Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:58:21 +0000 The bright dawn of multiparty liberal politics ushered in by the 1991 heady elections that threw out the UNIP one Party state system is slowly being eclipsed by the emergence of native politics. This was a genre of politics characterized by authoritarianism, fear, calumny and mediocrity, devoid of the complexity that any civilized and advanced democracy stands for. Native politics subordinate Public interest and common good interests to sectarian “party” aspirations. Increasingly those in authority hallucinate and convince themselves of their own omniscience and omnipotence, that indeed their parochial interests are equal to or should be equal to public interest. This is a fallacy which Wynter Kabimba and his group need to know. They must appreciate the truism of “existentialism”- the fact that individuals are free, responsible and always bound to determine their own destiny. Individuals are not herds to be corralled without cause and reason. This is the […]
