By: Anthony Bwalya – UPND Member
As Zambians from all walks of life, rich and power, young and old, prisoner or free; collect their thoughts and gather to honour and celebrate the memory of the men and women who gave everything for a chance at political self determination – the betrayal of our collective independence dream is all too palpable today as Zambians continue to endure some of the worst political and economic atrocities at the hands of an elected black government – The Patriotic Front (PF).
Lest we forget, the generation of our parents and their parents fought for the expansion of the enjoyment and unhindered exercise of political, civic and economic rights for black Zambians, who had become an ethnic minority grouping in their own country as the colonial system deliberately sought to exclude them from freely expressing themselves, exclusion from gathering and mobilizing, exclusion from accessing the same standard of quality education and healthcare and other discriminatory practices.
Yet 55 years on, we have a brutal black government fronted by the PF, intent on the premeditated decimation of the independent dream by shrinking the democratic and civic space using tactics of institutional harassment and intimidation by arbitrarily bullying, threatening, arresting and incarcerating of political opponents and critics for purposes of silencing them.
This, the PF are achieving, through the heavy-handed, impartial application of the rule of law; as well as by usurping the legitimate authority of our public institutions through the issuance of direct threats and commands at our institutions of law and order and justice, effectively rendering them impotent and unfit to fulfill their legally assigned mandates.
The PF regime has also perpetuated the culture of delay in delivering substantive economic emancipation for the masses, where economic opportunities and choices are substantively available all. Today, because of the entrenched culture of corruption and state culture, the ruling PF elites have successfully managed to create a class society that offers segregated services in health and education, where only the wealthy have a claim and stake in it.
The rest of the 90% of the over 17 million Zambians have been beaten into accepting the scrapes of what the top 10% do not need.
The moral legitimacy to govern does not rest in getting the majority of the vote. It rests in the fulfillment of promises upon which the ascendance to power was premised.
If you build your power base on a bed of lies and deceit, then you no longer have the moral legitimacy to govern.
And the PF have had no regard to their numerous, failed campaign promises upon which Zambians pinned their hopes. Broken promises of more money in our pockets, lower taxes and fighting corruption still ring with a deafening echo. We also know about the broken promises of expanding learning opportunities for the youth and capital empowerment for our youths and women; with all these promises only landing into the pockets of PF supporters and their affiliate surrogates.
Zambia’s independence dream remains captured.
Zambia’s independence dream has been stolen.
May the year 2021 be a year of restoring what has been stolen from us over the 55 years of self-rule, and impose for ourselves a government that will be fully accountable for the promises it makes to the Zambian people.
Very factual article which needs to be taken very seriously by the electorate. We thank you my son Anthony for this. Meanwhile last night my whlte wlfe and I celebrated our own independence. My whlte wlfe surprised me with a strip pole dance and then we got down to business. Ala I ate bane. 5 rounds! Also you guys could only understand why I promise my wlfe so much if your wlves were whlte like mine and A PAWG.
Misinformation and Disinformation, the pinnacle of politics of the belly.
Sing on bro Anthony Bwalya aka MARK SIMUWE alias Hanthony Siabwalya UPND goon , effectively the elite and smart people of the Zambian Enterprise always know the truth.
As you dream on, 2021 will be a year of reaffirming PFs position at plot 1 seeing that the opposition grouping at hand is highly questionable. Over the 55 years of self-rule, we have the imposition of undertaking for ourselves
vigorous checks and balances for those who wish to form government that will be fully accountable for tax evasion and foreign account stashing of our money as we scrutinize and screen the promises some political masqueraders make to the Zambian people.
I thank you.
I do not like this guy.
He seems very snaky.
And my gut feeling is always right.
Goodbye.
HAthony HaBwalya masquerading as HaPARTY member of the Privatisation Thief Society.
When is your Milupi taking the war crimes report? Still 95%?
Under 5 rats!
75 Id!ots living in a dreamworld.
… U5…
And above two 1mbeciles live in the sh*those oblivious of the stench of decomposing freedoms, morality, accountability, rule of law, common decency, poverty …….
Let’s appreciate credible comments from learned comrades, my former COBUSU SG.
If lungus democratic crackdowns were coupled with industrial and economic growth and a serious corruption fight like Paul kigame of Rwanda , may be……
But with lungu nothing is working……
Democratic freedoms, economy, debt, corruption , jobs, mortal decay, tribalisim….
…..everything is not right.
All lungu has to show is buildings of roads and schools and hospitals with borrowed money which anyone can do,
nothing else……
Anthony Bwalya is now a UPND lapdog for the Supreme leader HH of the UPND who has hidden the privatisation loot in the paradise papers lest we forget about that… No amount of tricks and propaganda will change what is obtaining in now 7 provinces who cannot vote for a sadist and crook HH who came to UPND leadership by a declaration by one and only Ackson Senjani…
Self imposed leader and perpetual loser of one largest opposition party that has failed to please 7 provinces.
“….vote for a sadist and crook HHÂ …”
Who is a fraud convict ?
A) HH
B) LUNGU
C) CK
no more load shedding if you get it right
Hehehehe….
I have learnt a tonne of negative things about H² since he lost 2016 polls.
His political future looks bleak the political. His sponsors look weary and cursey.
The article’s author is some failed image builder for his loser god. A shameless propagandist. Put it to rest.
How can an Under Five become a President? He needs to complete all vaccinations and be weighed on the scale monthly. He just never grows up!
Upnd a party that doesn’t accept other people whilst in opp. What if when there re give power to govern . That could be the biggest mistake zambians can ever do. Sholam
If you did not loot , plundder and steal Zambian people’s money , you have nothing to fear…..
@6; When “UPND” associates began to be employed at CPC, they fired all people from provinces they hate and brought those from their province. A person I know in high position was given a woman with no knowledge of what the guy was doing but he was told to teach her the job and report to her! The gentleman left. UPND is a danger to Zambia. CHILDISH is a DANGER to SOCIETY as well.
Anthony Bwalya from trible UPND, boring and disgusting too, like his counterpart Sunday Chanda. I would not be surprised to learn that Sunday Chanda and Anthony Bwalya come from the same family.
Anthony Bwalya has emerged as very successful at discrediting trible HH and taking away his votes. Like I have always said, Trible HH has the misfortune of always shooting himself in the foot at critical times thereby subtracting the votes from himself and calling it rigging. Now he even has an assistant in Anthony Bwalya to lose more votes. Concourt 2021 here he comes!!
Iwe jj, Anthony Bwalya is an alias.
Upndead kids, u5, adopted what they termed Watermelon Campaign, a failed project. The use of nomenclature different from their tribal nature in their grouping is one such watermelon hogwash. Most UPNDEAD goons use our Bemba names to psychologically garner support from Bembaland, effectively wolves in sheep’s pants as part of their filthy strategy.
Uleishiba utuntu iwe.
Anthony, I hope you are not suggesting that Trible HH is an option?
If Trible HH is different from Lungu, it is that he is much worse.
First pointer , HH is not not a fraud convict ……unlike lungu.
That should help you see……
Indeed PF has nothing else to offer to the Zambian people apart from taking this country down. This is very typical of a government with misplaced or misaligned priorities. If you want proof of how selfish this government has been? Well there is a lot to point to. Wheelbarrows firetrucks, overpriced ambulances, increase of salaries for themselves only when they have nothing to show that they deserved that increment, use POA on opposition but not themselves, overpriced roads construction, illegal stay of ministers in office for the sole purpose of more plunder, unexplained theft of money as revealed by the auditor general, mass loss of employment due to their rotten policies, murder of opposition members. This coupled with high taxes, high inflation rate, ever increasing foreign and…
Iwe jj, Anthony Bwalya is an alias.
Upndead kids, u5, adopted what they termed Watermelon Campaign, a failed project. The use of nomenclature different from their tribal nature in their grouping is one such watermelon hogwash. Most UPNDEAD goons use our Bemba names to psychologically garner support from Bembaland, effectively wolves in sheep’s pants as part of their filthy strategy.
Uleishiba utuntu iwe.
Is that all you PF rats can come up with ??
Argue the points given by bwalya or list the positives PF have done if you have any balls ……..
Thorn with balls? He only dreams sucking HH balls
Campaigns should never be about how bad the competition is. Rather it should be about how better you are going to serve the people and it’s country.
The brutality, the premeditated decimation of the independent dream, the heavy handedness and the impartial application of the rule of law as perceived by the author is simply because THE EXECUTIVE has too much power! It needs to be curbed. And this can only be done constitutionally. Therein lies the problem with UPND. How can they do that when they walk away from parliamentary debates and opt to stay away from the fora that would shape bills to be tabled before parliament and enacted into law? And this is done following the command of the party leader, NOT BY PARRY CONSENSUS!!! Talk about intra party democracy.
To go on on how bad PF is…
…now grating. Almost to the point of annoying. Everyone knows just how incompetent PF is and how it is mismanaging itself and the affairs of the country. But then again everyone knows just how arrogant (know it all) and inflexible the alternative is.
As Zambians we are laden with two evils! Hence when the time to choose comes, it’s always a case of choosing the lesser evil (to some, the devil you know).
We only have one Zambia and so we must perservere.
55 years and still counting…
Bang on point……
For sure its a factual analysis. But this is the story of what happened to many African states after gaining freedom from colonialists. It’s the story that needs to be rewritten. But is the UPND the party that can restore true dignity rooted in the independence we celebrated today? I beg to disagree because with capitalist policies and with the engagement that HH has been having with capitalists like the US, the common man stands to feel left out. Here is where Fred Mmembe is sounding more logical.
Well spoken my friend. UPND have no solutions, just anger. Why couldn’t we ever get a sane opposition?
“ Zambians continue to endure some of the worst political and economic atrocities at the hands of an elected black government – The Patriotic Front (PF). “
The most dangerous black person is a cooon. One with an inferiority complex towards white people especially. These are the same type of people like this Bwalya that sold black people to Europeans, into the devil’s I repeat the devil’s work slavery. Guess who free massons worship? You guessed it, the devil. UPND never tells us their agenda or road map, all the ever do is insult the ruling party and Zambia’s collective intelligence. In is independence we are celebrating, not your hate for the PF. For once be happy and not bitter and give us your manifesto. MMD as bad as they were gave us their manifesto.
LT why is my well written comment under moderation? There are no insults in it. kikikiki
Work hard Mr. If you are right 2021 is your litmus test. Retirement or top job from hakalusa hageni