Saturday, June 15, 2024

Hichilema’s puppetry signifies low self-esteem and lack of exposure

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Mr Hakainde Hichilema’s crave for validation is not only embarrassing but also a sign of extremely low self esteem and lack of political and intellectual exposure expected from a leader.
We say this in reference to a statement he made at Livingstone’s St Theresa Catholic Cathedral Parish to the effect that “…we are very ambitious, in two years we are already becoming a reference point in the US system”.

How can a leader be so taken away by such trivial things, such deliberate and blatant lies and flattery from another country or government? Why does Mr Hichilema have this backward notion or feeling that only US approval or acceptance can make him and his government a success they desire to be?

So not until the US recognises, affirms and accepts that their path or thinking is valuable and worthwhile, nothing moves or makes sense for Mr Hichilema. What a tragedy for Zambia? What a disaster and shame to modern day African leadership?
Why does Mr Hichilema see our country as an extension of US territory? It’s very clear that in his mind, Zambia is like a State of the US. No wonder he constantly seeks validation from the US to go about his business in running the country. Mr Hichilema and his league can dispute this summation of events but the writing is on the wall, and no objective and sensible person can fail to see that Mr Hichilema is a captured puppet leader by the US government.

And there is no doubt that after Mr Hichilema leaves office in 2026, the involvement and over reliance on foreign powers in the running of our country that will be unearthed will be so shocking and embarrassing. It will actually be a case study for scholars to create another body of knowledge to help them understand Mr Hichilema’s corrupt puppetry leadership in modern Africa.
The truth is, as things stand, we are already a laughing stock in the region and on the continent of Africa. Our over reliance on the Western imperialist world has soiled our once revered diplomatic credentials and made us look silly and ignorant in the eyes of countries who once looked up to us in many ways.

We have extensively traveled in the region and on the continent, and the questions everybody is asking are: what is happening to Zambia? What are you people doing to KK’s legacy? What do you think you’re doing to yourselves and others who have been ardent followers of the many positive strides Zambia has taken in the past decades?
The tactical isolation Zambia faces today from other countries in the region and the continent is so painful to watch and the fact remains that it is only going to get worse if Mr Hichilema’s puppetry is not addressed quickly.
This puppetry has gone too far. It needs to be corrected.

Fred M’membe
President of the Socialist Party

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46 COMMENTS

  1. Those have watched Tarzan films will remember how Tarzan a white man could talk the animal language when the African who had stayed with these animals since creation didn’t understand a single word uttered by these animals.
    That’s the white man for you..he “understands ” your needs black people. And someone loves it.

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    • HH is right. An African doctor trained at UNZA’s UTH can’t be allowed to even assist an American white woman give birth. USA don’t recognize them as doctors.

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    • SO THE YUNZA DOCTORS CAN NOW BE MIDWIVES THAT THE USA SYSTEM HAS RECOGNISED ZAMBIANS IN THE NEW DAWN? WHAT A BREAK THROUGH FOR HH!
      “…we are very ambitious, in two years we are already becoming a reference point in the US system”.

  2. Apart from being a puppet, his levels of maturity are also quite low. At the time Zambia’s poverty levels moved from 54% under UNIP to 86 under the MMD, Ronald Penza was voted as the best Finance Minister by imperialist institutions. Zambia is still reeling from the effects of the reckless decisions made at that time. It’s the same for HH. While the are shouting njala as they display tu pamela at him, he’s busy beating his chest as he brags that he’s delivered. He’ll only see the reality when he’s kicked out and all his allies abandon him.

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    • Freddie is the real puppet of socialist countries. His regalia and office pictures are clear indicators of this. HH does not have pictures of foreign leaders in his office; Freddie does.

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  3. The answer is that he has a huge inferiority complex. That is what makes him think that to be a success a Muzungu has to acknowledge you. He thinks more highly of the muzungu as can be seen in the fact that at one time in confronting his opposition leader, Guy Scott he expressed surprise that a white man can be stupid. It follows that for HH, being a reference point in the US system is a greater achievement than bringing down the price of mealie meal.

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  4. ………

    Naimwe ba socialist leader cde membe……

    When China also mentions zambia as a reference point of governance in Africa……..

    The president will also mention it………

    Or when the BRICS countries mention zambia as a benchmark for debt renegotiation……..

    The president will again mention it…….

    No need for high blood pressure over trivial things………..

    The country needs solutions to more pressing needs….

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    • Pressing issues? I presume that includes prescribing Lungu’s freedom of movement and freedom of association?

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    • No badala…….

      Lungu can be delt with by the police…….

      We need all technocrats to offer serious discussions to solve current issues ……..

      We leave the police out , so they deal with PF stealing

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  5. Fred M’membe, character assassination of President HH, always. Tell me why I should give you my VOTE in 2026.

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  6. The only item Uncle Fred has to offer Zambians is a daily offering of vitriol and hatred against HH. Show us the ideas you have that will deal with the current challenges facing Zambians. Yowa malice and hatred for HH won’t put food on anyone’s table. You are just stroking your ego.

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  7. I totally agree with Mr. Membe. HH is a complete American puppet. He clearly lacks exposure, and thinks he has to look up to the mzungus for guidance and validation. What he doesn’t know is that these mzungus could care less about him or Zambia. They’ve no loyalty either. He’ll be their darling as long as he does what they tell him to do. As soon as he wakes up and begins to think for himself, they’ll quickly show him their true colors. Indeed what a tragedy for Zambia to have a Western imperialist puppet for a leader.

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  8. NO ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS WHATSOEVER JUST PERSONAL ATTACKS ON HH, SO SAYS THE PUPPET OF THE EAST. SAYING UNPALPALPABLE THINGS TO PLEASE PUTIN SO HE CAN FUND HIS VASELINE PARTY. USELESS!

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  9. We have home grown solutions. There is no need of equating ourselves to US or UK. Zambia has enough brains to turn this country around.The only problem Zambia has is luck of leadership. Most of the leadership that is appointed is based on kith and kin. You cannot expect to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. There are a lot of brains that can be utilized for the betterment of our nation. But appointments are made on cadreism perspective and tribalism leaving the best cadre of intellectuals.

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    • That was Dr Kaunda’s vision. He put in place systems that were going to make Zambia a world competitor. Someone bought a suit in Germany and when he returned to Zambia he discovered that the suit was actually made in Luanshya, Zambia by Serios… this is just one example… radio and tv, motor vehicle assembly…. but somehow he was undermined.
      By the way Unza was built using local contributions ranging from chickens….
      Don’t forget Humanism which puts man at the centre of all activities.

  10. Zambia seriously lack opposition politicians.
    This man M’membe really is useless, the talk of calling people puppets of the West is so ancient and really is the language used by people in failed states like Zimbabwe.
    HH is so superior and intellectually abled and you find this buffoon using this kind of language.
    Can someone tell M’membe that even the Chinese have adopted the Western way of doing business.

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    • @ Ben…Western puppets are alive and well on our continent. It’s, however, increasingly become harder for the West to continue using their puppets in Africa to loot, pillage, steal Africa’s resources. France found it the hard way, as its economic colonies have started to revolt in West Africa. It’s hard to be a Western puppet these days, as Africans have awakened and are taking back their continent. And Zimbabwe is not a failed State. Zimbabwe has been mostly sabotaged by Western imperialists. Zimbabwe shall rise again!

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    • What more do you want Mmembe to do apart from pointing out the shortfalls? You want him to use guns or to start a war. If you think there’s no opposition then allow Lungu to stand since he’s the only one who is giving you sleepless nights.

  11. We need serious revolutionary leaders….not puppets…We need a Trump like leader in Zambia….Trump is a revolutionary leader and anti Globalization…..

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    • 4 He claimed Obama’s achievements as his: “I passed the Veterans Choice Act” when it was Obama who passed it
      5 Claimed Obama was not born in the US
      6 Harrassed a CNN reporter at the White House for asking a question he didnt like having the reporter’s mike grabbed from him.
      This isnt someone fit for the presidency of a nuclear power
      The American Ethnologist journal determined that Trump is the most “accomplished and effective liar” thus far to have ever participated in American politics.
      The Washington Post’s fact-checker tallied the number of false or misleading claims from Trump as 30,573, an average of approximately 21 per day during his presidential term

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    • @any fool can be President
      All the crooked Republicans and Democrats in Washington have ganged up against the Mighty Donald Trump….America loves Trump only the corrupt Washington Politicians hate Trump because he is anti Gay…anti Globalization… Trump puts America first…Obama Presidency was the worst…..look whats happening in Philadelphia and New York….people are looting shopping malls in broad day light

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    • Yes “.America loves Trump” and certain mentally colonised Africans admire everything Americans love so as to be hip. If that had been an African President he would have been lambasted left right and centre

  12. I think Fred is trying to say ati vinabwela mo chedwa. We suspected that also, that’s why we are tying to coach 2H with dribbling skills. He will soon find his right leg to score goals. Manje those inner circles could dununa him.

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    • The current topic should be the 2023 budget.DejaFOOOL can never analyze such intricacies.He thrives on garbage

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    • #MuZambian…mustakanyoko… your father forgot to use a condom and you are the accident that ensued. Don’t you have sensible things to discuss.

  13. @Ben
    The word “Puppets of the West” is not ancient…just say we don’t have serious opposition leaders in Zambia…Fred Mmembe also has his own Sponsors…so all these Politicians they’re actually sponsored by either the West or East…..depending on their agenda

    • The West may still be there but after the demise of the USSR there’s no East . Russia is viewed differently from China by political scholars. At times it is conveniently isolated for NATO purposes, then acknowledged as a partner when it teams up with India for BRICS

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    • @Fresher waku ma ruins
      So Mmembe wants to align himself with BRICS….to me they’re all Bandts…West or BRICS…at the end of the day they all want to exploit Africa

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    • If I have followed Mmembe’s utterances he is a disciple of the old fashioned socialism. If you study this it is very appealing to the masses in its promise to eradicate poverty. The USSR can say it helped develop their nation faster than Europe. China started off with socialism but adjusted to adopt certain crucial political elements of it i.e. Dictatorship, while allowing a free market economy of sorts. So far Fred seems to be a disciple of Socialism as spelt out by the Boshelviks

  14. It’s a marvel that people think Mmembe’s vitriol is something to be taken seriously in a country that has the challenges we have. Fred does have some support among those who have always hated HH but I do think a much larger number can see through Fred. It must really irk Fred that HH consistently refuses to dignify Fred’s outbursts with even as much as a comment!!!!

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  15. This hatred won’t take us anywhere? Every Zambian President except Sata has suffered hatred from this rich socialist

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    • It was his strategy: Disrespect every Zambian President via Post editorials then once you have the limelight announce your Presidential political motives. Lets wait and see if it will work.

  16. HH has been a failed project from the time he got a tribally motivated position to head the UPND a previously National political party turned into a tribal political party. It is consoling however to note that Hakainde is only the Seventh president of Zambia and not earlier.

  17. @Grant Kolala pretends to be clever but is just another shallow pool. How can you compare BRICS with the West? BRICS has come to challenge the West’s domination of global economics. Just it’s present membership should give you its message. Theresnt a single western imperialist in the group. None of Brazil, India China South Africa and Russia are western economic giants but just take a look at the stats within and you will see why BRICS is making the West shake in their boots.

    • True. Western so-called G8s or EECs have been deliberately left out of BRICS because the South wants to free itself from Northern economic domination

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