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What Really Transpired In Gaborone On 20 March 2012 When President Michael Sata Met Zambians Living In Botswana
18 :30. Arrival of the president Michael Sata and his entourage
18 :35. National anthem chaired by ZACOBO (Zambian Community in Botswana)
18: 40. Speech by Ambassador to Botswana, within seconds Sata interrupts and says how do you deliver a speech before praying when you a son of a Bishop? Bishop prays
18: 50. Speech by chairman of ZACOBO amongst other things mentions of PF and UPND having walked out of parliament in order to ensure that the constitution was not passed during RBs days and also complains of Kaponyas at Kazungula Border and all bus stations, also said all buildings need painting in Lusaka and then invites the President ( This speech might have made the politicians upset)
19 :00. Given Lubinda (Minister of Information) steps in before Sata and could be vividly seen that he was very upset with the ZACOBO Chairmans speech about the walking out of PF from parliament and said they did so because of the difference they had in principles hence people should get facts correct before making statements because ‘some of you are MMD Cadres’ and also asked the Zambians what investments they have made in Zambia, how much do they send every month to their relatives back home? He then invited the President – King Cobra
19:05. Sata- In 1970, I was the first Zambian expatriate in United Kingdom and not Botswana so don’t think it’s a great achievement to work in Botswana, can I have questions now.
1910 Questions- whats the status of the Dual citizenship?
Sata: Which town are you from? Monze? Do you want to belong to Monze and Namwala? Because RB was from Gwanda in Zimbabwe that’s why he wanted Dual citizenship
Question: it is difficult for us living in Diaspora to get land back home, what is the Govt doing about it?
Sata: What are you doing in Botswana?
Answer: I am a teacher!
Sata: Go back to Zambia and teach your relatives then you will get Land
Question: Mr President, you never consulted on the Ithezhi tezhi and Chirundu districts
Sata: Whom did you consult to come to Botswana?
19 25 Concluding remarks- President Sata
All of you who are here with fake questions am very disappointed with you and embarrassed, are you not even ashamed of yourselves? You ran away from Zambia and thought we couldn’t find you and now today we have caught you. You are refugees in Botswana being exploited by the Botswana Govt. You left Zambia to come and work here for an extra K1?
Teachers
You are busy educating Tswanas leaving your own relatives in Zambia uneducated and you are proud? All of you were educated by your parents who never even finished standard 7 and struggled to educate you and you run away from them?
Doctors
Your relatives are dying in Zambia you are busy saving tswana lives?
Accountants
Botswana has only 5 shops and you call your self an accountant when Diamond mines want a consultant they will call a South African and not a Zambian, what are you still doing here?
Enginneers
There are no potholes in Botswana and President Khama has told me that Zambian Engineers designed the roads, when you go to Petauke and Katete there are so many potholes where the same engineers come from are you not ashamed of yourselves? Some of your relatives in the villages have never seen a tarred road and you are busy designing Botswana roads? No patriotism at all
Other professionals, Doctors, Professors etc
When I choose Grade 2 ministers, you complain some of you qualify to be MPs and others Counsilors why don’t you go back to Zambia? I struggled for 10 yrs, you will also struggle to settle but once you have determination you will make it.
We have about 2000 Zambians in Botswana but tonight only 100 have attended the meeting, imagine how Zambia was going to be developed if all of you built mansions in your villages but you are all crying for Land in Lusaka, you will never get it unless you go to Zambia, you even boast about diaspora what is that? Remain there in Diaspora, you went to Diaspora with nothing and you will go back to Zambia with nothing.
You complain that it takes you 3 hrs at Kazungula border I wish you take 4 years there why should I be worried about you people who ran away from Zambia when my people in Sesheke are not complaining about Kazungula border I will tell the headmen to build more boats for ferrying you and not a bridge so that you spend longer hours and days!
Act now because tomorrow will be too late or never comes. If you delay I will employ Chinese and Pakistanis and when you decide to go back to Zambia at your own time, the people who were in Grade 1 when you were at UNZA will be your bosses!
I came to Botswana to officiate a school which is inferior to our own St Marys!
Anyway I came here just to Greet you, Bishop can you pray we go
19: 29 Meeting closed.
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bt
March 24, 2012 at 12:10 am
let us pray for our God given president Mr M C Sata
BONYOLO
March 24, 2012 at 3:42 am
wonderful speech mikaeli!.
boithumelo
March 24, 2012 at 5:40 am
I a proud zambian, comfortably living and working abroad,
I left zed coz could not find job for a year despite being a graduate. back home I have 3 properties on rent and viable business in operation and I have employed abt 30 zambians-so much for developing my country with my fat acct @barclays. so in my own time I will come home, no place like home. I will however not be insulted by kaponya sata coz iam a 100% zambian as him and not a refugee.
Mwami
March 24, 2012 at 7:53 am
What have you diasporans said about your chairmans speech? That is where diplomacy was killed. If I was MCS. He would have seen real venom.
Kwateni amanoo & choose better chairman.
About plots kwisa mukufwaila Juno kwine
DO NOT BELITTLE THE PRESIDECY.
Bafinena you got what you asked for.
Tonga Bull
March 24, 2012 at 9:25 am
Sata(n) is busy cooking himself with charms in india and sacrificing zambians to satanists. Sata(n) is a walking corpse .
DENNIS
March 24, 2012 at 9:51 am
Read a past article by Field Ruwe in the daily mail. The problem with educated Zambians, they want money to find them in their offices. No wonder they are the most currupt and poorest of the middle class. Kaponyas are getting richer and becoming presidents because they work hard and are innovative. Even after getting your MBAs you still want to be beggers the way you were as school boys. Umuntu mutwe not ifipepala. Ukasanga maid na shindilako mukafilwe nefya ku chirac.
Stone
March 24, 2012 at 10:37 am
boithumelo
You are a prick for insulting our president. Yours may be a different situ but overall he hit the nail on the head.
Stone
March 24, 2012 at 10:40 am
Tonga Bull, we know you bantustan will never accept that Sata rules. Your disgruntled HH has set the tone for you people. Shame.
Forgive them
March 24, 2012 at 11:40 am
It is true why develop the Botswana and not zambia,the cobra was right to spite the venom.
The chair appeared to be UPND because his concern of developing southern province is not ther but to quesition the demarctions is his primary issue.
shame upon your self and viva king cobra.
Forgive them
March 24, 2012 at 11:46 am
It is true why develop the Botswana and not zambia,the cobra was right to spite the venom.
The chair appeared to be UPND because his concern of developing southern province is not there but to quesition the demarctions is his primary issue.
shame upon your self and viva king cobra.
maikolo
March 24, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Ba SATA was simply calling a spade a spade, amen, no need of praising people in diaspora,here we need teachers, engineers, and doctors. Why complain when you are busy developing Botswana. Shame on you. That is what makes sata different from other Presidents.
keyser soze
March 24, 2012 at 12:15 pm
diplomatic etiquette and decorum please send him for diplomatic studies.
ME
March 24, 2012 at 12:19 pm
From what i wear the Zambian born, mostwana citizen, HH support, misrepresented the Zambians living in Botswana in his speech. He provoked the whole situation. Why are his questions and comments not printed? And why bring in politics?. The guy has not been to Zambia for some time. The president was only answering his questions and reacting to the comments. And he spoke the truth through and through. And next time you air you views Mr chairman, speak on won behalf.
We are behind you Mr President. 110%
mwewa
March 24, 2012 at 2:54 pm
truth hurts period! Sata is right he could come out strong but he is right, how many of zed professionals in botswana got educated there, none! so where do you pay homage? same on u engineers,doctors and teachers working in botswana! will die a patrot
Paul Mashaba
March 24, 2012 at 3:10 pm
For those of us know the meaning of “uku-SATA” will forgive the chap for his utterances. Ale SATA fye. Elyo abasata mashilu fye. This is another Julius Malema of Zambia. Only time will tell.
shoolani
March 24, 2012 at 3:39 pm
how many qualified teachers, doctors, engineers do we have in Zambia who are not employed??..thousands and even when they get a job the will be paid peanuts, y shud i stay on in the name of patriotism!..the cobra shud create jobs for the pipo who are in zambia first, if they will not be enough then he can start begging us to come back!..with as good conditions!.partriotism is not equal to being a sufferer in yo own country!
Geofrey
March 24, 2012 at 11:44 pm
This is unbeivable… com 2016 am da economyst hh 4 presindence, othr wise tebwikalo ubu. so nayeve sata h counts him self among da presidents?
Mwami
March 25, 2012 at 6:51 am
@shoolani
U r the only diasporan who agrees MCS. A refugee runs from problems at home to another country. YOU ARE ECONOMIC. REFUGEES. Back home my friend we are making progress. Am a school teacher with 200ha of land plus a gooood business. The U can’t have uko ku diaspora. When U come back I will have bought even yo gradnmas shamba. Just buy citizen ship ukokwine! Wechi MWANKOLE
Gee
March 25, 2012 at 5:15 pm
Hahahaha… Quite a funny article…
nokT
March 25, 2012 at 9:04 pm
king cobra was telling the truth, people have discarded our country, those fools who are here insulting him are full of shitt…our grandparents will take care of them. wake the hell up.
nokT
March 25, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Boithumelo you dumb fool, thats a tswana name if im not mistaken, i have a tswana friend with that name. keep sucking penises to get further in life, you are not a zambian you useless numbskull. tuka kofulila ba noko if you ever say rubbish about our president
Smurf
March 25, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Chwee Chwee Chwee HE MCS is the one! One hour was more than enough to deliver his message accross, and he hit the bloody nail on the head! chwee chwee….. chweeeela!
JIGGA
March 25, 2012 at 10:02 pm
If this is for real then i must say there’s definately something wrong with the President!!! I can’t be so surprised anyway,there’s too much intolerance in Zambian politics and the kind of politics in zed are just so archaic and so are all these old and recycled leaders,so backward hence the reason why we have stunted development in Zambia.