Former President Kenneth Kaunda has commended Airtel-Zambia for donating US$50,000 towards the publication of his book.
Dr. Kaunda said works towards the publication of his book were first announced in 2007 but had since stalled due to financial challenges.
He said due to Airtel’s corporate social responsibility, the work will resume and the story for the struggle for independence, colonialism and apartheid will be told for posterity.
Dr. Kaunda said this in Lusaka today when he received the donation at Airtel Head Office.
He was hopeful that his book will be published by the end of September this year.
He noted that investing in the history of the nation will help the young people to understand what the freedom fighters fought for.
Dr. Kaunda added that once published, the book will contribute in explaining the country’s history, social and educational values to future generations.
And Airtel Board Chairman George Sokoto noted that the organisation decided to donate money in order to enable the country read about what took place during the independence struggle and Dr. Kaunda’s contributions be documented.
Mr. Sokoto said the book will richly help in understanding the business, economic, and political decisions that Dr. Kaunda made on behalf of the country.
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God blesses those who share. Nice one Airtel
To say the list even if KK did not fight Zambia will still be Independent today. It was just going to happen. KK was not even alone in this fight. People like KK have too much money they have got from Zambia but I am surprised they cannot even fund their own book.
Coming to Airtel. Airtel should start by looking after its workers well before showing off. Departments at Airtel are sub-contracted, salaries are tricky with no pention, no housing and no permanent contracts. Very soon they will be changing their name to evade tax etc. Corperate social responsibility my a.ss.
I agree with you on the second part.Qualified Airtel employees are leaving the company daily because of its owners greed!
This UNIP former Dictator Kenneth Kaunda, is an evil man who was so greed to the existent he mismanaged Zambia’s economy through his communist economy policies.
Surely Kaunda has a lot of money which he can use to pay for his book project but because he is greed he failed to pay for his own project! What a shame
Just imagine, a greed person like KK! Is the man Zambians had at State House for more than 27 years! Even though KK had BILLIONS of Money, Zambians died of avoidable diseases like Malaria
Zambians had to queue for Mealie Meal & Essential commodities, marriages broke up because married women were forced into extra marital sexual relationships so that they can only have the chance to buy Mealie Meal & essential commodities like bathing soap, salt, cooking oil & washing…
Evil corrupt sick man Dictator Sata is also following in the GREED foot steps of Kaunda, Sata increased his salary before providing anything for Zambians!
Sata, KK like Mmembe at the Post Newspaper are the birds of the same feather, they are all after Zambians meager resources, just to rape it & rob Zambians! They are so greed
Zambians are suffering bcoz of Kaunda’s mismanagement of Zambia’s economy & KK eve stole from Zambia’s reserves.
KK like satanist Sata got more money from Zambia’s coffers even when there was no money! Zambians have bad memories of Kaunda’s UNIP rule with his Special Branch & vigilante UNIP cadres beating & killing Zambians. KK mismanaged ZCCM, ZCBC & NIECO!
KK used to jail & blackmail innocent Zambians just for expressing there rightful freedom
All you above are very short sighted. Not worth existing. You cannot even give praise where it is due. You will die complaining and will achieve nothing. We got free education under KK which is very valuable. But with your ignorance you cannot understand. Pointless for you to even expose your cruel attitude towards people who even sat in prison for you to able to yap as you are yapping today. Shame on you guys. Spineless characters. Some people are not worth to be born as they are just a thorn in the flesh of others. You guys are!!! If you have nothing useful to say or contribute, you better just keep quite or shut up. That way we will not know the depth of your hatred, grudges let alone your ignorance.
Moron!
KCM I agree with you totally all these boys,Blessings,KCI,Jiggi jiggi and SHAKA OZ are ignorant people who will never understand the role KK played before and after independence.KK built most of the infrastructure Zambia has.He also gave us free education.Iam one of the people that got free bursaries at the UNZA and I am positively contributing to the development of mother Zambia.These small boys must shut up and stop yapping and stop insulting KK because they know nothing.KK also played a very important role in having Mandela released from prison.It seems these people were not even born then.You cannot understand the present if you know nothing about the past.
Hear hear,there goes another moron who got free education!!!! It was not free imwe bamudala, somebody was paying for it! gues who?yours and my parents who were paying taxes. I also went to UNZA,obviously after you but I am very disappointed in the way you put your arguments accross.Oh,let me guess,u r from Beng,right? no wonder not surprised at all!!!
Even form 2 failures can write books? Kapena kuli amene amulembela mambala.
FCM and life is Journey. You are assuming I am young and never got free education. That is not my point. My point is, KK after mismanaging this country and pocketing a lot of wealth cannot even fund his own book. Show me one African country that is still not Independent today. They are all Independent with or without KK. Continue with your hero worshiping and the free education that came at the expense of a very rich country being called Highly Indepted Poor country HIPC. You mean KK cannot fund a book? Do we need to read his crap? You are the same backward people holding this country back because you still think we owe KK who was paid a salary and retirement for the works he did.
It doesn’t cost so much to publish a book, unless one asks others to write on his behalf but even then 50,000us$ is too much, i think airtel is dinating to PF through kaundas book
My friend kci, you sound like a reasonable guy however I am shocked you did not present any evidence about KK’s wealth. Where is the wealth at and didnt the late Chiluba’s zeal to find KKs wealth bring in the Scotland yard to try and find it anywhere in the world and produced zero? You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts my friend.
Some idiots think you just take a pen and a piece of paper and start writing a book. Why dont you try it without any sponsor and see where it will take you. Some bush thinking indeed.
Publishers would have given this old senile dictator an advance of millions dollars if they thought that people would actually be interested in what he had to write .
thanks to all those who have sided with me
Real Activist I will not try and pump sense in your dull head because probably your parents already tried and failed.
I am not a moron. Use the foreign words with full understanding of their meaning. Dont just yap because you can yap.
Education was then free for me because whoever followed after that was paying hard cash from their pockets. I did not have to. Taxes were paid then just like they are paid now. What KK did was to identify the acute needs and immediately prioritized them for funding. Education was and is paramount to any development. If we were to pay from our own pockets a lot of poorer people would not have had the education they have now. It is because of that we have a lot of educated Zambians both in and outside the…
Learn to respect elderly people (that is an African approach) and dont try to be cleverer than you are. What have you achieved in your life by the way? Oh I forgot that you have not achieved anything because of KK. Do you know how it is to lead masses of people let alone a country? You will never get closer to what KK has done for Zambia. Just ask yourself what you have done for Zambia apart from bashing people who have done a lot and visible things for Zambia.
Call Kaunda whatever you want, a form two dropout, murderer robber etc but you will never achieve what he has achieved for Zambia.
It is many years now and if you think Kaunda stole your money why has he not been brought to book all these years? FTJ tried and found nothing on him. So you know where KK is hiding the money you say he stole? If you have no facts please shut up. I dont nourish on rumors.
By the way I dont know what you mean by Beng. I live in Europe and have been living here for many years now. On a forum like this use proper words not the ones you are used to on your streets
Stay well my brother and I hope you wake up to reality soon and stop insulting people
this is a good gesture, it will be good that we shall have the firsthand information over k.k history and it will be good for us zambian especially young people. people let us look on the positive contribution that this man made to this country. 50000 dollas is nothing. he is our father
this information need documentation
Zam1, I am very proud of you. This is a very noble man who did alot for Zambia, and you will also see how Zambians sacrificed alot for the whole southern african region. Zambians welcomed refugees from all over southern africa with open arms, fed them, sheltered them and even gave them education. Personally I dont know too many countries that have the heart to do something like that but naturally Zambians are mostly good people and it started with his leadership. Yes he wasnt perfect but who is.
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