ABOUT CHECKS AND BALANCES: THE ROLE OF ACTIVISTSDear Editor,IN the past five years or so during my time in opposition against the PF administration, l had the opportunity to meet and rub shoulders with many so-called civil society activists as well as democracy and good-governance activists.One thing that brought us together was our opposition to the PF administration. We even undertook certain activities together with some of them, such as protesting at Parliament against PF corruption, during presentation of the national budget.Of course in our respective capacities, I as an opposition leader and them as activists.However along the way, l began to wonder whether these were independent activists who just wanted democracy and good governance for the county, from the goodness of their hearts, or they were UPND cadres disguising themselves as activists.My suspicions began to slowly get confirmed during instances that the UPND did exactly what we used to condemn PF for, such as […]
ABOUT CHECKS AND BALANCES: THE ROLE OF ACTIVISTS
