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A GOAT DRAMA: WHEN USEFUL IDIOTS DRESSED AS GOATS IN SHEEP SKIN ‘CONGREGOAT’ IN A COMICAL GOAT-TOGETHER! By Sunday Chilufya Chanda A “useful idiot” is a colourful term for a person who is a propagandist for a cause of whose goals they are not fully aware and who are used cynically by the (mis)leaders of the cause. The related term “Acting the Billy goat” is according to the urban dictionary, a term used to describe a person being an idiot or being incredibly inanely obstinate. The “leaders” of political parties who recently met at a hotel in Lusaka fit the bill of both terms quite nicely. Chishimba Kambwili, Elias Chipimo, Mike Mulongoti, Charles Milupi, Sean Tembo, and other tag-alongs, all have one thing in common; they are Hichilema’s useful “obliGOATary” idiots! They represent the cast of a slapstick comedy that portrays a nearly extinct Billy Goat misleading other goats (that pretend to be sheep) away from green pastures to parched barren land. These  goats ...
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ANALOGIES FROM NATURE IN CONTEXT: EVERYTHING IN GOD’S CREATION – BIG AND SMALL, PROVIDES VALUABLE LESSONS FOR US ALL By Sunday Chilufya Chanda Introduction The natural physical world around us including plants, animals and landscapes provide valuable lessons for humanity. As the 19th Century Poet Alfred Billings Street once wrote: “Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.” Even the scriptures use nature and elements of God’s creation to create analogies and for lessons of life that provide us with a wealth of wisdom. For instance the Book of Proverbs in Chapter 6 uses the analogy of the ant to admonish lazy individuals and those don’t plan for the future to take a leaf from the ways of an ant in order to be hardworking, purposeful, cooperative and full of foresight: “Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways a...
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STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: DELUSIONAL PILLOW TALK FROM A MARRIAGE OF INCONVENIENCE – A Response To Messrs Kambwili and Hichilema By Sunday Chilufya Chanda When two egomaniacs that have nothing in common except their greed for power and a mutual disdain of each other conjugate in political unholy matrimony, the consummation of their morbid marriage of inconvenience begets nothing but brute perversion. The deliberate ignoring of truth and twisting of facts by National Democratic Congress ‘Insultant’ Chishimba Kambwili and his newly found infatuation with the imprudent itches of UPND Life President Hakainde Hichilema make a rather peculiar specimen of the delusional tendencies of self-seeking purveyors of sensationalism. Their raw psychotic presentation is a bizarre novelty – a collector’s item. Kaput Kambwili Kambwili attempts to mask his lack of comprehension with a false bravado. This regularly manifests through his tendency to speak before he listens and it is a telling sy...
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CONGRATULATIONS TO UPND AS THEY CELEBRATE 20 YEARS OF EXISTENCE: MAY THIS BE A TIME OF SOBER REFLECTION TO LEARN FROM THE PAST AS THEY LOOK TO THE FUTURE. By Sunday Chilufya Chanda Compliments of the season and congratulations to the leader of the United Party for National Development (UPND) as well as the National Management Committee (NMC) and general Membership as they celebrate twenty (20) years of their party’s existence in Opposition. Although we are contenders in the political space, and our mutual discourse can at times get feisty, we are at the end of the day brothers and sisters; kith and kin jointly occupying the same geographical space of the only nation we belong to together-Zambia. Our nationhood in diversity is what unites us and it ultimately is stronger than what divides us. As our sisters and brothers celebrate this significant this milestone, it is important for them to take stock of the last two decades and learn from their past as they look ahead...
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DUKE OF SUSSEX VISIT TO ZAMBIA: OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH UNITED KINGDOM & THE COMMONWEALTH CONTINUES TO BE FORTIFIED UNDER THE STEWARDSHIP OF PRESIDENT EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU EVEN AS BREXIT DRAWS NEAR By Sunday Chilufya Chanda The visit of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, KCVO, ADC (P) to the Republic of Zambia has been of great mutual import in many respects to both Zambia and Britain. Apart from being a member of the British Royal Family and a grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and the fact that he is sixth in the line of succession to the British throne; He is also Commonwealth Youth Ambassador as well as President of African Parks. Wildlife Conservation and Tourism Prince Harry has a long history supporting conservation and humanitarian efforts across Africa and as earlier mentioned, he is also President of African Parks- a Wild life Conservation Group. During closed-door talks with His Excellency President Edgar Chagwa Lungu, he informed the Head of State that Afr...
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