BY PHILIP CHIRWA SHOE MENDER VERSUS POLICE INSPECTOR: WHO IS THE BOSS? ONE Saturday morning, some years back, I took my shoes to a roadside shoe repairer’s shop in Lusaka’s Kamwala second class trading area. While there, I had the fortune of witnessing a hot but interesting argument between the old man mending my shoes and a police officer in civilian clothes who said he was from the nearby Lusaka Central Police Station. The argument centred basically on respect for another person’s job. The old man felt that the police officer had been rude to him and therefore wanted to show him that even cobblers mattered in society and could not be underrated with impunity. This is how the scuffle started: I was initially the only customer at the shoe repair shop which was located under a tree shade with several concrete blocks serving as seats for customers. The old man gave me the day’s […]
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