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Zambia gears up for final rallies

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A former diplomat vowing stability and a fiery populist promising to aid the poor gear up Wednesday for their final rallies in a neck-and-neck contest for Zambia’s presidency.

The two leading candidates, acting President Rupiah Banda and opposition leader Michael Sata, have wallpapered Lusaka with their posters on dirtbins, bridges and lamp posts ahead of Thursday’s vote.

Radio airwaves jingle with Banda’s slogans, urging people to vote “for continued development” and “economic prosperity for all Zambians,” while Sata’s banners promise lower taxes and more jobs.

Economic themes ring strongly in a country that has enjoyed years of sustained growth thanks to soaring global prices for copper, Zambia’s main export.

Banda — the 71-year-old who took over after late president Levy Mwanawasa’s stroke four months ago — has built his campaign on promises to continue existing policies, which he says will boost the economy in one of the world’s poorest countries.

The retired diplomat had been seen as a political outsider when he became vice president two years ago, but he outmanoeuvred a dozen rivals within the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) to become the party’s candidate.

Banda is fending off a tough challenge from the opposition Patriotic Front leader Sata, a 71-year-old known as “King Cobra” for his stinging political skills.

Sata lost to Mwanawasa in the last election, but built a strong base of support in Lusaka and copper-belt towns that are home to most of Zambia’s jobs.

He has vowed to transform Zambia within 90 days of taking office by forcing foreign companies to hand 25 percent stakes to local investors, while embarking on social spending to provide better jobs and housing.

They are both expected to appear before large crowds Wednesday in Lusaka, to make their final appeals to voters.

Two other candidates are potential spoilers for either side in a close election, which will name a president to ride out the end of Mwanawasa’s term in 2011.

Hakainde Hichilema, 46, of the United Party for National Development, is seen as a dark horse contender, while former vice president Godfrey Miyanda of the Heritage Party is seen as an also-ran.

Sata and Hichilema have already voiced fears of vote fraud, accusing electoral authorities of planning to rig the ballots.

The election commission has denied the charges, but the controversy recalled tensions after the 2006 vote, when Sata supporters rioted for days in Lusaka to protest his loss.

Despite recent economic successes, the new president will inherit formidable problems.

More than 60 percent of the population live on less than two dollars a day, while more than one million people — of a population of 11.7 million — have HIV.

The commodities boom that powered recent growth now threatens to turn to bust, as global economic worries have sent copper prices tumbling by 50 percent from their peak in July.

Worries about the future and discontent about the way the ruling MMD has shared Zambia’s mineral wealth have earned Sata many supporters in Lusaka.

“In short, what people need is change,” Salinda Kayombo, a 49-year-old driver in Lusaka, told AFP. “The MMD’s term is through.”

“He said he’ll change the country in 90 days and if we reach 2011 with no change, we’ll chuck him out. Zambians are awake. We want someone whose promises come true.”

But Banda supporters argue equally adamantly that Zambia should stay the course.

“We want continuity,” said Prince Simwaka, a 28-year-old butchery worker who believes Banda will win. “I’m hoping that he’ll proceed with what Mwanawasa was doing.”

AFP

473 COMMENTS

  1. nbr 1 ukubilima.These guys should start preaching peace today so that it trickles down to their supporters, we only have one zambia.

  2. Indeed it’s time to blow the horn.Let the best man take the day and that is SATA.Long live Sata,Long live PF. Abash Banda Abash MMD. SATA for Plot 1.

  3. May the person who is best for Zambia, one who understands the issues of poverty and the unequal distribution of wealth in Zambia win.
    It will not be an easy time for he who wins given the falling copper prices for even the little that was earned in form of taxes by our government will given the current spending patterns soon be liquidated. As our country is donor dependant and given the slow down in the world economy can we expect that pledges of donor support will be fullfilled on a timely basis?
    I wish the best for my country. God bless Zambia tomorrow. I will vote in 2011 and so will my spouse and Children.

  4. Zambians need impowerment sale us the shares we have money lying around and been spent in bars. On average a Zambian drinks 5 bags of cement on friday night. Give us shares we buy their is no land for plots. With more money in January through PF We just need shares Zesco and Zamtel can offload them

  5. Whoever wrote this article must be a very refined political analyst,i like it when he refers to HH and miyanda as potential spoilers in this elections and it is ideed common knowledge that this guys are just waisting the vote and money.Viva Pf and nipabwato

  6. mr prophet what are you talking about????????? anyway go sata. we hope rigging wont be the order of these elections cuase without rigging RB cant win these elections and its evident. sata will win and if not HH will. hich is a good thing not ba MMD twanaka pafula.

  7. I think above all we need peace to prevail in our nation. May God only allow a person he has chosen to rule this great country because promotion does not come from the east nor west but it is the Lord who judges.

  8. Big Up king Michael, yuh time ah Come, Come thru fi sweep up di yard like Elephant man Say.

    Finally Di boat ha reached di promised Land.

    Nuff Love Massive

    Nuff Love PF

    Nuff love King Michael

    Right now mi haffi go Find Mi Reg caa me know where di Voters card dey

  9. By the way Mr. Hichilema is not a dark contender as portrayed by the writer. Infact you people will be shocked because he is carrying the day tomorrow. Go GO GO GO GO GO GOGgo gooooooooooooooo GOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  10. HAHAHA. Let me start writing down some usernames because like I said, after Sata loses, I will be here laughing at all the people who have shouted pabwato.

    Please PF supporters, after you lose, just accept the results. Zambia is not Lusaka and the Copperbelt. Don’t go destroy property worth millions if not billions of kwacha.

    And please PF supporters, make sure you come blog when the results are announced. I will be here the whole day.

  11. ALL of you supporting the so called king cobra or Sata(na) will be shocked we have already won stop making noise useless and hopeless peoplew where on earth will he improve the economy in 90. In his dream shame on you all Good day

  12. Time has come for SATA to rule, we are tired of this MMD leadership.

    Rupiya Banda Yes no problem, But we don’t need MMD.

    This is why everybody NOW is VOTING for SATA – PF

    Vote for SATA only

  13. RB will not even be second, he’ll be third first being PAWATO then HH. This time around they’ll be no rigging as stakeholders are head to head on ECZ. So VJ should be bidding farewell to Zambian politics.

  14. tommorrow wakeup early countrymen, i will be up by 3 in the morning and go at 3:30. if anyone stills my vote it will be sad cause am sacrificing my sleep and bed just to make sure my wish is granted so dont even try. let us speak through the ballot and if anyone wins without rigging well and good. please no dubious means ba MMD. lwenu.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  15. Ati the battle is only between Sata and Rupiah? Puleez, just shut up if you do not like Miyanda(hick). Anyhow, I think HH is as strong a contender as Sata and Rupia. He is more practical with his promises

  16. The innermost meaning of sacrifice is the annihilation of the finite just because it is finite. In order to demonstrate that this is the only purpose, the most noble and beautiful must be chosen; above all, man, the fulfillment of the earth. Human sacrifices are the most natural sacrifices. Man, however, is more than the fulfillment of the earth; he is reasonable, and reason is free and nothing but an eternal self-determination toward the infinite. Thus man can sacrifice only himself, and that is what he does in the omnipresent sanctissimum of which the masses are not aware. All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterr

  17. Yesterday on ZNBC I was watching HH’s campaign rallies conducted all over the country. The man has huge crowds, seemingly even more than what POST potrays for SATA. I have concluded one thing:
    These people who attend these rallies are mainly unemployed youths and are looking for someone to vote for. Most of them have just finished school and did not even register to vote in 2006. Over 90% of these rally attenders are not loyal to any party so the move from one rally to another to listen to and judge the candidates then make decision. Only less than 10% are able to pledge support for any particular party. For this reason it is a nightmere to base popularity on these recycled rally attenders.

  18. No. 20 Prophet, true to ur statements. You are a true prophets and have foretold the future. Sata will die from either consequence or he’ll be rendered redundant after collapsing and suffering a fatal stroke. I don’t think we want anything like that after LPM’s passing.

  19. I thought of voting for RB but I have changed my mind. I will vote for PF/viva Sata. I dont want to be on the loosing side come Friday. Besides I think Zambia needs change and a man of action looking at the way things are moving globally.Viva Micheal Viva Obama.

  20. am not chimutengo cha mango.

    ndina ma feelings naine.

    insult me and expect a huge one from me.

    UPND final rally in kanyama has also started.

    PABWAAAAAAAAATOOOOOOOOO is 14 hrs but woodlands stadium is already packed waiting for the voice of hope.

  21. LT, please load details of the Livingstone saga. OP guys and policemen fired live bullets and took off with the trucks in the night. RB is a shame. If those were just lamps, wow, what protection they got

  22. …subterranean gods. The meaning of divine creation is primarily revealed in the enthusiasm of annihilation. Only in the throes of death is the spark of eternal life ignited.

    Thank you HH for sacrifice…RB well i don’t know if i can thank you because you have not sacrificed anything apart from ripping the nation.General Miyanda thanks for your sacrifice…Definitely the in coming President SATA thnkx for sacrifice and selflessness…

  23. Sata for president,come what may it is him for plot 1.If he loses by under hand methods,I will never vote again.Viva Sata Viva PF Mwamukoloooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
    Pabwatoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
    Sata 4 Zambia
    Sata 4 State House
    Sata 4 president
    A revolution can never be stoped but delayed.It was delayed in 2001,2006 and now Victory is certain.

  24. Natuvote bane……hope for peace and prosperity…..
    we will blog on friday…vote wisely….for your children’s sake,that they may live in a better Zanbia oneday….

  25. SATA has promissed in western Province that he will honour the ‘Barotse Agreement’ if elected into office. This means that all of CB, N/Western, part of Central, Western, and most of Southern including Livingstone, part of Lusaka including part os Kafuel and Mumbwa will be under the control of Litunga in Mongu under the Lozi Kingdom. Zambia, therefore, will remain Northern, Luapula, Eastern, part of Central, part of Lusaka and part of Southern. This implies that Zambia will be split into 2 parts, the Baroste and Zambia. If Sata was not lying in Western Province then this is what will happen. But if he was deceiving the Lozis this will not happen, in which case he would be a serious liar.

  26. Pipo pipo pipo, just listen to the honking past intercontinental hotel, southern sun hotel, pamodzi hotel. Its a serious convoy of vehicles with pipo chanting PF slogans. The wind of change has gripped the nation.

    “Lelo lelo… lelo… lelo! We want change… we want chane!” so they chant.

    MUBWATO CHABE

    PABWATO FYE

    MAMUKOLO FEEELA

  27. #212 cont’d..
    If SATA was lying to the Lozis, then it implies all his promisses may be fake, only wanting to get a vote. He has also promissed to chase small investors, saying for small business Zambians should takeover. Because of this many small foriegn investors have started to convert their cash into Dolar and are getting back to their countries. This has caused a serious weakening of our Kwacha against the Dolar as a lot of dolar is leaving the country causing a shotage. Also big investors who have not trust for SATA’s word are not ready to keep their business in Zambia under SATA’s rule, so they have withheld capital injection, reducing inflow of forex.

  28. Iwe namba 3 REAL TALK no vengence talk in Zambia wa nvera muzeleze. UPND/PF will not close ZNBC why should you want to close POST? If MMD feeds you sorry maningi if you have not reserved for a rainy day(30/10/08)

  29. Actually if Sata wins..thats A BIG if..he will collapse and die, remember he has a weak heart, i hope the doctors will be close by. Coz he will definetly get a heart attack and die of excitement…he is so obsessed with state house that its a danger to his health. Lets protect him from this early death. ABS!

  30. Chiluba would have made a very good president, but he was mislead by SATA who was his closest advisor. Mwanawasa as vice could not function as he should because of SATA’s influence on Chiluba’s decision making; Mwanawasa had to resign as a result. SATA continued to misguide Chiluba for the first 10 years of MMD during which the economy was completely run down. SATA even when the 10 years was over he persuaded Chiluba to go for third term, which he fought fot with all his energy to the very bitter end.
    When Mwanawasa came on the see, the economy slowly began to pick up in the first five years, and began to show even more growth in his second term. Chiluba is not entirely to blame, but SATA.

  31. Some people are advising Chiluba to rest because he is sick.
    Chiluba is not the only sick man. How can the sick Chiluba go to rest when his fellow sick man, SATA is busy campaigning. Sata has even negleted medical review for his sickness just because of campaign and you want to advise only Chiluba to rest. Don’t tell me that you only love Chiluba and not SATA. Tell both Chiluba and SATA to rest because they are both sick. We must love both these people and not show partiality. SATA needs life just like Chiluba, so why should only show concern for Chiluba and not SATA. Lets us love our elderly patients equally; what has SATA done to you that you dont even want to show concern for his sicknes

  32. We will teach nyama soya a lesson. He thinks being endorsed by Kk and FTJ will do him good but his mistaken. Those 2 former presidents are not saints if anything, they are the greatest sinners we have around and some of us don’t even count them. ITS SATA OR THE CHIEF JUSTICE AS INTERIM PRESIDENT! PABWATO THIS IS OUR TIME…

  33. Number 57 what you have said is very very true the‘Barotse Agreement’ was an issue which was dying out despte it been a big thing why shold some old dying man come and wake it up We should look at the repactions this promise could bring if not honoured what a shame to sata and his supporters

  34. Well we’re finally there people…but word of advice 2 MMD,if u’ve already won the elections then why did u have 2 campaign..if this govt did perform they wud not be all over the country,coz all the people country-wide wud see there works,but since there is nuthin 2 show 4,,they are panicking…People let’s vote wisely 2moro

  35. Mwe bantu kanshi finshi muletina for you to go to an extent of telling lies that sata has been evacuated to south Africa. lets just vote and see who will emerge victorious. there can only be one winner at a time and only the best wins.

    mek sure mu ka vote mailo pilizi

  36. Living with integrity means:

    * Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships.
    * Asking for what you want and need from others.
    * Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension.
    * Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
    * Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.
    Sata a leader of integrity!!!!

  37. TOMORROW,

    VOTE FOR MICHEAL CHILUFYA SATA, MAN OF ACTION.

    VOTE PABWATO!

    LOW TAXES, MORE JOBS AND MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKET!

  38. Indeed we are having three final rallies in Lusaka. MMD will be in Manadevu, PF in Woodlands and UPND in Kanyama. Whatever they will say we have made up our minds to kick out MMD and bring in Sata. If he fails to perform we shall bring in HH in 2011. Ba MMD watijanda malo yathu kwa Mandevu? Its ok we shall still beat you tomorow. Let us all turn out in numbers and vote tomorow for the candidate of your choice.

  39. Chiluba has always been stubborn. No body can influence him even SATA. Ask people of Kantolomba, Musangu, Kawambwa and Johnston Falls upper School and you will understand what am talking about

  40. We are finally here!!!!!! Vote wisely and remember RH is a liar. He is clamming continuity by changing everything. If elected he will be changing ministers wives and all of you with daughers will not have peace…….

  41. No investor has any confidence in SATA because SATA cannot be trusted. Sata himself said during his reconcilation with late Mwanawasa that not everything he criticised was genuine; most of it was merely to frustrate and out of hatrade. How can an investor trust such a person? SATA has threatened the Chinese, and because of wanting a vote he modifies his statements. But still he says he will will not allow foreigners to be in SMEs (small-to-medium enterprises), instead he will kick them out and let Zambians take over. But you and I know that any economy is anchored on SMEs. In fact big and multinationals are largely supported by SMEs. The fastest way to kill the economy is to kill SMEs.

  42. Where are most of the blogers i expected 200 comments like it has always been ,with the majority from Foreign countries. Have they boarded planes to come and vote. You can vote via satelite my friends your friends in America who have gone to the moon voted from outer space. Check yahoo news. O by the way i forgot that Zambia cant be that advanced technologically speaking. So bane, the day is here, vote for a 21st century man. Remember the world is a global village now we cant afford to be islands we need policies that will work for Zambia as well as that will enable Zambia to interact with the global environment in terms of development. Vote wisely Zambia for your are a fire in Africa.

  43. Ba 68 don’t just support out of ignorance, you are busy yelling RB RB. what can your sleepy RB offer? I bet you are sleepy like him. Viva Pa Bwatooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bonse!!!!

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  45. Right now SATA is in Mumbwa adressing a rally and live on Hot Fm. Listen to the voice of hope.Mr SATA sir I lovo love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love you.

  46. Dear countrymen and women, lets vote wisely tomorrow as we have only one Zambia. Remember your vote is secret. Line up in numbers early bells tomorrow.

  47. What worries me too much about sata is the promises he makes, and theres lots of them. some of the promises he makes affect national security and stability. Issues that you cant just wake up and pronounce at a rally just to win votes. issues like the baroste agreement, Southern provincial HQ, Zesco generator(within 90 days), etc. I think the old man is making so many pronouncements, which he CAN’T fulfill. I hope my friends are just not chanting slogans based on these promises….

  48. As if all is not enough, SATA knows that then promisses he has made to people he will not fulfil because he has just used them to decieve people. So he knows that because he will fail to keep promisses he will be very unpopular in 2011, he has decided to begine to tell people that there will be no elections in 2011. This is because he knows he would surely loose the elections because people will have known that they have been decieved. So what do you do, pin the citizens down by convincing them that you deserve 5 years also. SATA, Sata! Many people would know better after elections if they made the mistake of puting him in power.

  49. Zambians time has come let’s vote wisely for the betterment of our Nation and economical development. vote Sata 4 president,vote sata 4 zambia,vote sata 4 state house

  50. Both Sata and RB just want to be burned at embassy park bcoz both are not fit they are sick please let fresh blood rule what do you still want you have been there for 44 years cant you people retire

  51. Navele mumendo mwalizila ….its barely hours B4 the people of Zambia decide on the next PRESIDENT OF OUR BELOVED COUNTRY,PLEASE VOTE WISELY….NOT BECAUSE SO AND SO PARTY BOUGHT YOU CHIBUKU.NGATI MWAYAMBA CHITAVU UPUBA …SITIZANVELANA

  52. Zambia is a rich country in terms of resources, natural and brains but we are not applying ourselves as we should. Honestly after 40 years of independence things like water and sanitation are still an issue in some areas. Poor drainage in the Capital and diseases like Cholera still an issue bane its 44 years now and we are still talking about poverty. With the vast land and water resources. Even World Bank recognises that Zambia has hydro power generation potential and have pledged/granted funds for feasibility checks. Imwe bantu let us move away from petiness and begin to develop. Zambia is richer than America but there is only one problem, leadership crisis. Arise leaders of Zambia.

  53. #48, like you have observed, rallies are not a good indicator of who will win these elections. after seing the ZNBC rallies for HH i started thinking that HH will end up taking the day. the man (hh) has not been adquately covered by yhe media but am expecting a chocking result which will send SATA and RB to their early grave. He has done more of door to door campains

  54. pabwatooooo bonse ba graduate banandi……lets make a viva by voting out MMD AND THEIR CORRUPT LEADERS.MWAMUKOLOOOOOOOO MO…..PA CHOMBOOOOOOOOO CHABE

  55. Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man’s business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ”Am I my brother’s keeper?” That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society…..

  56. …Yes, I am my brother’s keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death.

    VOTE FOR SATA!!!!

    ABR!

  57. Iwe ka # 76 we don`t know you in PF. We can`t accept akamuntu like you moving around the city ukwabula bamba. Akabwamba ubunono kwati takakwata gelo efyo bamibutukila weshilu iwe.

    You see am good at it no you.

  58. Sata is most popular candidate, I dont think you accuse Post or LT of being based. OBAMA receives more couverage than his opponet coz is a popular cadidate. Not even parents loves their children the same way coz they are different

  59. #3 Real talk and #14 mulongoti, there is no joy in seeing the Post and Zambian Airways close. What ever differences the MMD govt might have with these institution we must remember that there are Zambians, hard working Zambians with families who depend on them. So if victory for the MMD means the loss of job to these families then 1st November 2008 will be a very sad day for Zambia.

  60. #18 You’re talking of one more day and the Post and Zambian Airways would be closed. That is because you know that if RB won the race(which is a pipe dream), he would continue with UNIP’s dictatorial tendencies which he has already begun by threatening the Post and his cadres like Tentamashimba threatening the people of Eastern Province with a beating if they dont vote for RB. If RB is a seasoned polictitian, diplomat and whatever, why does he need image builders to sell himself???? Just like Levy he was woken up from sleep to come and be VP after having been dormant for three years but old cobra has been active all his life and still is. He has made himself and doesnt need PR department.

  61. # 20 you are a fake prophet. Long Live Sata Long Live PF. We don’t need prophets of doom to hell with your words.
    Pabwato come 1st november 2008.

  62. Let us continue to pray for our nation for peace to prevail. Its only God who can help us. Zambia is a christian nation and therefore we come against the power of the enemy during this period of elections. Amen!

  63. We can spectulate of who will win in 2moro’s election but the final vedict is in the hands of few Zambians who are elligible to vote. Please lets vote for a wise leader.

  64. I am about to go to the Rally of all times ku woodlands, wish i had me one the wireless things so that i update you properly…

    ABR!

  65. SATA SAYS IN MUMBWA 10 MINUTES AGO ‘I WILL FIND THE CURE FOR AIDS SO THAT YOU PEOPLE CAN CONTINUE ENJOYING YOURSELVES’ YOUR INCOMING PRESIDENT..

  66. Let PEACE continue for these no place like Zambia our home. Vote and No WAR Ba SATA please and all of you heading for Plot One………..for we have one ZAMBIA not another these no place like home.So please we need peace and we only have this country………

  67. Zedians, time is running out. Lets all get to Woodlands stadium to be part of the B I G G E S T rally ever in Zed. Heed the adverts on radio phoenix and turn out in numbers.

    its ACTION all the way from 1/11/08

    AAAAAAACTIOOOOOON

    VIVA MC SATA

    VIVA PF

  68. just like levy said ‘i will die first before sata becomes president’ ! if my permutations are right most ppl on this blog like myself are not on the ground, MMD has the electoral machinery and is definitely in control of the rural areas sata will make us run for it but thats as far as he will go. There is too much at stake here, and we have too many investors who have sunk costs that can let their money go to waste, PF dont have this one in the bag. Ppl might dislike RB but in a democracy dissent is an act of faith.

  69. We need a leader who is sober, unifying, calm, not deceitful, not arrogant, able to work with professionals and propel them to reach their potentials; and you know who that is.
    We dont need a dictator, a deceiptful person, a huligan, a thug, not one who will chase investors, NO! You know what happened to Zimbabwe, Mugabe chased the white farmers and respectable women and mothers are now selling chocolates in their handbags abroad. Here you dont even make any chocolate, so you will be selling mahehu abroad to earn a living, be careful!
    We dont need a ‘free manson’ in a Christian nation, No!
    We need RB, a man of calm approach and accomodative. A man who will keep investors.

  70. Its happening again in Kanyama. All well meaning zambians, come with me to kanyama and listen to the voice of hope.

    VOTE wisely, VIVA HHHHHHHHHHH

  71. This is it! The final bend as the race comes to an end. Who will it be? Sata or RB? Or is it going to be a photo finish? I don’t think so! Sata leads by more than 2 mins and RB is about to take a short cut. That is the only way he can win. GO SATA GO!!

  72. Tomorrow at 06:00 hrs the Bwato shall be shut and we shall all be preparing to sail. We shall at 18:00hrs bid farewell to MMD and on 1 November we shall arrive at Plot 1. Today we shall be dancing at Woodland Stadium from 13:30 (Ester Phiri’s base). Are u in the Bwato? I am. Viva SATA. Bye bye polio, bye bye MMD.

  73. we have alot to learn from american politics.look at these old folks ,they cant,even for a minute be together.look at obama and mc cain.Shame.

  74. am in choma please Ba Pf keep us informed (woodland rally) Nipa bwatoooooooooooooooooooooo
    at least this time will get something here N/P

  75. Its true Sata sounds more popular because of how empty his promises are. HH is a serious contender and better than he was in 2006. Remember he came on the scene in July with elections in September 2006. This time he has been around since 2006. He mighty win or come second. Please analyser rewrite your article the man is not a spoiler. Miyanda is not a spoiler but an apetizer. People underated Mazoka in 2001. VJ should correct his statistics, North western, and Central will go for HH.

  76. FINE
    Dont mislead yourself and the masses,RB has nothing to offer the Zambians,Its interesting to listen to Sata,HH or Miyanda when they are adressing the people.RB has completely failed to convince the Zambian what he will do when voted into power,is jst been promising sweets to the villagers

  77. Ba Sata we are with you whatever happens. Best of luck my man.
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  78. #3 Real talk so you do know that if RB won(which is a pipe dream)he would close the Post and Zambian Airways since he still possesses the UNIP dictatorial tendencies as evidenced in his threats to the Post and his chief cadre Tentamashimba’s threats to the people of Eastern Province if they dont vote for RB.Rupiah just like Levy was woken up from deep sleep to come and take office after being dormant for three years.But the old cobra has been active all his life and still is. He has made himself and does not need image builders and PR people to prop him up.Welcome to the real world!!!!!!

  79. Uncle Phil please keep one free space for me. Let me Vote 2 moro then start of for the ceremony on Monday. I like seat # 6 VIVA SATA

  80. Iwe ka 105 leka insele just comment real matters. Zambia is a christian country. Just vote wisely. Nipa bwatooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

  81. I bid farewell to you all. Its been nice and I will miss most of u. I will be back on 1 November after the swearing in ceremony of Zambias next President, President Michael Chilufya Sata. Allow me to be thr first one to congratulat Mr. Sata for being elected President of this great nation. Deliver on the promise. I salute you all and I sincerely pray that we all shall vote wisely and be peaceful no matter the outcome, after all the win will be Zambian. I leave you peace as i head to the mother of all rallies – Woodlands Stadium.
    Uncle Phil aka VN, the man from Luangwa District says Peace and Chao.

  82. No need to pray for peace nothing will happen the MMD rigged the elections in the two elections and we never beat them so what serious thing will cause vus to fight if we never killed Mwaanga for vote rigging

  83. SUPORTERS FOR SATA & RBB YOU HAVE VERY MUCH UNDERRETEND HH SICH HE DID NOT HAVE ANY PREFERERED CORRUPT MEDIA COVARAGE. SO NEVER BE SHOCKED ON 01-11-2008.
    SHOCK THEM HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH….

  84. I agree with George Mpombo, VOTE PABWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAATTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    sTRATEGIST
    aCTION MAN
    thinker
    a vision carier

  85. i’ll leave this one in the Hands of the Lord……thru he’s zambian pipo he’ll ordain us with a leader as great as Levy!!!!

  86. #82 Fine mwaiche ba investor will go even where there is war (not that war should be encouraged) as long as they are able to buy govment and make profit. Its not policies that work in Africa.

  87. LT, I EXPECTED YOU TO BE NEUTRAL IN YOUR COVERAGE OF ISSUES.
    ANYONE CAN TELL THAT THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICAL IS SUPPORTING PF.
    YOU DONT NEED TO SHOW PEOPLE IF YOU ARE A PROFESSIONAL REPORTER UNLESS YOU TELL ME SATA OWNS LT.

  88. LT . this artical is not accurate.. Sata 71 ?????
    AFP no jack about whats happening here! The artical is so opinionated! eech

    PAkuboko bane!

  89. ABS,! ABS,! ABS! thats my nzelu for you. vote wisely. “wait a minute where did i put my voters card??? ah! i forgot i don’t have one i never registered. Mayoooo ine!” This is a cry from a PF cadre i heard to day. ABS! ABS!

  90. Iam my frend for KGB from India.In Bombay ve vould wote for
    SATA.I dont like MMD becuase it is given us indians too much business and freedom at your expense.So tell me vho vill you wote for my frend?

  91. PF cadres will know their candidate well after elections should he manage to win. But I dont think we have enough Kaponyas to make SATA win. Kaponyas are just in district centres and in towns, not many in villages. SATA will lead his PF cadres in getting shocked. Until SATA starts praticing elections in his party, he will never win an election. Dont base popularity on share rally attenders, you will collapse on 31st October. Be careful!

  92. MWAMUKOLO FELA!!!!PABWATO FYE!!!Please fellow peace loving Zambians for once vote for a man known to deliver yes he has weaknesses like all of us, but he has a unique attribute to deliver and thats what is most important right now. ABASH LAZINESS!SATA IS THE MAN. VOTE PF AND SATA!

  93. LT, why dont you why dont u blacklist people like #105 for insulting others, I think that is unacceptable, #105 may God deliver you!

  94. Most of you guys that are talking of violence if the MMD won the elections seem to be foreign to Zambians. MMD rigged elections twice and there was no violence – what should change now? i think us Zambians are too docile and therefore MMD will continue to rule for as long as they want. The sad thing is that the dont rule on merit and some of you Zambians support that. People want change, we all want to enjoy the resources of Mother Zambia. This is not only about MMD and family trees…… Mazoka won, Sata won and even now it will be the same and they will continue to rule, shame Zambians.

  95. The author of this headline in the Lusaka Times is very uninformed about what is happening on the ground. It is indeed very good to write off HH in your projected opinion. Now Lusaka time should know that HH is at the moment more or better placed to win these election. Your PF has just finished addresing the rally here in Mumbwa. The crowd was ok though not as bigger the UPND one yesterday dispite the absence of HH and it was more elaborate in terms of policies compared to failed delivery speech by Mr. Sata.VIVA HH

  96. FINE
    Even kaponyas are just people like you , may be even better than you ,born from decent fathers and mothers and its just life which pushed them to those extreams.You can even be a better Kaponya if life was to be hard for you and you should as well understand that every party has cadres its not.The only difference is that they do not have the opportunity to enhance their capilities .

  97. The race is now becoming hot. May the best man win. But question is why are zambian leaders so selfish? Anyone who makes some cash always thinks of investing outside this country. No wonder we will remain as poor as ever

  98. MAY I TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO CONGRATULATE THE NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA HIS EXCCELLENCE DR MICHAEL CHILUFYA SATA LONG ,LIVE MR PRESIDENT

  99. and the winner is….the winner is…. Hey winner winner wake up. Winner i said wake up, wake up are you sleeping or help, help here somebody.

  100. #71, #57 – Another announcement I have heard from Sata – He will find a cure for HIV/AIDS when voted into power because he got rid of leprosy.

    You really have to be seriously d4ft to support PF. Really.

  101. I wonder why you Zambians forget easily. Dont tell me SATA has forgotten his evil deeds in UNIP and later in the MMD. I dont want you to regret your actions by voting for SATA. You will never remove SATA from power if he becomes president. That is another Mugabe. The best person is HH on a seriuos note. I’m just advising my fellow Zambians.

  102. Sata is the best candidate because all his policies will be under scrutiny by the majority MMD MPs in parliament otherwise parliament will be a mere rubber band or sorry rubber stamp for Rupiah Band. This is my humble observation.

  103. Bamambala in diaspora who are the majority on this blog are busy chanting PF PF Sata Sata wont even vote. Just wait for Friday/Saturday. They will all disappear from this blog after Satana and PF will be dead and burried. Iam off to prepare myself to vote.

  104. imwe on the 1st of November, the boat will dock at plot 1. Pabwatoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

  105. CRUISING !!!!TO STATE HOUSE
    WELL COME TO THE GOOD LIFE
    WE DONT MIND EVEN HH AND RB CAN JOIN US AT NO COST
    MWAMUKOLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  106. WHEN SATA WAS IN SOLWEZI HE SAID HE BROUGHT ARV’S AND NOW WHEN WE ELECT HIM AS PRESIDENT HE WILL CONQURE AIDS SO THAT PEOPLE CAN CONTINUE ENJOYING THEMSELVES AND THE CROWD SHOUTED PABWATOOOO NIWEBO WINE TULEFWAYA

  107. A MAN of ACTION in 2002 he saved in health and killed huge number of people from cholera to corruption which he embranced.
    In 1995 he left about 500 families homeless due to his action which has no care, in the same year he kill five to ten children with a budorza, kanyama, misisi, kuku, frank, jack, were of affected areas
    Due to his action he was prob with corrupton case in order to paid rental for his office at farmers house.
    Truely is the man of action in mistreating people in country (zambian).
    It is good to call for change but change before reasoning is dangerous. How can some call for change when there is no capable to take over. For instance see what is happening in U S A & learn

  108. mwebantu those with relatives in KASAMA town pliz try to find out, i have just received a call that they have impounded a track with 30, 000 ballot papers alread marked. LT try to find out also. i would love to know. bushse ici icinama cha rigging chikapwa. can some one pliz get back to me.

  109. Ba #190 what do you know about life.Do you know that a normal human being has but’s.By this i mean a person can be good but there will be something negative about them.So go to hell.A good leader will always have something negative which people know and it will show that someone is honest.It means he is open.My friend vote for PF if you have no leaders to vote for

  110. Have u people seen hw the kwacha has nose dived jst in the past 1 week? wake up imwe bangwele, iyi mpombo(RB) will nt do anything, u wil continue suffering, the gunk is an over-spender. if he submitted the account of the taxpayers money he has spent in the last 5 weeks, u will cry!

  111. #210. You’re right. A man that wanted to change our constitution to suit FTJ is not fit to be president. He spent his time critisizing and insulting Late LPM until LPM and GRZ evacuated him to SA for treatment, that’s when his stance changed. A leopard never changes its spots. A good point of reference is to look at his behaviour between 1991-2001. If you believe that is the calibre of a president then, progress will be thwarted in Zambia.

    Please use your votes wisely and do what is best for Mother Zambia.

  112. today at 1800hrs – it is cease fire! all the insults should end and prepare to vote wisely tomorrow.
    please go out in large numbers and don’t leave any room for rigging. do the following:
    a) make sure that the ballot papers tally with the the crossed out names in the register
    b) make sure after the finishing of counting and all the stakehpolders have signed, the results should be pasted on the board at each polling station and most important
    c) transmit results to all radio stations

    let the people of zambia know first before judge mumba

    Good luck and God bless our motherland

  113. #144 this is Zed and Africa! balateka, you cant say the Americans should drink Munkoyo nga tabanwa.
    #173, am not a Kaponya – am in a workplace right now.
    Viva Boat,
    Viva Bwato
    Viva Mwamukoloooooooooooooooo

  114. I have also been told that right now the truck is at the police station and the driver has actually cnfirmed that he has taken others to some paces before were he is leading them.

  115. Zambia is a blessed country and we really want to countinue enjoying the grace and the favour of our Lord Jesus. May the good Lord elect the chosen one that shall asher Zambia into it’s destiny. I urge my fellow Zambian voters to vote wisely and pray before voting. May the Lord’s grace continue prevailing over Zambia. To my fellow believers lets join our hands in prayers for mother Zambia remember it’s God that anoints Leaders.

  116. #216. Before you star calling people bangwele, there is a phenomenon the global economic down turn, a crisis that the International community is facing. How much has the pound fallen against the dollar ask yourself and that the UK is a mucha larger economy than Zambia’s

    If LPM was still alive and the Kwacha had nose dived as it is doing now, would you be blaming him? Duh

  117. LT, this “Hakainde Hichilema, 46, of the United Party for National Development, is seen as a dark horse contender, while former vice president Godfrey Miyanda of the Heritage Party is seen as an also-ran” is very unfair to president HH. What I know is that president HH will show the world that the media has been terrible with regard to his abilities in the past and present Presidential elections.

    All the best to president HH. As for all Zambians, you have been told and heard for yourselves what is possibly coming from each of the candidates and please vote for Zambia’s future in terms of development in all sorts of matters.

  118. Finally we are there. come what may i believe GOD is with us.Mwamukolo, Mubwato, mu wato and in the boat tomorrow.

  119. Wina azaba na Chimutuntila mailo. fellow zambians lets brace our selves for another national mourning next week for the ones who are weak hearted.

  120. We must all pray for peace and stability in our country. We have come so far and are doing really well. I’m praying that God guides us and our leaders as well as the voters.

    Violence is something we shold avoid at all costs, unless some of us Zambians want to experience what our brothers and sisters are facing across the borders. Lawlessness, raping or mothers, daughters and sisters. Apparently Kaponyas in town cannot wait for Mr. Sata to be president because he’s promised them jobs in Barclays. I take it our financial institutions will be in very safe hands then.

  121. Crowds can deceive, but God knows who will rule this country the day after 2morrow. All am praying for is peace and total order after the election. Viva Zambia the Christian Nation!!!!!!

  122. Can you people tell me? what caused Defence Minister George Mpombo’s slip of a tongue in Mpongwe rural? it is because its known deep down their hearts that Sata is a threat, man of the Game.
    Its set deep in his medula oblongota…… for how can he honestly at the MMD rally tell the people to Vote for SATA and D PF! HA HA HA. Elyo lwanya ba MMD.
    1. Chumbwe said it
    2. Munkombwe said it
    3. Magande and Masebo are quite
    4. Mpombo said it – who are we to say no. Viva Pabwato chabe

  123. Hey ba #215, you dont throw yourself in the den of a lion thinking they will let you go scot free. You know for sure SATA has never changed from his behaviuor & charrecter. What makes you think SATA has changed?
    Ba #218 you are very right. I think ba # 215 should be reminded of this.
    Vote wisely!!!!

  124. After all we have said and done what then else then shall we say! PEACE, PEACE, SHALOM, SHALOM!!!!Whether your candidate wins or not promote peace.

    Christ said to his disciples, three times, after his resurrection “PEACE BE WITH YOU” John 20 verses 19,21 and 26.

    Hebrews 12:14 Says: “Make peace with all men….” Whether Bemba, Tonga, Lozi, Luvale, My mbuyas Ngonis etc it is peace with all men (Women included).

    We don’t want any stone throwing. Remember may be all these presidential candidates will only be able to achieve 10% of what they are promising. The other 90% is all political language.

  125. whats the story on the impounded trucks at the airport and is it true that vj has someting to do with the doucuments found in the truck.

  126. With less than 24hrs b4 elections former MMD lsk chairman Chumbwe has resigned to join the winning team PF,what are waiting 4.Viva Sata Viva PF Pabwatooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

  127. VOTING SATA WILL BE THE BIGGEST MISTAKE THIS COUNTRY WILL EVER MAKE. I HOPE THOSE ON BWANTO WONT REGRET. I WOULD RATHER PIPO VOTE 4 HH. PLIZ I BEG U. IF U LOVE THIS COUNTRY DONT VOTE FOR SATA.

  128. The post news paper has posted a new Video of pF Cadres in lusaka here is the video

    megavideodotcomforwardslash?v=T9PPMBYX

  129. #244 Romour Has it!

    You are funny dude lol
    I think the guy will never win thats why everyone keeps calling for people to vote for him/her. Wisely is a hard person to findLOL

  130. Only God Knows who is going into Plot one on Monday 3 November 2008.

    You can say all what is on your mind, but the fact remains.

    Go and vote peacefully and then wait for the results.

  131. THE PRESIDA OF REPUBLIQUE DE ZAMBIE MICHEAL CHILUFYA SATAMANIA. MMD THE HOUR AS COME FOR YOU TO SAY BYE BYE
    I VOMITE WHENEVER I HEAR THE WORD MMD SO PLEASE FIND A BETTER TERM TO DESCRIBE MMD ALL ELSE MANY OF US WILL LOOSE WEIGHT.

    SATA OUR PRESIDA NEXT WEEK
    PLOT ONE MWAMUKOLO PABWATO MUBOTI GO GO GO SATAMANIA

  132. Im very sorry ladies and gentlemen, but it seems you lost souls in the boat do not seem realise that the boat is SINKING!!!

  133. #173,Fine, i like your analysis and all what you have commented is actually correct. Its very difficult to trust SATA when we know what he is made of. His lies, thugish, dictatorship,careless talking, wooosh! I cant give him a vote but RB is.
    PF cadres & supporters will woke up to a rude shock when MMD wins this elelction.

  134. nipabwatttttttttttttofyeeeeeeeee
    mmd are now resigning to join pf
    let’s go the boat is leaving u on the shore!!
    uno mwaka tuleteka

  135. It seems that the closer SAta gets to plot 1 business are closing the doller gets wase or is it that they are pulling there finances out???
    The economy and international plus business with investors with the head of state go hand in hand be careful who you put in state house we are after all a global village why should a leader reduce us to a small detached country and scare everyone off.

  136. Why was ECZ so reluctant to open the trucks, if all the claimed to be carrying was as claimed 24 hours, a lot of things could have been done.
    Anyway critics of Sata are the most loud mouths, they hold HH in high estime have you had an opportunity to work with this man or no coz his a one man show, what we need is a leader in plot one not a solo flying drone

  137. LT what is happening with you? Why dont you put HH and Miyanda’s pictures as well.Pls do that as the nation now depend on you not THE POST any more! We still believe HH has a chance of winning while Sata or RB can also be spoilers..FULLSTOP.

    We want HH we want real change.

  138. For the first time in my 32 years I am ashamed to be Zambian!

    Countrymen, how can you be taken in my a chancer like Michael Sata? We shouldn’t be in a position where it is quite plausible that he could become the next president. At best this man is uneducated and course; at worst he is dangerous.

    His rantings over the last few months are a clear and present threat to the existence of Zambia. We can’t afford to have a Mugabe incharge. He might say things that are popular, but how is he proposing to implement all these populist ideas?

    Where are the jobs going to come from?
    What is he going to change in 90 days?
    Who’s going to fill the monetary hole when foreign SME’s leave

  139. Pa Bwato
    The Queen of England would gracefully aboad the THE QUEEN MARY II (pa bwato)
    The Lozi King… Nalikwanda (nii pabwato chabe)

    MMD ooh the also tried but unfortunately all of them got in the Titanic
    PF …..PA BWATO CHABE still loading all are welcome even under 5, we set sail tomorow
    come aboard all yeh.

  140. I am in the biz Zed,not in the diaspora thinking stuff is good.It aint.we are constantly abused onre way or the other by these agents of capital.need a president tom fight for me and be the rep. for these Investors.

    Ni pa bwato bane.Zero option.

  141. Iwe number 262, Where are u from? Dont show your dullness! With less than 24hrs to go, u’r still supporting HH?
    Your candidate cant beat ERB and Cobra. U’r LOST!
    stop DREAMING. Time has run out, just decide from the 2; ERB or cobra so that u dont waste a vote. HH start to get ready 4 2011.

  142. #124, Maestral HheHhe, why do you like uplifting other people’s stuff. Look, the great people of The Netherlands developed PHILIPS, but the Chinese came up with Phillipss years later.

    This behaviour is very very sad and bad. I still think you can do better.

  143. According to a poll by the Steadman Group, a Nairobi-based market research company, Sata will probably win with 40 percent of the vote, compared with 29 percent support for Banda. There were 12 percent undecided voters. At the last election in 2006, Sata won 29 percent of the vote.

    Voters Switch

    A fifth of those who voted for Mwanawasa two years ago said they’ll vote for Sata this time around, according to the Steadman survey, which polled 1,062 people between Oct. 10 and Oct. 15. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

    Hakainde Hichilema, 46, who won 25 percent of the vote in 2006, is also running as leader of the United Party for National Development, al

  144. Sure, sure!

    NI PA BWATO! Goodbye MMD. Well tried after taking over from UNIP in 1991! ENAF IS ENAF! VIVA SATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  145. THE NEWS READ BY LUYANDO YOYO.

    “Opposition leaders of the MMD have cried foul that the rulling partys President Michael Sata
    rigged the 30th October elections”
    “Speaking after the burial of vetran politician Vernon Mwanga popularly known as VJ who
    died five days ago after suffering from depreciation after the MMD lost its presidency to
    President Michael Sata”MMD spokesperson Mike Mulongoti speaking on his death bed oh sorry hospital bed …………………………………

  146. LET US VOTE
    & VOTE WISELY . AVOID TALKING ILL OF OUR COUNTRY . WE V ONLY ONE ZAMBIA AND WE SHOULD BE PROUD OF THAT . LET US SING OF ZAMBIA PROUD AND FREE DURING THESE ELECTIONS. GOD ALLOWED US TO PASS THRU THIS PHASE FOR A REASON AS ZAMBIANS AND HE IS DEFINATELY GOING TO PROSPER US . I WISH MY BELOVED COUNTRY PEACE AND PROSPERITY NOW AND FOREVER . MAY THE BEST CANDIDATE WIN AND RETURN ZAMBIA’S GLORY. WE NEED SOMEONE WHO CAN DO MUCH MORE THAN WHAT MWANAWASA DID FOR THIS COUNTRY. SOMEONE WHO HAS A GREAT VISION FOR THIS LAND . THERES NO NEED TO FOLLOW MWANAWASA’S VISION BECOZ LEVY’S VISION WAS ONLY UNDERSTOOD BY HIMSELF AND HIM ALONE. THE NEXT LEADER SHOULD HAVE IDEAS.

  147. AS YOU HAVE ALREADY HEARD MR. SATA COLLAPSED YESTERDAY IN CHIPATA AND WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL.

    WE AFRICANS DO NOT RESPECT DOCTORS ADVICE. PLEASE CONFIRM

  148. #275 its not true. Sata has been in Mumbwa addressing a mammoth rally and he was live on Radio (not just sure which station). But he is up and about and ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Viva Sate,
    Viva Change,
    Abash family tree,
    Absh MMD self ministers
    Riches for all the Zambians !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  149. 274# May God Bless You! You have a great message. We all know who has ideas……..You cant have ideas in three months………..you should have had ideas long ago…………….. There was ONLY one Mwanawasa…………………

  150. If you can conduct an opinion poll on this blog, the result will be the opposite of what will transpire tomorrow

  151. Umupashi usuma, I agree with you. Imagaine K708 billion has so far been spent, mostly on MMD campaigns. RB only knows how to spend and he’s good at it.

    BaMMD mwachilamo. Pabwato Viva!!!

  152. Please restrain posting nonsensual posttings just for the sake of it, as per 276 278 280. stop smoking that stuff

  153. Ba inzi bakonda pafitu vo-ola. Pabwatooo fye. Congrats Chumbwe, Nakawala, Moonga, Alice and others for ditching Muchalo Mukawama Daddy (MMD). Change with SATA CHILUFYA MICHEAL.

  154. Moonlight you are a joke, cant you read?
    Is education that xpensive where you are?

    Stop exposing your ignorance, and keep your head down. let me remind you, that cheap shots like those, will not serve you, when you start picking your teeth on the floor

  155. Sata and Rupiah= State Funerals before 2011.

    Guys, smell the coffee and vote for real change. No 71 year chap can deliver the change and prosperity we so direly need in Zambia

    Viva HH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Vote HH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  156. #265, you are the one who should ve been drinking. You just support blindly? No morals, no principles, nothing? What is your RB going to do in three years which he has failed to do in 72 years of his life?

  157. Wanzelu, are you joking?

    No morals. Who was a key architect in Chiluba’s 3rd term bid
    No principles. Who said I’ll chase the Chinese, then changed his mind.

    I am not an an RB supporter, but I am definately not a supporter of a dangerous cartoon character like Michael Sata.

  158. You all Sata and RB cadres and supporters, you will be accountable for the innocent blood (due to continued hunger and poverty) that will be shed after this election. You are the ones who are going to waste your votes because you will vote for Nchembeles that will bring shame and nothing else to this country. You will hav blood on your hands! Mark my words!

  159. Go to Woodlands and see for yourself!!!! Ubwato is sailing in State House!!!! Talk to people on the ground if you are abroad. See for yourself if in Zed. Ubwato ubwato! PF GO GO GO

  160. may the best candidate win and whoever
    wins by whatever means God is the judge.
    Democracy is a system that has been designed by man
    and believe it cant work for a poverty stricken
    population like ours with more tha 72 ethnic groups.
    None of the candidates has exibited the qualities
    that can bail Zambia out current problems.
    Sata may deliver logically speaking coz the other
    guy is surrounded by wolves.

    long live mother Zambia!

  161. The day has slowly approaching when zedians will once again exercise their democratic right, voting. Viva Democracy
    I want to appeal to my fellow zedians that we only have one zambia. Elections or no elections we are all zambians, that is our common denominator. As we go to vote tommorrow let us have that in mind. Who ever wins the elections deserves to be the president and we can only have one winner. Please no violence, may peace prevail

  162. #298, I will never in my life support Sata for presidency, he doesn’t have it. The time I will think of Sata for presidency, God forbid, Chinama hospital will definitely be my home!!!

  163. Sata, Sata, Sata fye! The one best of the all. Practical, dependable, reliable and strongman. Let us go MUBWATOooooooooooooooo

  164. # 299 mind your language, there will be no blood shed in this country. We refuse those words and cansel them. There will be no blood shed and we praying during the elections and after elections the nation shall be peacefull.

  165. two ugly faces trying to be presidents of a beautiful country. what a waste of resources.satanic sata is rotten corrupt as he was busy starking government funds into his account and accrue massive interests through treasury bonds.he will now keep all the country’s little foreign reserves into his personnal account

  166. Wanzelu, I apologise unreservedly for making an unfounded presumption.

    It’s just that I am really disappointed that we are considering Sata as a credible presidential candidate. I fear for the country. If Sata wins we will die a slow painful death and if RB wins then I predict trouble.

  167. Within 90 days
    Tar the Choma Namwala road
    Extend itezhi-tezhi power station
    Stop load shedding
    Increase salaries for teachers, soldiers and policemen
    Re-open mulungushi textiles
    Build houses for teachers
    Find cure for AIDS
    Reduce taxes
    put more money in peoples pockets

  168. I have always been unmoved by Sata’s words because they offer no profound chanllenge to some of us who purport to care.You need to get inside his head to read his thoughts.Economic messiah in 90days..you must be having a laugh.

  169. all pf supporter,friendly warning b4 u jump into the boat,can u please think twice becoz the boat is gonna sink,the captain of the boat is to old to control it,titanic sank becoz the captain had no brains,this applies to mmd as well,the watch stoped working way back,its on pause rite now and the battery is very expensive to buy.dnt say i did nt warn u.vote HH

  170. Africans cant rule i think you guys should revert back to colonialism. Its not in a Blackman to be a leader. am not racist but one just needs to look around the world…… its always the Blackman who is suffering. why i ask?? by the way Obama is not Black….. just incase someone thru that at me 😉

  171. mmd supporters and upnd supporters sorry you are lossing this time around its sata whether you like it or not. The majority of zambians want sata and they have alread made the decision. come tommorrow ni pabwatoooooooooooooo

  172. every zambian should look forward to a better day,be proud of your country.vote wisely.let us not continue with cheap politics coz the decision you make 2morow will affect your unborn child.

  173. ERB & King Cobra its only 2day & 2moro, Zambians cast their votes. I cant say anything to the other candidates, coz they cant win & they know themselves. TABOMFYAFYE!

    KIP YOUR MEMORIES FRESH ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE PROMISED PIPO. THE ONE WHO WILL CARRY THE DAY SHOULD WORK AS PROMISED DURING CAMPANIGNS.FAILURE TO DO SO WILL MEAN……………….

    WE ARE TIRED OF BEING USED BY U GUYS FOR YOUR PERSONAL GAINS. WHEN ONE BECOMES PRESIDENT THEN 4GETS ABOUT WHAT HE IS EXPECTED OF HIM; FUEL GOES UP, UBUNGA GOES UP, EVERYTHING GOES UP. WE WILL NOT USE ANY VIOLENCE BUT JUST GO DOWN OUR KNEES BEFORE GOD AND PRAY U OUT. I MEAN EVEN ALLOWING GOD TO TAKE ‘U’ FOR NOT DOING WHAT U PROMISED PIPO.

  174. 319. Was Sata not Chiluba’s right hand man? He was Minister Without Portfolio, which meant that he was almost Vice President. Chiluba is a convicted thief.

    Learn to question my brother!

    Not all change is good.

  175. rb has decampained himself by embracing thives. Levy shuned people like vj, chiluba, etc tommorrow tuleya mubwatooooooooooooo

  176. FOR ALL I KNOW SATA HAS BEEN SPECIFIC ON ISSUES HE WILL ATTEND TO WITHIN 90 DAYS. IT WOULD BE CRAZY FOR ANYONE TO CLAIM THE ENTIRE ECONOMY CAN TURN AROUND IN 90 DAYS, BUT FOR SPECIFIC THINGS, ACTION NEEDS TO BE SEEN WITHIN 90 DAYS. AND I THINK IT IS A GOOD PROMISE RATHER THAN JUST SAYING “WE WILL LOOK INTO IT”, THE QUESTION IS FOR HOW LONG? WE DO NOT WANT TO HAVE POLITICIANS GOING ON HONEY MOON SOON AFTER AND ONLY START PRETENDING TO WORK TOWARDS THE NEXT ELECTION. E.G THE CONSTITUTION HAS TAKEN SO MANY YEARS TO ADDRESS AND IT HAS NO TIME FRAME. THIS CAN BE DEALT WITH IN A SPECIFIED TIMEFRAME. SHOULD WE HAVE ANOTHER ELECTION UNDER THIS CONSTITUTION? ZAMBIANS LETS BE SERIOUS FOR ONCE.

  177. Agreed with # 310 , just look at the people believe this rhetoric, speaks volumes.N’way, even if he wins MMD will gang aganist him , he has no majority in parliament.They will simply impeach him.And he will gone, so the pwato entourage will be back to opposition where I believe they belong.We cannot have loud tins as leaders, we need for the check and balances.He could not think of building another hospital in Lusaka where he stayed all his life, as Gov, 3rd most powerful, FTJ’s advisor, so how would he do it now.I hope he retires on Monday when he will be told he is second, I’m tired of this man’s face.I’m 40 yrs old and have seen his face on GRZ stuff thro out my life.

  178. God we need your protection from one Michael Chilufya Sata. Please hear our plea. Thanks very much; you love us Zambians

  179. #316xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    useless chap.why putting yoself down ?Nowonder u keep on cleaning toilets whereever u’re.who told u that a black man can’t rule?Things are changing in the world.If u can’t rule keep quiet and continue cleaning whites toilets .u’re the one who can’t even motivate your children.we all have equal opportunities to make it wether white,blue red or black we’re all same people.
    Mambala stop putting a black man down.we gonna rule the world.
    Viva PF.
    pabwatooooooooooooooooooooo
    let us show them that a black man can rule

  180. 319 if you say sata is also a thief because he was Chiluba’s right hand man , dont you think that levy would have spared him. wake up man.

    this time around ni pabwatooooooooooo

  181. SATA IS ON FIRE ON MMD RALLY IN MANDEVU ALL RETIRED POLITICIANS ARE TALKING ABOUT HIM, GIVING HH CHANCE WAIT AND SEE

  182. Good work fellas, as much as i detest RB, he is going to win because of PF and UPND’s greed will split the popular vote! so until you learn how to work together, we will continue having mediocre leadership.

  183. 2Morrow is day 2 rebuke this Bad spirit again which keeps on hauting
    Zambians.

    Some investor have withdrawn US$56,000,000 from bank accounts,Copper prices at LME have continued to dwidle,They were in charge of Councils but even after 90 Days Councils are still in Shumbles.

    Were is he going to get more money in people’s pockets?

    he’s got no diplomacy.pls spare Zambia and it’s children who are the leaders of 2tomorrow.

  184. This heaven on earht promises coming from Chilufya is giving people force hope
    Lord our father we pray that you look after our brothers and sister in Zambia so they can make a choice that will offer real hope for the future and not forcehoods AMEN

    Stop taking advantage of people many years have past people have suffered the whole world is in trouble its like the end of days and you promise the impossible in 90 days as if you are the messiah and its really sad the church itself support this

  185. Liars! You deliberately distort the truth: Sata says real investors and not those that cook nshima are welcome – you say Sata will chase investors: Sata says will work hard and see to it that HIV and AIDS programmes to fight the scourge – you say Sata says will find a cure>
    Sata is insulting – have you heard him insult in this campaign?

    SHAME SHAME!! Lies have cost you votes – The truth Sata is winning PF PF FWD

  186. Wat shall we do then?

    ERB cant rule this nation. Has a bad past record, ooo, i even feel like fainting.

    Cobra, worse. The chap is bad news. Tachakwata umweso! Got public funds & put in his personal a/c, depriving us.

    But the 2 are the only ones for 2moro. 1 has to win & the other 1 loose.

    Though its a secret ballot, there is no secret here, Pls advice me as to whom i can give my vote and Y? The whole nation knows, HH & Miyanda are time wasters & dont blame them. Its good to have such chaps for the game to be fair.

  187. #196 KING OF KINGS Mwana this talk that people attending PFs rallies are not even voters is utter rubbish. You I took an audit among call boy and I was shocked that almost 100% were registered voters. So finding solace in that notion will only traumatise you on 31/10/08.The so called Kaponyas are even more intellegent than you know who…..

  188. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
    HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
    The man who has been consistent on his election promises.
    We have not seem back tracking, like no south africa when people are sick,or i will chase chinese,etc
    The old lies of turning the economy round in 90 days. Thats lack of understanding of economic parameters and how they work. This guy has been the core person in the regime that saw the worst decline in the economy. That saw the wealth of the nation go down. The closure of companies and decline in employement levels. How can he 2day be a changed man when his exeprience is source of misery for this nation

  189. This is the point where I just say “good luck to whoever wins tomorrow.” What matters at this stage is progress of the country and avoiding what we went through after 1991 with HE Dr Chiluba Mr Third Term, with talk of an election in 2013, we live to wait and see!

  190. May God deliver the peoples of Zambia from this uncertainty and give them a responsible leadership, which among other things will respect the values that we are known for.Deliver zambia from SataNA, lest we fail our duties for humanity.

    WISE UP, VOTE WISELY, VOTE

  191. #316 XXXXXX…Give us a break. The problem with you is that you rely too much on the media which tends to paint a bad picture about us Africans.White leaders of the so called great nations in the world have shown bad leadership on several occasssions.For your own information India has more poor people than all the Least Developed Countries put together.Lastly are you color blind or what?Yes Obama is a black man.Take a trip to eye clinic and have your sight checked!

  192. #335
    sata wants zambians also to invest.How can we have all investors foreigners?That’s what happens in the time of crisis investors get their $ and leave u with nothing.It’s the same reason zambias should invest in their country because they won’t withdraw the $ and leave the country.Very simple and logical.Parents always suffer with their children while a stranger will leave u alone dying coz doesn’t care.
    So think about it!when zambians have more shares in all companies the risk won’t be high.
    come on guys we all know what’s happening in the world.There’s world crisis because of america.More investors on this world are americans hence crisis.

  193. Viva Pf,abash HH because you are now just a dark horse with your friend miyanda.Nipabwatoooooooooooooooooooooooooo

  194. For those of us who are based in Zambia we pray for peace to prevail as before whatever the election outcome, we are on the verge of setting a precedent that we have had peaceful transition without the dirty word of Government of National Unit (GNU) which has become an operational word in Africa. This for me is what is at stake for our country.

  195. The problem with most zambians today is that they’r desparate for change just as it well in 1990. Why is our memory so short? We made that desparate move to change to MMD just for the sake. If we were a developed nation, I wudnt mind taking all these risky “experiments”. Shout out “pe boat” but take an intelligent calculation and analyse what this guy has promised you. I would rather vote for H.H. Call him tonga, arrogant but all those are minute factors if you r looking for some1 to take the nation forward. Why do we have to recycle leaders whom we know have never delivered?

    Vote wisely. Vote for the person with success on his CV

  196. READY, READY, LIFE JACKETS ABOARD, EMERGENCY SPEED BOATS CHECK,

    I see cloud gathering, and it will rain by this evening meaning the boat will have to float first, I see a rock sir michael, “No its nothing, we will go over it without a problem” come Monday we will know what happened, the survivors telling their captain “we told you there is a rock down there” , someone tricked us by covering the rock with water …… etc.

  197. You have talked enough time is and PF is going to victory.Leave us we show you how to work.VIVA PF PABWATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

  198. To prove to you that MMD is shivering,at the mandevu rally they are talking about SATA only and no policies.Nevers, general tembo,nawakwi,cosmo,all the vultures are thre attacking SATA. We will see them tomorrow coz they will cry their lungs out. Vote sata

  199. come Saturday, Rb will be sworn in. Like it or not. Possible headlines in the newspaper:

    The Post: PF cadres riot… as Sata disputes results, admitted to CfB awaiting air ambulance to Morningside for heart attack

    Times of Zambia: RB narrowly wins Presidntial Poll, as Sata, HH, reject results.

    Daily Mail: RB Wins Poll.

    Monitor: Zambians at crossroads as RB pulls Surprise.

    National Mirror: Chruch urges for Unity As RB Wins Disputed Poll

    Weekly Angel: Sata was robbed

    New Nation: Incumbent continues with Levy Vision

    I hope that prepares PF cadres. If you need evidence that it shall be as predicted above, look at VJ’s opinion poll results. Also, why Pangolin disclaimer?

  200. #63 sata did not mislead FTJ do you know what you are talking about,Sata was actually influenced by FTJ,do you know FTJ,he is a don,a godfather.but here he is now in RB’s camp,what do you say?

  201. #286 your posting is utter nonsense. Who gave you the mandate to censor anyone who makes postings. Get a life and post something sensible.

  202. THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA SHOULD ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN GOVERNANCE….DAY IN DAY OUT .NOT JUST DURING POLITICAL CAMPAINGS.THE YOUTH HAVE NO JOBS.WHAT NEXT AFTER THE NEW PRESIDENT IS VOTED IN POWER,WE DONT SEE ANYTHING FOR THE ZAMBIANS.LETS VOTE FOR A MAN WHO WILL NOT BE THERE FOR SELFISH AMBITIONS BUT THE WILL TO SERVE THE PEOPLE AND TO CARRY ON MIGHTY ZAMBIA FORWARD SOCIAL AND ECONOMICALLY.DURING LEVY THE PRICE OF MELIE MEAL HAS BEEN STEADY ALMOST FOR 5 FIVE YEARS.THE KWACHA HAS REASONABLY BEEN STABLE.ALTHOUGH UNZA WAS REPEATEDLY SHUT…

    KEEP THESE THINGS IN MIND. BEFOER YOU CAST YOUR VOTE.
    REPRESENTING ..MATERO IN OSLO.

  203. #356 there are also other possible headlines, we will have to see… VJ’s opinion poll results? RubBish

  204. ok let me put some of the things straight. i believe in what i believe not because i want to be, but bcoz of the reality on the ground. guys tell me one african country that is better off today than in the colonial times barring Bots?? zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, infact most countries in africa are poorer today than they were during those days.

    research has shown that on Average, blacks have the least IQ of all the races in the world. In America blacks are the most disanfranchised most live in Ghettos. In UK Kids from the Black ethnic origin are the worst performing from all the other minority races.
    Africa is poverty stricten. 95% of the worlds poorest countries are…

  205. #360 you have not said it any better, kwacha – USD 3000 – 3300, after levy less than 90 days after 4500 to a dollar what a shame, because some politicians who do not understand economics have been issuing statements that are plain scary.

  206. cont.. in Africa. HIV n AIDS has killed most of the working class and keeps killing.

    Nepotism and corruption most prevelent in Countries ruled the the black leader…..

    Guys i think i shud stop but the list is endless……

    OBAMAS mum is White by the way…… and am not what u think i am…. am highly qualified.

    Just my sixth pence worse….. i who it doesnt make good reading but its time there was a radicle change that came from Africa …. its about time.

  207. MMD is now full thieves chiluba, nawakwi, tembo almost everyone is back.what a party?Levy didn’t want those people in MMD.Therefore the only change is SATA because he can be controlled by chiluba and nawakwi.
    GGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PF
    I can’t let thieves to take over again!!!
    The only hope is sata

  208. NI PABWATOO CHABE

    COME WHAT MAY WE NEED CHANGE

    GUYS PLAY IT SAFE DONT FIGHT STAY CALM COS WE ARE WINNING
    AVOID GROUPS COS BAD PIPO ARE WATCHING OUR MOVES. VOTE GO HOME AND WAIT FOR RESUTS THEN REJOICE AS WE GET RESULTS AND REJOICE FOREVER

  209. #xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,

    Go home, white boy. This is zed. If you don’t like the way we are going about finding our democratic feethold, go do your homelands politics. Only Zedians allowed here, you Alien.

    Get a life.

  210. #323 90 DAYS IMPORTANCE
    do you remember what SATA said when he won the council for Lusaka and the 90 days things he said will be done. Please help with any that was delivered. dont be easily cheated you seem to be a knowledgeable person.

  211. The Citizens Democratic Party wishes to give a statement, regarding tomorrow’s Presidential by-election. On the ground, we are observing, and it is hard to ignore the on going political tension present in our country. Read full statement www @the citizensdemocraticparty,com

  212. I cant vote for a leader with his diplomacy allowing so called investors enslave Zambians; signing contract without understanding fully. Zambia needs a leader who could change the work culture; not taking ministers to go and sleep at meeting abroad thus not understanding the theme and to interpret for the good of the country. SHAME SHAME!! MMD all corrupt characters who feared LPM have gone back name them – yesterday I saw Joe Mwale former diplomat in Japan………….SHAME SHAME!!!! It is better vote for the madness than wait for a soldier to take over!!!!! UBWATO UBWATO

  213. apart from becoming extravagant(wearing million dollar suits etc,like wabufi kadoli) if he wins, i think HH is the lesser evil

  214. yes pabwatofye!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    xxxxxx with yo low iq stop insulting us
    U’re no quilified that’s why u’re saying such nonsense

  215. # 363 i had been hoping you are white, oh sorry pink skinneed. i am black and that will never change and according to your statistics blacks shall always be second rated and therefore you shall always be. whether you live in America and change your accent you shall always be black and you shall always be looked upon as such.
    am black and proud and work very hard and through that nali ikala bwino pa ZED, that is i am one of the 5% out of the 95. its that easy…..

  216. The Mwadya Mweka Daddy team is really, really scared! I would love them to account for the money they have spent during the campaign period, im just imagining how much has been spent (our money).

    VIVA CHOMBO

  217. #346, go and sleep, why don’t you resign yourself? Why can’t you tell RB,KK and the rest to resign, leave Sata alone. he will only resign after ruling as zambia’s 4th president. Viva Sata Viva PF.

  218. Madness vary some have positive madness to see things are done properly and in orderly manner; others are mad to see to it Zambia is clean; water, healthy proper road network.

    Some are madly in love…………

    Sata is mad to change Zambia for the better!!! GO GO PF!!!!!

  219. #367 I AM NOT A SATA FaN BUT U R VERY RIGHT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT MWANAWASA DID NOT WANT ARE BACK N voucing for RB what is he promising them in return…yaba its even scary because the vultures are larking honestly..RB has managed the country poorly in the short time he’s had and really this was his chance to show us something to keep him in for…instead he prints his face on chitenges using public funds ATA!

  220. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ndiwe chi still pet. please the blog for us true
    Zedian, through thick and thin.
    Ni pabwato chabe,
    i would rather Satamania than fikabolala.
    lekeni Sata atekeeeeeee……

  221. Zambians I want to tender my resignation 2day from my Party PF
    Reasons being:
    1. Sata to honour Barotse agreement and divide the country
    2.Sata to find cure for HIV Aids
    3.To build roads,schools,clinics, and university in every town in 90 days
    4.Put more money in the pocket within 90 days even with working for it.
    This the greatest joker of out time. I guess some string has snapped due to old age or sickness. Who can believe this. Please come and get my card and take it to him.
    To remaining members please leave the boat. The snake is using garden of eden lying skills to hoodwink people. Crash the head

  222. To be honest, regardless of who wins tomorrow. The same people will find their way back. Zambia has a political roundabout where the same old tired, useless people keep returning. If Sata(n) were to win, watch him welcome all those same MMD thugs into PF and straight into ministerial positions.

    I can’t help but feel that we are doomed either way, RB or Sata(n)

    🙁

  223. @ 363

    And your point is?????

    You need to put on your dunce hat and sit in the corner until I tell you is OK to move.

    You should have added a valid point at tghe end of your little sermon because now you look like one really pissed off racist punk. PERIOD.

  224. #387, they will have to account for all the dollars ($) that was carried around to France as they awaited to finally annonce his having had passed on.
    ala bakalubulula ba call ko kombwa!

  225. Say what you like. HH is winning. He has solid support in central,southern, western and north western provinces while he is gonna get a significant stake of Lusaka. He will perform better on the CB than in 2006 and shall be no.2 in eastern province contrary to vj’s opinion.HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  226. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx obama’s mother is white so what. Does he look like a white man? Ney he looks pure black that why some of you Amreican’s have a problem in swallowing the fact that blacks are gifted. Blacks can dance, blacks can sing, blacks can act, blacks can run, blacks can be good politicians like obama,black men have beter di#ks,blacks have lesser chances of skin cancer because of the sun, blacks are beautiful, sensual people. Blacks are strong they were never extinguished from the slave trade, you traded them like animals but still they live. They come from Africa a rich continent with God given resources. So just stay in your pink skin with nothing to show but thin, mean lips.

  227. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx this is not the forum for racist remarks so stay away and let us do our thing the way we know best.

  228. people lets vote wisely,its a pity that all the people our beloved late president Levy.P.Mwanawasa rejected are back in the system.lets not allow them to plunder the nation

  229. 396

    I know its OK to dream and I am sure that your statistics are based on reliable research.

    My question is: If HH has solid support in these provinces, Is there any word to describe the amount of support that Mr. Sata has???

  230. #393 farewell Sunshine, too bad you had to leave but wish you all the best whereever you go, but suppose you decide to change your mind before the gate to the boat are closed,you are most welcome!
    but think about as – if RB managed to reduce fuel and fertilizer what would stop SATA from doing so? LPM had no vission and failed…

  231. OK MWALANDA SANA LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.LET US GO AND VOTE.JUST PREPAIRING TO GO KITWE AND CAST MY VOTE.TALK TO U ON FRIDAY.MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL.AMEN

  232. #397 Walasa, AMEN!!!!!!!!! Amen bakwesu, Amen!.
    Ngana mutukana bast at uyu manje you have said it all indeed blacks are good at everything even the black woman is good in bed and appreciates a black man’s d…. and so pink men want black girls. ululululululu

  233. #xxxxxxxxxx,

    We have not asked for your racial comments, you neo-nazi. I hope you have never and will never set foot on african soil. We’ll find our feet and place in this cursed world and it will not be through listening to the likes of you. Who knew Obama, son of a Kenyan African, would give the greatest white nation such a run? Been dodging it, but you go digest that. We’ll get there, take it easy. Everyone says we wont make it. But its inevitable.

  234. SATA IS WINNING TOMOROW. I AM GOING FOR A RALLY AND MAY GOD BE WITH YOU ALL GUYS TILL WE MEET IN THE PF NEXT GOVERNMENT.

    MAY MMD PARTY MEMBERS AND ALL SUPPORTERS TOGETHER WITH SYMPATHIZERS REST IN PEACE AS THEY ARE LEAVING POWER TOMORROW.

  235. ASHIMAN
    If sata losses this Election and ruphia wins I will buy a gun and start hooting people from kitwe to Lusaka.Infact I wont accept that, so people tomorrow vote for SATA!!!!!!!!! and pa Bwatoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo for good peace in this small country called Zambia PA BWA TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
    PAMAKAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,

  236. let the people in zed say they are going to vote, if you are not there stop making noise.propaganda of violence has to come to an end, you will be arrested and you will be sorry.if you are in foreign land, stop trying to play on peoples minds saying we shall not accept results and you will be safe away. you have relatives in zambia so think before you post. why would it be rigging if your choice didnt win? then pull out and make more credible, bring eveidence otherwise please keep the violence to yourself. I love my country, though poor we have a chance to dream.

  237. Did u listen to the ZANAMA president’s campaign speach in Mandevu? I thot it would have been wiser 4 him not to speak in his capacity as the association’s president. If he has a personal issue with SATA why cud’nt he just take issue privately instead of dragging the whole marketeers into his personal grudge. I think this is the end of Nkandu, whether sata wins or not. Not all of us marketeers agree with him.

  238. To the polls tommorow bane. its own booooaton on the bwato. Lets see who carries the day tommorow.Of course the results will take atleast 4 days or so to be out. That has seemed to be the tradition, but if they use what they said last time faxes and computers will be able to have reslts either late the same day or the following day.Unless its about ensuring by taking the ballot boxes to the centres where the counting is to take place physically.

    On the boat, pabwato.

  239. Zed mwela bene!!!!! it can not be any better than this. Lets fight tooth and nail and not let selfish politicians impose leaders on us. RB has totally failed us. He is the selfish man who almost passed the contravecial salaries not until the Zambians started to talk. Atase!!!! and even after tomorrow the Zambians will talk. We wont go to the steets. the Green Ribbons, the Honking every 17 hours will showed them Mwanawasa & Chiluba our displeasure.
    and we still want change, we just want that change and it shall come to pass come 1st November. Viva Sata, Viva Pabwato

  240. BBB
    HH and RB are dogs. Sata is the right person rule this country even if sata is a grade 4 so what he has qualified to be a president more than you are HH and RB.sata pabwatooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

  241. Dont base your opinion on VJ because he is not GOD. MMD learn to accept when time is up. Remember what happened to UNIP in 1991. PEOPLe are voting for change. Let Christon tembo, Edith Nawakwi, Sakwimba, Uncle Ben Mwila and “OUR PASTOR” Nevers say whatever benefits them. They are just a mere human beings with SINS which can be forgiven by God ONLY. The people in Zambia have suffered alot and their hearts are troubled. IT’S YET ANOTHER TIME FOR CHANGE OF PARTIES. GO GO BASHI CHILUFYA WAMUFYASHI. RUPIAH is dosing yet again at the Mandevu Rally. Imagine it was at the HEAD OF STATES SUMMIT!

  242. Guys guys plz stop attacking me. I know its hard to take it in but lets face the reality and do something about it.

    this is the problem with Africans, instead of getting the problems solved they creat more. this is the reason Africa is so underdeveloped.

    U guys talk of Democracy?? its always a copied version or instilled by IMF or the World Bank. they now that unless conditions are put, most African leaders will not do anything for its people. they willl always be guided they will never learn how to initiate new ideas.

    Africa is a scare on the face of the earth. it makes gream reading when u pick up a tabloid and see news of food Aid to Zimbabwe, famine in Ethopia, cont…

  243. #392 You are right about your thoughts. That is the same problem i have with sata and his empty promises. You forgot one more thing

    5. Sata will stop load shadding in 90 days.

    U wish zesco was doing it deliberately but we just have a power crisis right now and that will take us years to sort out

  244. RB supporters – tell us this story about Mpombo and his slip of the tongue!!!! ala nalepuka kuseka.
    Ati imwe bantu bonse mu votele PF, mu votele ba Sata oh sorry mu votele ba Rupiah Banda, God in heaven.

    twatotela mwe!

  245. rape and murder in DRC ….. again list just goes on.

    after independence the economies of Ghana, Zambia and alot of other african countries were liked to those in Asia like Malaysia, thailand and the like. Post Independence these countries in Asia have forged ahead to becomes some of the most developed in the world.

    Guys think….. only 40 yrs ago Zambias GDP was at par with these countries. today, and it not a joke, Malaysia and Taiwans economies are 50 to 60 times that of zambia.

    What a shame and you guys think all is well.

    At suggest you guys get the facts ryte and do sumthing about it.

  246. RB – plucked out of a political deathbed, is not a man to go for. He is a dangerous, sleepy man who has shown that he is willing and able to bring together the most corrupt politicians this nation has seen and position them in strategic points in government to stage the worst robbery of public money this country has ever seen. . .

  247. #176 you are on point. there is always raw talk of goibg volatile but the rigging has been done and even to an extent of eliminating opponents and we continue to look on..when will we rise above all the corruption? they talk about corrupt practices and yet they are the implementers of “CORRUPTION BEST PRACTICES”..these MMD thugs have been ruling without popularity or being voted into power..so as much as Sata might seem to be overly popular, so was Mazoka and after that Sata should have been pres but you the phrase…another day, same old s**t..
    Brothers and sisters back home please vote the MMD out and when they rig…REACT

  248. early bells tomorrow nipabwato.mmd’s tym is over we are fed up with mmd enough is better than too much.viva sata nipabwatoooooooooo

  249. #419 iwe guy, when did you leave Africa, tell us? wila fipanga sana! am suprised that you talk readings and pictures in the tabloids serious yet you were born and bread in probably Lusaka. you seem to talk as if all you have known and lived are the the shanties – you must come from an impoverished home. you should not forget that resources from Africa and Zambia is one of them where taken away to develop countries like were you are right now and you go praising bazungu. Your fellow africans where taken to farm in plantations in America and you talk proud of such nations. You are such a let down whatever your justification. i think leave this sight to Zedians, wali samba muli jik.

  250. I rest my case. I can now safely say that XXXXXXXX or whoever this freak is has the IQ of an amputated leg (yes Ukulu oko baputula)

  251. # 416.Anonymous have respect for elders,u cnt call pipo dogs,its in human of u to use such terms,u are the same pf supporters who wanna bring this country down.pf and mmd are the same chaps already,they started leaving mmd to join pf.no change at all

  252. I know RB needs some attention of some sort, otherwise he may collapse. His sleeping habits are a source of worry. I hope he will not dose off whilst singing the National anthem at the end of the Mandevu rally.

  253. # 419, i doubt your intelligence as you claim. Whatever race you may be, it is not right to comment without looking at history, ask why poverty is spread they way it is and not rant like a Nazi. Dont know about you but am black, proud , cant change it and will keep fighting. God put us here for a reason and if you dont believe in God, everyman has a purpose on earth if you call yourself a philospher of some sort. But please desist from such remarks and this is not the platform for it. If you are balck, you need some soul searching. May you be well, and love to you.

  254. Fine, Fine, Fine. Weren’t you taught that if you didn’t have anything nice to say its better you keep quiet? Pamene wayambila ku kamba pali PF, sulema? Anyway, for your own info, PF is winning, come what may, Sata at plot 1. Mailo, kuseni seni, nishi ni pamulini.

    Iwe naiwe #136, even Unip had all the government machinery at its disposal in 1991, but people wanted change so MMD won. It is the same as now, people want change and so PF is winning, simple and straight forward. They have already tried to start stealing votes but they are being caught, isn’t that a sign enough that GOD is allowing another change in Zambia? Think before you start yapping around.

  255. NO 34,YOU CAN CONFIDENTILY SAY THAT BECAUSE YOU ARE ASSURAD OF RIGGING AS ALWAYS .”EG TO OFFLOAD CONTANCT VG OF LUSAKA MOBILE O955…. :BASAKALA .GOD WILL SOON EXPOSE YOUR MISDEEDS TO THE ZAMBIAN PIPO.PABWA………………………………………..TO!

  256. No.332 I feel you.

    S-trength
    A-bility
    T-alent
    A-ction

    PABWATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
    MWAMUKOLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

  257. dont talk as if pinks dont murder and rape. pinks kill each other like hell. was reading of some pair who have been planning to kill 88 blacks and behead 14 and then kill Obama and you go on talking and praising pinks. am sure you too are one of the unwanteds there. just come back to Africa and develop your own country of you have the papers and stop yapping yapping.
    just keep quite and stay uko kwine ku Euro and enjoy yourself kabili wali sambilila and thats the essence to live well.
    #429 infact money is like seed, if taken away to go and plant in another country where do you get the seed yourselves……
    Viva PF

  258. XXXXXXXX number 42, URE RIGHT
    The level of development in a country depends on the quality of Leaders you put in Positions to lead the country. Development in a nation is not by accident. The Leader must have the vision and the skill to carry out the deveopment agenda of the nation. The problem we have is that we only think of fixing a road here,a house there,etc. Development needs complex planning seeing the impact and purpose of each course of action to the overall Vision. What do u want as a natuion to achieve. Do u want achieve? and how? and when?
    Generation of revenue vs spending= how do we build such sustainable ecopnomic base?

  259. guys ati chapweka to Woodlands stadium – ati Diarrhoae ya bantu – washala washala mu bwato. takwachiba ferrying – banono sana the rest kuininima. Ine naya, please Vote Wisely so that we may continue to enjoy peace, stability, freedom and prosperity. ni swining fye amaboko, left right, left, right….. bwato bwato….

    #483 dont worry yourself about bazungu bele they have even forgotten the place where they come from and think even Lusaka is a big shanty, Atase – wa nya mavi.

  260. zambia will never develp with pip like sata and rb still wanting power,or my God cnt we for a change try some new like HH

  261. After all is said and done, lets go and vote wisely tomorrow for the right candidate HH. The rest are just there as loud speakers!The post and all the other campaign tools are not the voters, be reminded. The winner is very tricky in tomorrow’s elections, its not who is heard most, its the one most voters will vote for. Am going to rest now so that I can vote early in the morning for my candidate!

  262. Hey folks am connecting to Zed to go and Vote. I am in washington and dulles Airport going to Zambia. I will bribng you the results. Enjoyed the Independence celebration in ATL

  263. VIVA HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
    for free education
    for accelerated econiomic development
    for proper agro policies
    for pro tourism
    for proper energy and power generation
    Investor confidence
    stability
    honest and integrity
    Employement base expansion

  264. Nevers, general tembo,saki,nawakwi,cosmo are a bunch of losers who have no vision to lead Zambia hence they have chosen to be RBs tale worshipers

  265. Vote PF for the 10 years experience under chiluba, and bring about
    1.Economic decline
    2.Closure of companies
    3. Unstable currency
    4.Inflation and low kwacha value
    5.Violence against opponents
    6>deportations and deceptions
    Then after this every one will run for there lives, as the BOAT capsises. I BOAT yabunda. The SNAKE IS BITING EVERY ONE IN THE BOAT AS 90 DAYS BECOME 27 YRS OF DECTATORSHIP

  266. 70% of the blogers here are supporting PF, 25% MMD and 4% HH and 1% HP. This is my analysis I have conducted as I have read throough your comments. We hope the majority’s wishes will be granted at the close of the polls at 6:00pm tomorrow. May the best candidate win. Peace is what we all want. Loser and Winers can still work together. One Zambia, One State House, One Commander in Chief, so ONLY of the 4 will be the President.

  267. AS I SIGN OFF I SEND MY LUV TO ALL YOU MY COUNTRY MEN
    LETS SHOW OUR LUV TO THE MOTHERLAND… WHAT KEEPS US TOGETHER IS GREATER THAN OUR DIFFERENCES> LETS RISE ABOVE THE TRIVIA COME ELECTION RESULTS

    ONE ZAMBIA ONE NATION OUR HOME OUR HAVEN

    GOD BLESS US ALL

    AMEN

  268. #348, Maestro Hhehhehhehh, you PF cadres, what is wrong with your heads?
    I am for president HH and you that FACT cearly so do not mislead my fellow UPND supporter bloggers. We are convince that our candidate is winning this election. The verdict will be presented by Zambian people for HH tomorrow. PF and MMD polls have shown that each of you are winning, but for us UPND’s HH supporters we will show you tomorrow in the actual voting. So please, you are wasting your time and learn to do things for yourself and not uplifting always.
    RBB and MMD, I am still asking that may you please endorse president HH before it is too late. At 18hrs,this plea will end and you will have yourselves to blame

  269. Namikupa,
    nda komba,
    na papata,
    ndi pempa,
    NOOOOO SATA please!Vote MMD to to save our country from going backwards.SATA will not find money to put in yo pockets investors have now resorted to hoarding their money.

  270. My opinion poll yours that the winner of the 2008 Presidential elections will be known after the elections. Propaganda will not take the MMD and PF anyway.

    Anyway, thank you Zambians. This campaign has been very great. I would like to congratulate the MMD, UPND and PF including PF campaign teams for all they did to make sure we have a Zambian President to take us up to 2011.

    Thank you all Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka, Northern, Northwestern, The Southern and Western Province Zambians. Together, YES we can. Go out and vote in numbers and remember to it for your children. THE END of campagining.

  271. Hakainde Hichilema, 46, of the United Party for National Development, is seen as a dark horse contender, while former vice president Godfrey Miyanda of the Heritage Party is seen as an also-ran.

  272. God delivers us from people like Sata…why can’t people see through this man’s lies???? he is just got too many promises that don’t make sense economically anywhere in the world….i hope those who will vote for him never regret…GOD DELIVER US AND GIVE US A GOOD LEADER

  273. Sata is not winning!!. The police should be alert to curb the expected violence from PF cadres.
    Sata bused a lot of people to every rally he held.. alll u saw today is his nationalwide Support of kaponyaz.. come tomorrow, he will be beaten into third position.

  274. No 469: please have some respect, you think all those people at Sata’s rally are kaponyas? I have no doubt you sick in the head

  275. The supporters for HH are being psychologically supressed to think that they are not winning so that those who can steal votes capitalise on HH’s strong holds.What a threat to MMD and PF. God will deliver Zambia.Come results, we shall see. Ki Falizoho,Janza kumbele, Muchikasa,pakwanja,Zambia foward.

  276. Are people serious voting for SATA.Come on think twice voting for SATA and Banda ,this will be the greatest joke of the year.
    let us not embarrass ourselves for voting for SATA and Banda, we need leaders of intergirty.

    God bless Zambia

  277. LELO LELO LELO LELO LELO LELO LELO LELO

    FINALLY OUR TIME TO BE VINDICATED HAS COME!!!!

    OUT WITH BANA NJOVU AND ALL THE STAFF AT THE ZAMBIAN EMBASSY IN RUSSIA ALL YOU PARTY CARDERS WILL BE NO MORE NI PA BWATO FYE!!!

    TWANAKA NAIMWE PA POMPWE!!!!

    LELO LELO LELO LELO LELO LELO LELO LELO

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