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PF LUSAKA YOUTHS CONDEMNS VIOLENCE CAUSED BY HON. Miles Sampa

The PF Lusaka District Youth Chairman Cliff Bwalya has condemned the violence that took place at the Secretariat Headquarters by Hon. Miles Sampa and his team.They have destroyed the gate and some windows.

The PF youths of Lusaka District have the capacity to fight back even more harshly but they have resolved to remain calm and peaceful.No time violence, we are more focused in rebuilding and rebranding the party. We are a peaceful Party and no more violence.

The PF Party was voted out of power because of the same cadrism that was witnessed today by Hon. Miles Sampa and his team. As Patriotic Front Party, we have moved from such kind of Politics and we have concentrated on rebuilding the party according to the wishes of Zambians who are the owners of Party.

The PF Party is owned by the Zambians people and not any individual. The Party will do things according to the wishes of Zambians.

The Youth Chairman wishes to thank the Secretary General, Hon. Raphael Nakachinda for advising them not to respond to the provocations of Hon.Miles Sampa and his sponsored team.

If Hon. Sampa has the heart for the PF Party and Zambians, he could have not done what he did today. Him being a senior party member, he knows the channel of communications that he can use inorder to reach out to the Party leadership.

Those youths that he brought belongs to other political parties and not PF Party.That is the more reason why they covered themselves from being identify.

The youths of Lusaka District shall remain calm, peaceful and concentrate more in building the party.

Cliff Bwalya,
PF Youth Chairman,
Lusaka District.

Miles Sampa Is Being Sponsored By The Upnd To Bring Confusion In PF.

Understanding Hichilema’s talk of a coup plot in Zambia

By Sishuwa Sishuwa

On 4 September, Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema denounced alleged coup plotters who he claimed were planning to undermine the country’s democratic rule and stability by illegally seizing power. Coming after a string of military coups in West African countries, including Guinea, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Gabon, his comments have attracted widespread attention across the continent and beyond.

‘We are coming for you’

The warning by Hichilema that he would go for those considering a coup was first issued during a public rally in Kanyama, a densely populated slum in the capital. Any assumption that it was an off-the-cuff statement made in the heat of the moment was eliminated when the president reiterated the remarks in a carefully written Facebook post later that evening.

“To colleagues that think we are timid by being kind and that they can break the laws and entertain thoughts of illegal takeover of government including undemocratic coup d’état, our only word is that ‘We are coming for you, and we will not allow you to make Zambians start running around as is the case in some places’,” he wrote.

Why is Hichilema saying this?

Hichilema’s talk about a coup plot caught many people by surprise. Zambia has no history of military rule or interference in political processes, and the last failed coup attempt occurred 26 years ago. Furthermore, the country’s political elite has a well-established commitment to democratic politics, informed in part by a track record of elections that result in peaceful transfers of power.

Given this background, it is easy to understand why some individuals and organisations have since condemned Hichilema’s remarks as irresponsible. This condemnation is necessary, but not sufficient.

Zambians also need to understand why Hichilema is making such comments. Contrary to what some of his political opponents have argued, the president’s threats were neither random nor a result of careless talk. They are deliberate and demonstrate how Hichilema is slowly becoming adept at undermining democratic institutions in a committed, strategic, and well-defined manner.

If Zambians wish to avert the increasing restrictions on political and civil rights, they will do well not to underestimate the lengths to which he is prepared to go in his bid for re-election.

Outside Hichilema’s head, there is no coup plot in Zambia. The talk about people scheming to overthrow him and his vow to punish those responsible should be seen as part of his wider political strategy to undermine opposition forces and stay in power beyond 2026.

Warning soldiers

Hichilema’s coup remarks were directed at different audiences for different objectives. The first was the military whom he was warning not to depose him from power. Here, appreciating the objective of his comments requires an understanding of the wider context to which the president was responding: the recent political developments in West Africa, where several incumbent presidents labelled by their opponents as ‘puppets’ of a major Western power, France, have been deposed from office by the military.

On the domestic front, Hichilema has faced growing criticism that he is a “puppet” of Western powers led by the US, UK and the EU. His administration’s policies in the areas of mining, energy, security and foreign affairs have pushed the perception that he is actively favouring Western interests — an outright reversal of the position of his predecessor Edgar Lungu, who pivoted towards China and Russia.

The characterisation of Hichilema as a puppet of Western countries was amplified by the toxic fallout from the August poll in neighbouring Zimbabwe, which saw the re-election of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Upon assuming the rotational chairpersonship of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) organ on politics, defence and security, Hichilema appointed as head of the SADC election observer mission, Nevers Mumba, a Zambian opposition leader who, like himself, is politically close to Zimbabwean oppositionist Nelson Chamisa. The mission’s preliminary report went on to criticise the election as deeply flawed, a verdict shared by most other international observers.

Lashing out, senior figures in the ruling Zanu-PF alleged that Hichilema had tried to influence the outcome of the election by providing financial support to Chamisa’s Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa dismissed the SADC preliminary report as evidence of how Hichilema, “who wants to become part of the charade of Western countries that always see Zimbabwean elections as a transition from Zanu-PF rule to some puppetry”, had sought to use SADC structures to push a Western agenda.

“The West,” Mutsvangwa added, “would like to see the back of the national liberation movement in Zimbabwe. They would expect the same thing in South Africa [and] Namibia. We know the game plan. I do not know if Hichilema wants to become the new champion of Western neo-colonial interests in southern Africa.”

This message even found support from some within the ANC, whose secretary general Fikile Mbalula declared the outcome of Zimbabwe’s election as “a victory over imperialist puppets”. This is the wider context of heightened regional political rhetoric and geopolitical rivalry within which Hichilema’s remarks about the risk of a coup should be understood.

In warning that he would crush the unspecified coup plotters, the Zambian president was attempting to make it look like there are elements in the military who may seek to take advantage of the puppet label to emulate their colleagues in West Africa. Behind the talk of a coup is rising political paranoia in Hichilema’s head emanating from his government’s failure to reduce the worsening cost of living, two years after his election.

The removal of most subsidies — at the instigation of the prescriptions of the International Monetary Fund — and falling value of the unstable kwacha have not only exerted pressure on input costs since Zambia is an import-driven country but also pushed the price of fuel and corn meal, the country’s staple food, by over 100% since August 2021.

The worst-affected are the urban poor on the Copperbelt and in Lusaka, where the president was booed and accosted with chants of “hunger” a day or two before he issued the coup speech. Although State House tried to play down these incidents as part of democratic expression, they demonstrate the changing public tide against Hichilema in urban areas as a result of severe economic difficulties.

Previous coup attempts — both in the era of one-party rule and multiparty democracy — have all taken place during periods of steep increases in the cost of living. Though unsuccessful, most were celebrated by urbanites on the Copperbelt and in Lusaka. While Zambia’s military has usually intervened in support of democracy, Hichilema is undoubtedly concerned by the precedent here.

It is probably one that fed his fears that overzealous soldiers — his target audience — may seek to seize power via a coup, as their colleagues attempted to do against founding president Kenneth Kaunda in June 1990, and against former president Frederick Chiluba in October 1997.

Preparing Western allies

The second audience Hichilema was speaking to were Western governments and their diplomatic representatives in Zambia, whose opinion he respects to the point of weakness. Through his comments that there are people planning to remove him unconstitutionally, the president was effectively preparing the ground for a further crackdown on opposition party leaders as he worries about the safety of his own political position ahead of the 2026 election.

The motivation behind his talk is ultimately to implicate his “political colleagues” in the imaginary coup threat, have them arrested on bogus but non-bailable charges like treason, and cripple their political activity. There is a well-established history of trumped-up charges being used against the political opposition in Zambia.

For instance, in March 1993, Chiluba accused the then main opposition United National Independence Party (UNIP) of planning to overthrow the government by illegal means. The plot, known as the “Zero Option Plan,” was said to have been devised by UNIP leaders with support from foreign governments. While no real evidence was offered, 26 people, including key UNIP figures, were detained on charges of treason after Chiluba — to the displeasure of donors, Western governments and human rights organisations — declared a state of emergency.

In April 2017, Hichilema was arrested by his predecessor and detained on charges of treason for four months after his convoy failed to give way to President Lungu’s motorcade, which was heading in the same direction. What a dispassionate observer may have regarded as a possible violation of traffic rules or presidential protocol was inflated into “an act that was likely to cause death or grievous harm to the president of the Republic of Zambia, in order to usurp the executive power of the state”.

In the cases of Chiluba and Lungu, the motivation for arresting opposition leaders were the same: a sense of political insecurity and the desire to demonstrate that they were fully in charge of national security forces and could deal decisively with sources of instability — real or imaginary — regardless of who was involved.

One reason why Hichilema is feeling more vulnerable is the growing perception in Zambia that he appears to be primarily serving two interests: his own (mainly business) and external ones, with little attention paid to addressing the domestic concerns or needs of the people who put him in office.

Were opposition parties to unite or form a coalition and field a common and credible candidate against him in 2026, they would be likely to win. Worried about this prospect — and conscious of the 50%+1 requirement, a very big change in the structure of the country’s politics that has significantly increased the chances of an opposition candidate winning — Hichilema, elected only two years ago, has launched a pilot clampdown on his political opponents.

Opposition parties, for instance, have been attempting to hold rallies and increasing their criticism of what they see as a lack of action over the cost of living. Hichilema has responded with increasingly authoritarian measures — ironically drawing the opposition closer and making the prospect of an alliance against his candidature likelier.

‘Primitive politics’

Over the past 30 days alone, three opposition leaders — Edith Nawakwi of the Forum for Democracy and Development, Sean Tembo of the Patriots for Economic Progress, and Fred M’membe of the Socialist Party (SP) — have all been separately arrested on what appear to be political charges.

The objective of harassing opposition leaders through frequent arrests and court cases is to keep them away from political work and stretch their already limited resources. The arrest of M’membe in particular — the third this year alone — deserves brief discussion because it is relevant to Hichilema’s coup talk. Following these arrests on charges of “unlawful discharge of a firearm, libel, and acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm”, the government, fearful that M’membe could lead the opposition resistance against Hichilema, started looking for a pretext on which to bring a more serious charge against him such as treason.

On 8 August, inspector general of police Graphel Musamba held a politically charged press conference in which he declared that socialism will not succeed in Zambia and vowed to crush SP, accusing it of “panting for violence because they want to cut corners to reach their destiny”.

Musamba further claimed that M’membe, who has seemingly cultivated close political ties with Moscow and Beijing, had used social media to comment on “the emerging juntas in West Africa … thinking that the same [can] be extended to this country. We are carefully studying the ingredients of the offence, and we will let you know in due course what his fate is going to be”.

The SP leader, arguing that Musamba went too far and had waded into political debate, sued the police chief for criminal defamation of character. Under Zambian law, privately prosecuting anyone for criminal defamation requires consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and M’membe sought this permission on 25 August.

Afraid that a court trial would expose Musamba’s partisanship and frustrate the government’s desperate scheme to arraign the opposition leader on a trumped-up charge, the DPP declined the request. In a letter dated 11 September 2023, Gilbert Phiri — Hichilema’s former lawyer in opposition — informed M’membe “that due to public interest considerations, your application to conduct the captioned prosecution (The People VS Graphel Musamba) is hereby denied”.

In a sense, this sequence of events shows the political undercurrents behind Hichilema’s coup talk and suggests that he may all along have been the power behind Musamba.

The case also lays bare the DPP’s partisanship and abuse of the power to initiate or discontinue criminal prosecutions especially on matters involving opposition figures. When one of Hichilema’s State House aides Clayson Hamasaka recently sued an opposition leader, Saboi Imboela, for criminal defamation, Phiri gave consent to prosecute, as he did when Minister of Finance Situmbeko Musokotwane filed a lawsuit against an independent member of parliament, Munir Zulu, who accused the government official of corruption.

Meanwhile, police arrested, within the last month, former president Lungu’s wife, Esther, for theft of motor vehicle in a move criticised by the main opposition PF as aimed at indirectly punishing Lungu. As they did with Sean Tembo, the police kept the former first lady in detention longer than it was necessary despite meeting bond conditions.

It was not until after Lungu protested by camping at the police station that she was released in the night. Additionally, within this same period, the government has twice refused to allow the PF to hold public rallies in Lusaka and Central provinces, despite their compliance with the law, using the excuse of unspecified “security concerns”. Despite condemnation of this continued suppression of the rights to peaceful assembly, association, and free speech (since people meet to talk) by the Law Association of Zambia, the government has intensified the violations.

On 9 September, a battalion of police officers in full riot gear dispersed an interdenominational church service on the Copperbelt at which Lungu was invited. The pastor who organised the church meeting was arrested and charged with “conduct likely to cause breach of public peace”.

Police, who sealed off the place of worship, had earlier attempted to block Lungu from traveling for the religious event. Earlier, on 7 September, the government had declined Lungu’s request to travel abroad for medical review, a clear violation of his legal entitlements as a retired former president. According to sources at the cabinet office, Lungu has a scheduled appointment with medical doctors in South Africa, one that was secured after discussions between the permanent secretary in the ministry of health and his personal physician.

At the heart of the government’s manoeuvres on Lungu is Hichilema’s fears that his predecessor harbour plans of a political comeback. Generally, opposition challengers who defeat incumbent presidents in Zambia have gone on to develop a deep-seated phobia for their predecessors. For instance, so fearful of Kaunda’s political comeback was Chiluba that he changed the country’s constitution to disqualify the founding president from challenging him in the 1996 election.

Hichilema — whose party lacks a clear parliamentary majority required to change the constitution or lift his predecessor immunity from prosecution — will not take this path. However, the president does appear to be extremely bothered by Lungu’s political shadow, especially that the PF is yet to choose a new leader.

Recently, the president ordered PF leaders to stop regrouping or face arrest. Overlooking its members’ right of association, he declared: “I want to send a message to the PF thugs. I can see they are regrouping now. The fact that we did not lock you up, that we did not arrest you is not that we are not capable. We are just kind people. If you start regrouping now, we will come after you in a heavy way.”

The highly-regarded retired archbishop of Lusaka, Telesphore Mpundu, quickly condemned Hichilema’s threats as “primitive politics”, motivated by the desire “to completely get rid of the opposition”.

“We want this country to remain a democratic dispensation where people are free to speak, associate and so forth. The only way to silence the opposition is to perform well… If people are not given opportunities to access food and access it affordably in amounts that are accepted, whatever you may say, you are a failure with a capital F,” he added.

Many people see these undemocratic actions as resembling the crackdown which Hichilema and the now governing United Party for National Development (UPND) endured while in opposition in the 2010s. The major difference is that the different interest groups that previously condemned similar attacks on democracy and human rights under Lungu are now mute for a variety of reasons.

Appointments to government bodies have secured the wilful silence of erstwhile civic actors while intellectuals, mainly from Hichilema’s ethnic Tonga group, who led the onslaught against the PF, have developed a new career: attacking those who criticise Hichilema, making excuses for and justifying his nascent authoritarian behaviour, and ignoring his transgressions.

Hichilema also feels that he has the personal support of key figures in the diplomatic community whose grovelling attitude towards him lends credibility to the charge that Western countries are prepared to ignore a leader’s attacks on democracy if that leader serves their interests. These include the UK High Commissioner Nicholas Woolley and the US ambassador Michael Gonzales, the latter of whom has — unlike his recent predecessors David Young, Daniel Foote, Eric Shultz, Mark Storella and Donald Booth — hardly shown any interest in questions of human rights and considers Hichilema “a personal friend”.

Other diplomats such as the recently arrived Swedish ambassador Johan Hallenborg are not simply ignoring the violations but even attempting to construct an alternative reality by claiming that Hichilema, who has strategically weakened civil society, has “enhanced human rights and improved the civic space”.

Like their governments, Western diplomats have so far conveniently avoided publicly criticising their malleable partner for the rights abuses of his administration partly because of the fear that doing so may inadvertently strengthen his main political opponents, who ideologically lean towards Russia and China. Regional rights bodies such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch that previously highlighted violations with impressive commitment and efficiency now speak through absolute silence.

Zambia’s democracy on a knife-edge

Emboldened by the lack of vocal outrage against his emerging authoritarian tendencies, Hichilema’s claims of an impending coup serve as a convenient pretext for consolidating what he is already doing – eroding civil liberties – and stopping Western allies and rights bodies from calling him out.

Knowing that he has their support may make him feel comfortable in expanding the crackdown on opposition leaders and using the threat of what has happened to Western-backed presidents in West Africa as a sufficient reason for Western governments to continue supporting him even if his actions erode democracy.

As mass hunger bites and poverty worsens due to the rising cost of living and doing business for most Zambians, will Hichilema, a man elected precisely to resolve these challenges and to advance democracy, resort to full-blown repression or authoritarian rule to sustain his hold on power?

Only time will tell.

Sishuwa Sishuwa is a Zambian writer, historian, and Senior Lecturer at Stellenbosch University.

https://mg.co.za/thoughtleader/2023-09-13-understanding-hichilemas-talk-of-a-coup-plot-in-zambia/

This is not gud ba UPND where are u getting this pressure from? a dead Party sure .
Truly ichibanda cha green is giving u sleeples nights to the extent of refusing to allow former head of state mr ECL go for his medical check up.
Remember it's not PF against UPND but the people against UPND

The game has just started let the weak stay behind as we fight barbaric acts of the upnd government

Camped at chilenje police waiting for the release of hon Munir Zulu

A well deserved appointment
Newly appointed PF Secretary General
Raphael Mangani Nakacinda

NOTHING AT ALL CAN SEPARATE ME FROM THE LOVE OF GOD - ECL

By Smart Eagles 🦅
Sixth Republican President Dr Edgar Chagwa Lungu has declared that nothing and no one can ever separate him and his family from the love of God.

The former head of state was speaking when he attended church service at Pentecostal Holiness Church in Garden compound in Lusaka today.

Former President Edgar Lungu insisted that his whole being is by the grace of God and not that of any man or men.

He says that no one at all can force him to turn his back on God for it is by his grace that his entire existence is anchored and not that of any other human beings.

Dr Lungu, encouraged congregants to continue to seek the face of God in all their daily life activities for it is there that strength shall come.

The former head of state recounted how he served the county and all its people to the best of his ability and with strict adherence to Gods guidance.

“Whatever you do to me, you cannot separate me from the love of God, I was born by the grace of God, I became President of this country by the grace of God, I served this country to by best of ability by the grace of God, I left office (State House) by the grace of God and I am still alive today by the grace of God” Dr Lungu says.

President Lungu urged the clergy and fellow Christians to intensify prayer for people who through their actions seem to think God does not exist.

He says those who don’t believe in the existence of God and his power equally need prayer for they are like lost men at sea.

President Lungu Quoted the Bible in Psalms Chapter 14 Vrs 1 that says “ The fool hath said in his heart. There is no God. “

And President Lungu insisted that there is no man or woman on earth powerful enough to sway people away from the love of God who created all.

Eagles2023

Mingalato shayàmba kikiikkikii praise singers how do you manage ayi ine nafìlwa

Wen they talk about u it mean you exist the òher camp is feeling pressure
ECL ALEWELELAPO wat started as a dream is slowly proving to be true

COPIED

"They destroyed it in 10 years and they want me to fix it on 2 years." HH

Your Excellency Sir, you have failed lamentably. Period. Full stop.
1. Who said 14:00?
2. Who said K50 bag of mealie meal?
3. Who said fuel at K11?
4. Who said 8 bags of fertiliser?
5. Who said global connections?

How do you call
1. 7000km of road network a destruction?
2. 8 Universities a destruction?
3. 5 Teaching Hospitals a destruction?
4. Over 500 health posts a destruction?
5. Over 700 schools a destruction?
6. 3400 megawatts at ZESCO a destruction?
7. 3 modern International Airports a destruction?
8.

Sir, why can't you be genuine for once and give credit where its due.

You found
1. Mealie Meal at K135 and took it to K330.
2. Fuel at K15/l and took it to K30/l
3. FISP at 6 bags to medas.
4. Dollar at K15.68 you took it to K20.
5. Zesco connection fee at K750 to K6000.
6.

Sir, you lied to the people of Zambia. They have seen through your lies.

Over the weekend, Mandevu and Matero showed you how 2026 will be. Every second posting on trendy social media platforms is carrying a message of mealie meal, unga, ubunga. Instead of humbling yourself, and seeking engagement with all stakeholders, you still mock the people of Zambia. You are still making promises. Monday akabwali, Tuesday Rice, Wednesday Potatoes..... Sir, feel ashamed for once and take the people of Zambia serious.

In case your people are scared to tell you, under your nose, no answers have been given for Sugilite, Gold and your Kamwendo Munjila which you condemned. For once, be serious. Tribalism, Regionalism, Nepotism, Abductions and shrinking political and Media space are worse off than what you condemned on the previous regime. The cadres are back. They are lethal as you can't identify them. Unlike in the previous regime when they dressed in military fatigue, these are plain clothes. Bus stops still have call boys.

Do me a favour sir. Stop mocking the people of Zambia. The fact that you said "people think

They went for photos who bewitched africa

Nga u ready unjebe

The mighty family

That's what our party needs more of this divided we fall united we win

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3 star fired

*10-04.2023*

Kabwata Ward 6 Chairman Mr. Gregory B. Mulenga leads a delegations of party officials to the house of mourning of the late Information and Publicity Secretary, John Chibilaluko.

The Patriotic Front continues to unite in all seasons.

*PATRIOTIC FRONT*
*KABWATA*

*FUNERAL NOTICE*

Be informed that the Patriotic Front, Kabwata Ward 6 Information and Publicity Secretary (IPS)
Mr. John Chibilaluko has crossed over into eternity.

Mr. Chibilaluko died on Sunday, April 9, 2023 in the University Teaching Hospital.

Details of the funeral will be communicated in due course.

*MHSRIP*

Hon. Sydney Zyambo day made

He is out: EEP President Chilufya Tayali

Keeping Tayali incarcerated will not help the economy grow in anyway.
Arrest the cost of fuel

Diesel from K 26.44 to K 29.85
Petrol K24.49 to K27.22
Fimba Upoke! Mulenya Mulelapila ba kabwa 🤸🏿‍♀️🤸🏿‍♀️🤸🏿‍♀️
He will fix it!

Appreciation post to hon Danny Bwalya Yenga Foundation:

The Kamulanga Ward 09 would like to thank the honorable for the various help he is rendering to the waRd whenever they are facing challenges especially in terms of funerals latest was the transport that was given to the waRd for the funeral of the late Mainess Hambaye may her beutiful soul rest in peace.

May God bless u Honourable.

Abena bally Airways

Happy 19th Birthday Zambian Kwacha 🎊

Very true

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On a lighter note-:

Kamulanga ward 09

The community writes

Thank you 🙏 Christopher Zulu aka Kambuku / Cardozo for buying us footballs as JACK BRAVE WARRIORS and for remembering where you came from may God continue blessing you ⚽️