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Chiluba, Mwanawasa and Sata MISSED: ZAMBIAN PRESIDENTS PASSED AWAY, BUT LEFT MARKS IN OUR HEARTS. By walusungu silweya, Braamfontein, Johannesburg. MILLIONS of Zambian may not have had a personal encounter with these celebrated presidents but nevertheless they left a footprint in their hearts. Mitch Albom reminds us that death ends a life, not a relationship. Indeed as kwacha magazine we take a look at these people. Dr Chiluba Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba (Born: April 30, 1943, Kitwe, Zambia –Dead: June 18, 2011, LusakaZambia Our first was second republican president of Zambia since it got independence. Chiluba was personable man with oratorical gifts. He was the first democratically elected President of Zambia in 1991 after ending 27years of Kenneth Kaunda’s rule with nearly 76 percent of the votes. Indeed he was a defender of civil liberties. Chiluba was a born-again Christian and often used biblical references in his speeches. He was also a passionate advocat...

THEY SAY blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness for their is the kingdom of heaven. Today, the  macabre killing of National Institute for Public Administration (NIPA) student Ruth Mbandu sent chills in the spines of many. It was an unusual slaying of the 19-year-old that shocked many people who have been wanting to see justice served and the killers caged. Ruth then a student at renowned Zambia’s National Institute of Public Administration N.I.P.A was gruesomely murdered. The murder of Ruth shocked Zambian especially given the highly bizarre circumstances surrounding it. At the moment in my journalism career, still astonish with the death of Ruth then my neighbour at Evelyn Hone College. She was a young woman, full of zest and hopes her dreams yet to be fulfilled. Those behind her murdered get their just deserts. For your information, High Court judge Chalwe Muchenga acquitted Edward Siandima, 28, and Collins Kasiye Sooma, 20, of Ruthâ s murder ...

Braamfontein, Johannesburg.SA. IN 2011 , over 2,000,000 Egyptians gathered for days at Cairo governorate’s square El-Tahrir, the center stage of the Egyptian Revolution bringing Hosni Mubarak’s government to a grinding halt.  This is following his 29-year-reign as head of office.  The result of the forthright collective voice was remarkable and through the revolution. Egypt finally held democratic elections to replace Mubarak and Mohamed Morsi was elected president. Today, this is referred to a power monger or clinging to power .   Since 2011, Africa has experienced ups and downs in terms of politics via ballot box. The simmering political situation in a tiny country in the Great Lakes region is a reminder to all that we should learn from brothers and sisters in Burundi.  Since their president Pierre Nkurunziza was returned to power for a third term by a limited pool of voters, over 400 deaths in a political violence have been reported and...

ZAMBIAN TRIBALISM IS VIA ELECTION, EMPLOYMENT… EVEN IF education is free the cat will never go to the school as the cat. Mollycoddle for all Zambian on how tribalism is giving out as if it not one Zambia, one Nation. Indeed, we have wrestled several times with own tribal demons. We have never been quick to try to address the guts of tribalism and nepotism that still runs strongly through our veins.  Too soon, we forget all contentedly that our forefathers fought for freedom, unity, and peace we endure today as they made their lonely and heartbreaking feelings during independency struggle. Yes, we have re-paid it in some cases with our open hatred, violence and in others with blind indifference more especially during elections instant.  Ben Wattenberg once recounted that what’s real in politics is what the voters decide is REAL. We have even with our own naked eyes how voting lines indicates regionalism and tribalism in a country that paradoxically regards itse...

ONE AGAINST ALL... WINSTON CHURCHILL said political is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. As other politicians joining UPND including who retired to active politics are now flip-side via EDITORS. Nowadays, politician are proving to voters that they love power more than them (punters). Indeed, we have started believing and using media to vent our frustration over politics. H.E President Edgar Lungu of Zambia. On the other hands some media houses have turned into political parties supporting their favorite candidates for August elections and covering nicer about his party which is now propaganda or half-truth. Ordinary citizens suffer when politician out each others throat of power due to to the influence of media. As a journalist...I know some media company are busy trying all the trickery and efforts to bring President Edgar Lungu down. The some editors, they have fought and brought President KENN...

POLITICAL HATRED IS RIDING US NOWHERE… MORTAL COMBAT has become the language of our electoral process. As FAROUK ARAIE said gutter politics and character assassination have replaced decency and civility. Zambia is sadly enveloped in a culture of political hatred, unprecedented in our democracy history. Electioneering is in full progress as the nation prepares for August elections. We are living in a world where truth, lies, distortion and politicization are hard to tell. Many politicians resort to gutter politics as they do not possess the talent for good governance. One fact is undeniable: some political figures inspire paranoia, incite more divisiveness and even encourage more radical polices and they might indeed have power to disrupt the utopian ideal of democracy. We cling to barbaric electric political beliefs that are in themselves, self-defeating, self-restrictive, selfishness and self-destructive We carry our negative emotions with us from generation t...