Media bodies have resolved to march to State House on Friday, August 07, 2009 to petition President Rupiah Banda to get his commitment that the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) will renounce violence against journalists.
Speaking on behalf of other media bodies, Media Institute of Southern Africa, MISA-Zambia Chairperson Henry Kabwe said the move is aimed at urging President Banda to take further action apart from condemning the attacks on journalists.
Mr. Kabwe said culprits should be arrested so that lessons can be drawn by other party cadres that beating journalists who play a key role of disseminating information attracts punishment.
Journalists from The Post and Times of Zambia Newspapers, who had gone to cover the arrival of President Rupiah Banda from Uganda where he had gone to attend the Smart Partnership Dialogue, were on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 beaten up by MMD cadres.
President Banda has since condemned the beating up of the journalists.
Meanwhile, the Media bodies have called on government to drop the charges against Post News Editor Chansa Kabwela.
Speaking on behalf of other media bodies, Media Institute of Southern Africa, MISA-Zambia Chairperson Henry Kabwe said this would be a measure of democracy and good governance which encourages diversity of views and opinions.
Ms Kabwela is facing charges of being in possession of and circulating material that can corrupt morals.
ZANIS
Good for we can not sit and relax when the MMD GRZ and party is slowly encouraging anarchy in the country through its Thugs or hooligans who claim to have more power than our Zambia Police Service policemen who are there to protect us Zambians as Citizens.
On “Mr. Kabwe said culprits should be arrested so that lessons can be drawn by other party cadres that beating journalists who play a key role of disseminating information attracts punishment“, exactly let the Zambia Police arrest the culprits including the one who sent them or entertained them.
I expect to read that the Police boss who witnessed this thing resigns.
Have a blessed day all.
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Greenwell Ng’uni is an embarrassment to the Zambia Police Service. He is still living in the days when it was a police force. RBB, to redeem himself, must fire this incompetent policeman who condones MMD violence on innocent citizens.
Yes, this is a positive move. Go to state house and tell him that we are not as uncivilised as his party cadres and he should publicly disown the party cadres’ actioins or else – we are voting them out enmasse in 2011. We cant allow such thuggery in Zambia – non no no and no!!
Why going to state house instead of Police headquarter? It is the police’s duty to maintain peace, law and order. Are they paid for promoting violence watching people fighting while on duty?
Just do a media black out on all political parties. That should teach them a lesson.
ITS THE MEDIA BODY TO PRESENT A COMMUNIQUE DENOUNCING GUTTER JOURNALISM
Get accreditation to a self regulating media body that binds membership to qualification and ethics.There is no profession without barriers to entry, code of conduct or ethics.Its this failure to organize yourselves that has bred scoundrels, wolfs and anarchists masquerading as journalists. The same are misusing the media tag to insult citizens while belaboring to peddle anarchy, despondence and Genocide against the citizenry.
Zambian citizens are alive to the fact that the Rwandan macabre which remains a perfect modern time case study was also started by the same type of blood thirsty wolfs misusing the pen here too. They started by leaking their poison chalice to society daily for paid dirty money they got unwittingly knowing the instructions that come with that pay of serving evil and inimical power blocks.When rupture came, themselves and their kindred were dumped to the whim of preying carnivals.
And over the years tribunals are indicting and convicting them to life imprisonment terms.Do not cheat yourselves that journalism is sacred career where you stir anything with impunity.Get into self regulatory national media body.Zambia is a peaceful and mature democratic country with no heart for unethical conduct of insults or violence.
I advise that you get ethical and your operational space will be unimpeded.Unethical conduct will create you unnecessary enduring barriers.Citizens who treasure peace and a cultured life will not permit gutter journalism amongst them.The case is that such impunity is ever at risk of being sanctioned never to find its foothold where its not invited.
# 8 you are well paid by the MMD Carders, some people can be taken from the village but the villagness will always be in there heads. Am sorry # 8 you are disgrace Nalanda Napwisha
This has a propensity of bringing unnecessary sense of self humiliation that you are lepers in a christian and democratic society where other practitioners foreign and local are operating with uninhibited space.Come back to earth and mature up.President Banda has repetitively Pledged commitment to media freedom.
When lack of wisdom becomes the norm, man exposes his ignorance.
It the media to organize its tabloid part and deliver a commitment to President Banda publicly that you will be professional, ethical and exist with operational code of conduct free of anarchical subversive agenda.Show that Zambia is bigger than anyone of us of diverse opinions and that we stand at the rage of citizens when in practicing gutter journalism any is found to play the Rwandase version of devil’s envoy gutter journalism. Such is against national unity and peace if intent is to stir civil strife.
Senior citizen may be its time you went into a nursing home because your criticism borders on senile. This has nothing to do with accreditation, it has everything to do with a president that tolerates hooliganism in its cadres contrary to what a democracy should be.
Yes its the media body to organize its tabloid part and deliver a commitment to President Banda publicly stating henceforth they will be professional, ethical and exercise strict operational code of conduct free of anarchical subversive agenda.Calling our mothers, sisters, aunties, wives and daughters as prostitutes over their diverse opinions is not Zambian.
#15 Senior Citizen in short journalists are not to have a different view otherwise they are a tabloid? If you live in the USA, you certainly wouldn’t be uttering this rubb!$h.
Dalitso,
Give me a US tabloid that insults citizens with impunity as the Zambian tabloid do daily calling our mothers, sisters, aunties, wives and daughters as treacherous prostitutes over their diverse opinions. I have been vising the US for many years and have vested some good time studying their democracy yet have never seen that degree of impunity.Critical criticism is democratic but it cannot be criticism if you start calling people hyenas, monkeys, buffoons, prostitutes and all the vile?Do think MSBN or Fox would call an America those names or call you monkey? Of course you know the kind of debate that would spark especially if its against you a black economic refuge.
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The Intelligentia: “Yes, this Go to state house and tell him that we are not as uncivilised as his party cadres and he should publicly disown the party cadres’ actioins or else – we are voting them out enmasse in 2011. We cant allow such thuggery in Zambia – non no no and no!!”
I suppose we should vote for the Pact who are civilised and do not beat people at press conferences.Did Sata publicly disown his body guard and other thugs who beat up Zulu on Camera?
#16 Senior Citizen
Own up and seek psychiatric help. Such obsession with blubbering rubbish is not only dangerously deviated behaviour, but a risk to possible commission of suicide in the event that your controllers dump you
16 Senior Citizen greetings. Your “I have been vis[t]ing the US for many years and have vested some good time studying their democracy yet have never seen that degree of impunity” is inconsistent with your “LT, i sanction you to just hint to PF cadres how far my location is from DC where Ben Kangwa is.What would BK be doing in General Electric? I have special work and business skills that transform your live from poverty political cadre role you are resigned to to multi million Dollar corporate consults in special field if you basic undergraduate business or MIS (Computer Science degree(]) unless you are a consultant to General Electric which is suspect as you may be posting with a special device.
Be blessed.
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#17
I suggest you study Zambian Democracy rather USA democracy because clearly you don’t know where your obligations lie. Where in the USA democracy does it say that if a journalists criticises a political leader, then they should be beaten by the party supporters? American journalists, talk show hosts make jokes,analogies, name it on political leaders that if it where in Zed all those washed up politicians would have hanged themselves by now. And by the way MSNBC, CNN, and FOX are not tabloids.
16 Senior Citizen, your “LT, i sanction you to just hint to PF cadres how far my location is from DC where Ben Kangwa is.What would BK be doing in General Electric? I have special work and business skills that transform your live from poverty political cadre role you are resigned to to multi million Dollar corporate consults in special field if you basic undergraduate business or MIS (Computer Science degree(]) unless you are a consultant to General Electric was posted by your as posting #20 in the “w w w . lusaka t i m e s . c o m / ? p = 14749” entitled Mabenga is new deputy lands minister.
What is your comment on the above and your whereabouts?
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Maestro Hakucincha,
That these kids stop smearing mud on Zambia’s veteran journalist Ben Kangwa they have kept mistaking for SC.He is an apolitical selfless civil servant based in DC while I’m many miles away from DC.He is a civil servant with life in it while am daily dealing with the corporate world using my God given talent daily meeting what businesses need to stay efficient and profitable.Yes you will find that most of my entries here are made from those corporate servers.Whenever i have time i make 2 or so blog entries.Don’t you think it immoral to smear BK with things he is no closer to?The man has years vested in his job only to be smeared by cadres here?LT and indeed myself as moralists ought to clear the air and clear BK’s name.It illegal for civil servants to be…
Dalitso,
Don’t be economical with truth.Come straight and not cryptic.Do you really think MSBN or Fox would call Americans hyenas, monkeys, buffoons, prostitutes and all the vile on those meet the press or Sunday morning talk shows which ardently watch whenever i have time to burn as i can do today ?
Of course you know the kind of debate that would be sparked especially if its against you a black economic refuges.
Senior citizen, do you have a psychiatric problem? Check your postings and see the views of others. You are way off in cook land old baddy!!
Post editorial management and MMD cadres are both thugs. The former in sheep’s clothing and the latter more physical, but both ARE thugs all the same. As for Ms Kabwela, she was serving the political interests of her paymaster mmembe. Leave Malupenga out he is just a stooge of mmembe. Unfortunately for Kabwela, it all backfired badly. The case is watertight and the Post and its press freedom have said so by suggesting that the case be dropped, law amended etc. But who told these journalists that they are exempt from the law?
The Intelligentia,
I’m very fine and no closer to the psychatric condition you are vainly interceding that may be in. Today i have time and pleasure of squeezing indoctrinated PF Kaponyas here like you, Kalo2000, the Kasai masquerading as kumawa.It beats me that a normal person can be burning in vanity for Sata a publicly declared thug with no probability in ballot out comes for Zambian leadership.Whatever you wish me will not come to pass but reversed for manifestation in any product out of your loins.
The same i remind this young Kasai here in post # 18 masquerading as kumawa.If your mother, sister, auntie or indeed wife holding divergent opinion is being called treacherous prostitute, is that smart gutter journalism to you? I’m responsible citizen that will not subscribe to impunity.Calling me a dunderhead is inconsequential and not a detriment in my unwavering criticism of gutter journalism.I stay steadfastly dispensing reason and responsibility.Your smartness is only in your mouth.I doubt if you have any authentic formal education.Here you are exhibiting a lowest level of knowledge through assumptions. Offload your heavy load of bitterness, envy and ignorance then freely dissect issues with reason.Tabloids in Zambia are a load of gutter journalists deserving a self regulatory…
Tabloids in Zambia are a den of gutter journalists deserving a self regulatory media body to foster code of conduct and ethics.You cannot have a profession turned a free for all to misfits.
Goodnight and have a redeemed week y’all.Its been nice to bash you.
#23 Senior Citizen, JSYK I have no problem with being an economic refuge as you put it. Let me remind you that am well aware of how journalists tread when it comes to using the word monkey and black people in one sentence especially here in America. In Zed as long as you are black one can call you makaka or kolwe without a racist connotation. Just out of curiosity did the Post by any chance call your wife a hoe or are you a victim of racism?
Senior Citizen
Its your daily insults and raqvings that show the common people how stupid the MMD party and hang-on’s like you are.
you rant and rave about democracy but fail to allow freedoms of others to participate in the runnings of the country.
A fair playing ground upon the media is all it will take to remove the stinking low brained tribalist MMD ministers from the country machinations.
You fail to answer people questions directed at you and continue to spew vile words against anybody other than MMD.
You are so far up this governements anal passage that you stink and you are living on fumes of shit from above.
There is one word to call you…..A F@ckin MUSHROOM.
Fed on shit and kept in the dark.
Is it ok to include this fool now denying himself what he is but in his Psychiatric state thinks he is Senior Citizen and not Ben Kangwa? Please, you will not hide from us, our intel have discovered who you are and will never be any other than Ben. The failures you went through as a journalist do not only make you bitter about the Post and its hard working young men and women but actually feel jealousy of their achievements, hence the nonsense that you throw up every time you show up here. Take a few seconds, look in the mirror and see how foolish you look in that mirror. Ask yourself who you are and how you will go to that grave. Will you go as Ben Kangwa or as Senior Citizen denying your parental given name?
# 31 and # 32 thank you very much, coz I was looking for better words to tell this Makaka Srnior Sh#$%^ fimo fimo. At the airport not only the post guys where beaten even two guys from times where screwed by those thugs we saw the pictures but they want to turn a blind eye to that. atase ba shetan instead of moving forward intearms of thinking them they going backwards yashani
senior citizen l feel you have a big problem and you dont deserve to be called a senior citizen but a senior distractor.having such people like you will mislead the nation.you dont pay wrong by doing wrong come on think like a senior citizen.
#25 Senior Citizen. Am sure you are a journelist and you know that what your MMD cadres are doing is wrong. The fact that you are in GRZ pay does not mean that you abandon your trade for one day there will be another party in GRZ and you may find it very difficult to find employment.
Ubu kopo by some of the bloggers bwashani kanshi? Yaba
The Police know this guy Chalwe who beat up reporters at the Airport. So what are they waiting for, instructions from the President? Or are they simply frustrated by the caderism being exhibited by Mr Kabonde. This Chalwe is he from Luapula Mansa Chief Chisunka/ Matanda? If so am very ashamed that a man from Lupula can go all the to Lusaka to embarass himself and his tribe over things he does not even understand. If understood these things he wouldnt be supporting a gvt which has exhibited the highest level of lawlessness this Nation has ever witinessed.
#18 JUDGE JUDY. the president was not there, the senior police officer was present. Why going to state house? If u read what he (cadres) said on interview, he did that on his own will …. The best thing Zam can do is for the president to ease being a president of any political party as he is the republican president the highest rank. When he took chairmanship of a political party, trading insults with other leader of political parties is enevitable. He loss respect as they call him all sorts of names 🙁 POLICES ARE TO BLAME.
They should start resolve not to cover the MMD and Govt for 1 week especially in the Chitambo by-election. This will be more effective
A load of rubbish. Is this surely the way to approach this issue? Should we rely on the “word” of the president to give his “commitment” as a means of safe guarding free press in a democratic state? Surel these assurance should come from, and be inforced by the law and anyone who breaks the law should be punished – MMD or otherwise. If you rely on the Presidents whims, then he has the right to revoke such “commitments” as an when he pleases. RB is a mere mortal and so are those thugs in MMD. Start with getting the police cheif to be sacked so that he is replaced with someone who can lead his troops to do thier jobs objectively.
Senior Citizen, Just be honest with yourself, Zambia under Rupiah Banda is doomed. You may be comfortable with your rewards from MMD and its leadership but think for a moment about the suffering of the majority of Zambians.
which one can be a better zambia?zambia under Rupiah or zambia under sata?
# 23, Senior Citizen, Yes knowing your age you call yourself a veteran journalist. As Ben Kangwa spinner of records at ZNBC, you were not a journalist until you got your diploma as a matured student at Hone in 1987. I don’t think that qualifies you as a veteran. You have never practiced journalism at all. Tell us articles or news you came up with apart from reading what real journalists like Mangani Phiri, Lackson Ntani, your friend Lubinda Mabuku who beat another real journalist Dominic Chimanika hence his paralysis, over a Namibian girl at NIPA. You guys at ZNBC were thugs and are still thugs. Your friend Mabuku because of being a shushushu like yourself never spent a day in jail for his crime. SORRY you are not a journalist but DJ just like those at Valentinos.
23 Senior Citizen thanks and you are a man who has exposed me to things I could have never known about Zambian politicians of old age. On your “Maestro Hakucincha, That these kids stop smearing mud on Zambia’s veteran journalist Ben Kangwa they have kept mistaking for SC“, I am with you.
There is no need to speculate on this forum but to argue out points on the news with facts instead of hating for nothing.
Just reduce on responding to them including writing insulting words; focus on providing educative data on here LT ba-Senior Citizen. Indeed, it would be an honour for me to meet you in person but never mind.
Have a blessed day all.
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SENIOR CITIZEN is not BEN KANGWA.