Friday, May 9, 2025

MMD squabbles:Teta is capable of advising Katele

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The MMD in Mwansabombwe Constituency in Kawambwa District has advised Luapula Province Publicity Information Secretary, a Mr. Kapambwe to stop attacking party Spokesperson Ben Tetamashimba.

Constituency Youth Chairman, James Kapota told ZANIS in Mwansabombwe that his members are not happy with the recent attacks on Mr. Tetamanshimba by Mr. Kapambwe in one of the tabloids.

He said insinuating that Mr. Tetamashimba is junior compared to the party’s National Secretary, Katele Kalumba is not welcome.

Mr. Kapota said that Mr. Tetamashimba is capable of advising Dr. Kalumba and that the unfortunate attacks should not be entertained.

He added that Mr. Tetamashimba was among the prominent party members building the MMD and he cautioned all MMD cadres to stick to the party’s constitution Article 9A and 9C.

86 COMMENTS

  1. Katele has predicted using his “Congo” lamptop that he will be the next president of Zed. …..but over Teta’s dead body

  2. baby C you put is rightly and simple. chatabox!!!!, katele is not ashamed after his scandle to comeout in political circles.MMD how do they apoint a man with such reputation to leadership.or did he cover their faces again?i wouldnt like to work with such a one. AND WE CALL HIM A LEADERS???????

  3. Teta and kalumba are rivals of late,they are political prostitutes,surely they cant even envey obama and H.clinton on political maturity..shame….

  4. Teta and kalumba are rivals of late,they are political prostitutes,surely they cant even envey obama and H.clinton on political maturity..shame….

  5. Teta is a lost person who needs guidance from all of us…he cant use that thing he has between his ears before opening the beak!

  6. suppergal
    Bwafya, i have been in my cage planning and thinking through things…how arte you though… Sony Ericsson Phiri atishani mune…

  7. Political leaders should learn how to respect each other and be examples to would be their followers.Teta for sure must not champion the course of being a good boy he should learn to respect the incumbency.

  8. TETA is indeed a political heavy weight if Numbers are what matters in politics. In 2001 he delivered N/Western to UPND and when Mazoka refused to appoint him as leader of the opposition he resigned and joined MMD and in 2006 the whole N/western went MMD. in 2008 TETA not only delivered N/western but aslo played a major factor in delivering central province.While Katele is a true blue i think he is part of the old MMD block that is now being phased out. On what basis would Katele be a political heavy weight if he fails to deliver a constituency like chiengi when others are delivering provinces. The MMD landscape has now changed northern has been replaced by Eastern, and luapula by western

  9. The house made out of mad can easily disintergrate like MMD. RB was chosen as a surrogate to take care of interests of all jackals and hynas such as Teta, Katele, VJ, Nawakwi, Sakwiba, Christon Tembo and all the chaff. He has failed to accommodate some of them and as a tourist, he is still confused about the buildings at state house, the inside of the plane and guiding gadgets etc. Its very important to vote for people with National Agendas and not any of these crooked Dinosurus.The house is cracking as we prepare for 2011 or before. Viva HHH 2011

  10. I wonder if Teta is really an MMD. Wasn’t he in UPND or something like that. He doesn’t respect parties. He’s a wolf, only hunting for himself.

  11. if RB has to choose between the two rivals Teta and Katele he will surely go for Teta because the votes are what matters.come 2011 Teta will again deliver an entire province and contribute more money to MMD while Katele will be busy trying to defend his parliamentary seat in Chiengi against a PF kaponya who will likely carry the day. its the numbers that matter in politics and not how long you have been in the game.

  12. pa zed no maturity, look at abena Obama na Mrs Clinton, rivals who can work together. Ala Zambian politics are looking like a big circus with too many clowns trying to get in on the show. Bringing in VJ ala kwena i have never watched.

  13. Teta is right about kalumba, There is no such thing as true blue. Teta is being felt in MMD. Ba kaka go and attend court sessions and return the plundered money. Indoshi!!

  14. Sony Ericsson Phiri, thought the festival season would have been nice to catch up, spend time with your people these ends…

  15. Politics is about Votes Gentlemen ask Saki. in 2001 he delivered Western to UPND and in 2006 partnered with PF but failed to take the province to PF just like it would be imposible for HH to take southern to PF if they formed a pact with Sata on top. This time around 2008 Saki has delivered western to MMD so dont be suprised if he is the next legal affairs Minister its the numbers and qualifications that matter not the party you come from after all both Sata and RB are from UNIP and Sata was also once MMD.By the way if Sata partnered with HH and HH is on top Sata would also fail to deliver Northern and Luapula to such a Pact

  16. #24 UK-Zed Observer

    Teta is a very rich Pragmatic and result oriented Man and very ambitious. LPM need needed him for his hard work but detested his ambitiousness thats why he kept out of carbinate and mainteined him as deputy Minister.this is a Fact Mazoka learnt the hard way about Teta.Unfortunately all his work in the LPMs time was overshadowed by Masebo because a deputy prctically works for the carbinate minister. just Watch how he is going to handle the Markets and Bus stations now that he is full Minister. They will surely be spectacular clashes between Sata and the young Teta as the drama unfolds

  17. 30# Engines, I like your analysis. Pacts can not work in Zambia voters are like camerions they keep changing. The best for Zambia is to allow each party market itself without any pacts. And also Zambians can stop the nonses of tribal voting, let people vote on quality leadership which has vision for this country.

  18. Teta is a dunderhead.He just waffles whatever comes out of his empty head.At that age he should be self respecting.He has never delivered N/Western province,its the chiefs that deliver coz people there (Sorry) are backward,they are threatened to be disowned if they voted otherwise.

  19. I strongly believe that even if UPND and PF had formed a pact in 2008 election, RB would have won still. Reason being that a lot of pipo are skeptical, they don’t trust Sata. MMD is viewed as a national party that has embraced all tribes unlike most opposition parties that have a regional inclinations. Even in 2011, even if the opposition field 1 candidate they will still face a mammoth task to remove this regional shadow that is cast over them

  20. @37, Wanzelu, when you look at N/W province it has NO chiefs that are prominent or renowned to threaten their subjects. There is no paramount Chief there. Regions that have powerful and most revered chiefs are Northen, Luapula, Eastern and Western. In Western when the Litunga issues a decree its respected even by the most educated Lozis in towns. That’s why the Mwata in 2006 was busy whipping his subjects who were for Levy

  21. 40# I think Mwata was just over Zeaolus in his approach you need not whip your subjects because you have a prefered candidate. Where is democracy if you force people.

  22. mmd has alot of issues to sort out,they shud not point fingers at each other over something they know is straight 4ward.we want to see development instead of squablles in their party.teta shud think b4 vomiting words from his mouth

  23. No. 40 Mossad-Kgb, Chief in North Western Province they dont have to do the donkey work of whipping chap/ or subjects. North Westerner are respected even as far as areas in Angola, Congo and Zambia inclusive, with your shallow mind what makes you think only Chiefs based in Zambia should have senior tittle. Check your fact right!

  24. @41, I think our Chiefs lack prestige, they ought to be seen to be independent and self reliant. It pains me to see Chiefs being hired to endorse the candidature of some Presidential aspirant. I am not Lozi, but I love the way the Litunga carries and portrays himself, in my view he can’t be bought. I have never heard him utter ant partisan message (I stand to be corrected though)

  25. #39 Mossad-Kgb and #34 VILLAGE CONCEPT

    Guys u have hit the nail on the Head. Pacts cant work, RB actually used his quiet diplomacy skills to send KK to convince Sata and HH to form a Pact at KKs house prior to the elections. He knew very well that if the pact is successfull MMD will win by landslide because if Sata is on top The whole southern will go MMD and if HH is on Top Luapula and Northern including major towns on CB would go MMD. you can see that while the opposition make noise on radio and TV, RB and his team are busy working on strategies you can even wonder whether these opposition have elections strategists or its one man show.

  26. @43, By senior title I meant that its hard for one single chief to exert his influence on other chiefs because they are all at par. Its different from other regions where you have all Chiefs answerable to a paramount chief. If there was a paramount Chief a person like Teta would easily go there with few bribes and announces that the paramount chief has endorsed candidature of Rb and all subjects should obey such decree. Look at what happened to Southern where Munkombwe hired Chiefs to endorse RB, it didn’t work out because Chiefs like Mukuni distanced himself simply because he feels independent and not answerable to chief Nalubamba or Chief Monze

  27. In 2006 RB dint not inform UNIP that he has been working with Levy since 2002. He remained a life member and trustee and convinced UNIP to join the Pact called UDA. he then went to Eastern province and convinced UNIP to Field there own candidates in there strong holds.Squabbles within UDA amuong parliamentary candidates erupted, the result was a split of votes between UDA and rebel UNIP candiates and MMD won the elections by Landslides. The sleepy RB had devised a plan more superial than what the who LPMs intelligence dept had ever imagined.On inauguration day he was the VIP. 2008 RB was quiet and sleepy as usual yet all young parties suddently endorsed him, that wasnt by chance ask Membe

  28. Guys and ladies, I like your analysis but why do Zedians hate each other so much? KK tried hard to break the tribal barrier thru cross pollination (marriage) but Kafupi came and, thru his political engineering, destroyed it all. This is why Zed will never develop because we are self destructive like that insect called grain borer. So dont compare yourselves to Obama, Americans ni azungu anja; makuwa, abasungu, vindele. Now, how has Nyama Soya’s team performed so far? Any positive signs apart from overcharging us on new passports?

  29. baby c and spectator,you sound to be good friends.Thats good,dont emulate rural folks like teta and katele,the chaps are scalar quantities,i.e no direction.

  30. its not a matter of chiefs you still need people like Teta. Chitimukulu and Bwalya Chiti endorsed RB in the last elections and you saw how MMD lost in northern.Opposition should just find intelligent people to work on there election strategies and stop experimenting. When RB was mentioned as contender of the 2008 election shivers went through Membes spine and if you read about RB in a book by Venon mwanga titled an extraordinery life you wouldnt be surprised.in 2002 VJ as chief whip ensured that MMD had the numbers in parliament by poaching opposition MPs, this happened a few months after Levy recruited RB as election strategist incognito.this caused confusion amoung opposition.

  31. Baby C. I think i also dig u, i think u are smart and charming even if i dont know u. I join the band wagon of those u feel u.

  32. LETS WAIT AND SEE HOW TETA WILL HANDLE BA IGO IGO AROUND LUSAKA CITY WHO ARE PRO-PF.MASEBO TRIED WITH KEEP ZAMBIA CLEAN CAMPAIGN.WE WANT ACTION NOT TOO MUCH TALKTALK.

  33. Teta is a clever person cause atleast he has managed to highjack the mmd. He is now in the driving seat so other mmd members should watch out for this big mouthed highjacker who just want personal benefits rather than puting the interest opf the nation first. UPND nibangwere sana. I think they just want to benefit also cause its like they are in the ruling party, 2011 you will come third again.

  34. I don’t like the way Zambia politics are conducted. Everyone thinks they can be president. There are more jobs than the presidency but because the president can do anything he likes, all jackals are in the race for it. Reduce presidential powers and make whoever occupies that office accontable and we shall have a decent team in govt. Not the way it today. Everyone chooses to handle the presidency according to their tastes and shapes their functions accordingly – some devise HOPE foundations others MMCI and we may yet see something emerging in the form of TB_UMODZI_KUMAWA.

  35. Iwe mossad, the MMD won the elections not because of its popularity but because it has structures countrywide where as the opposition cant afford because of finances thus why in the developed countries they go for electrol votes or constituency vote like in Britain.
    You should learn to analyse issues and not just ukusabaira big man

  36. Dont just praise Baby C, there is Miss Pretty also. Pliz go for her cause i think Baby is already taken by Spectator

  37. gentlemen i would like you to realise that Mr Sata is a powerful, experienced seasoned politician who has never mastered the art of the ballot and thinks elections are rigged by VJ.yet through out his life in MMD he spent all the time with VJ and on campaign trails and never saw him rigging.The sleepy RB is a veteran diplomat with a stint with both the local intelligence and CIA during frelimo times in Angola who cant campaign or attract huge rallies yet understand the dynamics of the Ballot in the not so cohesivly structured african societies.Keep the opposition divided, dont talk and keep the media guessing,embrace your enemy BUT paddle like a dark on still waters.MACHIAVELLI

  38. MMD is has changed and i wouldnt be surprised if RB is slowly getting rid of people like Katele using TETA. RB needs new people in northern and luapula to challenge Sata in his strong holds, the true blues have failed in those provinces, so far bwalya chiti with the backing of chitimukulu looks like he will be the new giant there despite failing to bring numbers in the last elections

  39. No.58 Chizindila, thank you for alerting me to the presence of Miss Pretty. However inchitu nchitu umwene,. I would like to hear it from baby c her self if she is taken by spectator. Even if she may be taken my compliments still stand to her. But i am some what hopeful that she is not taken.

  40. You are all dull in MMD.why waisting time to talk about those useless things instead of talking of things that can help us as a country to overcome the economy crisis that has affected our beloved country.Shame on you,MMD shame on you all MMD supporters.

  41. RB is now paying the price of going into a pack with Katele Kalumba and his uncle Chiluba. Because of the pack with RB to protect them Chiluba unashamedly started giving MMD salutations. Chiluba and Katele have a lot of cases to answer to together with their late friend Mwanawasa and his wife. If RB continues to protect these guy like the way he has done so far by sitting on the trueth surrounding the stealing of Zambia National Oil Company Limited (ZNOC) by Chiluba, katele and Mwanawasa and the stealing of the copper mines by Mwanawasa and his wife,RB will be charged for being a conspirator just like the postnewspapers and The task force together with ACC have come to be.

  42. We are in this mess pa Zed because of MMD and not PF. MMD is behaving as if its PF who is in control of the country. Please MMD wake up. You are just full of excuses. Dull chaps.

  43. Teta is OK
    Teta is very wise, it is just that he raises issues at the time when everyone is not ready to hear them. Most of what he talks about comes to vindicate him in the long run. Teta has a lot of influence on the MMD. He made everyone pick RB when there were all kinds of mixed feelings. Teta is right to say that Katele should revise his ideas. There is no such a thing as ‘real blue’ in the MMD constitution. Katele should remember that in an agreement you dont let your feelings override the content on the agreement at any time. To talk about original members or founding members is a mere feeling in Katele’s head. The constitution which is the guinding code knows only members

  44. If you have been working for a company for many years and you have not yielded much result, why should you complain when a new guy is promoted because he has displayed capacity to change things about the company. That is the problem with people who believe and practice magic; even a PhD will not help their thinking. They still run back to their magic whenever ideas fail them. So what would you expect from Katele? Teta has the right to speak on behalf of the party whenever asked questions by the media. He is the party spokesman by the way. The secretary is not the spokesman of the party. And if any senior person in the party brings his personal ideas outside the agreed, he will be corrected.

  45. BELIVE ME OR NOT COUNTRY MEN AND WOMEN.COME 2011,TETAMASHIMBA AND RB WILL BE BOOTED OUT OF MMD AND THAT WILL BE THE END OF THEIR POLITICAL CAREERS.PEOPLE ARE ALREADY ON THE GROUND WORKING ON THIS ONE.PEOPLE ARE BUSY CELEBRATING THEIR VICTORY WHILE AMOUNG THEM ,OTHERS ARE BUSY STRATEGISING.SO WATCH OUT GUYS.

  46. # 18, Engines, Teta did not deliver the whole of North-Western Province to MMD. Please check your facts. For instance MMD lost in Zambezi West and in Mwinilunga. Teta just rode on Mwanawasa’s popularity. Ask him to start a new party and see if he will take North-Western Province with him. He will certainly not.

  47. Teta is just a good for nothing opportunist and most MMD insiders know this fact very well. He likes to aligns himself to the power that be at any given moment at a faster pace than lightening with no regard sometimes to the possible consequences. In short he’s “Anione! anione!…, Anankala pansimbi yakupya!” His days are numbered if he continues like that. Lets wait and see if he will last til 2011…

    Hey, breaking news!!! Xavier Chungu nabbed in Zed and being questioned at ZP HQs…. More check the online Post

  48. By now Teta must know that the Zambian people are not interested in big mouthed people like him.we want people that think right and will bring a developmental change to the whole circus thats currently going on in this country.he should just shut his mouth and let those that are sensible speak real issues…he has a jezebel spirit he is a boot leaker and always wants to associate himself with top people.he needs to be tamed..

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