By Paradious Sakala OME Thursday, August 12 next month, President Dr. Edgar Changwa Lungu will be defending his position against fifteen other presidential hopefuls. Compared with five years ago, they were only nine of them. Each one of these 16 contenders believes they are best positioned for the job. Yet political analysts believe the race is tight between two candidates.In as much as there are no underdogs in politics, analysts presume that the real contest is oscillating between President Lungu (a lawyer turned politician) of the Patriotic Front (PF) and Hakainde Hichilema (a business tycoon turned politician) of the United Party for National Development (UPND). The two political pugilists are meeting for the third time in a space of at least six years.They both passed through same political mentors. They are students of late Anderson Mazoka, UPND founding president and late President Michael Sata, equally a founding father of the PF. Fascinatingly, HH who Sata fondly […]
CHAGWAISM VERSUS HAKAINDEISM: A THIRD ROUND BOUT OF IDEOLOGIES
