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My grandfather was a houseboy- Mulenga Sata

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Mulenga Sata with Chief Mpezini  during this year's Mutomboka ceremony in Mwansabombwe
Mulenga Sata with Chief Mpezini during this year’s Mutomboka ceremony in Mwansabombwe

Lusaka Mayor Mulenga Sata has urged youths in Zambia to adopt a culture of hard work in order to secure a bright future.

Mr Sata who is also President Sata’s son said it is important that young people start working hard for themselves and their future families.

Mr Sata also observed that there is a growing spirit of entitlement among some youths in Zambia which should be curbed.

“Young people need to understand that they need to work. You will not get things for free and overnight, our parents worked hard. My grandfather was a houseboy, yes others say he was a Cook but in those days he was a houseboy and let us not beat around the bush here.”

He added, “Through his efforts and hard work, his father, my father managed to uplift himself, pull himself by the bulls traps, his life is well documented from his background, from a mere Constable to a train Conductor in the UK, he is what he is today and this goes to show, this is testament to the fact that through hard work you can achieve. If it is not for yourself at least uplift the lives of your children.”

“My advice to youths in this country is just get stuck in. Be patient and strong willed and have some stamina. Youths need to know that nobody is going to give you anything for free. Reach out and grab the opportunities but we need to work,” he said.

36 COMMENTS

  1. Mulenga has said something sensible, every though I had some to drink, but still understand friend’s advice. I have told you before, sometimes you even laugh and correct my english…. Please some one interpreter this to those who can’t comprehend Bemba. This is I will always tell you:
    “ULULUMBI LWA MULANDA KU KAKATA!”

    • @ Nostradamus, am not bemba but let me try.
      ‘For a poor person to be popular, he or she person should be proactive’.

      Does this sound similar?

    • He could have been anything even a Goat, no one really cares. We all know how as a constable your father used to sell information to the colonialists the reason he ran away just after 1964, fealing he was going to be killed.

      We also know just how as a token of appreciation by the colonialists he was given Farmers House. What hard work are you talking about.

    • I agree with OldRugsOUT. It is a well known fact that MCS was a colonial informer and ended up in UK post 1964 for fear of persecution. Remember also that MCS with his long time ally William Banda were at the forefront persecuting Simon M Kapwepwe in 1971.

      Well everybody deserves a second chance right? As we will eventually learn MCS will not have used this chance well …

    • Another unpatriotic African working in league with MCS as informer to colonialists was Elias Chipimo snr. Sometime in the early 80’s EC was publicly rebuked for that role. He eventually left the board of Standard Chartered bank as a result.

      You may add to the list of such Zambians among us today …

    • So that’s how Chipimo Snr got to Barclays ??? Problem is Kaunda – with all the data he has on these chaps , he chooses to keep us in the dark. Narep is a Chipimo child and suspicious now !!!A snake bears only snakes , never frogs!!!

  2. We know that Mr Mulenga. But that does not mean the government should stop providing an enabling environment for the youth to thrive. You Mulenga , were very lucky, your father never paid a penny for your education in private schools. All your education was paid for by our parents’ taxes and yet your father was earning more and had a chance to even borrow free loans and steal money from government coffers with impunity.

    As it is right now, its only sons and daughters of politicians like yourself who do not work hard for anything.

    So please could stop patronising the youth. No one is getting or demanding free things from the government. All what the youths want is the government to stop exporting jobs by hiring Chinese and Indians to do the work that can be done by our youth.

    • More over iwe, Mulenga even the youth you move around with ,deserve to be paid for wielding pangas to protect you PF minions, for they know that what you encourage them to do to opposition parties is wrong. So don’t think for once that the youth would risk their lives for free to protect your arse.Please spare us your nonsense.As it is right now the youth are already working twice as hard for the bread crumbs this government is giving them.

      To make matters worse, its NOT for you to issue such advice because you have NO idea what it means to work very hard.

      For you to understand, I challenge you to disguise yourself and go and live in streets of Lusaka with those boys who live on doing heavy manual jobs for you to understand where your government is at fault. Prince William did…

    • ….And Mulenga’s father has continued his public robery antics even today! What is SATA doing with the RDA Contracts at State House? Is that not stealing from the public and giving the stolen money to his many wives, children and family?
      Sata is stealing just like Mobutu – BUT docile Zambians are just watching hopelessly! Even his women like Kaseba and other concubines are now given free money/Budgets from Govt even when they have no Govt portifolios! Can that ever happen anywhere else other than in Philipines under Marcos!! What a broken country? We need a revolution to EXECUTE these thieves including Mulenga Sata!!

  3. I dont think the Satas are a good example to any youth. It is corrupt, violent family.Am sure as houseboy, your father was fond of stealing food from the master’s kitchen.

    • ….I agree – Especially the Satas with that with that Monkey mentality of “Ubomba mwibala, alila mwibala (some say anya mwi bala)” Lol!

  4. not only was his grandfather a houseboy his cousin Clement Bwalya was my houseboy in Mpika. It’s a family of KABOI’S

  5. 5 IMPRESSIVE LESSONS WE HAVE LEARNED:

    1. True Zambians now know which tribe peddled lies to remain in power
    by accusing others of being tribalists.
    2. Zambia is slowly moving in good direction of one united country
    with one purpose of genuine development, self resourcefulness,
    and equality of all individuals, languages and tribes.
    3. Fred Mmembe is now a known crooked journalist with political
    ambitions and his lies are catching up with him
    4. Next Zambian president will be voted based on merit and good
    credentials and not on populist ticket.
    5. Starting as a cook, train shunter, train conductor, minibus
    conductor, ward chairman or whatever, does NOT always make you a
    good president.

  6. The words of wiseman.

    My Dad was a hardworking peasant villager who did everything for me to attain my PhD.

    Through hard work, I returned that favour to him in his grave by producing 2 hard working medical doctor kids.

    OUR PRESIDENT IS INDEED A HARD WORKING INDIVIDUAL ZAMBIA HAS EVER HAD.
    NONE OF HIS PREDECESSORS OWNED A HOUSE AND RENTED AN OFFICE IN UPMARKET AREAS OF OUR TOWNS AT THE SAME TIME. NONE.

    • You mean Sata the colonial master’s informer. All what Sata has achieved in life are as result of thuggery and violent behaviour to gain political power and favours.

      Without bootlicking his political masters, Sata would be nowhere today. He is a craft individual who would kill to gain political power and money.

      He does not inspire me at all.

      I am just waiting for his delayed funeral.

    • Thought Sata bought that house in Ibex Hill, at the same time that my father got his in Kabulonga (Chiluba’s housing empowerment initiave). He didn’t pay for the house.

      Iequally thought the so called upmarket Office at Farmers House (Farmers House itself) was given to him by Mr Irwin, to help himself sustain his family as he was not only unemployable (Grade 4 dropout), but also a traitor to the gallant freedom fighters we had at that time.

  7. Please spare us your nonsense! would you know what hard work is if placed on a silver plate for you? Sata has continued to betray Zambians just the same way he passed on information to the colonial masters who would like to see chaos in Zambia. Late President Mwanawasa was scrutinised constantly by the international community for trying to protect the interests of many Zambians. It’s your farther who hounded him to his death. Your family can lie to the nation but God has his ways of punishing evil. Ignore the pain felt by the masses with your insensitive comments at your peril.

  8. I hope Mulenga wont be rebuked for confirming that the father was a mere constable and train ng’wang’wazi. I am just looking at it that the father himself has not come out publicly on this. Mulenga, please be innovative and assist us the youth. Assuming this government had some brains and became innovative and put up state farms for example, we are willing to work in there. that’s how desperate we are. This nation is 752, 000 sq kilometers, sure the land can serve us. But don’t be like Shamenda who never delivers results but always when asked about something, just says government is working on this policy.

  9. Thanks Ba Mayor. Hard work is key for our youths. Indeed our president deserve to be where he is because of hard work. I’m a living testimony myself and have achieved from nothing to something. It is possible to achieve anything as long as one remains focused. Youths should desist from engaging themselves into issues to do with drugs and alcohol. Education is the only key for most of the youths. Poverty can only be eradicated if we have the tools to use and that is knowledge. You are spot on Ba Mayor.

    • So what if his grand pa was a house boy. Is this supposed to reflect how hard he has worked to achieve what he was given by means of intimidation, kajooling and bare faced neopotism. You above….he doesn’t qualify. Read about it.

  10. and my grandpa was a well established farmer while my father was a yachteacher .they both died and left nill for mi. I’m comfortable

  11. Sata is not a good example to parade as role model for youth to emulate. He achieved his ambition to be president through trickery and deceit. He is an unfeeling brute who makes a mockery of sick people. Long after he is gone this man will always evoke feelings of revulsion the way some of us will never forget KK’s brutality. If I were the editor of LT I would have rejected this misleading article.

  12. @Wanzelu @ others

    If your perception and assessment of the President’s abilities and performance during the last 2 tears are truly and honestly reflections of the masses then wait for their verdict in 2016.

    I predict : another German humbling of Brazil. PF 70% MMD 15% UPND 10% Others 5%

    Just wait.

  13. Humble beginnings indeed for a man who knows nothing about humility. How unfortunate Mr. Sata has, all of a sudden, forgotten where he came from! Is this the way power corrupts?

  14. SO WHAT? THIS BASTARD IS ONLY SAYING THIS WHEN HIS DAD IS PRESIDENT? MY OWN FATHER HAD A PhD when I was barely 7 yrs old. So what his fellow, Mulenga is saying, is common sense. Its not rocket science.
    So Mulenga should take nothing but a hike. He wiil end up like Castro Chiluba………….

  15. Mulenga Sata is slowly drifting into revealing the truth by unguardedly – and without realising the consequences of real history – stating that “My grandfather was a houseboy, yes others say he was a Cook but in those days he was a houseboy and let us not beat around the bush here.”

    Most Zambians who lived in the Coal-mine town of Hwange (Wankie) know very well that hundreds of Tanzanian Mwakyusa worked in Zimbabwe whereas some worked as domestic workers in Mpika. This is how Mulenga Sata’s father was raised at a shanty settlement called Chitulika off the Mpika-Kasama road. It is in Mpika where Betty Kaunda’s father immigrated to from Jumbe. This explains the social interactions between Mulenga’s grandfather and Panji’s maternal grandparents. The truth will finally come out.

  16. Kids need mentorship from the professional community. Take them into work places for work trials. Business people can do so much service to community, by taking kids by the hand. The gov’t can give small enterprise loans to kids and some form of payment (tax relief) to businesses willing to do so. Adults set up a system to pull kids up and they will follow!

  17. I have been following your career but did you work hard to be Mayor? If my mind serves me right some people pulled out of the race to give you a chance so what hard work are you talking about?

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