VICE-PRESIDENT George Kunda has said the pact between the Patriotic Front and the United Party for Development (UPND) has been dealt a deathblow by sustained attacks by the PF leadership on the UPND.
Mr Kunda said PF president Michael Sata has adversely affected the UPND, which is now facing popularity problems in Southern Province.
He has called on UPND members in Southern Province to join the MMD as their party was on the brink of collapse following the spate of attacks on the UPND president Hakainde Hichilema and his party.
Mr Kunda said UPND members were former members of the MMD and that the ruling party is willing to take them back.
Mr Kunda said this soon after he arrived at the Choma airstrip yesterday to attend centenary celebrations at the Anglican Church in Mapanza area.
Minister of Labour Austin Liato, Deputy Minister of Information and Broadcasting Angela Cifire, deputy minister of agriculture Allan Mbewe, MMD deputy national secretary Chembe Nyangu and Southern Province minister Daniel Munkombwe accompanied Mr Kunda.
Mr Kunda said he is in Southern Province to attend centenary celebrations of the Anglican Church in Mapanza and to inspect developmental projects as well as re-organise the MMD.
He said the Mr Hichilema should have heeded the advice of traditional leaders in the province against getting into a marriage of convenience with Mr Sata.
“Mr Hakainde Hichilema and the UPND are having serious problems. We were advising Mr Hichilema against entering into a pact with Michael Sata,” he said.
He said Mr Hichilema is now politically stressed and that even some newspapers, which had seemingly favoured him, had abandoned him and are now building the PF and Mr Sata’s political image.
Mr Kunda said the MMD will take advantage of the imminent collapse of the UPND to strengthen its structures across the country.
“For us in MMD, it is now our time to appeal to the UPND members that they come back to the MMD, a party which has a future. I know you just left but now it is time for you to come back and join hands and work with the MMD,” he said
He said the MMD would not just focus on its political strength in Southern Province but also dwell on development.
“The MMD has performed very well, and while others are just politicking, we are focusing on development. Hospitals, roads and other economic infrastructure have been put up in Southern Province by the MMD government,” Mr Kunda said.
Mr Munkombwe said the people of the province are grateful because of the interest the MMD government has in developing the region.
Later, Mr Kunda paid a courtesy call on Chief Mapanza, who expressed gratitude to the government for constructing the Choma-Namwala road, saying the decision will help enhance development.
Chief Mapanza said the people of Choma and Namwala are grateful that the politically controversial Choma-Chitongo road has finally been tarred.
Chief Mapanza said the tarring of the Choma-Chitongo will enhance the economic development of the area.
The traditional leader paid tribute to Government for ensuring that the Choma-Chitongo road is completed to ease communication problems.
Mr Kunda commended the chief for recognising Government’s efforts in developing Southern Province and Zambia as a whole.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
Dad man talking to the living. He is telling us to take care of ourlseflves or else we die but he could not serve himself from death. Please let anyman who cares tell this GK to concetrate on taking ARVs than fight us please!
Sorry in #1, I meant dead man not dad.
Retarded Layer. What can you tell this nation?
Self preservation, little substance. Again, the the MMD is way past it’s expiry date. The party has peaked. Expecting progressive ideas from the MMD will be like trying to draw blood from a rock, and they know it.
Here you go again Kunda, as soon as you feel better you stand to talk about the PF and sata why can you leave them alone and concentrate on taking your ARV’s so you can leave longer for your family. MMD has more serious problems than the other parties. You will not be in power come 2011, so prepare very well. Have rest rest rest sir.
Whats wrong with this chap Kunda? And for sure this man was chief justice? You mean in the legal circles in Zambia there are no men and women who are intellegent? If Kunda is at the top end of intellegence in the legal system(s) in Zambia we better start importing legal personnel from Malawi, Botswana, and Namibia. Because ZAmbia will ever have poor legal systems and injustice. This chap is like a fly which after feeding on human faeces also wants to feed on your rare lump of nshima. Alikwata amano ayafiko sana. Improve peoples’ life in zambia, man!! Stop bothering about PF.
I am sure he is capable of handling his ARVs alright, his strategy is plausible and he may well succeed in converting people to MMD as they leave UPND which is under severe stress from Mr Sata.
…Else, bother about your ARV prescriptions and regular taking of them. Why can’t you worry about MMD leaders who hid carcasses of cattle meant to feed cadres who were campaigning for your fielded candidate who lost. Elections are coming in Mpulungu and probably Kafulafuta. Teac your professors not to hide food from cadres, again. To me and maybe others, this is what you should be worrying about. And most importantly, your deteriorating health and how, what, where the next supply of ARV will be achieved to advance your life a little longer.
For sure the PF hooligans are the causer of the PACT failure.The party has a tandem of thugs who think they can bulldoze UPND.Its impressing however tat UPND has remained technical and systematic without washing dirt linen outside.That ultimately will reveal the snake under the capet after all,UPND will replace HH with a more vibrant young leader while the bully Michael & his katemba PF is shelved in the Archives.
What is your interest VP
The PACT is intact. Joining MMD, over my dead body people cannot join a sinking party. PF-UPND pact chintelelwe ichakubaleta. When people go hunting, they fear what may kill them. In this case The VP has shown signs that the PACT is a strong force Zambians are looking upto. One PACT, One Voice
Please Sata and HH resolve your differences so that we can move forward. Icalo na chonaika-
UPND/PF pact implosion is inevitable.The cracks have widened,and its like the PF do not care whether the pact works or not.They have realized that HH and his cabal of tribalists, is trying to ride on their urban popularity.
GK is not stupid. Those who take his utterances as the rantings of a mad man do so at their own peril. GK knows that if you keep chipping away at the weak points of the opposition, eventually, that point will break. And that is his exact intention and I’m afraid it’s a very effective tactic.
That is his interest in the opposition.
what george is saying may be rite…pf has bad manners and don’t care about their prtner..we can’t rule a country like that..go for a convention ba pf 1st and we can sit and talk about the pact..UPND has gained popularity where u were strong ..be careful even as u try ti frustrate us..
@14 above. ba LT, could you please improve on your moderation, the word I used is not an insult and was there to reinforce what I was saying.
Iwe honestysnif do u think with ur head or yo buttocks?Learn 2 analyse things.The only shot upnd has at leadership in 2011 is simply by joinin sata.Pf presidential seat is secured in 2011 so joinin them is a smart move.I dnt like sata myself but who else can i vote 4 based on experience.Dnt even worry about kunda,in a war the best way to break a pact is divide and conquer thats what his doin.mmd is doomed.Unip will be more popular than mmd in 2012 trust me.
George Kunda is a sick man. We all know he is a walking Dead! So whatever he says, is froma dead mind.
In one vain he says UPND should not have gone into a PACT with PF, In another breath he is saying UPND should join MMD cause that’s where they came from. Now George is S.I.C.K,. He is vitually telling UPND to disband so that MMD sails through. Well George’s method wont work.
i think there are more important things for the vp to do than to always talk about the pact,i mean pipo are suffering and talking about the pact wont help coz those guys are not in government.It would have been interesting if the pact worked though and iam one zambian who is hoping it will work regardless who will stand as president.
Yashani Iyi ba LT. Flag pa #18 yachoka kuti. The other comments you havent posted them. Are you MODERATING THEM or diluting them. Chiluba is a thief and found so. Even refusal to register the London Judgement does not indicate Chiluba is Innocent. He is a Lazo, Kabwalala, Impupu as found guilty in that London court.
On “He [Mr George Kunda] said Mr Hichilema is now politically stressed and that even some newspapers, which had seemingly favoured him, had abandoned him and are now building the PF and Mr Sata’s political image… [Hon MP Minister of Justice ad Vice-President] Kunda said the MMD will take advantage of the imminent collapse of the UPND to strengthen its structures across the country” it is good that MMD is now informing the people of Southern Province not to support Mr PF/Sata MC’s presidential candidature should the PF-UPND PACT make a mistake of supporting Mr two-degree holding-claimant MC Sata for Zambian President in the 2011 tripate elections.
As for the PF vuvuzela, the POST Newspaper, I will continue to deal with it nicely as HH has done by shunning it.
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Matt 6:33
GK MAY BE HALLUCINATING BUT HIS RANTINGS MAY BE TRUE, IF THE PACT DIES, SATA AND HIS PF THUGS WILL BE THE ONES TO BLAME, A WISE LEADER WOULD HAVE CONDEMED SCOTT ATTACK ON UPND BUT SATA DECIDED TO BACK SCOTT, PF HAVE NOT SHOWN ANY RESPECT FOR UPND AT ALL, IAM GLAD UPND HAVE A VERY EDUCATED TEAM AND THEY HAVE PROVED THAT THEY WONT BE BULLDOZED BY THESE PF KAPONYAS, SATA MUST NOT FUUL HIMSELF AND HIS PF, THEY CAN NEVER WIN ELECTIONS BY THEMSELVES, N WAY THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE FOR SATA TO CONTEST ELECTIONS , HE WILL BE THROWN INTO THE BIN BY 2016,
HH STILL HAS CHANCES ,SATA’S ARROGANCE WILL TAKE HIM NO WHERE NO WONDER HE FAILS TO EVEN HOLD A CONVETION FOR HIS PF TRIBAL CLUB. YOU WILL HAVE YOURSELF TO BLAME BIG MAN,AS FOR UPND, IT WILL FUULISH 4 U TO JOIN MMD, BETTER YOU GO IT ALONE.
IAM JUST MAKING A HYPOTHETICAL ANALYSIS . THIS IS AN EDUCATED GUESS AS FAR AS THINGS STAND AT THE MOMENT UPND STAND A GOOD CHANCE TO WIN ELECTIONS, HOW ? IF UPND FORMS PACT WITH ADD THIS WILL MAKE THEM COMMAND POPULARITY IN (NWP.WP,SP CP) OF THE 9 PROVINCES THAT PUTS THEM OVER 45% THRESH HOLD OF VOTES IF THEY PUSH HARD THEY WILL A GOOD VOTES OF SYMPATHIZERS FROM THE EP,CB THAT LIVES SATA AND HIS PF WITH TO SHARE THE BEMBA PROVINCES LUAP.CB,NP AND LSK TO BE SHARED BY MMD AND I KNOW THOSE REBEL MPS WILL DECAMPAIGN PF SO FROM ANY ANGLE YOU LOOK AT IT PF IS AT RISK MAY SPELL THEIR EXTENCTION ONCE SATA GOES IN THE NEXT 5YRS
sata said that: ”UPND is like buttocks that can never find themselves in front and HH is a provincial leader meaning southern province”.Now you PACT sympathisers did you really think that the marriage of convinience would have worked knowing sata’s king cobra’s vernom power.ukushishita aba tonga mulechangamukako muli fipuba sana…