The opposition Zambia Direct Democracy Movement (ZDDM) has called on opposition political parties in the country to convene an urgent Indaba to come up with concrete measures on how they are going to save the country from alleged sufferings under the Patriotic Front (PF) government.
Speaking to QFM News in an interview, ZDDM Vice President Charles Kafumbo said to this effect, his party has written letters to all party secretary generals proposing for the opposition political parties to have a national Indaba.
Mr. Kafumbo said that all parties are advised to clearly state their agenda before convening for the Indaba.
He further added that there is need to repeat the 1991 history where stakeholders came together to discuss how the country should be governed because UNIP at that time failed to deliver to the people.
He said the opposition can play a big role in redeeming the country from further damage by the PF administration.
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Ba charles I pity you, Even the opposition merged MCS will beat you. HH, Chipimo and Mumba knows that too well.
Hallucinations and illusions!!!!!!!!
Mr Kafumbo there is no time for such tutemba meetings. For now just join either MMD or UPND the leading opposition parties which are already established. These parties more especially UPND, have a clear road map and strategy of how restore all our freedoms.
Joining an established party is what is knowns as clever politics. Within the established party you will rise through the ranks depending on the contributions you make to strengthen the party.
As for me I see UPND as the only party without a tainted political past and led by a person without a tainted political history. I can trust UPND more than any party else who because the leader is already rich and is not getting into politics to enrich himself. In fact he will be the first leader to cut his pay and freeze political…
HH is even prepared to go further by linking political pay to civil servant’s pay. This will require all pay for politicians to be increased by the same percentage as that of civil servants. Not this greed we are currently witnessing under PF where the president increases his pay alone three times while giving civil servants a paltry 4% which even nurses never got.
So please Mr Kafumbo just join UPND and reap the rewards of being with a credible and serious party which will restore Zambia ‘s position on the world stage. It will also restore all our freedoms in totality.
HH will teach you how to make money without relying on politics.
Now is not the time play around by forming tutemba alliances.
UPND pls don’t join these tuma alliances for people desperate to get into…
You guys are blind. A repeat of 1991…where will you get that?
I was expecting Sata to start infrastructure development in the year of election as other Presidents have been doing. But according to focus, during the next elections Sata will be presenting to the electorate finished projects. Where did you ever see such a thing in Africa?
I bet if anyone has any issues against Sata, surely it cant be on economic performance. Its about his face which you hate. Stop looking at the mans face,
And tell HH and his cadres to stop telling people in North Western province not to vote for Bembas. That is backwardness.
Not with the Hungry Hyenas around. Too hungry and too tribal.
BA KAFUMBO,
PLEASE DON’T DARE. TRY IT AT YOUR OWN PERIL.TIMES HAVE CHANGED.
TODAY, WE HAVE A WORKING DEMOCRACY, A WORKING GOVERNMENT, ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE, AND IT IS DOING A MARVELOUS JOB FOR THE PEOPLE….
TRY TO PUT IT TO A VOTE…YOU WILL REGRET IT…
Which country are you referring to as having a working democracy? Certainly not Zambia where the president has absconded his duties (apart from swearing ins),not where journalists are thrown in jail with trumped up charges,not where a boy is murdered and police quickly bury him to hide evidence,not where opposition leaders are thrown in jail for paying a chief a visit,not where all the main opposition leaders have a list of trumped up charges and many court appearances,not where an anti government website is banned,not where the president has the audacity to insult Zambians intellect by communicating via facebook – a tool even Mark Zuckerberg would not use to communicate to shareholders…is that the Zambia you say is a working democracy? You must suffer from serious denial!
What have you been smoking???
Chinama case, together with that brain-dead ***** decaying at plot one.
If we’re going backwards why not 1963 with a different outcome. In this imaginary rewrite Zambia is birthed in 1964 by the amalgamation of NP and Barotseland and the President is the Litunga. Collective eyebrows rise. Jaws drop. Big rush for comfort zone. No. It’s fine let’s keep Kaunda. Okay so let’s go to 1991 and this time Kaunda stays. Gulp. No let’s keep Chiluba. Okay flip to our last election. This time RB wins. A mixture of boos and applause. Okay let’s go to 2016. This time consider your alternatives coz the comfort zone has given you what you’ve had so far. It’s going to be along wait for the future generation to correct our messes for we need to look and think deeper and know more about who we select and what they plan to do.
a long wait…
ZAMBIA THEN WAS A ONE PARTY STATE.
ZAMBIA TODAY IS A MULTIPARTY STATE….
CHARLES, AS I STATED, I AM A PHD RESEARCHER IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT. A SON OF THE SOIL. ATTENDED THREE UNIVERSITIES ON THREE CONTINENTS. TRAVELLED EXTENSIVELY & PROPABLY FINANCIALLY MORE STABLE THAN EVEN OUR PRESIDENT & ALL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES PUT TOGETHER. I HAVE COME THROUGH 5 REGIMES & I M THEREFORE ABLE TO MAKE AN INFORMED ASSESSMENT & OPINION OF EACH REGIME THAT HAS COME & GONE SINCE INDENDENDENCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF MY PEOPLE.
PLEASE ALLOW ME TO ADDRESS MYSELF TO YOU, THE OPPOSITION. YOU CLAIM THAT THE CURRENT REGIME IS CLUELESS IN THE WAY IT IS PURSUING ITS DEVELOPMENT AGENDA! WELL LUAPULA HAS CHOSEN TO DIFFER WITH YOU FOR THE SIMPLE REASONS THAT:
A useles PhD student who claims to be well traveled who does not even know how tom type in small letters….
Thats how the teach you at Luapula University?
You must be smoking the same S.hit Ukwa smokes
@LUAPULA PREMIER (IN YOUR DREAMS) WHY should come you can raise over the cheap altitude. i lie mreading your arguments but not you shouting you know am saying?
Now then… Politicians and scholars (like your yourself) have to be better attuned to one another. Whatever knowledge the researchers may provide, they have to consider that this knowledge is always interpreted in a political context before it is implemented.With complex topics such as reform ie teaching our children in local languages up to grade four, establishment an opencast copper mine in the Lower Zambezi National Park. just to mention a few…of the stuff this goverment of dull leaders is doing suported by cadres like yourself- who did they consult? you ? To govern is to communicate. and they have they are failing!
THE TASK OF DEVELOPING AN AFRICAN COUNTRY IS MAMMOTH, UNLESS TREASURY INJECTS A LOT OF MONEY IN INFRASTRUCTURE. TAKE OUR COUNTRY ZAMBIA, FOR EXAMPLE, THESE PLANS HAVE BEEN ON THE SHELVES FOR MANY YEARS….CAN YOU SUGGEST TO LUAPULA HOW YOU COULD ACHIEVE THIS OBJECTIVE DIFFERENTLY FROM THE CURRENT REGIME?
LOCAL LANGUAGES IN SCHOOLS! THE CURRENT REGIME’S POLICY IS BASED ON PREVIOUS UNESCO’S REPORTS ON CHILDHOOD EARLY EDUCATION. GOVERNMENTS, WORLD OVER, SEEM TO BE GRAVITATING TOWARD THOSE REPORTS. SOUTH AFRICA, UGANDA ETC WITH DIVERSE LANGUAGES ARE ALSO ADOPTING THIS POLICY! BELGIUM, FOR EXAMPLE, HAS 3 LANGUAGES, WHICH ARE USED IN SCHOOLS. INSTEAD OF COUNTERING UNESCO’S FINDINGS, HH SARCASTICALLY CALL THE PRESIDENT CLUELESS! REALLY!
LIVINGSTONE PROVINCIAL HQ MIGRATION TO CHOMA!
WERE YOU BORN AFTER INDEPENDENCE COS THIS DEBATE HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS? IN FACT SINCE OUR INDEPENDENCE 1964! PAST DEBATES ON THIS ISSUE CAN ATTEST TO THAT. ALL THE CURRENT REGIME HAS DONE IS TO SIMPLY TO EFFECT THAT CHANGE. DO YOU YOU THEREFORE CALL THIS REGIME CLUELESS ABOUT THIS MOVE? EXCUSE ME.
NEW AIRPORT! NUMEROUS STUDIES & REPORTS HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED & PRODUCED ABOUT THE EXPANSION & MODERNIZATION OF AIRPORTS. PAST REPORTS HAVE BEEN GATHERING DUST UNTIL THIS REGIME CAME ALONG. BUT SOMEONE HAS HAD THE TEMERITY TO CALL THE REGIME CLUELESS WITHOUT GIVING US ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION….ALL U WANT IS TO GO TO STATE HOUSE AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR IGNORANCE.
NEW DISTRICTS! MOST CIVIC OR GOVERNMENT SERVICES SUCH AS THE ISSUANCE OF IDS, DEATH AND BIRTH CERTIFICATES ARE DONE AT DISTRICT HQS OR BOMAS.
TODAY, 80% OF DEATHS/BIRTHS ARE NEVER REGISTERED. WHY?
80% OF ZAMBIA IS RURAL. 80% OF OUR RURAL FOLK FACE TRANSPORT CHALLENGES.
THIS REGIME DECIDED TO BRING THESE SERVICES CLOSER TO THE PEOPLE BY ESTABLISHING MORE CENTERS/DISTRICTS CLOSER TO THEM. DO WE CALL THIS EFFORT MEANINGLESS?
KITWE-MUFUCHANI BRIDGE: I HAVE LIVED IN KITWE FOR 30 YRS. SINCE INDEPENDENCE, HUNDREDS OF OUR PEOPLE, SCHOOL KIDS, HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CROSS THAT BRIDGE. THERE HAVE BEEN ONE DISASTER AFTER ANOTHER. NEWSPAPERS HAVE REPORTED ABOUT THEM. BUT STILL NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE, UNTIL THIS REGIME SAID ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH!
@Luapula premier
Lie only to those who do not you that well. You are supporting Sata and PF because your belly dictates so. If were richer than Sata and HH you would be bootlicking Sata the way you do. Look at the people who are financially stable like HH and GBM, they can not allow them selves to be insulted in public like children.
For you if Sata calls you stupid in public you say thank you sir ,I love you sir for the rest of my life.
Don’t lie my friend and try to mislead people.
While you may have valid reasons to put across, I wonder how many people could be ready to listen from you because three quarters of the Zambians are full of nothing but garbage in their heads. Their primary objective is drinking and womanising, that’ s all. The issue of good governance and respect to human rights by those in power is secondary or has got no room in their daily lives. So my dear, you will be surprised by the amount of garbage they will dump on you by the end of the day – just wait.
@Siphamandla Nothemba
Such cheap and demeaning talk down of Zambians only comes from people who do not understand the political history of Zambia that well.
Zambians are respecting the little democracy left under Sata and waiting for 2016 when they will demand that Sata ;leaves power once and for all.
@ Wanzelu,
Dont bother, just her/his post is evident enough to inform you how shallow one is! Seriously no nation is immune to such individuals this person is talking about and to generalise things in that manner as a way to feel better, points out the place they are at in. So dear dont even try to educate them, they are as good as dry!
Ba kafumbo that is dreaming and drooling at the same time. Mwebo mulota neli mwiminine mwisho.
DIRTY CITY OF LUSAKA/TOWNS! WE HAVE ALWAYS LAMENTED THE DIRT IN OUR TOWNS, AND THE APPARENT LACK OF MAINTENANCE OF OUR ROADS & HOW WE WALK WITH SHOE BRUSHES IN POCKETS COS OF DUST AND DIRT IN OUR STREETS….TODAY, WE ARE GLAD THAT MADALA HAS ASSURED US THAT OUR TOWNS WILL SOON RECEIVE A FACE LIST. IT’S JUST A MATTER OF TIME. OUR INSTINCT TELLS US THAT THE REGIME IS SIMPLY BUYING TIME. THEY BAN STREET VENDING ACROSS THE COUNTRY AFTER 2016 GENERAL ELECTIONS!
BASED ON THE 2 YEAR ASSESSMENT OF REGIMES’ STAY IN POWER SINCE INDEPENDENCE, LUAPULA GIVES KUDOS TO UNIP (KK) : A, MMD (FRIEDRICK CHILUBA) : D-, MMD (LEVY MWANAWASA) : B-, MMD (RUPIAH BANDA) : C, PF (MICHAEL SATA) : B+.
You must be the most stupid educated person i have heard from. And if you are financially sound why are you being fed by Sata and why have you failed to see the mistakes that yor president is making? The other question is why has Sata failed to hold a press comference since he went into state house? How can a financially sound educated person like you claim fail to see that your man has been cheating the Zambians for many years now? He was cheating before elections and he is cheating whilst in state house. Only a fool can listen to you.
Dream on you 1diot, instead of joining existing parties you register a kantemba and call for an indaba! Nobody even recognizes you hungry kolwe!
The target dumping sites are the easily f.o.o.l.e.d individuals, those who can’ t reason on their own and see the negative direction our nation has been forced to take.
Price of poverty makes people like luapula lose their IQ and lower their
Thinking to a grade one, for your own information PF is afraid of 50-1
On our constitution that shows how afraid they are. Just HH backing
Out there will be a response in seconds, don’t forget Zambians are not
Like Zimbabwean they can change their minds in a heart bit. And vote
For someone else so PF better start listening now before it’s too late
THE OPPOSITION HAS BEEN GROSSLY UNFAIR TO THIS REGIME WHEN IT CALLS IT CLUELESS! ARE YOU SERIOUS?
ADMITTEDLY, SATA IS A TOUGHIE AND NO NONSENSE GUY WHO MIGHT NOT EVEN KNOW THE DEFINITION OF HUMAN RIGHTS! BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME, SINCE KK CARRIED OUT MASSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT WHICH INCLUDED THE BUILDING OF ROADS, SECONDARY SCHOOLS, A UNIVERSITY ETC, WHEN OUR COUNTRY HAS SEEN SUCH TANGIBLE DEVELOPMENT ON THIS GRAND SCALE.
WE SHOULD GIVE THIS REGIME PRAISE & SUPPORT.
@China
POVERTY HAS BEEN IN ZAMBIA LONG BEFORE INDEPENDENCE AND WILL BE THERE UNTIL JESUS COMES.
IT IS IN CHINA AND THAT IS WHY THE CHINAMAN IS RUNNING AWAY FROM CHINA.
IT IS IN THE USA, SOUTH AFRICA, INDONESIA, INDIA, EVERYWHERE AND THAT IS WHY THERE ARE BOAT PEOPLE EVERYWHERE TRAVERSING HIGH SEAS NOT WITHSTANDING RISKS.
YOU CAN ONLY DECEIVE THE UNENLIGHTENED AND ILL-INFORMED BANTUSTANS!
BY THE WAY, THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN PROVINCE ARE FOR CHOMA TO BE THE HQ FOR SP. HH AND HIS PARTY ARE ALONE.
LUAPULA PREMIER, shut up you IDI0T!
Your level of intelligence is shown by the fact you do not even know where the CAPS LOCK is to found on the keyboard.
Come back when you have found it!
to b honest gentlement we ar a lot of day dreamers u spend yo entire life supoting an lndividual lik hh z under 5 in diapers.z changes of z world always comes without bing cod.michael sata tried but oooops it faild ad tokng of tuntemba parties cming 2geza its west of energy,wich party did under 5 form he just jumpd on imishingo.ad luk at his perfmance. l rest my case
@ LUAPULA PREMIER
I have enjoyed your analysis; your critics cannot match up to your scrutiny.
Surely,I can see that people debate issues out of ignorance.Though am not in Zambia at this time but when you look at close analysis of Sata’s presidence,you will discover that he is far better than Rupiah,HH, and Nevers if they were to be presidents at this same time.The call for OPPOSITION to unite is because non of them can beat Sata at any time of election.Even when they unite,they cant beat Sata.However,if Sata makes a mistake lets all stand up and correct how best it can be.
@umwaumei absolutely agree with you..he maybe a better prezzie than the two you just mentioned. yes people can argue without making reasonalble arguments or offering a solution to something better.. i think the reason is more to do with the current leadership that is failing to explain on very important policies that affect the mases ie use of local languages up to grade four, indeco, lower zambezi open pit mine- soon to open. its the arrogance that the leadership is displaying. they need to engage the public and relevant stakeholders. to gover is communicate- and they have failed on this.
one zambia one nation.
@TheEngineer(Australia)
PLEASE MIND YOUR ENGLISH AND SPELLING ERRORS. CAPS SHOULD NOT WORRY YOU AS THEY ARE ONY FOR THE CONCOVENIENCE OF SOMEONE’S SIGHT.
ZDDM,I have never head of this party,when I saw the headline,I thought it is just one of those NGOs.Anyway,my advise to you Mr Kafumbo is that just join one of the existing opposition parties becuase you will not go anywhere as it stands.
LUAPULA , man you rock. Wazimwa tu HH supporters and now they are scampering in all directions…hahaha kekekeke. Uli chikali man.
Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.