“Can a Croc run a real country?”
By Shiellah Sibanda| Following the airport incident at Lusaka in March, more shocking proof has emerged showing that Zambia in many respects is still worse than Zimbabwe after 6 Presidential changes from its founding President Kenneth Kaunda. In March, President Edgar Lungu who enjoys seeing his ministers kneel before him in order to greet him, was found behaving worse than Adolf Hitler embarrassing his cabinet Minister whose male colleague he stopped from flying out of the country on no other grounds other than that he is her soul mate, READ MORE. (Article continues below).
Zambia has had 6 changes of Presidents since Kaunda’s hand over 1992 : Fred Chiluba, Levy Mwanawasa, Rupiah Banda, Michael Sata, Guy Scott, and now Edgar Lungu. But the Zimbabwe’s sister nation is still far worse than Zimbabwe, and even it’s economy fast declining over the last three years. Zambia’s projections show that the economy albeit a little better than Zimbabwe, has fallen badly and is now nearing Zimbabwe’s figures ever since the new President rose to power and was later re-elected amid protests that he rigged the polls. ZimEye has in recent days profiled how Zambia is worsening under the country’s 6th President more than 25 years after founding President Kenneth Kaunda handed over power in 1992.
More Toyota cars in .Zambia than Japan?
One of my colleagues shared this observation on the Zimbabwe Without Borders forum, and a critic replied saying, “when last were you in Zambia? I think there are more Toyota cars in Zambia than Japan … I have been to Zambia 3 times and will go this year. Rwanda, Zambia Kenya Ghana, Namibia, Botswana seem to be best countries in Africa at the moment.”
Zimbabwe also better than Britain, FACT!
But surely, how can you measure a nation’s economic and political progress by the number of Toyota cars it has? And just how many Toyota cars are there in Zambia? Tell us then, before we tell you how many potholes there are in Zambia’s roads; how many delapidated hospitals, schools and buildings, and also how many impassable roads the country has. In all critical analyses and study, variables are used and you used this example to try and prove a point. You measured Zambia’s progress by the number of Toyota cars it has. Is that your reliable measurement? While there is for instance better 4G technology and more mobile e-commerce in Zimbabwe than in UK, does that make Zimbabwe superior to UK?
“Did you know that Zambia’s latest elections last year were rigged Mudede style fully and all this filmed on camera?”, my mate asked. He continued: “Have we forgotten how just last year 26 years after Kaunda quit politics, Edgar Lungu’s ballot figures were found inflated and in one case the government’s election manager on LIVE television announced results with a straight 29,000 figure stashed inside superseding the total absolute number of voters in one constituency?”
Mugabe’s successor in ZPF is the Devil himself
All these factors illustrate that a nation’s problems are not in a person but in a culture and in a spirit. Removing Mugabe will not solve the problem, it will make it worse. At present for instance, analysts say the same man who alone can fit in Robert Mugabe’s shoes right now is 7 times more the Devil than him. Quite frankly, the person who wants to replace Mugabe at present is the Devil himself. To use a Spiritometre, this man’s evil can easily be obtained. This is a subject for another day and I shall deal with it in the next installment.
It can be done, but will you do it?
Zambia has not changed over a quarter of a century later. The nation is not changing in the same way Zimbabwe is also failing; all this will continue unless and until something is done to fix the problem that sits at the centre of the human soul of both the Zambian and the Zimbabwean. It can be done, but will it be done, and will you yourself do it?
who ever wrote this article is a psychopath. so what ? at least they have freedoms they exercise than this country, which are more important than the state they are in. I thought the author should have compared Zambian presidents who have been elected into power than a country that has had one president. Next time the write should write things that are sensible than this pathetic story that has no merit at all. At least despite its lack of progress Zambia has maintained its currency from time in memorial. So who is better Zambia and Zimbabwe. Those presidents, did not kill their people or made arbitrary arrest to their citizens, did not engage in ethnic cleansing and many other issues. Why Zambia? Why didn’t she take on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and even Rwanda considering the aftermath of genocide that took place there and its rapid recovery. Charity begins at home.
Unfortunately I don’t argue with fools, people might not notice the difference. Your pseudonym alone, speaks volumes of the person who you are. My fear is that you probably have not been as well travelled and exposed as some of us. Presently, not only is Zambia’s economy bigger than that of Zambia in terms of GDP, albeit with almost the same population, but the difference in FDI stands at no less ratio than 8:1 in Zambia’s favour. The reasons for the status quo can be a discussion for another day, but a number of the inferences in that article cannot be left unchallenged. In Zambia, men kneel as a sign of respect to elders or people in authority, in some cultures, not as a sign of repression as implied. I could go on and on. Conclusion: Comrade Naked and the Author of unworthy article have something in common, it’s it’s between their two ears!
This comment is not just off the top of my head. It is arrived at by analytical research. Politics is a dirty business. Because SADC is heavily influenced by Mugabe and there are so many favors owed to him, SADC is a toothless grandpa, and we are forced to live under a geriatric dictatorship.
Come and live in Zimbabwe where mass murder goes unpunished and a civil rights campaigner gets his house burnt down. Billions of dollars of diamonds goes missing and the minister of mines suddenly buys whole skycscrapers with cash……and a pastor goes to jail for predicting the death of Mugabe
This article is fucking dogs breakfast. You live in shitty reality where you think a Country that has had the same President for 36 years, 80% plus unemployment, no currency, delapidated infrastructure and less respect for human rights than Afghanistan can be said to be better than a super power and a developing country. It’s people like you who make it impossible for us to have meaningful conversations to build nation. Take your head out of whatever ministers ass its in and smell the wintering roses you git. I will advise you to go back to journalism school you illiterate cunt. Let me give how Zimbabwe isn’t better than zambia or Britian:
1. They both have they’re own currency
2.They’re both developing.
3. No one sleeps in queues for Foreign currency or bond notes.
Let me remind the whole of 2016 we were busy trying to import Maize from a country that is worse than Zimbabwe. Let me remind you that maize belonged to Zimbabweans in Zambia.
I want to take a long hard look at your phone and tell me if you have a 5 there? If not your network isn’t better than that in the UK. Healthcare, transport, etc we are far behind.
Whilst Zambia isn’t where it’s supposed to be, it is willing to improve, with new hotels, and road networks, hospitals, they’re building. That means they want to and are improving. Just last year alone there were 500 new roads in Lusaka. Where’s zims new road? New hospital? New buildings ( don’t even talk about fucking joina).
Where’s your tradable currency?
Please let’s be serious. I’m going to find you and speak to you face to face.
Your post is epileptic, post things with facts and knowledge. How dare u post such, in short u are saying zambia is ruled by Mugabe via Lungu, how sick of you.
The fact Zambia, now like RSA is having to arrest and deport economic refugees from Zimbabwe, is all the proof you need about where life is better for citizens between the two countries?
Unfortunately, I don’t argue with fools, people might not notice the difference.
Is this news at all google you will see Chombo kneeling in front of Grace not the President so who is worse off kneeling in front of a none entity not even at cell level kkkkkkkk
Mugabe put lungu in power. Lungu owes him. Just like the CIA puts american sympathizers in power in different parts of the world. Same king maker. Same tricks. wake up
Not just fake news but lots of crap starting with the writer up to the editor in chief.
Next time dont waste our time!
Tribalists like you are the worst idiots and morons who have taken this country back to Stone age. Zimbabwe is for all Zimbabweans whether shona, ndebele, karanga etc.
next time usatombonyora. this is nonsense
You Shona boy… where are your own fscts then? Sick!