By MUBANGA LUCHEMBE PREDICTABLY more than ever before, we live in a country of passing enthusiasm and panic. Waves of hope or fear, prompted by some seemingly significant post-regime change event, pass around the nation like local tsunamis.But this is a time for keeping feet planted firmly on the ground. It is time to pay less attention to what is happening on the surface and more to what light solid evidence and mature analysis can shed on any matter of current concern. Never has this been more relevant than right now in Zambia.It is one of the benefits of modern information technology that post-regime change events can be reported and reactions shared almost instantly, and on a massive scale. Recent events in the country illustrate this new ‘information power’ in obvious ways. But there is a less welcome aspect which has not been commented upon enough. It is now much easier for large masses of people to convince […]
DEALING WITH INDENI PETROLEUM REFINERY
