tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6900460698887397063.post6726227573928467842..comments2023-11-02T11:56:00.047+00:00Comments on issues over matters: SATA'S POLITICAL SWANSONGAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02444385043826528068noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6900460698887397063.post-86307993711446949172007-11-11T00:25:00.000+00:002007-11-11T00:25:00.000+00:00The tragedy of the Zambian political psyche is its...The tragedy of the Zambian political psyche is its tendency to forget. You rightly point to many years Michael Sata spent at the highest levels of power both in Kaunda's regime as well as under the kleptomanic regime of Frederick Chiluba. As things stand today, people have chosen to forget the manner in which the current president ascended to the high office. The petition against his election in 2001 brought out sufficient evidence to prove that the process leading to his election was so flawed that in another dispensation, it would not pass the standard of 'free and fair.'All that, and more importantly the widely held perception that late Anderson Mazoka beat Mr Mwanawasa to the count, currently stand for nothing in the estimation of people within the Zambian body politic.And so Michael Sata thrived at the last election , his role in the last two regimes conveniently forgotten.<BR/>At what point, will the record of any of the candidates contending for power be brought into the court of public opinion to be evaluated?Lweendo Hamusankwahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07818402775095113200noreply@blogger.com