We are not scared of Dr Kambwili and whatever beans he has in his stomach if he is not the political beans himself it doesn’t move us but he must be warned sternly that he should take his time well in pre checking the beans he has before it lands himself into further court cases. Our mothers in homes don’t just cook beans no matter where they got it they first put it on a surface to recheck if indeed it’s beans they are about to cook and not the mixture of stones or other impurities.

My father Dr Kambwili you can still enjoy PF dinner in peace you already apologized for the fake beans you used to spill against the Republican president and we know what it costed you. But if you want to enjoy your dinner in PF with headaches and countless court battles I urge to go on and show us the beans you are it better be genuine.

Bringing the name of our president Mr Hakainde Hichilema in your delusional talks will attract hash response you will fail to contain with countless court battles because we won’t allow you to pollute politics with your cheap tribal sentiments when Zambians are crying for the high cost of living.

Beans from Dr Kambwili will not lower the cost of living or bring down the dollar to Kwacha. Certain leaders should grow up please. Yes Dr Kambwili must grow up.

Issued by Edward Roy Makayi.

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How R500m rated Patson Daka slipped through Sundowns’ fingers

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When Floyd ‘Mourinho’ Mogale starts talking about red hot Zambian forward Patson Daka, you just sense a bit of dismay in his voice.

He’s like a man who feels his sweat was wasted for zilch. Of course, he long left Mamelodi Sundowns, but he may feel he was robbed of leaving a legacy at the club.

It all seems justifiable especially when you begin to scan through the numbers. As they say, ‘numbers don’t lie’. Daka has scored 23 goals in the last 19 games for his Austrian side RB Salzburg.

The latest was a hat-trick buried in a record eight minutes on Sunday. It makes him the most sought after African in Europe at the moment.

FARPOST: How R500m rated Patson Daka slipped through Sundowns’ fingers

In fact, his impressive 28 goals and eight assists in the Austria Bundesliga last season put the 22-year-old on the same scoring wavelength with emerging European striking talents like Erling Haaland of Borussia Dortmund and PSG’s Kilian Mbappe.

It will not be a surprise should he be sold for anything in the region of R500 million [€30 million]. The boy is pure class!

Now Mogale’s indignant mood when you mention Daka stems from the fact that the boy could have been at Sundowns. For a couple of years the Brazilians tracked young Daka. There was consensus among the scouts at the club that he was potentially a generational talent.

Interestingly, the Downs head of methodology and academy Shawn Bishop and talent scout Russell Molefe were first to see him back in April 2015. He was playing at the African Union Sports Commission (AUSC) Region 5 Youth Games in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

It was just six months before his 17th birthday. But Daka led his country’s Under 17 team with the aplomb of a veteran. The boy was as mean as they come in front of goals.

“I saw him as a 15-year-old in the Zambian national team in Bulawayo. He was playing there. I think that was 2015,” Shawn Bishop confirms to FARPost.

“It’s weird that the first game I saw him, he scored a hat-trick against Zimbabwe. I was trying to look for the footage the other day because I recorded the game.”

His hat-trick, Bishop recalls, was scored with both feet – two with his strongest right and the other with his left. That was his introduction to the meticulous Sundowns’ scouting team. It became as clear as daylight to Bishop and his team that he was a talent set for dizzy heights.

“We followed him for a while but we have to be respectful of the laws. He was under age. In South Africa, a boy is a minor until the age of 18. The laws are clear that a child needs to go to school until 18.”

The following year [December 2016], the next Downs scout to watch the youngster was David Notoane at the Cosafa Under 20 Championship.

Daka was on target in the 41st minute in their opening match against Zimbabwe that Young Chipolopolo won 5-1. He then scored in the next match with 19 minutes to go as Zambia beat neighbours Malawi 3-0, helping his country advance to the semi-finals of the tournament.

He was unlucky not to score in the final against South Africa, which his Zambia won 2-1. His third minute header hit the crossbar at the Moruleng Stadium in Rustenburg. Nonetheless, it was still clear that he was a boy on the path to stardom.

“The club he was at in Nkana [Kafue Celtic] were doing excellent work with him to ensure he progresses to become the player he is right now,” Bishop admits.

Following that tournament, a recommendation was made by the scouting team to invite Daka and his teammate Enock Mwepu to Chloorkop, but nothing materialised.

The man who was entrusted with the development of the boy by his father before his death in September 2012, Lee Kawanu, recalls every conversation he had with Sundowns about the boy.

The owner of Kafue Celtic, Kawanu, gives FARPost a bit of a glimpse about where the boy’s football skills may have been inherited. Apparently, his dad was a quick-fire winger endowed with some blistering pace.

“I guess that is where he got the talent from,” he says. The earliest memory he has of the youngster was each time his dad brought him to the training ground.

“He used to say, ‘this boy will make you happy and he will be a star’.”
His father, being a former footballer himself, was extremely convinced he had a gem on his hands. He was about 12 at the time.

Senior Daka had the inkling of a prophet, often telling his coach that his little man would become a striker of note one day. Tiny as the boy was, he had no doubt that he would tear apart defences and hit the net as often as the likes of Collins Mbesuma and Christopher Katongo did at their peak.

“I was reluctant to release him to Sundowns because I felt he could easily go to Europe,” he tells FARPost from his Mwinilunga base.

Even when Sundowns proposed to sign him and loan him out until he was 18, Kawanu remembered his departed dad’s prophecy. The boy’s mother, Josephine Shelemu, had left it all to Kawanu. But dad’s prophecy lingered.

Even the lure of the more powerful rand from one of South Africa’s top clubs was not enough to convince Kawanu.

He just had to hold on to this gem in the hope that his dad’s prophecy would later come to full manifestation. Nonetheless, that never stopped Sundowns from pursuing the boy.

The last time they pushed for his signature was when he featured in the Under 20 Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Lusaka. But, by that time, which was exactly two years after they watched him at Bulawayo’s Barbourfields Stadium, Daka was now under Sevilla legend Frederick Kanoute’s 12Management Agency.

It was a good seven months before his 18th birthday. A year prior, the youngster had made history, featuring for all national teams – the Under 17, Under 20, Under 23 and also making his senior team debut.

Mogale was the man assigned to go and do some scouting. He spent 12 days in the Zambian capital and waxes lyrical about what he saw at that tournament. The hosts emerged winners of the tournament after beating Senegal 2-0 in the final played at the Heroes National Stadium in Lusaka.

Again, ‘Papa’, as Daka w

as affectionately known, scored for Young Chipolopolo to help his country win its first and only Under 20 Afcon trophy.

The other goal came via the boot of Edward Chilufya, who is now with Swedish club Djurgårdens IF in the Allsvenskan. Daka went on to win the Player of the Tournament award and was also joint top scorer with Chilufya and Bafana Bafana star Luther Singh, on four goals apiece.

“I was chief scout of Sundowns at the time, it was an Under 20 tournament. He may have been 18, 19. I could have brought him to Sundowns then. He killed South Africa,” Mogale, who is now coaching second tier side Royal AM, tells FARPost.

Upon his return, Mogale says he recommended the youngster, but it was too late. After loan stints with topflight giants, Nchanga Rangers FC and Power Dynamos, he was on his way to Liefering FC, a feeder team for RB Salzburg.

That same year, he became only the second Zambian player to win the Caf Young Player of the Year Award after Clifford Mulenga won the accolade in 2007. He was also crowned the 2017 Zambia Sportsman of the Year. All eyes were on him.

“When he went to Austria he was on the verge of coming to Chloorkop. He can score goals. He’s a machine. He was strong, had technique and an understanding of the game. He had everything you needed in a striker.

“We asked to sign that boy but unfortunately I was only chief scout, I could only make a recommendation.

“I spoke to Patrice [Motsepe], he knows very well, but he said our coach [Pitso Mosimane] didn’t like him. This boy could have been at Chloorkop as we are talking now. He was one of the top goal scorers. You call that name to me anytime, I wake up.”

Hot on the heels of that tournament, he joined Salzburg, striking the perfect combination with Halaand.

When the Nowergian left Salzburg for Dortmund in Germany, the Chipolopolo marksman stepped up to the plate.

Thanks to his goal-scoring prowess, aristocrats of Premier League football such as Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United, West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur have been posturing themselves, hoping to land his signature.

But for Sundowns, they can only wonder what could have happened had the boy come to Chloorkop.

I Can Single Handedly Destroy UPND, HH Will Pay For Attempting To Destroy NDC – Kambwili

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I CAN SINGLE HANDEDLY DESTROY UPND – CK
“HH will pay for attempting to destroy NDC”
If there is any person the UPND fear most, its me because I can single handedly destroy them within a month, NDC President Chishimba Kambwili has said. Speaking in Lusaka this afternoon at the PF on-going convention, Dr Kambwili said he will soon have a media briefing where he will completely destroy HH and the UPND. “I want HH to pay for attempting to destroy NDC. I can single handedly destroy UPND. Wait for my press conference anytime this month. UPND will be no more after that press conference because I will expose all UPND members including HH their leader”, he said.

KAMBWILI BREATHS FIRE AGAINST UPND

“I destroyed UPND in 2016 and you saw how I mssed it up and I will do it again this year. I will make sure HH pays for attempting to destroy NDC”, Kambwili.

“[PF inviting me and me accepting their invitation] Is a sign of maturity. It is showing that our politics are now becoming civil and friendly.”
“Who would have expected that I would attend a PF general conference? Who would even accept that PF can invite other Political parties?”

“We were in an alliance with UPND and I was being courted to be running mate as vice president. And as alliance partners, they didn’t even invite us to go to their convention. That shows you what kind of people and what kind of politics certain people practice.”
“Conventions or General conferences you invite even the diplomatic community and the trade unions but some of these Political parties, it’s about themselves and themselves for themselves.”

“If I decide to rejoin the PF, what wrong has it got? It’s my choice. But here we have been invited to attend the general conference.”
“Never forget that am one of the five (5) people that started PF and surely to be associated with PF is not a sin.”

“When I come and see Green, it reminds me of the good hay days and I wish they could come back.”
[Attending the PF conference does not mean is the end of Chishimba Kambwili], Imbwili ni mbwili, I can not change. Am the Kambwili that am. And I can tell you I believe in calling a spade a spade and not calling a spade a pick for the sake of impressions.”
“It’s just that in life you need to look at the bigger picture, not narrow or individual interests and I can tell you that some people have got individual interests and very soon in the next two [or] three weeks, I will explain to the Zambian people who they are, what they stand for and why they behave the way they behave. And when I do that, they will never rise on a platform because I was close with them [and] I was inside them, I did realize who they are and that is why I refused to work with them to help them get the country and use it for what they want to use it.

Am a big politician, I can destroy UPND without anyone backing me. I did that in 2016 and you saw how I messed up UPND and I will do it again this year. I will make sure HH pays for attempting to destroy NDC.

“We [NDC] are going to the general conference next week but if the members decide that we work with PF, so be it. [But] If the members decide that we go back to UPND, God forbid!”
-Dr. Chishimba Kambwili, NDC president”

KAMBWILI CANT LEARN. HE IS A HABITUAL OFFENDER -NDC

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For Immediate Release

KAMBWILI CANT LEARN. HE IS A HABITUAL OFFENDER

Lusaka 10th April 2021

BY FRANKLIN LW MEMBE NDC SPOKESPERSON AND CHAIRMAN FOR NATIONAL PLANING AND DEVELOPMENT.

KAMBWILI’S appetite for breaking laws and disregard of court processes is a recipe for lawlessness in the country. Political Leadership demands that those who present themselves as leaders first must be God fearing and law abiding.

The picture Kambwili is portraying to the youth with his style of leadership will survive him even after death. The youth he is misleading will grow up knowing only one thing about politics: You can insult, disregard the law and when the law catches up with you, simply apologise after all Zambia is a Christian Nation.

A disastrous path for the youth that are supposed to lead this nation after us.
For more than a month now, Kambwili and his henchmen and woman have been disrespecting court orders and clearly contemptuous. Thanks to Zambia’s accusatorial justice system that permits magistrates and judges to cast a blind eye at such abuse of the judiciary even when the contempt is in public domain.

We are committing the CK team to more court cases.
We say Kambwili is a habitual offender because currently the man is facing a contempt case for which he has been put on his defense. While this matter is still in court, there is an injunction that had been in force and reconfirmed again by the Ndola High Court Judge on 9th April. CK or his lawyers chose not to appear at the court. A further disregard for court process. As if that’s not enough, barely a day later, he is committing another contempt by publicly appointing a Vice President and giving orders to organise a party that he does not own.

We wish to bring to the attention of Zambians that the bad name given to politics is exactly because of characters like Chishimba Kambwili.
On his dicy relationship with the PF, our brother has a challenge concerning what to call his relationship with PF. He can’t say it. However, Zambians we have interacted with over this matter know that CK is now PF.

Mr Kambwili Should be ready to face more charges in court for himself and his agents and servants.
As NDC, we have come to concluded that Kambwili is destined to a life of police and courts. That’s the only language he understands. We are more than ready to help him achieve that goal.

KAMBWILI TREACHEROUS ZAMBIANS SHOULD NOT TRUST HIM – MALITE

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For Immediate Release

KAMBWILI TREACHEROUS ZAMBIANS SHOULD NOT TRUST HIM – MALITE

Sunday 11th April 2021

The definition of Satan has never been clearer than now.

Seeing Chishimba Kambwili at the PF conference yesterday gave me goose pimples,gave me a cold chill down my spine and almost collapsed.
Is this the man we all looked up to as our saviour,a liberator and one that spoke for and on behalf of the voiceless,I asked myself. Where did we go wrong or rather what demon entered our saviour?

To crown my disappointment, he justified his switch to the team he once called ba Pompwe…our dear lost soul said he sees nothing wrong in rejoining PF,really?

For those that may think my statement is malicious, let me take you back down memory lane…this man am talking about pioneered a near revolution, a party that was to be the game changer in the August general elections and had a following owing to his aggressive approach to anything that oppressed the ordinary people but today he is dinning with the oppressor and he sees nothing wrong with his act,ba CK sure!

Looking over my shoulder I see our late Obed Kasongo who died following the Luanshya Roan by election fiasco,Patrick Phiri and Clifford Kaluba who died in a car accident when we travelled for the funeral of the late Honourable Daniel Munkombwe (May Souls of the departed Rest in Peace) in which I was a survivor as we were on duty doing NDC party works ,what really did they die for,this betrayal by their leader is painful, so painful.

This serves as lesson to all,such politicians are not to be trusted,they say one thing and do the exact opposite. My fellow youths and the country at large be wary of such hypocrites.

Lastly the man during the PF convention when he was interviewed by media said, he will tell the people of Zambia why he left the UPND Alliance, Sir Zambians already know why you left and it’s best you keep quite, you are facing a lot of court cases and your going to PF we all know why. So bashikulu Eli we understand you are a family man and your grandchild needs you. If you showing your relevance in PF is to start attacking the UPND Alliance were more than ready to take you own. Said Malite

Issued by:NDC Media team

Former NBA player, Wilt Chamberlain admits he slept with over 20,000 women

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Wilt Chamberlain was one of basketballs most formidable players who at 7’1″ towered over his opponents and mates alike. A scoring machine, Chamberlain scored 31,419 points underlying his efficiency including the time he actually scored 100 points in one game, a record which is yet to be broken.

While his feat on the court is well known, a few are aware that in his 1991 book, A View From Above, he revealed he had slept with 20,000 different women during his life.

At a time where the AIDS crisis was ravaging, he was attacked by activists for his promiscuity. He was damned in African-American circles for promoting black racial stereotypes while feminists resented his blatant sexism for using women in such a manner.

But Chamberlain stood by his account noting, “I was just laying it out there for people who were curious.”

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Boston Celtics Bill Russell (6) outreaches Philadelphia 76ers Wilt Chamberlain (13) to control a rebound in Boston in this Jan. 15, 1967 photo.
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Wilt Chamberlain via Wikimedia Commons

He was even emphatic he never went to bed with a married woman. “I was just doing what was natural – chasing good-looking ladies, whoever they were and wherever they were.”

The math inclined quickly went to work summarizing that if Chamberlain started the deed at 15 till 55 (when the book was published), he would have had 40 years to sleep with 20,000 women or 500 different women a year.

According to close friends, Chamberlain loved threesomes and was even intimate with 23 different women on a 10-day road trip indicating that indeed he had good libido.

Given Chamberlain was also insomniac, sometimes not sleeping at all, he had time on his hands in those late hours and he was sure to take a woman to bed.

The doubting Thomases say he couldn’t have the time to lay with that many women given the six-month schedule he had for 14 seasons playing professional basketball amounting to 82 games a season, plus playoffs, exhibitions, practices, and travel time.

Despite his reported 20,000 sexual liaisons, Chamberlain unlike Magic Johnson is not known to have contracted any serious sexually transmitted diseases nor did a woman emerge an unplanned pregnancy or a paternity suit.

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Boston Celtics Bill Russell (6) outreaches Philadelphia 76ers Wilt Chamberlain (13) to control a rebound in Boston in this Jan. 15, 1967 photo.

In a 1999 interview, shortly before he died, Chamberlain made the following revealing statement: “Having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I’ve learned in my life. I’ve (also) found out that having one woman a thousand different times is more satisfying,” perhaps giving us a clue that some of the ladies might have been on repeat visits after all.

Chamberlain co-owned a nightclub in Harlem, Big Wilt’s Smalls Paradise, where he socialized with entertainers and when a beautiful woman caught his eye he sent an emissary to quietly let her know of his interest serving as fertile hunting ground.

Chamberlain, who never married, wrote that once, when he attended a birthday party in San Francisco with 15 women, “I got all but one before the rising of the sun.” Curiously, he is on record not to have had a child although a man claims him as his father, a product from one-night stand.

The sowing of wild oats aside, Chamberlain also authored four books.

Back to the basketball court, he dominated the game as few players in any sport ever have, capable of scoring and rebounding at will, despite the double- and triple-teams and constant fouling tactics that opposing teams used to try to shut him down.

He was the only NBA player to score 4,000 points in a season. He set NBA single-game records for most points (100), most consecutive field goals (18) and most rebounds (55).

Chamberlain retired as the all-time leader in career points with 31,419, which was later surpassed by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone and Michael Jordan. He is tops in rebounds with 23,924, led the NBA in scoring seven years in a row while still having the NBA’s highest assist total in 1967-68.

Chamberlain was one of the few players of his day who had the sheer strength to block a dunk.

The “Dippy” or “Dipper” as he was also known played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA. He played for the University of Kansas and also for the Harlem Globetrotters before playing in the NBA.

He retired from the NBA at the end of the 1972-73 season.

In 1978, his first year of eligibility, Chamberlain was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and in 1996-97 he was selected to the NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team.

On Oct. 12, 1999, Chamberlain passed away at the age of 63 due to heart failure at his home, which he named Ursa Major after the constellation containing the stars forming the Big Dipper, his trademark.

South Pacific tribe who believe Prince Philip is their god are left devastated by his death

A tribe living on a remote South Pacific Island who believe Prince Philip is their god and the incarnation of a volcano spirit are devastated over his death and have started a ritualistic mourning process that could last for weeks.

The Yaohnanen tribesmen and women on the Vanuatu island of Tanna had been asleep when the Duke of Edinburgh’s death was announced to the world on Friday night and were up early to harvest yams the following morning.

They were not aware of the tragic news until a woman from a nearby resort told them when they returned from their work on Saturday afternoon.

The tribe’s sorrow was immediately evident as women burst into tears and heartbroken men fell silent as they tried to comfort their children.

Mary Niere, who works as an accountant at the White Grass Ocean Resort and Spa, told Daily Mail Australia the village was mostly empty when she arrived but there was an elderly man sitting at the nakamal – where the men meet and drink cava.

‘When I told him he was shocked and asked if I was telling the truth because he couldn’t believe it,’ she said.

‘They had to send messages to the yam garden to get the people back and when the chief (Charlie) came and everyone found out. They were very, very sad.

‘The men were silent and looking down. Many of the women were very emotional and crying a lot.’

Ms Niere said ritualistic wailing is a traditional custom on the island for those dealing with immense grief and could last for weeks.fgdgfgd

For decades, the 400-strong community has worshipped Prince Philip, praying everyday that he would protect their banana and yam crops.

It’s not entirely clear how the Prince, who never visited the island, came to be seen as a deity.

It’s believed tribesmen had seen large portraits of him with Queen Elizabeth when they visited Port Vila in the 1960s, and impressed that he had married a ‘powerful white queen’ on the other side of the world, started to believe he was the incarnation of a volcano spirit who would one day return to Tanna

The closest the Duke came to the island was during a trip to the capital Port Vila in 1974. Back then Vanuatu was an Anglo-French colony named New Hebrides.

During the royal visit a warrior from Tanna named Chief Jack Naiva, and others, paddled 240km (150 miles) in a canoe to the capital to greet Prince Phillip as he disembarked the royal yacht Britannia.

From there, the Prince’s godlike status became even more cemented after Chief Naiva became convinced the Duke was sent from the heavens to protect the island and bring its people good fortune.

Inhabitants even speculated the divine intervention of Prince Philip helped to get Barack Obama – a black man – elected President of the United States in 2008, author Matthew Baylis revealed in his book about the Yaohnanen.

They also praised him for keeping cyclones away.

Ten thousand miles away in England, Prince Philip was well aware of the Yaohnanen’s admiration for him.

Over the years he sent framed photographs of himself which were turned into a shrine at the village.

In a bizarre series of events, the Yaohnanen sent the Duke a traditional war club called a nal-nal used for hunting pigs and requested that Prince Philip take a picture with it.

The Duke obliged and snapped a photo with their cherished weapon but reportedly asked aids ‘how on earth does one hold a nal-nal?’ before posing with the deadly club.

The Palace sent the photograph across the world to Tanna in 1980 where it has been treated as a sacred item ever since.

Chief Charlie is now set to organise a traditional feast and ceremony to mourn Prince Philip’s death.

The tribe had hoped the Prince would visit the island before his death but now they are certain his spirit will make its way to Tanna.

‘The ladies will come together and get some local food and then they will prepare lap-lap – pig that’s cooked underground in banana leaves,’ Ms Niere said.

‘Men will bring cava and in the afternoon they will all eat it and share it together.’ –Daily Mail

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT HAKAINDE HICHILEMA

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OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT HAKAINDE HICHILEMA
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Dear President Hichilema,
I took time to listen to the manifesto presentation that was delivered by the UPND team yesterday. As a person with an economist background, I was particularly interested in listening to what Dr Situmbeko Musokotwana had to say, since he is the man in charge of economic policy.

I was delighted to learn that Dr Musokotwane and his team, had spent years studying the Asian Tigers, particularly Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore with the intention to model Zambia on the same premise. His presentation was a breath of fresh air.

Among the takeaways for me were the confidence that the UPND would have among Zambia’s lenders. This is crucial for us to negotiate better terms on our current indebtedness.
Zambia’s debts have crippled this economy.

We are unable to service crucial sectors of our economy due to the stranglehold that our repayments have on us.
From 1991 to date, we have lacked a serious thought process to address our issues. Serious problems require serious thinking, burning the midnight oil until solutions are found. Unfortunately, our economy has been handled with such a casual attitude, to a point where even the leader general shockingly said Zambians are doing fine.

Sir, the manifesto released yesterday, showed a resolute conviction and bold focus to deliver a better Zambia. I noted the following:
==>Copper output from the current 800, 000 MT to 3 million MT are bold steps that shows seriousness.This will bring the much needed forex.

==> 4 million jobs within 10 years is another impressive focus. The youth are currently deflated due to lack of jobs. This would fill the void and spur a happier and healthier citizenry.

==> Boost manufacturing by 15% within 5 years and by 25% in 10 years. We have struggled as a country in this area for years. Finally there is a plan in place.
==> A wholistic approach to agriculture, revamping extension services, access to cheaper, loans, cheaper fertilizer, farming implements including livestock provision. All this to establish Zambia as a food basket in the region.

==> To become an exporter of agro produce to DRC, Angola, Botswana etc.
==> Youth, women and people with disabilities. Transformation through establishment of Zambia Enterprise Development and free education. This would address the disillusionment currently being experienced in the country.

Sir, the energy sector and tourism have also been adequately addressed to end load shedding for good and to open up Zambia as a tourist destination respectively.

One other major aspect to me is the 100% distribution of water to both urban and rural areas in 10 years. This would bring us at par with Botswana which has managed piped water even in villages, despite it being in a semi arid area.

I am more than confident sir that you will deliver for the Zambian people. People who are thoroughly prepared for a journey are more likely to reach their destination. The UPND is ready.
Bravo to you sir, I look forward to the UPND government.
Yours sincerely,
Kasololo Chisenga

It Is Not Sin To Be Associated With PF, Am One Of The The 5 People That Started The Party – Chishimba Kambwili

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IT IS NOT SIN TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH PF, AM ONE OF THE THE 5 PEOPLE THAT STARTED THE PARTY AND I WILL EXPLAIN TO THE ZAMBIAN PEOPLE WHO THE UPND ARE, WHAT THEY STAND FOR AND WHY THEY BEHAVE THE WAY THEY BEHAVE

“[PF inviting me and me accepting their invitation] Is a sign of maturity. It is showing that our politics are now becoming civil and friendly.”

“Who would have expected that I would attend a PF general conference? Who would even accept that PF can invite other Political parties?”

“We were in an alliance with UPND and I was being courted to be running mate as vice president. And as alliance partners, they didn’t even invite us to go to their convention. That shows you what kind of people and what kind of politics certain people practice.”

“Conventions or General conferences you invite even the diplomatic community and the trade unions but some of these Political parties, it’s about themselves and themselves for themselves.”

“If I decide to rejoin the PF, what wrong has it got? It’s my choice. But here we have been invited to attend the general conference.”

“Never forget that am one of the five (5) people that started PF and surely to be associated with PF is not a sin.”

“When I come and see Green, it reminds me of the good hay days and I wish they could come back.”

[Attending the PF conference does not mean is the end of Chishimba Kambwili], Imbwili ni mbwili, I can not change. Am the Kambwili that am. And I can tell you I believe in calling a spade a spade and not calling a spade a pick for the sake of impressions.”

“It’s just that in life you need to look at the bigger picture, not narrow or individual interests and I can tell you that some people have got individual interests and very soon in the next two [or] three weeks, I will explain to the Zambian people who they are, what they stand for and why they behave the way they behave. And when I do that, they will never rise on a platform because I was close with them [and] I was inside them, I did realize who they are and that is why I refused to work with them to help them get the country and use it for what they want to use it.”

“We [NDC] are going to the general conference next week but if the members deicide that we work with PF, so be it. [But] If the members decide that we go back to UPND, God forbid!”

-Dr. Chishimba Kambwili, NDC president

UPND Manifesto A Copy-cat, Full Of Grammatical Errors- Sean Tembo

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UPND MANIFESTO A COPY-CAT, FULL OF GRAMATICAL ERRORS-SEAN TEMBO

ABOUT THE NEW UPND MANIFESTO: WHATS REALLY NEW IN IT?

By Sean Tembo – PeP President

1. As one of the key advocates of issue-based politics in Zambia, l have always looked forward to the release of the much talked about New Manifesto for the main opposition United Party for National Development. Now that it is out, it is time for me to give my views of what l think about it. For those UPND members and supporters that may have a thin skin and are fuming that l am discussing their beloved party’s new manifesto, l wish to remind them that that’s what issued-based politics is all about; you release your new manifesto, we your competitors poke some holes in it, you defend your position and the Zambian people make their own judgement and conclusion. That’s how the much talked about democracy works.

2. First of all l wish to state that l was impressed with the graphic design and presentation format. I think it was very much on point. Also l think the size of 20 pages was perfect. Not too small and not too big. This is often a difficult balance to strike. The last version of the PF Manifesto that l was reading had 67 pages, and l think that was too bulky. Suffice to mention that our PeP Manifesto is 24 pages, so we had some kind of meeting of the minds with the UPND and their 20 page new manifesto here.

3. My overall take on the substance of the new UPND manifesto is that it was very big on what a potential UPND Government will do for Zambia and very thin on how they will do it. In the few areas where they included the “HOW”, it lacked specificity and was largely just a waffle. For example, under Chapter 3, the paragraph on private sector development says that this will be achieved by “improving the business environment and reducing the cost of doing business” but does not specify how the business environment will be improved or how the cost of doing business will be reduced. This makes it difficult for any reasonable Zambian to determine whether or not the UPND have a good plan for the country’s economic development. Now compare and contrast with Chapter 10 of the 2018 PeP Manifesto on Reforms in the Business Environment which states in paragraph 15; “a PeP Government will ensure that the cost of doing business in Zambia is significantly reduced by, among other things, eliminating the number of licenses that a business requires in order to operate. This will be done through the establishment of a National Licensing Authority that will be a one-stop licensing authority which will issue a single license that will cover everything from fire, health etc.” It is only when a manifesto is specific that people can take a position on whether they agree with it or not. But the new UPND Manifesto is neither here nor there.

4. I was also disappointed with the first Chapter of the new UPND Manifesto which talked about “Message from the President”. First of all, the entire chapter is laced with too many grammatical and spelling mistakes. Now, we are not saying that any of us is an Englishman here, no. Of course English is not our first language. But if a potential Republican President in a one-page statement, then the grammar and spellings have to be on point. The same amount of effort and attention to detail that was allocated to the graphic design of the new UPND Manifesto, should have been allocated to correcting grammatical and spelling mistakes in the document, especially in the first chapter that talked about a “Message from the President”. This is especially so because the UPND Party President put his portrait there. If you sign a statement or put your portrait there, then you better make sure that the content is on point, otherwise you end up looking like a joker who is not serious. For example, in line 17 of the Message from the President, it says; “…They can rest assured that through our collective effort …” Instead of; “…They can BE rest assured that through our collective effort…” Many reasonable Zambians are likely to doubt that a potential Republican President who is unable to pay attention to the detail of a one page statement will be able to pay attention to the details of running an entire country with its complex social-economic dynamics. There appears to be no evidence of competence here.

5. I was equally taken aback by the propensity in the new UPND Manifesto, to book-lift other people’s ideas without permission. This shows a total lack of innovation and competence. For example, the theme for the new UPND Manifesto is; creating a United Prosperous and Equitable Zambia. This bears an eerie resemblance to President Charles Chanda’s United Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ) party. In fact l do believe that Mr Charles Chanda can sue for copyright infringement here. As the main opposition political party in Zambia today, surely the UPND can do better than a copy and paste job of other people’s ideas.

6. I could go on and on, but of late l have received too many complaints about the length of my articles, so l will seek to oblige the linguistically uninitiated and end here. But before l do, if l was allowed to score the new UPND Manifesto, l would give it a 3 out of 10. And all the 3 points are for presentation. Substance theliz no.

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