United National Independence Party, UNIP, supporters in Northern Province have maintained that the entire UNIP executive led by party president, Tilyenji Kaunda, should resign and pave way for fresh elections in the party.
Speaking on behalf of UNIP members opposed to Mr. Kaunda’s leadership, veteran politician, Daniel Chanda, accused
the current UNIP leadership of illegally holding office following the alleged expiry of mandate in 2005.
Mr Chanda said UNIP followers in Northern province passed a vote of no-confidence in the Kaunda led executive hence the decision to challenge leadership’s continued stay in office.
He urged UNIP members countrywide to support General Malimba Masheke led faction calling itself the UNIP National Revival Forum because it seeks to protect the integrity of the former ruling party.
Mr Chanda, who is former UNIP Mungwi District Chairman, said it was wrong for the current UNIP executive to label the Revival Forum as illegal when in fact it is the one illegally holding on to party leadership.
He warned that UNIP in its current form has lost direction and was headed for doom if genuine members do not rise to the occasion and preserve the interests of the party from detractors.
Mr Chanda also wondered why the Kaunda led executive was opposing calls for fresh elections in order for the party to usher in new office bearers with the vision of taking UNIP forward.
Efforts to get a comment from UNIP acting secretary general Reverend Alfred Banda proved futile.
Currently, UNIP is embroiled in a leadership struggle involving the Tilyenji Kaunda led executive and the Gen. Malimba
Masheke faction, with supporters of each camp now resorting to violent acts to justify their agenda.
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Who cares !!
INTERPAERTY WRANGLES WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO END ??????
What happened to Nkwazi ?.Is this the Levy thing. Its either a bootlegged flag or fill in the blanks. I will fill in a headless chicken to represent cabinet without the head of state.
Timber !
ouch, small axe !
#2 IS RIGHT.TIME IS TICKING AT A STEADY PACE TOWARDS THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION AND OPPOSITION PARTY MEMBERS ARE STILL AT EACH OTHER’S NECK.UNIP WILL NEVER FORM A GOVERNMENT AGAIN BECAUSE NO EVER LEARNT ANY LEADERSHIP SKILL FROM THE OLD MAN KK.THIS HAS COST ZAMBIA ALOT IN TERMS OF DEVELOPMENT.SEE WHAT IS TAKING PLACE EVEN IN MMD JUST BECAUSE LPM IS SICK AND NO-ONE IS ABLE TO MAKE DECISION NOT EVEN THE CHIEF JUSTICE.ITS COMMON FOR PEOPLE IN THESE PARTIES TO SPEND MUCH TIME WORSHIPING PRESIDENTS LIKE gods.SEE THE LIKES OF MPOMBO….CAN HE MAKE A DECISION IN GOOD FAITH?WAKE UNIP KAUNDA IS NO ISSUE.
#3 You are too funny for an easterner living in the us.
LT please note that the colours of our national flag are wrong. Please do a deligent job when dealing with national symbols.
We do not have yellow on our flag. And we do not have the colours arranged in the manner you have arranged them. Please do a good job. Why are Zambians this sloppy?
What is this that Vera and Mbingu Wa Mutarika are friends?
unip is dead
Zambia first, the above flag is not the Zambian National Flag. It is the official UNIP flag from the colonial days. Shows most of us are too young to remember the ‘former party and its government’.
THe unip flag is lovely, why didnt they make this flag the national one?
Unip shoud be turned into a NGO,it has nothing to add to zambian poltics.
They should just privatise UNIP and forget about ruling any time soon…the politics displayed by those chaps are long gone and not for our generation…
Kaunda is to blame for the mess in UNIP, after lossing he was supposed to step down but he continued interferring and wanted to come back in 1996, before the political engineer (Kafupi) dribbled him and declared him stateless. Look at Chama Chama Pinduzi in TZ, they have been in power since independence because they have a good hand over plans-Nyerere, Mwinyi, Mukapa, Kikwete. Kaunda is forever pushing his sons. What happened to UNIP is what will happen to MMD once they are out of office.
On very serious and second thoughts,UNIP should just be de-registered!we don’t need such nonsense in our land!
#6 ha ha ha
How old are you? Why are you castigating LT for displaying the correct UNIP flag?
Iwe # 7 Kacehpa
Where did you hear that ‘What is this that Vera and Mbingu Wa Mutarika are friends?’
That is the UNIP flag please. Most of you must be very young to remember it. A lot of water has since gone under the bridge anyway.
I thought we saw a UNIP Coffin being carried by pal bearers 4 burial.Alas what is this hallobalo about the OLD Guard UNIP.Can’t they grasp that they will not cause any political impact on the scene.There only Milanzi seat was grabbed.The people ‘r’ simply saying,time to eat TOBA MUNTWE no bunga bwama coupon is long gone.Please twapapata.
The prevailing wrangles ravaging most main opposition political parties in Zambia are most regrettable especially so that most of them are about power. Opposition political parties are core the development of democracy and development especially in a country were Meali-Meal is at K50, 000.00, a bus fair is K3, 000.00 and fuel at K8, 000.00 and the Zambian average pay is K300, 000.00.
Instead of spending more time contributing to trouble-shooting by giving alternative solutions and lobbying government to improve the Zambia’s living standards and strengthen buying power, they are busy worrying about power.
Cont’d…. Zambians don’t care who the President of so and so party is, they want to know what is being done to reduce the price of fuel… the meali-meal prices and the future of their children. It high time that political parties realized and fulfilled their role in society; crusaders of economic and political progress!
The next time I watch ZNBC TV, I want to see Tilyenji and Sata offering alterative fuel policies not disputing over meager party politics.
Poor UNIP.Pliz get rid of unprogressive Kaunda
In Paris, a spokesman for the Armed Forces Health Service declined to comment. “We do not ever confirm or deny the presence of a patient in a military hospital.I wish Dr Mwanawasa a quick recovery,he has done a lot for Zambia, and we need him to continue doing his Job especially the fight against corruption in the country.
best wishes.
UNIP IKALIKO KANSHI. INE NADABWA MANINGI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ala nimbwela!mukwai nali ku palish nomba teti mpele blifing ndakai. mukwai baloleleko panono. ingefi ba UNIP at shani ndeumfwa. this infighting is not good iyo. Nomba ifi ama pati yonse yala kwata infighting, elo chalaba shani muchala? awe cipesha mano, mwe bantu.
Thanks for pointing out the fact about the flag above.
UNIP is a Zambian organization whose members are law-abiding. It is not necessary for anyone to start thinking of de-registering it. The view point of de-registering UNIP is simply an admission of our being brain-dead and lack of acknowledgement of the serious developments that were done by UNIP when it was in office. The trouble is that most people are quick at forgetting good things and only remember bad ones! Why do people want to re-write fake history of Zambia just because the imperialists are now roaming our nation?
This is boring staff!!! LT please update this……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Wow!! I thot I was colour blind after seeing that flag. Thank God it’s for am not!
Is it Gen. Masheck a member of FDD, The last time I checked Malimba MashecK had lost leadership election in FDD. He had resigned a long time ago to join FDD. Does UNIP allow dual membership. If that is the case then it can concluded that RB is still UNIP and UNIP is in power by default.
I believe that Tilyenji’s tenure has been wasted time because he has failed to revive the structures that were all over the country at ward,branch,district,constituency & provincial levels. UNIP is the only party that has remained true to its ideological calling and should not be allowed to sink into oblivion. In this era when the failures of neo-liberal policies abound, we needed the alternative that UNIP can offer. By now, the party should have positioned itself by aligning itself with other leftist parties in the region and beyond such as the ANC & SACP in South Africa.
Somebody tell these safari suit-wearing, 1984 ZCCM diary-carrying numbskulls to get a life. It’s over!! Jog on, you doughnuts!!
This humanism-quoting, national-archives mentality of federation-survivors has to end. UNIP was created to scare white men away, it’s obsolete in a world of email addresses and GPRS.
Jog the hell on!!
Get off your Fiat-127 manoni-ignorance and get with the times! Politics has moved on since the last frog you made Zambians vote for.
Jog on!!!
…okay, chachoka chifukushi manje, I can go back to work.
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prof welcome back. what have you got to say on the prosepcts of UNIP bouncing back from power. i think just like zimbabwe the party has still got structures on the ground and it only needs an injection of new leadership to get the party to the top again. i think the current pressure group team comprising Masheke, the former DEC boss Mwale and the others really mean well for the survival of the party.
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Malimba Masheke is too old. Can’t people with new blood take over? He is just another person vulnerable to having a troke once in office.
Baleyako nakumushi mukutusha. These guys have been there b4 1964, way b4 some of us were born.
Thats an interesting Zambia flag. Green, Yellow, Black, Red. Wow1
It is not Malimba Masheke who is “too old”, it is UNIP’s lack of an attractive manifesto to attract the “young” generation.Have you heard of a vision for Zambia by UNIP ? The problem with Zambian political parties is that they are leader centred and without an “attractive” leader the party is dead. Didn’t Sata say without him PF will “die” and of course the circus in MMD as Levy lies in hospital.
Ok Observer, walanda mukaamba. Educate me the didn’t.
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You thought UNIP is for the super Ken Kaunda family only.Need change and this is now?Other wise UNIP is dead you need to join other serious political parties in Zed, you are waisting your precious time people.Those days are gone when you where shinning in Zed wearing your white t shirts and caps, things happens.
Long live UNIP! Long live Socialism! Abash capitalists and neo-liberalism!