ITS TIME TO KILL THE COBRA!

Dear Readers,

It has been a interesting month in the lead up to the elections. Thank you for all of your support and comments - we have one last thing to ask from you:

Go out and vote tomorrow! Take your family, your uncles and aunts and your neighbours - fill up your cars with people and take them to the polling stations. Your vote is a right and it has been given to you so that you can improve your lives.

Whoever you vote for HH, Rupiah Banda or Miyande - remember to select the candidate who will continue taking Zambia forward. As economic crises loom globally, now is the time to choose someone who will be sensible, someone who wants the best for the country not just for themselves.

Get out there...vote and together lets make sure Sata doesn't win!!

The Kusila Kwa Cobra Team

INDEPENDENCE DAY

My Fellow Zambians,

A lot has been said today about how far we have come as a nation over the last 44 years, and indeed there is much to be proud of. We have a beautiful country with plentiful resources and hard workers.

But we must not let all the blood that was shed during the struggle for freedom, nor the development we have achieved be in vain.

To elect Sata to lead our country would be a grave mistake. One that may cost our country all that we, our parents and our children, hold dear in our hearts and in our minds.

We ask that you take time to reflect on the gravity of the situation and truly ask yourself...What will be left once this man gets his hands on our nation?

The most important thing you can do on this Independence Day is make a decision to elect a President who can carry our country forwards. Not backwards in to the dark ages of hatred, violence, frustration and complete poverty.

Think carefully, it is your duty to vote in the elections and it is your duty to vote wisely.

Happy Independence Day!
The Kusila Kwa Cobra Team

Cobra Finally Showing Us What He Would Do If Elected!

Sata’s campaign for the by-election to choose a President who can serve the remainder of the late HE Levy Mwanawasa’s term has, for far too long, been dominated by the Post newspapers attempted character assassination of the MMD candidate and Acting President Rupiah Banda.

What has been missing is a proper discussion on the issues. At last it looks like the hyperbole is settling down and Sata is going to give us a proper look at his positions on the issues. Now the electorate may finally have the necessary information in order judge which candidate to choose, based on what they stand for. A good example of what a Sata presidency might look like came in a recent campaign declaration, whereby Michael Sata announced that if elected he would force foreign companies to set aside 25% of their investment for locals. At first glance this may seem like a good idea. But what would the long term effect of this policy be?

There seems to be general consensus in Zambia that the economy has been doing well for the past 7 years. The key to that success, was recognition by the late President Mwanawasa that economic prosperity in the modern world is based on a countries ability to attract foreign investment.

The astute President understood that foreign investment was a fickle bedfellow, much like the fairytale goose that lays the golden egg. With both the goose and foreign investment, if you squeeze either too hard then they will stop laying for you. Sata’s proposal to force 25% religuishment of international inward business, is an action that will squeeze Zambia dry of foreign investment.

There is no doubt that Sata is a populist politician, trying to get votes by making promises that will be impossible to deliver. However this policy is also sending a message to the greater world as to the type of people that a Sata presidency will be seeking and taking advice from. This policy is taken from one of his great political hero’s Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe.

The same Robert Mugabe, that has steered his country to almost total economic collapse and a world record inflation rate of over a trillion percent. After the recent economic success and growth in our country, Zambian voters may not think that a Zimbabwe meltdown is possible here. But remember; Zimbabwe was once the breadbasket of Southern Africa and in only a few short years has become the basket case!

PROTECT ZED - DON'T VOTE SATA!

Where was Mr. Sata Hiding?

A memorial service to celebrate the life of HE Levy Mwanawasa was held in central Lusaka this last Sunday, and there was one very conspicuous individual who failed to attend.

The absence was not conspicuous just because this was a national event and the absentee is standing as a candidate in the upcoming by-election that will serve to select the successor of the recently passed President.

The non-appearance of Mr. Sata was so blatant because it was clearly a personal snub of the man who only recently saved Mr. Sata’s life!

While Mr. Sata was lying in hospital in Lusaka after suffering a massive heart attack in April of this year, who was it that arranged for the acerbic politician to be airlifted to South Africa to receive cardiac care?

The recently deceased President, that’s who!

Is this how the man that wants to be the next President of Zambia pays his respect? The memorial was not a political event, it was a country bidding farewell to a beloved President.

The memorial was supposed to be a time when political leaders put their partisanship aside and be just leaders; leading the people in mourning.

If Sata were to become President of Zambia, would he not show up at a SADC meeting or an AU summit because there were going to be people there that didn’t like him?

Would he avoid addressing the UN in New York, because the Chinese are on the Security Council?

Leadership is not a popularity contest; one must be able to lead those that are supporters and non-supporters alike.

Think carefully Zambia, before you vote!