Sun, 07 Jan 2018 13:15:54 +0000 Sometimes negative forces do our job for us. Earlier this week, Luapula Province was reported to have gone into jubilation following reports that Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba had resigned, with some PF cadres taking to the streets in celebration. However, his resignation was allegedly meant to preempt an imminent reshuffle by President Edgar Lungu with several big names facing the chop. Ironically, the PF cadres’ jubilation is a help because it crystallizes what is at stake in a ruling party that has been ripped apart by war of words since the demise in 2014 of the founder leader late Michael Sata and the ensuing presidential succession wrangles. Let no one think that the firing of Chishimba Kambwili, Lucky Mulusa and now the resignation of Harry Kalaba is an obscure little internal cabinet conflict that has no bearing on the rest of the ruling party. On the contrary, the […]
