Growing Desire for Secession from Zambia

The tendency to want to breakaway from Zambia has been long coming and is not in the least surprising. The whole misguided notion that the British signed an agreement with Lewanika for the country to attain independence from Britain is absurd inasmuch as the British did not own Zambia. Zambia belonged to Zambians and for one person to think that the colonialists had the right to give power to one selfish individual is ridiculous and stupid. It is totally insane for some individuals from Western province to continue to harbour those far-fetched notions that Britain gave them a right to, at a later stage, start advocating for a separate independent state. 


It must be clear from the outset that Zambia and Zambians existed long before the British came to colonize us. It can be seen that the driving motivation to the call for secession is the deep rooted tribal characteristic that we all too familiar with.  Some of the individuals advocating and writing for secession are living in America and maybe in the United Kingdom and is a cowardly act. The recent write-up was merely academic with the intent to incite those that do not think outside those tribal boxes. This adventure by our learned colleague is a very dangerous one. It is likely to turnout into a disaster which will negatively impact innocent Zambians living in Western province and other provinces of Zambia. 


We all know about the desire for these people to have a country in which only one language will be recognized and other non-language speakers shall be called makwerekwere. What sort of freedom of expression have this or these individuals been  denied in Zambia? Is it freedom to have a one-language nation? We are aware that the majority from the province do not share these late silly ideas and neither do they want to be manipulated by individuals who think they are fighting for their freedom when living comfortably in Europe and America. It is not their immediate family members who will be caught up in the cross-fire but ordinary Zambian citizens.


Many of us have wonderful, educated friends that hail from Western province and will be a sad reality if their counterparts continued to push for the unacceptable secession. This development will be a relationship and game changer at the same time. How then will we deal with our friends knowing that their own are advocating for violence and separation? Developments like this dictate that we all make conscious choices about how to deal with such unfortunate selfishness from a handful of people. The spectre of civil as advocated for by our learned friend will unnecessarily introduce elements of suspicion such that innocent Zambians from Western province will be viewed as potential troublemakers or terrorists and terrorists have to be dealt with a sledge hammer.


Secessionist must take this as a timely warning that Zambia will not entertain their ill-conceived idea and deal with the situation with kid gloves. If they want a country of their own, let them go to Britain and have the British give them a piece of the UK. Zambia is a unitary state and we will not allow selfishness to bring chaos to the nation.

Lynch the Chinese that Shot Zambians in Sinazongwe

Zambians are ever so hospitable toward foreigners irrespective of their race and origin. The hospitality almost amounts to insanity when one considers the manner in which they tend to prostrate themselves just to please a foreigner to make them feel good about them as a people. It is true that the Zambian hospitality is not a make-believe type, it's true, and it's real. Therefore, foreigners coming to Zambia for tourism and business must therefore learn to appreciate Zambia's hospitality and that nowhere on the continent of Africa are they accorded the kind of respect and hospitality as in Zambia by Zambians.

Events of last week that took place at a Chinese-Owned mine in Sinazongwe, in Southern Province of Zambia were utterly unfortunate and repugnant and must not be allowed to happen again. Those two Chinese Managers that shot twelve Zambians acted with impunity and in total disregard of the laws of the land. However, one is made to think that they took the law in their own hands because they probably understand and assume that the legal system in Zambia is broken down and a far-cry. If this was their assumption and premise, they may have also drawn from recent miscarriage and travesty of justice in Zambia when innocent Zambians were wrongly sentenced while the criminals escaped Scot-free on account of  interference from some quarters.

The shooting of innocent Zambians was not the first at Chinese run mines in the country. The first of such incidents happened in the recent past at a Chinese mine in Copperbelt and no one knows if Zambian authorities ever took legal action against the Chinese that fired shots. The action of the Chinese managers  may be attributed to the Zambian leadership tendency to support foreign investors regardless of their wrong-doing. Their investment in Zambia is a symbiotic one. Therefore, the Chinese investors must not use their investments to hold the nation and its people to ransom. Laws of the land governing employment matters, if any, must be respected and followed to the letter.

If the law in the country is spineless or totally ineffective and does not and will not serve the interest of Zambians, then Zambians must start to act in self-defense against foreigners such as the Chinese mine Managers who are repeatedly displaying their propensity to act as hooligans. One wonders how long the perceived peace-loving  Zambians will continue in this manner in the face of unwarranted aggression from the Chinese. Zambians who do not appear to have the leadership and the law on their side will have no choice but resort to taking the law in their own hands against Chinese hooliganism. Zambians can no longer continue acting nice against Chinese hooligans or any other investors who come to the country to reap from Zambia's natural wealth.