Dear Editor,
THE RISE AND GROWTH OF ZAMBIAN POLITICS OF NAME-CALLING AND TALKING ABOUT EACH OTHER’S HEALTH
2001: Opposition leader Michael Chilufya Sata leads the nation in the campaign against Levy Patrick Mwanawasa and calls him “CABBAGE
2005: Opposition leader Michael Chilufya Sata calls and later writes the Chief Justice to have a medical investigation of Mwanawasa’s health.
2008: Opposition leader Michael Chilufya Sata lead the nation in the campaign against Rupiah Rupiah Bwezani Banda and calls him “NYAMASOYA”
2008: Sata evacuated to South Africa by the MMD government
2010: Opposition leader Michael Chilufya Sata challenges Rupia Bwezani Banda to tell the nation about his knee condition and his travel to South Africa.
2010: Michael Sata’s wife Christine Kaseba said to have been evacuated to South Africa for medical treatment
2011: Government media led by ZNBC including Zambia Daily Mail spread false rumor about Michael Chilufya Sata’s health and says: Sata collapses during a campaign trail after disembarking from the Helicopter
2012: Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema joins the politics of name calling and says Sata is Cimbwi No Plan. He gets arrested and charged with defamation.
2012/3 Opposition leaders and online media spread some news of Sata’s evacuation to India for medical treatment. Fred Mmembe dispel rumours in the Post headline and says that he has talked to Sata in India who is enjoying good health
2013: Govt-owned Zambia Daily Mail and Post Newspapers spread news that opposition UPND leader’s wife, Mutinta Hichilema, has been evacuated to South Africa. HH’s wife dispel the rumour and says she is enjoying good health. PF cadres get excited with the news.
CRY MY BELOVED COUNTRY
Isaac M. Mwanza
Tonga Bull
May 9, 2013 at 12:28 pm
lets get rid of the source, you destroy the source and you solve the problem. and the begining and the source of all this is very clear, its Micheal Chilufyanya Satan.
BOKO HARAM
May 9, 2013 at 12:40 pm
The big ****** idiots are the journalists and their chief editors who just report stories without verifying the we have bamumbwe in Zambia in the name of journalists
Narrant
May 9, 2013 at 12:49 pm
Big headline, small or no news at all! Just what are you up to, ba tumfweko and your Isaac Mwanza?
Thugnificent
May 9, 2013 at 1:49 pm
No point,very useless story,it appears this mwanza chap is jst a fool who has nothing 2bring forth..get a life coz this story is “LAME”.
Fact
May 9, 2013 at 2:19 pm
The media likes destorting things. Opposition leaders never commented on rumours about the President’s evacuation to india. And HH never said Sata is Chimbwi No Plan. All he said was that ‘PF is running government on a Chimbwi No Plan basis”. The following day PF cadres screeamed that HH had called Sata Chimbwi No Plan (CNP).
Ryan
May 9, 2013 at 2:39 pm
Pliz spare us from this rubbish, we want issues about development not this kind of issues. No wonder u have very few bloggers. Yo news content is below par
Zyukuwalola
May 9, 2013 at 5:17 pm
That is the best in the absence of your so called “development”. Chiza uli?
OSMORE
May 9, 2013 at 3:05 pm
Zambian journalists are very dull.Both in the private and public .ln Zambia 2 some extent Engrish signfies being either well educated or not depending on how u use it. Alas it is mostly a fragmented 1 if dey either speak or write t.No wonder wenye.
mali
May 9, 2013 at 3:44 pm
fraustrated idiots, are angered, this is to remind fools who started insulting, good move tunfweko, remind them, why are u bitter today, akale mwali umungu, shame, of short memory brains, tiye mwanza, nafimbi.
Mutombela kwipaya
May 9, 2013 at 7:44 pm
Yjah tumfweko,this is no news at all!****! If you got no news plse letenikofye ilyashi lyakutombana ifwe tumfweko bwino fwebabelesha ukutomba!!! Alaa!.
IONA
May 9, 2013 at 11:14 pm
This has to stop, it’s total madnes and not politics
Reveal!
May 10, 2013 at 7:14 am
Tumfweko your content is below standard,be objective and research extensively.
Kalok
May 10, 2013 at 8:06 am
We are behind the curve in a lot of professions in Zed. First off, we need a fairly straight-forward access to information about our leaders. When there is a gap in information, speculation takes hold and manipulation will be rife. It also enforces a fatalistic and cynical mindset, something supremely noticeable in Zed.