Friday, March 29, 2024

Willie Nsanda is irreplaceable-Davies Chama

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Casket for the late Mr. Willie Nsanda
Casket for the late Mr. Willie Nsanda

Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary General Davies Chama has described the late Willie Nsanda as a lively and effective strategist whom the party will find difficult to replace.

Mr Chama said PF was greatly indebted to the late Nsanda and would miss him as he was a cardinal asset to the party.

He was speaking at the requiem mass held for the late Nsanda at Thom Kight Chapel in Johannesburg this afternoon.

Mr. Chama said Mr. Nsanda was a strong and dependable leader in whom other politicians saw immense value.

“He was truly action-oriented and passionately a man of the people. The party has indeed lost a gallant fighter who will be greatly missed. On behalf of the President, we are greatly saddened by the loss of Mr. Nsanda,” said Chama.

And Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa Muyeba Chikonde said those who came into contact with the late Nsanda will always have fond memories and miss him.

The church service was also attended by the late Nsanda’s father, other family members, Zambians living in Gauteng Province and staff from the High Commission.

This is according to a statement made available to ZANIS by Press Secretary at the Zambian High Commission in South Africa, Nicky Shabolyo.

Mr Nsanda said in Millpark hospital in Johannesburg on Tuesday after an illness and his body will be flown back to Zambia on Sunday, March 29.

President Edgar has declared Monday, March 30 a day of national mourning in honour of Mr Nsanda who was PF Central Committee member and also served as a deputy minister in the MMD government when he was Member of Parliament for Chimwemwe constituency in Kitwe, where he served for two terms.

L-R: PF member of the Central Committee, Mr. Samuel Mukupa, PF Secretary General, Mr. Davies Chama; Mr. Willie Nsanda (Senior), and Mr. Andrew Kachibe, cousin to the late Mr. Nsanda at the church service.
L-R: PF member of the Central Committee, Mr. Samuel Mukupa, PF Secretary General, Mr. Davies Chama; Mr. Willie Nsanda (Senior), and Mr. Andrew Kachibe, cousin to the late Mr. Nsanda at the church service.
L-R: PF member of the Central Committee, Mr. Samuel Mukupa, PF Secretary General, Mr. Davies Chama; Mr. Willie Nsanda (Senior), and Mr. Andrew Kachibe, cousin to the late Mr. Nsanda at the church service.
L-R: PF member of the Central Committee, Mr. Samuel Mukupa, PF Secretary General, Mr. Davies Chama; Mr. Willie Nsanda (Senior), and Mr. Andrew Kachibe, cousin to the late Mr. Nsanda at the church service.
Zambia's High Commissioner to South Africa, His Excellency Mr. Muyeba Chikonde.
Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa, His Excellency Mr. Muyeba Chikonde.
 PF Secretary General, Mr. Davies Chama speaks at the church service
PF Secretary General, Mr. Davies Chama speaks at the church service
Father James Ralston blesses the late Mr. Willie Nsanda's casket
Father James Ralston blesses the late Mr. Willie Nsanda’s casket
PF Secretary General, Mr. Davies Chama pays his last respects
PF Secretary General, Mr. Davies Chama pays his last respects
PF Secretary General, Mr. Davies Chama pays his last respects
PF Secretary General, Mr. Davies Chama pays his last respects
Member of the Central Committee, Mr. Samuel Mukupa pays his last respects.
Member of the Central Committee, Mr. Samuel Mukupa pays his last respects.
Zambia's High Commissioner to South Africa, His Excellency Mr. Muyeba Chikonde, pays his last respects
Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa, His Excellency Mr. Muyeba Chikonde, pays his last respects
Mr. Willie Nsanda Sr, father to the late Mr. Willie Nsanda, pays his last respects
Mr. Willie Nsanda Sr, father to the late Mr. Willie Nsanda, pays his last respects
Mr. Willie Nsanda Sr with family members
Mr. Willie Nsanda Sr with family members
 Mr. Willie Nsanda Sr breaks down after viewing his son's body
Mr. Willie Nsanda Sr breaks down after viewing his son’s body
Zambia's Deputy High Commissioner to South Africa, Mr. Joe Kaunda pays his last respects
Zambia’s Deputy High Commissioner to South Africa, Mr. Joe Kaunda pays his last respects
Solemn Mr. Willie Nsanda Senior
Solemn Mr. Willie Nsanda Senior

63 COMMENTS

  1. I wish it was Edgar Lungu in that casket.

    lungu is the most useless president to have ever ruled Zambia after Rupiah Banda.

    • But can Chishimba Kambwili the spokesman for anything tell us the truth.

      When is HIV/AIDS taking Edgar Lungu away from us? We are tired of his poor Leadership and selective justice.

      Please Embassy Park, do us a favour.

    • AND NOT YOURSELF? THE PEOPLE YOU WISH TO DIE LIKE A DEVIL, WILL NOT DIE AT THE TIME YOU WANT THEM TO DIE. IN FACT YOU MAY DIE SOONER THAN THEM.

    • Ba LT edit your work please “Mr Nsanda said in Millpark hospital in Johannesburg on Tuesday after an illness and his body will be flown back to Zambia on Sunday, March 29”.

      MHSRIEP-PF will miss you including GBM your ….

    • @#1 Danny, but walitumpa eee… and why LT is allowing you to smear such comments? No one ever wished your father death, for manufacturing a defective human being like you. If we were such evil we could just send akalumba….
      We make fun of Edgar because of “tribal cousin”, and that he is a PF.

    • Danny, my brother, this is bad. Please behave like a normal human being and not the way you are portraying yourself here. Death is death, no matter whom it strikes it’s always painful. Nsanda was and is still someone’s loved one. He was and is still a son, uncle, father, cousin, comrade, fellow politician, husband, you name it. This could be anybody and it could be you. How do you think those that love you would feel when someone passes a comment like you’ve done here if it were you or your father lying in that casket? Have a heart, my brother, and that’s all I can tell you. I pray that God may touch your heart of stone and that in His mercy, He may make it soft and more humane. Bless you, my brother…you really need special prayers.

    • Danny, you have called a spade a spade not a big spoon but your list is incomplete. Zambia has had six presidents and you have only rated two.

    • When one wishes death on another, the response from the other person’s friends is, “you will die first…” or something like that.

      Let’s assume for a moment that their wish came true. Would that prove anything?

      Most Zambians are lazy thinkers! If they think at all.

  2. Mr. Chama didn’t say the late was irreplaceable but that he was “a lively and effective strategist whom the party will find difficult to replace.” Meaning they will replace him with someone else!

    • Ba LT, when showing dead bodies, please include a disclaimer so that we know we will be seeing someone in a casket. Show a closed casket instead.
      Please rich people make sure you take you ARV’s everyday. No hospital in the World will save you with CD4 count of 2 with all your organs failing. Ati prostate cancer. Ubufi bwekabweka. Now you live your children suffering because all your amassed health has been spent treating Your AIDS ridden body abroad!

  3. I am happy that all corrupt Leaders will be buried one by one.

    I have no mercy for the death of corrupt leaders.

    • Because you are already dead,

      Once you start hallucinating that way, then know that you are to follow even if you are not a leader.

    • And you too, Hilda, your time will come whether you are a leader or not. Muzinkalako na mutima wa umunthu and be real, my sister. This is reality for all of us whether we like it or not. Good leader or not…death will be our final destination.

  4. In our culture we always hold a certain level of reverence and respect for those that have passed on. Please let us all show some restraint and respect. As much as some of us disagreed with his politics it is important to note that as a person Mr Nsanda contributed in his own way to the lives of those he cared for. MHSRIP.

    • Which culture? The thieving Bemba culture? We do not have a single culture. That’s why we have polarisation in Zambia because some cultures are chaotic and klepomaniacal while others are hardworking and orderly. Don’t force feed us with your rubbish katcha.

  5. It is not in our culture as Zambians regardless of ethnicity, to continue insulting a person even in his death. I think we need to start practising mature politics. As things are going I am afraid we may create a great division that will be difficult to reverse. Some people need to grow up and begin to accept reality

    • Which reality? That the thieving and chaotic Bemba culture has taken over? Some of us reject this in its entirety. There’s no single culture in Zambia. And we are not destined to convert to kleptomania and chaos.

  6. ……….ofcourse every human being is unique in a way and as such he or she may be indispensable……even the Germans have ‘failed’ to find another Hitler….most of the times its only those so close who may appreciate the value (or vice versa) of some-one…..fortunately or unfortunately the general thumb rule on the deceased is that we seal off all the negatives and only focus on the positives….
    RIP Willie…..

  7. …and Jesus said”let the one with clean hands be the first one to through a stone a her”
    Do not judge before you are judged.
    R. I. P Mr Nsanda.

  8. All factors constant, we are human beings and africans to be precise. Humanity and culture dictates that we respect the departed (and by extension their families). Death knows no boundary. Place yourself in the circumstances.

  9. REST IN PEACE HON WILLIE CHISANGA NSANDA THE SECOND WCN2….TILL WE MEET AGAIN…MAY GOD RECEIVE YOUR BEAUTIFUL SOUL….

  10. All those crazy infidels wishing His Exellency ECL dead shall be the first ones to die. His (ECL) presidency is a seriuos calling from God, kwasila! God bless the soul of Comrade Nsanda.
    RIP sir!

  11. Comrade @12,

    Your opinion is at variance with truth.
    You quickened death of late Sata by shielding him as fit as a fiddle, he is no more. When we advised you about his deteriorating health you branded us evil names in Bemba but truth came to pass. Chama just last week told the nation Nsanda was recovering well and laughing when he Chama visited him, shielding seriousness of Nsanda’s sickness, he is no more. Today you continue to shield president E C Lungu’s illness claiming he had a successful high tech operation in South Africa. Now we are told he is in Asia for meeting but we also know he has gone to seek for medical help.
    This you keep misinforming Zambians. Truth will find you out as it has/is haunting you. You have caused deaths of your own PF cadres. Sekelenimo.

  12. Sad to see son gone because . Zambians learn to live moral lives if you want to live longer. Condolences to the father and to the whole family

  13. You Zambians have a unique culture of stealing and praising thieves. Why are bembas so chaotic and kleptomaniac in the way they do things?

  14. Condolences to the family for loss of breawinner. Hope he repented! However, I wont miss him at all. Was violent, corrupt, theiving, foul mouthed/full of insults, immoral (grabbed son’s gilfriend and married her leading son to commit suicide). Little wonder Zambia has gone to the dogs with such characters having assumed leadership roles. What a Country!!!

  15. You continue to insult and label Bembas with all sorts of derogatory words even in death but you still want votes from them. Anyway we shall meet in 2016. Let me assure you that this time around we are all going to vote. Be ready for the worst defeat

    • Let the tribal upnd bloggers on here continue insulting the bemba tribes…
      Oh!! And they want the same bemba majority to vote for their janzakubele…
      Let them be made aware that my mbuyas and us here from the east will adopt their nega-nega formula in 2016!

      Perpetual losers!!!

  16. Let us learn to live together brothers and sisters. We have a funeral. It’s true that no human being has ever been replaced by another. We are all unique in our own self as designed by God

  17. Is this not the man who recently was organising demonstrations against Mr. Guy Scott and throwing racist insults at him. I bet all those who insult what God created shall be judged him Him. God made all colours, He loves all colours and He wants His children to do the same. Ba Nsanda hope you rest in peace.

  18. In January, Just after lungu “won” PF presidency I saw a strong and energetic Willie Nsanda! And today he is in a casket!! We all have a last step which we cannot jump!

  19. Reading all the comments, PF and UPND both have a lot of work ahead of them. The two supporters are not seeing eye to an eye. That is not a good sign. Yes, politicians have planted a bad seed of calling others tribal and others have gone ahead in selectively appointing people from their own regions, however, we as a people in general we must fight tribalism. For those in power, in this case PF, they must still make a deliberate move to accommodate those who do not vote for them. Otherwise, at this rate of frustrations, we stand a high chance to be polarized further. People on both sides of the line of divide must tone down, timely warning.

  20. Most comments from upnd stinking pigs realy show that they are merchants of death! No wonder their so called leader is a well known prince of Darkness! God have mercy on these lost souls!

  21. This is too much coverage for one dead shameless corrupt cadre who was cancer to much of the corruption at RDA..sadly we will never retrieve any of the loot like all looters it will for ever locked away in bank accounts abroad. Everyone is going to die it how you will be remembered that matters. Good riddance to Nsanda.

    LT we are more interested in what President Lazy is doing at this moment in China, we need to keep a close eye on him.

  22. So Bembas respect for dead criminals. Nsanda would have been executed a long time by lethal injection if he was living in the Western countries. He was corrupt and a thug who sponsored too many violent acts. May his soul repent before it is sent to hell. His victims of violence will remember this thugs as the most useless life that has ever lived on earth.

    Caution, please Lusaka Times edit your work before posting it online. This particular paragraph is laughable:

    “Mr Nsanda said in Millpark hospital in Johannesburg on Tuesday after an illness and his body will be flown back to Zambia on Sunday, March 29”.

    Ifintu nimfwa.

  23. Politics aside. My heart goes to the family especially the father to the late. I’m touched by Mr Nsanda senior’s picture. May the family find comfort in God’s presence.

  24. God Bless Willie Nsanda with Peace Eternal.

    May God Bless His Family with Comfort in their time of great sorrow. May the Life he was to them be of great joy to them and that even in their sorrow they rejoice at the great gift he was.

    We ask all these in Jesus Name. Amen

  25. Bemba is just a language widely spoken on the copperbelt, luapula, central and northern provinces. It is not that all who speak bemba especially on CB are bembas! You keep insulting bembas and how do you expect them to vote for you in 2016! Fine, we will meet you in 2016 and I can rest assure you if you continue with this hatred your man will never enter State house, not even in a 100 years! Accept that you are the minority! That’s a FACT!

  26. Its perpetual grieving for PF, reaping what they saw.
    PF thieves can not have both ways, neither a thieving tribe. A day of reckoning is always hanging over them. At a blink of an eye, grief overtakes them.
    Solution: Reform and repent, be truthful, honest and stop thieving and live lives that are transparent.

  27. Unless Mr. Hakaivotela Humwine comes out in the open strongly condemning the tribal comments of his tribesmen, even in 2016, hr will live up to his name! Humwine Hakaivotela Hagain Hand Hagain!

  28. its not right to be pointing and saying rubbish words in such a situation. only a devil can wish some one dead. MYSRIET Mr. Nsanda till we meet again on the other side.david

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