A lot of things have happened the last 60 years …positives, negatives

1. The current crop of politicians would never have achieved independence owing to their greed. Accordingly, we salute our freedom fighters and owe them too great a debt to pay back.

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   • Freedom fighters ??? or do you mean Placard carriers

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2. Thanks Mr. Mwaanga. Unfortunately those that never witnessed the struggle always view things differently, my wish is if we Zambians can get involved in the development of this country especially the economy. We have given up our grocery businesses to foreigners we have become consumers because we love mulomo and hand outs more than work. Salute to hardworking Zambians may you achieve all that you want through your hard-work. Happy 60th Birthday Mother Zambia.

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3. What good really have we enjoyed since 1964? The country is worse than it was, have you checked Ndola now & Ndola before.. check the photos on internet & you will cry. We do not even have a highway / freeway nothing & how many presidents has Zambia produced? So please give us ZEDIANS a break man.

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4. We Zambians love modern good things but we are always let done by our un-exposed leaders, ubututu fulu fulu. You hear them talk like muzadya ma highjways, na airpot? See how low Zambian leadership standards are. We Zambians are smart pipo who can compete with anyone in the world but we lack modern infrastructure. You cannot compare us in-terms of IQ with for example with pipo from that violent crime RSA there in Africa. But our leaders are so backward

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5. Ifwe abena Zambians love modern good things but we are always let done by our un-exposed leaders, ubututu fulu fulu. You hear them talk like muzadya ma highways, na airpot?

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6. See how low Zambian leadership standards are. We Zambians are smart pipo who can compete with anyone in the world but we lack modern infrastructure.

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7. Moneni ama standards ubunono ya ntungulushi. Fwebena Zambia twaliba smart who can compete with anyone in the world but we lack modern infrastructure.

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8. Everywhere in diaspora Zambians are, we prosper & succeed that should tell us that we are smart pipo

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9. You cannot compare us in-terms of IQ with for example with pipo from that violent crime RSA there in Africa. But our leaders are so backward

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10. That is why the only pipo who can change Zambia are us in the diaspora, whether you like it or not, but you see, folks home will not allow us coz most of em are……. Truth hurts. You must see how successful we are in diaspora

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11. I congratulate Zambian for attaining sixty years of independence. This should not be a time of enjoyment but also reflection on what we should have performed in a better way. In order to help Zambian reflect I will take a negative stand and point out to some of failures as a country. We have during the sixty years failed to keep the independence in power. Zambia is also not able to pay terminal benefits to its former public employees. During the last sixty years we have failed to start an indigenous Zambian company. We have even failed to host an African football tournament. Zambia is an example of a failing country.

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12. Kainde the hard working presido we have ever had since 1964. Busy at work, he just completed the LSK-Ndola dual carriage way, the new city Sata proposed to build… mmmm eeeh yeah… kikikiki yaba, wina azalila.. just saying so that upnd ba mveleko mushe.. kikikikiki

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13. ………

    The most destructive attitude we have as a nation holding back our development is………….

    Not giving a sitting president the 5 year mandate he won to prove himself……….

    Even just after a president takes office , we are divided on tribal grounds……..

    By mid term there is a full divide, with some opposing everything, with determination to have their man or party lead the nation, forgetting about developing………

    Everything becomes about politics, everything……especially with our poor work ethic, any excuse to blame or pass on failure is blamed on politics……

    With this mindset , African countries will need a lead time of atleast 300 years to catch up with developt countries, hand that is if only developed vountrires stop developing…….

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14. 60 years of what??? mismanagement , corruption, we are the same age as Singapore both poor and uneducated in 1964 now look at Singapore, banking capitol of Asia no resources but biggest trading port today and best standard of living, Us we are worse off, at 50 we were living better, today no power, limited food due to high cost, worse exchange rate of Kwacha and the list goes on. in 1964 we thought we got independence from the UK instead we are now under Chinese rule. how will most Zambians celebrate Independence day by getting drunk, very sad but true

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    • You need to put things in perspective
      Land size: Zambia =752,614 km² ….Singapore=734.3 km²(less than 1% of Zambia)
      Population: Zambia=21,314,956 …. Singapore=5,844,644
      Natural resources: Zambia =Copper, Nickel ….Singapore =arable land, beautiful scenery, and fish

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    • @Independent your “perspective” doesn’t make a lick of sense. What size are Brazil ,Russia or Taiwan / Monaco and their development despite their sizes?

15. Partly mismanagement and we were surrounded by chained neighborhood. Zambia continued fighting indirectly. The UDI in South Rhodesia increased the cost of doing business in Zambia for we had to open new routes at a very high cost. The Lobito Corridor became impassable.
    now is the time to stick together for mother Zambia to move forward. Politics without boozo are useless. Wavela PF.
    Mutuu moga Ian Smith.

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    • All the stuff you bring up was in the 1960s to 1994 that was 30 yrs plus ago stop living in the past , stop using excuses corruption and incompetence is what bring downs the country, fix that and we will be on the road of progress

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16. Blame those same so called freedom fighters for where zambia is today. If we never broke away from Britain today we would have been a marvel in Southern Africa the envy of all including south africa.

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    • I tend to agree. Running a country is different compared to mobilizing a party to get to power. We should have continued a good relationship with UK just to learn how to manage a country and do simple things like paying retiring public servants their dues on time. Instead we continued to denounce them as racist when some Zambian Governments have even been tribal and are not ashamed about it.

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