Friday, March 29, 2024

PF to hold convention in November

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The Patriotic Front (PF) has announced that it will hold its long awaited National Conference in November this year.
PF Secretary General Winter Kabimba said the party would start electing leaders at constituency level next month.

He said this was in line with the party’s democratic tenets of ensuring that party leaders are elected to ensure that transparency prevailed.

Mr Kabimba explained that the party would then move on to hold elections for leaders at district level in June this year.

He said the provincial leadership would be elected in July after which the party will start organizing itself for the national conference in November during which the party’s top leadership including the president will be elected.

The PF Secretary General said those agitating that the Patriotic Front should show how democratic it is by holding its national conference should now be contented because the party is on course to holding its convention.

Some political parties allegedly led by the ruling MMD and some civil society organizations have labeled the Patriotic Front as an undemocratic party for not holding its national conference since its formation in 2001.
[ QFM ]

35 COMMENTS

  1. Nice move.Who is going to challenge Sata? Too bad Kambwili was convicted owing to his Kaponya behaviour

  2. Just curious,if the PF convention will be in November,when will be the Pact convection to choose the Presidential candidate? Very interesting.

  3. Very good but who will challenge Mr. Sata. If memory serves me right, Mr. Sata said he will continue contesting elections until he wins. 😕

  4. # 1 Sharp Shooter,

    PF is a circus house of convicts. Sata as defacto life time President is a convict, most of their cadres and now right handman Kambwili is a convict.Its a convicts club.

  5. IT APPEARS Patriotic Front president Michael Sata and his pact partner Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND) are allergic to development.

    Considering the poor state of roads in Zambia, it is a poor piece of thinking for anyone to criticise road repairs.

    If the criticism had been made by a common man on the street, perhaps the rant could have been tolerated as an extreme case of someone failing to appreciate the social and economic importance of roads.

  6. However, for two leading opposition figures to voice out against road works is an excess which is very incongruent with the development values of this country, whose leadership both men are vigorously vying for, despite being in the same pact.

    As common and technical sense would dictate, no meaningful road repairs or construction can be done in the rainy season.This is owing to the simple reason that when the ground is wet, equipment fails to get traction but instead gets stuck.

  7. Now that the rains are finally over, road works can resume-hence President Banda’s directive to Finance and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane to mobilise the required funds for repairs to resume even in places like Southern and Northern provinces where there are no elections.

    Mr Sata’s argument that tarring of the Mutanda-Chavuma road is tantamount to rigging does not hold water because this is one outstanding project whose completion is long overdue.

    Development is a continuous process and certainly it would not make any sense at all to suspend on-going projects each time there is an election anywhere.

  8. Similarly, it would equally not be sensible to postpone elections wherever there are ongoing development projects for fear that the perennial critics would label these value-added activities as “campaign gimmicks”.

    Furthermore, the government should not be expected to seek permission from the opposition camp before embarking on development projects.

    If we look at many roads in Zambia today, including in the capital city, Lusaka, their deplorable state yearns for so much attention that funds permitting, the repairs should even be carried out more regularly and in a lot more places.

  9. To make matters worse, last season’s prolonged rains inflicted such a battering on the roads that where potholes existed, they have now been replaced with craters.

    The private sector has often complained about how the poor state of communications infrastructure such as roads has contributed to the high cost of doing business.

    This is a genuine complaint and the ongoing development projects are a practical response from a government which is committed to a private sector-led growth.

  10. As the country marches towards the 2030 vision of attaining the status of middle income nation, those who are nursing allergies to development will remain by the wayside – where they belong.

  11. I have brought this on this thread to show PF thugs that despite these late night moves to mimic a democratic spirit in your dictatorship club called PF, PF’s allergy for national development has manifested in Sata’s fierce and senseless opposition to RB’s call for roads. PF trumpeting is a wasteful guesture.

  12. Lord we pray that you give us leaders to have a calling to serve not to be served. Give us leaders that shall not tolerate corruption or protect those found corrupt. AMEN

  13. Veteran, I think you ‘ve talked too much. This space is meant for concise comments, not a whole chapter of talk like above… at least allow chance to others… Comments only would do. I do not disagree with your points, but …

  14. Veteran has a baby mind, once promised that I will bring sweets, you do anything to attack anyone who remind you that your father is cheating you because he wants you to stop crying and pestering him for sweets. Childish thinking. Ucinje. I for one take Sata and HH’s comments, not being against the undertaking but merely cautioning people. Veteran, have you heard the govt you so revere say anything about the Mongu Kalabo road? Yu remember two, three years ago, govt gave impression that now serious about the project, what’s there? Now shifted to Mutanda Chavuma, after chiefs in the area said they will not vote for MMD if the road is not done. They can politic but they should be politically correct about things. I support Sata and HH’s doubt. I am getting that promise with a pinch of salt

  15. Zambians need roads and this is not in dispute. It is agreed by all including Sata and HH. HH has advised that govt considers the Bottom Road which is an old story too, is that sign of being against road construction? Veteran, grow up, be mature.

  16. “And so president Levy Mwanawasa figures that poor Zambians who cannot afford to educate the children they bring into the world should keep their zips up. He cannot understand why the majority poor people in the country do not know better than to involve themselves in activities whose by-product is children. Leave sex to us the rich damn you …”

    “if people can’t afford to take care of their children, they should not have children”. “Next they will be asking government to clothe their children,” President Levy Mwanawasa, Post Newspapers 26th August 2007

  17. On that score Levy was right to tell, us to stop having kids if we cant afford to look after them. Similarly anyone who has a wife and cant afford to keep her well clothed should not complain if other guys asist him in doing so. And if you cant afford to please your family and wife dont be angry when other people do it for you. In short too many of us want things done for us but get upset when the people who do us those favours be it GRZ or NGOs give us order to give back to Caesar. GBM will soon challenge SATA for Presidency of the PF because as he says he has been funding it…..

  18. November will be too late for PF and the pact,becoz expect divisions after the Convetion ,when are they going to reconcile in PF and then the Pact.
    Our Leaders are not serious with planning. So let us not say MMD has rigged the 2011 Elections.
    It is important to learn from previuos mistakes,I foresee the Pact Dividing before 2011 elections.
    As I’m speaking the UPND are loosing in Mufumbwe becoz of the Leadership problem of not Listening to people,14 UPND caders have been arrested for stoning Police Vehicles which is un acceptable and a sign of Loosing.

  19. Against HakaSata’s anti national development, its forwards with the nation.Against their unpatriotic tribal politics full of unholy hatred for Zed, its time for infrastructure development

    DBSA Gives Zambia $400m Loan for Road Works

    THE Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA) has given Zambia a US$400 million loan for the implementation of road projects countrywide.

    The bank gave Zambia the loan after discussions with Government last week and the money will be made available during the course of this year.

  20. Ministry of Works and Supply permanent secretary Bizwayo Nkunika said this in Lusaka yesterday at the official opening of the ROADSIP workshop organised by the New Economic Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) Business Foundation. Colonel Nkunika said the loan was facilitated by NEPAD.

    Col Nkunika said the country is facing gaps in the financing and implementing of road projects due to inadequate funds. He said it is therefore important for NEPAD to continue linking Zambia to financiers of road projects.

  21. “We faced a lot of gaps last year and this year in the implementation of road projects, so we are grateful to NEPAD, who connected us to DBSA,” he said. Col Nkunika said Government needs more funding in the sector due to the backlog of maintenance work.

    He said Government requires to raise 50 million Euros for rehabilitation of the Great East Road. Col Nkunika said the Great North Road and the Maamba-Batoka Road have suffered damage due to heavy rain, adding that there is an urgent need for Government to source funding to repair the roads.

  22. He said the European Union, African Development Bank and the EU Investment Bank have shown willingness to help Government rehabilitate the Great East Road. Col Nkunika said the road sector implementation programme has a lot of gaps which need to be bridged for the Government to be able to complete road projects.

    He noted that the lack of financial resources has further affected the implementation of some of the projects in the North-South corridor.

  23. 18 Legacy
    What Mwanawasa was saying is true.If only men and women could behave responsibly and only have the number of children they can afford,poverty will be stemmed drastically.Now the mentality on the ground is the opposite:reproduce and govt will take care.In Zambia,we are Christians but its shocking parents cant even follow the basic teachings of the Bible as written in 1 Timothy 5:8 and I quote:

    But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
    Its clear,parents have the primary responsibility and Govt secondary(Orphans and Vulnerable Children) and NOT the opposite.Let us not runaway from the root cause:irresponsible parenting which produce innocent lives subjected to harsh conditions.

  24. And Col Nkunika said Government is concerned at the slow pace of a feasibility study and consultative talks with the Government of Botswana over the construction of Kazungula Bridge.

    He said the consultant for the project has not done a good job, adding that Government has not had a concrete programme with Botswana.

    “The feasibility study was supposed to be done by November last year, but it was shifted to March and now to the latter part of the year. We are not impressed with the pace at which this project is being undertaken especially by our consultant.”

  25. And Col Nkunika has advised the Road Development Agency (RDA) and the National Road Fund Agency (NRFA) to put in place systems to ensure funds for road projects are released to contractors on time.

    He said the two agencies must ensure that contractors are given money immediately they issue certificates. Col Nkunika said this will ensure that penalties and interest charged on Government by contractors are minimised.

  26. He further said there is need to put systems in place to ensure contractors are given specific length of roads to reduce on the time taken to implement certain road projects.

    NEPAD business foundation chief executive officer Lynette Chen said the organisation has been working with donor institutions to raise funding for programmes which it is facilitating.

  27. Ms Chen said the mission of the organisation is to act as a platform between Government and the private sector in the implementation of projects. She said Government needs to engage the voice of the private sector to effectively carry out certain projects.

    Giving a presentation on the performance of the ROADSIP project, NRFA Chief Executive Officer Raphael Mabenga said the programme has been hampered by the lack of funds.

  28. Mr Mabenga said there is a backlog of maintenance works due to inadequate funding. He said the mid-term review of the programme has shown that the project will not be successful with inadequate resources.

    Mr Mabenga also cited the long tendering procedures and the high unit costs for the construction and rehabilitation of roads as some of the challenges faced in the implementation of the ROADSIP project.

  29. Mr. Peter Magande must be salivating with when he hears of all this cash coming in for projects. I am sure; RB and his new team have poured more cash in development projects in the last 18 months than Magande ever did in his 7 years of the Good Mwanawasa Economic Legacy era. Or could it be that they kept quiet about the cash coming in so they could divert it to the family tree accounts held at some Bank that has recently hit the headlines for money laundering? By the way where is the MMCI?

  30. Veteran
    How do you feel when you read an article about PF? Other topic you dont contribute why? Pliz See weeken pictures and make your comment. Zambia is a multiparty DEMOCRACY pli understastand this. Politics of hatred is not encouraged in this Generation. Thousands postings about SATA. You guys who always say evil thing about Sata, you dont realise that you have made him more popular even I am now going to him my Vote

  31. @ 32 you are right pipo don’t understand democracy its a shame indeed.
    Zambia won’t change with this attitude pliz positive criticisim!

  32. Veteran is the biggest fool on this Blog…I think this I.D.I.O.T is paid for writing all this crap because he is not only blogin on LT but also on the Zambian Watch Dog,with the same irrational,unpatriotic and uncivilised approach.Veteran you are a Buffoon.Let’s make zambian a better palce to leave in by giving meaningful ideas.Infact you have to go for Voluntery Testing and Councelling,you know wat am talking about.

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