Perspective: Wynter Kabimba, the politics of Loyalty
What has happened to the erstwhile General-Secretary of the Patriotic Front (PF) and Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba was the inevitable outcome of a system based on a front man while…
Perspective: 50 Years of Zambia: Ode to the Concrete Block
When all is said and done, the concrete block may well be among the real heroes of the last 50 years, writes Zambian Eye Special Correspondent. It wasn’t always the…
Perspective: Rule by law or Rule of law: The whiff of autocracy
The acquittal last month of the president of the Alliance for Better Zambia (ABZ) Fr. Frank Bwalya on a charge of “defamation of the President” was largely drowned out by…
Perspective: No hand-shake, no kiss and no sex – The deadliest Ebola outbreak stalks Africa
Ebola One/4 There had started a discussion about Zambia’s preparedness for the possible spread to her shores of Ebola, one of the deadliest viral hemorrhagic fevers known to man, writes…
Perspective: Cry, the President has unfortunately lost his voice!
Not much thought would have gone into that State House attempt to bamboozle the public on the health status of President Michael Sata, writes Zambian Eye Special Correspondent. It was…
Perspective: Patriotic Front, what now?
What One/3 The governing Patriotic Front (PF) is facing its most serious existential threat since its emergence as a political party at the end of 2001, writes Zambian Eye Special…
Perspective: Of a rotten silence and a headless chicken!
Headless one/3 Silence is normally considered to be golden and it is so in some cases, writes Zambian Eye Special Correspondent. But it is not universally or always golden. There…
Perspective: …Of relegating the military to 21-gun salutes et al
The period of economic reforms and liberalization in Africa which began in the 1990s has been accompanied by a marked decline in the presence and influence of the military in…
Perspective: Playing out old age fixations in the Foreign Service
A new low in the Foreign Service was reached with the recent appointment of Solomon Mbuzi as Zambia’s ambassador to Russia, writes Zambian Eye’s Correspondent. It was a singularly irresponsible…
Perspective: Confidence Men and the contrived state of denial
By a Special Correspondent Discourse one/3 The Patriotic Front (PF) appears to be increasingly imprisoned by the fraudulent means by which it sought and obtained power, writes Zambian Eye Special…