Stupidity & Xenophobia – Sata has them by the bag full.

A little noticed comment by Michael Sata should worry Zambians very much, in fact there were two very telling comments made which should cause sleepless nights.


One was on his education policy whilst the other was on foreign policy. Between them they are probably the most ignorant and damaging policy ideas from a politician in modern history. Today’s Mail (16 Oct) reports on Sata’s visit to Mansa yesterday at which he made the two comments, judge for yourself: Education – The Mail reports Sata as saying that his government would do away with basic education and instead promote secondary education by constructing more schools.

How on earth does Sata intend to fill these secondary schools if he has done away with basic education? We are not all born with basic education. Every person knows that the most important time in a child’s life, in terms of health and education, are the first few years. Will his next education policy be to scrap secondary schools and build more Universities? So, Zambians, if you want to be an uneducated, illiterate nation just go ahead and vote for Sata. Make the most of it because after a few years of his rule hardly any Zambian will be able to read a ballot paper!

His second slip up was on how he views foreigners. In the 2006 elections he professed hatred of foreigners, especially the Chinese. This time around, actually from about four weeks ago he suddenly says he loves all foreigners, even posing for photos with Chinese people. This site highlighted Sata’s interview with extreme right-wing British journalist Peter Hitchens (see blog of 6th October). In that interview he clearly goes back to his foreigner hating roots. Well yesterday he was back on form again when he said, “We don’t need to run to China to come and develop our country, Zambians are the owners of the resources and they are the first investors”.

The man still does not understand what it takes to develop and run a modern economy. It is a fact of life that in today’s world countries invest in other countries, foreign companies invest in foreign countries. Sata’s ideas for Zambia’s economic future are well and truly stuck in the dark ages. I wonder if he will spurn all that foreign aid money which flows into Zambia each year. After all things like Malaria and Aids are under control in Sata’s world. At least he can say ‘no’ to all that money which goes into education…he will have no basic schools to invest it in! If Sata gets his way then Zambia will be isolated on the international stage, and that cannot be right.

If you think Zimbabwe has gone down the drain, just wait until you experience Zambia under Sata. What an ignorant man!

Michael Sata gets ringing endorsement from leading Western Journalist for being Xenophobic!

Michael Sata recently picked up a rather dubious endorsement. In an article published in The London Daily Mail and then this weekend in the Post, Journalist Peter Hitchens backed Mr. Sata in the upcoming by-election for the presidency of Zambia on October 30, 2008.


The reason for the endorsement was based on Mr. Sata’s avowed dislike of the Chinese living and working in Zambia. The logic behind Hitchen’s endorsement is that by supporting Sata, it will be a knock for what Hitchens has called a new Chinese Imperialism that he claims is bringing more corruption to Africa.

There is no doubt that development in Africa has been held back by corruption, but endorsing a politician that has never been able to keep a Ministerial job because scandal has followed him everywhere is ludicrous!

Dating back to the early 1990s scandals and corruption have followed Sata like stink follows a rubbish tip. Putting Michael Sata in charge of Zambia and expecting him to clean up corruption in the country is like putting the patient in charge of the asylum.

Ironically, the endorsement has come just at the time that Michael Sata has found it politically necessary to flip flop his viewpoint on the issue of the Chinese in Zambia. Only recently did the Post publish an article about him being friends and welcoming Chinese investors and here he is now, wanting them out again. Such puerile turncoat behaviour is hardly suitable for someone who wants to lead a nation. World leaders and the international community would condemn such inability to be decisive instantly.

Michael Sata also lacks the necessary skills to be his country’s leader. He has made his name as a stone thrower, a party wrecker and a rebel. He is not a man that works well with other people; the city of Lusaka is presently without a mayor because he has sacked the previous incumbent. 26 MPs and 380 members of the PF have left the party in disgust. They now have come out and are publicly supporting Rupiah Banda’s campaign to be President.

What Zambia needs is leadership that can continue the recent success that has brought economic stability, and not a Michael Sata presidency that will return Zambia to the bad old days of corrupt and abusive government which plagues so many African nations.