WHEN Father Frank Bwalya convened a conference at Buchi Hall in Kitwe dubbed “Save Zambia Campaign’’ and made radical resolutions to embark on a nation-wide campaign against President Rupiah Banda’s Government and the MMD, he expected immediate protestations from the MMD. When there was no threat, he could not believe his luck.
The resolutions appear to be an open demand for a regime change. It is for this reason that the now expanded 11 consortia of civil society organisations (CSOs) are demanding for a security meeting with Minister of Home Affairs, Lameck Mangani. They hope that they would be allowed to conduct a revolution with the blessing of the law and with the blessing of the Government that their campaign intends to topple!
Many might not see this campaign for what it is but Father Bwalya’s own resolutions provide a window to their intentions. And the apparent presence of the Catholic Church through its NGOs does raise eyebrows.
The resolutions call for the removal of President Rupiah Banda and the MMD from office for three chief reasons they allege;
1) Tolerance for Corruption and President Rupiah Banda’s “Political marriage” with former President Frederick Chiluba
2) Failure to enact a good Constitution and the need to abolish the National Constitution Conference (NCC)
3) To remove the culture of bad laws such as the NGO Bill
The action by the CSOs is unprecedented as they are treading on dangerous grounds that are pioneering regime change through methods of civil disobedience.
The Orange Revolution in Georgia seems to be the template they are using where lawyers and members of NGOs embarked on a nation-wide campaign against authorities and eventually forced a government out of office and the early elections that ensued allowed their candidate to take over.
Desperation
The forces aligned against the MMD are desperate for change of Government. They have created an environment of limited faith in the electoral process and they have perceived that individuals competing against President Rupiah Banda provide no discernible hope. In 2006, there appeared to have been the greatest opportunity to beat the MMD at the elections.
Many contend that Michael Sata beat Mwanawasa at the elections but Sata sold the presidency to forces that he had antagonised; the British (with his Mugabe invitation), the Chinese (with threats of chasing them) and the business and corporate world (for his brash and anti-business tendencies).
Although the PF/UPND Pact appears strong to take over power from the MMD, the campaigners hope that numerous activities should be embarked upon that strongly unite and rally citizens against the MMD so that this is made possible. The 2008 elections provided another window of change. But the MMD candidate Rupiah Banda was a man of superior qualities to their leader. He was affable, educated and promoted unity, reconciliation and peace.
The Zambians, business and the donor communities loved and preferred Rupiah Banda to Michael Sata. It is for this reason that the campaigns against Mr Banda have since targeted the strong qualities that made him win the 2008 elections. A sustained campaign has been spearheaded that consistently depicts him as corrupt, intolerant and a tourist to render him weak and unelectable at the next polls.
Why the Red Card revolution
The 2001 Green Ribbon Campaign (GRC) against former president Frederick Chiluba was legal and successful for the simple reason that it sought to protect the Constitution against possible selfish amendments. This campaign instead, seeks to remove a legitimate and elected government from office using civil disobedience. The methods might appear peaceful and harmless but history shows that they are very effective tools. The collective power of the people cannot be underestimated and is superior to any Constitution and the Law.
While the Green Ribbon Campaign sought to uphold the Constitution, this campaign aims to break it and breed an escalating crisis upon the nation where Banda’s Government will be forced to call for an early election (while facing a Red Card) or weaken him so much that his image and that of the MMD will be synonymous with a red card at the 2011 election.
So who do they want to replace the MMD with? Who do they want to replace Banda with? Zambia is a democracy. It has a scheduled election in 2011, why would CSOs embark on activities that are designed to undermine elections? Why would CSOs start proceedings that might promote the break-down of the law if they are promoting good governance in the country?
The NCC has provided the greatest danger for them. They claim that the NCC has undermined and reversed the democratic process of Zambia. The NCC might bar their candidate through the degree clause. The NCC has further weakened the pact with their dismissal of the clause for the running mate. The NCC has also closed an opportunity for the Christian declaration (which the Catholic and their NGOs oppose) to be expunged from the Constitution. The NCC has refused to adopt gay rights and gay marriages. In their view, the NCC has also diluted fundamental rights of NGOs and other societies. But should this be the cause for such a campaign that clearly borders on treason?
Is the NCC and Constitution-making process so closed that it does not provide an opportunity for dialogue, for amendments, or for debate?
Yet the NCC has avenues for public debate beyond its members. The NCC also has stages such as the referendum and Parliament, legal and legitimate bodies to handle outstanding issues.
Demonstrations, protests and public rallies
The campaign is designed to be ‘’peaceful’’ and legal. It will purport to be constitutional and follow the law while galvanising citizens against the MMD. The leaders will be quick to disown flare up events. The campaign is now moving into phase two. This phase will consist of public protests, demonstrations and rallies. The leaders are even bracing themselves for arrests. They intend to hold rallies, demonstrations and protests even without the cooperation of the police.
The civil society groupings have now grown from four to eight. This now said to include Change Life Zambia, Civil Society Trade Network, Citizens Forum, Caritas Zambia, Anti Voter Apathy, and Zambia Council for Social Development, Transparency International, and Southern African Centre for Constructive Resolutions, Forum for Democratic Process, and National Youth Association in the Fight Against Corruption.
The CSOs have notified the police that they intend to hold a public rally on March 27 at Mutambe Grounds in Mandevu to publicise their intended goals. The CSO feel that an opportunity has arisen that will help them re-establish themselves and force a formidable movement of Zambians against the MMD.
Conclusion
This campaign is outside the realms of democratic activities. They appear to be aimed at collapsing a legitimate and elected government using civil disobedience. The action by the CSOs brings the question of what the role of NGOs in a Democracy is in sharp focus.
The CSOs in Zambia seem to be groping in the dark and in their firm belief that they ought to promote good governance but are instead breaking the highest law in the land. Anyone, who threatens the peace, order and security of this country, should be stopped.
You cannot break the Constitution using the Constitution! You cannot embark on a programme whose sole purpose is to remove a legitimate and elected government and justify such an action because you are using peaceful means!
Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and other proponents of civil disobedience and peaceful methods proposed such campaigns against dictatorships, illegitimate, tyrannical and illegal governments that subjugated citizens and provided no forums such as elections for citizens to express and participate in civic and national affairs.
Why should this group proceed with such activities against the Government recently elected and is due for scrutiny in the 2011 Elections?
Why don’t they take their wisdom to opposition political parties who are mandated by law to contest for elections? Or better still why don’t they form their own their political party?
[Times of Zambia]
Whats for the weekend? tired of this political circus:-??:-??:-??:-??:-??:-??:-??
Just scrolled down and noticed TIMES OF ZAMBIA, ifyashala lundenipo mwebene
We are all carrying ”RED CARDS IN OUR HEARTS” even 98% of our Bodies have a red liquid called ”BLOOD” just heed to this!!!
S.T.U.P.I.D Author, its all propaganda. If MMD is so popular why are they afraid of few indivduals gathering and sharing ideas. Why are they afraid of peaceful demostrations. Lets see their popularity. Which intelligent president are you talking about? The one who appoints his tribesmen to position of power? The one who is ever in the air. A president who visits a country for 10 days. A president who visits flood victims after an after cry. WE CHIPUBA. Dont feed us with this nonsense. Deep down your heart you are just protecting your job, keep on putting your alligiance to the forces of satan and will all prerish. No matter what you do the truth will come out. No how you oppress the masses, God’s people will prevail. Zambians will leave Egypt to the promise land.
In fact I was just from reading this article it is from the ”TIMES OF ZAMBIA’ and what do you expect!
Can the Timez of Zambia give the readers a fair and balanced opinion on political unfoldingz of the country?
What is fundamentally interesting is to see Sata’s in-law Telesphore Mpundu, Kabanda, Mwewa and ex-prient Bwalya all calling on the poor to riot without their won hidden wedlock children they have sired around the country or indeed those of Sata’s many children in uncharted water of treason.The day they will pitch Sata’s 3 wives, his children and these pharises own children at the frontier of their riots and extraconstitutionalism, that is the day Zambians will take them as men different from the counterfeits that they are.
Guys, the author is obviously a shushushu, I have to echo one point. Do we really went Michael Chiufya Sata as President?
Sata’s hands are very dirty. Wasn’t MCS Chiluba’s right hand man, to the extent he was Minister without Portfolio and ‘Project Manager’ for the 3rd term bid. Why do we have such short memories? Sata was
Revolution we need, Revolution we want. Some people think we want change because we want Sata to rule. Far from it. We want to ensure that goverments are not left in power for too long for they tend to relax and take people for granted. Whether its HH, Sata, Miyanda, Nawakwi we vote for in 2011, they must be made aware that this Revolution will not allow them to go beyond 10 years. Once as Zambian people we develop that tendance of changing governments we will see this country developing at a very fast rate.
Veteran a bishop is just as human as you. They dont drop from heaven so they can have in laws just like any other human being. As for this article, one does not need to read it whole to dicern the Mad Mud Degenrates hand of Soviet?Maoist type of propaganda.If today RB says let the people show the Red Card freely, you veteran will go along and give all sorts of expalanations on the turn of events.Why are you worried when we are only campaining for 2011 just as your George Kunda is doing around Zambia. Enjoy the 1 and half years as much as you want.
The consortium of NGOs is nothing but a campaign for the pact. It is mainly composed of Bembas and Tongas. Tongas be careful remember how Nkumbula was played by KK. Remember Arthur Wina by Chiluba. The catholic church and its members Father F. Gay Bwalya, Simon Kabanda and the others gays Fr. Mwewa, Miha and Duff are all PF. The red card campaign is a campaign for Sata, The former Convict, Mr. Apology, Chilende. PF is slowly dividing the country.
Other than spewing their tribalistic hatred and exposing intellectual inadequacy on complex things, they have to get to the basics and build a national character and message that will sell. Zambia is bigger than any tribal illusion. They have along way to realise anything at national level illegally.You don’t realise a social cause by subverting the constitution and national peace.Unless people can see Mpundu’s children and nephews, Sata himself, his family, Mwewa, Bwalya and their sibblings falling in the frontiers, mature and democratic law abiding people will keep looking at them as a cult tribal group.
Chi Veteran#7. There is story about unretired imprest by your friends in the gov and you havent commented. You are such a loser. Your life is based on supporting your masters whether wrong or right. What do you teach your (if you got any) kids? I dont know why you call people supporting other parties as kaponyas because to me you are one educated chief kabova. Our country is poor today because of so called educated chaps like you.
LIVE PA ZEDI DUE TO 2011 FEVER
YAAAAAHAYYAAAAA
#11 MASEBO – What tribalism are you talking about compared to MMDs where even William Banda has been appointed as MMD provincial chairman? Take issues seriously rather than becoming frivorously petty by using tribal as way to discredit those who pose a danger to your stay in office. We are all Zambians and our consititution allows for divergent views.Your party was once called Movement for Multiparty Democracy, but that can not be so today because its leaders have become intoralent to any opposing views and do not want fair play ground. The last is one of corner stones our founding leaders had laid down. To day MMD is worse than Unip especially with the rotten propanda machines called ZNBC, Times of Zambia and Zambia Daily Mail.
They should realise that violence bigets violence and extraconstitutionalism bigets extrajudicial action. Its sad that they are all tribalists over consumed with hatred for all tribes except their regardless of morality.They should have studied Gandhi’s Satyagrahaa philosophy in his struggle for political and human rights through non-violence. As a guide to action, Gandhian philosophy is a double-edged weapon. Its objective is to transform the individual and society simultaneously, in accordance with the principles of truth and nonviolence. The historic task before humankind is to progress towards the creation of a nonviolent political, economic and social order by nonviolent struggle. The social goal was described by Gandhi as Sarvodaya where this cult, its tribal hegemony.
2011 Election campaign has already started. Yele yaleguwa fye!!! Very exciting. The fact that people are talking confirms the desire for a better tomorrow…Keeping all people of Zambeziland in prayer.
Gandhi never stood for tribalism, hatred and immorality or was he a promotor of convicted criminals and debauchery to take over the country as our pharisee Mpundu perfected in cinsulting dead Mwanawasa is doing. Gandhi’s thought is equally a philosophy of self-transformation. The individual’s task is to make a sincere attempt to live according to the principles of truth and nonviolence. Its fundamental tenets are therefore moral virtues all missing in our pharises.
The way things are going,Zambia needs regime change by any means necessaary.
VETERAN
kuli nkhani ya K445billion ku side uku,dont pretend, you are busy here talking about things that will not put bread and butter on a table for poor zambians,dont burry your head in sand,these are more important issues than talking about the Catholics,if only you toured Catholic projects around zambia,shame on you
Violence is not violence if it is done by MMD?
i realy dont think Sata can offer the country the alternative direction it requires. Chiluba and Sata are the same.
We all want change but what type of leadership are we goin to change to?
Iwe chi veteran, comment about the billions kaili.
A named Deputy Minister abusing govt cash, Auditor General
More funds misappropriated at Ministry of works and Supply, Ministry of Local Government and Zambia Police
AG’s report reveals massive misuse of funds in Zambian foreign missions
Clergy propose elevation of the post of Account General to Permanaent Secretary
ZNBC audit report ready for scrutiny
‘’something is wrong somewhere!”
:x:xRED CARD ”VETERAN”
IWE SO CALLED ”VETERAN”
I WAS LOOKING FOR YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNRETIRED IMPREST BUT YOU ARE STILL BUSY WITH SCANDALISING ‘MY PRESIDENT” MIND YOU IT’S A PACT . TALK ABOUT REAL ISSUES WHICH WILL AFFECT THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA NOT JUST YOUR HOUSEHOLD. I WILL DIRECT LT TO GIVE YOU A RED CARD ON THIS BLOG.:x:x:x:x
you are all confused.
Ba fr.bwalya needs to be caged.what sort of priest is he?preaching anarchy allover.typical of jesuits ,freemasons and the illuminati.
#25 The pact is not addressing problems affecting the people either, but politcs. MMD will have it smooth unless the voting will be in UK where u will be voting based on what you ve read and not seen on the ground in Zambia
ZAMBIA Information and Communication Technology Authority (ZICTA) public relations manager Ngabo Nankonde has said the authority has engaged cyber crime experts at the Zambia Police Service to monitor people who watch pornography on the Internet.
During a public forum in Serenje on Wednesday, Nankonde said the Zambia police had formed a cyber security team, which would look at all those involved in watching pornographic materials on the Internet.
The penalty fee for those who would be found guilty was K36 million or a jail sentence of 10 years.
“So for those of us who might receive pornographic materials just delete them upon receiving because when you are found in possession of these materials you will be arrested because ignorance is no defence under the laws of Zambia,” she said.
we need change ..we need change!!viva pact!!
Written by Vagilante, sorry vigilante Davis Mataka alias Nakawala!
# 25 & your partner Veteran, there is an important issue of unretired imprest and l dont see your input. Please we are waiting for your comments or you have nothing since mwiba bonse. And when the gov changes be ready,they wont be stories. Kukaka period.
Veteran, what nonsense!
Honestly, please grow a spine. This blind following won’t be a defence when your day of judgement arrives. For your own sake, perhaps you should look for alternative employment. Something that won’t condemn your soul to eternal damnation in a fiery hell.
Perhaps you should be filing your receipts instead of posting diatribe here?
I can not comment further than to aknolowdge that the article has perspective regardless of who wrote it…
this negativity that is surronding our country is overwhelmin!
Zambia definitely deserves change, but mediocre leadership should not be given a chance. The people of Zambia deserve better leadership. It high time young and intelligent leadership took over the running of the affairs of this great nation. To the bloggers, lets improve on our levels of debate whether we are party cadres or not. Insults will not take us anywhere. Debate real issues and not your parties or tribes
yes…. we need to debate on real issues. Other countries are developing because they are tackling the real issues, petty politics of insulting one another will not take the country forward…we need young leaders with a vision & a plan!! why should able, young, brillaint individuials sit back & allow grandfathers to take over the show!! lets come up with tangible peaceful ideas to move our country forward… we are movin around in circles…
So who do these people want to take over, Father Bwalya?
An MMD propaganda tool. This article is b@ll*%#t!its all rubbish and we the Zambians are tired of MMD and RB’s lack of a plan to move the nation forward.Viva red card to all non performing govts!
Yes we need healthy debate, but the current tribal parties like PF with 99% bembas and UPND with 99.9% tongas, how can u debate. Today in Z, any person opposed to the govt, if that person comes from the North lest be asured that person is PF. For Southerners mostly likely its UPND. Now were do easterners, N-westerners, Benecisi, Westerners, and parts of Ndola rural fall in the equation. Today you cant debate witha tonga and bembas, just by being with them tell u who they support. so what debate are u talking about.
CHAPWA MWE I CLOSE NOW!
Sata’s ingratitude to Levy speaks volumes
WHEN former first lady Maureen Mwanawasa chased Patriotic Front (PF) Michael Sata from Chipata Airport on the Eastern Province leg of late president Levy Mwanawasa’s nation-wide body-viewing in August 2008, the Zambian public had difficulties understanding why a person could be ejected from a place of mourning.
That was barely four months after the “King Cobra” had repented from spitting his venom on Dr Mwanawasa who had saved his life by sending him to Milpark Hospital in South Africa when he suffered a life-threatening heart condition.
Upon his return from South Africa, Mr Sata was uncharacteristically humble and declared a ceasefire, plausibly telling the Zambian people that he was grateful for Dr Mwanawasa’s gesture…
And untypical of him, Mr Sata could be heard addressing Dr Mwanawasa as “Mr President” and showering him with all manner of platitudes, much to the shock of the many people in attendance and those that watched the spectacle on television.
Before then, Mr Sata had been a habitual assassin of Dr Mwanawasa’s character, more so after former president Frederick Chiluba ignored him in 2001 to pick the former vice-president as the MMD’s preferred presidential candidate in that year’s elections.
Sickness teaches proud people humility, but for some, the humility is only ephemeral and before long, they return to their old repulsive, repugnant and stinking habits.
Whether Mr Sata had really reconciled with Dr Mwanawasa is a question that has just been answered by the PF leader…
Whether Mr Sata had really reconciled with Dr Mwanawasa is a question that has just been answered by the PF leader.
That time, Zambians believed that Mr Sata was genuinely grateful to Dr Mwanawasa, and only Mrs Mwanawasa appeared to distrust the PF leader, hence her decision to chase Mr Sata from Dr Mwanawasa’s funeral.
Perhaps she was right! Now everyone knows why she did what she did to Mr Sata.
Today, Mr Sata is speaking a different language, claiming that Dr Mwanawasa’s decision to send him to South Africa was a mere public relations gimmick.
Before Mr Sata’s utterances, it was his brother in-law, Telesphore Mpundu, who launched an ungodly attack on the late president, describing his legacy as a mere figment of some people’s fertile imagination.
In responding to what was purely a personal matter between Mr Sata and former Zambian president Chiluba, the Catholic clergyman went to town, tearing all his perceived enemies apart.
That hate speech alone exposed Archbishop Mpundu’s corrosive hate for Dr Mwanawasa who, he said, had accused him of being a PF member.
The archbishop, in a desperate attempt to defend the indefensible activities of his PF brother in-law, turned a simple matter into a national one- a family affair into a Catholic affair.
Those unsolicited outbursts must have been embarrassing to young Catholic priests who ought to be drawing spiritual inspiration from the likes of Archbishop Mpundu.
For how else does one explain Archbishop Mpundu’s description of Dr Chiluba’s expose on Mr Sata’s two children with his (Archbishop Mpundu) sister as information already in public domain?
The Sata and Mpundu families are not public domain.The information about Mr Sata was not in public domain.It was in the Sata and Mpundu domain.
It is only now that this information has come into public domain and will be used by the Zambian electorate who need to weigh the moral standing of their leaders, particularly in this age of HIV/AIDS.
Besides, when a sin is in public domain, does it become less sinful or does it…
BaSata had always wanted to save the highest position in the land. After Chiluba pointed LPM as his successor. Sata resigned from MMD. Why? He is only interested in his own needs.
Besides, when a sin is in public domain, does it become less sinful or does it cease to be sin simply because it involves a family of a Catholic archbishop?
Sin is simply sin, more so when it involves a politician aspiring to ascend to the highest throne in the land or is embraced by a supposed religious family that is ever looking for specs in other people’s eyes.
It, therefore, beats one’s understanding that instead of addressing issues as they are, Archbishop Mpundu set himself on a war path attacking President Rupiah Banda’s Government, Dr Chiluba, Dr Mwanawasa, the Evangelicals and the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation.
In the first place, he should not even have been the one to respond to Dr Chiluba’s questions which were directed at Archbishop Mpundu’s brother in-law, Sata, who still receives Holy Communion.
Perhaps Zambian Catholics— some of whom must have been barred from receiving the Holy Communion on account of siring children out of wedlock— have seen why Mr Sata is apparently favoured.
One is almost tempted to think that Archbishop Mpundu’s dislike for Dr Mwanawasa was because he, and not Mr Sata, was picked by Dr Chiluba to stand as the MMD presidential candidate in 2001.
With that, nothing that Dr Mwanawasa ever did was worth praising, be it the constituting of the National Constitutional Conference (NCC) or the appointing of Mr Banda as vice-president.
Maybe the only sin President Banda has committed is to have been appointed by Dr Mwanawasa who even in his death is not good enough for both Archbishop Mpundu and Mr Sata.
Now, Zambia is seeing a consortium of mainly Catholic-related non-governmental organisations (NGOs) abandoning their role of providing checks and balances and, instead, brandishing red cards aimed at inciting the general populace to remove Mr Banda’s Government.
It is not surprising that these NGOs, which are openly rooting for a PF government, have not criticised Mr Sata’s description of his evacuation to South Africa for medical treatment as a public relations gimmick.
How horrifyingly ungrateful Mr Sata is!
It is only 22 months ago when Mr Sata, on the brink of death, was evacuated to Johannesburg at Dr Mwanawasa’s directive.
If the dead could look back, Dr Mwanawasa would look at Mr Sata, hear what he is saying now, remember the night he was informed that his sworn political enemy was dying, recall how he decided in a split second to save the man’s life, look at him again, and feel sorry for the Zambian electorate.
It is a lesson in good time; it is a lesson that the Zambian people must elect into office people who will be grateful for their vote and not those that will turn back and say: “It’s you who needed me more than I needed you.”
The pain expressed by the late Dr Mwanawasa’s relatives over Mr Sata’s teasing remarks is understandable and no one would be happy with such unbecoming conduct from a leader of Zambia’s biggest opposition party.
Mr Sata has been criticised by the late president’s first born daughter Mirriam, former presidential aide Jack Kalala, and Local Government and Housing Deputy Minister Moses Muteteka, among others.
A person who shows no gratitude to someone who saves him from death will never be thankful for anything.
Today, it is clear that Mr Sata’s apparent show of gratitude to Dr Mwanawasa in 2008 was a gimmick to try and win over the support of MMD supporters.
Writing in maxims, French author Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld points out: “The gratitude of most men is nothing but a secret desire to receive greater benefits.”
Mr Sata’s secret desire has now been laid bare by no one but himself.Mrs Mwanawasa knew this desire long before.
Even as Mr Sata claimed that he wanted to mourn his “best friend”, Mrs Mwanawasa simply saw that as a desire to campaign for the presidential election which he eventually lost. Was she not right?
Mr Sata is one man who, after serving for 10 years as minister in the Chiluba administration—at the expense of better qualified people—he turns round and says he regrets having served in that Cabinet.
The idea is to make Dr Chiluba look foolish for having accorded Mr Sata the honour to serve the…
After seeing the outrage that his ingratitude has courted, Mr Sata has turned round, as he usually does, and is now apologising for the damaging remarks.
Knowing Mr Sata as Zambians do, is Mr Sata to be believed? Maybe the only one who can believe him is Mr Hakainde Hichilema who has been duped into believing that he is an equal partner in the PF-UPND Pact.
Mr Sata is now accusing President Banda for the mess that he has found himself in, claiming that it is, in fact, the president who has betrayed Dr Mwanawasa’s legacy.
It can only be hoped that Mr Sata knows what a legacy is. Mr Sata and his ilk have been singing about a legacy that they cannot even explain.
It is about time Zambians were reminded that one of the biggest legacies that Dr Mwanawasa will forever be remembered for is the compassion and selflessness he showed when he directed that the dying but usually thankless PF leader be rushed to South Africa for emergency treatment.
It is hardly two years since that time, and Mr Sata goes all the way to demean Dr Mwanawasa’s humane act.
So who has betrayed Dr Mwanawasa’s legacy? Mr Hichilema is yet to see Mr Sata’s ingratitude.Mr Sata’s unthankful attitude towards the late Dr Mwanawasa is a timely warning.
I dont think maureen mwanawasa will ever greet sata. last time he was chased because madam knows how weak sata…….n is. This time he will be slapped!!!!!!!
instead of talking about a buffoon like sata, lets celebrate success stories like Freshpikt:
But despite the negative statements that have characterised the privatisation process, there are some Zambians that are demonstrating that something good could come out of it.
Yesterday, President Rupiah Banda commissioned Freshpikt factory in Lusaka, which previously was Zambia Horticultural Products Limited.
Freshpikt processes and packages fruits and vegetables, and many Zambians must have already sampled the baked beans, peanut butter, tomato sauce, and other products that the company is churning out.Apart from the more than 500 people who would be employed, Freshpikt has already engaged 2,000 smallholder farmers and will increase the number to 5,000 by the end of the year.
This is a success story any progressive Zambian would want to be associated with, and the company chairperson, Chance Kabaghe and his team of investors deserve to be congratulated.
But we would like to echo President Banda’s call to financial institutions to avail capital to the agro-processing sector so that Zambia reaps appreciable benefits from its agricultural produce.
The trend of exporting agricultural produce without adding value to them has cost the country in many ways, and the vegetables and fruits that every year go to waste could be better used to grow the economy if there were more investments in agro-processing plants.
As United States embassy charge d’affaires Michael Koplovsky observed, Freshpikt is a good example of how the private sector could be turned round with simple financial and technical assistance, as the company has now become an exporter of processed products to the regional market and Europe.
We wish to encourage more Zambians to shrug off their misery by seeking to explore business ventures such as the drivers of Freshpikt have done.Similarly, we implore financial institutions and cooperating partners to ease their conditions for borrowing so that many more Zambians could join the caravan of investment.
LETS INVEST INSTEAD OF LISTENING TO THE LIES AND RUBBISH OF SATA AND THE POST
#44 Mwata Read the Post and get the truth about Sata and Mwanawasa’s reconciliations. he made a statement about a day or two ago. That people like yourself are spreading lies to say he wasn’t grateful and that it was mere PR. Thats not what he said but papers like LT and Times of Zambia, daily mail created those lies. he has the statements on record.
Please allow people within zed to write things that are affecting them. I m very dissapointed with this article and thus has made me to jion the red card campaign with my little show peice I have seen from Rupiah bwezani banda govt.Sorry for that.
PLEASE DONT WAIOSTE YOUR TIME ON WHAT OTHER IDEAS CAN HE BRING APART FROM REMINDING US HACKING PEOPLE PANGA WHICH HE DID YEARS AGO WHEN HE WAS MINSITER THROUGH HIS THUGS.WHAT WE ARE SEING IS SIGN OF HOW HE WILL RULE
-NO ELECTIONS IN HIS PART
-TOTALITARIAN
VIOLENCE
SO WATCH OUT GUYS
MUCH
-BAD MORALITY
-UN GREATFUL EVEN TO DEAD PEOPLE WHO HELPED HIM.
WHAT MORE
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Mwata
THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has expressed shock that all the ministries have unretired imprest amounting to K445 billion.
PAC chairperson, Emmanuel Hachipuka observed yesterday when Works and Supply Permanent Secretary Bizwayo Nkunika appeared before his committee that no ministries had come out clean on retiring imprest.
He said public servants had resorted to getting public money through imprest because they knew that they would not be queried.
Mr Hachipuka said controlling officers should take audits seriously because in other countries, they could be suspended for having anomalies in their accounts.
And Mr Hachipuka directed Lieutenant Colonel Nkunika to furnish the office of the auditor general with receipts on K1.4 billion worth of fuel.
This was after some members of the committee wondered how K1.4 billion worth of fuel receipts could go missing when the ministry had a transport officer who was supposed to be keeping the documents.
Col Nkunika said the receipts for the fuel were missing when auditors went to his ministry but they had since been found and would be shown to the office of the auditor general.
He said the ministry was forced to divert K12 billion meant for the rehabilitation of Independence Stadium to Chirundu One-Stop Border Post to avoid further costs on the border posts.
Col Nkunika said the money meant for the rehabilitation of the presidential guest house in Ndola was used to buy furniture for State House.
He said the ministry faced problems in collecting money from people who bought personal-to-holder motor vehicles because some of them opted to pay from their terminal benefits.
Col Nkunika said two former permanent secretaries owed Government huge amounts of money and after reminders, only former Sports minister, George Chulumanda paid K8 million towards the car he got.
What can you get from times of Kunda and Bwezani. There website is even poorly managed. Why waste my sweet time to read the chunk mails: Times of Zambia, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation and Zambia Daily Mail. These papers run by persons with no principles in life. If you are reasonable then resign and show your dignity. To hell with all MMD fellas
Ah so that is the face of these bemba CSOs, pure trouble bane our democracy is in trouble with these bembas!
#68 Zambia’s quasi democracy is under threat because only Bembas and Tongas are brave enough to talk, mwebashala nimwebangwele!!
The red ribbon lacks depth and is more of a mobster arrangement. It does not symbolise anything, live and let die!!
#69 Only Easterners ensured multiparty democracy in 1991 – what are you talking about?
Is this article about Michael Sata ? Why so much Sata ?
…Anyway , if i were to look at the observations made by the writer of this piece in as objective a way as i can possibly manage , i wouldn’t see it as propaganda. It could very well be intended as such , but it is also a sober assessment of the constitutional position , if we are to assume that the CSO’s are indeed, re-organising and re-grouping with a purpose of effecting a change of government .
I salute all learned bloggers. Zambia can borrow OBAMA or any educated person in the world to rule, I can tell you no much can be achieved becoz our attitudes towards hardwork are so bad. Our country is full of Kaponyas especially in urban areas. Most chaps make alot of noise but look at their grade 12 papers, UNSATISFACTORIES in all subjects.
Zambia needs military rule for 2 years and then handover to civilians. Some people have gone very far in the way they express their so-called freedom of speech and expression. Too much insults every day. We behave like we are the founders of politics in the world. I wish there was a disease called POLITICAL CANCER so that all can perish.
69 ba mulenga, when you say only bembas and tongas are brave enough to talk, talking about what? Bushe kulandafye ama rabnbish pantu you are bemba?
I may sound tribalistic but the sad truth is that this is actually a bemba war. There are no issues at all except that bembas do not want to be ruled by anyone except themselves. Otherwise how do you explain that they offer Sata as a replacement or alternative to RB? If they offered someone more morally upright, more educated, more civilised, more intelligent, more statesmanlike, less question marks, a better example to our children, less uncouth, less criminal, less use of pangas, explain the USD27,000 confiscated in RSA, more decent language, less chameleon, more grateful, will not plunder the nation, will ensure our freedom of expression……..then and ONLY THEN can we believe that this is not a bemba fight, but one in the interests of Zambia and NOT THAT OF A SELFISH BEMBA CLIQUE….
No matter how much you Bembas talk, be aware that NO BEMBA will be president in Zambia.You are linked to theft and bad behavior. In case you are misled , chek the facts of past leaders, none is Bemba. Kaunda is from Malawi. Chiluba is ushi, Mwanawasa was Lenje and Bwezani. And all first ladies but one are from Eastern province, only Maureen is lenje. We know your hope is in Sata though he will not make it. Talk the loudest , we still will be in leadership.
For all of you non-Zambians reading the blogs on this site, please know that the Bemba tribe in Zambia is not, and I repeat NOT in any way in control of the country. There seems to be a nasty trend developing here. Zambia is one of the most peaceful countries in the whole world. People do not care what tribe you are, or where you are from. That’s how mature we are. In fact, we have received thousands of refugees over the years because of our civilized attitude towards strangers and foreigners. The only thing I can mention that might seem tribal, is the cousin-ship that exists between the Bembas & the Ngonis. You will need a complete lesson on this, but for that you have to see it live, no words can do it justice.**== Peace!:)>-
#78. Mind you, the MMD has been oppressing the people in the name of peace. If you are pushed so hard against the wall, you sometimes react.