First President Kenneth Kaunda has called for respect, peace and tolerance in the country as Zambians go through the presidential transition.
Dr. Kaunda said there was need for a stable transition to the presidential by-elections and the new president.
He said from the jubilee anniversary and the death of President Michael Sata, there was need for the country to emerge strengthened, peaceful and truly united.
In a statement availed to ZANIS in Lusaka today, Dr. Kaunda noted that what the country would be like in 50 years’ time would be largely determined by the Zambian people themselves.
He added that Zambia’s continued relative stability would be determined by what actions its citizens would presently make.
Dr. Kaunda further said it was very important for the country to do its best to act for the good of Zambia now and in future.
He noted that now was the time to improve relationships within and across parties and respect the humanity of others.
Dr. Kaunda also said there was need to finally realize that the country was “One Zambia and One Nation” in order to sustain the stability that was built over a long time.
He said the country should honour those who greatly contributed to Zambia by doing its best to act for peace.
Dr. Kaunda emphasized that it was only in love, peace and cooperation that the country could develop in a sustainable manner.
KK the dictator of 27 years was mute when the PF police and violent cadres were brutalizing citizens. KK was busy eating, enjoying, dancing, watching & sleeping with PF.
What hypocrisy of the highest point, the students, journalists and people with divergent posit that, PF was promoting violence but KK never said anything. He even castigated those who didn’t support Sata’s autocratic reigns, Given Lubinda was bruised.
As aroma of change is within many nostrils, KK wants to change ship!
Instead of condemning PF violence & advising the likes of RB to stop, but nah, UNIP comrades want more dictatorial confusion. MMD &PF needs help, but its seems KK is the wrong person.
Freedom fighters have not yet been paid their dues including Gray Lungu.
Dictator KK, too late mdala…
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Gray Zulu.
@Skeleton, KK called people like you as “Styupid idyots”.
Nostradamus,
Its all good, I am not afraid to call a spade a spade. KK was and is still a dictator. No amount of your uncouth language will never stop my stance on how I view KK.
Atleast I’m not sheepish like you who can even eat faecal matter if the likes of KK told you to do so.
Remain adamant about this, be in denial and just a cadre without candid manifestations of democracy. I have no time for dictator mindset people like you & your KK.
Nostradamus you’re just a petty PF chatterbox cadre of confusion and violence.
Stay with your dictator KK.
Nothing else matters for nonentities like you.
The Skeleton Key.
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My friend please define dictator and then find the nexus to connect it to KK. Also please don’t forget to add what most African governments were at that time. Finally can you find me a dictator that lost power due to an election by the people and also left power penniless. Also note that nobody including KK himself proclaims to be perfect, but he did his best.
@gono,
The usage of dictator carries a pejorative sense and can be defined as or equal to a ruler who:
1~ Rules by decree, with an Enabling Act or similar laws passed by parliament allowing him to do otherwise.
2~ is an absolute ruler of a sovereign state, usually appointed, but without hereditary ascension.
3~ governs outside the otherwise accepted rule of law.
4~Mostly (but not necessarily) gaining power through fraud, a coup d’état, resorting to either again to continue in power with a one party state (UNIP~1964-1991).
5~ Dictators commonly develop a cult of personality, always autocratic, oppressive, despotic or tyrannical.
Conclusively, KK is the dictator you are looking for, fits the criteria to your question.
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@skeleton
My friend is didn’t know you had to consult Webster to define dictator but you failed miserable to connect it to KK. For me when u hear dictator in think of idi amin, mugabe, saddam, etc. This one party state is garbage as that was the norm then. Don’t forget how young zambia was then. That’s the reason zambia stayed peacefully. Anyway for me KK is my hero.
This is a timely reminder, from our most honourable Grandee.
Zambia’s image has suffered a huge set back. We the people of Zambia are losing our central quo values.
There appears a widening divide between the people and great inequality.
Indiscipline in politics. We need to get back to a society centred around the well being of every citizen, economically and with equal access to the country’s wealth.
No more cycles of vengeance, no more cartels, no more infighting. No more politics of difference and polarity. ****
This election is not a struggle for political power, it is the chance to bring change in how Zambia is governed,
and unity among the People
When KK anoited Lungu didn’t he know that he planted a seed of thugery in Lungu? Lungu’s thugery behavior is a true reflection of KK’s behavior where he used thugs and SBs to beat up and kill his political opponents. As they say you can’t give what you don’t ve. KK has his roots in Malawi so is Lungu so wako ni wako at play.
Did I miss something? When did he anoint lungu?
What is faith?
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The option to doubt is what gives us the free will to explore all possibilities.
If one has no doubts but only faith, as in religion, then one cannot properly exercise free will in day to day life
Free will gives us the ability to accept or reject anything we are told and that is what makes us human and unique
We as human beings have the capacity to understand ourselves and to realize our inner spiritual nature
Religion seeks to divert our attention away from our inner self and focus it onto an invisible and inconceivable ruler god
If we choose to buy into this then we are robbed of our personal power and individuality and the authorities can have their way with us
Religious followers put faith in religion….
Yes Gono you did miss something, Lungu was annoited on 5/11/2014.
One thing no one can take away from chi Kaunda is that he is a 90-yr old goof-ball. He’s a clown and an incompetent bá?tard who did unrepairable damage to Zambia’s economy for sure, but he has out-lived so many of his peers.
My friend a good debater should give examples of the direct effect of damages to the economy done by KK. Not as a result of global effects nor as a result of corruption on his part because he was thoroughly investigated and found to be clean. So this name calling of the founding father simply because one lost his goats to hyenas then blame it on kk is ridiculous.