Sat, 06 May 2017 14:44:11 +0000 By OSCAR MALIPENGA IT IS a lie that Zambians based in South Africa protested against President Edgar Lungu over the incarceration of UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema and those pictures published in The Mast Newspaper yesterday could have been stage-managed. Presidential assistant for press and public relations Amos Chanda made the revelation yesterday. The Mast on Friday published a story suggesting that Zambians based in South Africa, supported by some South Africans, staged a protest outside Durban’s Hilton Hotel against President Lungu and his Government, demanding that the Head of State should immediately and unconditionally release Mr. Hichilema. But Mr Chanda, Presidential Affairs minister Freedom Sikazwe and Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa Emmanuel Mwamba, who were in the presidential entourage in South Africa, confirmed that there was no single Zambian based in South Africa who protested against President Lungu at Hilton Hotel during the World Economic Forum on Africa. […]
