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Only Intellectuals will vote for UPND-Mumbi Phiri

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PF Deputy Secretary General Mumbi Phiri
PF Deputy Secretary General Mumbi Phiri

Ruling PF Deputy Secretary General Mumbi Phiri has charged that only the intellectuals will vote for the UPND in the 2016 general elections.

Mrs Phiri said the UPND has failed to convince the majority of Zambians because it is only for the intellectuals.

She said the PF is confident heading into the 2016 general elections because it is the only political party with a clear message for the ordinary Zambian.

She was speaking last evening when she featured on ZNBC’s Sunday Interview TV programme.

‘The 2016 elections will be about everything, let the best candidate win. As PF we are very ready.”

‘They will continue appealing to the intellectuals, the elite and they will continue losing elections, for us, the PF is a party for the real people,’ she said.

‘2016 will be about people, it will be about everything. Identify a talent which God has given you to mix with the Kings, it doesn’t say through your academics, you will shake hands with Kings,’ she said.

She added, ‘The 2016 elections will be about everything, let the best candidate win. As PF we are very ready.”

‘In the UPND, you have a member of Parliament like Hon. Jack Mwiimbu who demeans Marketeers in his debate in Parliament. If anything, me as a Marketeer will take on Hon. Mwiimbu and the UPND in the 2016 election campaigns for that careless statement,’ she said.

‘We will go out and tell our fellow Marketeers that the UPND is not the party for you. It is a party for the intellectuals and not the common person and we will see how that will go.’

Mrs Phiri also accused some traditional leaders in Southern Province of promoting tribalism by propping up the UPND.

HH called my late President Michael Sata a Chimbwi No plan, did you hear Bisa or Bemba Chiefs call for a meeting?’

‘Why is it that only the Chiefs from Southern Province are the ones to talk about tribe? We had late President Mwanawasa who was called a Cabbage, did you see Lamba Chiefs call for a meeting to discuss that issue? Even Rupiah Banda, we called him Nyama Soya, did you see Nkhosi call for a meeting? HH called my late President Michael Sata a Chimbwi No plan, did you hear Bisa or Bemba Chiefs call for a meeting?’

‘The Chiefs from Southern Province were so quick to call for a Cuudu Caitwa over my Kachema remarks because they are interested in tribalism. What is even worse, a Kachema or a Chimbwi? A Chimbwi is an animal without a plan but that is what they used to call late President Sata.

107 COMMENTS

  1. It is all about leadership. Lungu and PF are mediocre…Rwanda has been ranked as Africa’s most efficient government followed by Mauritius and South Africa in the Global Competitive Report 2014-2015.

    The country was also ranked the 7th most efficient government globally. The latest report, released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Monday, put the small central African nation ahead of Malaysia, Switzerland and Luxembourg, which are placed 8th, 9th and 10th, respectively.

    • If intellectuals are incapable of wrestling power from the mentally challenged then surely they can’t be intellectuals, can they? You all seem to underestimate brain power which is why you appear too incline to pursue humility & anointing. The intellectuals fund many so many lives of the common man from that medical emergency, school fees to the small capital injection in that market business. Brain power rules make no mistake about that friends & if Mumbi thinks f000lisshness is a gift from God, then let her watch the learn. Use your gift from God too folks, lean on them to vote how you please, use that brain power, it is a gift from God & no less than fo00lishness!

    • So 2016 elections will be determined between bakaponya and bakachema. PF are clearly against farmers and the diversified productive sectors. Instead they support marketeers and miners. No wonder agriculture is going nowhere in Zambia. Will miners continue thanking PF for the job losses and bakaponya for the volatile and high prices?

    • This silly woman maybe an empty tin with her outdated style of politicking…but what she has done here; is throw a spanner in the works and everyone who is so called intelligent has taken the bait; she knows the so called intelligent fox will debate till the cows come home thereby isolating and confusing the poor majority with their language…she will turn around to them and brand herself and her party as the party for the poor and the working man.

    • Kikikiki kwena this woman has handled you kikiki. She has us fooled and we are now arguing about intellectualism. We now like, “am an intellectual, am an intellectual.” meanwhile, she goes to campaign and distracts us from the real issues. Africans get over these white titles and labels. Thousands of PhDs in subjects that dont even benefit your own people. Thousands of intellectuals who can only perform in a white mans construct. Intellectual or not,marketeer or not, we are zambians, africans demanding the very best from our leaders. Good policies and governance that will reward us with a good life. No loadshedding, no comodity price sky rocketing. Thats what we want. Not dividing us with some jargon from the white man.

    • I have no faith in intellectuals, including myself. It’s the intellectuals in MMD who ruined the country after taking over from Kaunda and his uneducated political colleagues. These intellectuals in MMD were hiding behind Kafupi, another grade 9. Had Kafupi surrounded himself with fellow uneducated politicians we probably wouldn’t have ended up in this mess.

  2. Mumbi Phiri, indeed, hate her or love her, this woman is actually a smart POLITICIAN. I actually like her a lot because she really cuts to chase and ignore all the BS that most politicians are full of. She tells it as it is..no political correctness, she gives it to you as it is and that is a quality found in confident politicians who know where their two feet stands.

    She is right, no intellectual in their right mind can ever vote for PF, In fact PF was voted into power by the majority dull Kaponyas, hence the Govt of Kaponyas by Kaponyas for Kaponyas.

    And the Bad news for a lot of us and UPND is that Kaponyas are still the majority. So, she is right love her or hate her. That is the reality

    • This should not even be something to be proud of in this era, why not advocate for education and literacy for all Zambians and be like developed countries who have high literacy levels. It is unethical to take advantage of people’s lack of education.

    • And by talking like that about the kaponya’s, you actually think you’re winning more people to UPND’s side? Think again!

  3. Where has the PF gone wrong? Someone to help me. BaMumbi I am an intellectual and I will vote for lungu. Those who want to pretend its their right and no one can stop the. UPND is going no where and that is the fact you have to live with. Dream and pretend its your right

    • Constructing few roads here and there is not development. Development is all about people’s quality of life and this includes access to quality education and health care etc. Our so called development in Zambia is fake and meant only to hoodwink illiterates like you and other extremely dull PF cadres. The PF is the cause of the current suffering in Zambia. Its not global. Prices of goods and services are increasing all over the place, schools have tripled their fees, mines are retrenching workers and there is no electricity in the country. At how much are we buying mealie meal now because of this failed PF? The exchange rate is now K10.60 to $1 and K15 to a pound. Inflation has gone up to 19.5 percent from 7 percent a few months ago. And this is when the so called Government of the poor…

  4. Surely how do you blame govt for low copper price, poor rainfall pattern and decisions made by owners of mines which PF did not sell. Keep on dreaming and dream bigger

    • Peters you must be cr.azy. Yes the collapse of the Chinese economy has had an effect on the kwacha and copper prices but this effect has only been to aggravate the situation. The true culprit in the slaughter of the Zambian economy is PF. While the kwacha has been losing value since 2011, the effect of the Chinese economy only started to be felt 3 months ago. Even Lungu himself when appointing Dr. Kalyalya as BOZ Governor in February 2015, acknowledged that the kwacha was dead and thus requested Kalyalya to ‘find the magic’ for the falling kwacha. And since the past two days the kwacha has appreciated, why claim that Lungu is working when the depreciation and appreciation is global?

    • @peters…an intellectual is above cadreism reasonin.we are think tanks and analyse issues taking in every small details into consideration.why do PF say HH sold the mines?are economic woes the country is facing not self inflicted?and doesn’t govt has weather and climate analysts who could tell them that rainfall pattern is no longer reliable?all these questions u can answer them.

    • @Peters awe ba Peters we don’t blame PF for bloated government (Poor Fellows need a job!), closure of mines and industries (they were chewing profits alone!), turning once beautiful city Lusaka into a ghetto (we have given free trading places), high foreign currency deficit (we shall get more Kwacha per Dollar even though our exports dont even go up! No we dont blame PF! We blame ourselves period! Mwanya nomba tamwaka yi mone!

    • The Government is not being blamed for poor copper prices. They are being blamed for BEING TOO DULL TO UNDERSTAND THAT PRICES GO UP AND COME DOWN!

      The Government is not being blamed for low rainfall. They are being blamed for BEING TOO STUP!D TO THINK OF IRRIGATED CROPS AND IMPROVING HYDROELECTRICS TO MAKE THEM WORK EVEN IN DRY YEARS.

      The Government is not being blamed for decisions taken by the mines. It is being blamed for making *****ic and nonsensical statements that erode investor confidence and flip flopping that has destroyed the business environment.

      IN SHORT, LUNGU AND HIS PF INCOMPETENTS FAILED BIG TME! THEY HAVE FCUKED ZAMBIA UP!

      Inflation, Kwacha depreciation, Mealie meal prices, and Government deficit and debt are there to prove it beyond any reasonable…

  5. UPND can carry on with quixotic adventurism which will make them cry in 2016. Marketeers please team up and teach the under five politicians a severe lesson. Remember the Nega Nega formula and apply it in your areas too

    • @ Chola bottomsoil You sound like one of the cadres that have been planted in the Zambian embassy.What has PF done to deserve continuity raising inflation to 100% and borrowing millions of USD my foot. How much is bread now?

    • I am not going to put food on these *****s table by giving them a vote when I don’t have food myself and the entire country. Marteteers plse how are you going send your kids to school when commodity prices are high including rentals

  6. Yes let the PF continue into power and Zambia will turn into a failed state. A party without intellectualls in this modern age? what does one expect? Ignorant leaders like Mumbi will take Zambia nowhere. These are leaders who can bring about genocide always talking about tribes. The fired policemen on the copperbelt were all tonga. A chief shouldnt complain when his subjects are targeted? As long as zambia remain divided by such leaders, nothing tangible will be achieved. HH did not insult the bemba people, he called Sata chimbwi no plan. RB was called nyama soya and not the people from the east and LPM was called cabbage and not the people from central pronvince. Mumbi called the people of southern province a deragatory name of “Kacheme”

  7. I ma an intellectual and I will vote for PF. Actually it is just the reporting which is misleading. PF is a party for the poor and UPND favours the rich. If you are not rich you do not belong to UPND but to PF if you are you belong to UPND. So let the poor vote for PF and the rich vote for UPND.

    • So how have poor people benefitted from PF? There are no jobs, inflation is going higher than 20%, powercuts everyday (OK, poor people are not on the grid and burn charcoal which is now even more expensive), no medicines in clinics etc. PF is the worst abuser of poor people.

  8. ‘They will continue appealing to the intellectuals, the elite and they will continue losing elections, for us, the PF is a party for the real people,’ said Mumbi Phiri. What does this mean? I am very saddened by these *****ic remarks because this bimbo is insulting our intelligence.

  9. MUMBI PHIRI YOU CALL JACK MWIIMBU CARELESS, BUT LOOK AT YOURSELF AND YOUR CARELESS RHETORIC. HOW DARE YOU ACCUSE OUR TONGA TRADITIONAL LEADERS, OUR CHIEFS OF PROMOTING TRIBALISM WHEN THEY ARE THE VICTIMS OF YOUR TRIBAL REMARKS IN PF AGAINST UPND AND THE TONGAS? THIS GIRL MUMBI IS A JOKER. PF INDEED HAS EMPTY HEADS. LOOK, SHE DOESN’T EVEN REALISE THAT SHE IS DECAMPAIGNING HER OWN PARTY IN HER CARELESS REMARKS ABOUT INTELLECTUALS. THIS GIRL MUMBI IS SIMPLY SAYING INTELLECTUALS DON’T VOTE FOR PF BECAUSE WE DON’T NEED YOUR VOTE, YOUR VOTE AS INTELLECTUALS BELONGS TO HH AND UPND.

  10. MUMBI PHIRI YOU CALL JACK MWIIMBU CARELESS, BUT LOOK AT YOURSELF AND YOUR CARELESS RHETORIC. HOW DARE YOU ACCUSE OUR TONGA TRADITIONAL LEADERS, OUR CHIEFS OF PROMOTING TRIBALISM WHEN THEY ARE THE VICTIMS OF YOUR TRIBAL REMARKS IN PF AGAINST UPND AND THE TONGAS? THIS GIRL MUMBI IS A JOKER. PF INDEED HAS EMPTY HEADS. LOOK, SHE DOESN’T EVEN REALISE THAT SHE IS DE CAMPAIGNING HER OWN PARTY IN HER CARELESS REMARKS ABOUT INTELLECTUALS. THIS GIRL MUMBI IS SIMPLY SAYING INTELLECTUALS DON’T VOTE FOR PF BECAUSE WE DON’T NEED YOUR VOTE, YOUR VOTE AS INTELLECTUALS BELONGS TO HH AND UPND. MUMBI YOU ARE A BIG MISPLACEMENT BY LUNGU. YOU AND LUNGU ARE PACKING AND GOING NEXT YEAR. VIVA HH VIVA! VIVA ZAMBIA VIVA! UPND IS FOR EVERY ZAMBIA WHO DESIRES TO SEE A BETTER ZAMBIA.

  11. People in Southern province are very tribalistic…..Mumbi Phiri is right.Why should some traditional leaders be in the forefront in promoting tribalism ? It is very evident that they are campaigning for HH.How many times in their lives have they made mistakes and others have forgiven them ? This hypocrisy should come to an end with immediate effect.

  12. Whatever Mumbi Phiri says is childish. She is preoccupied with staying in power at all cost. HH will win 2016 no matter how you rants. HH is being denied freedom of assembly and association and everyone knows this. Whenever he holds rallies he is teargassed and his supporters beaten by PF police cadres on orders from president Lungu and veep and this is genocide on the day police beat UPND supporters on CB and Western provinces. Lungu stole more than 1US$ million on the hired trip to USA where he feted dancers and musicians on taxpayers money. What a shame! This time around tribal talk will not help you because the wind of change is blowing across the country including where you come from.

  13. Am an intellectual dear deputy SG Mumbi and I can assure you that a lot of real intellectuals will too vote for President Lungu and PF. It’s simple, basically the thinking and ranting of HH and UPND has made real intellectuals wonder whether the man and his Party know anything about National economies.
    Given the time PF and in particular President Lungu has been in charge of our National affairs it’s clear that he knows what is doing going by his drive to develop Zambia steadily. Those who can’t distinguish external from internal forces but are full of pomp are the ones Zambians will continue to reject. So it’s ECL in 2016 just continue working delivering development its what matters.

    • What development is Lungu and PF going to deliver after the IMF visit? Haven’t you heard that Lungu has stopped all those so called development projects because there no money. I learn that there is no work going in on such things as the township roads that Lungu commissioned in Solwezi. It was just a campaign gimmick. There is no work going on the Mongu stadium that Sata commissioned. No signs of construction on the Livingstone Stadium. May be PF should come up with another line. Otherwise with the 50% + 1 arrangement someone will be a one-term president unless he borrows some brutality form his mentor south of the Zambezi.

  14. If Sata as an individual is called CNP; does that mean all Bembas are CNPs? I thought the statements attributed to Chama and Mumbi were directed at the tongas in general, not just HH; so the chiefs have got the right to be annoyed with insults to their subjects! One person should not equate to the entire tribe in this regard, though may represent it, in his/her own capacity. Shows the level of tribalism in our politics then! But more than that, shows the level of reasoning by our ruling party bigwigs! And with this kind of reasoning – you wonder why the global economy turmoils have had such an effect on Zambia – the country is completely exposed; unprotected!

  15. UPND is too tribal and they are using traditional leaders to promote this negative vice.Tribalism is evil……indeed what big offence did chama commit for him never to be forgiven.This is hypocrisy of the greatest order,

    • PF is for Bembas, although their project to use Lungu is failing as he wants his own people in govt. PF is the most tribal party in Zambia’s history. Since I am not Bemba, I will never vote for the PFools.

    • Zambia is being torn in two.The northern and western Rodesia(Barosteland)by PF tribalist. how can a person explain of the firing of senior police Officers on the coperbelt and the country at large.Tongas have silently been kicked out in many ministries.Is Zambia for all Zambians? Are going to fold our eyes pretending all is not ok.How can you feel to listen to a child from school asking you that Dad I will never be a president because you are Tonga and yet mum is Bemba.so only my cousins can be presidents? Its so shameful this dangerous type of tribalism that is being introduced in Zambia.PF has successfully institutionalized tribalism in all Government ministries. My question is Zambia a Christian nation ?Why cant we emulate Mandela who after winning presidency he embraced everyone…

  16. If she is saying that UPND is only for intellectuals, then she must be saying that PF is only for I diots. In this case, she is 100% right! Only an I diot would vote for PF. Welldone PF…carry on enslaving the uneducated masses in poverty!

  17. The chief MMD Bootlicker told us long time ago during RB’s years that PF is for Kaponyas. I don’t admire this woman though.

  18. Mumbi Phiri, you are demeaning majority Zambians. These our mothers and fathers, who are marketeers are indeed intellectuals. They can see between the lines. Ask RB, he will tell you. These same people have managed to put food on their table and have taken their children to school under very difficulty conditions and you want to call them non intellectuals. We know they had no opportunity to complete school but that does not make them less intellectuals.
    COMEON all call boys and marketeers, let us show the PF the way out. They do not like us and its only MORE MONEY IN THEIR POCKETS…..

  19. This woman’s reasoning is really warped. Sata was called a Chimbwi No Plan in his individual capacity. Mwanawasa too was called a cabbage in his individual capacity. This is different from calling a whole tribe as herdboys or telling a whole tribe to practice polygamy in order for its population to multiply for someone from the tribe to be president.
    As for Zambia, there is nowhere the country is going as long as leaders are put in power based on emotional support. Surely, it is not right that a country can be in the throes of a clique supported by riff-raff. As a country you ignore your intellectuals at your own peril.

  20. Mumbi and Chama are careless talkers who should not speak on behalf of PF. As things stand in PF, there is no voice of reason…

  21. EVEN THE SO CALLED INTELLECTUALS WILL VOTE FOR PF UNLESS ONE WHO WENT TO SCHOOL BUT CAME OUT BLANK. I CHALLENGE THE SO CALLED INTELLECTUAL TO DO A COMPARISON OF PF’S INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN 4 YEARS TO THAT OF MMD IN 20 YEARS.

    IF ONE IS HONEST WITH HIMSELF AND HAS TRAVELLED OUT OF ZAMBIA ONE WILL AGREE THAT PF’S DEVELOPMENT AGENDA IS THE BEST IN SOUTHERN CENTRAL AFRICA AND IS IN LINE WITH A COUNTRY THAT NEEDS TO BE LINKED AND HAVE HEALTHY AND EDUCATED CITIZENS.
    PF TILL 2050

    • My friend, roads are not development. Quality of life is development. It includes quality education and health care, employment opportunities, clean and safe drinking water, life expectancy, adult literacy and income. Road development is fake and meant only to hoodwink illiterates like you. You cant have development when people are suffering. Prices of goods and services are increasing all over the place, schools have tripled their fees, mines are retrenching workers and there is no electricity in the country. Inflation has gone up to 19.5 percent from 7 percent a few months ago. And salary increment is K350 for workers! A good Government would have balanced road construction with power generation plants or even solar. Our brothers in the mines are losing jobs partly because of no power…

  22. Serious symptoms of intellectual emptiness show in this woman:
    a) Should a leader pride in her people’s disadvantaged situation – illiteracy in this case?
    b) when Zambians called those past Presidents the names, she refers to, the names were not directed at entire ethnic groups (tribes) unlike hers and Chama’s remarks!
    c) Are marketeers enjoying the economic climate and the PF violence?

    We shall wait and see those who are proud of being called dunderheads.

  23. she is right, but lets see how hunger and suffering affects the illiterate voters who dont see the money in their pockets after 90 days

  24. Mumbi Phiri’s desperation is worrisome. Surely leaders must learn to build and unite. You can’t talk so carelessly on national tv and still remain with a clear conscious as leader. Is our peace and unit going to be sacrificed for someone’s continued stay in power? While it may win the unsuspecting minds to talk like that it divides the country permanently. That woman should be put very far away from our country’s leadership structures. It is clear PF are panicking and do not care what happens to the country’s peace as long as it helps them stay in power. Fortunately, Zambians have realized tribe is not food and foolishness can plunge the whole country into deep poverty. Marketers she is demeaning have seen untold suffering at the hands of this careless gov’t. There is no amount…

  25. This woman is so irritating! I wonder the headlines she always makes, she promotes hate speech,tribalism, corruption & so on. Woman go to hell, no wonder sata hated you to an extent of revealing on how you wetted the bed nsanya iwe! You pfools are now in presure, panicking & sweating in your dirt pants vi sangoma imwe. Stop yaping any how just to make stupid headlines which we are not intrested of. Viva HH.

  26. If Tongas were tribal they wouldn’t have sold their cattle to raise money for KK to go to england to negotiate for you monkeys independence….

  27. I was lucky to have watched the interview and the lady spoke so fluently as if she was reading a novel. Grevazio wasted time in asking her to answer for others and she ably dealt with that. Mumbi although she calls herself a marketeer does not mean they are foolish as someone has suggested but these are smart people with an education worthy admiring.

    • No. This blog is for intellectuals belonging to UPND and kaponyas belonging to PF as Mumbi Phiri rightly put it. PF kaponyas are still in denial that PF has failed and is the cause of the current suffering in Zambia. They still say its global. When the kwacha is losing value then its global but when its gaining value above other currencies then its Lungu working. I. diots!

  28. Lack of education among voters is fertile ground for PF’s electoral victory! I then wonder how PF will upgrade our educational system. No wonder we have graduates who can not even construct correct sentence in English.

  29. I’ve seen the likes of Mumbi Phiri before. Remember a Marketeer by the name Esther Nakawala during Chiluba’s tenure? For Mumbi to say “UPND is a party for intellectuals while PF is the for REAL PEOPLE shows just what has gone wrong with our country. Mumbi listen, meat heads may have brought PF into power and the same meat heads will bring about it’s demise.
    Do not mistake PF’s one night stand with the Zambian people for a real affair.

  30. Mumbi Phiri.
    You have grown up such that make ups are no longer blending but not seasoning up as a politician.
    Do you have hopes to aspire to be anything other than a mare cadre? You need to change and start to put the country first and issue statements that build and not leave the country more divided. Of what help will you be as a leader when you are out of politics to watch Zambia go down divided in the future which you will not be a part of, but your children if you have any?
    Mayo namukula build virtues that make people respect you. I am not PF but i respect mama Inonge Wina, Maurine Mwanawasa, Mutale Nalumango, Edith Nawakwi, Margaret Mwanakatwe, Irene Mambilima, Priscila Isaacs. These women of Zambia have their own weaknesses like we all do but i have selected them because…

  31. I am not PF but i respect mama Inonge Wina, Maurine Mwanawasa, Mutale Nalumango, Edith Nawakwi, Margaret Mwanakatwe, Irene Mambilima, Priscila Isaacs. These women of Zambia have their own weaknesses like we all do but i have selected them because they present something young women can emulate, some “dignity”.
    Is’t just about power? I think there is more to life than just staying in power.
    Issuing a careless statement on a public broadcaster like you did is quiet unfortunate!! Sacrificing ou unit and peace for your bread and butter? Its really wrong to take advantage of the unsuspecting masses in the manner you politicians in Zambia are doing.

  32. @Kambwali
    You have your thinking totally upside down! Even when the price of of mealie meal was K25 and all the the essential goods seemingly affordable, Zambia was a laughing stock not only by ourselves but by every one who visited it. The country had lagged behind terribly in infrastructure development including roads.
    For any meaningful development and the same quality of life you are refering to be realised, infrastructure development is a must and it has to be done. Eating and drinking will and shall never end as long as you live.
    If you have not traveled across the globe, please keep quiet and let the PF continue with the enabling environment agenda of development. If you cant really see what the opportunities these developmental works are providing to Zambians, then go and live…

  33. Markteers,call boys or kaponyas,street kids/adults including the blind, all villagers and intellectuals,even those in pf are all feeling the effects of pf’s poor economy and will vote for UPND. Real change is coming in 2016. Just start packing your tufyola, you have surely messed up zambia .

  34. Mumbi lacks analytical tools. Chama insulted a tribe and not HH while CNP and cabbage were for Sata and Mwanawasa, respectively as individuals and not their tribes. Why is Mumbi referring to poor people as real. Does it mean for PF poverty is normal? let PF improve people’s lives and get people out of poverty instead of taking advantage of the poor for political mileage

    • Kikikiki kwena this woman has handled you kikiki. She has us fooled and we are now arguing about intellectualism. We now like, “am an intellectual, am an intellectual.” meanwhile, she goes to campaign and distracts us from the real issues. Africans get over these white titles and labels. Thousands of PhDs in subjects that dont even benefit your own people. Thousands of intellectuals who can only perform in a white mans construct. Intellectual or not,marketeer or not, we are zambians, africans demanding the very best from our leaders. Good policies and governance that will reward us with a good life. No loadshedding, no comodity price sky rocketing. Thats what we want. Not dividing us with some jargon like ba kachema,intellectual,marketeer,tribalists etc.

  35. its true mumbi insulted the all tribe because upnd is composed of people from one tribe. how many members form one tribe in upnd form the party? Ans …ALL.

  36. This Kachemas, they think they are special Zambians. Mumbi Phiri is right and leave her alone. She hit the nail on the head. Come 2016, UPND will be put where they belong, Southern Province. They do not want to learn, all they do is boast by its leader that he is rich. Since the rich people are few in Zambia, they will vote for him we will see how he wins the 2016 elections. VIVA PF

  37. PF is packing next year. Poverty levels is very high compared to RB’s rule. The so called road development projects are only benefiting those people like Mumbi Phiri through cuts from his boss, ECL. People have already decided for HH just like Sata was favored in 2011. Bus fares despite good roads haven’t reduced so who is benefiting? PF Kuya bebele in 2016 and if you want to prove this, go to Northern, CB or Eastern

  38. I pity “A Phiri anabwela” marrying a “musali wa mwa lififi yo!” I mean, “se kisi walumuna, haki ka sefa numba, ku palisa kwateni wa tompholoka kakuli uta palelwa ku kakatela mwa cobeni wa nja yabo Kuku Likokolomba. Kwatesi komu bona koo ki Lisa la Kariba Dam!”

  39. Well true as it may sound, but the intellectual are not sufferers and are not living in abject poverty anyway. So Mumbi is just insulting and mocking the voters who are less privileged and living in poverty. It is a pity that still this message only lands on the elite and not those who are really in need of it. I’m sure the kaponyas and those in hardships will not vote for PF if they learn what the PF agenda is. The PF is keeping them in poverty for them to continue in power while they are live on promises. In short the message is all PF supporters are not intellectual as Mumbi says!

  40. I am an intellectual also but from the other camp (ECL) who debate issues with cool minds and not bitterness. i like the way the other guy put it “intellectuals in wrong fields where analytical are completely lacking’ eg veterinary medicine or is it cow and mpongo medicine or is Kachema Medicine. I will not go further lest some people call me mediocre and yet am an intellectual.

  41. At least someone is admitting that their party is for Kaponyas. And since intellectuals are fewer I guess we are doomed to be ruled by Kaponyas till kingdom come.

  42. Constructing roads,hospitals,universitie, schools, Expanding HEP stations, Farmers paid in time still saying this is not development! All the Tongas vote for HH but other tribes should not vote their own pipo. Thank God majority will vote against your HH and you will cry like babies

  43. She is usally silly but here she’s got the facts. Chiefs shouldnt jump to protect their subjects. They are being attacked as individuals not as members of a tribe

  44. Some blogger has said that if the intellectuals cannot wrestle power from PF then they are not intellectuals. That is a misnomer. Compare the numbers of intellectuals in Zambia and those of the “real people” as Mumbi Phiri puts it. The latter are in the majority hence the issue of them being in power. It will not be easy!

  45. Kachemas are actually foolish intellectuals. Ba D/SG,madam u re actually 100% spot on in your analysis.It is a plain truth that HH is headed for another serious defeat on account of how he has performed in opposition. HH has opposed everything developmental nd progressive from PF all in the sense of “checks and balances”. UPND nd HH ve exhibited high levels of Pomposity,pride,eliticism and tribalism(chuundu chaitwa).They ve failed to sell their manifesto to the masses and people dont just know what they stand for.All UPND and HH ve been know for is Shetanism and Tribalism.(chuundu chaitwa).ECL nafuti nafuti 2016!!!!

  46. FOR YOUR INFORMATION, THE LAMBA AND LENJE CHIEFS WERE NOT AMUSED THAT YOU CALLED MWANAWASA A CABBAGE. FIRSTLY, THEY DECIDED NOT TO REACT BECAUSE THEY DID NOT WANT TO SINK TO YOUR TRIBE’S LOW LEVEL OF THINKING. SECONDLY, THEY KNEW IT WAS A SCHEME TO CREATE DISTRACTION AND DIVERT PRESIDENT MWANAWASA’S ATTENTION FROM DOING WHAT WAS IMPORTANT FOR THE NATION AND THEN BE CALLED LATER A FAILURE. BECAUSE OF THE MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE APPROACH ADOPTED MWANAWASA WAS ABLE TO LEAVE AN INDELIBLE MARK OF MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP. WE WERE VERY MUCH AWARE OF YOUR TRIBE’S SCHEME TO MAKE MWANAWASA FAIL. EVEN PRIESTS FROM YOUR TRIBE, NAMELY FR. KOMAKOMA, FR. MWEEBE, ARCHBISHOP MPUNDU, ETC. WERE ALL INVLOVED.

  47. SIMILARLY YOU ARE DOING THE SAME THING TO THE TONGAS TO GET THEM TO REACT NEGATIVELY TO YOUR SCHEMED PROVOCATIONS SO THAT YOU CAN POINT AN ACCUSING FINGER AT THEM. LOOK AT THE WAY YOU ARE DISTORTING WHAT HON. MWIIMBU SAID IN PARLIAMENT. YOU ARE “IVOL” MINDED AND YOU USE YOUR OWN PEOPLE FOR YOUR SELFISH INTERESTS. WHAT IS SO SAD IS THAT THEY ALSO ACCEPT TO BE MANIPULATED AND USED WHILE THEY CONTINUE TO WALLOW IN POVERTY. WHAT DEVELOPEMENT IS THERE IN NORTHERN AND LUAPULA PROVINCES. WHAT DEVELOPMENT DID CHILUBA TAKE TO LUAPULA. IT HAD TO TAKE MWANAWASA A NON-BEMBA TO BUILD THE BRIDGE AT CHEMBE AND THE BUILD THE UNIVERSITY IN CHINSALI. THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST JOBS IN THE MINES ARE BEMBAS AND YET IN THE TIME OF MWANAWASA NO ONE LOST A JOB THERE.

  48. Come on Mumbi Phiri, don’t insult us intellectuals by associating us with UPND. You think that we are so dull that we can rally behind HH? Awe ba Mumbi naimwe, mwilatutukensele, be fair!
    Ba intellectual aba supporter UPND finangwa, Bambi ati Niba professor mwalibeshiba bonse, twilumbula amashina pantu Balatweba ati tribalism.

    • MUMBI HAS MADE IT CLEAR THAT ONLY INTELLECTUALS WILL VOTE FOR UPND. YOU CANNOT SUPPORT PF IF YOU ARE AN INTELLECTUAL. I FIND THIS STATEMENT AN INSULT TO THOSE WHO SUPPORT PF.

  49. Zambia is the only country in the whole world where lack of education is celebrated by the leaders. If it were in my powers I would want all Zambians to be intellectuals. That way we can have a government with a vision for development. I caution Zambians not to be divided by politians and to remain united against poverty, corruption, demand education as a human right for all.

  50. This tonga party is a big problem,These people are tribal, greedy,selfish, pride,arrogance just look at the last voting in 1 constituency 19000 to 0 and they are not ashamed honestly how ! Next year you will die by the sword because of your conduct. Don’t vote for a tonga party they don’t vote for you. Period

  51. Ndhlovu Muzovu , not when the intellectuals, professors included, think in terms of tribe. I would rather have a bunch of uneducated but united Zambians in the majority than so called intellectuals who can only think in tribal terms. What value can such intellectuals add to our society? You see them everywhere everyday, what intellect do they exhibit? What guidance do they give to society? They don’t even hide their tribal inclinations, but can they anyway? They are actually a danger!

  52. Negative messages will only cost UPND votes… just like in the past. Intellectuals are those who turn negative to positive and take advantage. Am not getting near to that from the responses. Have you been following presidential debates in US? Education is a process to know how to think…..disappointed. Bembas know know how to mudslide but are good people if you are positive. You want to bring them down, you have to fall yourself first and they fall on top of you. UPND campaign on social media largely is detrimental to wining elections. This not USA, Britain…… check the space.

  53. Who are you refaring to wen you say intellectuals, 1-coz a Zambian engineer can not even do a simple tared road,we see Chiness engineers doing wat the so called intellectuals should be doin. 2- Ask me about economits and wat they have done in selling our mines and other Zambian firms they soled,did they do a good job?. 3- It is the intellectuals who are runing our high learning institutions all they produce are theory oriented graduates and not inovaters of …..4- We had them after KK their economics never touched the grass roots it was just on paper. In the more than 20 years in power never did they do any new power generation station,no new university,sold off the mines for a song, no new hospitals, no roads, even poeple who were getin K 100 SALARY WERE PAYING TAXES. Today they have…

  54. her statement implies that the dull Zambians who are in the majority will still vote and win her party…..any voter who shall vote for UPND shall be considered as an intellectual ….the elite…it cannot get any easier to be transformed from a dull lot into an intellectual….

  55. How do we make it clear to you guys? With or without Mumbi Phiri, we are settled for ECL. There is no viable alternative is there? the rest are jokers and do not relate to people.

  56. Okay let’s clear this debate by defining intellectuals. Intellectuals in this context means UPMD intellectuals, okay?

  57. The trouble is: no amount of insults, malice and hatred will bring UPND into power. Actually, that has been scaring people from voting for HH, this country will turn into a kraal, where only one tribe has access to opportunity. Tone down on bitter words, tone down on insults, tone down on your hate speech, and change your presidential candidate, find someone who can smile and look upon common people as if they had dignity, and UPND will shine for Zambia.

  58. We do understand what Mumbi means, and this is in no way an insult to real genuine PF supporters. PF is and will always be a party for common people, not for the elitists and narrow minded people to whom life revolves around Lusaka and the line of rail. No wonder PF is here to stay.

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