Wed, 03 May 2017 11:44:38 +0000 By Linda Soko FORMER UPND Bweengwa Member of Parliament Highvie Hamududu has launched a new political party known as Party for National Unity (PNU). Speaking during the launch in Lusaka, Mr. Hamadudu, who is the interim president, said Zambia was a unitary State, and needed to premise its development agenda on peace and unity. He said that without unity, , nothing much could be achieved. He decided to form a political party because ‘‘Zambia was being torn apart by political extremism’’ while there was little room for political dialogue. “This state of affairs is eating away at the very best fabric of national unity and collective progress as a country. In some cases, this tension is growing into deep-rooted ethnic hatred,” he said. He said Zambia needed political organisation premised on national principles and values that saw the good in people of different ethnic groupings instead of […]
