Last week the Vice President Mutale Nalumango told Parliament that Zambia will not entertain gay rights. The major reason stated for this is that Zambia is a Christian Nation.

Mrs Nalumango emphasised the following:

“We are a Christian Nation and that remains on the books. If this government at any one time wants gay rights, you will be the first to know but we are a Christian Nation, we continue to be who we are”

Following this announcement, the president of America who embraces gay rights, was quick to make his move too. Zambia had long been anticipating the meeting between President Hakainde Hichilema and Joe Biden. However, the meeting was abruptly cancelled.

Senior Zambia Diplomats close to Washington revealed that the meeting was cancelled following the VP Nalumango’s announcement on gay rights. They further indicated that this move was a clear message that the US would not support countries opposed to gay rights.

The Diplomats revealed that since the coming of President Hakainde Hichilema the Chargé d’Affaires David Young had indicated that Zambia was now ready to embrace gay rights. Their hopes are that the cancellation of the meeting has sent a clear signal to Zambia.

A number of African countries still don’t tolerate gays in their countries. For instance, Nigeria is said to have been recently threatened with travel and financial sanctions over the same issue.

Zimbabwe has also shown intolerance on the matter. A Saint Johns College School Board Chairman has previously had to resign over gay teacher scandal.

Even in America where gay rights are embraced, much noise surrounded the scene of the gay presidential candidate who kissed his lover on stage.

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In an unexpected yet much-anticipated turn of events, Zambia’s opposition won the elections despite the efforts to rig that had been made. This news excited the world, particularly Zimbabweans who are now hopeful for the upcoming 2023 elections. Ideas were shared by Zimbabweans throughout social media on how they can defend their vote this coming election.

The Zanu-PF party made a point to indicate that their party shares many similarities to Hakainde Hichilema. However, President Mnangagwa was later recorded basically telling Zimbabweans that they should fear if what happened in Zambia happens here. This is despite the sentiments relating to this issue that some officials shared.

Watch the video below:

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The ruling Zanu PF party on the other hand is now also claiming Hakainde Hichilema, in a post on one of their Facebook page named EDhasmyhope the ruling party says Hakainde Hichilema’s UPND party is similar to Zanu PF, than the outgoing Patriotic Front, the irony!

Below is their full statement;

What Wamba Brigade,dont know is that historically and ideologically speaking, Lungu’s party is the real MDC of Zambia although both Lungu’s party and Hichilema’s UPND are splinter parties of Chiluba’s MMD, Hichilema’s party has the closest links with Kaunda’s UNIP as a lot of leaders who served under Kaunda joined hands with Hichilema’s party.

In 2006 for example, UNIP and other opposition parties fielded Hichilema as their presidential candidate. So UPND, the party of Hichilema, is the one that can be said to share historical and ideological similarities with Zanu PF.

However the major observation with Zambian politics if compared to politics in the rest of SADC, is that it is the only country alongside Malawi that have seen their founding independent ruling parties being dislodged from power several times. Kaunda first lost it to the party of Lungu, then led by Chiluba. At one time, albeit inside a coalition UNIP won back the power and lost it again when Lungu came to power. However the disappearance of UNIP from the Zambian political turf today can be attributed to the personalisation of leadership of the UNIP presidency to the Kaundas as KK’s son stuck to the helm of that party among many other reasons.

As for the second republic in Zimbabwe, those in the know are aware how Lungu tried to entertain the idea of militarily coming to the rescue of RG following the November 2017 transition in Zimbabwe. However he later abandoned the idea after noticing that the caucus for liberation war parties of Southern Africa were fully behind the coup that was not a coup depending on one’s persuasion.

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In the the 5 minute clip the Good News Church preacher also mentions the fall of Edgar Lungu, and how he had cheated on the previous elections in 2016.

Prophet Uebert Angel was accused of supporting Hakainde Hichilema by Edgar Lungu, Prophet Uebert Angel was denied access to enter into Zambia for a prayer conference by Lungu.

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Africans have know elections to often yield results that don’t align with the majority’s general sentiment with regard to the country’s leadership. There have been various speculations on how some African leaders have rigged elections to stay in power. Whatever the case is, elections are often a stressful time. In Zimbabwe, members of the electoral board have had to receive counselling to help them deal with the trauma of the ‘free and fair’ election period.

Many thought Zambia’s elections wouldn’t be any different. However, you can imagine the celebrations that are currently underway as the opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema had a landslide victory of 2,810,777 votes against Edgar Lungu’s 1,814,201.

The freeness and fairness exhibited by these elections came so unexpectedly even for the now former president, Lungu. According to Lungu, the elections were not free and fair. Just as the common narrative goes, Lungu is said to have had plans to rig these elections like some African leaders are said to do. However, YouTube is now flooded with videos of voters showing no mercy to those that were caught with pre-marked ballot papers.

Those in the comment section of the videos showing the merciless treatment of people caught in possession of pre-marked ballot papers, attributed the election result to the unity of the citizens. Their strong will of saying enough is enough and working together to stop any corrupt activities pertaining to the elections was applauded.

View some other comments on this matter below:

So to sum it up, “unity” of the voters and taking collaborated action is said to be the major reason why the alleged rigging plans failed.

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This election was Hakainde Hichilema’s 6^th attempt, the journey wasn’t easy for him though, and the 59 year old had to endure political persecution including getting arrested for treason.

The incumbent Edgar Lungu was vying for his third term after amending the constitution. He has since declared the election not free and fair.

Hichilema secured 2,810,757 votes against Lungu’s 1,814,201 with 155 of 156 constituencies having been announced.

The youths is Zambia played a vital role in this election after enduring economic hardships and repression under Edgar Lungu’s tenure.

Celebrations are under way in Zambia, as the nation pins I hopes of revival on the business tycoon.

A similar script played out in Malawi with the youth of that country also coming out in huge numbers to vote.

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This move is rare particularly for a sitting president in Africa, the Zambian president is claiming that his polling agents were chased from polling stations and that his parties North  West province chairman, Jackson Kungo was also murdered amongst other reason, which render the elections not free and fair, the President has since deployed the army into Zambia’s streets to maintain peace so to speak.

This comes as the leader of Zambia’s largest opposition party  The United Party for National Development (UPND) Hakainde Hichilema is leading the incumbent, in early election results.

You can read the full statement below;

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