IF TALKS COLLAPSE ISRAEL WILL STRIKE IRAN AND I WILL BACK THEM -TRUMP
According to our reporter, former US President Donald Trump has declared that he would support an Israeli military strike on Iran if ongoing diplomatic efforts fail to yield an agreement.
Speaking during a public appearance, Trump stressed that while diplomacy remains important, decisive action may become unavoidable if Iran refuses to meet international expectations.
He warned that Iran’s nuclear and military ambitions pose serious risks, insisting the United States and Israel must be ready to act if negotiations collapse. “The path of diplomacy matters,” Trump said, “but if Iran fails to reach an agreement, I would support Israel in taking strong action.”
The statement comes amid heightened Middle East tensions, with Israel repeatedly signaling its readiness to act independently against perceived threats from Tehran.
Analysts caution that such rhetoric could escalate regional instability and impact global security, even as Iran continues to insist its nuclear program is peaceful and rejects foreign threats.
🇿🇲 ANALYSIS | What is Missing in Makebi Zulu’s Politics?
Since stepping into the national spotlight, Makebi Zulu has positioned himself as a moral voice within a fractured opposition. His language is elevated, emotive, and deliberately national in tone. He speaks of unity, service, and a “national flag” that should transcend party lines.
“The cry of the Zambian people is for hope, for truth, and for a united Zambia,” he said in his latest address.
This framing has resonance, particularly at a time when opposition politics is consumed by internal warfare. But beyond rhetoric, critical gaps remain.
First, Makebi Zulu has not presented a concrete political vehicle. He speaks of unity but has not clarified whether this unity is ideological, organisational, or electoral. Zambia’s political system does not reward abstraction.
Elections are contested by registered parties, funded structures, and recognised symbols. A “national flag” is a metaphor, not a ballot option. Without specifying whether unity means a coalition, a merger, or endorsement of a single candidate, the call remains aspirational rather than actionable.
Second, there is no articulated policy framework. Makebi repeatedly criticises ego, corruption, and moral decay, but has not tabled detailed positions on debt management, energy security, agriculture pricing, or employment creation. Contrast this with his own warning that “unity built on compromise of values will never last.” Values alone do not substitute for policy. Voters ultimately choose between programmes, not sermons.
Third, his stance on PF internal legitimacy is unresolved. Makebi operates within PF political space while simultaneously distancing himself from its internal wars. Yet he has not clarified whether he recognises the Lubinda-led structures, rejects the Chabinga legal claims, or is prepared to exit PF entirely if the courts foreclose that path. In a party facing injunctions, rival conventions, and competing presidential hopefuls, ambiguity is costly.
Fourth, his electoral arithmetic is missing. Makebi speaks confidently about 2026 but does not engage publicly with the hard numbers. The updated ECZ voters’ roll now stands at about eight million voters. Regions that have historically leaned UPND account for roughly 2.5 million registered voters. Winning requires a national coalition that cuts across geography, ethnicity, and class. Makebi has not explained how his “national flag” converts into a majority under the 50 plus one rule.
Fifth, there is no clarity on leadership hierarchy. While he urges opposition leaders to “speak with one voice,” he has not stated whether he is willing to defer to another leader if consensus demands it, or whether he expects others to rally behind him. Unity without clarity on authority often collapses into further fragmentation.
Finally, there is a contradiction between tone and terrain. Makebi calls for clean hands and pure intentions in an opposition ecosystem dominated by suspicion, litigation, and recorded accusations. Yet he has not outlined mechanisms for trust-building, dispute resolution, or candidate selection that would prevent unity from collapsing under pressure.
In short, Makebi Zulu has introduced moral language into a cynical political moment, and that is not insignificant. But morality without machinery does not win elections. Zambia’s political history is instructive. Parties that have succeeded, including the PF in 2011 and UPND in 2021, did so not only by tapping into public anger or hope, but by building structures, alliances, and clear leadership lines.
Makebi’s challenge is not inspiration. It is translation. Translating moral clarity into political organisation. Translating unity rhetoric into electoral math. Translating a national flag into a name on the ballot.
Until those gaps are addressed, his interventions will shape debate, but not yet outcomes.
WHY DOES DR. NEVERS MUMBA ATTRACT SO MUCH DEBATE AND CONTROVERSY?
By Kellys Kaunda
I must declare interest – I love Dr. Mumba. I love preachers. Especially, talented ones. And Dr. Mumba is a very talented preacher.
Zambia Shall Be Saved television series endeared me to the man.
Although I am an Adventist with fundamental doctrinal differences with Dr. Mumba, I found his preaching enhancing my faith.
But specifically, as a young and teenage lay preacher in Ndola in the mid-eighties, I found in Nevers Mumba a teacher I never had.
I placed him at the same level with Pastor Cornelius Matandiko that I had the honor and privilege to interpret for during crusades in Ndola.
I placed him at the same level with Pastor C.D. Brooks, one of the most prolific preachers the Adventist Church has ever produced.
Admittedly, this is my weakness when it comes to interrogating Dr. Mumba’s politics.
Can you imagine that even when I was opposed to his joining politics, I went ahead and voted for him when he first contested the Presidency!
I covered the event when he went to Kabwe to launch the National Christian Coalition.
I covered his most-referred-to-statement on the DRC while his boss was out of the country and he seemed to double-down on the same shortly after he received him at the airport.
If my memory serves me right, Mwanawasa made a statement on the same at the airport in response to a question by a reporter.
And shortly after he left, a reporter (I think from The Post) turned to Dr. Mumba for his reaction.
That sealed Dr. Mumba’s fate as his reaction doubled down on his initial remarks which his boss had contradicted.
This is what the public could see. But Dr. Mumba gives his own account of events in his latest book which is available in Zambian book stores.
But, where am I going with all this? Well, I want to state that there are people that are angry, in fact very angry, that Dr. Mumba left the Zambia Shall Be Saved program for politics.
They feel he abandoned them as their source of spiritual nourishment for a vocation that only dishes out toxic material.
Dr. Mumba weaned Zambians off their spiritual breast when they were still babies that needed to continue breast feeding.
While there are other preachers that have emerged, and they are talented in their own way, there are Zambians that still long for their own Nevers Mumba.
What I see happening is that Dr. Mumba will live with controversy for the rest of his life because there are some folks that have never and may never forgive him for “abandoning” them.
MAKEBI ZULU SHOULD STICK TO ANNOUNCING FUNERAL UPDATES
Makebi Zulu’s recent call for opposition unity ahead of the 2026 general elections is deeply ironic and intellectually dishonest.
This so-called appeal for unity, coming from a family spokesperson who has suddenly reinvented himself as a presidential aspirant, is nothing but political grandstanding. The dream of opposition unity that Makebi Zulu speaks of exists only in imagination. In fact, there is a higher chance of the devil being delivered than Zambia’s fragmented and power-hungry opposition uniting under one cause.
If Makebi Zulu truly believed in unity, peace, and national interest, he would have demonstrated these values during the saga surrounding the remains of former President Edgar Chagwa Lungu. Had he exercised integrity, maturity, and genuine mediation, ECL would have been buried with dignity by now. Instead, the situation has been prolonged, politicised, and manipulated leaving the nation embarrassed.
This raises a fundamental question: what exactly is Makebi Zulu hallucinating about?
Zambia’s opposition landscape is dominated by individuals driven by personal ambition, self-interest, and the pursuit of power not development. Their primary objective is not national transformation but access to state power and public resources.
Since Makebi Zulu began masquerading as a presidential candidate, what tangible policies has he presented to the Zambian people? How does he plan to address poverty, unemployment, debt, or service delivery? The answer is simple: none. His narrative revolves solely around changing power, largely because he believes that doing so would benefit his clients many of whom are facing corruption charges or are already behind bars.
This leads to an even more troubling concern: How does one aspire to lead a nation when they are publicly known as a lawyer for individuals convicted of stealing public resources? How can such a person credibly champion the fight against corruption?
Leadership demands moral authority, consistency, and demonstrated integrity. Unfortunately, Makebi Zulu’s words on unity are contradicted by his actions, his record, and the reality on the ground.
Makebi Zulu knows very well that no South African court will permit ECL’s remains to be buried in South Africa. He is fully aware that what is currently taking place is nothing more than an academic exercise.
That is why he has now resorted to playing politics his last remaining option after exhausting all other avenues. He can ask his intelligence sources in South Africa if he wishes but why even ask when he already knows that they have lost again.
I just wonder why the Zambian government has been this slow. If it was in my capacity ECL body would be in Zambia and hurried long time ago.
For now, perhaps he should focus on what he was entrusted with announcing funeral updates and leave national leadership rhetoric to those with vision, credibility, and a genuine commitment to Zambia’s future.
Sikaile C Sikaile Sichifulo Constituency Aspiring MP 2026
ACTIVIST SAYS GOVT’S INACTION ON PUBLIC ORDER ACT INTENTIONAL
By Joseph Kaputula
Civil rights activist Brebner Changala has charged that delays by the UPND government to reform the Public Order Act only shows that it has no plans of reforming the Act and has intentionally decided to maintain it to disadvantage the opposition.
Mr. Changala has questioned why it has taken over 4 years for the UPND government to act on a promise made when it was in opposition.
He tells Phoenix News in an interview that if there is any government that should have prioritized the Public Order Act, it is the UPND because the party suffered under the Act when in opposition.
Mr. Changala has emphasized that 4 years is too long a period for the UPND not to conclude on the matter, alleging that the current regime has no intention to reform the Act.
He has also noted with concern that throughout the UPND’s rule, the opposition has often been denied permission to assemble and hold rallies, inflicting damage on Zambia’s constitutional democracy.
Presidential hopeful and Patriotic Front figure, Makebi Zulu, called today for national unity under a “national flag,” urging opposition leaders and citizens to rally behind a shared vision to deliver freedom, hope, and development to all Zambians
Speaking live on Facebook, Makebi Zulu said the country stood at a critical crossroads, where the choices of leaders would determine the future of the nation. He stressed that Zambia’s citizens were demanding leadership that prioritised service over self-interest, unity over division, and the people over personal ambition.
“The cry of the Zambian people was clear,” Makebi Zulu told viewers. “They were calling for hope, for truth, and for a united Zambia. This was not a call for many competing voices. It was a call for one national flag under which all who genuinely wished to serve could rally.”
Makebi Zulu addressed growing divisions within opposition parties, warning that competing presidential aspirants risked weakening the collective strength needed to challenge the ruling establishment. He called on opposition leaders to come together, speak with one voice, and support a single leadership direction.
“This is not a course of self-interest,” he said. “It is a course of service to the Zambian people. Loyalty must remain with the citizens of Zambia, not with those who fear their awakening. Unity built on compromise of values will never last; true unity must be anchored in clean hands, pure intentions, and an unwavering commitment to the people.”
He also reassured citizens that the August 2026 general elections would proceed as scheduled, calling on Zambians to prepare to make their voices count. “In August 2026, Zambia will hold an election that will determine the future of this country. We cannot afford to miss this moment, nor allow division to weaken our collective strength. History will judge harshly those who choose ego over national duty.”
Turning to the youth, Makebi Zulu highlighted their critical role in national development, stating that policies must empower young Zambians beyond election campaigns. He emphasised the importance of restoring faith in leadership and building a credible, united opposition committed to service, integrity, and national progress.
“The national flag is more than a symbol,” Makebi Zulu said. “It is a promise to restore hope, to serve the people faithfully, and to ensure that leadership is driven by principle rather than convenience. When leaders unite under this flag, they give the citizens of Zambia something to believe in again.”
The live session concluded with a direct call to action for opposition leaders and citizens alike to embrace unity, reject manipulation, and commit to a shared national mission.
“The time for hesitation has passed,” Makebi Zulu said. “The time for unity has come. It is time for a national flag.”
OPPOSITION UNITY IN ZAMBIA: PRINCIPLE, PURPOSE, OR POLITICAL CONVENIENCE?
In every electoral cycle, the call for opposition unity resurfaces in Zambia with renewed urgency. It is often presented as a moral imperative and a patriotic necessity. Yet as a nation committed to democratic maturity, WE MUST PAUSE AND INTERROGATE THIS CALL HONESTLY SOBERLY AND WITHOUT FEAR.
The fundamental question is not whether opposition parties can unite but WHY THEY SEEK TO DO SO.
Is unity merely a tactical response to the fear of splitting votes. Is it a short term arithmetic calculation aimed at defeating the incumbent. Or does it reflect A DEEPER CONVERGENCE OF VALUES POLICIES AND A SHARED VISION FOR ZAMBIA’S FUTURE.
THESE DISTINCTIONS MATTER.
In a multiparty democracy, the existence of diverse political parties is not a weakness. IT IS A STRENGTH. It reflects the plurality of ideas aspirations and solutions within society. Vote splitting therefore should not automatically be treated as a democratic sin. It becomes a problem only when parties lack CLARITY CONVICTION AND CONFIDENCE in the ideas they are offering to the Zambian people.
TRUE UNITY CANNOT BE BUILT ON FEAR ALONE.
Fear of losing. Fear of irrelevance. Fear of the incumbent’s strength. Such unity is fragile transactional and often collapses under the weight of ambition once power is within reach. Zambians have seen alliances formed in haste stitched together by convenience rather than principle only to unravel shortly after electoral victory.
We must therefore ask HOW WELL PREPARED ARE OPPOSITION PARTIES NOT JUST TO WIN AN ELECTION BUT TO GOVERN ZAMBIA.
Preparation is not measured by rallies slogans or social media noise. IT IS MEASURED BY CLEAR POLICY ALTERNATIVES institutional discipline internal democracy and a credible plan to manage the economy uphold the rule of law strengthen national unity and protect the vulnerable. Without these foundations unity risks becoming AN END IN ITSELF RATHER THAN A MEANS TO NATIONAL PROGRESS.
If opposition unity is driven solely by the desire to unseat the incumbent then IT OFFERS LITTLE COMFORT to citizens struggling with unemployment high living costs weak public services and declining trust in political leadership. Removing one government only to replace it with an unprepared or internally conflicted alternative DOES NOT ADVANCE DEMOCRACY. It merely recycles disappointment.
FOR UNITY TO BE MEANINGFUL IT MUST BE ANCHORED IN PURPOSE.
It must be rooted in shared principles constitutionalism accountability economic inclusion respect for institutions and national cohesion. It must be TRANSPARENT TO THE PUBLIC not negotiated in secrecy by political elites but explained clearly to citizens who deserve to know WHAT KIND OF GOVERNMENT IS BEING PROPOSED IN THEIR NAME.
ZAMBIA DOES NOT NEED UNITY FOR UNITY’S SAKE. It needs leadership with MORAL CLARITY intellectual seriousness and a genuine commitment to service. Whether parties choose to unite or compete independently the ultimate responsibility remains the same TO PRESENT THE PEOPLE WITH CREDIBLE CHOICES AND TO RESPECT THEIR VERDICT.
AS A COUNTRY LET US BE HONEST WITH OURSELVES.
Political unity is not a shortcut to legitimacy. LEGITIMACY IS EARNED THROUGH IDEAS INTEGRITY AND PREPAREDNESS TO GOVERN. Any call for unity that ignores these fundamentals RISKS WEAKENING RATHER THAN STRENGTHENING OUR DEMOCRACY.
THE FUTURE OF ZAMBIA DEPENDS NOT MERELY ON WHO WINS POWER BUT ON HOW POWER IS CONCEIVED PURSUED AND EXERCISED. Unity when it comes must therefore be A UNITY OF PURPOSE NOT JUST A COALITION OF AMBITION.
Charlotte Salivaji Naess (CSN) #TheFutureIsBright🌅 30.12.25
GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT ON ZAMBIA: GOVERNANCE EXPERT SAYS HICHILEMA’S REFORMS ARE WINNING INTERNATIONAL CONFIDENCE
Lusaka — Governance expert and civil rights activist Patrick Mnthanga says President Hakainde Hichilema’s leadership and reform agenda have firmly placed Zambia on the global stage, attracting renewed international attention and confidence in the country’s long-term growth and stability.
Mr. Mnthanga, who is Executive Director of the Centre for Governance, said the recognition of President Hichilema among the “World Leaders of 2025” by the British newspaper The Telegraph is a strong endorsement of Zambia’s economic turnaround, governance reforms and rising global stature
He noted that the recognition reflects Zambia’s improved fiscal discipline, successful debt restructuring and positive growth outlook, with the economy projected to grow by 5.8 percent in 2025 and 6.4 percent in 2026.
Mr. Mnthanga has attributed several key reforms under the UPND administration to have contributed to the international acclaim.
He cited the Government’s fiscal discipline and debt restructuring efforts, including transparent management of arrears and an IMF-supported debt reform programme, which have restored investor confidence and stabilised the economy.
Mr. Mnthanga also highlighted social sector reforms, particularly the introduction of free education and the massive recruitment of teachers and health workers, which he said have significantly strengthened access to essential services across the country.
He further pointed to the revamping of the mining sector, noting that clearer tax policies and predictable royalty deductions have boosted copper production and attracted record levels of investment, positioning Zambia as a competitive and reliable mining destination.
On governance, the activist commended the Government’s anti-corruption drive and expansion of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), saying stronger institutions and increased CDF allocations have accelerated grassroots development and improved service delivery at local level.
Mr. Mnthanga said Zambia’s growing international profile has also translated into heightened diplomatic engagement, marked by historic visits from China’s Premier, the European Union’s development leadership and senior delegations from the United States.
He added that the country is experiencing a surge in foreign direct investment, supported by investor-friendly measures such as zero-rated VAT on manufacturing equipment and 100 percent profit repatriation, which have made Zambia more attractive to global investors.
“The global spotlight now positions Zambia as a reform model on the continent and opens new avenues for development financing, expanded trade agreements and international exposure,” Mr. Mnthanga said.
He noted that platforms such as Expo 2025 Osaka present further opportunities for Zambia to showcase its economic potential, reforms and investment prospects to the world.
Mr. Mnthanga concluded that President Hichilema’s leadership has not only restored confidence at home but has also repositioned Zambia as a credible, stable and forward-looking partner in the global economy.
TRUTH PAINS, LIKE RAIN! FOOTBALL TALENT DOES NOT RAIN IN ONE OR 3 PROVINCES..
The post does not Mention any Specific province or tribe and nothing radical. It merely suggests that football talent, much like rain, does not fall on only two or three provinces. In the true tradition of Samuel “Zoom” Ndhlovu, it calls for an inter-provincial, inclusive, and nationally representative approach to player selection.
Yet, as the saying goes, “When you throw a stone into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one it has hit.” If a call for transparency and meritocracy provokes anger or defensiveness, then perhaps the discomfort is not with the message, but with the mirror it holds up.
A fair, geographically diverse selection system should alarm no one who is acting in good faith. Only those invested in narrow gatekeeping would interpret inclusivity as an attack. Or, as our elders warn, “He who owns the granary fears the hungry man asking for a key.”
Football does not grow in silos. It grows when doors are opened, not when corridors are narrowed for convenience. “A river that forgets its source will dry up,” and a national team that forgets the nation will never truly compete.
The objective remains simple: national excellence over provincial comfort, systems over sentiments, and integrity over noise. As they say, “Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it alone.”
In other ways what iam saying is or the post simply advocates for a broader, inter-provincial approach to player selection, anchored in inclusivity and national representation much in the same spirit that Samuel “Zoom” Ndhlovu consistently championed.
If this position triggers discomfort or hostility, it may be worth reflecting on why. A transparent, merit-based, and geographically diverse selection framework should not threaten anyone acting in good faith. Resistance to such a call often signals vested interests rather than genuine concern for the growth of the game.
Football thrives when opportunity is widened, not narrowed. The objective is national excellence, not provincial convenience.
I am just telling you what a lot of people are thinking but can’t say it and truth pains. Any way do a mirror check I have not mentioned any specific tribe or province.
‘Love fades between America and Zambia’ …is this a story of ‘darling to pariah’ unfolding?
Amb. Anthoy Mukwita reflects-
“But beneath the jargon lies a more uncomfortable truth: Zambia has slipped from Washington’s priority list.”
31 Dec 2025.
Once upon a diplomatic time, Zambia was the darling of Washington, a poster child for democratic promise, a reliable partner in peacekeeping, and a beacon of stability in a turbulent region.
I know because Uncle Sam was my first ‘international love’ when in my teen twenties, 23 years thereabout, I flew into the US via a prestigious American program. T’was love at first bite.
That was 1994, fast forward to 1 January 2026, and that darling has been unceremoniously dumped. The separation is posted on the US embassy Zambia Facebook page.
Where is Zambia now on the visa line?
Uncle Sam has lumped us, Zambia, into a basket of 19 countries whose citizens will no longer be granted visas. The message is clear: “We loved you once, but now you’re just another problem to manage.”
The irony is thick. Zambia, a nation that once hosted American aid workers, scholars, and investors with open arms, probably the largest embassy building on the continent, now finds itself treated like a delinquent cousin at the family reunion.
The U.S. rationale, security concerns, immigration enforcement, and diplomatic leverage, reads like a bureaucratic laundry list.
But beneath the jargon lies a more uncomfortable truth: Zambia has slipped from Washington’s priority list.
This is not the first slap. Zambians already faced punitive visa fees and refundable bonds, a humiliating reminder that Uncle Sam doesn’t trust them to play by the rules.
Zambian B1/B2 visa applicants, under a U.S. pilot program started August 2025, must pay a refundable bond of $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000, determined at their interview, to curb visa overstays.
Crunch $15,000 you are talking about K333,000 before you can even purchase a return air ticket. Is it worth it for a person where a majority live on about $2 per day and dependent on US charity among others?
Now, the outright ban escalates the insult. Students who dreamed of Ivy League halls, entrepreneurs who sought Silicon Valley partnerships, and families who cherished cultural exchange are all collateral damage in a geopolitical tantrum.
How did we hit rock bottom?
What changed? I can only but guess. The love story soured when Zambia began flirting with other suitors maybe, China’s infrastructure billions, Russia’s diplomatic overtures, and regional alliances that don’t always align with U.S. interests.
Add whispers of democratic backsliding and governance hiccups, and suddenly Zambia is no longer the “model African democracy” but a cautionary tale.
Washington, ever eager to project toughness, decided to make an example. I am just spit balling here.
The tragedy is not just symbolic. The ban undermines Zambia’s global image, grouping it with fragile states and conflict zones.
It sends a chilling signal to investors and partners: if the U.S. doesn’t trust Zambia, why should anyone else?
For a country striving to position itself as a hub of stability and opportunity, this is reputational kryptonite.
And yet, the satire writes itself. America, the self proclaimed champion of democracy, punishes Zambia for sins far less grave than those committed by other “strategic allies.”
The visa ban is less about Zambia’s failures and more about Washington’s ‘national interest’ which comes first. It is easier to close the door than to engage in messy dialogue.
Easier to lump Zambia with Somalia and Afghanistan than to admit that the relationship requires repair.
Because if that was the case, how come Saudi Arabia aint banned? Or Israel as Dave Chappelle would ask?
So where did the love go? It evaporated in the fog of shifting priorities, transactional diplomacy, and the cold calculus of immigration politics. Zambia is no longer the darling; it is the scapegoat.
But here’s the kicker: bans don’t build bridges, they burn them. If Washington hopes to regain influence in Lusaka, it must rediscover the art of partnership, not punishment.
Until then, Zambia will wear its new badge of dishonour with a mix of indignation and irony. After all, nothing fuels satire better than a fallen romance.
Is it not that great philosopher all of us in diplomacy aspire to be—Dr Henry Kissinger—who once said, “To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.
I always say, make Zambia great again, happy new year around the corner. ———————
Amb. Anthony Mukwita is an International Relations Analyst & Author
PARTIAL SUSPENSION OF US VISAS FOR ZAMBIANS – THIS TOO SHALL COME TO PASS
If your life is not closely intertwined with the US, it’s easy to tell the affected person, “Don’t worry, after all, you still have your own country”, blah, blah, blah.
This is like comforting the bereaved by saying, “don’t worry. The Lord has taken what is His. There’s nothing you can do about it”.
There are Zambians that have been hit real hard about the US partial visa restrictions.
If your life doesn’t depend on another country, you may not appreciate what this suspension means.
Making the necessary adjustments will not come easily.
There’s going to be a period of hardship. How to cope would be the initiative of each affected person.
But if it may be of any comfort, human beings are designed by their maker to dominate the world.
It’s another way of saying human beings are designed to survive disappointment and adversity.
This too will come to pass is a popular saying with some of the most understated source of strength in times of hardships.
When one thing is taken out of the equation, the human mind has demonstrated the ability to find a replacement.
Don’t be surprised that your most lucrative replacement becomes Somaliland, Sudan, Yemen or the Gaza Strip.
You know what they say? God works in mysterious ways!
The United States Embassy in Lusaka has announced that, effective January 2026, it will suspend the issuance of visas to Zambian nationals and citizens of 38 other countries.
Angola, Togo, Gabon, Senegal, Venezuela, and Zambia are among the affected countries.
In a statement, the embassy said the suspension is aimed at limiting the entry of foreign nationals in order to protect the security of the United States.
However, the embassy noted that applicants whose entry may be restricted can still submit visa applications and schedule interviews, although they may be deemed ineligible for visa issuance or admission into the United States.
ENERGY EXPERT DR. CHIKWANDA ENGAGES ZAMBIAN MISSION IN BEIJING ON CHINA’S ENERGY EPC EXPORTS
Beijing — Energy expert Dr. Johnstone Chikwanda has commended the Zambian Embassy for its continued efforts in strengthening Zambia–China bilateral relations, noting that China remains a strategic partner in Zambia’s development agenda, particularly in the energy sector.
Dr. Chikwanda observed that China’s experience in large-scale power generation, transmission infrastructure and renewable energy deployment presents valuable opportunities for knowledge exchange and collaboration that could benefit Zambia’s power sector reforms and investment drive.
He said this when he paid a courtesy call on the Zambian Embassy in Beijing, China, where he briefed the Mission on the purpose of his visit, which is focused on researching how China’s energy sector Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) exports are structured for overseas markets.
During the meeting, Dr. Chikwanda explained that his research aims to draw lessons from China’s approach to exporting energy infrastructure solutions, with a view to informing Zambia’s ongoing efforts to accelerate its energy transition and expand power generation capacity.
He was received by Charge d’Affaires Mr. Nephas Ndhlovu at the Embassy of the Republic of Zambia in Beijing, who welcomed the engagement and reaffirmed the Mission’s commitment to supporting initiatives that enhance technical cooperation, investment and knowledge sharing between the two countries.
Mr. Ndhlovu said the Embassy remains ready to facilitate engagements that promote Zambia’s energy development priorities and deepen cooperation with Chinese institutions and companies.
The courtesy call underscores ongoing efforts to leverage international partnerships to support Zambia’s energy sector transformation and long-term development goals.
ZDA Records USD 14.71 Billion Actualised Investments and 91,522 Jobs Since 2021
The Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) has announced USD 14.71 billion in actualised investments from 2021 to date, translating committed investments into tangible economic activities across key sectors of the economy.
Speaking during the ZDA End-of-Year Media Briefing, ZDA Director General Albert Halwampa said the figure was derived from confirmed responses by 779 companies out of 2,065 firms with ZDA investment licences, whose combined committed investments stood at USD 89.31 billion.
The General disclosed that the actualised investments have translated into significant employment creation, with 91,522 jobs recorded against a committed 614,486 jobs from the responding companies.
2025 IN REVIEW: Outbreak of presidential candidates in PF
2025 will go down as one of the most dramatic years in the history of the Patriotic Front (PF) as the former ruling party has witnessed an unprecedented outbreak of presidential hopefuls all eyeing the party ticket ahead of the 2026 general elections.
Barely four years after losing power and while still struggling to put its house in order, the PF has turned into a political maternity ward, giving birth to a long list of members who believe they are the chosen ones to return the party to State House since the death of its leader Edgar Lungu six months ago.
Leading the growing pack is former Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya, whose supporters believe his calm political tone make him a safe bet for the party’s comeback.
Former Mines and Minerals Minister Mutotwe Kafwaya has also thrown his hat into the ring.
Never one to shy away from controversy, Bemba proverbs and fainting specialist Chishimba Kambwili has equally expressed interest.
PF figurehead and self proclaimed financier Given Lubinda is another in the race.
Also emerging is Greyford Monde, while South Africa-based business man Willah Mudolo has joined the race.
Afro-rearing Mporokoso parliamentarian Brian Mundubile, has equally made his intentions known, a move that has further heated up internal tensions within the party.
The only surviving PF president who is currently serving as deputy secretary general and Matero lawmaker Miles Sampa, is also in the mix, continuing his long-standing ambition to lead the party.
Rounding off the growing list is Makebi Zulu, who has abandoned his spokesperson post in South Africa and rushed home to replace his late boss.
However, despite many factions, no one among the above has the ‘Lugwalo’ except the Mafinga lawmaker Robert Chabinga who legally owns the party with his secretary general Morgan Ng’ona and has since halted a party convention through a court injunction.
Time is ticking, tomorrow marks the beginning of an election year but the country’s biggest opposition party still finds itself at crossroads, with many wondering whether the abundance of ambition from the aspiring presidents will resuscitate the party which its former secretary general Davies Mwila said was already dead.
PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES GAIN GROUND IN POLITICS AS EIGHT PARTIES ADOPT INCLUSION PLAN AHEAD OF 2026 ELECTIONS
Persons with disabilities in Zambia have scored a major milestone in their fight for political inclusion following the launch of Disability Inclusion Plans adopted by eight political parties, marking a bold step toward strengthening their participation ahead of the 2026 General Elections.
The launch, undertaken by Disability Rights Watch in partnership with the Zambia National Women’s Lobby, has been hailed as a historic turning point that shifts the country from mere rhetoric to genuine action on disability rights in governance.
Guest of Honour Mr. David Mukwasa described the development as “a new democratic chapter,” noting that for the first time, political parties had publicly committed to concrete measures to ensure persons with disabilities are not only seen but meaningfully included in political processes and leadership.
He explained that the journey toward these plans began in 2020 under the Disability Inclusive Participation Programme with support from Demo Finland. The process involved extensive consultations with political leaders, civil society, aspiring leaders with disabilities and communities. However, Mr. Mukwasa stressed that the real success will only be evident in implementation.
“Implementation will define whether these plans remain documents or become transformative tools,” he said, urging political parties to establish quotas, operationalise their commitments and strengthen oversight to ensure inclusion is truly lived out. He further encouraged persons with disabilities to engage actively with political parties so that the progress achieved does not go to waste.
Disability Rights Watch Executive Director Mr. Golden Nachibinga said the organisation was deliberate in ensuring that the plans were not rushed but thoroughly inclusive and consultative. Through sustained community sensitisation, media outreach and dialogue platforms since 2020, he said the programme has empowered communities to understand disability rights while building the capacity of persons with disabilities particularly women to participate in politics confidently.
Political parties present acknowledged the journey as transformative. Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) Information and Publicity Secretary Mr. Caesar Liteta said inclusion has reshaped their party outlook, asserting that persons with disabilities are equally capable of contributing to governance. He revealed that FDD has mainstreamed disability inclusion into its 2022–2027 Strategic Plan and created structured disability representation from ward to national level.
New Heritage Party representative Bishop Mariam Banda Nulenga announced that her party has embedded disability rights into its constitution and established a national registry for persons with disabilities. She stressed that disability inclusion is a fundamental human right, not charity, and urged political parties to uphold it as a pillar of dignity and democracy.
Party of National Unity and Progress (PNUP) Secretary General Mr. Kauta Mwale also acknowledged that their journey had involved learning and unlearning societal biases. He disclosed that PNUP has amended its constitution awaiting ratification to create disability leadership positions in top decision-making bodies, committing to accessibility, empathy and deliberate planning.
As Zambia approaches the 2026 elections, disability advocates believe these commitments could reshape political participation, ensuring that persons with disabilities transition from spectators to active leaders and equal stakeholders in national governance.
CLINICAL OFFICERS DECLARE: “NO MORE UNPAID SERVICE WITHOUT CLEAR GOVERNMENT ABSORPTION PLAN ”
The Clinical Officers Association of Zambia (COAZ) has announced that volunteer clinical officers across the country will no longer continue providing unpaid health services until the government presents a clear roadmap for their absorption into the public service.
Addressing the media on Monday, COAZ President Dr. Jones Neba said the association has exhausted all avenues of engagement with the government regarding the welfare and employment of clinical officers. He stated that the continued expectation for professionals to work without pay is unacceptable and unjust.
“We have used every possible means to engage the government over this matter. Unfortunately, there has been no tangible solution. Therefore, we are left with no option but to withdraw our members countrywide from offering free services,” Dr. Neba said.
He emphasized that clinical officers form the second-largest health professional group in Zambia, after nurses, and remain the backbone of both primary and secondary healthcare delivery particularly in rural, peri-urban and hard-to-reach areas.
Dr. Neba expressed concern over what he termed ongoing exploitation, marginalization, regulatory inertia and systemic neglect of clinical officers, which he said has necessitated the bold decision.
He added that members should now shift their focus toward building sustainable livelihoods, stressing that volunteering will only resume once government presents a clear, credible employment and welfare plan.
In solidarity, Emergency Care Technicians (EMTs) have also declared that they will cease volunteering until appropriate remuneration, job security and social protection are guaranteed. The directive further applies to volunteer psychiatric clinical officers, mental health officers, clinical anaesthetic officers and ophthalmic clinical officers.
Meanwhile, during the same event, COAZ signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Green Gold Estates to provide affordable land and flexible payment plans for clinical officers. The initiative is aimed at improving the housing and general livelihoods of clinical officers across Zambia.
The association has called on government to urgently address the matter, warning that the continued withdrawal of volunteer services may negatively affect healthcare delivery, especially in underserved areas.
SAD NEWS: Husband Dies by Su!c!de After Learning of Wife’s Death
What began as a sorrowful Christmas Eve for the Muzhimbu children turned into a devastating double tragedy after their father died by suicide following the death of his hospitalized wife.
Davy Muzhimbu, 52, and his wife Veronica, 47, had been married for over 29 years. Earlier in December, the couple reportedly had a marital dispute that escalated into a physical confrontation. Shortly afterward, Veronica was admitted to Levy Mwanawasa Teaching Hospital, where she received treatment for injuries sustained during the incident.
According to family members, doctors later authorized further medical tests due to Veronica’s continued stomach pains. Samples were collected; however, there were allegations of delays in subjecting them to detailed examination.
Speaking to TV Yatu, the couple’s daughter, Clara, said her mother passed away on the very day she was scheduled to submit the samples—three days after the tests had been sanctioned.
Clara further revealed that her father was arrested and detained for several weeks following his wife’s hospitalization. During this period, families from both sides reportedly met and agreed that Davy be released on police bond.
Upon his release, police officers allegedly informed him that if his wife were to die within a year of the incident, he would be required to return for further investigations.
After weeks of fighting for her life, Veronica succumbed to her condition. Shortly after learning of her death, Davy made the tragic decision to end his life.
While Christians across the country celebrated the birth of Jesus, the Muzhimbu family and friends were plunged into mourning, grappling with the loss of both Veronica and her husband Davy, who died just hours apart on Christmas Eve. The couple has since been laid to rest at the family grave, where they now lie side by side.
…..LCC recorded a total of 17,750 deaths in Lusaka through the disposal of remains conducted by the Department of Public Health.
Lusaka… Wednesday December 31, 2025 (SMART EAGLES)
The Lusaka City Council (LCC) has recorded a higher number of male deaths than female deaths in 2025, with a total of 17,750 deaths documented across the city between January and December.
LCC Public Relations Manager, Chola Mwamba, said the figures were captured through the disposal of remains handled by the Council’s Department of Public Health.
“By 30th December 2025, the Lusaka City Council recorded a total of 17,750 deaths in Lusaka through the disposal of remains conducted by the Department of Public Health,” Ms Mwamba said.
She explained that the statistics show a significantly higher mortality rate among males, with 7,420 adult males and 1,843 male children recorded as deceased during the year, in addition to 1,043 male stillbirths.
“In comparison, the Council recorded 5,155 adult female deaths, 1,511 female child deaths and 778 female stillbirths during the same period,” she said.
Ms Mwamba noted that all deceased persons were disposed of in accordance with the law, in line with the Local Government Act No. 2 of 2019 and the Public Health Act, Cap 295.
“All burials and cremations were conducted in a manner that upholds public health, safety and dignity,” she said.
According to the statistics, 3,498 bodies were buried in Council-owned cemeteries across Lusaka, while 40 bodies were cremated.
The remaining bodies were laid to rest in other authorised cemeteries.
Ms Mwamba urged residents to comply with burial regulations by obtaining burial permits and utilising gazetted cemeteries and approved cremation services.
“We continue to encourage members of the public to follow laid-down procedures to ensure proper documentation and lawful disposal of remains,” she said.
She further revealed that the Council is facing a persistent shortage of burial space and has appealed to residents with suitable land to partner with the local authority in establishing and managing cemeteries or to offer such land for sale.
“This initiative will help increase burial space, reduce pressure on existing cemeteries and ensure dignified, safe and sanitary burials for the residents of Lusaka,” Ms Mwamba said.
MEDVEDEV: “ZELENSKY SHOULD BE K!LLED AND HIS BODY PUT ON DISPLAY IN A MUSEUM”
Former Russian President and current deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev says Zelensky should be killed and his body put on public display, after a disputed claim that Ukraine tried to assassinate Putin with 91 drones.
Russia says Ukraine doesn’t want peace. Ukraine says Russia faked the drone story to stall negotiations and justify more attacks.
Zelensky’s position: full Russian withdrawal, including Crimea + security guarantees and future NATO membership.
Putin’s line: Ukraine must drop NATO plans, accept “new borders”, and lift sanctions.
The U.S. is pushing for a ceasefire deal as the war drags into 2026 aiming to stop the fighting first, then negotiate status and borders later.
Trump’s speaking directly with Putin and wants to lead talks to end the war quickly. His possible 2024 comeback gives his role serious weight.
So what’s the scenario that is to expect?
The map of Europe redesigned, NATO’s future in it’s worst era for public opinion, U.S. in his role of global power, and whether peace comes through diplomacy or another year of bloodshed.
U.S. HITS MADURO & IRAN WITH SANCTIONS OVER DRONES TRADED BETWEEN DICTATORS
The U.S. just slapped sanctions on 10 people and companies tied to Venezuela and Iran for running a secret drone and missile supply network.
Maduro’s military is flying Iranian-made killer drones and rebranding them like they were made in Venezuela.
Venezuela’s National Aeronautical State Company has been importing, assembling, and repainting 6 Iranian drones and then selling them straight to Maduro’s military under names like “Arpía” and “ANSU.”
The message from Washington: if you’re a dictatorship doing arms deals with Iran, the U.S. is coming for your assets, your companies, and your back channels.
2 of the most anti-American regimes on the planet are working hand-in-hand to export weapons, dodge sanctions, and build power while pretending to be sovereign victims.
The Ayatollah needs reach, and Maduro needs relevance.
Both are building a little axis of authoritarianism right in this hemisphere, and the U.S. is trying to cut it off before it gets worse.
Iran has been quietly spreading drone tech and ballistic missile materials across the world, using companies as cover.
Venezuela’s been helping by fronting deals, painting new logos on Iranian gear, and pretending it’s domestic production.
These companies are now blacklisted, their assets frozen, and anyone who does business with them, even foreign banks could face U.S. sanctions.
The geopolitical stage unfolds, and it’s about who controls the tech, the skies, and the influence across Latin America and the Middle East.
The socialist fantasy in Venezuela has turned into a militarized machine with Iranian parts, and the U.S. just put the red light on it.
81-year-old man graduates from his son’s university
Mr. Aheto graduated during the 9th session of UCC’s 58th congregation in December 2025, and the ceremony was both emotional and inspiring.
The moment was even more special because his son, Professor Denis Aheto, who currently serves as Acting Vice-Chancellor of UCC, was part of the historic experience.
“I feel very much excited to have my own son graduating me today,” he said proudly.
This achievement was a continuation of his academic journey.
He reportedly had earlier obtained his first degree in Business Administration from the University of Ghana in 1978.
Decades later, he felt motivated to return to school and further his education.
Inspired by His Children’s Success
According to him, the inspiration to return to school came after realizing his two sons, both professors, were academically ahead of him.
Instead of feeling discouraged, he took it as a challenge and enrolled for the MBA programme in 2022.
He also clarified that he joined the programme long before his son assumed his current leadership roles at UCC
VDM calls out Chris Okafor after his daughter said he was innocent of the sexual allegations against him on pulpit
Controversial public figure, VeryDarkMan (VDM) has exposed Pastor Chris Okafor on social media after bringing his daughter to testify on the pulpit.
It would be recalled that Pastor Chris Okafor tendered an apology to Doris Ogala, a Nollywood actress, while kneeling on the pulpit.
Notably, the clergyman has been on the headlines over allegations made against him by Doris Ogala, which include breaching a promise to marry her and sharing explicit videos of his children.
After apologizing, he brought out his daughter to clarify allegations of sexual harassment involving his daughters.
The allegations stemmed from an audio previously shared by Verydarkman.
Details Of VeryDarkMan’s Claim
According to VeryDarkMan, the girl Chris Okafor brought to the pulpit bears Daniella Chidera Okafor, while his second daughter is Chidera Okafor, but from different mothers.
In the lengthy video, VeryDarkMan claimed the girl on the pulpit is a sister to Chris Okafor’s daughter studying in Canada.
Furthermore, VeryDarkMan alleged the daughter brought on stage is 15 years old and has a brother, with both of them still residing in Chris Okafor’s house.
Verydarkman Demands DNA Test
Demanding Chris Okafor take a DNA test on his children, VeryDarkMan emphasized that the test must be televised.
”If the percentage shows you are their father, you will take full responsibility of your daughter’s school fees in Canada. Yoh will never climb the alter again in your life. You will carry the key of that church and give them or you demolish the church” He firmly stated
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu paid a visit to former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua at the hospital yesterday, expressing his condolences over the tragic accident that claimed the lives of two of Joshua’s close friends and associates, Sina Ghami and Kevin Latif Ayodele.
The accident occurred on Monday on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway when Joshua’s vehicle collided with a stationary truck, resulting in minor injuries to the boxer. President Tinubu, who is currently abroad, spoke with Joshua and his mother via phone, offering prayers and support during this difficult time.
“I sympathise with you and your family as you bear the emotional weight of this unfortunate incident. As a sportsman, you have always shown courage, discipline, and unwavering love for our country. These are qualities that have made you a source of national pride,” President Tinubu said in a statement.
Joshua, who recently defeated Jake Paul in a heavyweight bout, is receiving medical attention and is expected to make a full recovery.
The boxing community has rallied around him, paying tribute to the two friends he lost in the accident.
Naja’atu says Tinubu have lost grip of the country to Trump
A former campaign director of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Hajiya Naja’atu Mohammed, has alleged that Nigeria is no longer governed by its elected leadership, but by external powers.
She made the remarks in an interview with Arewa Source, where she expressed deep concern over what she described as growing foreign influence in the country’s affairs.
Warning Over Nigeria’s Sovereignty
Naja’atu said recent developments suggest Nigeria is gradually losing control of its internal affairs.
According to her, the country is sliding back into a “colonial-style” situation where key decisions are being shaped by outsiders rather than national leadership.
“It is only God that will continue to protect Nigeria and Nigerians. I have said this before and I will say it again, they have brought back the colonisation era that Nigeria and its people will not have freedom anymore.”
She said Nigerians are now living in uncertainty, stressing that only divine intervention can protect the nation and its people.
The Kano-based politician contrasted Nigeria’s situation with countries like Niger Republic, Mali, and Burkina Faso.
She noted that these countries firmly rejected foreign interference, while Nigeria, in her view, continues to rely on it due to what she described as weak leadership.
“Niger Republic, Mali and Burkina Faso all resisted and chased foreign intervention in their country, saying they are tired of foreign influence and will not allow them to be decolonised. But because of how bad Nigeria and its leaders have become they are still calling for foreign intervention.”
She warned that Nigeria has, in her words, been “recolonised,” accusing foreign interests of influencing national governance and economic decisions.
“The only thing left for Nigeria now to say is ‘Inna Li Lahi Wa Inna Illaahi Rajiun’, i.e. things have gone from bad to worse. Now Nigerians have lost their country to foreign countries. It is not Tinubu that is ruling Nigeria anymore, it is Donald Trump.”
“We have now been recolonised by Western Powers, Tinubu is no longer the President, Donald Trump is the new President of Nigeria.”un
Thieves use drill to steal €30m in German bank heist
(BBC) Thieves used a large drill to break into a safe at a high street bank branch in western Germany and steal an estimated €30m (£26m; $35m) in cash and valuables, police have said.
A police spokesman likened the break-in to the Hollywood heist film Ocean’s Eleven, telling AFP news agency it was “very professionally executed”.
During the heist at Sparkasse savings bank in the city of Gelsenkirchen, thieves broke open more than 3,000 safe deposit boxes containing money, gold and jewellery.
Gelsenkirchen Police said they became aware of the crime after a fire alarm was set off in the early hours of Monday morning.
Currently, no arrests have been made and the perpetrators remain at large.
Police said the thieves had used the “quiet Christmas days” to rob the building on Nienhofstrasse in the Buer district.
Initial investigations suggest they gained access to the bank, and escaped, via an adjacent parking garage.
Witnesses have reported seeing several men carrying large bags in the staircase of the garage overnight on Saturday into Sunday.
Police said video footage shows a black Audi RS 6 leaving the garage, on De-La-Chevallerie-Strasse, early on Monday morning.
The hole into the underground vault room was discovered when a fire alarm went off in the early hours of Monday, and police and the fire brigade searched the building.
Affected bank customers have been asked to contact Sparkasse bank, which has set up a hotline. Police secured the entrance of the branch on Tuesday after a large number of customers gathered outside demanding information.
A message on the bank’s website said the branch would remain closed on Tuesday following the break-in.
Sparkasse said 95% of customers’ safe deposit boxes had been forced open by the thieves, so the likelihood they were affected is “very high”.
It added that the contents of each compartment are insured up to €10,300 and told customers to check if they had additional coverage through their home insurance.
TRUMP’S PLAN TO END SUDANESE MIGRANT PROTECTIONS BLOCKED BY FEDERAL JUDGE ANGEL KELLEY IN LAST-MINUTE DECISION
A federal judge just stopped Trump’s move to end deportation protections for over 230 South Sudanese migrants, putting the decision on hold just days before it was set to take effect.
Trump’s administration argues South Sudan no longer qualifies for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), saying conditions there have “improved.” Homeland Security officially moved to terminate the program in November.
But the judge said deporting people now could be dangerous, calling South Sudan unstable due to ongoing violence, famine, and civil unrest.
The kind of situation TPS is supposed to cover.
This legal battle is one of many fights over Trump’s broader plan to scale back TPS protections for migrants from Venezuela, Syria, Haiti, Nicaragua, and more.
The lawsuit argues that removing protections would violate U.S. law and unfairly targets Black and Brown immigrants.
Trump fires back showing TPS was never meant to be permanent and shouldn’t be used as a loophole to avoid standard immigration processes.
For now, the court hit pause. But the fight over TPS and who gets to stay or go is far from over.
S€X AND SUCCESS DON’T MIX – WHY UNDISCIPLINED MEN NEVER BECOME GREAT
Some men dream of success. Some men work for success. Some men destroy their success before it even starts.
And guess what? For many men, the biggest distraction is S€X.
A man who chases pleasure over purpose will always be left behind. A man who controls his desires will always be ahead.
Success requires discipline. Sexual indulgence destroys discipline.
If you can’t control your lust, you will never control your future.
BRUTAL THREAD:
1. POWERFUL MEN AVOID S€XUAL DISTRACTIONS, WEAK MEN CAN’T SAY NO
Every great man in history had one thing in common: They had discipline.
Alexander the Great conquered the world by 30—he didn’t waste time chasing women. Elon Musk works 100 hours a week—he doesn’t waste time texting girls.
Muhammad Ali refused s€x before fights—he knew discipline was power. But look at many men today:
Wasting hours daily on p0rn and m@sturbation. Spending their last money just to impress women.
Crying over a girl instead of building their future. No great man was ever a slave to lust.
2. S£X DRAINS YOUR ENERGY, FOCUS, AND DRIVE
Every time you release, you are losing more than just a few seconds of pleasure. You are losing: Testosterone (your natural energy for success).
Motivation (your hunger to win). Mental clarity (your ability to stay focused). That’s why after s£x, many men feel weak and lazy.
Now imagine: Doing this every day. Wasting hours texting, chasing, and begging women. Spending money just to get a few minutes of pleasure. That’s why broke men chase s£x, and rich men chase success.
3. EVERY MINUTE SPENT CHASING WOMEN IS A MINUTE LOST BUILDING YOUR FUTURE
Look at your daily habits. How much time do you spend scrolling through women’s pictures? How much time do you waste flirting and simping in DMs?
How much time do you spend watching p0rn and draining your strength? Now imagine using that time to: Learn a high-income skill. Work on your business or career.
Go to the gym and improve your body. If you focused on building, you wouldn’t need to chase—women would come to you.
4. HISTORY PROVES THAT S£XUAL WEAKNESS DESTROYS GREAT MEN
Ask yourself: What destroyed the strongest men in history? Not war. Not enemies. Not poverty. It was s£xual weakness. Samson lost his power because of Delilah.
King Solomon was the wisest man, but women led him to destruction.
Tiger Woods lost millions in endorsements due to a s£x scandal.
Bill Clinton’s career was almost ruined by a woman.
A man without discipline is a man waiting for destruction.
5. WOMEN DON’T RESPECT MEN WHO CAN’T CONTROL THEMSELVES
You think a woman respects a man who chases her all day? You think she values a man who is always available and begging?
No. A woman respects men who have: Purpose. Self-control. A bigger mission in life.
When you focus on your purpose, women will focus on you.
6. P0RN, M@STURBATION & CASUAL S£X ARE MAKING MEN WEAKER
The modern man is weak, lazy, and broke because he is addicted to cheap pleasure.
P0rn kills your brain. M@sturbation destroys your energy. Casual s£x makes you indisciplined. That’s why so many men are:
Unmotivated. Struggling financially. Depressed and directionless.
If you want to be great, you must cut off s£xual distractions.
7. A MAN WHO CAN’T CONTROL HIS URGES CAN’T CONTROL HIS DESTINY
You say you want to be rich, powerful, and successful. But you can’t even: Go a week without s£x or p0rn.
Focus on work without being distracted by women. Stop simping and chasing after every woman you see. If you can’t master your own body, how can you master the world?
8. SUCCESSFUL MEN CONTROL S£X, BROKE MEN ARE CONTROLLED BY S€X
S€x is a tool. The weak use it for pleasure. The strong use it for power.
A successful man controls when and how he engages in s€x. A broke man lets s€x control him. That’s why the world is run by disciplined men, not by men who chase pleasure.
9. WOMEN COME AND GO, BUT SUCCESS STAYS
A man can have 100 women today, and they can all leave tomorrow. But if you have money, power, and status, even more women will come.
That’s why powerful men never lack women. And that’s why weak men are always chasing.
10. DISCIPLINE FIRST, PLEASURE LATER
There is nothing wrong with s£x.
But if you put pleasure before purpose, you will always struggle. If you master self-control, you will always be ahead.
The choice is yours.
BOTTOM LINE:
If you want to be great, wealthy, and powerful, learn to control your lust.
Because in the end…
Men who control their desires, control their future. Men who chase pleasure, lose everything.
This guy leaves a psychiatric hospital and k!llls his mother!
A horrific tragêdy has struck the town of Obala. Christian Ndzié, who was reportedly suffering from mental health issues, had been admitted for several months at Jamot Hospital.
After showing signs of recovery, he was discharged and returned to the family home, where he continued his treatment.
The situation took a tragic turn when Christian stopped taking his medication and became increasingly unpredictable.
A phone call to family members later announced the unimaginable tragêdy. Christian Ndzié had k!llled his mother, Célestine Alomo, whose b0dy was found lying on the ground.
He decided to cancel his wedding that was scheduled for January 3rd because his fiancée (a single mother of two children by two different fathers) insisted that he must financially take care of her two children 🙆🙆👇
He says: “I have just canceled my wedding that was planned for January 3rd. Here is the reason.
I met Huguette, 31 years old, a single mother of two children, each with a different father. The fact that she already had children was not a problem for me.
Last Friday, during our discussions to plan our future, the issue of the children’s future came up. Since my fiancée still lives with her family, I told her to contact her elder brother, who is a lawyer, so that he could reach out to the fathers of her children and compel them to take responsibility. I also suggested that the children should remain with the family, because once the fathers learn that she is married, they might use that as an excuse to abandon their responsibilities.
She got angry and said that I cannot take a woman without taking her children, and that it is my responsibility to take care of her children; otherwise, we should end everything.
I asked her if she would accept her 10-year-old son marrying a single mother and being forced to carry the responsibility of other men’s children. She said nothing.
I asked if that was her final answer. She said yes. I replied that I prefer to walk away.
I informed both my family and hers. They were expecting me on Saturday for the bride price, but I canceled everything.
And I must add that she is still in contact with the fathers of her children, whom she calls irresponsible, and I constantly have the feeling that one day she might cheat on me with one of them.”
What do you think about this situation? Did he do the right thing by refusing to take responsibility for other men’s children and canceling the wedding, or does a real man naturally take care of his wife’s children? 🥲 Picture not related
LISTEN UP, MEN — WHY HIGH-VALUE MEN ARE CHOOSING VILLAGE GIRLS OVER CITY SLAY QUEENS
There’s a silent revolution happening, and only sharp men can see it.
Men are waking up. Walking away from the noise. Heading back to where sanity still exists — the village. And I don’t mean geography. I mean mindset.
📌 City girls might have filters. Village girls have character. No amount of makeup, fake lashes, BBLs, or soft life captions can replace virtue, humility, and peace.
📌 Understand this: Men are built for three things: Protection. Provision. Leadership. We build legacies. Raise dynasties. Turn dust into empires.
And from the beginning of time, it’s never been about what a woman brings financially — it’s about what she multiplies spiritually.
📌 In return, men want only three things:
• Virginity — not just physical, but purity of intent. A woman who hasn’t been passed around emotionally, mentally, or physically. • Femininity — not loud, combative “boss babe” energy. But softness, warmth, peace. • Submissiveness — not slavery. Voluntary respect. The wisdom to let a man lead and the maturity to empower him while he does.
Now ask yourself — how many city girls today bring that?
📌 City girls have been programmed by modern feminism to view submission as weakness, virginity as shame, and femininity as oppression. She wants your money, your time, your name — while offering nothing a builder needs to build in peace.
📌 That’s why smart men are going back to the roots. Where dignity still exists. Where a woman values family over followers. Where peace lives and pride dies.
She may not wear Gucci. She may not speak polished English. But she knows how to respect a man. She knows how to build a home. And while the city girl competes with you, the village girl completes you.
📌 Don’t Let Society Shame You.
They’ll call you controlling. They’ll say you fear strong women. But here’s the truth: a wise woman doesn’t fight her king — she empowers him.
📌 FINAL WARNING: If she’s loud, masculine, for the streets, disrespectful, passed around, always arguing like a man — run. If she’s peaceful, feminine, humble, family-centered — build with her.
One will bring you peace. The other will hand you chaos on a plate.
Choose your wife like your future depends on it — because it does.
VIEWPOINT | PF’s Internal Earthquake and the Cost of Political Cannibalism
The Patriotic Front is no longer merely divided. It is convulsing. What is unfolding within the party ahead of the 2026 general election increasingly resembles an internal earthquake, with multiple fault lines running through its leadership and base. The latest flashpoint is the explosive audio involving Dr Chishimba Kambwili and a supporter aligned to Brian Mundubile’s camp, but this episode is less a scandal in isolation than a symptom of a deeper structural crisis.
At the centre of this tension is a cold war between three power centres. The Given Lubinda bloc, which currently controls party machinery. The Brian Mundubile camp, which believes it has the numbers and momentum to win a convention if one is held credibly. And the Makebi Zulu tendency, which operates as both legal shield and political shock absorber for the former ruling elite. Overlaying this is Chishimba Kambwili, a volatile actor whose interventions often destabilise rather than consolidate.
Kambwili’s latest outburst, in which he publicly accused Mundubile of corruption and predicted his arrest, has drawn condemnation even from within opposition circles. Simon Mulenga Mwila, an aspiring Lusaka mayor, described the conduct as “political cannibalism” and urged Mundubile to seek legal redress for criminal libel and defamation.
Mwila’s intervention captures a growing sentiment that opposition leaders are now expending more energy on mutual destruction than on articulating a credible alternative to government.
This matters because PF’s internal fights are no longer contained. They are public, vicious, and repetitive. Leadership disputes that should be resolved through institutional processes are instead playing out through audio leaks, social media accusations, and factional briefings. The result is a party that appears incapable of discipline, coherence, or message control.
The timing is also politically costly. With less than a year to the 2026 elections, PF is yet to hold a convention, yet multiple figures are already campaigning as if nominations are imminent. Lubinda and his allies argue that legal constraints and injunctions justify delays.
Mundubile’s camp increasingly believes those delays are tactical, designed to block his path to the presidency. Makebi Zulu has openly spoken of contingency plans and alternative “vehicles,” implicitly conceding the depth of institutional uncertainty within PF.
Meanwhile, the party’s organisational weakness is becoming visible on the ground. In Kasama Central, PF MP Sibongile Mwamba has openly endorsed a UPND mayoral candidate. In Mufulira, Kantanshi MP Anthony Mumba bluntly declared that PF “only exists on social media,” arguing that its structures have collapsed and that it no longer functions as a serious opposition force.
These are not remarks from political opponents alone. They reflect what voters are observing in real time.
The financial dimension compounds the problem. Given Lubinda has publicly complained that he is funding campaigns from his own pocket, including costly by-elections such as Chawama. He accused vocal party members of promising large contributions but delivering nothing. This is not just about money. It signals institutional decay.
A party that once commanded state resources now struggles to finance basic electoral participation, while its leaders trade accusations instead of pooling capacity.
Perhaps most damaging is the generational impact. As Simon Mulenga Mwila noted, this conduct is repulsive to the youth. Young voters are not mobilised by vendettas, threats, or leaked audios. They are looking for ideas, jobs, stability, and credible leadership. An opposition whose loudest voice is accusation rather than policy risks exhausting, rather than inspiring, the electorate.
Historically, opposition victories in Zambia have depended on unity, discipline, and moral clarity. The MMD in 1991 and UPND in 2021 both benefited from broad coalitions and a sense of inevitability built on organisation. PF today shows the opposite traits i.e. fragmentation, suspicion, ego-driven politics, and the absence of an agreed process for leadership succession.
The danger for PF is not simply losing 2026. It is becoming irrelevant before voters even reach the ballot. Internal implosion does not need electoral defeat to do its damage. It alienates supporters, confuses sympathisers, and hands strategic advantage to the ruling party without a contest.
Unless PF arrests this slide, restores internal discipline, holds a credible convention, and re-centres its politics on policy rather than personalities, the party risks confirming what its critics already argue. The opposition’s biggest obstacle is not Hichilema or the state, but itself.
‼️Dr Chishimba Kambwili Condemned by Prominent Lawyer over careless audio‼️
Today’s outbursts by Ba Chishimba Kambwili are not only reckless but politically destructive. Barely months after his release from prison for issues rooted in an undisciplined mouth, he now publicly accuses Hon. Brian Mundubile of corruption, theft, and issuing invoices for roads allegedly not done, even going as far as predicting his arrest and boasting about having dirt on him.
This is not politics. This is political cannibalism and my simple and sober advice to Hon. Brian Mundubile is he should immediately report Hon. Chishimba Kambwili to the police for criminal libel and further take him to court for defamation of character.
As we approach 2026, one must ask a serious question. Is this the level to which the opposition has reduced itself? Public lynching, threats, gossip, and character assassination masquerading as accountability?
The bitterness, jealousy, and open hostility among opposition leaders is no longer a secret. It explains their failure to unite. It explains the confusion. It explains why even in simple by-elections, opposition leaders rush to prove personal strength instead of collective purpose, fully aware that the result will be electoral embarrassment.
This conduct is repulsive to the youth.
Young people are not inspired by leaders who spend more time fighting each other than fighting poverty, unemployment, and inequality. We are not interested in personal vendettas, secret files, or political blackmail. These internal wars, built on mistrust and unresolved egos, offer nothing to a generation desperate for ideas, opportunity, and leadership.
At present, the opposition has no coherent message to the Zambian people. Its loudest voice is not policy but accusation. Not vision but suspicion. Not solutions but insults. While opposition leaders are busy tearing each other apart, national conversations are shifting. Load shedding is gradually easing. Economic indicators are stabilising. The kwacha is finding its footing. Farmers are being assured of payment.
So the question becomes unavoidable. What exactly will the opposition tell the ordinary citizen?
Without unity, discipline, credibility, and a clear alternative vision, the opposition risks becoming irrelevant. Politics driven by hatred and ego does not mobilise the masses. It exhausts them.
Perhaps the most honest advice at this point is the simplest one. Tiyeni ku farm mukulima, as Yo Maps guided. Because opposition politics without ideas, organisation, and moral authority will not win elections. It will only entertain the ruling party.
If the opposition does not change course urgently, 2026 will not be lost at the ballot box. It will have been lost long before, through indiscipline, division, and self destruction.
‼️Strong message to PF Leadership from Leaked audio with Dr. Chishimba Kambwili‼️
There is too much hatred and jealousy coming from the so-called “True Greens” against Hon. Brian Mundubile, a man who has simply offered himself to stand as PF President, just like other aspirants. Among all the contenders, Hon. Mundubile has received immense hostility from some senior PF leaders who believe they own the party and that whatever they want must automatically prevail.
However, that is not the reality on the ground. The majority of PF grassroots members, delegates, and party officials have rallied behind Hon. Mundubile and openly thrown their weight in support of him. Sadly, many of these individuals have since been “removed” from their positions by Ba Lubinda and his team. Their only crime was endorsing and supporting Hon. Mundubile.
Today, we heard a very disturbing phone conversation involving Hon. Chishimba Kambwili and PF IPS in Northern Province Mr Kasashi . In his usual style of bad politics, Hon. Kambwili was heard disrespecting, insulting, and displaying nothing but jealousy towards Hon. Mundubile.
The problem with Hon. Kambwili is that he believes he is more intelligent than everyone else. He thinks he is a better politician than everyone and considers himself the best, which is far from the truth. Hon. Kambwili is a tribalist, a politically expired figure, and a convicted individual who even served a jail term because of his reckless mouth. Such a person should never be allowed anywhere near power again, as he has the capacity to divide this nation if not carefully watched.
The time he spent in jail for his hatred and tribal remarks should have changed him, but unfortunately, it did not. He is quick to label others as criminals without reflecting on his own actions. He is loud-mouthed but cowardly, often collapsing when summoned by the police or sent to jail for his wrongdoing. I am glad that the government did not fall for his tricks when he pretended to be unwell during his incarceration.
As young people within the party, we will not seat back and watch a man who significantly contributed to PF’s loss in 2021 bully us or intimidate those he believes are better than him.
Mr. Kambwili’s relevance in today’s political landscape is increasingly limited as fresh voices, evolving policy priorities, and shifting public trust take center stage. In an era of rapid information flow and new leadership, his past roles are basically seen through the lens of historical controversies rather than as a blueprint for current governance.
His departure from the Patriotic Front to form the National Democratic Congress is was a turning point that damaged his standing with the “True Green” identity which was once associated with him.
The NDC’s trajectory, a Brought in Dead polirical case was so unsuccessful, remains a missed opportunity and a marker of waning influence in national discourse.
It is clear, Kambwili’s bitterness towards President Lungu has persisted over time. This bitterness constrained his political maneuvers because he never expected President Lungu to ascend to the office of Party and Republican President. This has made Kambwili to lose his strategic momentum and relevance in shaping contemporary leadership.
So when we say Kambwili has “lost the salt” of being a True Green, we underscore a broader fact. His decisive moves and evolving allegiances have changed his role in politics, leaving his influence diminished in the current era of leadership and governance.
In short, the man thought becoming President of PF and later Republican President was his birth right forgetting that time waits for no one. His incapabillity to know times as a result of limited education and otherwise, has made him to view those that have moved with time as non deserving or not fit to be leaders but him. The man is simply bitter, so please forget and ignore him..
MAKEBI ZULU CALLS FOR OPPOSITION UNITY AHEAD OF 2026 GENERAL ELECTION
PF Presidential Aspirant Makebi Zulu has called for unity among all opposition leaders, ahead of the 2026 general election.
Mr Zulu urged them to rise above self-interest and work together for the good of the Zambian people.
Addressing the nation in a live broadcast, Mr Zulu emphasised that the nation is yearning for hope, truth, and a united Zambia, and that this hope must begin with the opposition choosing collaboration over division.
He stressed the urgency of building a credible alternative that reflects the will of the people.
Mr Zulu warned against manipulation and inducements that compromise integrity, stating that loyalty must lie with the people of Zambia, not with those who fear their empowerment.
He called on all opposition candidates to speak one language, choose one leader, and run as one, describing the 2026 general election as a defining moment for the country’s future.
Mr Zulu affirmed that by standing as one voice, the opposition can restore faith in leadership and build a just, united Zambia.
PF Eastern Province Rallies Behind Willah Mudolo, Hails Him as the Party’s “Best Hope” for 2026
The Patriotic Front (PF) in Eastern Province has firmly thrown its weight behind South African-based Zambian business magnate Willah Joseph Mudolo, declaring him the most promising candidate to lead the former ruling party into the 2026 General Elections.
PF Eastern Province Information and Publicity Secretary William Phiri announced the endorsement, describing Mr. Mudolo as a unifier, visionary, and man of the people capable of restoring the party’s strength and national appeal.
Appearing on the People’s Debate Programme, Phiri said PF’s true rebranding lies in embracing new leadership with fresh energy, insisting that the party cannot move forward by “fronting individuals who contributed to its 2021 electoral defeat.”
“Mr. Mudolo has been a silent force in the PF since its inception. He has supported the party in countless ways we cannot even begin to outline on air,” Phiri said. “He has the heart for the people, the courage, the vision and for those of us who have interacted with him closely, we know he is the right person to champion our comeback ahead of August 13, 2026.”
Phiri dismissed assertions from some sections of the public that the Patriotic Front is a “dead party,” stating that PF remains deeply rooted and far bigger than any individual leader.
He argued that Zambia’s opposition spirit currently lies with citizens who are grappling with the high cost of living, predicting that public sentiment not political branding will shape the 2026 elections.
Drawing parallels with Zambia’s previous political transitions, Phiri said major political shifts have always been driven by the will of the people rather than the popularity of political parties themselves.
“In 1991, it wasn’t about MMD. In 2021, it wasn’t about UPND. It was about the Zambians who wanted change,” he said. “In 2026, it won’t just be PF versus UPND it will be about the people of Zambia. And when the people decide, no one can stop the wind of change.”
With growing internal calls for rejuvenation and unity, PF insiders believe Mudolo’s corporate background, calm demeanor, and behind-the-scenes influence could position him as a strategic figure to redefine the party’s image ahead of the next polls.
As the political landscape intensifies ahead of 2026, Mudolo’s endorsement from Eastern Province could mark a significant chapter in the PF’s quest for revival signaling a possible shift towards fresh leadership and renewed political momentum.
Stop the drama, maybe you called your wife’s number, Chikuse tells Sean Tembo
UPND Alliance spokesperson Leslie Chikuse has told off opposition leader Sean Tembo to stop creating unnecessary drama over serious national issues.
Speaking today at the Alliance’s end-of-year media engagement, Chikuse reacted to Tembo’s pledge to call the President every day at 09:00 hours until he answers, describing the stunt as unproductive.
“Our colleagues from the opposition please, let’s not do drama these are serious issues. We are running a government and everybody knows President Hichilema is a listening President,” Chikuse said.
“You don’t have to dramatide or make jokes, you are calling your wife’s number or is it a ghost and you are saying you are calling the President and you are trying to embarrass him.”
Chikuse said that opposition leaders should engage in meaningful dialogue and campaign constructively instead of using social media theatrics to attract attention.
He added that the President remains committed to addressing citizens’ concerns and that there are proper channels for raising such issues.
On Wednesday last week, PEP president Sean Tembo publicly vowed during a live Facebook broadcast that he would call President Hichilema daily at 09:00 hours until the Head of State picks up his calls.
He claimed that he wanted clarity on delayed payments by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) and on statements by government ministers regarding commercial banks.
The UPND Alliance spokesperson said the President’s accessibility should not be politicised for personal or party gain, urging opposition leaders to respect national processes and just focus on campaigning ahead of upcoming elections.
COMMENTARY ON THE ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF RESOLUTIONS FROM THE 25th CABINET MEETING: FROM POLICY INTENT TO ECONOMIC EXECUTION
— By Dr. Situmbeko Musokotwane, MP Minister of Finance and National Planning
The spine of the resolutions adopted at the 25th Cabinet Meeting represent a broad and coordinated economic package that spans cost-of-living interventions, decentralised infrastructure and energy development, development finance commitments, legislative and regulatory reforms, human capital investments, labour standards, system reliability, environmental sustainability, and disaster response mechanisms. I join the ongoing public debate to compliment the explanation by the Chief Government Spokesperson, Honourable Cornelius Mweetwa, MP, regarding what the resolutions adopted at the 25th Cabinet Meeting are designed to do, and why they matter to households, businesses, communities and investors alike.
I will look at the Cabinet resolutions from an economic perspective, mindful that they are not a mere collection of unrelated decisions, but enablers of an execution agenda that connects cost-of-living relief, energy security, decentralised development, private investment, labour standards, social protection, and institutional reform into one economic story. The purpose is simple but demanding: to help translate macroeconomic stability into outcomes that are felt in people’s daily lives, while strengthening the institutions that sustain growth over time.
The resolutions brought together a wide range of measures covering interventions aimed at addressing the rising cost of living, especially through fuel and food channels. Among the major steps is the expansion of infrastructure and energy development at the local level, so that electricity and services are not just available but also community-owned. The resolutions are clear commitments related to strengthening how development is financed, legislation and regulations are updated to meet modern trends, and how public services like healthcare and pensions, are improved. The resolutions will also address how we prepare for and responds to disasters, and how the country builds a more environmentally sustainable future.
All these areas are not being tackled in isolation but being treated as part of one joined-up plan. Together, the resolutions tell a single economic story. A story where different reforms work in sequence to reduce pressure on households, create opportunities for growth, and strengthen public trust in how national development is managed.
That story includes actions like reducing the impact of inflation by piloting a bulk fuel import system aimed at lowering prices and improving supply. The story involves stabilising energy provision by giving communities a formal stake in infrastructure through the Constituency Energy Benefit Trust. It advances human capital and better public service delivery through a revised National Health Policy with a new implementation plan. It also includes tightening labour protections by ratifying the International Labour Organization’s Forced Labour Protocol, which is increasingly seen by global markets as a non-negotiable standard.
Implementation of the Cabinet resolutions will also strengthen the resilience of rural and low-income households through timely payments to farmers and cash-based assistance in food-insecure districts. Furthermore, the resolutions open the door to increased private investment in renewable energy by adopting a competitive and transparent framework for project selection. Related to the wider legal and regulatory environment, there will be modernization through updating laws associated with financial markets, climate finance, public revenue systems, fisheries, pensions, and electricity grid stability, to ensure these systems can support sustainable growth over time.
Constituency Energy Benefit Trust and Community Ownership under the Presidential Constituency Energy Initiative
One of the most significant governance reforms adopted by Cabinet addresses a longstanding question in decentralised infrastructure development: who owns the asset, who represents community interests, and how are benefits shared over time.
Cabinet approved the Constituency Energy Benefit Trust as the legal framework for owning, governing, and managing constituency-held equity in energy projects developed under the Presidential Constituency Energy Initiative. The equity will be held in trust by the Minister of Finance (CAP 349) strictly on behalf of each constituency, with governance arrangements designed to ensure local oversight, transparency, and participation. The Zambia National Energy Corporation Limited (ZNEC) is positioned as the Special Purpose Vehicle responsible for implementing the initiative and managing the assets on behalf of constituencies.
This structure assigns clear roles. Cabinet provided the mandate. The Ministries responsible for Energy, Local Government, and Finance will align financing, implementation, and governance. Local councils and constituency-level structures will act as the institutional face of ownership and approval. ZNEC will manage the equity and project delivery. Regulators will safeguard grid and market integrity. Private developers, EPC contractors, and financiers will deliver the infrastructure. Communities will participate formally through the Trust mechanism, rather than through informal or ad-hoc expectations.
Economically, the Trust is designed to convert energy projects from one-off construction activities into durable local economic instruments. Employment will be created during construction and ongoing maintenance, and once projects are operational, predictable income streams are expected to flow to constituencies through a structured and transparent benefit-sharing framework. The broader ambition of the Presidential Constituency Energy Initiative is to roll out 2-megawatt solar projects across Zambia’s constituencies over time, subject to project readiness and local alignment. The constituency energy projects are intended to strengthen energy supply while anchoring local resilience and ownership. In our view, this is a top-tier constituency empowerment masterpiece.
The objectives of the Eighth National Development Plan will be reinforced through the decentralised energy assets and treated as long-term economic infrastructure with clear ownership and governance parameters. Similarly, the 2026 Budget’s emphasis on fiscal consolidation will, among other programmes, be nurtured through constituency-level energy initiatives to be built on bankable structures aimed at reducing implementation risk and limiting fiscal slippages.
Competitive Procurement for Private-Sector Participation in Renewable Energy
The resolution on Competitive Procurement for Private-Sector Participation in Renewable Energy deals with how the country will attract private investment in renewable energy while also protecting the interests of consumers and the public. In simple terms, it is about how energy projects, like solar farms or mini-grids, are selected and financed. The goal is to make this process more open, fair, and bankable, tenets of what a conducive business environment is all about.
Cabinet, having approved the Competitive Procurement Framework, has facilitated the transition from ad-hoc negotiations or closed processes in selecting renewable energy projects, to a standardised and transparent method in choosing which projects get built, who builds them, and how they are financed. This economic governance improvement aspect is expected to reduce costs, improve quality, and make it easier for credible investors to bring in capital. It will also help to ensure that benefits from renewable energy investments like jobs and value chain participation, are substantially available to Zambian citizens.
The framework may include mechanisms for renewable energy liquidity and standard project agreements, designed to make projects more attractive to funders, by reducing financial risk and simplifying contracts. That means projects will be able to reach financial closure more quickly and start delivering electricity sooner for the benefit of economy.
Different players will have clearly defined roles under this framework. Cabinet has set the national policy direction. Sector ministries will translate that direction into a pipeline of actual projects. Procurement institutions and relevant rules will make sure the selection process is competitive and transparent. The regulator will set and enforce technical and pricing standards. ZESCO and other grid or system operators will be responsible for making sure the new projects connect safely to the grid. Private developers, engineering contractors, and financiers will contribute capital and execution capacity. Crucially, communities, particularly those where the energy infrastructure will be located, will be treated as active stakeholders, not passive observers.
Why Competitive Procurement is Economically Consequential
The shift to competitive procurement is not just about governance—it also has a direct economic impact. Across different parts of the world, countries that use open, rule-based bidding for renewable energy projects have seen electricity prices drop and investment rise. That is because competition tends to attract more credible bidders, lowers financing costs, and reduces the risk of rent-seeking, corruption or inefficiency.
According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), renewable energy auctions are one of the most effective ways to procure clean energy at scale. They define the process as structured and competitive enough to enable credible renewable energy developers to bid to supply electricity. Research shows that, well-designed processes improve price transparency and allow governments to balance economic, social, and environmental goals in the energy sector.
On the governance side, the OECD has outlined a set of procurement principles that explain why transparent and competitive procurement works better than discretionary or negotiated deals. These principles—such as access, fairness, accountability, and risk management—help prevent misuse of public resources and encourage better long-term outcomes when public and private actors work together. As Zambia, we are aligned to this governance pattern and are ready to adopt best practice to improve our implementation efficiency.
System Reliability as the Guardrail
While competitive procurement will bring in more renewable energy, it may also scale-up the demand for effective and properly choreographed management of the national electricity grid. Unlike traditional energy sources, renewables like solar and wind are variable as they do not generate power consistently throughout the day or year. This means the grid must be prepared to absorb these fluctuations without compromising reliability.
Cabinet’s approach recognises this risk. That is why system reliability is being treated as a non-negotiable requirement. Europe’s experience offers a useful example. The European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E) developed a regulatory framework called “Requirements for Generators.” This framework sets consistent rules across countries to ensure that new energy projects don’t destabilise the grid. These standards have been codified in EU law and are now widely accepted across the European continent.
By adopting a similar line of thought, Zambia will scale-up renewable energy investment while also maintaining a secure and reliable energy system. The Competitive Procurement Framework is therefore not just about price and competition, it is also about aligning procurement with the technical realities of a modern, evolving energy grid.
The bigger picture is clear: Zambia’s 8th National Development Plan (8NDP), which prioritises private-sector-led growth and climate-resilient infrastructure, becomes more actionable when the renewable energy sector is structured around open competition, strong rules, and bankable financing tools. Likewise, the 2026 Budget’s focus on fiscal consolidation will be better supported because private capital will be used to finance energy investments, rather than relying on public borrowing or subsidies that strain national finances.
Legislative and Regulatory Reforms
This resolution deals with modernising the legal and regulatory frameworks that govern key parts of our economy. These updates are not just technical, they’re about building trust in the rules that underpin investment, environmental stewardship, and social protection.
The aim is to consolidate what could be described as the “rules of the game”, that is, the regulatory environment in which capital is invested, services are delivered, resources are managed, and citizens interact with the state. Cabinet approved a legislative package that includes the 2025 Securities Bill, new Carbon Market Regulations, revised Citizenship Regulations (particularly on fee structures), Fisheries Reserves Regulations, updates to the National Pension Scheme Regulations, and an Electricity Grid Code Amendment. The grid code amendment, in particular, is designed to ensure that Zambia’s power system remains stable as more renewable energy is added.
Various institutions have different roles to play. Cabinet has set the overall reform direction. Line ministries and regulators will be responsible for developing, consulting on, and implementing the relevant regulations. In the capital markets, the securities regulator, stock exchanges, intermediaries, issuers, and investors take the updated legal framework and turn it into new investment flows. In the carbon market space, project developers, registries, auditors, community structures, and benefit-sharing vehicles will use the new rules to deliver bankable, environmentally sound carbon credits. Meanwhile, citizens and firms, as end-users, will benefit from clearer, more predictable rules, stronger protections for savings, cleaner investment flows, and more efficient public services.
Securities and Capital Market Modernisation
Capital markets play a vital role in any economy by enabling savings to be turned into productive investment. However, this only works well if the legal and regulatory environment is modern, credible, and fair. The new Securities Bill matters because, once legislation is enacted, it will provide the necessary foundation and deepen Zambia’s capital markets, reduce over-reliance on bank lending, and expand the range of financing options available to the private sector. A more robust capital market will mean more pathways for the Government and companies to raise money without excessive borrowing from abroad.
The global reference for these types of reforms is IOSCO—the International Organization of Securities Commissions. IOSCO’s core objectives include protecting investors, ensuring that markets are fair, efficient, and transparent, and reducing systemic risk. These are the outcomes that Zambia’s reform initiative aims to achieve.
Carbon Markets and Integrity
Carbon markets have the potential to unlock large-scale financing for climate projects, especially in sectors like forestry, clean cooking, and renewable energy. But this opportunity only delivers value if the carbon credits being sold are real, measurable, and independently verified, and if community benefits are clearly protected. In Cabinet, our approval of new Carbon Market Regulations was anchored on the recognition of this reality. The goal is now to ensure that our country builds a credible carbon market framework, one that attracts international climate finance while protecting the rights and interests of local communities.
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has developed a set of Core Carbon Principles. These provide a global benchmark for high-quality carbon credits. Similarly, the UNDP’s High-Integrity Carbon Markets Toolkit highlights the importance of accountability, safeguards, and fair benefit sharing. Zambia’s new rules are designed to reflect this international thinking, ensuring that carbon finance is not just a revenue stream but a tool for inclusive and sustainable development.
Fees, Services, and Fiscal Sustainability
Adjustments to fees for services such as citizenship applications and other administrative processes are often sensitive matters because they affect people directly and immediately. The Government is determined to ensure that they are handled properly so as not to undermine trust, discourage investment, or create the perception of arbitrariness. Cabinet recognises that fees must strike a careful balance between sustaining public services and maintaining access, fairness, and predictability.
The underlying principle guiding the fees adjustments is clarity. The fees will be clearly communicated, consistently applied, and aligned with the actual cost and quality of service delivery. In making the decision, we considered that when citizens and investors are able to anticipate costs in advance, fees stop being hidden frictions and instead become part of a transparent and rules-based public service environment.
Fisheries
The declaration of fisheries reserves reflects a long-term approach to protecting the natural resource base that supports inland fishing communities. Over time, unsustainable fishing practices threaten not only fish stocks but also food security, household incomes, and local economies. By prioritising sustainability, the Government is seeking to ensure that fisheries remain productive for future generations and to preserve that community income-stream, rather than being depleted for short-term gain.
Pensions
Updates to pension regulations will serve a long-term purpose. While they may attract less public attention, we consider pension systems as a critical pillar of social and economic stability. Through strong regulation, the pensions industry will be helped to protect the real value of retirement savings, particularly in periods of inflation or economic uncertainty. Pensions are important because they help to stabilise household consumption and local demand, thereby making them an significant component of economic resilience.
Health System Strengthening
The approval of the Revised National Health Policy and its 2025–2029 implementation plan reflects an understanding that health outcomes and economic outcomes are closely linked. A health system that prevents illness and responds effectively to emergencies reduces the number of workdays lost, lowers household vulnerability to sudden health-related expenses, and improves the overall productivity of the labour force and of the economy.
This policy decision therefore goes beyond service delivery. It is an investment in human capital and long-term economic performance. When preventable illnesses are reduced, households are less likely to fall into distress spending, and the economy benefits from a healthier, more stable workforce. While improvements will be realised in due course, the policy sets a clear framework for strengthening health systems in a way that supports both social wellbeing and economic resilience.
Labour Standards
Cabinet’s approval to ratify the ILO Protocol on Forced Labour strengthens Zambia’s labour protection framework at a time when global markets increasingly demand high standards of due diligence. International buyers, investors, and sourcing platforms now treat labour compliance as a baseline requirement rather than a discretionary consideration.
The protocol focuses on prevention, victim protection, stronger labour inspection, and fair practices. By aligning domestic standards with international norms, Zambia improves its ability to participate competitively in global value chains while reinforcing protections for workers. This decision therefore supports both social justice and economic competitiveness.
Bulk Importation of Petroleum
The decision to pilot bulk importation of petrol should be understood as a targeted cost-management intervention operating firmly within Zambia’s established market reform trajectory. It responds to scale inefficiencies, financing costs, and supply volatility in a fuel market that remains one of the fastest transmission channels for inflation, while preserving competition, private investment incentives, and regulatory discipline.
Zambia’s historically fragmented petrol import model has constrained bargaining power, raised logistics and financing costs, and increased exposure to supply disruptions, with rapid pass-through effects to transport costs, food prices, and industrial inputs. Aggregating national demand through a structured procurement process improves pricing leverage, smooths cargo planning, strengthens supply certainty, and reduces exposure to external shocks. Crucially, the Cabinet-approved measure is not a return to state trading. It is a time-bound, auditable procurement mechanism designed to stabilise a strategically sensitive input while longer-term market efficiencies continue to deepen.
The four-month pilot pools demand through a clearly defined, market-based procurement process without displacing private-sector participation. Aggregation is intended to improve international purchase terms, reduce per-unit landed costs, and enhance logistics and storage efficiency, while preserving open competition among suppliers. Implementation will follow a limited but competitive bidding process in line with public procurement rules, reflecting the pilot’s time-bound stabilisation objective rather than a structural shift in market design.
Transparency is a core design feature of the pilot. Procurement outcomes, landed costs, supply reliability, and compliance with procurement and regulatory rules will be disclosed, ensuring that any decision on continuation or scale-up is based strictly on verifiable performance data rather than discretion or policy drift.
Importantly, the Bulk Importation Pilot will operate alongside, and not in substitution of, the Open Access Initiative governing the existing petroleum infrastructure. Open Access remains the core structural reform through which Zambia has liberalised infrastructure access, deepened competition, and positioned the Government as regulator rather than market participant, particularly in relation to Tazama pipeline and depot systems. The pilot is explicitly designed to remain compatible with Open Access principles, including non-exclusivity, transparency, predictability, and contestability, ensuring that infrastructure access remains open and competitive even as procurement is temporarily coordinated.
Within Zambia’s liberalised petroleum market structure, retail petroleum prices continue to be guided by a regulated pricing framework administered by the Energy Regulation Board (ERB). Pump prices are determined through a transparent, cost-reflective template incorporating import parity costs, exchange-rate movements, statutory taxes and levies, and approved distribution and retail margins. The Bulk Importation Pilot does not alter the ERB’s mandate or introduce discretionary price controls. Instead, it operates upstream by lowering underlying cost components that feed into the ERB pricing model, easing inflationary pressure at source while preserving predictability and regulatory credibility at the pump.
From a governance perspective, Cabinet has set a policy direction and approved the pilot; the Ministry responsible for energy policy will coordinate implementation; the ERB will provide regulatory oversight; procurement institutions will safeguard competitive tendering and integrity; Eligible Oil Marketing Companies and logistics providers will deliver importation, storage, and distribution; and public finance and monetary authorities will monitor interactions with foreign exchange management, liquidity, and inflation dynamics. The intervention is therefore not confined to import logistics alone, but constitutes a broader exercise in market coordination, institutional discipline, and policy execution.
International experience shows that when pooled procurement is well governed, it can reduce inflation pass-through without undermining competition. Evidence from both advanced and emerging economies demonstrates that outcomes depend less on aggregation itself than on procurement design, sequencing, transparency, and accountability. Zambia’s approach deliberately treats the pilot as a learning exercise, anchored in disclosure, monitoring, and evidence-based refinement rather than policy reversal.
Taken together, the Bulk Importation Pilot and the Open Access Initiative reflect a pragmatic sequencing of reform: coordination where market failure is acute, competition where markets function effectively, and regulation that is credible and predictable. For households, the intervention targets one of the fastest channels through which global price shocks affect the cost of living. For investors and development partners, it signals continuity, institutional maturity, and a commitment to reducing inflationary pressures without retreating from liberalisation or private-sector-led market principles.
Development Finance and Regional Credibility
Cabinet approved Zambia’s contribution to the Seventeenth Replenishment of the African Development Fund, the concessional financing arm of the African Development Bank Group. The ADF supports sectors such as energy, infrastructure, governance, regional integration, and climate resilience through low-cost, long-term financing.
Zambia’s contribution reflects its role as an active and credible partner in Africa’s development financing architecture. Domestically, it will help preserve access to affordable finance for productivity-enhancing investments that protect fiscal space. Regionally, it will strengthen collective capacity to finance development priorities at scale.
The Ministry of Finance and National Planning will anchor Zambia’s engagement in the replenishment process, while the ADF mobilises partner resources and channels them into projects that translate into physical infrastructure, public services, and employment.
Closing Synthesis
Taken individually, each Cabinet resolution is defensible. Viewed together, they form a coherent execution agenda aligned with the core logic of the Eighth National Development Plan: private-sector-led growth, decentralisation, climate-resilient infrastructure, and stronger institutions.
The 2026 Budget’s emphasis on consolidation and resilience is most likely to be realised when these policy levers operate in tandem. Fuel market reforms will help ease inflationary pressure. Community-anchored energy assets will broaden participation and local incomes. Competitive, rules-based procurement will crowd-in private capital while protecting system reliability. Legislative and regulatory modernisation will strengthen investor confidence, climate finance integrity, and social stability. Development finance commitments will sustain long-term investment capacity on affordable terms.
Viewed as a whole, the Cabinet resolutions form a coherent economic spine. They will reduce costs where inflation bites hardest, strengthen system reliability, embed communities as infrastructure stakeholders, reinforce access to concessional finance, modernise markets, and improve governance institutions.
Private-sector participation, particularly through competitive and transparent procurement in renewable energy, has now been positioned as a delivery mechanism rather than an end in itself. It will complement regulatory oversight, fiscal discipline, and public accountability.
Consistent with the 2026 National Budget, these resolutions are intended to translate macroeconomic stability into execution. If implemented with discipline and integrity, they will support job creation, strengthen household wellbeing, enhance energy security, and lay durable institutional foundations for sustained national prosperity.
