State House has launched a vicious and scathing attack on political analyst and respected academic Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa. This was after the University of Zambia lecturer on Sunday tweeted that the Patriotic Front could bounce back to power in future.
Dr Sishuwa posted a series of tweets on the PF’s future electoral prospects although he stopped short of specifying when that may be.
He said the former ruling party’s chances would depend on who they elect as leader and how the governing UPND performs especially on the economy.
He noted that if the UPND fails to deliver on the economy, President Hakainde Hichilema may be vulnerable to a political rival who combines populist policies in urban areas with appeals to marginalised ethnic communities in rural areas.
“Can the PF bounce back to power in Zambia? Yes, if they sort out their leadership. They have a stable base and face an incumbent who remains vulnerable to a political rival who could exploit economic grievances in urban centres with promises to rural areas that feel marginalised”, Dr Sishuwa tweeted on Sunday afternoon.
“[I] have great respect for Dr. Sishuwa! I disagree with him here! PF is very unlikely to survive. People have bad memories of their brutality over and above many ills! SP leader had a lot of his political capital cashed in when MCS was President! HH is easy to underrate! Watch him!”, wrote Stephen Muyatwa in disagreeing with the academic.
In response, Dr Sishuwa said “the state of the economy will be key” to any future electoral prospects of either the PF or the governing party. He said President Hichlema is facing a perfect storm of crises and his leadership will be greatly tested in the days to come.
“Hichilema is facing a perfect storm of crises in Zambia. His leadership will be greatly tested in the days to come. The state of the economy will be key. Hichilema has shown himself to be out of his depth on many key issues. He only appears positive in contrast to the disastrous Lungu, but as memories of the PF’s terrible record fade, his shortcomings may dawn on more people.
“If the public become disenchanted with the UPND, voters are more likely to see the PF differently, especially if the former governing party manages to resolve its leadership question and comes out of its elective conference united. Also, can the UPND win an election without HH?
“I too wish that the PF would never come back to power, given the extensive damage they inflicted on formal institutions and the economy. But I am capable of putting aside my personal desires to give thought to a possible reality, however uncomfortable that possible reality may be”, Dr Sishuwa wrote in response.
Another Twitter user named The African asked Dr Sishuwa about the chances of the opposition Socialist Party.
“The Socialist Party appears to have a better grasp of the roots, nature, and degree of Zambia’s crises and what must be done to address them. They stand to benefit from the possible collapse of the main opposition party and the failure of the UPND. Their challenge is fourfold”, he wrote in response.
“First, their top leadership lacks ethnic diversity. They need to fix this.
“Second, they lack a clear base from which they can project themselves on the national stage. Winning a few elections can cure this.
“Third, they lack a compelling message that connects with the grassroots. As well as building grassroots support networks, the Socialists need to articulate issues that matter most to Zambians and develop a language with which to connect their political agenda with the demands or concerns of the electorate, the majority of whom live in abject poverty”, the UNZA political analyst stated.
“Fourth, there are many Zambians who strongly feel, rightly or wrongly, that Fred ‘sold out’ under Sata’s PF. Yes, many of these are urban elites but they help shape public attitudes and manufacture consent. Fred will have to develop an effective strategy to address the sentiment”, he concluded.
PF-aligned pages such as Smart Eagles and PF Facebook swiftly moved to publish Dr Sishuwa’s tweet but not without distorting his message. The publications claimed that the UNZA lecturer had predicted with certainty that the former ruling party “will” win the 2026 election.
Moments later and in response, State House launched the vicious attacks on Dr Sishuwa, describing him as a “hungry, PF sponsored, job seeker”. State House, among other things, also insulted the respected political analyst and academic by referring to him as “a fart”.
The attacks were delivered on a State House-run Facebook media page named KOSWE in an article titled “PF HUNGRY Sishushi Sishushi SAYS PF WILL BOUNCE BACK IN 2026″.
State House deliberately mispelt Dr Sishuwa’s name to sound like a fart when written in the Bemba language.
Recently, veteran journalist, Thomas Zgyambo, revealed on the Zambian WhistleBlower that Koswe is run by State House Media Director, Clayson Hamasaka and his media team that includes Frederick Misebezi and Brian Mwiinga. Zgyambo advised Hamasaka to abandon the page especially that he runs State House media. The journalist who once ran the Zambian Watchdog and helped UPND win power said Hamasaka’s team cannot practice rogue journalism like they did in opposition now that it was in-charge of State House.
In the run-up to the last elections, Dr Sishuwa was nearly fired from UNZA and also accused of sedition by the government owing to his frequent criticism of the PF and the administration of former president Edgar Lungu.
Like Laura Miti, John Sangwa and Trevor Simumba, he was instrumental in shaping the international image of then President Lungu to what some saw as the benefit of now president Hakainde Hichilema.
We have problems and here we’re wasting precious time on frivolousness. No party is permanent. People may maintain the Upnd or chuck them out, elect in the PF or any other party. It’s their choice. Please serve the people first and everything will follow.
Hahahahaha Hahahahaha ati freedom of speech is what he promised you. You even supported him and castigated us in pf. Now you are complaining. We warned you hahaha
Stae House associating with Zambia Watchdog? That clueless ethicless unprofessional publication that churns out just about any rubbish it finds. HH should have some class. State House running a Koswe publication??? Never heard of such garbage happening anytime before in our State House.. Any employee of State House who uses the kind of rogue language in this story should not come close to the Presidency. HH didnt learn from Lungu keeping Kaizer Zulu. Thats why Lungu is no longer in State House.
Mwinga don’t ever mention my name in your f00Iishness. Dont compare me my boss or party to the failure of upnd. Or else I will track you down and whlp you like a naughty little boy. Fuseke
HERE IS SOMEONE THREATENING YOU CANT EVEN TRACK HIS FAMILY KIKIKIKI
Breaking news, a case of cholera has been reported in mtendere. Meanwhile hh and his minion upnd members were busy dancing and womanising at kuomboka at the weekend.
Tikki and the rest of the upnd monkeys, whatis your comment
DO I LIKE this Sishuwa Sishuwa NOT AT ALL
Self opinionated and arrogant
HOWEVER HE HAS A RIGHT TO EXPRESS HIS MIND
AND ITS ALLOWED UNDER FREEDOM OF SPEECH
SOME STUP!D PERSON PUSHES THIS OUT WITHOUT APPROVAL CRAZY
HH NEEDS TO GET RID OF THESE ILLITERATE PERSONS
NO COMMENT KAIZER EXCEPT YOU CANT TRACK YOUR OWN BLOGS
THREATS AND THREATS WHEN WILL YOU UNDERSTAND PEOPLE DONT NEED YOU OR YOUR PARTY
THe thing with uyu Chimbuwa-Chimbuwa is that he seems to be working for an external force and i cant tell who that is but he definitely wasnt critising PF for the benefit of Zambia.Its now starting to look like either he had other biger interests than jst critising the PF. Look! this guy is a lecturer and his involvement in the political scene-me i dont know. During the PF regime, we cud understand cos everyone was talking including musicians,but for him to continue talking like, or even worse, wish for the same party that he was swearing upon,to come back to power,is an insult to our integrity. He either works for a foreign tabloid or newspapper where they pay Africans alot of money for critisizing their own GRZ, Or he Highly had anticipated to be employed in the UPND gvnmnt. Definitely…
Esp for him to sink so low to wish for PF to come back into power, that alone raises eyebraws! Sychologically, this means,he does not wish PF to practically to come back into power but its just a frustration. Cos this guy did not only talk venom against the PF-HE hated anything PF,to guts. Now we need to find out where his frustration is coming from, is it from the UNZA that he hasnt been employed back? It with the Private newspaper that he works for they ve now fired him cos the Int’ community now is not interested in hearing anything bad abt Zambia as HH is their darling. Or is the because the UPND has not employed him? A whole PHD lecturer crying for a job like a cadre sure – cos definitely his rants are coming from hunger.
A media page apparently run by State House, should not be seen to deliberately misspell people’s names however deep the loathe! This is a big NO! Pretty unprofessional.
#plant a tree please.
It’s also pointless to attack Dr Sishuwa for speculating. It’s like asking him not to think!
#plant a tree please
“………The state of the economy will be key. Hichilema has shown himself to be out of his depth on many key issues. He…….”
No chance…………
HH has out played everyone by………..
Bitting the bullet within the first 6 months of his presidency………….
Only if HH is incompetent like lungu , will the economy fail to takeoff……….
In 2024 , 2 years before elections………
Zambians will start enjoying the economy and crying for 5 more years of HH…….
UPND kikkkiki…….. just listen and learn from what this UNZA don is telling you. Ignore him at your own peril.,
Hamasaka and Larry Mweetwa are useless d!ckless UPND destroyers, the ZWDogs.
I mean Chisushi Chisushi never tweeted anything bad about the UPND watchdogs, why bend over to Chisushi Chisushi, he is not gay!!
people learn from PF if people like from what this UNZA don is telling you. power is sweet but it has its venom at the end, you will cry
In democratic dispensation like ours evry individual is right in his opinion and lets respect that but state house publishing Koswe makes sad reading
Dr Sishuwa is just about the only neutral voice of reason right now… ge has been so the last several years. He’s proven himself to be impartial and apolitical in his analysis of the political climate in the country. Ignore him at your own political de@th.
PF vilified him and called him all sorts of names and even accused him of tre@son. Look where they are now… they are now publishing his utterances, albeit twisting them for their own expediency.
Only person in Zambia right now that I would care to read what they write and actually listen is Dr Sishuwa.
I think Bally made a good decision not to live at State House because it’s been turned into a UPND propaganda center
Vicious, scathing? It’s base! Its dim! It stinks. It’s foul stuff that doesn’t come out of the mouth of a person working for the president. Any civil servant letting out such rotten drivel shouldn’t be paid from our pockets.
Its time HH and his cadres started behaving maturely. You are in power. You can’t be focusing all your senses on Lungu. He is in the remarried mirrors. There’s a job to do on your desk. Focus on more important things.
If tribalists like Step Aside can’t figure out what you are you should be very happy because that means you’re doing your job as society requires: Your objectiveness is confusing simple minds.
For tribalists if you’re critisizing one of their own you’re from a rival tribe but intelligent people know that if its not A that doesn’t mean it’s B.
Sishuwa squared is a principled guy and is doing to HH exactly what he did to Chagwa. Criticizing him objectively. Thats something a tribalist Cadre would nt grasp. Zambia needs Sichuan. It doesn’t need Step aside.
*He is in the rearview mirrors
It’s unwise he has to take charge and alay public concerns that he now’s how difficult it is to meet campaigns promises The best thing is to move into the environment of authority and lead the challenge and remove speculation from people that he has assessed the likely hood of failure He move and lead quickly to perform governance and the economy and assure that drive ad confidence in campaigns to perform the economy it’s like they give you a contract and settlement allowance and everything to work then you fell to move in it’s unwise ND reflecting badly on his potential and thinking
Unwise and that is the reason so much talk and confidence in discussion
I can’t agree with Ally Malunga (No.20) more. I end here.
It’s sending different signals
If State House attacked Dr Sishuwa then they never learnt nothing whilst in opposition…this is guy who was called UPND sponsored today its the other way round, we seriously need to grow up.
Try should be seen to promoting the right to information act and not spend so much time on this delivery is what is important and if people see that it will deferentiate who is who and let people comfirm your reporting on economic indicators and progress infact when he Wright’s you read and either agree or comfirm his writing without writing by him you cannot measure up and know you become irrelevant also
There was a time I considered Dr. Sishuwa an unprincipled UPND sponsored academic.
I have since amended my views and now I actually take time to appreciate his neutral analysis of our political landscape.
Things like growing the sectors addressing Inflation ,the house hold incomes and unemployment are what matters once you address this becomes irrelevant if you you cannot people will feel the impact and realise what the lecture is it’s not necessary get focused performance confirms and distinguishes
Okay thanks
He is a disappointed upnd cadre hahahaha like tarino aka spaka
Simply Assure performance
Unfortunate if true Sishuwa-Sishuwa is being targeted for constructively criticising the performance of UPND and its leadership. Sishuwa Sishuwa unlike opposition parties and their leaders criticises with a positive intent, to sharpen and encourage UPND to perform as expected. So, the problem of the matter, is the matter of the problem.
Do they ever rule the country? I only read and hear bullsh!t about Edgar China Lungu and his band of cronies – how about finding time to actually GOVERN the country? So far – eight months after getting into government – not much has been achieved, so can you finally get to work? And leave the PF the PF, they’re pretty good at destroying themselves, they don’t need your help!
Oooh lord of mercy, the notorious Watch dog is in State House you said? Where is State House has Fallen? Indeed what a load of rogues running state house!
Stop putting Lungu mufimalyashi fyabupuba bakonto imwe.
Demented sishupu is having diarrhea over the possibility of PF bouncing back. The nigga is a little unease over the possibility. What a loser! Harken to number 1. The ball is in Zambians’ court.
On the democracy …….
Ka shushwa just wants more awards from the west…………..
He is forgetting that there is no country without laws and restrictions………….
In the west , their freedoms are ring-fence by other laws and a mature debate and economy’s………
On the economic front, HH is tackling the difficult things first with out appeasement…,.
Fellow Zambians, Sishuwa fought tooth and nail to de-campaign the PF,such that almost lost his job. SO for him sit here and talk about PF bouncing back to power, is an insult to the majority Zambians that he Sishuwa himself convinced tirelessly that PF was not the right party to rule Zambia. Unless also on his part he is a failure cos you cant attacked one thing day & night only to wake up the following morning and wish that thing was here with you. This is childish and lucks merit. It cant be, 7 moths ago you are on one side and 7 months later you are against. Then you dont know what you doing we also need to check what he is teaching his students i dont think its legitimate cos this Guy doesnt kno what he stands for. He is a like a piece toilet paper that blows wherever the wind blows…
You are missing the point praise singers,Sishuwa is telling you the truth as it is in black and white.The truth hurts and it doesn’t sink well with blind followers but you are also being hit by the wrong decisions being made by UPND government.Sishuwa was not expecting a U turn of what was expected of the UPND government
Sishuwa Sishuwa is hallucinating. Even if Zambians got tired of the UPND they can NEVER vote back PF into power regardless of who the PF leader is. They would rather try another party. Going back to our vomit, NEVER!
Counter attacks between Sishuwa Sishuwa vs State House staff is a case of a “POT” calling a “KETTLE” black. Prior to August 2021 elections Sishuwa vehemently criticised ECL in support of HH. Having been left-out on job rewards, Sishuwa is venting his anger on HH. Apparently Zambian academics are of such low quality that they cannot meet analytical standards displayed by academics in South Africa. It is a pleasant marvel to watch & listen to South African academics articulating criticisms on national matters with balanced mid-sets on SABC, NEWROOM-AFRIKA & eNCA channels. Awaiting for a day when a Lozi analyst will address the plight of the Easterners.
The t0ngas are in denial on this article.
“State House-run page “Koswe”” – I end it there.
Eventhough he has just given his individual opinion, the man has been straight to the point. He has given very vital points for all the political players and the voters alike to learn something and use it to their advantage in the 2026 elections.
He has articulated the situation pretty well. His analysis is straight forward. Any wise leader would not seek to fight him but work on the points he has raised. I would bring him much closer to me if I were H².
See, it’s good Sishuwa can now say this freely and it’s true that if UPND cannot make a meaningful impact on the livelihoods of the people, we the people can kick them out.
But to say that we can vote for PF is a stretch and almost an insult to our collective intelligence. Lungu and all his thieving minions could never…nay must never be allowed anywhere near power.
Imagine all those *****s who used to March around and throw stones and insult people for no reason.
In fact we can’t wait for the long arm of the law to reach them so they can be fleeced for their corruption.