Opposition Green Party leader Peter Sinkamba says the current dispute surrounding the hike in the subscription fees by Multi-Choice Zambia is the price citizens will have to pay for failing to “ think outside the box.”
Commenting on upward spiral decision by the digital satellite provider on subscription fees, Mr. Sinkamba says it was disheartening a foreign company would snub and tell off government the manner in which DSTV did.
“Come to think of it Zambia was a leading country in Africa in terms of ICT decades ago. We were the first country in Southern Africa to set up a television station.
“ Our first TV station was set up in Kitwe in 1961. South Africa did not have a TV station until 1976. And today, a South African TV company can afford to tell-off Government?” Mr. Sinkamba wondered.
The opposition leader said this on his Facebook blogger today.
And Mr. Sinkamba has implored on citizens to think outside the box and do things differently if they were to lift themselves out of poverty.
He has noted with great dismay Zambia’s massive potential which was yet to be tapped.
The GP has stirred up debate in the recent past with his grand proposals of setting up a marijuana exporting hub, a project he says will generate colossal sums of foreign exchange for the Zambian treasury.
Zambians are nice people..even if you slap one..they will apologise for being slapped…
fwamukola mambala
Jonijo you crack my ribs! Indoctrination that we make a peaceful nation has in fact made us……………!
I used to think Zambians are nice people, but they are stupid people.
Bible yalibatoba imitwe abena Zambia. They waste more time praising an imaginary foreign god, than being devoted to (materially) productive work.
WHO TELLS YOU THAT THE BIBLE STOPS PEOPLE FROM DEVELOPING? IS IT NOT THE SAME BIBLE THAT SOUTH AFRICANS READ WHICH THE ZAMBIANS ALSO READ? IS IT NOT THE SAME BRAIN THAT GOD GAVE TO BOTH SOUTH AFRICANS AND ZAMBIANS? WHY THE DIFFERENCE? EVEN WHEN THEY WERE UNDER SUNCTIONS SOUTH AFRICA WAS BETTER OFF THAN ZAMBIA. SINKAMBA IS RIGHT. WE NEED TO START THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX AND ALSO TO CHANGE OUR MIND SET.
OUR PROBLEM IS THAT ZAMBIANS SUFFER FROM THE DEPENDENCE SYNDROME. THEY THINK THAT SOME ONE ELSE OWES THEM A LIVING. THEY THINK THAT THEIR LIFE DEPENDS ON THEIR LEADERS HENCE THE BLIND ALLENGIANCE TO USELESS PEOPLE WHO FIND THEMSELVES IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS.
It is true ba Zambia start changing. Let us find more digital tv providers. The choice is ours. Let us stop being fooled by stupid foreigners.
Someone from the greedy section of society could be behind this unjustified increase in order to fatten their pockets more. Have you forgotten how RB turned state house into negotiation den for Airtel deals with his children. Who knows how much shares they got and why this nation is the only expensive in services. As long as zambians do not stand up and fight against this, we will continue complaining even in dream because no one from the government will stand for us. They only talk when in opposition and once elected they forget because they get free services.
Don t mourn too much about DSTV hike, just look at our Kwacha, soon it will be other companies like Zesco fuel etc
It’s not just dstv. Zambians supported the move to hike the mineral royalty tax. When gvnt sold all the mines in Zambia, did anyone benefit anything from the realised income? What makes u think u will get anything from the hiked mineral royalty tax? Not even a month has passed when I told u that people will lose jobs and govt will not defend anyone coz you lose yo job as an individual. What has govt done to prevent the job loses that are going on ?
even if multichoice increased the rate to K3,000.00 per month, brainwashed and colonial minded zambians who think watching below par english premier league is being a modern ape, will still pay. Look at how many zambians -old and young, have taken to watching such a low quality league as if they benefit anything. other more primitive ones, fight and insult each other over useles chelsea,arsenal, MANU and MANC. May be this will make zambia less noisier from useless EPL games.
Dstv price hike effect, ceteris paribus, will result into less clients paying for the service,downgrading of bouquets meaning less income earned and eventually a bad publicity that ‘ll scurry clients away.Government policy will surely thwart monopoly and ‘chew’ into the profits through promotion of new players on the markets- poor planning,focussing and mediocre management!
In kabwata or libala somewhere there, some company started cable transmission and the quality of that service was superb, but I don’t know what has happened to them. Am sure as usual they have been blocked by multi choice because they were offering similar services like dstv.
they started on a good note and when I asked one of the guys (rep) he told me they had ordered very big equipment for expansion, but up to now ni john cena , multi choice has done its best to block them. They were using cable and no decorder involved. monopoly will kill us now nothing else.
Wyes we are f00lish. That’s why we never have a credible gvt. We are useless naive and cowards. We sing to have no civil war just because we r cowards. If we were brave we would have booted Chiluba, booted sata out within a year and even now we would have booted ECL or he wouldn’t even have dared stand as president. Only the highly competent people with high calibre would’ve stood
Zambians are a lost cause, why are we busy petitioning this useless DSTV nonsense but we are quiet as the economy takes a downturn and resources are being mismanaged, why are we so petty mwe bantu?
Maybe it’s time Zambians started doing some reading and personal development with the time spent watching tv.
So they set up a tv station in 1961 and then what happened.?
They sat back and have been forever happy with one very poor channel. That is Zambia for you where even engineers are nothing but mere repairmen.
In 1961 it was the Boers who set up the TV station…in 1964 they ran away to SA where they set up Multi Choice! 50 yrs. down the line we are still complaining
Comrade sinkamba never get high on your own supply.matter of fact I need sum dobo
In 1961 it was the Boers who set up the TV station…in 1964 they ran away to SA where they set up Multi Choice! 50 yrs. down the line we are still complaining!