I still dont understand why PK Chishala and his lyrics have not been the subject of many a thesis etc
He was celebrated amonsgt other things for his poltical and culture satire.
A man with no sight, saw and understood those with full vision, and presented it in visual poetry.
2017: Two anti-robbery (C5) police officers, Sergeant Benard Chilubula & Detective Sergeant Francis Kunda were shot dead by armed criminals during a shootout in Ndola, Zambia. The exchange also resulted in the deaths of two of the suspects & left a civilian wounded.
When children receive Holy Communion, there is a very strick way they have to present themselves on the line. And we have to pay attention too. If we don't, even their friends will challenge us at the end of the Mass.
This is what we need!!! I have been telling White Men to fight back for ages and now FINALLY something is happening, i hope this goes viral, because this video needs to be seen by every single fighting masculine White Men! 🔥💪🏼
ELECTORAL EXCLUSION: The authorities in Zambia have prevented six opposition parties – including all the three former ruling parties – from fielding candidates for election to all public offices: president, member of parliament, mayor, council chairperson, and councilor.
President Putin of Russia once said, "I will never forgive betrayal." In African politics, betrayal is not new. Cde Sankara was betrayed, and Cde Lumumba was also betrayed. Today, we are witnessing what many believed to be a new generation of warriors against neo-imperialism from former colonial powers like France facing internal divisions.
The President of Senegal, Faye, has fired his Prime Minister, Sonko @SonkoOfficiel. I remember vividly in 2022 during an X Space hosted by @mats56455, I had the opportunity to engage with Cde Sonko, the now-fired Prime Minister of Senegal. Sonko wanted to understand how and why Zimbabwe under President ED.Mnangagwa @edmnangagwa has managed to withstand the economic sanctions imposed by the USA and its allies, seeing and witnessing the growth in the economy, especially in agriculture.
In his closing remarks, Cde Sonko said, "We are the current generation of leaders that can build Africa."
With that, I will say this to Cde Sonko @SonkoOfficiel: the journey of a new political era has come, my brother. Betrayal has always been part of revolution.
Archbishop Mpundu championed for a level political field for all...he was a voice of the voiceless. This did not go well with some people in positions of influence. He however remained unshaken, says Most Reverend Archbishop Dr. Alick Banda. Read more @ https://t.co/R42OyH9WBl
Hello Mr Hichilema! You must be pleased to have another prominent critic of your poor leadership gone. You are very fortunate sir: death keeps taking away your most prominent critics - Edith Nawakwi, Edgar Lungu and now the retired Archbishop of Lusaka Telesphore Mpundu. I pray that you will not be demanding to officiate the funeral now, drawing on your recent experience of giving sermons in Catholic Churches and of insisting to attend funerals of individuals whom you had little regard for while they lived.
Even the picture you used to accompany your post tells a story. Because your recent relationship with him had turned sour, as it has with many of those who supported you in opposition but now regret it owing to your dreadful performance in office, you had to go back all the way to 2021 to find a suitable picture that was taken after the mass that the retired Archbishop conducted for you at State House soon after your election.
What followed next is well known: Archbishop Mpundu, as he did to your predecessors whenever they strayed from the course of good governance, regularly criticised your leadership actions. In response, you and your supporters, as you have repeatedly done to the Catholic Bishops and to other well-meaning critics, denounced the man of God. Today, now that he has died, you want to pretend that you are sorrowful? Please cut us some slack, Mr Hichilema. You should have a sense of shame, sir.
You can lie to yourself and to your zealot supporters but you will never deceive those of us who are familiar with your breathtaking hypocrisy. The truth that must be stated is that Archbishop Mpundu, who contributed to your election, died very disappointed at what you became in office, at the tragedy of your presidency. In one of his final public interviews (I have attached it to this post for ease of reference), Archbishop Mpundu correctly branded you as “a master of corruption”, “a dictator who does not listen to anyone”, and a failure who “should not be allowed to go [i.e. remain in office for] more than one term.”
I can also now tell you that the Archbishop was extremely sad that you are now trying to send civil rights activist Brebner Changala, another person who helped you ascend to public office, to prison on a transparently silly charge of sedition using Magistrate Davies Chibwili. This issue really disturbed him. Mpundu died with his extremely high regard for Changala, whom he affectionately called Saint Brebner. As you know, Changala is the man who visited you in prison in July 2017 when you were unjustly arrested on a bogus charge of treason and whom you requested to ask the Catholic leadership to help secure your release from prison. Thanks to his efforts, you were released.
Today, this is the same Changala you are determined to send to prison for criticising your leadership over the abduction of then Petauke constituency member of parliament Emmanuel Banda when the people whom the victim named as his abductors, who include two of your aides, are roaming scot-free. Do you see why the Archbishop was disappointed in what you have become? What kind of a person are you, Mr Hichilema? You are very poor at managing relations.
If you cannot own up to your failings, please continue with your hypocrisy and leave us to mourn the Archbishop. By us, I mean the people to whom the Archbishop was a hero before 2021 and after 2021 when you and your supporters took turns to denounce him for the crime of pointing out the pitfalls of your leadership. Should you insist on attending the funeral, I pray that the Catholics do not allow you to speak so that we may be saved from listening to more of your repulsive diet of hypocrisy.
Every country has, at one time or another, a religious leader who acts as the conscience of the nation and with the strength of conviction that is respected even by their fiercest critics. For Zambia, and since the deaths of Cardinal Medardo Joseph Mazombwe (2013), Bishop Paul Francis Duffy (2011), and Bishop Dennis Harold De Jong (2003), that honour belonged to Emeritus Archbishop of Lusaka Telesphore George Mpundu.
A dignified and consistent advocate for justice, the 78-year-old was among a very small number of the Zambian clergy who are incapable of finding peace in an environment in which human suffering is manufactured by the politicians in power. Throughout his public life, Mpundu consistently raised both his voice and the quality of his argument to speak out against human rights violations, corruption in government, attacks on democracy, intentional polarisation, and the indifference of the country’s political leadership to the plight of many. It is as if he was spurred by the knowledge that to be silent in the face of these human-made sins is to actively participate in sustaining the status quo.
In addition to bearing sympathy for the elites in power who found his ability to speak out on issues of public interest unbearable, the man of God refused to be bullied into silence by successive governing parties’ familiar tactic of accusing anyone who criticises the government, however well intentioned, of being an opposition supporter. A highly courageous and principled individual, Archbishop Mpundu served as an inspiring example of the kind of clergy Zambia or Africa needs – those with a deep sense of responsibility and a conscience that is restless in the face of injustice, bad governance, human rights violations and the degrading poverty that surrounds them.
Archbishop Mpundu fought a good fight.
Every country has, at one time or another, a religious leader who acts as the conscience of the nation and with the strength of conviction that is respected even by their fiercest critics. For Zambia, and since the deaths of Cardinal Medardo Joseph Mazombwe (2013), Bishop Paul Francis Duffy (2011), and Bishop Dennis Harold De Jong (2003), that honour belonged to Emeritus Archbishop of Lusaka Telesphore George Mpundu.
A dignified and consistent advocate for justice, the 78-year-old was among a very small number of the Zambian clergy who are incapable of finding peace in an environment in which human suffering is manufactured by the politicians in power. Throughout his public life, Mpundu consistently raised both his voice and the quality of his argument to speak out against human rights violations, corruption in government, attacks on democracy, intentional polarisation, and the indifference of the country’s political leadership to the plight of many. It is as if he was spurred by the knowledge that to be silent in the face of these human-made sins is to actively participate in sustaining the status quo.
In addition to bearing sympathy for the elites in power who found his ability to speak out on issues of public interest unbearable, the man of God refused to be bullied into silence by successive governing parties’ familiar tactic of accusing anyone who criticises the government, however well intentioned, of being an opposition supporter. A highly courageous and principled individual, Archbishop Mpundu served as an inspiring example of the kind of clergy Zambia or Africa needs – those with a deep sense of responsibility and a conscience that is restless in the face of injustice, bad governance, human rights violations and the degrading poverty that surrounds them.
Archbishop Mpundu fought a good fight.