Outgoing North-Western Province Permanent Secretary, Bert Mushala says it is absurd that people can resort to witch doctors to get positions such as that for district commissioner or to get a job promotion.
Mr Mushala said it is disappointing that educated people go to witch doctors seeking medicines for job promotions.
Mr Mushala was speaking during a sensitization workshop for North-Western Province District Commissioners (DCs) at provincial administration in Solwezi recently.
He said District Commissioners are appointed by the President and that witchcraft cannot influence the President’s decision to appoint those that seek witch doctors for help.
Mr Mushala said discipline and hard work is what makes one to be appointed as a District Commissioner and cautioned them to respect their juniors if they are to be respected by their juniors too.
“You are going to encounter challenges as DCs but there are no challenges that you can fail if you work as a team. We therefore need to work as a team,” he said.
He said the culture of working together will bring about easy flow of information that is needed in the execution of duties required by all District Commissioners.
Mr Mushala said that the duty of District Commissioners is to foster development and that it must be managed so that Zambians who are expecting to see change
can start seeing that change.
Mr Mushala also said discipline is very important for the District Commissiners saying change must begin with them before juniors can change.
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finally I can see a picture of my self.
If you are a leader and educated you need to show respect and understanding of why people do things they do, than just run to the media and make headlines and debase our culture.
Some of these things are deeply rooted in our culture and as a leader one needs to understand how the human psychic works.
Technically and at the root of it all, witch doctors are just psychologists or psychics just pumping up people to believe in themselves.
Our culture does not inherently have pyschics, psychologists or motivational coaches to help people succeed at a high level and so they resort to witchdoctors to get that extra something.
All great sportsmen or achievers have a mind coach in one form or another. So just be careful before insulting your culture. Show understanding
So you have just comfirmed that you are one of those who goes such people if you need a promotion or belief in yourself.
So the prediction of that Nigerian “forecaster” is coming true? Vis a vis an African Leader will die. Well Malawian big boss is in a coma.
Mr Mushala, can you tell us how your father used JUJU to confuse the \nationa and President Kaunda as a flying jet that he was. Dont start dreaming ok. leave those people alone and forget about witchcraft, of all we know you too inherited from your fathers demons. you have all the magic he had, you are still fighting your fathers devil too. so before you speak of witchcraft remember yours first and that of your family. laeve those people out of shit
So called Ukwa, you are hopeless stop troubling the President, your under five boy has never been further from the seat of power. He squandered his chance to be Veep and take over in 2016. As things stand, he is a finished politician!!!
Why cant Zambians use witchcraft to win Lotto in millions of USA dollars or why did they not assist RB to use witch craft to stuff ballot boxes with MMD marked papers? The entire village in Luapula province was made to believe that some witch in the vilage had killed a young lady who died during birth labour, and that the same witcth had even eaten livers, kidneys, heart etc of the deseased. The hapless suspected witch’s ralatives arrived and threatened to call the police and doctors from Mansa to exhume the body of the of the young lady and open it up to prove that the girl had actually died from natural courses, the entire village simply froze! That is what porverty, illitracy and utter ignorance has done do to the mass of our people.
Good point.
Witchcraft is idiocy or a myth!
They are charms, not medicine. Medicine is for curing ailments. What are used in witchcraft are charms.
Good defination, Have you used them?
Zeb Mpinganjira you have managed to lose me my patience.
YOU DON’T DEPUTISE YOURSELF TO A FOOL AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPAL ELSE NO ONE WILL KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
IF YOU THINK BEING A VEEP MEANS COMPROMISING , NOT GENUINE PEOPLE DO THAT.
Don’t Kubeba, HH is history in the race for Republican President. He is just a fugure head. He is going nowhere slowly. Just wait. Do you know Miyanda, BY Mwila, Sondashi, Nevers Mumba, Milupi, Akashambatwa, Chakomboka, Nawakwi. Do you know them and do you know what happened? How did they fail to rule Zambia? They wore the same uniform which HH is wearing. In the same vein HH will soon cease aspiring for plot one, no more. Let him just sponsor bear drinking among people with his money. People will eat it until he becomes like them, poor, and his ambitions to Republican Presidency will be gone.
lesa afwa abayafwilisha, lol! hey if you cannot be promoted through had work, go the African way!
Your father was a wicth and u start talking about witch doctors tell us how Mushala operated?????
Rubbish! Instead of talking about the development vision that his government has for the province and the role of the DCs in excuting the government vision, he is wasting time on useless things.
Mushala are you talking from your father’s experience? The man was invisible, only dogs could see him.
Mushala is talking from his father’s experience and he is right. Now we know the MMD Bootliker uses juju to remain in his GRZ position. Walk thru Lusaka and you will be given millions of leaflets advertising love portions, job promotion and revenge portions etc from these witch doctor’s. GRZ should ban such advertisements. We don’t need these witch doctors.
This is part of the lecture he had for the district commissioners…………..well said Ps
Look stop interfering with the witchdoctor’s profits. Its an industry. If you think it doesn’t work why bother with those who buy the gaffe? Why don’t you scold those who pray for promotions? They are equally unfair sichoncho?
IS HE TALKING FROM EXPERIENCE??