Himba Miyoba writes:
I want to talk to two camps of people, the winning camp and the losing camp. May I start with those that voted for losing candidates especially UPND members. I have seen many people posting to say ”another five years of suffering”…I think by so doing we are cursing ourselves. Let’s simply put it this way..”another 5 years of PF’s rule under his excellence president Edgar Chagwa Lungu.
If HH was declared the winner yesterday, no one of you would have received free breakfast today..no one would have started free education today…no one would have….bought cheaper fuel today..it would have probably taken him 5 years to realise his plans for Zambia and 10 years for you the Zambian to see the benefits (I lived during Mwanawasa’s reign but only appreciated him in his death). One thing I know is that the insults that are being lashed at you today (especially the Tonga) would still be there even if UPND was declared winner.
But I want to say it is well to you. You are not children of a lesser God. Go back to your positions of hard work for that’s what you are known for.
Ignore at all costs any tribal advance towards you and don’t lose focus. If you have a right to vote, you also have a right to chose and align yourself to a particular party and it’s candidate so don’t be ashamed.
To the winning team (PF) I know celebrations are ongoing and it’s an awesome feeling to win any competition. I will reserve my congratulation for now until the court makes it’s rulings. You have won and I have heard many of you saying this is a victory for God and the devil has been put to shame (so I presume based on this statement that the devil dwells in the opposition) I implore you therefore, live and lead according to God’s ordinances. Many demonic people went to Jesus but they were not scandilised,they were helped. If the people in opposition are as demonic as you portray, and if you are as Godly as you sound, then help them.
The bible says you reap what you sow…and it also tells us how we should sow. You can’t sow on sand, a hard rock and expect to harvest. Now go to Dundumwezi and see if there is anything the PF planted for you to expect to reap in form of votes. To start with, there is only a third grade road from Kalomo to Dundumwezi since time in memorial. The last time I heard a president talking about Dundumwezi and Siachitema (just talking about not going there) was in 1991 when then president Kenneth Kaunda went to campaign at central grounds behind Chungu garage in Kalomo town. These are remote people and places who feel so neglected. Why not visit them even during campaigns and also give them green chitenge materials and white T-shirts?
Your counterpart HH got votes from your so called strongholds because he visited and interacted with the people there. They saw him..they touched him they listened to him.
Chikankata is just 157 kms from Lusaka. 31 of these kilometers is a stretch of dilapidated second grade road (almost classified third grade) with 12 of those kilometres roughly upgraded to bituminous standard in 2006 when there was an MP from the ruling MMD. There is a very important referral hospital there though the road is in this state. Late President Michael Sata went to Chikankata and made pronouncements that he would do the road. He instead created a district (not that it was a bad thing) but this is a long term plan to expect immediate response in form of votes…however, because president Lungu touched that place and interacted with people, he got reasonable votes considering the fact that it’s not his stronghold.
I have given you guidance. These people were looking forward to a president who will diffuse the ticking tribal time bomb. In their vote they were very sure the tribal victim candidate would be the best to fight the vice. But now we have you (PF) who championed the vice. Please save the nation.
Come on Zambians insults and hate speech wont take us anywhere, Zambia is bigger than any tribe. Miyoba my dear i salute you, keep it up with your good message and i believe God will heal our nation, God bless our great nation.
Miyoba can make a good adviser to UPND leader
HAIMBA MIYOBA YOU ARE A MAGGOT YOU CANT SEE WHAT HAPPENED THAT RIGGING WAS INVOLVED,JUST SHUT YOUR STINKING MOUTH.
This is exactly what I have been trying to tell this lady. She doesn’t have feelings. She thinks by behaving ‘goody goody’ she will win accolades? This is exactly what PF wants you to do. They want you to just look the other way while they are busy stealing, not only your votes, but the country’s resources too while you watch and continue feeling ‘goody goody!’ So, like Harrison says, if you have nothing to say because you are comfortable with all this foolishness and theft, please just shut up.
Very good message Miyoba.We need pipo like you who think in those lines God bless you.
Dundumwezi and southern province in general have given PF zero votes since 2001. So they will give .PF zero even if they made Dundumwezi London. That is what has happened in western province. We are not young we know that since Andy formed the UPND the south have been voting for their own.
U cant force some1 to vote for a candidate he/she has no confidence with.its about choice,not some1 being imposed on a group of pipo.u reap wat u sow.pipo of dundumwezi,continue teaching some pipo a lesson.
Just by the spelling of your name, Himba Miyoba, I perceive you are Tonga. But I don’t believe that you have ‘Tonga feelings.’ Feelings injured, insulted, hurt, sidelined since PF came to power in 2011. I have Tonga friends and you actually see how the poor fellows are wriggling with bottled pain and anger in their hearts. This country can go up into flames! This is their country too. Miyoba, you may be Tonga but me who is not even Tonga can actually feel for my friends. It hurts! I wonder if Bembas have such hearts and tolerance to be able to contain these prolonged insults in their hearts. I am Lamba but there’s no tribe on earth that I have witnessed with insults flowing out of their mouths the way they flow out of Bemba mouths! But for what reason really? THE ONLY REASON I SEE IS THAT BEMBAS ENJOY DOMINATING OTHER TRIBES AND TONGAS ARE THE ONLY TRIBE IN ZAMBIA THAT BEMBAS HAVE FAILED TO DOMINATE. Bembas came to Copperbelt, a place that is not theirs and literary over-run us Lambas in our own land and influenced us to speak their language. They don’t like speaking other people’s languages themselves. So, instead of championing the ‘peacemaker’ cause, please tell Lungu to stop his tribal talk and also stop his MPs from doing the same. Lungu is going to go down history as the most tribal president, a thief and just good for nothing! That man is incapable of bringing unity to this nation, not him, far from it!
Miyoba, you are not only beautiful but you are wise and intelligent. keek it up.
PEOPLE OF DUNDUMWEZI HAVE NO APOLOGIES TO RENDER TO ANYONE FOR VOTING THE WAY THEY DID. THEY HAVE THEIR OWN UNIQUE NEEDS WHICH REQUIRE THE GOVT`S ATTENTION.THATS HOW YOU COMMUNICTE WHEN YOU DONT HAVE DEADENBC TV NO INTERNET.WELL SPOKEN DUNDUMWEZI KEEP ON DUNDUMWEZING UNTIL SOMEONE HEARS YOU.BRAVO
LEARN FROM THE WISE PERSON:
POOR PEOPLE FEAR TO DIE IN POVERTY AS THE RICH FEAR TO DIE WITHOUT, HEALTH PEOPLE FEAR TO BE SICK WHILE SICK PEOPLE FEAR TO DIE. EVERY LEADER FEAR TO DIE WITHOUT POWER.
JUST WAIT, THE KING OF KINGS WAS DESPISED IN IGNORANCE BY MANY, BUT HE STILL WON THE BATTLE. AS WE ARE SPEAKING HE IS COMING SOONER THAN WE THINK. GOD IS LOOKING FOR MEN AND WOMEN WHO SHALL CALL SIN BY ITS RIGHT NAME. INSTEAD OF PRAYING FOR OUR LEADERS, WE ADD MORE TROUBLES.
EVEN THOUGH DAVID WAS ANOINTED TO KING OF ISRAEL, HE NEVER WISHED ANYTHING BAD TO KING SAUL BUT GOD’S HAND TO GUIDE HIM. WE PRAY FOR GOD’S HAND TO LEAD OUR PRESIDENT.
Himba Miyoba being a “full”?
One can see that you cannot even differentiate between the words “full” and “fool”.
Himba has analysed the two parties intelligently.
She is definitely not a “full”.
If an opinion poll were to be held on how many Zambians think Himba is a “full”, they would just trash the question.
Definitely Himba is in a much higher class of intellect compared with you.
So one can understand where you are coming from.
Most likely you insulted her because her name sounds Tongaish.
For you that is enough to rubbish whatever she has written.
Started very well but messed it up at the End. Was beginning to like you wisdom, but is ok. your opinion Kah
@Sense
You are completely wrong.
The UPND manifesto from the time of Anderson Mazoka to date has been superb.
Besides, it is not only Southern province and Tongas who have been voting for UPND.
Listening to the campaigns by Hon. Kambwili (on youtube) those audiences in Copperbelt province could not resist his articulation on how HH would never rule Zambia because Tongas were tribal. He never talked about the PF Manifesto but concentrated on convincing his bemba speaking audiences that they needed to vote against HH, regardless of what he and his party stood for. And Hon. Kambwili is an orator especially that he was addressing those meetings in his mother tongue, bemba.
Too bad for non bemba speakers on the Copperbelt. When you are there, you are supposed to understand and speak the bemba language. Apparently we see this even outside bemba speaking areas. Bemba speakers just impose their language on anyone they hear is from Zambia unless you are not black!! We agree it is a Zambian language but there are 73 tribes grouped into 13 plus languages.
Given the humble education of the majority of his audience, he really convinced them that they needed to reject the UPND especially, HH the man from a tribal group that was very tribal in its thinking. Tongas watched these DVDs and listened. What did you expect from them? They also dug trenches – vote for their own too.
So who is to blame fro the tribal rift? PF government. Sorry, but that is the truth.
himba miyoba you a big full i see.From the time lungu took over zambian have been wallowing in poverty,brutality,injustice and so on.if i may ask u where do u live?i guess you are also using tax payers cash to feed yo relatives.shame woman you are.
I have observed Zambian politics from as far back as 1980.
I have read about Zambian politics from as far back as the 1890s.
Other than the period prior to 1972 when clashes between UNIP and ANC were common, Zambia did not experience serious tribal hate speeches in recent years until 2011.
2011 is the year tribal hate speech took root.
It has worsened.
Not because UPND had HH voted for on tribal lines to take over from Anderson Mazoka.
Tribalism reared its head in 2011 and blossomed because the Government of the day seemed to condone it among its senior party officials.
Late Sata appointed a Cabinet which which was almost 100% of them having bemba names!!!
And Sata not only ignored dissenting voices but mocked them.
chinyama, the fact is pf has tried to develop zambia. we want development and not a tribe. the 2015 elections taught the easterners and bembas that you guys want a tonga man and not development thats a fact, no wonder we have seen this voting pattern, we need a tonga president but who will deserve it. tongas please accept this tribal stance you have taken, we are a laughing stock by people from outside because of you our brothers, change your thinking and we shall all develop as a nation
Bwana this voting pattern has always been there. please read. Go back to the yester-years and tell me that there has been some reasonable change. No bwana. in fact Southern Province will occasionally vote for a Bemba like they did during Chiluba but bembas will never vote for Tonga. when you say compare Choma to Chipata, why don’t you also compare Livingston to Mansa. Hey let this nonsense end. When I go to vote, only me knows who I’m voting for. So if 10,000,000 of us vote for that person is there a problem? You have a person you support , I also have a person I support. If we happen to be on the same side, well and good. If we happen to be on the opposite side, well and good. So where is this obsession about analysing the tribes coming from? c’mon lets move on. This land belongs to all of us. So what if you kill me? Will you not join me the next day?
DUNDUMMWEZI HAVE HAD MPS , WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE FROM UPND, ITS NOT FAIR TO BLAME THE PRESIDENT ALWAYS. MPS AND COUNCILORS SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE
meant you will NOT hate the opponent…
Guys the issue here is not ECL or HH, but the electoral commission of Zambia. Did they deliver a credible election? Not a perfect election but credible.
If for example you lose a football match on penalties, if the ref was impartial, and professional, the only thing that will hate is the defeat but you will hate the opponent. If the ECZ has delivered a fair, transparent and credible election then a big congrats to the PF, but if the ECZ fell far too short of what is expected of them, then ECZ should be held accountable for all that is happening now. Let us wait for the concourt to rule over the issue. Again I say it’s not about ECL or HH, but ECZ.
For those who are busy saying opposition should just concede defeat, well if there was injustice done by ECZ, should the opposition just look else were? Who will be the next victim of the injustice if it’s not corrected today? Edith? Saviour? Winter? HH? So let us wait for the concourt ruling and correct all the irregularities that will be cited by to correct our electoral processes.
Well said
You are 100% spot on but i really doubt if anything good will come of concourt.All judges serving in it are appointed by Lungu.They have interest in all this affair.if they making a ruling that ECZ is to blame,I will apologise publcly,
Good thought Miyoba. But to expect Lungu to upgrade Dundumwezi, Chikankata etc, etc in one year and think that since he has failed HH will do it in one year is queer. Dundumwezi and Chikankata are not the only remote places that the President never visited. What do you say about Choma? Compare the statistics with Chipata. Be careful with analyses, look deeper.
Kudos to the author of this writing. That’s an objective analysis for any one to understand.
This tribal thing has only been created by Lungu in Lungu’s time. When Lungu is gone we wont have it. It’s actually not the respective tribes like bemba, Nyanja, tonga,etc, who have a tribal problem, the problem is our own brother Mr Lungu. The unfortunate thing, if he is intelligent enough to see from the results of this year’s election, is that his tribal strategy has not worked well for him. Many of other tribes other than Tongas voted for HH. Lungu factually struggled to secure 50% of the vote yet his tribal strategy was aimed at 7 provinces out of 10 provinces. He must be really shocked at the failure of his tribal strategy.
In 1991, the whole of eastern province voted for Unip, we never heard Chiluba accuse the easterners for tribalism. In 2001 most of southern province voted for Mazoka, we never heard Mwanawasa accuse tongas of tribalism.
And mind you HHs strongholds are not only among Tongas as Lungu and Kambwili would want people to believe.Is western province and n/western also made of tongas, no. Lungu must learn a lot from the results of this election and quit his tribal division strategy.It is not benefiting him and its just embarrassing him and damaging his legacy.
We have lived through many presidents in Zambia and we have never had this tribal nonsense, only in Lungu’s time, what is the problem with our big brother Edgar Lungu surely. I don’t know why Lungu seems to forget that his time to go shall come one day, unless really his thinking is like that of his mentors museveni and Mugabe.
Chinyama should recall munkombwe’s campaign statements saying “It is high time a Tonga man ruled this country” Who pronounced tribalism?? This thronged into southerners’ minds that hh would be President. It is sheer lucky that Western & N/Western blindly accepted munkombwe’s accents.
Stop it,Why are you recalling something what happend last year yet you ignore what was uttered a few weeks ago,Elizabeth and Kambwili were openlysaying mwikavotela umutonga.This was also echoed by siliya and Mpezeni,ati wako ni wako.
Please tell us a day and time you heard HH telling the kaondes,lundas,lozis or Tongas that vote for UPND beccause of tribe.
The truth is that some tribes think the presidency is only the prerogative of 2 tribes.Zambia has 73 tribes mind you.
This generation has taught our children that aba Tonga are the real enemies of the Christian Nation Zambia.
These election infact were not about manifestos but tribal groupings.In fact FDD had a better manifesto than the Sonta thing.UPND had a 10 Plan aimed at resuscitating the economy then making secure the future of our child.
GOD IS WATCHING
don’t take me wrong I’m a Christian born again I don’t stay in Zambia. when did drunkard start being Gods chosen so stop using Gods name in vain you chose el not God if God was chose for Zambia I think he will chose Dr mumba so let us not classify el as God chosen he was chosen by u take responsibility people of Zambia next thing you will call for prayers for load shading I have never seen south African pray for load shading so I you telling me your God doesn’t ans prayers my God doesn’t ans stupid prayers
Please don’t be this bitter. This article is good and has good intentions, to reunite us. Don’t destroy that….
Moses was a murderer when he was chosen by God. If you are really a Christian you would know that God looks at the heart (attitude) and not at the outside appearance. True Christians live by faith with a full knowledge that faith without works is dead. The fact that we go to as God to help us does not mean we fold our arms. If prayers were called to pray against load shedding, we will, but those prayers are to remind us that we have to work hard and put structures in place to ensure that this does not happen again. that’s how I understand prayer. So please, look at the big picture.
Well-spoken sister Himba Miyoba, our tears are before God and his comfort is upon us. May the divine protection and favour continue showering on our UPND Leadership and our dear Party President Hikainde Hichilema and the entire followers. My appeal to our cherished party membership is to remain calm and exercise maximum tolerance.
I have always wondered why we Bembas are in the fore front insulting other tribes. Easterners are not in that line! Most easterners are literally good people! Me now am half cast and its like i belong to each of these groups affected. I really feel so bad!
I hear Zambia has about 73 tribes, but I am wondering why insults and derogatory remarks directed toward Tongas are coming mainly from our Bemba colleagues only. How are they the only ones to see tribalism in Tongas of the all the tribes in Zambia?
Tell them sister. God has spoken through you.
Well spoken. But right now I feel PF are the worst in dividing the Country on tribal grounds. CK and Mumbi Phiri insult other tribes day and night. I have Bemba friends who do that too. The Easterners are not as bad. But we need to put it as a crime to degrade others on tribal grounds. Then ethnic conflict will be avoided.
Miyoba, I hear you. I am not Tonga but I feel for Mother Zambia.
What I am certainly not comfortable with is the injustice and lawlessness that seems to cripple this nation.
Remember, the Bible declares that reap you what you sow.
You kill by the sword, you die by the sword.
Whatever goes up, will certainly come down one day.
The decisions that we make today, will affect us tomorrow, positively or negatively depending on how they are framed.
This is not the first time Zambia has politicians.
There nothing to be excited about when God has given you a slight chance to rule over His pipo.
There is no one under the sun who may think to be more important than the other.
God loves everyone more especially those who do His will.
Zambia is for Zambians. Its important for those who a mandate, to love the pipo of Zambia with a genuine heart withoit pretence.
GOD cannot be MOCKED.
Miyoba you are a true zambian God be with you You are feeling as i feel To tell you the Truth the few votes he got from Dundumwezi are the relative of a Chief because of the K15,000 allowances awarded to them and to make the matters worse their Chief is ever in Choma town drinking tea eating nsima with Fish at Hachis Restaurant running away from Hardship in area. the road are bad , water is not there we can only tive thanks to World Vission Zambia its a NGO that has broughta bite life to that area Iam say this as a Zambian from Eastern part of Zambia Luangeni Constituency
Anzeru, what you have said about Dundumwezi is heart touching. Is that the situation in most parts of rural Southern Province? If that is the case, then what have there M P’s been doing? Just coming to Parliament to earn allowances and sleep in nice and comfortable Parliament Motel?
No it s not right. The people must make demands on the President to get the M P’s to work if U P N D as a party can not get it’s M P’s to deliver development to the area.
Am humbled. May the Almighty God continue to bless you with everlasting Wisdom and knowledge like that of king Solomon. God bless you Mama.
Enough is enough.We have had lots insults,many lives lost, assaults inflicted and so on as if its a crime to have a right of association and belonging to a tribe.People that fought back in civil never planned to but was exactly from such acts at the hands of illegal regimes.Let stand up as David did against Goliath and fight back…SO it is biblical to hit back