14/05/2026
ZAMBIA MUST NOT RETURN TO THE POLITICS OF DECEPTION AND NATIONAL SUFFERING
May 14, 2026
By Sydney Chela
History teaches nations a painful but necessary lesson: societies only progress when they refuse to recycle the very systems that once oppressed them. Zambia today stands at such a crossroads.
As political alliances begin to form ahead of the 2026 general elections, citizens must ask themselves a profound question are these new alliances truly offering a new vision, or are they merely repackaging an old political order that the people already rejected?
The recent alliance between Brian Mundubile and Makebi Zulu has sparked debate across the country. Yet many Zambians see this arrangement not as a fresh alternative, but as a continuation of the same political culture associated with the Patriotic Front era.
Can a political Party that once led citizens through economic hardship, political tension, and national uncertainty suddenly transform itself simply by adopting new language and new faces?
A people who have suffered must also learn to remember, for memory is the conscience of democracy. Nations decline when they confuse recycled power with genuine transformation.
Zambia cannot afford to reopen wounds that are only now beginning to heal. Why should citizens exchange a path of recovery for a return to political confusion and economic instability?
For many citizens, the political figures now regrouping under different banners do not represent a new ideology or national direction. Rather, they symbolize the old order clothed in different garments. throughout history we have been warned that when old habits are repackaged as reform, societies risk walking in circles instead of moving forward.
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UPND Zambia