Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:51:06 +0000 VJ’s being sycophantic to the UPND leadership Dear Editor, It is said that the real hero, is the man who fights even though he is scared. But can that apply to Zambia’s veteran politician and UPND sympathizer Vernon Mwaanga (VJ)? I doubt it. I don’t know about you, but I am getting really worried by VJ’s antics when he claimed that the 2016 general elections left a divided country, characterised by the alleged refusal by the Constitutional Court to hear the presidential election petition and the consequent non-recognition of President Edgar Lungu by UPND (“VJ calls for dialogue without preconditions”, Daily Nation, June 10, 2017). First, I put it down to his UPND sycophancy, but the veteran politician’s subsequent U-turns in the last few weeks have given me cause to wonder if there isn’t more to him than merely being sycophantic to the incarcerated UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema. Whichever […]
