Collaboration, dialogue, and negotiated consensus are not signs of weakness, they are strategic necessities if a credible alternative is to emerge.
Category: Politics
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A CHAT WITH A POLITICIAN – A MUST READ FOR POLITICAL LEADERS AHEAD OF 2026 GENERAL ELECTIONS
PF’s performance in Southern Province has historically been marginal, at times falling below one percent, with humiliating vote gaps in certain by-elections. The conclusion is unavoidable. Southern Province is not where elections are won for the opposition. Pretending otherwise is strategic fantasy.
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A MESSAGE FROM EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU’S HOME IN CHAWAMA
The results make the deeper story unavoidable. FDD, backed by PF, obtained 8,085 votes. CF secured 1,534. Independent candidates together collected 894. NCP added 319. EPPP contributed 239. LM had 100. NDC recorded 93. When these opposition votes are placed together, they total 11,264. UPND managed 6,542.
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RED FLAG: ECZ NUMBERS DO NOT TALLY
As we approach the 2026 general elections here in Zambia, I would like to urge opposition political parties to not only run emotionally driven campaigns with nice slogans and danceable music. They must invest heavily in data and systems if they are to avoid being shocked on 13 August. On election day, it is not slogans that decide outcomes. It is numbers.
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PF AT A CROSSROADS: UNITY, LEGITIMACY AND THE COST OF WAITING
The programme did not resolve PF’s leadership question, nor was it intended to. What it did was strip away the illusion that delay carries no cost.
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Ibu Appeals for Dignity as Lungu Burial Delay Enters 7th Month
“My heart is in pain,” Mwamba said, noting that seven months had passed since President Lungu’s death without closure for his family or the nation.
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COLLECTING TAXES IN YUAN IS GREAT. BUT THEN WHAT?
A country does not become prosperous by optimising how it collects a small share of someone else’s wealth. It becomes prosperous by owning the asset that generates the wealth in the first place.
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ARCHBISHOP ALICK BANDA IS NOT JUST ANOTHER MAN. HE IS AN INSTITUTION.
A Commentary by Brian Matambo | 3rd January 2026 There are moments in a nation’s life when clarity is demanded, not diplomacy. This moment that Zambia finds herself in is one of them. To suggest that Archbishop Alick Banda is an “ordinary man” is not merely an error of judgment. It is a failure to...
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STEALING DEMOCRACY IN SILENCE
President Hichilema set up a Financial and Crimes Court targeting former Patriotic Front officials and gazetted a five-month period in which all prosecution must conclude( where the subjects should all be put in prison).
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WHY IS PRESIDENT HAKAINDE HICHILEMA GOING AFTER ARCHBISHOP ALICK BANDA?
Zambia’s democracy was never meant to be a courtroom without conscience. It was meant to be a covenant between law, reason, and faith. When any one of these is crushed under the weight of ego, the nation begins to fracture.