By Mwiche Sikanjebela
Axis of party issues
UPND without HH and HH without UPND, is an axis of party issues responsible for electoral defeats all these years.
A separation is expediently necessary in order to break up HH personal issues with UPND party aspirations.
Many could be wondering why UPND has had difficulties in winning elections falling in 2006,2011,2015 and 2016.
HH has the biggest problem of not humbling himself before Zambians for participating in that Africa’s record breaking corrupt privatisation.
HH should have apologised and soberly asked for forgiveness and our good people would have heard him.
Like many of us,HH hailed from the village and from peasantry parents.
Our traditions,cultures and religions teach us not to steal.
Again HH like many of us,
from the village, he went to university to learn how to overcome societal challenges and help people come out of poverty.
Unfortunately when he graduated, he fell prey to corrupt corporate business interests and opted, as business as usual,to participate in that still questionable privatisation process.
Zambian people were swindled of their one and only economic power base. And Zambia has never recovered socially and economically from that theft.
Zambia dubiously lost companies which UNIP government created to absorb the young people graduating at differrent levels from school,tertiary institutions,colleges and universities.
We wouldn’t have these levels of unemployed young generation if those companies were prudently handled.
Companies and hard cash were looted like there were no owners.
That corrupt privatisation dumped 86% of Zambians into perpetual poverty.
People massively lost jobs and left without income.
Our people in order to make ends meet, resorted to petty and embarrassing business ventures.
Their children became victims of crime and social vices.
The young people in their prime age,found themselves either in jail or hospitals.
Our people died and buried due to harsh effects of the same corrupt privatisation.
Zambians are good people. They can forgive but can’t forget. The wounds are still fresh.
Today HH, with his campaign manager Dipak Patel,a former Canadian citizen, who became our minister of commerce,trade and industry when that corrupt privatisation started,through a good party UPND, can go to the same families in their extended relationships to ask for votes and be president of Zambia? My foot, where is God and justice?
Once beaten,twice shy. Zambian people are cautious and scared of business opportunists/auctioneers interacting with HH in UPND.
These are hungry lions and she-lions with appetite to eat and amass anything available to themselves,friends and family members while 86% poor Zambians are helplessly and hopelessly watching.
Our people fear for their remaining parastatal companies that they will all be personalised including Zambian Revenue Authority.
So UPND the earlier you do the inevitable separation, the better the prospects for your party future elections.
BAFIKALA MUBEPESHENI STILL MU ZAMBIA TI KA MUVOTELA NOT AKA BOTOLO KA CHAGWA.
Just concentrate on the scandles which has rocked your party, Maize saga, with your Lubinda, kafwabulula , and shawa, Tayali exposed your party, tell us, this is what you should flex your energy on, than HH, leave him out of this mess, this country is on auto pilot, nothing seems to work, or function at the moment.
The author is an idiot, insane, primitive, even his writing sound to be of a five year child, no substance in whatever, he has said. Sorry, not this time, Aleisa, Aleisa, you will be the first one to run away, with your chakolwa, Rupia cried your chokolwa, will peel in pants.
do we still have such dull jews in jerusalem called zambia? are u not even ashamed, look at how these think tanks called bloggers articulate issues, u are actually advertising him HH.
lf u think zambians ar fools like u and ca,nt analize issues then u ar in th earlly stone age. mayb u try in zimbabwe.they might buy yo idiocy.
Was satana of PF not part of privatisation .Can we say PF was part of the proceeds of theft from privatisation . Think twice brother before u write nonsense .
Let us the drunkards vote for ECL.ECL WILL WIN THE AUGUST ELECTIONS.thats why you are accusing the ECZ of trying to rig the august elections.wapya baisa “ECL 2016”
Let the drunkards vote for ECL.ECL WILL WIN THE AUGUST ELECTIONS.thats why you are accusing the ECZ of trying to rig the august elections.wapya baisa “ECL 2016”
PangaFamily cant deem itself fit for august victory and thus, always fingerpointing at HH over baseless issues. With total mismanagement of the country, crippling of the once mighty economic status, depreciation of the kwacha, absence of enough electricity, unstable commodity pricing, shortage of fuel, unabetted job losses, unthinkable borrowing, shortage of the local staple food, harsh living standards, and ritual killings at hand ,CAN A NORMAL THINKING BEING VOTE THE DRUNKARD BACK INTO POWER? GOD FORBID! IT’S ONLY HH KULUTWE! FORWARD! VIVA HH, VIVA UPND! VIVA ZAMBIA! 2016 WARD COUNCILLOR.
Foolish,jelousy author.Get a life
Baseless accusations bent on malice and tribal hatred orchestrated by people who do not have love and belief in our common destiny as a people, as well as a nation.
It is incumbent on those of us who were older, lived through the plenty of the 1960s, the misery of the mid 70s to 80s and the death sentence international finance had passed on Kk and us all to put the record straight. We should not leave the interpretation of our history to those who were on breast milk at the time. Who would have resisted the Wall street conspiracy wth SAP wrapped around donor aid’s neck. People who peddle this type of misinformation have no shame at all
The author of this article did the research .Honestly pipo if u think HH SOLD THE MINES AS THE AUTHOR IS SAYING .DO U THINK HH COULD HAV BEEN IN PRISON BY NOW ?CAN SOME TELL ME IF HH WAS EVER CALED TO THE POLICE TO ANSWER TO THE SAME CHARGES OF SELLING THE MINE? REASON HE IS CLEAN IN THAT SAGA.MWANA AUTHOR DO YO RESEACH NICELY .HH IS CLEAN & DOENT OWN ANYONE AN APOLOGY!
Ba Higher Transmitter – Not all thieves are in prison. Just because you are not caught after stealing does not mean that you did not steal. Participation in a scum is complicity. There is conflict of interest and kickbacks received to participate in undervaluing our companies. All those that participated are complicit. But when you seek the presidency – it is a different ball game — and hurling insults to those who question your moral conscience is not the answer.
God, Give Us, Zambians, Hichilema as Our President This Year. Remove the Thugs, Criminals, Thieves the pf from Government.
The author should go back to school , only illiterate Pfools cadres can believe this foolish article.Balemyeba at kabiyeni kusikulu imwe mwaya muku teya bulimbo have you seen now you have started dreaming
i cannot vote for lungu who neglects his wife ruth nyanga.
The author of this article is a serious mental patient who needs urgent attention and treatment. Furthermore, those who are in support of his dull article need to go to Chainama for mental examination. Their heads are full of nothing but decomposed brains. During the privatization of the Mines in Zambia, there was a government which spearheaded the privatization process and nothing was done in the dark corners. The major problem that we have in Zambia is that those who were born from thieves and they themselves grew up by stealing, the same way of life they leaned from their thieving parents always accuse innocent people who acquired their wealth through honest means to be thieves. That is the wrong notion they have and they grown up with that wrong mentality. Ala ubupuba busuma pantu tabwakwate cilonda. Namuli uyu musango, nefipuba fine filaitasha ukukwata amano. Honestly, how can you comment on issues in which you have got no facts ? If you grew up by collecting catapillars in th bush, please go to Southern Province and see for yourselves how hard working the young men of that province are ? They believe in hard work, not stealing the way some of you have been brought up. They have set goals in life and very few of them are beggars. They don’ t keep catapillars, NO, but they keep animals in large numbers.
Ba-Zambianeye you are fools too just like the author of this unresearched & diabolical farthing shit of an article!Last time I checked as a radical & proactive youth found that Levy managed the Zambian economy very well despite of him inheriting amafi from Chiluba regime! Corrupt & stupid RB squandered & mismanaged what Levy thrived on & nurtured!There came the Chief Tribalist-Micheal Sata & his Institutional Bembalisation as well as Euro-bond looting!Now you have the most backward & dullest president ever in the annals of Zambian political history,Lungu.This one is very very very dull & has no clue in almost all aspects of human development as everything is crumbling openly in his drunk face!The author of this article is pathetic & seems to be on drugs!His/her mental faculty is weird & is a fraud.Hope he/she won’t die this against when HH ultimately white wash the Drunk Master Lungu.We know these people writing such stories got there where they are corruptly & they have dirty blood monies!We will follow you nicely after August webwa weo!
Have we already gone past 2016 presidential elections or has someone already rigged those elections? How did i miss August 11 on my calendar. People are so scared of HH they wish they would go into an election against sakwiba sikota whose party is defunct.
Excellent article there. U have well articulated the issues. HH thinks Zambians are fools but he will know that we are not fools in august. He tries to hide his head in the sand but he will talt a lesson in august
We the pipo of Copperbelt, say no vote for hh the Mr. Privatisation. He cant even explain how he amassed his wealth. We will retire him in august. He will never enter plot 1 – born to be in opposition forever
Only a shallow minded person can believe what is in your article.
The bitterness and ever complaining spirit by Tongas has decampaigned unpd. Its clear the wind of change some desperate Tongas talk about only exists in southern province. As Zambians we have seen the infrastructure development. Ni Lungu chabe. Chintu chintu umwene.
Only fools like you will accuse HH in the privatization deal. He was merely doing his job after graduating from the school of business and economics was to be applied when MMD came up with a plan.
The best hh should do is to openly apologise to all Zambians for his selfish role in making Zambians suffer at the hands of privatisation. Otherwise he will remain rejected.
Zambian’s cannot be fooled by the kaminamisha hh. We know that hh is partly the reason why Zambia is poor. He sold Zambian companies at losses because of his selfish interests. We shall teach him a lesson again in August. Only his relatives Tongas will vote for him.
The author of this article is a fool. He fails to realise that it was mmd that sold the companies. Besides, how did that process bring poverty when kaunda was failing to run the mines.
Indeed well meaning Zambians cannot vote for Mr Privatisation (HH). He made pipo suffer especially on the CB but he became rich himself. Pipo lets reject this sadist & bitter capitalist. August ni kolopa reloaded. CB no go area for this ngombe illede
Surely who by now would buy the useless accusation that one person in the name of HH could force the entire government to sell all the mines in the country. we must have had a very useless government indeed? Imagine one businessman telling this PF government to privatise all govt schools, is that feasible, not at all. let’s sober up guys. Find something else to woo voters into voting the useless party in the name of PF.
Surely who by now would buy the useless accusation that one person in the name of HH could force the entire government to sell all the mines in the country. we must have had a very useless government indeed? Imagine one businessman telling this PF government to privatise all govt schools, is that feasible, not at all. let’s sober up guys. Find something else to woo voters into voting the useless party in the name of PF. VIVA one HH!!
IMF, World Bank pressured Zambian government to privatise mines
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Flashback: IMF, World Bank pressured govt to privatise mines – Nawakwi
By Chiwoyu Sinyangwe and Chibaula Silwamba
Friday November 02, 2007
FORMER finance minister Edith Nawakwi has revealed that the IMF and the World Bank pressured the Zambian government to
privatise the mines on the pretext that copper prices would not increase in 20 years.
According to a report by Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA), Christian Aid, and Scotland’s Aid Agency entitled, “Undermining
development, Copper mining in Zambia” dated October 2007, Nawakwi – who is Forum for Democracy and Development
president – admitted that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank told the Zambian government that copper
prices would never increase, hence they should privatise the mines.
” the report quoted Nawakwi as having told its author in an interview on July 26, 2007.
According to the report, Nawakwi stated that one of the arguments in favour of privatisation was that it would save the
government money by relieving them from propping up an enterprise losing up to US $1 million a day. The report further
revealed that in 1999, the donors withheld aid to Zambia until the government agreed to privatise the mines.
“ZCCM’s assets were split into seven sections and sold to various investors, though the company was able to retain shares in
some of the units – including in KCM (Konkola Copper Mine) – through the creation of a holding company called ZCCM-IH
(Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Investment Holding).”
According to the report, the negotiators argued that increased investment by the new mine owners would generate significant
profits that would be channelled back to the Zambian government through taxation and dividends.
On financial benefits from the development agreements with the mines, the report points to the fact that Vedanta’s annual
report does not detail the amount of net profit that KCM makes in various financial years or how much was paid to the Zambian
government in various forms of revenue transfers.
read the report.
The report indicated that in the financial year 2006/07, KCM would have paid in excess of US $6.1 million despite the company
extracting ore that generated revenues in excess of US $1 billion.
It also stated that it was not clear whether the mining companies had paid “even these low rates of royalties”. The report also
highlighted the practice of price participation that evidenced Zambia’s weak negotiating position.
“Price participation constitutes a separate contract in its own right. We’ve been unable to obtain a copy of the contract, but a
ZCCM official told us that, if the price of copper at the London Metal Exchange exceeds a specific benchmark (US $2,700
-2,800 per tonne) then government through ZCCM-IH starts to claim back a certain percentage (in KCM’s case, 25 per cent) of
the difference between the benchmark price and the current price,” read the report.
“According to the same official, ZCCM-IH rarely receives the full percentage as “there are conditions (attached) and a cap on
the amount that ZCCM can receive from KCM in one year (roughly US $16 – 19 million). In our view the net result of these
clauses is that the Zambian government is unable to derive what would normally be considered its rightful or normal rewards
from the extraction of the country’s key natural resource.
“One would expect that the Zambian government/ZCCM to benefit from these profits through its shareholding in KCM. However,
sources suggest that KCM has distributed only four percent of its net profit to shareholders in form of dividends for the financial
year 2007.”
Edgar is NOT humble. Alishishita fye!