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Government will deal Diplomatically with SA Finance Minister over the Firing of Bank of Zambia Governor-Siliya

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Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services, and Chief Government Spokesperson, Hon. Dora Siliya has expressed surprise at the attacks made by South Africa’s Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni against the country.

In a series of tweets made on social media on Sunday, Mr. Mboweni demanded the reinstatement of former Bank of Zambia Governor, Denny Kalyalya.

But Hon. Siliya stated that the tweets were improper and immature as Zambia had a right to make sovereign decisions.

Ms. Siliya responded in a tweet and stated that:

“We are very surprised with Tito Mboweni’s immature and improper criticism of a sovereign decision by Zambia. The Minister should be attending to COVID problems facing the South Africans, our focus here. We will pursue matter diplomatically.”

She said the Government will pursue the matter through diplomatic.

Earlier South Africa’s Minister of Finance run the tweets below in support of the dismissed Bank of Zambia Denny Kalyalya.

 


 

The Government has still not provided reasons for the dismissal of the Bank Governor giving rise to several rumours as to the reasons the Governor has been dismissed. The refusal to print money has been trending high on the rumour mill.

65 COMMENTS

  1. This is a joke by this mangwam from SA called Tito,Who is this ***** talking about our country and meanwhile he as failed to control COVID-19 in his country people are dying like rats in his country and is busy yapping useless words about Zambia, mbuzi mangwam.

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    • But both ministers are foolish. Mboweni is a nuthead who thinks only he knows everything about money and Dora shouldn’t be scoffing at another country’s struggle with disease. Mboweni is not the health minister so one can see that Siliya just wants to take an underhand swipe at South Africa for being the country worst affected by Covid.

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  2. NONSENSE HAS NO CITIZENSHIP MY DEAR. IT CAN BE SEEN FROM AFAR. AND THIS IS NO DIPLOMATIC ISSUE; TITO MBOWENI TWEETS A LOT IN HIS PERSONAL CAPACITY, SO THE SA GOVT WILL ASK YOU TO PROVE THAT HE MADE THAT STATEMENT IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY. HE PROBABLY WANTS TO MOBILIZE AGAINST LUNGU’S ACTION AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD!!!

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  3. Mboweni just control your COVID-19 in your country,you are not even ashamed of yourself,look at how people are dying in your country? You have lamentably failed Mboweni.Go back to your drawing table and if you had links with Kalyelye kwasila you have lost and hell will fall on you hoooooo.

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  4. He thinks he is addressing his henchman HH who can take orders from him. My president Lungu does what he wants and what he thinks is right for the country Zambia. Zambia is not a province of South Africa. Lungu is in charge of the country… he can and fire anyone. He can also order money to be printed if he wants to. My president is the number one boss of this country and he can do whatever damn thing he likes. South Africa tried to bully Mugabe but failed and yes Zimbabwe may be poor now but they still have their pride intact as a country. We don’t even borrow from South Africa and we bank our personal money in other countries so what can he do to us? If anything we can kick out all the S/A businesses operating in Zambia and they lose more than us. Atase! Kz

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  5. But your response honourable does is not diplomatic..
    Credible questions have been asked here by Tito..
    As a govt spokesperson you should have answers at your fingertips.

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  6. Mboweni is right!! Africa should stop this nonsense! Treating a country and more specifically the Bank governor as personal property has no place in this day and age! Zambia is not sovereign if its being run by thuggery. The President works for the people.He owes us an explanation. So much for the humble leader-power corrupts

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  7. U are quite quick to render your voice on the SA Minister of Finance comments and yet u have decided to give a blind eye and ear to Seer1 daily insults. I find this position very shocking. The PF/government machinery fears Seer1 to the core. What business did u have with Seer1 that went sour? Zambia is a Christian nation. Any evil plans against its people will always be coming to exposure.

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  8. No, mboweni must focus on the covid tender thefts that he is failing to control happening on his watch. They blamed Zuma for looting, now they are no better

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  9. Tito Mboweni is right. African president think they are kings to served and pi?lage with no questions asked.

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  10. CARELESS COMMENTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA -1
    Intellectually alert Zambians must sympathise with South African President Ramaphosa who inherited the ANC governing system which had been laced by careless Government and Trade Union leaders. As a prominent leader in the African Union, some black South Africans are forcing President Ramaphosa to walk on a tight rope. Patriotic Zambians should take not of the following provocative comments events generated by President Zuma, NUMSA’s (Union) leader IRVIN JIM and Finance Minister Tito Mboweni.

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  11. CARELESS COMMENTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA -2
    As Republican President, Mr. Jacob Zuma once mocked the poor state of roads in Malawi in comparison with good road infrastructures prevalent in South Africa. The Malawian Govt complained for President Zuma’s lack of respect to some SADC member States, Yet each country must develops at its own pace dictated by its state of economy.

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  12. CARELESS COMMENTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA -3
    A few years ago, when The Post Newspaper Ltd tried to abscond paying Company Tax to ZRA, Hon. Fred Mmembe hired NUMSA’s Secretary General, IRVIN JIM to blackmail the Zambian people. IRVIN JIM threatened that if the Zambian Government continued to harass The Post Newspaper South African would impose trade embargo on Zambia. Such threats were ably sorted out by Ambassador Mwamba in Pretoria. Yet South African merchandize stream through Zambia to Congo DR.

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  13. Corona D – What credible questions as Tito asked? This is an overzealous, and useless man Tito. If he had a deal with Dr. Danny Kalyalya too bad ba Tito ECL was ahead of you – just lick your lips you very pompous man. Worrying about the replacement is our problem.

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  14. CARELESS COMMENTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA -4
    (a) A few years ago, the South African Minister of Finance, Hon. Tito Mboweni, mocked Zambia for not having a National Airline with reference to Rwanda’s thriving airline. We remember our Minister of Foreign Affairs complained to Hon. Mboweni’s careless comments. Yet our KK protected many ANC leaders (Oliver Tambo, Thabo Mbeki, etc) from the cruel apartheid regime of South Africa.
    (b) Hon. Mboweni has no clue on the depth of facts that prompted President Lungu to appoint a new Bank of Zambia Governor.

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  15. CARELESS COMMENTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA -5
    Besides Zambian leaders have abstained from commenting on why President Zuma appointed and fired Minister at will. President Ramaphosa has a mammoth task of restoring sanity in South Africa. Yet some politicians in that country do not appreciate the role President Ramaphosa is playing in the African Union. As for Zambia, this is an occasion to develop agriculture, manufacturing industries and new trade routes and ports via Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe.. Diplomacy is the best route.

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  16. Tito Mboweni behaves as though he is not well in the mind. He is a careless loose canon. Just recently he talked about the demise of Zambia airways and when queezed he apologized. His SAA is a bottomless pit receiving billions of taxpayers money every year. Despite benefiting from the same Demise of Zambia airways and flying to Zambia as many times as 10 flights or so per day.Tito must learn to keep to his lane or use diplomatic channels. This in part explains why Govt’s spend money on defense machinery, because you will wake up one day and find that a mad man in the neighbourhood is at your door step trying to hack your head off. Zimbabwe went into DRC and looted Diamonds the Congolese could only watch. It is naive to begin to think that we are at peace therefore we do not need to…

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  17. SA. COVID 19 out of control, XENOPHOBIA RAMPART, POVERTY AMONG BLACK SA CITIZENS CATASTROHIC, PARLIAMENTARY SESSIONS BECOME PHYSICALLY DISORDERLY FIGHTS…satanism welcomed….I think SA has more work to do than zambia…this minister obviously has too much time on his hands

  18. Who the hell does this Tito think he is , speaking garbage, he cannot handle his own problems in SA, so has decided to create controversy to distract attention from his own failure? How dare he. The Government must escalate this, filth like this guy must not be allowed to get away.

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  19. Tito doesnt have the guts to do what our Government has done, so naturally sour grapes for him. Never can he dream to do such a thing. But mind you maybe he is scared that his Government may take a cue from ours and start to haul up their non-performing and mindless ministers too.. Pull up your socks man, leave us to worry about our country. we dont need you to butt your stupid head in.

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  20. They have no official work left in SA? the finance minister has all the time to post rubbish about the Republican President of another country? Too much time on his hands? Naturally, he is not thinking of the Covid-19 situation just like we have HH here, making tall claims and crying wolf but no action and no compassion for the ones who are suffering. Both sit in their palaces and use social media. No feet on the ground. Dont let them go, Minster Dora. This is unacceptable.

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  21. Thank you Minsiter. We cannot allow these hate mongers to create instability in our country. Who is he to make such atrocious comments. Mind your own country’s woes, Mr Finance Minister Tito. Do not try and poke your long nose into our business. We can care for our own.

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  22. Both ministers are foolish. Mboweni is a nuthead who thinks only he knows everything about money and Dora shouldn’t be scoffing at another country’s struggle with disease. Mboweni is not the health minister so one can see that Siliya just wants to take an underhand swipe at South Africa for being the country worst affected by Covid.

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  23. Covid-19 is a joke to people like Tito and why him, even to ones like HH.Step out on the road and see, how its difficult to make ends meet. Our President did good by intervening. He though of us, not of politics like you are thinking Mr Tito.Keep your petty politics for SA. we have no tolerance for it. Good to know the Government will attend to this loose statement diplomatically. The international community should learn to respect the sovereign nations for what they are, independent.

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  24. SA under Tito’s nose has lost R500b in covid-19 PPE corruptions in two months. What does Tito know about governance.

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  25. SHUT UP HULE Dora, you can’t even catch the Sear1 Now you talking about Tito? You so Dull with your Lungu. Chris a Druken childish kid, Deported crook to Run BOZ. You are Jokers.

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  26. The Kaffirs think nations in SADC are provinces of South Africa all because of our brainless politicians that always run to South Africa some have even got home down south

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  27. This Minister is a foul mouth. Yaba!
    What hogwash!
    Incredible sick puppy!
    Malema should deal with you.
    Our president has more intelligence about the happenings in our country than you kwindi who is miles away.
    Stop poking your filthy nose in our business punk!
    This !d!ocy is incredible.

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  28. The south African minister should address the issue of Zambian Ministers flying to South Africa for medical attention.

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  29. Some people are so naive. If South African shopping malls are closed in Zambia, life will not be be easy for some of these chaps who just comment without foresight. We dont start closing business relationships with South Africa just because a South African Minister commented privately on the termination of the BOZ governor contract.

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  30. According to KZ, The President of Zambia is the boss and can do whatever he wants? It is very sad that KZ can make such an assertion as regards what the President can do. Actually, the President has limitations as well. He is not omnipotent that he can do whatever he wants in Zambia. The President is not above the Law and so he has limitations in what he can do.

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  31. What a despicably very, very low quality of a so-called senior minister in South Africa. Must be from the dregs, surely!

  32. Deal with Mboweni diplomatically? Ahede. Mboweni has already delivered his message. Whether he is forced to apologize or not, the message is already delivered

  33. Tito Mboweni made the comments in his personal Capacity as someone who knows Dr Kenny Kalyalya as a personal friend. Tito Mboweni didn’t make the Comments as Minister of Finance of the South African Govt. Besides the Comments are on Twitter and not on a South Africa Letterhead. Thats a personal opinion of Tito Mboweni and not the Opinion of the South African Govt. There is a difference there.

  34. There could be many Tito Mbowenis using Twitter. How Dora know that this particular Tito Mboweni is the Minister of Finance in the South African Govt?

  35. My clone above has tried. Not a bad attempt my friend. However, my comment would not have gone into too much detail. It shows your desperation for a response. Rather all I would have said is that the south African governor has a right to air his views out. However, there is diplomatic etiquette which one must uphold when dealing with such issues or expressing an opinion about another sovereigns internal issues. I understand the south Africa governor personally knows denny kalyalya. And for that reason I will not take his comments seriously as clearly it is the emotions in him speaking and not the man in him. Let us avoid social media when we are emotional.

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  36. My clone above has tried. Not a bad attempt my friend. However, my comment would not have gone into too much detail. It shows your desperation for a response. Rather all I would have said is that the south African governor has a right to air his views out. However, there is diplomatic etiquette which one must uphold when dealing with such issues or expressing an opinion about another sovereigns internal issues. I understand the south Africa governor personally knows denny kalyalya. And for that reason I will not take his comments seriously as clearly it is the emotions in him speaking and not the man in him. Let us avoid social media when we are emotional. Kaizar z

  37. My clone above has tried. Not a bad attempt my friend. However, my comment would not have gone into too much detail. It shows your desperation for a response. Rather all I would have said is that the south African governor has a right to air his views out. However, there is diplomatic etiquette which one must uphold when dealing with such issues or expressing an opinion about another sovereigns internal issues. I understand the south Africa governor personally knows denny kalyalya. And for that reason I will not take his comments seriously as clearly it is the emotions in him speaking and not the man in him. Let us avoid social media when we are emotional. Kaizar zulu

  38. My clone above has tried. Not a bad attempt my friend. However, my comment would not have gone into too much detail. It shows your desperation for a response. Rather all I would have said is that the south African governor has a right to air his views out. However, there is diplomatic etiquette which one must uphold when dealing with such issues or expressing an opinion about another sovereigns internal issues. I understand the south Africa governor personally knows denny kalyalya. And for that reason I will not take his comments seriously as clearly it is the emotions in him speaking and not the man in him. Let us avoid social media when we are emotional. Kaizar z speaking from my home office whilst managing personal investments

  39. My clone above has tried. Not a bad attempt my friend. However, my comment would not have gone into too much detail. It shows your desperation for a response. Rather all I would have said is that the south African governor has a right to air his views out. However, there is diplomatic etiquette which one must uphold when dealing with such issues or expressing an opinion about another sovereigns internal issues. I understand the south Africa governor personally knows denny kalyalya. And for that reason I will not take his comments seriously as clearly it is the emotions in him speaking and not the man in him. Let us avoid social media when we are emotional. Kaizar z

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  40. Tito Mboweni should stop being arrogant and narrow minded. Ramaphosa should reign him in. If he is a fighter for other people’s freedoms like he wants to make out why has he kept his big mouth shut on the numerous human rights abuses in Zimbabwe where people are being detained for speaking against Mnangagwa? He only wants to pick soft targets like Zambia to exercise his vocabulary on

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  41. Mboweni has made a very sober comment. Sorry sober doesn’t resonate well with No 1 in Zambia. Let me rephrase: Mboweni is asking leaders in Africa to give credible when they make decisions that affect livelihoods of people in their countries. First step in accountability. Dora doesn’t think beyond her pay cheque so she can’t comprehend the sense in the statement by the man who run the best Central bank (Treasury they call it in RSA) in Africa during the glory days if that country.

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  42. Kaiser zulu you are a kandila wa ba PF iwe. That is why, most of the times u utter subjective opinions based on emotions and feelings. Frm a big man like u, we except authentic deliberations based on good judgement.

  43. 45% of Zambian ministers have some serious underlying health conditions for which they seek treatment in SA regularly, that includes Lungu, Inonge, Dora etc. besides Inonge, the others are all HIV related. Now, shut the f**k up, otherwise Tito should refuse them entry. The firing of Kalyalya is stupid, his replacement is pure madness. Only the Kainyokololas of this world can vuvuzela these masalamusi!

  44. Madam Minister, how did you find yourself responding to something that the SA minister was addressing to African presidents? Is Zambia now Africa? Are we missing something or it is typical of ichikalipa chufwaumwine.

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  45. Ramaphosa: ANC deeply implicated in corruption
    South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched a scathing attack on corruption by some members of the governing African National Congress.

    In a letter to all its members he referred to recent scandals of the awarding of tenders for equipment to deal with coronavirus, as well as accusations of awarding jobs as favours and the issue of state capture.

    The president said: “We must acknowledge that our movement, the African National Congress (ANC), has been and remains deeply implicated in South Africa’s corruption problem.”

    He added that though there are others involved in the problem the ANC “does stand as accused number one”.

    One issue he highlighted was local ANC leaders using “food parcels meant for the poor to buy…

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  46. What a joker!! How can a cabinet Minister be threatening to send hell to another Country?? I doubt this guy is in his right frame of mind. Perhaps he’s tired of his job and is looking for a way out!!

  47. Zedpeople – It was about Zambia — the stupidity of Tito addressing African Presidents is your mere stupid imagination. Who is Tito to address African Presidents?
    Njangwamuloty – So, you and Tito have the same level of stupidity? So, because 45% of Zambian politicians go to South Africa for treatment you feel it is okay for stupid Mboweni to open his mouth anyhow he feels on Zambia and the Presidency?

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  48. Only UPND sycophants and zealots and enemies of progress who are into group think mentality can support the freedom of stupidity of the Finance minister of South Africa…. Zambia has created jobs for South African farmer’s and they can easily lose this market thru the stupidity of good for nothing Minister of Finance for ungrateful South Africa…

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  49. South africa is a democratic developed country with infrastructure superiority. Zambians flock to s.a in buses even jumping borders coz your country is corrupt filthy.you chased the whites thinking you can rule your selves.Tito must shut the borders so that you rot in your corrupt land of eternal poverty.

  50. Tito has every right to talk about Zambia, just like the way you talking about Coronavirus in his country. PF behaves like they’re in opposition, that is why PF won’t last long in government. You are supposed to have tough skin and be open to rebuke from others especially in this scial media era. PF has created more enemies and come next year they are going to have many battles to fight

  51. It is interesting to see Tito Mboweni trying to outdo Donald Trump by conducting foreign relations through social media. Tito should know better that no government official of any country argues against or condemns the conduct of government business in another country, especially where there are no violations of human rights. One only hopes Tito was not drunk or of out of his mind when he was posting comments on social media. Zambia does not comment on appointment of public officers in South Africa in keeping with the UN principle of non-interference that is the basis of the existing interstate system.

  52. Indeed, it is interesting to see Tito Mboweni trying to outdo Donald Trump by conducting foreign relations through social media. Tito should know better that no government official of any country argues against or condemns the conduct of government business in another country, especially where there are no serious violations of human rights. One only hopes Tito was not drunk or of out of his mind when he was posting comments on social media. Zambia does not comment on appointment of public officers in South Africa in keeping with the UN principle of non-interference that is the basis of the existing interstate system. One only hopes the Tito Mboweni careless utterances are not an example of what former Vice-President, Guy Scott, said about South Africans being backward. Does Tito think…

  53. Dealing with the truth he told and not the person who said it because there is nothing wrong he said.

  54. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has reprimanded the Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni, following comments made by the Minister on social media regarding the removal of Zambia’s Central Bank Governor by President Edgar Lungu.

    In one of his tweets, Minister Mboweni is promising to mobilise if not given reasons why the Central Governor has been fired by President Lungu.

    “President Ramaphosa wishes to assure the government and people of the Republic of Zambia that the unfortunate remarks do not reflect the views of the South African Government and its people. The issue is being addressed to ensure that such an incident does not occur again,” the statement by Tyrone Seale, the Acting Spokesperson to the President said.

    It said South Africa and Zambia enjoy strong historical…

  55. Deal with the truth he told and not the person who said it because there is nothing wrong he said.

  56. You can see how dull this id1ot Kaizar Joseph Goebbels Zulu is. He thinks criminal Lungu is Zambia’s boss who can just do whatever he wants. The empty head Zulu doesn’t know that we the Zambian people are Lungu’s bosses. Clueless Lungu owes us an explanation as to why he decided to fire BOZ Governor. And no, you id1ot Zulu, Lungu doesn’t have the right to just start printing money that’s not backed by any sufficient forex reserves. That’s inviting inflation, which will further damage the economy. Clueless Lungu is a criminal and a total failure who has sold the country to the Chinese. He needs to go next year…to prison.

  57. While you are engaging SA and its Finance Minister also please explain to your people why your exchange rate is now inching upwards towards K20 and the SA Rand is inching downwards towards ZAR16. This will be a good place to start. When Kalyalya was dropped it was 19.05. It is more now. Just explain that to your people. SA has enough problems of its own — so do you.

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