Comments on: Zambia under Hakainde Hichilema: welcome to the ‘homegrown’ dictatorship of the IMF and finance capital!

By: Collins Teembo

Collins Teembo — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:09:38 +0000

It is important to remember that money does not grow by firing Bank Governor

By: Benson Moono

Benson Moono — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 05:09:34 +0000

Ooooh another of those defeated & bitter PF tribalist trying to sound educated with his street economics.

Us the majority Zambians listen to the sound & educated advice of a very educated & successful economist, the President of the Republic of Zambia, HE Hakainde Hichilema. We don’t take advise fr street *****s masquerading as economics experts.

By: Francis Phiri

Francis Phiri — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 04:40:30 +0000

We are all debtors, individually and collectively, one way or another. We borrow for a good reason but we don’t need to pay back the creditors by again borrowing. If we do that we enslave ourselves… IMF is a slave driver we all know that. Prudence ought to have taken precedence. Wait and see.

By: Nega-Nega

Nega-Nega — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:46:50 +0000

In reply to UPND Cadre from Ngombe Compound Lsk.

HH found Zambia enslaved to foreign debt amounting to an unpayable US $30 billion. The IMF loan and its terms were terms he was forced to accept because of the debt he found

By: Nega-Nega

Nega-Nega — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:42:22 +0000

In reply to Mayo Mpapa.

I remember this fake anarchist, Azwell Banda. He was the President General of UNZASU when I was a student, and his bitter resentment against the same Kaunda he praising today caused the closure of the university, after his demagoguery triggered a riot. Today he is claiming that Kaunda was the paragon of patriotism, but I remember watching him give a speech in the sports hall in which he derided president Kaunda, declaring in that “Human is the philosophy in which one man is at the center; and that man is Kaunda”. The reality is that Zambia is chocked in a debt trap. The Edgar Lungu this Azwell Banda never criticised (together with Michael Satan), from having a debt of US $5 OO million, to an unpayable $30 billion, on some of the worst terms ever agreed to by any government. The IMF loan…

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 22:20:29 +0000

LT as I have commented before, your journalism really ought to get better.
How could your leading story be a bias opinion and not totally factual.
I am finding more and more each day that the quality of your “journalistic” output is deteriorating.
The quality of this persons output does not even merit publishing in a a second rate comic.
It is about time these so called political commentators acknowledge the fact that Zambia is in a precarious financial position because of the incompetence and profligacy of past governments and drastic action is required to fix it.
Question: Did President HH get Zambia into its current mess. Answer is: No.
But he has to fix it.
Stop trying to make people believe that the actions he is taking are unnecessary and excessive. They are not

By: UPND Cadre from Ngombe Compound Lsk

UPND Cadre from Ngombe Compound Lsk — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 22:09:57 +0000

” Only slaves celebrate debt” So we should not celebrate all those flyover bridges, unfinished hospitals and schools that PF goverment built with debt? Heroes Stadium, nkongole; roads, kaloba. The Author is a slave to his own mind, he can not escape it.

By: Mayo Mpapa

Mayo Mpapa — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 21:43:11 +0000

Ba Banda mulib3 nz3lu!

Your convoluted article is not well reasoned, fully pregnant with politics and devoid of economic sense. You have failed to disclose what practical steps outside of the IMF should be taken to address the insummountable debt crisis you looked away from when Lungu was piling it up. And you sound clueless to the fact that the IMF deal will slash our debt to manageable levels..