Dear Editor,THESE recent alliances are a stillbirth! Because they are designed to aggregate regional votes as if people were goods! Instead of marketing ideas, they peddle tribal support!Overtime, leaders have increasingly driven voters along ethnic and regional lines establishing their own political strongholds drawn from their own ethnic groupings.The rapid rise of identity politics in Zambia is what we should worry about, not the so-called fragmentation of the opposition. In a multitude of opposition political parties, the Patriotic Front won, as a single party, the elections of 2011.It should worry us that political parties have been established on personalities and their capacity to draw regional or ethnic support.We need to sincerely rebuild the One Zambia, One Nation our forefathers envisaged. So the hasty patchwork formations that we continue to see, are intended to draw personalities that may draw support from the ethnic regions they come from to these formations.This is an exercise in futility for […]
IT’S NOT ALLIANCES THAT WILL WORK
