By Field Ruwe
On the day President Michael Chilufya Sata died Reuters carried the headline “Zambia’s President ‘King Cobra’ Sata dies.” The New York Times of October 30, 2014 described him as an “acerbic leader.” This is a word frequently used to portray him as biting, sarcastic, mordant, sardonic, and disdainful. Almost all the papers I read implied that it was Sata’s “sharp tongue” and “abrasive manner” that earned him the presidency. Such is how the world knew him and it is the way he shall be remembered.
Who was this man some people found devious, stubborn, even cruel, and others found realistic, loving, and inspiring? Let me also ask a question in the third rail: who is this man who was stooped in so much mystery the country hardly knew how he lived and died? There are other questions like how will history judge him. All these questions lead to a fundamental whole: who was Michael Chilufya Sata?
The moment of truth occurred on November 2, 2014. The booming sound of the jets alerted Lusaka residents of the arrival of the remains of President Michael Sata. As the chartered plane banked toward the airport, it provided a somber motif for the people below. Thousands could not help but to shed a tear. When the plane finally touched down at the Kenneth Kaunda International airport, hundreds of grief-stricken people broke into wailing.
Here was a man with humble origins and limited schooling born as he was at Chitulika village in Mpika District given a sendoff worth a king. Growing up in rural Zambia, not in his wildest dreams did he think one day he would become a president and determine the fate of 14 million people. Attending Catholic Catechists seminary schools, Katibunga, Kantensha, and Lubushi his eyes were set on becoming a priest. Of course this was not to be. God had other plans for him.
On the day president Sata was put to rest he left a glowing lesson to all Zambians that no matter your humble beginnings, through hard work and perseverance, you can succeed. It is this that won him the hearts of many. It is true that as president he bettered the lives of many people, some who became cabinet ministers, ambassadors, diplomats, successful businessmen, and employed party cadres. It is also true that he rescued and elevated countless pauper men and women to bourgeois status.
From the day he expired eulogists praised him unconditionally and gave him the many great human values he deserves. President Kenneth Kaunda who should be credited for Sata’s rise to political fame described him as a “down to earth person” and an “organizer and mobilizer of the grass roots.” Other eulogists praised his courage and absolute devotion to the country. They said he was personally responsible for almost all the developmental projects around the country—road network, bridge construction, structural building etc.
How then will Sata be historically remembered? Did those who eulogized him come too late to change the annals of history? Can the positive things he did continue to hold his buoyancy? Does this mean that he was upright, without spot and blemish? These are questions no one is asking. Zambians would rather not discuss them. The problem with this is that because we as a people fail to provide a true discourse of the past, we do not learn any lessons from those departed who became heroes and made a difference in our lives.
We are now in an era where events have to be remembered and preserved in some authentic form so our children can learn from them. Their meaningful connection to the past demands nothing is left unturned. In the case of Michael Sata, as in the case of his four predecessors, his pros and cons, and weaknesses and strengths must be laid on the table for our children, and indeed, the entire world to see.
Our children must, for instance, understand why the world chose to emphasize his “King Cobra” sobriquet than quote Kaunda and other eulogists. They must understand why the media equated him to the unpredictable and highly venomous king cobra, a snake with a fearsome reputation. They must know that he earned the tag because of his episodic ambushes on his political opponents and his aggressive disposition.
Those of us with vivid memories of the early Sata days recall how he treated his opponent Maxwell Sibongo in his quest to become Member of Parliament for Kabwata. He bought all the goods in his shop, distributed them to children then walked in with the press to portray Sibongo as a struggling businessman. It was here that the nickname began to bloom. It flourished in 1991 when he candidly called President Kaunda a dictator, and threatened to expose him, something no one dared in those days. Hereafter, the nickname would be used to describe him as fork-tongued, unpredictable, erratic, mysterious, and intractable.
Someone wrote about Sata:
“mysteriously he came, mysteriously he ruled, and mysteriously he left.”
During my research that culminated in the “Biography of Michael Sata President of Zambia,” I discovered that when Sata become governor of Lusaka in 1985, he did not want his past to blanket his newly acquired status. In his effort to maintain his elitist personality he fought hard to conceal his past life, that of bullying, an inferior education, job as constable, serving jail time, and working as a sweeper and porter at Victoria Station and other train platforms in London. It was this insecurity that made him overly sensitive to criticism, and led to his erratic and confrontational behavior and often times, vulgar and boorish disposition.
Up until he became president, no one knew who he really was. Those who did like Kaunda, Guy Scott, children from his first marriage, childhood friends and former schoolmates chose to keep quiet. It is this that prompted me to spend two months at the African Studies Library of the Boston University on 771 Commonwealth Avenue, and other libraries, to try and document his life, which I did with resounding success.
It was during my research I discovered that throughout Sata’s political life which began in 1963 when he became UNIP Chimwemwe branch treasurer up until he became president, he successfully concealed his past and created his own mode of life, to which everyone was to adhere. In my notes I wrote: “There is one undisputable fact about Sata that stands out of the book [“African Proletarians and Colonial Capitalism: The origins, growth, and struggles of the labour movement to 1964” by Dr. Henry Meebelo (1986)]: his tenacious and ‘militancy and rancorous’ intransigent behavior dates back to his youth days.” As a worker with Roberts Construction in the 1960s, and as a unionist, he was known as a rubble-rouser, a label he would keep up to his final day.
But as has been proved, in his personal ambition he was not only razor sharp, but also tactical and strategic, or how else could a person with a defective education convince some of Zambia’s intelligentsia like Dr. Guy Scott, Dr. Waza Kaunda, Professor Nkandu Luo, Dr. Joseph Katema and other cognoscenti to rally behind him in his quest to become president. Realizing he was a talented political operator, they succumbed to his cynical, discourteous, uncouth and intemperate behavior.
Zambians watched him as he turned his amoral characteristics into a symbol of fearlessness and showed off his pro-poor political skills. When he began to rip cabbages to depict the disintegration of Mwanawasa’s brain, he became a hero for the vulnerable grassroots—the compound communities, uneducated, unemployed and self-employed individuals, street peddlers and vendors, women marketeers, mobsters, and criminals. He knew what they desperately wanted; combatant behavior, empty promises, lies, and fantasies. It was this dark art of political mendacity [falsehoods] that would have him elected as president on September 23, 2011.
As president, he knew false promises would come back to haunt him. From day one, he engaged in his usual protective, manipulative, and illusory activities. When the media reared its supposedly ugly head and threatened to expose him, he reached for the PF panga and beheaded it. He sent surviving reporters into Foreign Service and took some undomesticated ones to court. At international level he substituted arrogance for diplomacy and found himself isolated in places like the African Unity.
Eager for power, Sata sought protection from his party cadres. Right under his nose, cadres, some armed with pangas, chains, and machetes disrupted meetings of the opposing parties, and intimidated citizens. By mid-2013, the PF was headed for the most violent party in our nation’s history. Many feared Sata was on his ruinous path and was turning Zambia into a dictatorial police state.
While all this was happening, what we did not know was that the president was terminally ill. Let’s all pause for a while and share a freeze-frame: May 21, 2014 the late president outside the Lusaka High Court, being led into court by his son Mulenga and Wynter Kabimba. It was on this day that it became clear to the nation that the president was not enjoying good health.
What followed can only be termed as forbidding and cold-blooded deception. For fear of his illness becoming an obstacle to his presidency, Sata himself concealed his medical afflictions. Like he had secreted his life, so he did with his health.
Aided by his physician wife, and abetted by Guy Scott, government spokesman Joseph Katema, and one-time moralist Mwansa Kapeya, they staged one of the most disheartening political stunts.The afore-mentioned people failed to provide true basic information about his illness and his absences from the public. It is because of them that the nation hopelessly watched the president wilt and helix downward towards his death. On October 28, 2014, he died of undisclosed illness.
The concealment of his illness augmented who Sata had been all these years; a strong-headed, hard-hearted, egotistical, narcissistic, and sadistic individual who allowed his poor decisions to dictate his life. He was a love-or-hate hero to some, and villain to others. One thing for sure is he failed to rise above his ego. It is this in him that eroded the sanctity of the presidency.
Villain!!!!!!! i am tired of this now. lets campaign!! HH UPND Jan 2015
Truth be said. Sata (mhsrp) was a divisive, nepotistic, uncouth without any leadership qualities. The man was a populist that rode on ignorance of the masses. He promised more money in your pockets and the gullible believed. He promised a new constitution with 90 days….and many more fake promises. The have a chance for a new Zambia with quality leadership, and my vote goes to HH
Anyone thinking anything but a hero is a joke and is more than likely a foreigner by blood.
Without being a xenophobic and with being a 12th generation zambian I stand here to state that he was a hero in every sense of the word
Dedicated his life to serve you and I, anyone thinking otherwise is a joke.
I am self confessed jingoist and to protect all zambians I think this is a unanimous verdict that he was a HERO
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UPND Cadre I think you’re not completely correct in my opinion or not fare. lets say he was both so this article is a not completely a waste of time but something that every meaningful Zambian has know apart from those that have stolen and enjoyed the protection from Sata. I would like to say he was a very loving and caring parent but a real nightmare to Zambia. Respect granted and MHSRIP. This Chapter should be closed with useless old politicians who are thieves and live corruption as their tissue. The country made a mistake and pray it should never happen though with the majority of voters illiterate, drunkards, cheats theft and corruption imprinted citizens who know?. It will need someone to change the mind set of the Zambian again. We have given him a befitting burial which is enough.
Sorry about the typos. Its very mentally antagonising watching this circus of lies and deceit. Lets Try HH please and ignore the few hatred showing Tongas. there are a lot of good ones with a heart for the Country as a whole. After all we had the worst Bemba or Ausshi or Tanzanian and we made it.
He was no hero, but i wouldn’t say he was a villain. There are some positives from his life. However, politically the man thrived in chaos and confusion and benefited from both.
As a leader of Zambia, he failed us.
Excellent article! I will say it again, garlic should be spread on Sata’s grave so that he does’nt wake up from his sleep to torment Zambia. ‘The problem with Zambians is that because we as a people fail to provide a true discourse of the past, we do not learn any lessons from those departed who became heroes and made a difference in our lives.’ WE HAVE TO LEARN FROM LIES FED TO US THE PAST 6 MONTHS…
Villain definitely- nepotism, tribalism, corruption, violence, confusion etc.
We definitely need a real government now. The PF experiment was a serious disaster for Zambia. Three years of stagnation. What a waste. These guys had absolutely no know how of how to run government and an economy. We need a serious government that will lead a united Zambia of all tribes and regions. Leadership under the PF was made simple. It has never gotten this simple where even former Jerabos, dog sellers, alcoholics (with strong existing signs on the face of prolonged alcohol abuse) and etc. have the audacity to think and aspire to lead this great nation. Any Jim and Jake could be appointed to any critical position in government without due consideration of expertise, maturity and track record. This is a new beginning, a real jubilee year. The opposition is therefore advised to…
I’d say a foul mouthed dagga smoking chief kaponya!!
They don’t bad of a dead Person, but Sata was a man with No respect for Human Kind. he humiliated his ministers like kids?? He Insulted. what ever talk or praise him for is just African culture of talking good of the fallen. otherwise, he was a selfish and arrogant man who only thought he was a leader. Yet he never lead us. MHSRIP though I reserve my personal feeling that God Answered our Prayers. He was going to bring confusion in 2016.
FIELD RUWE,
Sata was there all week long, why you did go and eat him. We mbwawe
Every great leader has some villain in them, it comes with the territory. Even Jesus engaged in some unconventional tactics to be heard.
For those who think HH will win they must be in a Mabisi land to be cheated by the devil that since they wished Sata to die will then take them to Plot 1.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 typical UPND…
Zambians do not need to be reminded of this name and belabor over it. Micael Sata the villain cheated Zambians big time, all we need is move on, he’s gone and gone for good.
The nation he cheated, oppressed opposition, encouraged lawlessness with impunity crowning it with tribalism accorded him a respected funeral and burial he’s not gonna pay back the pain he inflicted on them. We buried all that Sata can remind us of, and focus on politics that will benefit all Zambians.
I can’t wait to read what people will write when Field Ruwe dies.
Ruwe you achieved what you wanted. How many obituaries did you write about Sata? May soul continue to be troubled.
sata is most of the times associated with facts which no one can take away. The projects which HH was against speak who sata was. By the way when mazoka died Tongas said the presidency is for Tongas leaving sakwiba their tribe cousin. today sata has died Bembas are suporting lungu. my question is if HH became president wont state house be for Tongas only?
Remove the tribal tag.
You are right on one thing . HH is not ready.
Give it to GBM, Scott or Kabimba.
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“Don’t allow a person who is not economically independent to rise to leadership because the result will be just plunder to make himself rich”. Most of our problems in Africa are a result of poor people who have no success profile in anything before becoming presidents who quickly become overwhelmed by how many ways they can manipulate the system to make money for themselves. Unfortunately these are the same people some powerful cartels would sponsor so that they can have full control of them. We don’t have a people driven constitution today because the people we put as leaders see it as a threat to their rule and their new found wealth. We need a leader that can sustain himself economically even without politics in order to be able to provide good governance and oversee a clean and…
We need a leader that can sustain himself economically even without politics in order to be able to provide good governance and oversee a clean and un-corrupt government. This is time for Zambians to analyse our presidential candidates and dig into their background to see what they have achieved before that they can now deserve to be elected president. The presidency is too big a job to give to a person who has just come out of poverty recently because of an appointment into a lucrative position or because of some tender given to him by a relative or friend. That is far from success.
IT definitely will be. Problem with us blacks – Sata included- is we don’t usually consider merit when we unrealistically favour family, friends, relatives, concubines and such like when it comes to utilising va boma. Wish we did that in our tuntembas and seen how we would run broke. Government is seen as an ocean of funds such that even if your whole damn clan takes their pick it wont finish. A rich white can get on a bike but not so with ‘rich’ black.
Problem here worse as even church men are not genuine !!All trash
Where do we go??
Import governance??
Field Ruwe is a US-based Zambian media mediocre. Your story doesn’t hold because to you Sata is an evil man who emerged as a poor savage with no education and deceitfully convinced the entire Zambia to vote for him in 2011. You are a joker. Come back to Zambia and write these things on our soil based on reality. not day dreaming in some foreign library
Sata came into power on the premises of lies and now he has been hailed in death as the best thing that ever happened to Zambia, how hypocritical is that. I can’t stand this and am glad it’s over!! Hope we have learnt a lesson and won’t repeat the mistake, even if some commentators will think he did well in his short term presidency. Truth is he lied and continued to lie as president (along with those that surrounded him). Also lied about his state of health to leave those that praised him devastated. That wasn’t nice! People should never be lied to that is the message which is why he could not prevail beyond a certain point. Sorry but that is a fact. He used all resources to stay alive but could not manage. Question is what was the cost?
Give up Eustace..
Give me an example of a president that promised and delivered on all their campaign promises.
That is right? That is a foolhardy assumption from you once more.
You are judging a man for the last 3 year out of an incredible 40 years plus of being a government servant? move over..
Did he have to move mountains for you to give him his accord?
He did what all of us would do, use the best medical in a given situation at a given time.
Do not vilify a man you supported 3 years ago to take over from a tasteless rule in Banda.
Equally I challenge you to find a better President who has ruled us and is better than MS?
NO ONE.
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IWE PAUL I DON’T AGREE WITH YOUR STATEMENTS ,SAKWIBA JUST LOST IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH TRIBAL.AND BY THE WAY IF U LOOKED AT THE COMPOSITION OF THE PF CENTRAL COMMITTEE IT IS 80% BEMBA AND NO ONE HAS SAID LOUD ABOUT THE TRIBE WHY DO YOU ZAMBIANS HATE US KANSHI .US LOZIS AND TONGAS ARE SO HATED ,I THINK THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR A COUNTRY LERT US BE OBJECTIVE IN OUR ANALYSIS NOT SOWING SEEDS OF TRBALISM.IF IT IS BEMBAS IT IS OK WHEN IT IS LOZI IT IS NOT NO NO NO
Only *****s and morons types in caps.
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Lozis and Togas are all Zambians and most of them very hard working. I personally would like to see a president coming from these tribes for as long as he/she will stear the nation in a different path and balance the corridors of power by involving everyone regardless of tribe. HH is a young promising politician and he is working hard to market not only himself but his party manifesto, etc. But the only concern is, he might be surrounded by wrong advisers who want him to only look at his tribe when it comes to appointing key govnt positions. Is HH ready to take up such challenges??
This ***** of failure ex-disc jockey he is very fake and a biggest fool of fools.Who told you SATA was illiterate and was voted by the illiterate.We know u are failures
Economical Refugees.Still struggling with your so called Phd because you are dull.Utulundalama mwakwete ego mwabonfeshe ukwila ku USA .Iam very annoyed Chiwala cobe wabi itole!!
May God forgive me but I have told you the truth
I short sata was a bully,a psychologist who specialized in poornization,he used all means to get what he wanted.he played the horse carrot formula well and it ended well as he was buried like a king of zamunda.
Should have read in short
You are the buggers who mislead Whites which Historian which research have you done fool.I have never insulted in a very long time I mean 20 years but Iam very annoyed disgusted with your writing to day I wanted to deliver my message.After all a poor Economic Refugee in US.We know you fool
Ruwe, please just go and campaign for your sister Grace Mugabe. You have totally no input in Zambia and therefore your warped opinion are not welcome. you are just like a gnat, a total nuisance when we have something important to attend to; stopping another imitator like you (HH) from trying to hoodwink his way to plot 1. God forbid.
Are we (majority Zambians)better off today than 3 years ago?80% of the population will say NO,10% will say Not sure and 10% with say YES.this is my opinion based on facts from friends in the civil servant,relatives and most of the business community.
Very true, the answer is nooooooooooooooooooo..
…with me it matters less…whether hero or villain….he is gone and buried. The writer would do me good to do a research and come up with a write up as long as this article the profiles of each and every candidate who will successfully lodge in nominations for the highest office of the land…..that may be a worthy reading time and so useful to me and a few others unlike those blinded by party allegiance….
…so what if the man swept the floors of Victoria stn, was a policeman in colonial era or what have you….the summit or rather the bottom line is that he happened to be the fifth republican president of the Republic of Zambia…and that has been sealed in history…
…now lets move on…please tell us about the candidates contesting in forth coming bye-elections
The problem with some tribes is that they will only apreciate what comes from their tribe. sata’s projects are every where. 32 districts and 2 provincial centers in 3 years. Go to choma and see if sata never did anything. Go lungu Gooo! patriotic zambians will vote you
Peter you talk sense.
PF brought developments countrywide
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Sata was a hero….! Period.very organized found other parties existing, outrun them got to state house and do things that other administrations failed to in many years of their rule. We will miss the cobra.
Things ‘like’?
Going to State House alone doesn’t make one a hero… I refuse to call Sata my hero. Shameful as it may sound, my hero is a foreigner… his name is Nelson Mandela. My other hero is of course the only one who rose from the death for my sins… his name is Jesus Christ.
surely can you talk about HH this time when PF has transformed this country? Ask the lowest civil servant what they are geting with one increament from PF How many roads and bridges has PF workd on? How many hospitals built in 3 years? WHAT HAS HH DONE IN OPOSITION WHICH WE CAN POINT AT? lets learn to apreciate
@Gondwe,what work sata did while in opposition on which Zambians voted,?
Spot on Gondwe.
PF has worked tirelessly and they are the right party to move us forward
I wholeheartedly agree with you
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Hah we don’t compare a president with opposition. A president is judged on his overall performance, good governance, national unit, economy, justice, law and order. Sata start the infrastructure programme but piled the biggest debt ever raised wages but the effects r being felt. Ruined what Mwanawasa started and now we r back to square 1. Wage free as in debt cancellation time.
He was a hero kicked out MMD after 20 years of nothing but disaster in 20 years of MMD we saw leaders that made the airspace there home fashion
design shoes and clothes billions of kwacha been
buried underground when poor women with kids
were suffering two meals a day was a miracle borrowed money used for luxurious life
style development only seen when the elections
are near even to name airports historic building
roads after a freedom fighters was an issue but
angle Michael came on power things change
at least we can see the borrowed money working
which was not the case in MMD its like we have
just started too bad is no more for most heartless
people CHAOPENE
@bigben,who is a better parent,the one who leaves U with a big massion on morgage or a parent who leaves behind a sizeable debt free house,so that his grandchildren will not bear the debt.mmd left a manageable debt and a £2.5billion in reserves,mcs left £5•7billion on domestic and foreign debt
No dollars in reserves.
How are roads, hospitals and universities going to pay off the debt burden??? This sort of superficial reasoning will lead us nowhere. The majority of Zambians will reason like bigben and that sadly is the end of it. Pf did not work miracles to borrow money and waste it on non capital ventures.
A resounding ‘VILLAIN‘…. but I believe his presidency was hijacked by his illness and people who are ‘more’ villain than he was. He surrounded himself by crooks and selfish individuals of all colours and hues, including the ruthless ‘cartel’. Who knows he could have turned out to be the greatest president had his presidency never been hijacked. However, we can only judge him by his record and his record is terrible, no matter how one would want to sugar-coat it.
St$%id id%$ts! The man is trying to help you so that you don’t make the same mistake you made in 2011 of electing a non starter into State House in the name of “an of action”. Lok at candidates’ background.
The article has provided an accurate portrait of Sata in every detail. He had all the satanic qualities that catapults him straight into the ranks of the most diabolic of the world’s evil people. It’s impossible to find any redeeming feature in his cruel nature.
Field Ruwe: the man so full of himself that he quotes himself in his writings.
“In that article I wrote, blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah bl!” Therefore, what I am telling you now is true!
To Mr (wannabe Dr) Field Ruwe, Rueters and New York Times are “the world”. Sitting in front of some computer somewhere in America, he expects to do better research on African Presidents than the people in Africa, for he assumes everything in Africa finds itself on the Internet like it does elsewhere. This man is dull, hey?
Nuf said!
Zambia buried a great leader yesterday.
This will be the 4th time HH will be defeated at the polls! poor guy! He will set the record of the most Presidential loses in Zambian History!
If your plan is to continue with Don’t Kubeba, I am afraid this is not the way to go. Don’t Kubeba means continue ruling by deceit and trickery. Is it as good/bad as ruling by cheating God’s people………..Wrong chaps playing on our minds. Now we need to take stock of the family tree and see how much plunder was inflicted on all of us!!!!
To get into office, don’t Kubeba, To govern, Don’t Kubeba, You become sick, Don’t Kubeba, When you die, don’t Kubeba…….What type of Party is this????? The choice is is yours Mushota…..you must continue hiding everything. We need a transparent government and leadership…..
Field Ruwe if you think your tonga man will get to state house you will see,
Do you mean to say the majority of registered voters where foolish to vote for him?why didnt you decampaign him and write all this when he was alive? we are not interested anymore, the man came and showed that anything in life is possible. you have to make it by all means….he worked hard, he earned it…regardless of what you say. everyone has a dark side to them INCLUDING YOU. just because u can mistreat human beings at a micro level doesnt make you better than sata. the good thing is whatever mistakes of mistreating zambias, he made up for infrastructure development we see in rurual areas. u in USA, u dont see what is happeneing in rural zambia? you just in USA enjoying neo colonialists money..SHAME ON YOU
He was a Hero in all his dealings!!!
Leave SATA alone you hypocrite Ruwe. What field are you. DUAL
Field Ruwe I have said this before and I will say it again about you. You sit there comfortably in a land where other people worked hard and you want their trappings of wealth without working for it. You may be educated (night school) but Sata was a million times more educated and civilized than you, a deserter, refugee, beggar. Your article has failed to shamelessly acknowledge the contributions that Sata made to this country. I would rather be ruled by Sata even a million times as bad as you portray him than be ruled by any of your guys hibernating in other people’s country. You have no shame.
Field Ruwe I have said this before and I will say it again about you. You sit there comfortably in a land where other people worked hard and you want their trappings of wealth without working for it. You may be educated (night school) but Sata was a million times more educated and civilized than you, a deserter, refugee, beggar. Your article has failed to shamelessly acknowledge the contributions that Sata made to this country. I would rather be ruled by Sata even a million times as bad as you portray him than be ruled by any of your guys hibernating in other people’s country. You have no shame
You are wrong here, and I mean it. You should give Sata kudos. Villain? I say no by far. Hero? Neither. Perhaps you can say he was a clever politician who made you believe. Go back into history books and read about Bismark of Prussia, pre-Germany. I know it is painful but necessary to accept that he bullied his way through to stardom. He may have lacked the acumen and qualities of what you perceive a leader should have. But what he lacked; education that is-he used his street-smart to survive and lead all the educated Zambians. In my humble opinion, Sata was clever, manipulative and above all cantankerous. I have read about villains Sata not close. Sata would not even kill a fly. He cleverly shied into a cocoon when in state house no interviews why? you could have exposed his inabilities!
Not a hero definitely, so I guess there is only one other description of our departed dictator.
Ati, Sata was hiding his background? When he married Dr. Sata he told her “He went to “Field Ruwe School of Journalism” and that he was never a common man before, he never worked in London (a humble job) and never was a policeman (because according to the Field Ruwe School of Journalism) every policeman is low class and “sub-mental” that is why Sata was hiding this! Did you ask him and he hid it from you but he did hide it from me? Also according to this school, no one has a bad side but every leader must and should have only a good side (that is be God!) And Ruwe is the man! Vote for Field Ruwe, will be the best President Zambia has ever had!
This Ruwe guy is useless.
no one can cheat us about the thief called hh. we know how they acquired their wealth. give us some time they will be exposed.
Field Ruwe DJ FAILURE FAILURE FAILURE Economic Refugee At your age Ndiwe Cipuba Maningi at that old Age you run away because of being a failure ***** Big Fool.You failed to make it in Zambia even when there was not any competition at that time.Tuma half twa Car Hire mwadyela mwatabila na ku US as Economic Refugee and today you want to say clap sheet.We expect youths to go into Diaspora to learn the whitemans vices and come and implement them back home.Not you at that age
nothing to offer Zed just surviving on status of bein an Economic Refugee ndiwe Chipuba maningi ukabwele cabe Failure tuziba munvela nsoni ku bwela ati iliko bad bantu banakamba mulibe vocita thus dis fake articles because you are looking for a Job from our HH.Get a life Fool moron nincompoop Mazi yako Masipa…