WAVE OF DEFECTIONS STRENGTHENS SOCIALIST PARTY IN KANYAMA
Lusaka… Saturday April 26, 2025 – The Socialist Party (SP) witnessed a surge in support during a mobilization meeting held in Kanyama Constituency earlier today, as a prominent delegation from the Nalikwanda-UPND group and several bus drivers from Lusaka City Market and Lumumba Bus Stations officially joined the party.
According to Kanyama Constituency Chairperson Brighton Bilumba, the group, led by Denny Kawanga, defected to the SP citing dissatisfaction with the UPND) government.
Mr Kawanga blamed the current administration for unfulfilled promises, worsening hunger, and rampant youth unemployment.
Meanwhile, Bilumba disclosed that Kawanga also hinted at the possibility of 313 more individuals preparing to switch allegiance to the Socialist Party.
He emphasized that all new members were being encouraged to undergo political education and training to fully integrate with the party’s ideology and strengthen the movement ahead of the 2026 general elections.
The defectors expressed eagerness to meet with the SP’s national leadership, including party president Dr. Fred M’membe and National Youth Chairman Kelvin Kaunda.
Mr Bilumba stated that the spirit of revolution was alive and growing, and that the call for justice, equity, and peace was resonating across Kanyama and beyond.
He concluded by asserting that socialism was the future of Zambia, with the Socialist Party and a united opposition firmly setting its sights on victory in the upcoming 2026 elections.
Sometime when you act emotionally, you are swayed by disenchantment this is the result.
The grass and eloquent language of sales pitch seems rosey. But the reality is something else.
When you lack critical thought the inability and vulnerabilty to distinguish sense and “bulls#*t” you are gulliable.
Bane educate your kids, so that they make the right choices in life, and eduaction isnt just passing exams. The ability to think and think critically.
What has socialism ever done for humanity? Look at what it has ever offered. A form of socialism was tried under Kaunda. It was not sustainable. How on earth can Mmembe and his band of misled followers make this work? The inefficiences of socialism are what killed industries which were bloated with costs that made investments unworthy. Where the state runs the economy things fail. We are watching Mulungushi textile. With the cotton sector at near collapse, with what little grown exported even down to the much needed cottonseed exported. I want to see the measures put in place to revive the cotton industry from seed to ginneries (which have sprouted all over the place) to cloth production. As an “old fart”, am not a “nay sayer”; just curious if we have done enough to support an industry that was not sustainable then, now.
And to connect the dots, when government has a hand in industry, efficiency and sustainabilty is non existent. Mmembe’s rethoric has been tried and tested; his hypocritical notions that you can have the freedoms of the “old” west in a socialist set up are just a myth. So why waste time on ideas and ideals that are expensive and a waste of time.