You have to hand it to Mugabe: he is good at making friends. It must be the ‘charm’ noted breathlessly by British Ambassador Deborah Bronnert. No sooner does Mugabe lose his number one bootlicker, Mutharika of Malawi, than he pulls another out of his other boot: Michael Sata of Zambia who, as a former platform sweeper at London’s Victoria Station, is even better equipped.
It may be we have to hand it to Sata – in the form of a pouch of ‘grubby stones’ such as given by Liberian butcher Taylor to the bejewelled model Naomi Campbell. After all, Mutharika was given a stolen Zimbabwean farm.
But perhaps the Vigil is being unkind to Sata. It might not have been necessary to buy him. He could – let’s be fair – just be stupid. One way or another, how else do you account for his comments during his visit to Zimbabwe to open the wildly successful trade fair in Bulawayo (the majority of stands taken by the Chinese and many of the others by bankrupt parastatals with nothing to offer, such as Air Zimbabwe)?
For us at the Vigil Mr Sata’s bizarre pro-Mugabe comments raise a number of important points: what are the MDC and the British government doing about it? For the MDC’s part, it appears that Tsvangirai has protested by boycotting Sata’s visit. But what purpose does this serve? Wouldn’t a confrontation have been better?
Whatever the MDC’s strategy, the Vigil believes that the government here in Britain should not let pass Sata’s gross interference in Zimbabwe’s domestic affairs. Mr Sata complains about sanctions on Zimbabwe: what is the High Commissioner in Lusaka doing?
Eventually the British government was provoked into suspending the aid that kept Mutharika’s economy going. The Vigil believes that Britain should now take a close look at its priorities in Zambia. We suggest some of the huge aid package given annually to Zambia should be diverted to the undoubtedly daunting task of educating Sata.
The Zimbabwean
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Batumfweko what is your problem? You mean sata should refuse when invited? This is nonsence.
A few words to my bros in Zim , Remove the log in your eyes first b4 u start sayin this crap!
Ubuntu mubi for sure, mwadya milisi then u say shit ata!
Ba mustanyoko ba zimbabwe morgan bwambarai or shangarai litolefye if you want us to educate HEMS first educate amabolo yakwawiso not to produce useless kid like you.
This article was written by Morgan Bwambarayi! He is as bitter as the infamous Zambia’s under 5 nappies politician!
batumfweko stop gosping u need be posting something to educate the public .this is de father of the nation u r insultng .tulepelakwisa
Zim failed out of favor with UK on the land issue.Many British commercial farmers lost big chunks of land to blacks.Britain had to impose those sanctions in order to teach Mugabe a lesson about what he did to the whites.
What merit has this story got??? Zambia is a neighbour to Zimbabwe and the two countries share strong historical ties. Besides, the two countries are even scheduled to co host the World Tourism Congress in 2013, you find it strange President Sata visited??
Come on, some realism will be helpful here, find genuine things to criticise the President over!!!
The english in that letter.. One wonders who needs education between the writer and our very own sata..
Rubbish pit.
i went on a random sarvey when i was in lusaka last month around 23 hrs i met sex worker and i was asking them how much is shot time? boss mpeleni fye 30pin, i went northmead another one said ndefwaya fye 50pin, i went to east point in kabwata she also said mpenifye 70pin, i went to tall trees along kafue rd even their she told me that ngamulefwaya shot time ncita 50pin, now to my suprise all prostites where speaking bemba as this was not enough these betches are not educated just like ukwa and all his foolish bemba gov. luk at gbm or just jely chanda, yes indeed ukwa sata need to be educated but its too late ukwa is very very old, he cant handle facebook matters sata is just too old to be taken to school let us just kick him out of state house. chao
KA TRUE BANTUSTANS: You suck!!!!!!!
Bwafya!
viva sata,tongas u are best at sleeping with your domestic animals,eg fu..king chickens and cows u will rule zambia u slaves.
The author of this under five article is a total coward,you guys in Zimbabwe mwaliitemwa sana honestly speaking bambi mula nsekesha nga mulelanda blaming your Bob nearly on everything.Imwe bankusa kwena umuntu fye umo ewamipesha mwalabutauka fye nga mapanga…you are all over the world busy enjoying ice cream go back and sort yourselves out,stop blaming others.What has Sata to do with your Bob,mulefwaya bonse tumupate kubufi bwenu??Bambi notu ma church balibutuka bale bepa nokuti iyoo ifwe freedom of worship balitupoka,,wenye wanu..pamanso kuyipa monga kaya..mwatemwa fye uku ba IMBUTUSHI.
awe ba Tumfweko u are too much, Pls Zambians lets learn to respect our president. No matter how bitter you are u cannever change the fact that he is in state house. Remember all rulers are permitted by God and u just have 2 submit.
@ True bantustan, bushe ababemba baikala pamusula obe tee? if you have issues to sort out sort them out without talking about bembas.Whether you want it or not a bemba is rulling you and you are going to live with it for the next 5 yrs, so jst put your ass in order and do something constructive than being tribal pantu tamwakatekepo,bembas are great and clever pipo.
@true bantustan, me i worked with prisoners. nine out of ten criminals were bemba speaking with little or no education
THIS ARTICLE WAS NOT WRITTEN BY BA TUMFWEKO, IT CAME FROM “THE ZIMBABWEAN” AND WAS JUST TAGGED ON TUMFWEKO….
WHATEVER THE CASE, THE WRITER POINTED OUT SOME IMPORTANT ISSUES THAT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT WHEN SATA VISITS ANOTHERB COUNTRY. HE REALLY NEEDS TO BE EDUCATED ON HOW TO CARRY HIMSELF AS A HEAD OF STATE. REMEMBER AT FIRST IT WAS KENYA, THEN BOTSWANA AND NOW ZIMBABWE… WHY MAKE SILLY BLANDERS EVERYWHERE HE GOES?
Thanx True Bantustans. Your research just proves what the Bembas are saying. ARE YOU CONFIRMING THAT their language is the most popular?Go Soweto market and say. ‘Nishinga…?’ 9 out of 10 you will get the correct response.
Your shot just backfired musankwa. Try again.
You mother farmers and sons of businesmen.i cant pick any sense frm yo report.
micheal satan is very funny, busy bootlicking mugabe, micheal satan is nothing but a stupid, useless, stinking recycled politician. what micheal satan needs is to be taken to a grade one class so that he can start school maybe the teachers can pump some sense into that big head of his.
“the only thing necessary for the truimph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
i swear i will not let evil truimph i will challenge evil men like micheal satan at all costs.
JASTINE.KAY.MOSQUITO.DOC B.U ARE VERY — USELESS, IF U ARE INVITED U CAN GO BUT YOU CHOOSE WHAT TO SAY AND YOU CAN ONLY DO THTA IF YOU HV SOME KIND OF EDUCATION .PIPO WE ARE EMBARANCED BY SOMEOF THESE MEN AND WOMEN WITH VERY HUMBLE EDUCATION. SUPPORT BUT BE OBJECTIVE
Sata is not educated shwangirai is not educated chikala mugabe is not educated. Lets wait for them to die why worry.
Nonsense
Sounds like one of those anti-Mugabe publications, and just this identity alone means a serious lack of objectivity and impartiality, so get a life Mr “The Zimbabwean” reporter.
Yaba!….
I did not read the article.
No its not Sata who needs to be educated,its you ba tumfweko!because your reporting is so poor nga ni grammar teyakulanda!
Tha author is a british woman wit a fat pussy..
MWENYA MWAUME, SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE MANS STATEMENT IN ZIM AND BOTSWANA. ALSO ABOUT THE EDUCATION. LIMBI EFIFINE NAIWE TAWASAMBILILA .
mwenya mwaume, ulicikopo. the grammar in article is supperb. it is only that u are like them out education. and blindly supporting everything. ubukopo twala kumyobe.
iwe bantustan u must be a very dull chap it will u and yo upnd 5 years to try to enter state house .have u also serveyed livingstone the prostitute capital what language do they use is it bemba as well
@Tonga Bull. If you have it to challange, come out instead of you hiding your identity here. “Tonga Bull”. Some of us are using our names you are hiding. Who can you challange with that stinking fear?
Educated, middle class Zimbabweans want change. It’s only people from rural and lower class who want Mugabe. Zimbabwe’s economic downfall was land grabbing. And our dear President agreed with their land grabbing. We have a lot of uneducated Zambians, the article speaks the truth.
so you chaps are failing to follow a consistent route of consistent diplomatic incompetence. It was in Botswana and now in zim.
Zimbabweans are suffering yet you want to die hard for nonsense.
Okay,i read these comments n i think…we all need some growin up to do..We can keep passin comments based on tribal lines..Its dangerous for the unity and success of our country .Maturity please.Its hard to believe that in this day and age a person would say shit like this tribe is greater than that one..or vice versa…if there is anyone that needs to be educated,its the pipo passin these silly comments…Sata is our president,we need to rspct him…at the same time,whose says a president is all knowing??If there is anything our president should be educated on then he shud get that education….its for his own good!!…It would be helpful if we all made comments that would build us…n not break us…We can do better.