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UPND And FDD Addicted To Losing-Parties Run Like Tea/Tuck-Shops
It is said that failing to plan is planing to fail. At individual level one has to work hard in order to get what they long for. It is your life so when you reach a certain age you ought to move your pieces on that chess board. We have different abilities and opportunities but life doesn’t know that. Hence, we have to move and focus. I can term this a personal component. However when you are more than one. You become a team-a team needing each member to succeed. You may be a sports team, family, religious organisations, co-operatives or political grouping.
Despite having different missions, the goal is to win and not to lose. When it comes to politics, a party must play it smart in order to win or see that mission accomplished. This means all party members and supporters regardless of position and status must work hard to see that come to pass. Nevertheless, if people of the said group don’t work or market their party in a proper manner such a group will never achieve their goal. I have seen groups and parties fail to win not only because of strategies but because of disunite and due to luck of a proper collective objective.
It is team work that made us as Zambians (to) gain that independence from the British. Working as one people wanting multi-party democracy made us stand for that cause regardless of tribe, race, belief or sex. The reintroduction of multi-party politics meant that more people and parties entered politics. Entering politics meant one elected or chose to work with others to win and later serve.
After beating the once powerful United National Independence Party(UNIP), the Movement for Multi-party Democracy(MMD) stayed in power for those 20 years because they worked as a team. In those 20 years no team could match them. Parties were formed, pacts were made it all came to nothing because MMD was more organised than any party or pact. It is that organisation that made them win elections and stay in power.
When the Patriotic Front(PF) was formed it was just the Michael Sata ideas and ideals. Late President Sata shared his ideals with others. From 2001 with the help of people like Guy Scott and others, PF sold these ideas and ideals and the family grow. The Pabwato (on the boat) was the talk of the time in 2011. PF was no match to any other party. Even the once might MMD including the United Party for National Development(UPND) which was formed before PF was born and the Forum for Democracy and Development(FDD) which had more MPs than PF 10 years down the line.
What is my point here? In politics in order to win one has to be part of the team. Individual ideas must be shared with others. If you have a plan put it on the table for others to panel beat it. If you focus on individual ideologies thinking you will win elections- it is mission impossible. If you think a tribe, region or group of people will win you elections. That is like running away from your own shadow.
Parties like FDD or UPND should ask themselves questions. Why do we keep on losing? Are the people leading us up to modern democracy or politics?Sometimes I think people like Hakainde Hichilema(HH) and Edith Nawakwi just wake up and say today I am going to hold a press briefing or I am going to make a donation to a women’s group. Without question others just follow. Members and supporters of these parties should know that this will have them support or back a losing party for many years to come. People should know and buy the ideas of a political party before they buy the individual or were he comes from. If the people buy the party and the individual at the same time even better. The other things are just supplements.
I am saying so because sometimes one may think HH is UPND and UPND is HH or Nawakwi is FDD and FDD is Nawakwi. The two do things as individuals but want it to sound like a group idea or activity. Why is that we don’t hear about other party members but only one or two. All programmes in UPND are centred on HH like it is a business. UPND will keep on losing elections because it is not seen as a party which has a team character. Suppose HH won the elections in January who was he going to make government with? Who was going to run provincial offices? This also goes for Nawakwi. You want to hear about FDD it is Nawakwi who speaks. Who are the other members. Guys you don’t run farms or Itikati(Tuck shop). You are running political parties.
Many times when I hear or read what HH says or does I sometimes say. I think this man is a fan of losing. He makes so many political mistakes that you even pity the people who support him. The mistakes which I once called own goals just keep on coming. If politics were football I wouldn’t like HH to be a defender in my team. He takes things very personal. As I alluded to above, politics is all about team work. But you don’t see that in UPND and FDD.
The way I see it is that the MPs UPND has are content with being MPs so what ever the case they know they will win in the so called stronghold as they call it. As for me it is not a strong hold. People vote for them because they are from there and the leader of the party is from there. Full stop. This is because UPND is based on an individual who(m) people don’t know how to sell in other places because his party does not know what he will do next or where he is heading to next. Or what negative things he will say about Zambia.
I have being following social media politics both in Zambia and in other countries for a long time now. I don’t know if I am the only one who has seen this. For the first time most UPND supporters on social media look a bit lost and confused. They say things about HH and he does something else. When he says something they support him nonetheless.
About a month or so ago HH said that he was going to bring back Anglo- American mining to help run mines in Zambia. However, a few days ago Anglo American chief executive, Mark Cutifani, said that the company planned to sell or close more of its mines worldwide and plans to cut 85,000 job globally. So if you a UPND supporter you should be like. Mmmm okay, I didn’t see this coming. Ooops!! This is what I am talking about. Let or make your ideas and views known to the people. You are in a team. Maybe if your leader had advisers they would have told him about it. Oh wait. He has William Band and GBM. I am sure they know what Anglo American is.
I really have sympathy for UPND supporters; Imagine working tirelessly campaigning for your leader but he keeps on de-campaigning himself. Anyway. Agony is supporting HH when he has a plan of wanting to lose every time there are elections. The man is allergic to winning
Have a good weekend.
By Joe Mwansa Lombe Kaluba
Posted by Staffreporter
on December 11, 2015. Filed under POLITICS.
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New Educated Zambia©❤√
December 11, 2015 at 10:38 am
Very pathetic pf cadre. The goal is not to win but to serve zambians and while in opposition fight for their rights through checks and balances. This is one of reasons zambians are voting out pf because pf thought that the goal was to win and fatten themselves at expense of poor Zambians. Good luck in 2016. Vote upnd
KARODS
December 11, 2015 at 3:20 pm
NEZ BEHAVES LIKE A PARASITE IN BEMBA WE CALL IT(KONTO) WHEN A DOG DIES,THE PARASITE IS BURRIED TOGETHER WITH THE CARRIER.
TYPICAL TONGA THINKING IN NEZ.
muke
December 11, 2015 at 11:05 am
Didn’t PF win by the smallest of margins when the economy had not yet collapsed before the price of ubunga , umukate, beef, na sugar had reached Zimbabwe price levels of uncontrolled inflation?
Unless the madness that Mugabe has cast on the incredulous Zimbabweans takes over here, PF will lose soundly!
zebenga
December 11, 2015 at 11:10 am
Pathetic article Kaluba I thot u ve brains kanshi you are just an empty tin making noise diverting pipo’s minds to pet things that does nt change pipo’s lives. Talk of the collapsing economy give advise to the government leave HH and Nawakwi. Alone
jimpunda
December 11, 2015 at 11:21 am
This kaluba is always yapping nuisance nothing of value comes out of his mouth,type of pimisha fuel (pf)cadre
Ndanje kakhs
December 11, 2015 at 11:28 am
I am not concerned with article but I am worried with utterances from some managers on the copperbelt concerning the current selectricity situation. From this it appears some people know more about this load shedding. And they are from one tribe.
peddle
December 11, 2015 at 12:58 pm
And why from one tribe these guys are saddest.
zambian observer
December 11, 2015 at 11:43 am
BA Tumfweko please do us a favour substance in articles you post. surely you expect us to debate such?????
jimpunda
December 11, 2015 at 12:10 pm
open letter to all tonga speaking people,be warned! we are recruiting hakainde as 7th presdo not becoz he is a tonga no but we fil he can do better than the curent, and if he misbehaves we ll kick him in 2021, be warned!.
Onyx power @vampiros
December 11, 2015 at 2:03 pm
They will start the topic of bre if vote out HH.
IF NOT
December 11, 2015 at 12:37 pm
Yeah there some elements of truth in this article regarding these perpetual losing parties.
Chovix
December 11, 2015 at 12:38 pm
Excellent article Mr Kaluba ifishinka filakalipa these UPND cadres are blind followers they will follow everything no matter how stupid their freemanson president tells them even when they know he is just bluffing.Their demigod has got nothing else to say icisheleko kuyafye mukumona abalwele ku UTH.UPND fools get something from Mr kaluba’s article, ignore and insult him at your own peril you will remember him after 2016 elections.
MMD Cadre
December 11, 2015 at 2:05 pm
I cannot blame you for praising this shi.t of article because you are also shi.t yourself. Anyway some people were jumping out of windows in school when others were getting an education. To hell with you pathetic PFailure who cannot distinguish between this shi.t and the shi.t you flush in the toilet.
Judge Joe Bidden
December 11, 2015 at 1:33 pm
Waste of my lunch time, when will Tumfweko start writing It’s OWN editorial? We are tired of these mediocre crap the likes of Joe Kalaba, Tayali, Kambwili, Chanda, and other peaheads making news and foolish articles.
Czar
December 11, 2015 at 5:19 pm
That’s the problem of spending all your time here trying to stroke your ego.
Ndanje kakhs
December 11, 2015 at 1:55 pm
Tongas are very tribal so much that when they come to campaign at our club they only pick on Tongas and their tribe relatives such as Luvales etc
Czar
December 11, 2015 at 5:21 pm
Stop being dull. Tribe is not a qualification. You’re no better than those you are trying to criticize.
MMD Cadre
December 11, 2015 at 2:08 pm
Anyway I cannot blame ba tumfweko for always writing these shallow articles because most of your bloggers are simpletons. Seriously, you cannot find this kind of reporting on a self respecting site.
Paul
December 11, 2015 at 2:22 pm
Article without paragraphs, how can the content be reasonable when the writer is still living in the BC era.
Critical Analyser
December 11, 2015 at 2:25 pm
Now that Anglo can’t even cope with mining instability,can HH tell us his plan C,His problem is thinking after an act.THINK BEFORE u talk or act Akainde Ichilema cos you surely score too many goals in your own net.Very pathetic campaigns
Ndanje kakhs
December 11, 2015 at 2:47 pm
He thought we miners are simpletons
Jujux
December 11, 2015 at 2:33 pm
Iyo mulasabaila bashetani
Manix
December 11, 2015 at 2:54 pm
@MMD cadre is Anglo American coming to take over our mines again? Whats your take on this one tonga bullshit.
ANTI UPND 4 LIFE.
December 11, 2015 at 4:16 pm
UPND CADRES, GIVE US YOUR NEXT LIE SINCE ANGLO AMERICAN IS ON BOARD TO CLOSE MINES AND CUT JOBS,YOU COWS,YOU THOUGHT ANGLO WILL RUN THE MINES AT THE SAME TIME FIX THE PRICE OF COPPER AND LATER BUYS THE COPPER? YOU ARE COW DUGS INDEED.
Fantasy
December 11, 2015 at 4:22 pm
feels okey to refer to people by their tribe? the wise know they are foolish but the foolish think they are wise,
Ndanje kakhs
December 11, 2015 at 5:12 pm
Yes if tribe thinks that they are more superior
ANTI UPND 4 LIFE.
December 11, 2015 at 4:23 pm
IMWE BA NEW EDUCATED ZAMBIANS,FIRST THINGS FIRST,YOU START BY WINNING THERE AFTER YOU SERVE,NOW I SEE TO YOU WINNING IS NOTHING NO WONDER YOU ARE ALLERGIC TO WINNING,AND YOU MUST BE EDUCATED FOOLS.
Le Vox
December 11, 2015 at 6:38 pm
By and large, the article is objective and advisory. Secondly, it is not just a matter of opposing any idea that touches your leader. Sometimes it is a noble thing to be above non-entity issues. There is a bunch of bloggers who are just agitated once the hear the name of their party or leader. This is childish.
No wonder some parties will always be in opposition in the name of check and balances. Living on wishes and walking the corridors of Plot 1 in dreams. Some will always be returning to the drawing boards until the boards are eroded. Socrates once said “UNEXAMINED LIFE IS NOT WORTHY LIVING”. Which part of the coin are you on in politics? Complainant? Born to be led? You may be supporting a Humpty Dumpty Candidate of a Politician. Cadre? The answer is in your hands. A Dios!
New Educated Zambia©❤√
December 11, 2015 at 6:54 pm
adios kwisa iwe. Can you stand up in front of your children and wife and tell them honestly that you are happy with the way things are under pf? Can you surely be proud of the economic downturn we have witnessed? The load shedding and also the abuse of the law to restrict peoples rights and freedoms? Please do not be so emotional over silly things.
jebo
December 11, 2015 at 7:37 pm
iwe ka mwansa u cant compare antonio mwanza with lungu, antonio is far better than lungu or caniciuos banda is far better than yo cadre lungu. lungu is making the politics of zambia chip, nowonder mulyokela always challenges lungu to debat with him on public znbc tv, mulyokela knows that lungu is totally empty.
jebo
December 11, 2015 at 7:54 pm
he failed to follow the law in kabwe at convention, ask guy scott, kambwili or sampa, sata. watmo on other pipo like post news getting their computers, that is how he was brought at stage without messy and without law. ati lawyer useless.
Observer
December 11, 2015 at 8:02 pm
Ba Jebo – Nensoni tamwakwata.
sikujana
December 11, 2015 at 9:04 pm
talk grobal any how you like will vote pf out,pf can not hide under the name grobal,just start packing and prepare to be arrested in 2017.