Dear Editor,PARTY criss -crossing by most political players has seemingly reached alarming proportions by these seemingly “demagogue” politicians.As Zambia heads towards the August 2021 watershed general elections, this shameless phenomenon will undoubtedly become the order of the day.While being cognizant that every citizen has a fundamental right to belong to any political party of his/her choice as enshrined in the Bill of Rights, the question that baffles many political spectators is- what political ideology do such politicians represent?For example, in South Africa one is either an ANC (Kongolosi), Democratic Alliance (DA), EFF (Commissar), UDM, etc member de-spite the prevailing political temperature of one’s party at any given time. Same goes for the Americans and the British, one is either a Repub-lican or Democrat and Conservative or Labour respectively.But what is so different about Zambian political players? It is an issue of “bamusela kwakaba,” “nchelele bula” (politics of the belly), seek-ing political office and positions at […]
Political prostitution syndrome in Zambia
