Last Week/Wkend in pictures

1. What a poor poor country

   I am in Glasgow and I am seeing a country side, well by my standards Zambia is just a country side because you cant compare that with Glasgow sorry

   Thanks

   • Senseless contribution. Get yourself checked into a mental asylum.

   • Who tells you we are interested in being compared to Glasgow. Don’t you know that Glasgow grew from a small rural settlement on the River Clyde to become one of the largest seaports in Britain. It didn’t just happen to be like that in a twinkle of the eye.

   • But why do you even respond to that entity? You must be new to LT, bonse we know ati the entity only seeks attention and thats why IT write such gibberish. Mwilaposako amano. Now you making me respond in the entity’s thread. Yaba!!!

   • How can you be so proud living in Glasgow please? Lusaka may not have same infrastructures like Glasgow but you know what less junkies in Lusaka than Glasgow. You are a sadist to be happy living with junkies. Am sure you live in Govan or the south side. Get a life and learn to travel then you will know there are million places out there better than Glasgow.

   • ‘Don’t you know that Glasgow grew from a small rural settlement on the River Clyde to become one of the largest seaports in Britain’

     That is a lie, wherever you read your history from.

     Glasgow is the capital city of Scotland.

     I am comparing street by street, and I don’t foresee how you can compare Lusaka and Glasgow. What we have here , is things like Glasgow science center,
     Riverside Museum & The Tall Ship, People’s palace etc etc

     By the way I am officially single since last week.

     Thanks

   • Hyper_Critical

     There is a lot more to see here, the weather is better, White people are friendlier

     There is modern day restaurants , Trains under ground, food is better

     Sorry, what where you saying about Zambia again?

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   • @Mushota
     What happened to your Nick ? Is he fed up of hitting your ****? Sorry to hear about your break-up.

   • Mr Daka Is A Nyau

     Men are all the same, anyway It is his loss.

     Thanks

   • @Mushota

     FYI Glasgow is not the capital city of Scotland. please don’t show you ignorance here. For God sake Google it yourself thats your home work for today. By the way if one underground route makes you think Glasgow is better why not go to London and see it yourself FYI you don’t need visa that’s how i will not ask you to go outside UK. If you have a problem with black skin go under the knife nobody will miss you not even your own family if you one.

   • Iwe Mushota ubututu bobe tabwakapwe……..for your own information Glasgow u are talking about is just a kama small city in the UK and cant be compared to a bigger country like Zambia. Ubupuba boobe Mushota ulepena bwino!

   • Reject those two PF candidates,they are deadwood !

   • MUSHOTA THANKS FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION. IT BRINGS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR TEACHING YOU. THE U IN GENERAL AND GLASGOW IN PARTICULAR ARE WHAT THEY ARE NOW BECAUSE ZAMBIA DONATED SO MUCH WEALTH TO THE UK TO LEAVE US POOR. NOW, SINCE, YOU CLAIM TO BE A SCHOLAR, RESEARCH IN DETAIL HOW AND WHAT BRITAIN GOT FROM ZAMBIA AND FOR HOW LONG.

   • I meant to write…THE UK IN GENERAL… and not…THE U IN GENERAL…@1.12.

   • This attention seeker,reffered to as IT, if you want real attention just strip off and show the world your private junk and orifices.You’ll get more attention that way you silly IT.

2. Pic 5-“Matero library turned into a home”- Yes what do you expect when the reading culture is dead in Zambia ? Very sad.

3. But ba first lady paliba umunofu….

   • is that zuma am seeing in glasses picture one? kwena naondako mdala. where is Sata? Oh i forgot, he is busy working for the zambian people and does not like the camera kwati ilya meeting with the former israeli president which kapeya assured zambians that president sata was going to have. Come to think of it, why havent the government or kapeya shown us pictures of that meeting. kwena this is taking people for granted. Ka kapeya lies and they cant even aplogise. we need pictures from that meeting. Kapeya assured us, that the meeting was happening no matter what. Kapeya where are you, you inbred!!!

4. Matero Library turned into a home. ..am I reading this right. MY GOD how can we let this happen when we are construction utterly pointless football stadia. This is scarily indeed….where is our country going??

   • *…we are constructing….

5. Why are these pics all pf????

   • what do you expect when it is a PF cameraman Thomas Nsama doing the shots. buti pa zed, naba cameraman kuba ba cadre sure? ba Thomas Nsama, we are all seeing you.

   • Good question! Ask LusakaTimes PF Division!

6. God bless you Dr. Kaseba. The President has been unwell for some time but you find time to interact with the people and show a very positive outlook in spite of what the family has gone through. I am glad also that Western Province is getting a facelift. We need to work together to change Zambia.

7. Tell that lozi king called the litunga to wear attire like iyaba chief in picture 38. this is what we mean when we write about being pro-african in thinking.Everything about you should identify with being african. noti one of most important ceremonies in the country and the king wears a butlers uniform from the victorian era and he is so proud. what kind of thinking is this? am yet to see the kings/ queens of eruope,asia wearing african attires or gifts given to them by their african contemporaries as their official dress during important occasions at places like buckingham palace. Litunga please be a real African king and stop the buffonery of wearing that attire. its not traditional at all. we want our rich kololo(Lozi) culture exemplified even in your dressing twapapata muntu wesu!!!

   • @zagaze,
     Your spiteful comment about the attire of the Litunga of Barotseland does not make any sense at all.
     Every chiefdom on earth has its own culture and tradition originating from somewhere and no outsider is going to dictate what they should wear. By the way what does your Chitimukulu wear?
     Even the senior chief Ishindi you have referred to has a necktie, shirt, jacket and a robe which were adopted from outside the NW Province and this is true of all chiefdoms in Zambia. Your views are highly misplaced.

   • The Lozi King cannot dress like a chinyau. We have our own culture including dress like Misisi and liziba. Keep your primitivity to yourselves. I wonder what you and your tribesmen and women wear. I hope its not the western clothes you are condemning. Do you even have ethnic wear ? The answer is NO you don’t. So fkuc off.

   • London eye-the symbolism associated with the attire is treacherous.I thot kuomboka was a chance to exhibit the lozi culture in all possible spheres(attire included) and not further show case europeanism which already is persecuting our culture,our mores and folkways.sure i see a neck tie and a shirt and obviously shoes on the chief in 38,but he atleast for the greater visible part wore a tradition attire.The queen of england has received misisi and liziba from zambia,i have never seen them on her.Ask yourselves why.why do we adopt their things and yet they dont ours?how many british(white) people have names like namukolo,siyuba,muhau?but why do we insist on their names?I would give him more respect if he wore a nyau attire.dont despise evrything african.Aah,its useless,you just dont see

   • Problems we face as africans
     1.we despise our own spirituality and opt for foreign religions
     2.we think low of people who speak their native language and put a high regard for those who speak english,french, italian especially with a white accent
     3.We think traditional dance like vimbuza is primitive and savage,yet we extol ballet,folkstrot as classic andaristocratic
     4.we worship the god of the bible,Koran,Torah who do not look like us in the smallest bit,yet despise the gods worshiped by our own ancestors like chief monze,the ingombe ilede and regard them as pagan and savage
     5.we praise western medicine and despise our traditional as being witchcraft
     6.we give ourselves european names and less of our native names
     7. Add on..
     Can a people who despise themselves this much ever…

   • ever develop. how can you ever make sense of the world if you always see it in the eyes of a foreign people. How will you keep in harmony with nature when you constantly deny who you really are deep in the core of your humanity.
     Economies are grown from innovation, innovation comes from dreams and hopes. But if your dreams are centred at trying to live a life that you see from others (europeans) then you cannot innovate anything new because you always have to wait and see what europeans/west are doing now so that you can copy and then dream in those lines. it therefore makes you a step or so behind in everything everytime.Besides even you innovate,your invention always suits or is for the glory of the one whom you emulate.Most african PhD students do research centred on white problems

   • Is the misisi really African? Is not adapted from 18th century European victorian dress hence the name ‘misisi’ which is a corruption of the word ‘Mrs’? Even the lace that is worn over it is called malesu which is a corruption of the word lace!

8. Don’t worry my dear, all the photos you are looking at have to do with PF! PF Minister attending a meeting, PF wife exercising, PF assistant (usually called veep!) lining up some chaps at an airport, PF chiefs receiving their quotas, PF children receiving their once-a-year rations- come to think of it, there are no oppostion leaders like in Scotland! Perhaps we should declare PF the only party in Zambia? Then there will be no opposition and only PF to think about! Afterall, we have been told PF is watching us even in our bedrooms! Well according to the great PF leader or let me say- The Former Great PF Leader! Im even changing my signature to PF!

9. Picture 5!! Punish whoever has built that house. That structure belongs to govt. Please I want to see the cowprit brought to book as soon as possible. Zambia belongs to every zambia, why should someone wakeup and start renovating a library which belongs to govt. Zambia whereto

   • Its “CULPRIT” please and not “COWPRIT”.

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    • You do.g, why write such crap. Atase, have respect iwe imbwa.

    • @dorika – you are no less a d0g than i am. i just wrote my interpretation of the mood in the hall. Now as a human being in this so called western world type democracy we emulate, why should anyone reprimand me and what i write. This is the democracy you asked for isnt it? free media etc!!! deal with it. question is this to you dorika.
      what do you want to be? A democracy with all its freedom or do you want to go back to the ways of old vested in intambi?

11. The best and most educated 1st Lady ever. Keep it up ma’am, some of us adore you and your dear hubby.

    • what do you mean most educated?

    • If only you knew what the word “educate” is and where it was derived from!!

    • She is certainly the best when it comes to stealing husbands from fellow women. From her ginormous size, it is obvious she is not a gym bunny so all that exercising is just for the camera as is her nauseating fake smile.

12. What is a pleasure dance? Is there a non-pleasure dance? Some Zambian women’s complexions are suspect. A library turned into a house? Hmm, why should that be surprising when the government agenda does not include raising literacy levels? Physical education is well and good but did her mentoring program also include sex education because that is a pressing issue with those high levels of teen pregnancy.

13. what a shame to us Zambians a library turned into a house. any new one built?

14. This is why i have always said that President Sata should delegate me to Kaseba.

15. It is clear to me that Kaseba has no love for Sata but only has love for his money

16. I LOVE ALL THE PICTURES FEATURING THE FIRST LADY, MUCHINGA PROVINCE PUPILS AND THEIR TEACHERS. I LOVE OUR FIRST LADY- SHE IS A TRULY NATURAL PERSON. SHE’S GREATLY HELPING IN TRANSFORMING THE PERCEPTION OF ZAMBIANS (YOUNG AND OLD) ABOUT LIFE. MORE IMPORTANTLY THE WAY YOUNG GIRLS THINK ABOUT ACHIEVEMENTS IN LIFE AND JUST BEING FOCUSED ON THINGS THAT MATTER IN LIFE. KEEP IT UP OUR FIRST LADY. UP TO THIS TIME GIRLS THINK IT’S ONLY BOYS WHO CAN BE ENGINEERS. BUT, THEY ARE CORRECTLY BEING MOTIVATED BY OUR FIRST LADY. GREAT JOB. BA LT ARE YOU SURE ZAMBIA WAS NOT REPRESENTED IN AT VICT FALL RESORT. REFER TO PIC. No. 1. YOU ARE SELF EFFACING.

    • attire wise, i agree she represents our culture atleast. apa pena, you cannot fault her,she always wears ifitenge design. buti imishishi shena awe. wearing plastics or is it horse hair or is it brazilian hair? there she can do better by adopting our african hair styles. She travells alot outside zambia, it would be good to show case our traditional hair styles that go well with her beautiful chitenges.
      There is beauty in being natural and keeping traditional. This is why our women never understood, ati abasungu tabakwata choice, how can he choose such an ugly woman. yet it is because the white man does not want an imitation of white woman(hair,red lipstick etc) he wants a different beauty,natural(hair mukule,no red lipstick etc).problem is our perception of beauty is white woman!!

    • *an ugly black woman*

17. PIX FROM 22 TO 27. I AM APPEALING TO OUR ZAMBIAN DRESS DESIGNERS. CAN YOU PLEASE DESIGN SOME SPORTS ATTIRES TO SUIT THE POCKETS OF EVERY ZAMBIAN? WE CAN’T ALL BE WEARING BRAND NAMES SUCH AS NIKE, ADIDAS, HEAD, EVERLAST, REEBOK, PUMA, NORTHFACE, ETC IN ORDER TO DO SPORT IN ZAMBIA. EVEN IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD THESE BRANDS GO FOR UN NOTABLE ONES AND STILL DO SPORT. SURELY, ARE THERE NO CLOTHE DESIGNERS IN ZAMBIA? IF THEY ARE THERE WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO CONTRIBUTE TO SPORT IN ZAMBIA? MOST TALENTED YOUNGSTERS SHY AWAY FROM SPORTS IN ZAMBIA DUE TO LACK OF PROPER ATTIRE. COME, DO SOMETHING. YOU DON’T NEED TO BE TOLD.

    • sense!!!!! this is what we want to be reading. and to add on, promoting our local industry starts with these celebrities like abena kaseba, sata, mampi, petersen, Jk. can you imagine if the president and his cabinet, artists all said,we will not wear shoes made from outside zambia.people would start emulating the style of shoes from the artists since they are kind of fashion trend setters.ninshi there would be a boom in local industry for shoes.we would therefore need more people making shoes,others doing the leather,others innovating new types of material to match the leather expensive one for making shoes.Increase in the distribution of these shoes.new jobs for shoe designers etc.A thousand jobs could come just from shoes alone,now imagine this extended to the sports attire also.

18. I AM APPEALING TO OUR HARD WORKING GOVERNMENT. (please consider pictures No. 33 and 34). PLEASE, CAN YOU REPLACE THE WORLD BANK FUNDED STRUCTURES WITH PROPER CONCRETE BLOCKS AND BRICKS IN ALL SCHOOLS THAT STILL HAVE THEM? THOSE STRUCTURES (World Bank) AS THEY WERE POPULARLY KNOWN WERE A MEANS TO QUICK SECONDARY SCHOOLS CLASSROOM AVAILABILITY SOLUTION. AND NOT A MEANS TO AN END. THERE MAYBE NO NEED TO DEMOLISH THE FOUNDATIONS. BUT, JUST BUILD ON TOP OF EXHIBITING ONES WITH NEW MODERN STEEL ROOFING. AS THEY ARE NOW THEY ARE AN EYESORE AND VERY COLD IN WINTER TO SIT IN. WE NEED TO BE BUILDING ATTRACT INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING WHERE EVEN NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES CAN BE SENDING THEIR CHILDREN AT A FEE. AS MOST OF OUR SCHOOLS ARE NOW, THEY DON’T ENCOURAGE FOREIGN STUDENTS. THEY ARE LIKE PIGSTILES.

19. @mushota. U are a disgrace to our country,get good education ,not the one U have. A grade 7 student,your written English is very poor.

20. COMING TO THE HOUSEHOLD-TURNED LIBRARY. IT’S A PITY HOW THE READING CULTURE HAS FINISHED IN ZAMBIA. I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A KID BEFORE AND DURING MY PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL YEARS HOW GOING TO THE LIBRARY USED TO BE PART OF OUR SERIOUS DAILY ACTIVITIES. AS KIDS WE READ COMICS SUCH AS TINTIN. THERE WAS ALSO IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN A ZAMBIAN COMIC CALLED SMILER. WE ENJOYED LOOKING THROUGH ILLUSTRATIONS AND READING BOOKS. LIBRARIES WERE GOOD AND FULLY STOCKED WITH PROFESSIONAL LIBRARIANS WHO ENJOYED WHAT THEY USED TO DO. THEY ENCOURAGED US TO READ AND BORROW BOOKS AND BE PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE OVER THE ITEMS WE WERE LOANED. TODAY’S NON-READING CULTURE ISN’T TO BE BLAMED ON READERS BUT ALSO THE SERVICE PROVIDERS WHO ARE MOSTLY THE MUNICIPALITIES. FIRST AND FOREMOST MAY I REMIND…

    • from 20.
      …MUNICIPALITIES THAT IF THEY ARE INNOVATIVE COUNCIL LIBRARIES CAN BE SELF-FINANCING APART FROM THE INITIAL COST OF PUTTING UP A LIBRARY. HOWEVER, THOSE LIBRARIES MUST BE ATTRACTIVE TO THE READERSHIP BY WAY OF INSTALLING HIGH SPEED NETWORKED DESKTOP COMPUTERS WHICH ARE IN TURN CONNECTED TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB. VERY GOOD PRINTERS MUST ALSO BE INSTALLED OFFERING CHEAPER SERVICES AS COMPARED TO NON-PUBLIC SERVICES TO BE ABLE TO PRINT DIFFERENT FORMATS AND PAPER SIZES SUCH AS A4, A3, etc, NORMAL TEXT, GRAPHICS, ARCHITECTURAL PLANS etc TO OFFER FEE-PAYING SERVICES TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. HOWEVER, MEMBERSHIP MUST BE FREE. THE CITY FATHERS SHOULD ALSO BE HIGHLY INNOVATIVE TO INTRODUCE NEW SERVICES SUCH AS MUSIC ON DVDs AS WELL AS FILMS. LOST BOOKS, DVDs AND OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENT…

    • from 20.1. from 20.1.
      …PROPERTIES (public property in other words) MUST BE PAID FOR BY THE BORROWERs, (This is where ZICTA comes in with their postcodes project and I wonder if they finished it), WHOSE FIXED ABODES ARE HELD ON THE LIBRARY DATABASE SYSTEM. ADDRESSES OF EMPLOYERS, SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES SHOULD JUST BE ADDITIONAL INFO ABOUT A BORROWER IF THEY ARE AT ALL IN EMPLOYMENT OR INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING. THE CHILD SECTION SHOULD ENCOURAGE AND HOLD SESSIONS FOR BABIES, KIDS WITH THEIR PARENTS TO COME AND READ BOOK WITH THEIR CHILDREN. THE LIBRARY SHOULD CONDUCT ENTERTAINMENT READING SESSIONS FOR KIDS, ETC. LIBRARIES SHOULDN’T BE STAND-ALONE BUILDINGS. THEY SHOULD BE INCORPORATED IN POSH GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS SUCH AS THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE NEAR KAMWALA MARKET OR OTHER POSH…

    • …PROPERTIES (public property in other words) MUST BE PAID FOR BY THE BORROWERs, (This is where ZICTA comes in with their postcodes project and I wonder if they finished it), WHOSE FIXED ABODES ARE HELD ON THE LIBRARY DATABASE SYSTEM. ADDRESSES OF EMPLOYERS, SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES SHOULD JUST BE ADDITIONAL INFO ABOUT A BORROWER IF THEY ARE AT ALL IN EMPLOYMENT OR INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING. THE CHILD SECTION SHOULD ENCOURAGE AND HOLD SESSIONS FOR BABIES, KIDS WITH THEIR PARENTS TO COME AND READ BOOK WITH THEIR CHILDREN. THE LIBRARY SHOULD CONDUCT ENTERTAINMENT READING SESSIONS FOR KIDS, ETC. LIBRARIES SHOULDN’T BE STAND-ALONE BUILDINGS. THEY SHOULD BE INCORPORATED IN POSH GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS SUCH AS THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE NEAR KAMWALA MARKET OR OTHER POSH PARASTATAL…

21. The first lady needs the PE classes more than those young ladies – she is obese!

22. All these photos just say We value stadiums more than libraries and we value events/ceremonies more than work.

    I weep for Zambia.

23. from 20.1.
    …PROPERTIES (public property in other words) MUST BE PAID FOR BY THE BORROWERs, (This is where ZICTA comes in with their postcodes project and I wonder if they finished it), WHOSE FIXED ABODES ARE HELD ON THE LIBRARY DATABASE SYSTEM. ADDRESSES OF EMPLOYERS, SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES SHOULD JUST BE ADDITIONAL INFO ABOUT A BORROWER IF THEY ARE AT ALL IN EMPLOYMENT OR INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING. THE CHILD SECTION SHOULD ENCOURAGE AND HOLD SESSIONS FOR BABIES, KIDS WITH THEIR PARENTS TO COME AND READ BOOK WITH THEIR CHILDREN. THE LIBRARY SHOULD CONDUCT ENTERTAINMENT READING SESSIONS FOR KIDS, ETC. LIBRARIES SHOULDN’T BE STAND-ALONE BUILDINGS. THEY SHOULD BE INCORPORATED IN POSH GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS SUCH AS THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE NEAR KAMWALA MARKET OR OTHER POSH PARASTATAL…

24. “from 20.1.
    …PROPERTIES (public property in other words) MUST BE PAID FOR BY THE BORROWERs, (This is where ZICTA comes in with their postcodes project and I wonder if they finished it), WHOSE FIXED ABODES ARE HELD ON THE LIBRARY DATABASE SYSTEM. ADDRESSES OF EMPLOYERS, SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES SHOULD JUST BE ADDITIONAL INFO ABOUT A BORROWER IF THEY ARE AT ALL IN EMPLOYMENT OR INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING. THE CHILD SECTION SHOULD ENCOURAGE AND HOLD SESSIONS FOR BABIES, KIDS WITH THEIR PARENTS TO COME AND READ BOOK WITH THEIR CHILDREN. THE LIBRARY SHOULD CONDUCT ENTERTAINMENT READING SESSIONS FOR KIDS, ETC. LIBRARIES SHOULDN’T BE STAND-ALONE BUILDINGS. THEY SHOULD BE INCORPORATED IN POSH GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS SUCH AS THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE NEAR KAMWALA MARKET OR OTHER POSH…

25. Thank you Czar please tell these people that afterall Scotland is still struggling for its independence.

26. The one thing made conspicuous by its absence is the lack of proper Gym Wear for the kids, especially correct shoes. We need a donation of trainers for the kids if we are serious about promoting a health programme of exercise. They look so poor in 26, 36. Although their bright smiles show they are proper little soldiers; they will get past thus. Very resilient and encouraging.

27. Most of the pictures tell a sad story about our country. You can literally see poverty from the surroundings and from people’s faces. I don’t usually agree with Mushota but she has a point. Things look very bad!

28. Picture number 1, a bunch of old men with either shaved heads or grey hair. Do we really expect anything progressive from these tired looking men? These chaps must take a rest and let energetic people do the work.

29. For once I support today. even small towns here look nice. look at that photo with the stadium? terrible roadside. look at matero community hall. Terrible. we cant blame the white man for stealing from Africa. white man steals & develops his city. black man steals and eaves the country dirty and not developed.

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