Friday, March 29, 2024

Government needs to ensure that we are getting a fair deal from the Mines-HH

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Crowd at UPND Kitwe Rally
Crowd at UPND Kitwe Rally

UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema has called for a fair deal between mining companies and the Government to protect the interest of Zambian workers.

Mr Hichilema who addressed a rally in Kitwe yesterday said that there was need to realise that Zambians were the country’s greatest asset.

He said that he was going to address the many challenges retired miners were facing on the Copperbelt.

“Government needs to make sure we are getting a fair deal when we sign any mining contract. If we are not sure we are getting enough in return, in terms of revenues, jobs and investment then we don’t make the deal – simple as that,” he said.

“We must remember that our people are our greatest asset, and ensure our youths and workers are provided with training opportunities that will enable them to go on and take up top jobs at these mines, for example in technical and management roles.”

He noted that Copperbelt Province was host to so much wealth, yet even some of those who worked in the mining sector were not benefitting properly and faced tough daily working and living conditions.

He said others could not find employment while health facilities and sanitation services had remained a poor standard for many.

With the Kitwe Council budget slashed by K4.1 million this month, the prospect for an improvement of the situation under the current government does not appear to be on the horizon.

“I know that many of you had high hopes the PF government would defend and protect the rights of employees and labourers on the Copperbelt.

“When you see how the government has treated even its own employees, such as nurses, in the past three years, it is perhaps unsurprising that things haven’t improved for the majority of workers,” he said.

He said the Government needed to provide Zambian businesses on the Copperbelt with more support so that they could benefit from the mining business by being suppliers and contractors.

Mr Hakainde was joined in Kitwe by one of his vice Canisius Banda Alliance for Development and president Charles Milupi, Lunte MMD Member of Parliament Felix Mutati, former first lady Maurean Mwanawasa and former finance minister Situmbeko Musokotwane

93 COMMENTS

  1. After you scammed miners on Roan Antelope with Binani fellow crooks. You have no moral voice on matters of the mines.

    • You scammed thousands of miners in Luanshya left destitutes for ages to their early Graves that included late MP Pwele. Today you are on it again in complicity with the South African Marikana Mine Massacre owners to do it in again in Zambia all in the name of campaign finance. Bwana your hands are dripping with human blood until you confess, we doubt we Zambians and the God we serve will honor you with the nation to scam again.

    • What a hysteria song of a clueless and desperate politician. HH is saying all that in company of Mutati and Situmbeko who signed those mining deals. Why not ask them why they signed those deals? The 2 were Finance and Commerce ministers that signed up every deal from the mines to Dangote investment. They are the same HH is counting on as his pillars. Is it EL who negotiated and signed these deals? No. besides HH is part of Ango-American conglomerates who have pressed Zambian governments for the same bad deals then he thinks Zambians are daft to fail to see his cheap opportunism. The same are conditionally funding him to get the mines at another song.

    • This lie of Luanshya Mine is getting old and tired my dear friend. If there was any truth to it, everybody knows what Sata(N) would have done about it. He would have dumped HH in jail and thrown away the key. Actaully he even gave instructions for an investigation and he came up with Zero. It was Sata and Guy Scott who sold the mines for a song. Now that is a Fact you can take to your grave. HH is winning these elections no matter what you do!!!

    • @Domingo mwenyo,tell us how much HH pocketed from those mines maybe we er missing something and when was HH incarcerated for scamming miners?I thought courts are there for the very cause or u are turning into court system yourself.Please get some facts before u expose your ignorance to the entire world.I know when u see HH’s successful rally in copperbelt vis-a-vis Kitwe, u chaps spend sleepless nights because u thought Copperbelt is no go area for UPND.Shame on u!!!!!By the way UPND in copperbelt just needs 50% for HH to win elections.

    • Mutati and Situmbeko negotiated and signed almost all of these mining deal to the point where Mutati even negotiated for his big brother Emmanuel B Mutati to lead these deals as Chairman Mopani Copper Mines PLC (“Mopani”) tin Zambia. PF just got in power yesterday with these deals in place. Our parents’s suffering have been here since these days of HH deals with the Binani Group in Roan Antelope Mines. HH is no savior but a scumbag of ages. he serves interests of multinationals at best. he has never been on the side of Zambians but mining giants and now added to his network a legion of illicit arms dealers.

    • It is your foolish sata and others who privatized the mines and not HH. Evaluating and privatizing are not the same you maggot.

    • And HH also always forgets to tell the nat?on that the UPND pres?dency ?s for tongas.
      Although not PF I shall vote for Lungu.

    • Zambia currently needs and wants a Hero of Humanity. I say this again, Zambia currently needs and wants a Hero of Humanity.
      29 days left until Proven Failures (PF) are democratically kicked off!
      The Skeleton Key
      ~206~

    • These international investors are a scam,

      Kagem Mining ltd in kitwe have been scamming the government since 2002; In every emerald auction held by the mine, the high quality stones are put aside and sold under the table to Indian buyers from the city of jaipur and the sale is not recorded; even when the company is having an auction outside Zambia, only 3.5 million dollars of emerald sales are recorded and taxed while another 7 million dollars worth of product is smuggled out of zambia illegally and the sales of these emeralds are not taxed or recorded in their books of accounts;

      ask the directors responsible, Mr Govind Gupta and Mr Lewanika; all these illegal sales of stones have been going into their pokets

    • Domengo sorry for your wrong accusation of HH without proof. Just find a better way of descridting him not this accusation which does not add up

    • Mwenyo, dont mislead the pipo over the luanshya mine. HH did not sell the mine. You shud have asked Chiluba and sata. They were cabinet who made the decision to sell the mine. If u have nothing to say, just keep quiet.

    • HH and Mutati..thieves that benefited from the privatization of the mines now want to pretend that they are interested in seeing Zambians get a fair deal..what liars and shame on these liars and thieves..most Zambians unlike the misguided crowd that attended this rally know better than to trust this scoundrel called HH and UPND!! Fact

      ****VIVA EDGAR LUNGU 2015****

  2. How can we get a fair deal when you sold them those companies and shared money with chiluba. if you have skills why didnt you apply them but opted to sell companies. we are not stupid you want to come and sell revamped ZR and NCZ. If you care about us why did you allow your compny to feed us embalmed meat? How many zambians are now suffering from cancer?

    • it’s because (HH) is a satanist, a freemason, a devil-worshipper and now he leads a cult called UPND. This crook is obliged to kill as many as Zambians as possible be it through cancers from embalming preservatives on his Zambeef meat or the stressed miners who die early after retrenchment when this mafia thug sold the mines for a song. Now we see the same MMD crooks, ruffians and cheap prostitutes regrouping behind UPND. This chap would rather parade his uneducated wife in front of cadres just to get to state house!

    • the thieving basturd (HH) will stoop so low as to parade his Mutinta infront of those rowdy, horny bulls and watch shamelessly as they rape her chitenge, and all the while what does your (HH) say? forward, forward badala! pathetic, Bantustan scum of the earth these infidels

    • There’s no way right-thinking Zambians will allow ridicule and primitivity to enter state house through these crooks (HH) and his Mutinta.

  3. Zambians be honest to your selves.what is it that you have seen in HH to belv he can be a good president? we voted out MMD and MMD has joined HH what are we doing or where is change? in the process of looking for btter we shall lose good. HH can not allow pipo like william banda, katele kalumba and RB if he means well. YOU ARE KNOWN BETA BY PIPO YOU MOVE WITH

    • And you chi Monde what have you seen in visionless chakolwa to think he will make a good president? Zambia forward- 2015 HH state house chabe.

    • Sata was in UNIP, MMD, and PF. All these parties failed zambians. Which party has HH ever been in? The Man is just too good for Lungu and PF. I do not even thinck EL and PF would agree to a live debate HH vs Lungu and Team. Viva Flight HH 2015.

    • @monde don’t try to confuse yourself in this political debate. Have an open mind. If HH turns them away you’ll be the first to call him tribalist, greedy and whateva negative words you use to describe him.

      HH knows what he i s doing. People have seen that life was better under MMD than PF. Do I need to remind you about the high price of mealie meal? fuel?

      MMD is trying to work with UPND to get PF out of power. So how can they do it other than thru’ forming an alliance. They are not defecting! No! But working together to boot out PF.

    • #Kudos,
      You are getting very personal and emotional after realizing that HH is headed for plot 1. Baba, if you are one of those who benefited from the chief tribalist himself (Sata), via the forest tree to land a diplomatic position, I can understand your frustrations. Anyway, take a deep inhale,keep calm and keep packing that kantundu preparing to kiss Lusaka’s dust for good…..don’t worry, its not the end of the world, you will still make it even pa Zed…..I can assure you things will be much better under HH.

    • Fellow Zambians I want to assure you that HH is for all Zambians.Therefore there is no need to scared .Tongas is only a language ,Just like Bemba is just a language,personality traits differ from people of the same tribe.Dont listen to these backward people who are still preaching about tribalism.We shall eat his policies and HH as person.Zmbians will benefit a lot from the HH team of ministers coming from all the ten provinces of Zambia.It will be Zambia United indeed.
      This is the time we reberrate ourselves from this Panga and corrupt PF government.

    • @Kudos and Monde,
      Did I know that men can have wasted sperms to produce maggots like you? Any normal person knows that the RAMCOS song was sang by SATAN even as they were carrying him to his last resting place but he failed to prove anything. We are reliably informed that he even confessed to Dr Kaseba that he just had wrong data and asked God to forgive him.
      Can you start thinking as a normal humane being and progress. Please give use a break.

  4. HH with the heavy weights campaigning with him. He has surrounded himself with people of high caliber. Lungu with Nsanda, Xaiver, Mwamba etc, big thieves, how does he win an election? I wouldn’t mind Mutati, Situmbeko Musokotwane, or Milupi as Finance minister. Chikwanda, one of the worst Finance minister Zambia has has ever had. I smile the fresh air, HH is coming.

  5. My UPND colleagues let us look out for electoral fraud elements from PF as highlighted in the link below

    ****
    The only option they have is to try and STEAL this election.

    Let us be vigilante and watchfull

    ZAMBIA FORWARD!

  6. It is the likes of domingo mwenyo who are so dull and bewitched by pf’s wickedness. What you have said is lacks merit qualifies for rubbish. Are you sure you don’t know that sata was number 3 in MMd government of Chiluba which privatized parastatals? By forming pf did not change his character. he was known as king cobra even in UNIP and MMD. He stole merzaf funds, he brutalized people of kanyama with pangas. A leopard doesn’t change its spots even if you breach it. Sata made pf to thrive on lies and witch craft, that is why even today your lungu brought in a sangoma from Mozambique who charmed him, his house and instructed him to go to sata’s grave for blessings before doing his nominations. Why do you want us to continue being ruled by witches and wizards just because you are one of…

    • I always knew these chaps would invoke some spirits from the dead. Those were the two horns on an animal head one pastor saw on the last Sunday prayers. Anyway there is one name to which every evil will bow, JESUS. They have already been destroyed in the spirit. So shall it be in the physical. You will see real drama in PF towards the D- day. When GOD says NO NO. No one says yes. HH..HH..HH..HH all the way.

  7. ZNBC and Lusaka Times should be fair in their reporting, these two major media organization should know that they are there for pipo and no one else.

    It is sad of how ZNBC and Lusaka Times have given and shown more pictures for PF than for UPND yet UPND had more people during filling in of nominations than PF.
    Pliz Zambians, let us all be fair and allow the party which pipo love to win elections.

    • @ Respected body you are right but the reason for ZNBC is because it is headed by people who don’t respect the courts of law. An injunction was obtained against them but they have ignored with impunity. Pf is not a party in which a sane person can hold on to. Just look at the names that surround edgar! Most of us were deceived in 2011 but thankfully God has given us a chance to correct the messy. What goes up by man’s tricks always comes down and their time is over. Let us not give them another chance to torment us. HH and his team seem to be sober minded.

    • LT and ZNBC are very good than you ZWD which blocks all negative views on your HH. You must be ashamed and just go back to your useless ZWD. Whether you like it or not HH is losing come 20 January 2015. That crowed is expected where people want to hear what message an aspirant has for them….but it does not mean votes.

      yes Lungu is in state house on 21 January 2015.

      Peace and Prosperity To Mother Zambia.

  8. I totally agree with @ Mulenga. I don’t know why we Zambians support wrong causes. Sata brought sangomas and accommodated them at state house. Pf has hurt millions of Zambians by their failure to fulfil even a quarter of their previous campaign promises but some of you on account of deception believe made them appear as heroes. People are suffering in Zambia because of pf’s poor management of the economy. The cost of living has soured to unmanageable levels. Pf only employs their relatives and friends leaving out qualified people who could perform. Mr Sata loved pangas and hence the reason pf is a panga party. Today zambia is shunned by international community and all presidents apart from mugabe shun to visit us. The Kwacha is sheet money under pf; many people lost jobs on the…

    • You are a liar man. Ask civil servants and they will tell you that for the first time they have a change after spending their salaries. Civil servants are appreciating the increase in their salaries. That’s why they cant demonstrate against the wage freeze coz they understand. So just go hang with your lies.

      Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.

    • @trutg hurts. Which civil servant? Boza there’s no change in this escalating economy. Everything is expensive and where would the change come from. Please it is clear you are not a civil servant so leave us out of this debate we know best.

  9. That is issue based campaign. Grant Thornton and HH are two different entities. HH evaluated under Grant Thornton while Chiluba and cabinet approved the sale. Valentine Chitalu under ZPA sold the Mine. What Zambia needs is to make use of educationist, engineers, economists, etc to address real issues. So we are looking for a Manager ( polititian) who manage the system and people. The question is, is HH, Edgar, Nawakwi, Pule, Chanda, Chipimo, Mumba,Tilyenji, Muliokela the best at this particular time?

  10. HH is a businessce dealer who has earned from his deals and he is successful. Now its for him to win deals for his country, unlike kaminamisa who makes bad deals to even auction his body to alcoho, however, the choice lays in the voters! What PF supporters must understand is that we(upnd supporter) did not force kachasu(illigal and unscientific alcoho) on EL its his impaired reasoning that he took that route.

    • What I don’t understand about some of these sycophants is that they would rather some foreigner come and benefit from the transaction than a fellow Zambia. What most of these ignorant id1ots don’t know that HH’s company submitted a bit just like any other company. Won the bid and delivered the goods to the government. How the government used that information was entirely upto the people who were in government at the time. The contract could have been won by anybody. We should be happy it was won by a Zambian who kept the money home. How many people win contracts, get paid and go to burn the money in other countries? HH is here eating with you.

      But because you are jealousy, you want to make his success look dirty, when in fact it is the cleanest kind around.

  11. You said HH Scammed what?

    Ok , tell me something, why hasn’t he been taken to court or arrested for stealing?

    I think Moonde you just hate Tongas but mind you HH is not Tonga.

    He is Ila from bweengwa.

    Vote HH 2015 bakulumpe bamingilo.

  12. I am surprised how the so called ‘Christians’ of this country are disobeying the Bible by supporting a Well Known Ant-Christ in the name of Edgar Lungu.

    This time no Zambian will give an accuse of ignorance.
    There are very few Zambians this time if indeed any, who do not know that Edgar Lungu is a real Muslim.

    Just ask yourself, if Edgar was not a Muslim, why then is he secretly using ‘Muhammad’ as his Middle Name?

    The real and full names of Edgar Lungu are Edgar Muhammad Lungu and not otherwise.

    So if any Christian vote for Edgar Lungu, then you are not a true Christian but a Pagan and Anti-Christ.

    All people who truly believe in God and his Son Jesus Christ should not in anyway vote for Edgar Muhammad a Muslim.

    Zambia is a Christian Nation and Not an Islamic…

    • EL GOES TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
      HH IS A FREE MASON
      YOU TELL ME WHO IS ANTI CHRIST
      HH IS A FREE MASON.
      EL IS A CHRISTIAN
      ALL GOOD CHRISTIANS VOTE EL
      EL IS THE ONLY TRUE BELIEVER BETWEEN THE TWO
      HH A FREE MASON IS A DEVIL WORSHIPPER. NO WONDER HE TREATED THE PEOPLE OF LUANSHYA LIKE THAT.
      HH A FREE MASON WORSHIPS MONEY AND NOT GOD.

      VOTE EL AND NOT SOME ONE WHO WORSHIPS MONEY
      ALL BELIEVERS VOTE EL
      EL FOR 2015

  13. #8 flag cisi cesu,
    Managing a country is not a preserve of those from the business schools but those who are able to connect well with masses and offering a supervisory leadership over a country’s technocrats and artisans. Best exam of successful none business school Graduate leaders are US President Dwight D. Eisenhower a military General who sharped modern day America with super highways and all infrastructure modern America thrives on. Obama a least unknown junior Attorney rising to serve the world super nation successfully. Kenya’s Kenyatta Jr. a Political scientist driving East Africa’s economic Giant to Greatness not forgetting Botswana’s Lt. Ian khama. Also check that 80% of fortune 500 companies are headed corporate heads without MBAs. Presidency is a public policy…

    • So you think EL connects with the masses? Just compare HH pic above in Kitwe with that of EL outside the supreme court. Ignore the crowd. EL has his hands clasped while HH raises his hands and opens his palms. Do a google search on body language.

      And then again we read on this blog “today your lungu brought in a sangoma from Mozambique who charmed him, his house and instructed him to go to Sata’s grave for blessings before doing his nominations”. When I read he was going to the graves I never got it, but now I do. Do you think an economy can thrive with such rituals by it’s leader?
      This is all about those hiding behind Lungu as they aren’t prepared to give up power. God save our country.

  14. The fact is that HH is losing come 20 January 2015. Of course it is expected that people will go to listen to a presidential aspirant but that does not guarantee they all vote for him…no. what I know is that HH is Losing for the fourth straight time . It pains but that’s the truth.

    Lungu is coming to plot 1. PF is winning come January 2015.

    Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.

  15. I feel sorry for those who think God will allow a Free Manson to rule this country. It will not happen – not now and not even in 2016

    • Apparently you egotistical, tribalistic, and ritualistic christians aren’t delivering. You will win with the blood of jesus. Did you get that? Blood! Do you have to spill the blood of the innocent using your Pangas, just to hold on to political power?

      Shameless people!

      Enemies of progress!

  16. NAME CALLING IS NOT THE ISSUE. I KNOW EL IS WINNING. BUT WHAT HAS HE OFFERED? NOTHING EXCEPT THAT HE WAS LEFT ACTING WHILE SATA WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL. THATS ALL. I WISH WE KNEW HOW TO ENGANGE EACH OTHER IN PRODUCTIVE DEBATES. NOW WE ARE ARGUING ABOUT WHICH CROWD WAS BIGGER OR NOT. SURELY IS THAT THE WAY WE WILL DEBATE. I DO NOT SUPPORT HH, BUT IF I WAS IN KITWE IAM SURE I WAS GOING TO ATTEND THAT RALLY. WE WANT TO HEAR WHAT THE LEADERS WILL SAY. PERIOD. WE SHOULD ALSO BE FLEXIBLE. IF EL FAILS WE SHOULD BE READY AND WILLING TO CHOOSE ANOTHER. HH OR MUMBA ETC. DONT JUST BE STUCK WITH A FAILING GROUP. NO ONE OWNS US. I AM BEMBA, BUT I CANNOT SAY I BENEFITED ANYTHING FROM PF FOR BEING BEMBA. NOTHING. SO ANY LEADER WHO CAN DELIVER IS WORTH MY VOTE. HH INCLUSIVE.

    • THAT IS GUD FOR U AND ME WHO HAV SENSES NOT THESE CADRES WHO ARE SUPORTING JUST TO BE GIVEN K50 FOR BEER AT ALEBOMBA THIS IS NOSENCE.WE NEED A LEADER WHO CAN PUSH OUR ECONOMY UP ,WHO HAS POLICY DIRECTION,WHO CAN CARRY GVT BISUNESS PROPERLY,WHO HAS THE KNOWLEDGE OF INVESTMENT NOT JUST BEING PUSHED BY FEW CROOKS AT I CAN STAN AS PRESDO LETS WAKE UP ZAMBIANS. LAST TIME EL SAID I DON’T DISIRE TO BE PRESIDENT BECOSE THE WORK IS TOO MUCH ON ZNBC WHEN SATA CHOOSE HIM BUT TODAY AT AM READY THESE ARE JOKES AND COMENDS

  17. PF is feeling the heat. HH is winning no matter how much you attack him on tribal line. People of Zambia wants sanity in the country. Edgar Lungu mobilized people from all provinces yesterday to witness his filling in at supreme court. My uncle from Mbala is in Lusaka and lodged at Mwiluzi Lodge along Great East Road or near Emasdale, Lusaka. But for HH the crowed came within and see the multitude that witnessed. I repeat no amount of attack on him will succeed. When God says Yes its Yes. Zambia need a vision leader in the name of HH.

    Vote HH on 20 January 2014. Put Zambia Forward.

    • Thank you. They are feeling heat and pressure from HH’s campaigns. They lied and took the country for a ride. Which ended up to be shortlived.

      HH’s life is in God’s hand. May God protect him. This is his time. He and UPND have worked hard and deserve the people’s trust.

      These thugs are heartless and merciless. Capable of doing anything to retain power. God has said nooooo!

    • @Kudos,
      Your spellings are wrong man! that’s not how you spell bas***!! You are doing my head in now! Most of your blogs have wrong spellings and it’s really getting on my nerves!! That’s why you need a leader who will invest in EDUCATION so that in future there are no wrong spellers like yourself. Alternatively,can you be doing a spell check before your entries? How are you going to teach your children (if any, if you can’t even spell an insult correctly? Why use it when it is incorrect?)
      EDUCATION,HEALTH -Flight HH 2015

  18. Pressure is being felt even in diaspora. HH faka more pressure so that some people explode with HATE & DESPERATION.

    Jobs are hunging on the line. Some people are in panic mode at the prospect of being unemployed after a stint in bulaya.

  19. @1.7, it seems Tongas have supplanted Ngonis as traditional cousins for Bembas. But are bembas and tongas really the only tribes in Zambia that every other citizen should be relegated to their whims and wishes, stupid as they are?
    This colonial mentality of tribal rubbish has cost this country dearly hence we continue to wallow in abject poverty while seated on abundant mineral wealth.
    The MPs and other leaders have certainly realized this hence their uniting around HH regardless of their tribes. PF have been a disaster with their Michael Sata and their campaign is to continue that mediocrity disguised as Sata’s “vision”. Our campaign as Zambians should be to free our minds from disastrous thinking by voting our PF.
    Viva HH, viva Mutation, viva Musokotwane and other patriots.

  20. Chungu, Mwamba and Nsanda; these three names spells danger, they will end at nothing to win………and now that they see HH a major threat, their next move is how to rig (I don’t believe they can kill him as reported), the motive is rig and rig big………Zambians and UPND in particular should be very vigilant to guide the votes because a certain dictators formula of hanging on to power even in his 90s is being imported into the country………

    • @ Zezemba let us not rule out assassination. Remember it is Panga Family. HH needs to be protected.

      They’ve started by targetting pipo thru facebook to canvass 250 “likes” and then will contact those liking them. think they want to manipulate the voters reg and issue cards to those liking them.

  21. You see to be honest i don’t know were the so called forward are getting there hopes from.It is not possible to change a govt in three years.HH is a wrong person to talk about the mines because he is the real reason we are in these problems.Olo taishiba ukubepa because nachibulu kuti awumfwa ati ubu bufi.Amano ububi uyu umuntu kwena!!!!!!!!! olo takwata uluse pantu bambi kuti balanda ati kwena nababepa sana abantu .

    • What I don’t understand about some of these sycophants is that they would rather some foreigner come and benefit from the transaction than a fellow Zambia. What most of these ignorant id1ots don’t know that HH’s company submitted a bit just like any other company. Won the bid and delivered the goods to the government. How the government used that information was entirely upto the people who were in government at the time. The contract could have been won by anybody. We should be happy it was won by a Zambian who kept the money home. How many people win contracts, get paid and go to burn the money in other countries? HH is here eating with you.

      But because you are jealousy, you want to make his success look dirty, when in fact it is the cleanest kind around.

  22. No matter what u say esp. Kudos and monde, I and my relatives , who voted pf in 2011 by deceit, will vote HH. He will be a better president. The ugly beasts in pf will just manipulate lungu.

  23. I don’t think this Tonga man will carry the day despite being the only credible candidate in these 2015 elections. Reason being that some tongas came out in the open when Mazoka died, that UPND should never be headed by any other tribe apart from tonga. It’s a pity that in today’s world people should look at petty issues such us tribes, colors etc without focusing on a big picture. I have no doubt in HH, he has all the acumen required to take us to a greater heights

  24. I is said that Zambians are an intelligent and industrious lot. What we are lacking at the moment is leadership to galvanize/inspire our people into action. Let us shame forces of darkness like Kudos and others who want us to continue with mediocrity, tribalism, violence. We want a fresh start to the way affairs of state are run. HH and team are offering just that. We have seen the disaster PF has wrecked under Michael. Then EL says he wants to continue with that disaster? We say NO!

  25. Edgar aliwina kale.HH is nt a presidential material.Having a lot money doesn’t mean one cn b a better president,GBM is rich bt poor in brains jst like HH.

    • And you, who is rich in brain, but materially poor can’t even feed yourself. Instead, you are on the computer smearing innocent people with vile. What’s the matter with this picture?

      Let’s see your name on the ballot for change Mr. Smart? Outsmart GBM and HH….

      Or shut the fcuk up!

      I get petrified by these id1ots who can’t hack it in the real world, but are hell bent on vilifying others for their success. If it is not one thing, it is another.

      We will not move forward as a people and as country with losers like this. HH and GBM being rich does not preclude you from being rich yourself. Show us what you got, you little jerk!

  26. zambian ambassadors,diplomates and officials including their children who were appointed on tribe,relationship and friendship are in a panic on face book trying to campaign for pf but they are not on the ground hahahha hehehehe hihiihi just come to Zambia and campaign not overseas,it ll not make any impact .am also a bemba but I don’t condon pointing pipo based on cadreship, tribe,race,friendship or relationship,i give a big NO.we want de schooled to occupy those places not cadres.our friends and relatives who deserve those mwalyibachinga nama cadres this time we shall see come 20th January 2015 ni HH chapwa.

  27. HH IS A FREE MASON WHO IS NOW DENYING IT. HH HAS A THIRD DEGREE IN FREE MASONRY. THIS MEANS HH IS A SENIOR MEMBER. HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE EVER SEEN HH GOING TO CHURCH BEFORE CAMPAING BEGAN? HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE SEEN HH IN CHURCH EVER. PLEASE TELL ME THE CHURCH HH ATTENDS. HH CLAIMS TO HAVE SO MUCH MONEY BUT CAN SOME WHO REMEMBERS TELL ME TO WHICH CHURCH HH EVER DONATED MONEY. GBM(THOUGH BRAINLESS) HAS DONATED MILLIONS TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN KASAMA.
    HH IS A DEVIL WORSHIPPER WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN GOD
    HH THROUGH HIS COMPANY UNDER VALUED SOME COMPANIES WHICH WERE LATER SOLD TO HIS RELATIVES (BEN MWIINGA) BEING ONE OF THEM
    MANY FORMER MINERS DIED IN LUANSHYA BECAUSE OF HH ACTIONS
    VOTE FOR EL( HE MIGHT DRINK YES, BUT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DRINKING AND HAVING A DRINKING PROBLEM)

    • Iwe ignorant muntu, which church HH goes to is none of my concerns. It is as private to him as the color of the tissue you used to wipe your behind today, assuming you even managed since you sound as constipated as Kalaba.

      We don’t know which church you go to. So why should we buy into the vitriol you are spewing?

      Continue packing your bags, baba. Isile ncito.

  28. MAY ALL PF REMAIN IN THE SINKING BOAT SO THAT ON THE 20 JANUARY WILL BE FOUND DROWNED AS THE BOAT IS PADDLING WITH A BIG OPENING WHOLE UNDERNEATH.

    TO SAY THE TRUTH ALL DEAR PF MOURNERS, PF HAS INJURED MANY PEOPLE IN THE VILLAGE, TOWN AND PERRY URBAN AND NO ONE HAS NOT SUFFERED UNDER THIS EVIL PARTY’S MISTREATMENT. IMAGINE TORTURING EVEN AN INNOCENT BABY IN THE MOTHER’S HAND WITH HUNGER.

  29. ” “Government needs to make sure we are getting a fair deal when we sign any mining contract. If we are not sure we are getting enough in return, in terms of revenues, jobs and investment then we don’t make the deal – simple as that,” he said. ”

    What is ‘a fair deal’? What is ‘enough’? Remember, these are ZAMBIAN assets, they do not belong to anyone other than the Zambian people. We’ve heard this song before.

    Would you sell your house, but only if you are ‘getting a fair deal’? Only if you ‘get enough’?

    Or are you going to get THE HIGHEST PRICE? Are you simply not going to sell when the price is too low?

    We need a President who AGGRESSIVELY represents the interests of the people of Zambia – BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WILL.

  30. ” “We must remember that our people are our greatest asset, and ensure our youths and workers are provided with training opportunities that will enable them to go on and take up top jobs at these mines, for example in technical and management roles.” ”

    Right now, the MINES are our greatest assets, and the copper, diamonds, gold are being STOLEN.

    That is why the state put a billion dollar Eurobond on the public’s account. ***********

  31. 2011: Zambians vote for PF and immediately regretted their mistake. The first act of arrogance by Michael Sata was when he feted the Chinese at state House, taking by surprise the many gullible people who had voted for Sata partly on the basis of his “hatred” for Chinese. Not that there is anything wrong with the Chinese but that fete was a show of Sata power to hapless voters, like telling us “now you have given me power, now you will dance to my tunes”.
    Zambians cried and were to wait five years for chance to remove PF. God listened to the cries, saw the arrogance and unGodliness in Sata, and just three years later He has given Zambians a chance to correct their mistake. This by election is therefore about thanking God for the gesture or rejecting God’s offer. Vote wisely, on HH.

  32. ” Zambians cried and were to wait five years for chance to remove PF. God listened to the cries, saw the arrogance and unGodliness in Sata, and just three years later He has given Zambians a chance to correct their mistake. ”

    I hope the UPND can make a better argument than that, for voting for them.

    That is only one step up from ‘It is time for a Tongan President’.

    Seriously, we need real commitments on the mines.

    • Unfortunately, most Tongas think it is time for a Tonga President and fix Bembas. The more reason HH will not get into state house. I am always reminded of how Sikota and Sichinga were made to leave UPND when they were told to their faces that UPND was a Tonga vehicle to take a Tonga to State House. VJ who went to offer condolences on behalf of MMD government was roughed and beaten up for not being in the same party with fellow Tongas, UPND.

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