First Lady Christine Kaseba has described her late husband, Michael Sata as a unique and kind-hearted person.
Dr. Kaseba said in a tribute to her husband read for her by Emma Chibesakunda, said the late President was also the most God fearing, generous, honest, compassionate and forgiving person she has ever met.
The First Lady said the pain of losing her husband was so acute.
Dr. Kaseba said those who ever came across the late President can attest to the fact that he was a humble, loving and caring person.
She said despite the many misconceptions, lies and hate, late President Sata was one person who understood the power of love and forgiving.
She said throughout the trials of life, he always ensured that stability and wellbeing of his family came first.
Dr. Kaseba said her late husband’s selfless service to the country stands out among one of his greatest achievements, adding that Zambia shall remember him as a father of the nation who was willing to share his knowledge and wealth.
She said the late President Sata’s love for the country was beyond human comprehension, noting that the late head of state touched the lives of many Zambians.
And Pope Francis has called on Zambians to honour the memory of the late head of state by maintaining peace and justice in the country.
The Pope said in a message read for him by the Apostolic Nuncio of Zambia and Malawi, Julio Murat that the nation should remain united even during this trying period to ensure that the socio-economic gains that were scored in late President Sata’s tenure are sustained for the benefit of the people.
He recalled that the late President Sata was a man who put service to the people ahead of his personal interest.
Meanwhile, African Union Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma noted that Zambia made remarkable socio-economic progress under the leadership of the late President Sata.
Dr. Dlamini-Zuma said the country is among the fastest growing economies on the African continent and late Mr. Sata’s hallmark achievements have impacted positively on people’s lives.
She has since urged the country to ensure peaceful transition of power and to maintain peace and stability so the nation can reclaim its place as a haven of peace on the African continent.
She further appealed to Zambians not to take the peace the country has enjoyed since independence for granted.
Archbishop of Lusaka Telephor Mpundu said the late President was the most experienced politician to have entered State House as President.
Rest in peace my president.
So long, Mr. President. We celebrate your life as the ground shallows you up …. we celebrate your genuine love for country as your soul departs this earth but we are resolute in our resolve not to let your vision of an economically free Zambian Enterprise fail to actualize.
A few men will ever accomplish what you did in your lifetime and that alone is inspiration enough to make most strive. You died surrounded by those you cared for the most and that alone is testimony enough to challenge us all.
You have departed only in the flesh because in our memories you will forever live. A great soldier you were, your shoes too big to fill but your dreams live on. In just 3 years, you accomplished what others fail to. What a patriot indeed we lost!
So long, Mr. President … MYSRIEP!!!
If there is hell let Sata be taken there straight away because he let many die needlessly in hospitals when he was busy being flown around the world to hospitals worth over £5000 a night for treatment on the back of the poor Zambians.
This time around Zambians lets not allow a poor man rule Zambia, because his/her priorities will be to steal and enrich himself like these PF stooges and Sata have done in the last three years.
My heart bleeds to hear id0its glorifying this killer and thief. Poor farmers have toiled hard to grow maize to feed Zambians and yet nothing has been paid to them for their hard work upto now. Their kids are committing suicide for lack of school fees.
PF and Sata are the worst cohort to ever rule Zambia.
Vote UPND and HH if you want a better Zambia.
Hope somebody spreads some garlic onions on that grave…
@ Wanyele …You must be in a Mabisi land together with your UPND tonganyokos to be cheated by the devil that since you wished Sata to die will then take you to plot one.First ask yourself where is your under 5 going to get votes apart from Mabisi land courtesy of Chibwantu tribe & SDA UPND fanatics?Its on record in Guiness Book of records,South African Sangoma,Octopus & TB Joshua who said that HH (the under 5 poop master & the world skilled farter with fastest farts that is 1000 farts per millisecond & 10000 farts per nanosecond @ 2 kilo hertz sound depth smelling faster than a cobra can detect,speeder than light with a drum beat rate of 2 pulses of 8 notes beating Mashombe band beat rate) will NEVER EVER be a president of this beautiful country….hate or love thats the fact…
What a world we leave IN. From today forever I will never comprehend this. CHARLOTTE SCOTT being day-in-day out with Ba Muka Yama Christine Kaseba, and people insult her husband. Why should Guy Scott be a bad man just for being born WHITE? Jesus help us.
Guy Scott has proved to the world that Mugabe don’t hate WHITE people. Thank You Mugabe and Mai Grace.
CHARLOTTE…. God bless the woman.
Praising him for what he wasn’t leaves myself and many others question, how, where and when?
On the pass out of the army, SADC inclusive, Mr Sata the late said the following against the people of Barotseland.
” I want you to go to Lukulu, when you hear them say ensha, just shoot and when they say fa, just fire, do not hesitate” said Mr Sata.
What loving person when he ordered the Zambian army to go and kill all the Lozi’s in Barotseland for only and peacefully expressing their unalienable rights and freedoms!?
The old, young men, women and school going children were incarcerated in filthy prisons by PF of Sata, whilst all churches in the country were muted.
A Christian nation on paper, in reality it a country of corrupt and hypocrites.
A shovel is different to a spade…
Ok ok
@Wanzelu, Skeleton and Field Ruwe, I could like to read what people will write about you when you die. Please alert me of your passing.
Due to overflowing hate by UPND and its followers. It will never rule this country. It is PF Chapwa.
LOL! Pathako Pinu, I needed a good laugh, thanks for that. Now let me continue reading serious comments from people who understand the need for HH to be next president.
After this funeral Zambia must go in history as the most hypocritical nation on earth.
Sata and Guy Scott are the luckiest bastards to get married to such down-to-earth women.
I want to see Mulenga Sata’s mother, she must be a wonderful woman too, for keeping that family of 9 children intact. What do I know.
Wantanshi,
Its shocking and shame. Christianity on paper but realistically hypocrites.
I can’t imagine more, you’ve nailed it.
He was a great man to you. Please serve us that cheap crap.
Its good riddance to the nation from a selfish, cruel dictator
President Sata was kind, giving and humble. For some of us who worked with him always recall during tours if the prepare a meal for him alone will give it to the least in the entourage . He did not see himself above others. When things are wrong will speak out and warn those involved. Those who did not have the backbone to perform thought otherwise . Rest in internal peace Mr president
Pafwenamwine, “he gave his meal to the least of his entourage” blah, blah, blah. If only he directed the money that was spent on his medical trips/ “working holidays” to those at UTH and other much needing hospitals, orphanages and the likes. Don’t you think he would have saved much more people than the hungry “least member” of his entourage? Look at the circus he went with to New York, 40 people doing nothing? Look at the unfruitful trip to Brazil when he took family members and friends? According to you, at least someone got a free meal hey?
Don’t worry mama we will definitely remember him as the father of a nation.
“Dr. Dlamini-Zuma said the country is among the fastest growing economies on the African continent and late Mr. Sata’s hallmark achievements have impacted positively on people’s lives”. UPND continue having force hopes…..
I had beef with the husband, our departed dictator. So will not start with the wife. My beef with the departed dictator is not transferable to the wives or kids.
I beg, na which kind of mourning be this?? One minutes she is wailing like crazy, the next minute she breaks out in laughter…
Wonders shall never cease ooo!!
I wounded about that as well…they r all actors
Bi polar…….
I also noticed the same. having lost a spouse before I simply cannot believe her ‘grief’, its truly fake
Unique indeed,even numbers say so.
Sata declared owning SEVEN different types of guns before 2011 elections.
He died at King Edward the SEVENTH hospital.
Laid SEVEN days in state at Mulungushi.
Born 193(SEVEN).
Died aged SEVEN SEVEN
The number Seven signifies devinely determined completeness (See Rev 1:4, 12).Your life was a complete success, by sight and by faith.
It also signifies Rest.
God finished making heaven and earth and rested on the SEVENTH day. 77 years; total rest in the Lord having successfully run your race man of action.
When God was making sh!t there was no time. He and his boys had no sense of time. As a matter of fact time has been a source of controversy among intellectuals. Isaac Newton dealt with it and so did Lichtenstein.
Another factoid, at some point the length of a day was calculated differently because an hour one hundred minutes. This was following the invention of a clock. So what has constituted time over the years has been relative.
Hide your thought, my friend
@Supernova you only got -1 comment from Sauzande and your comment is on #8. So 8-1 = SEVEN.
Rev 1:4-12. Take numbers backwards 12-4 =6. Add chapter 1 = SEVEN.
@ Sauzande thanks for your thoughts. Now how can I have gotten yours had I hidden mine. I can’t hide my thoughts!
God was making a replica of Himself,a masterpiece and you say he was making sh!t. Honestly, are you sh!t?
God has a sense of time,owns space and time.He knows time is relative hence ” A day with God is a 1000 (Sauzande ) years and a sauzande years like a day.” Ps 90:4
A day can indeed be a very long period of time e.g Judgement day.
Let thoughts flow.
Good day.
@ Najundah says God weigh our actions on a beam balance for Him to decide our fate. Now a beam balance has two sides,left and right,supported at the pivot(centre).
God speaks through lives of people. At the centre of someones 3 worded name is the word ‘chilufya’ or lost in english. This balances the word ‘ Michael ‘ the archangel,christ at one end and ‘ Sata’ or Satan on the other end. If this is not impending judgement on satans people I don’t know.
Let’s speak positive about ALL people despite their shortcomings. God is with us. We are at war with the devil ( killed our two sitting presidents,National football team and the very president who declared us so).
But Christ ( Michael ) has now declared judgement on satan. Rev 12:7-10.
I receive whoever president comes…
Rest in peace great son of Zambia & Africa at large.
That’s a serious grave. All marble and pillars. We in Zambia never fail to lift up our Presidents.
I hope we will all heed the Popes’ advice to maintain Peace.
Please Father in Heaven, break a new day over Zambia.
God Bless Zambia
God Bless all Zambians
And also give us a good leader this time.
Dr Kaseba continues with her lies even when her husband is lowered into his grave. Sata was never compassionate let alone kind. A compassionate person sympathises and empathises with others who are unwell and never mocks them at public rallies likening them to a cabbage. ‘He touched the lives of many Zambians’, really, which Zambians when he never bothered to visit 8 of the 10 provinces in the 3 years.
Go well my Jubille President. You have finished well. The words you spoke will always be with us.
Numbers and letters testify Gods plan about your life. You said that you were imprisoned a total of 40 days as symbolic.
Your repeated pronouncements of 90 days ( THREE months ) in all your plans was also symbolic as your presidency was to only last THREE years.
You lost THREE elections before you won. Jesus fell THREE times carring the cross.Your PF is party number THREE to govern us in the jubillee..
Jesus said “I’ll destroy this temple and build it in THREE days.”John 2:19. You ‘destroyed’ potholes and built new roads etc in THREE years!
And you are Michael Chilufya Sata. Could mean : Christ who can make Sata(n) lost in his evil plans on your life. (Iam not…
Listen mate, can you stop this. It is irreverent to keep on making Sata into a holy relic.
It is a mockery of the one you clearly adore. Sata does not need to be made into a saint. He called himself Cobra and acted it out.
He was a pugilist with a vision.
Super my friend,, what you are writing here is unintelligible gibberish, for lack of a better word.
I’m just happy to know that i did not spend a cent in Taxes on all these Zambian Presidents and their families.
I’m still searching for the late President Sata’s nephew. Mr. Clement Bwalya, he must be in his late 40’s now… he worked as a “homekeeper” in Mpika between 1983 – 1987
I have a gift for him of US. $1000 as a token of gratitude for being a honest worker.
There’s my little girl….. she made it for the burial. Was worried for her..
Thanks LT for keeping those of us in the diaspora well informed about this funeral and many other issues. You have done a wonderful job, equaled to none. The rest are ba Kachepas!
One day all the dictators will die and them we”ll live forever in harmony
Good kind words BR Mumba Sr, you are genuine Christian person, the hatred I have seen on this LT, I don’t understand it. After 90 days the legacy of his excellency MCS will be upheld and I can see these people are full of anger and hatred committing suicide. Our hero MCS through the works he did in 3 years which is visible even to the babies has scored for who ever will stand on PF to replace him. I may not be in Zambia currently but the comments I get from everyone I know it will be walk over for PF.
Funnily lies caught up with Kaseba and the gang! You can hide sickness but not death! Your husband should have resigned on medical grounds a year ago! But you wanted power, prestige and money! Now we are waiting for the fight for property, remember he owned only two guns! I suggest hurry up and get those Kaseba!
Irrespective of political differences, President Sata was, a President, Brother, Father, Grandpa, who was loved & will be sorely missecd.
May his Soul rest in eternal peace.
…nothing to talk about the late…he is gone, buried, finito…….
…just a word for Dr. Kaseba…..if the husband was loving and honest as she claims then why did she shower him with the opposite..??…if she loved him she could have medically advised him to step down long before the country came to know how grave his ailment was…if she was honest why did she come in support of the lay men that he was well and very fit…..??….I recall a few bloggers and I condemned when she issued that statement…..we all said one thing…. that she should have just kept quite …instead of towing the govt dishonest and lies…
….because of that, what ever she can say now is diluted with what she said then…..
Sata was just like any other Human being, he did all he could to get into power, it didn’t matter the price. As for compassion for his and friends,am very sure it was there. A large number of people are in employment because of that. I think his team let him down. . . And pf didnt allow hm to rest. Pf killed the man, ill advised the man. Rip rip rip
If Sata was the most God fearing, generous, honest, compassionate & forgiving person she ever met, that must make her a vampire!
Ding Dong! The Wizard is dead. Which old Wizard? The Wicked Wizard!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Wizard is dead.
Wake up – sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Wizard is dead. He’s gone where the goblins go,
Below – below – below. Yo-ho, let’s open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong’ the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked naBwalyan Mnwacusa Wicked wizard is dead!
Can someone tell me what the official cause off death was? People are morning but don’t know what happened to the man apart from him going for a medical review. Lies and untold truth still surround the man even in death.
Alibe Nzelu is still talking from the other end, tucili tuledabwa!
Poor TheEngineer (Australia now Germany); please stop ukusula.
Itala lyabumi, lol!!
‘Always ensured that stability and well being of his family came first’ – at the expense of the rest of Zambians. What a selfish, evil soul, rot in hell.
The three yr experiment is over nad buried now we’ll all be back to being a normal country.
They say love is blind, Dr Kaseba is no exception. But in this case the blindness is astounding given that Mr Sata was a public figure and his bad deeds are well documented and are there in the public domain for all to see. We cannot begrudge Dr Kaseba the love and care she and her family received from her husband. But all we ask Dr Kaseba is to confine those praises to the family and close associates and enjoy the benefits that Zambian tax payers will accord her by law. But please spare us the pain of his actions in the public sphere otherwise she will be opening herself to ridicule at this sensitive time.
Freedom fighter!? My 89 year old Granddad told me Chilufya was to report them to the colonial police, he worked in cohort with the church. He was an enemy of freedom for the African. At independence he ran away to go and work at Victoria train station, as KK wanted him arrested. So what freedom fighter!
Kaseba not only your husband, he was my husband too. I’m coming for my share!
Iwe mwaice Sauzande, read properly Genesis ch. 1. You will notice that it starts with, “In the beginning God…, there was evening and morning , the first day.” Now, what began? The counting of time. Remember prior to the creation there was only eternity and hence the phrase, “in the beginning.” God bless you pal.
I guess Mr Sata’s widow is entitled to her opinion of the man she loved and the father of her children. What I am unsure of is whether she is entitled to say things that are patently untrue without providing a context. Compassionate? to her and her children and family and some selected few maybe but completely humiliating to a lot of others, God fearing? always a testy subject this God fearing thing suffice it to say that we all believe we are God fearing and until we stand before God who weighs our actions in the balance, we will not know just how we fared on that score. Hardworking?yes that I am prepared to accept though the work had a narcissist angle to it but whose work has no angle right? Kind? I beg to differ, it is unkind to say and do some of the things Mr Sata publicly did.
Why Dr. Kaseba still been referred to as the First Lady? I thought the title was tied to being a wife of the President?