Violence erupted in Kitwe’s Chimwemwe Township Wednesday afternoon when Residents suspected to be supporters of the ruling party – PF stoned UPND members.
The UPND Members were spotted mobilising in the township. The residents then started throwing stones (See photo) at them, an eye witness told Zambian Eye.
The live radio programme featuring UPND president had to be pre-recorded for fear of violence.
A source has told Zambian Eye that the PF Cadres had planned to disrupt Hichilema’s programme at Kitwe’s Ichengelo radio station.
Hichilema has defied the government directive not to campaign on the Copperbelt province as the situation is volatile following hundreds of job losses.
The UPND leader is in the province mobilising support ahead of 2016 elections which is a must win for him after having made four unsuccessful attempts.
The Police could not be reached for a comment.
PF YOU ARE JUST FEELING THE HEAT why block the winning team of zambian saviours, HH,GBM Kachingwe and others on the copperbelt. You are gone CB is no longer PF stronghold. Chagwa was there and he received jeers and booing, what statistics do you want? Just stop insulting for you will not get any reward. You people who attended those prayers and at same time calling others names like “ATASE” You think zambians are happy with your language and the suffering you have inflicted on them. VIVA HH! VIVA GBM! 2016 State house is yours.
Ba facts nabanenu bambi ; Dont cheat yrslvs that Copperbelt is still a strong hold for pf!! Ubo bufi bwakantu..Copperbelt is now a strong hold for POVERTY, Ubupina. People on the copperbelt will never vote for pf again unless fools and idiots will vote pa bwato. Thousands of Jobs at mopani copper mine are about to be lost any day from now. If Lungu is sensible enough , let him stop these Job loses . But lungu’s focus is only on wining next years election and he is not sleeping about that.. Now how can you win an election lungu sir in a hostile enviroment like this ? Look at the cost of living ; You cant think of lowering it but only wining an election!! Shame on you lungu and sir you are indeed an idiot.. And if zambia will keep on having presidents like this Edgar Chisushi Lungu in future ; This country will perish . This president is useless mwebantu imwe!! I pity Micheal Chilufya Sata who formed a gorvement having only himself Sensible and Competent the rest idiots , fools and useless like he called them himself.
Why has someone deleted my FAIR and FOURLESS comment here????We have non issue based threads here, most contain insults and yet you havent deleted them.Is that in order?
Why can’t Mr HH shift for now to the copperbelt,since it’s one zambia one nation.
Why dnt Mr HH shift for now to the copperbelt,since it’s one zambia one nation.
IMF you are here, see for yourself and make recommendation.
Dont release any money under PF regime.
upnd is full of Tonga’s bafikala tribalism we don’t want
Upnd is full of fools,you started it last week you beat up dandy crazy, what you sow,you reap.Why are you then crying! Stupidity of the highest. You see test of your own medicine and you are now crying.Pls don’t start a fire you can’t put off. Violence is unacceptable in Zambia.
u people u amaze me,Is dandy also a politician?
u people amaze me,Is dandy also a politician?
Who tells you that CB is a strong hold for PF . yalipwa bakalamba . do not cheat your self that lungu shall win on the CB it is capital NO . That is why Lunu is usisng his DOGS the police . we shall see we shall meet there .
Can you provide numbers and figures to back your statement that CB is no longer a stronghold for the PF? Let’s just wait for 2016.
Evidence is the fear of HH by the entire PF. If PF is not scared,they should stop paying gangs to intimidate HH and his team by allowing him to campaign there freely. The behavior of Pf is a sign that they lack confidence of their strength hence the fear.
You’re what I call an ostrich cadre. You refuse to accept facts as they are. Numbers don’t lie. The PF fortunes are dwindling on the Copperbelt and even Kambwili said so. Let’s wait for 2016 – it’s just around the corner. Hope you don’t suffocate in the sand seeing that your head is deeply burried in there.
The Copperbelt of PF is long gone and burried, todays Copperbelt is pro-UPND, to prove this, tell your authorities to allow for a rally, you will be shocked! Allow people to assemble freely, these are the freedoms are Ancestors fought and died for, dont kill us for the second time.
Can you provide numbers to back your argument that CM is still a PF stronghold?
Zambia has 10 provinces and right now the Copperbelt province is volatile because of the situation of the mines. This is where HH chooses to go – deliberately looking for a situation to cry to the outside world that he is being persecuted. Such tactics rarely work – and they will not work for HH.
In as much as I don’t condone violence, I still feel the UPND should exercise extreme caution in their mobilization campaigns on the Copperbelt. Mark my words, the province is hardcore PF territory, the economic problems the country is facing notwithstanding. This is not a place where UPND should attempt a door to door campaign unless they want to deliberately inflame the political situation there. I know this from experience. In August this year, I went to attend a funeral of a relative in Luanshya. At the funeral house, we were bedeviled by load shedding and irritating erratic water supplies. I deliberately provoked a debate on politics to see where the political wind was blowing in the light of these problems. Interestingly, not a single mourner there even entertained the idea of HH winning the 2016 elections. All of them were for PF and Lungu. There are of course pockets of dissent among groups like pirate taxi drivers. But moving around cities and towns on the Copperbelt I saw nothing like a shift in support towards the UPND. This is why UPND in trying to mobilize for support in such a volatile and militantly pro-PF region should tread carefully. They shouldn’t overrate their popularity there. Forewarned is forearmed.
People are mourning and you start talking politics??? Shame on you. Surely practising “politics of the belly”. Wanted to find out whether you will lose your source of income.
What politics of the belly am I practicing when I am merely reporting my observations on the Copperbelt based on my experiences there? I am not sure I follow what you are trying to say.
sesheke UPND on line…..NIINI yanyoko na mukazi waka,do you hear us ? you are a STUPID FOOL IDIOT PFoooooool cadre.if the ground is fertile in your favour,why are you scared of us ?????people of copperbelt have already made up their mind to VOTE UPND in 2016…..wait and see!!……….mukongo wanyoko chi pfoooooooooool cadre,aati analyst,aata uuko chi pf….what do analyse,niini yanyoko or chi mukashi chobe…..viva UPND team
Thank you for insulting me. I expected this from your type. Be assured that UPND under the leadership of HH will win the 2016 elections by a landslide in all regions of Zambia. This will also signal the ignominious demise of the PF and its final disappearance from the political scene and the emergence of the UPND as a super party to dominate Zambian politics for the next 100 years..
So because they are not popular there, they are not allowed to sell themselves? Who has stone Ester Lungu in Southern Province where she is currently?
I am not saying the UPND are not allowed to sell themselves. They at liberty to do so, but they have to be very careful for reasons I have given. To the best of my knowledge, Esther Lungu is not mobilizing support for the PF; she is doing charitable work.
What point are you exactly trying to score. One minute you’re saying UPND shouldn’t campaign on the Copperbelt and the other minute you’re saying that’s not what you mean. I suggest you have yourself checked at Chainama. This is politics young man or is it lady. The fact that they’re not popular on the Copperbelt is the more reason why they should mobilize there. If the kitchen is too hot for you then get out.
In luanshya police and pf have killed upnd cadre and a six months old babe , this is another Zimbabwe . if this is a Christian Nation , Lungu will never rich 2016 . whatch the space
Why couldn’t the vice president just be bold enough and proclaim “PF will cause confusion should UPND go ahead with planned visits to the Copperbelt!”
November 14, 2015 in parliament the vice president Inonge Wina made claim that….”The opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) plans to cause confusion on the Copperbelt”….. in the PF “Don’t kubeba” style of shrouded lies. This was a veiled command for instigation of violence by PF leadership on its cadres to cause mayhem despite the clear message carried by UPND of challenges in the mines to the affected Copperbelt residents! PF are architects of violence and the blood being spilled on the Copperbelt by the suffering citizens must squarely drench Inonge Wina and Edgar Lungu! Loud mouth Sunday Chanda who is quick on the draw were it being perpetuated by any other opposition leader must tell his president Lungu to denounce the violence by their cadres and police! May the blood of the innocent shed be appeased with justice meted on the perpetrators!
Can someone tell HH that you do not win an election by violence or fights. You win an election by brains. We expect more from HH and not this street politics. He should leave that to Sata’s disciples in the PF. Let him not sink so low and start fighting Lungu in public. That’s cheap HH. Stop this nonsense. You are not impressing anyone but mishanga boys.
No wonder you are Comedians! Brains are for the few indeed are you not supposed to be addressing ones that started the stone throwing in this case?
And then some idiot should tell us that we should give Lungu a full term. What for? To kill us? Hitler was even better than this lethal dictator we have. And then you will hear the defense from Joseph Goebels Kambwili, Minister for propaganda.
This is what happens when you elect an incompetent sub-human mongrel. And, soon he`ll call for national prayers, rubbish.
This is not acceptable. What is Lungu thinking? Does Zambia belong to him and the PF alone? We are all free to associate and express ourselves. He cant decree that the opposition must not go to the Copperbelt. Where is it written in the law that the Copperbelt is only for the PF? Shame on Lungu. These are clear signs of a person who is desperate for power at the expense of life. What a shame!