By Paul Shalala
On August
11, Zambia goes to the polls for a general election.
The country
has 7.8 million registered voters who will have a wide choice among the nine
presidential candidates.
Besides the
presidency, the voters will also be electing Councillors, Mayors, Council
Chairpersons and Members of Parliament.
Along side the general election, there will also be a referendum on the Bill of Rights.
Along side the general election, there will also be a referendum on the Bill of Rights.
But in this
analysis, this blogger will restrict himself to the nine presidential
candidates and their running mates.
The
candidates, who are for the first time contesting alongside their respective
running mates, are campaigning to win the election which is expected to be
tightly contested.
The
inclusion of the running mates follows the January 5 constitutional amendments
which changed the country’s electoral laws.
Some of the
candidates and running mates are seeking public office for the first time, some
are little known while others have been in this race before.
To try and
explain to the voters who these candidates are and what they are offering the
Zambian people, this blogger will seek to bring out the information about each
candidate in alphabetical order of their surnames.
Andyford
Daka is relatively new on the political scene.
According to
his LinkedIn account, Mr Banda is a businessman who owns and serves as Chief Executive
Officer of Mayele Investments.
He shot to
prominence a few months ago when he launched the People’s Alliance for Change
(PAC), a party on whose ticket he is contesting this year’s presidential
election.
A youthful
candidate, Mr Banda is focusing on youth empowerment as his campaign platform.
He is a 35
year old accountant who has spent most of his time and fortunes campaigning online
where most young people spend their time.
With a huge
chunk of youth voters who both registered and verified their details ahead of
the August 11 polls, Mr Banda wants to tap in this lucrative pool of voters.
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RUNNING MATE: His running mate is 38 year old
Enock Roosevelt Tonga, a Pentecostal church leader.
Mr Tonga, a
Lusaka-based accountant, is President of the Third Revolution Party which he
launched on June 4, 2014 but has never taken part in any election at any level.
Chishimba, Saviour – United Progressive Party (UPP)
He has just made
a come back in a different party and at a different level of political
participation.
Dr.
Chishimba promises to bring radical change to the country’s macro and fiscal
policies to stimulate development.
“Now is the
time to reclaim the glory of Zambia by returning to the pursuance of long term
development objectives,” said Dr Chishimba in January when he announced his
candidature for the presidency.
Before
becoming the UPP President, Dr Chishimba was the Patriotic Front Kasama Central
Member of Parliament.
He differed
with the party and resigned before forming his own party.
Later, he
became a strong proponent for good relations with Israel following years of
Zambia being seen as a pro-Palestine ally.
Until
recently, Dr Chishimba was Chairperson of the National Youth Development
Council, a body under the Ministry of Youth and Sports which oversees several
youth related programs and projects.
RUNNING MATE: Sinanzeni Chuma:
Not much is
known about this running mate
Hichilema, Hakainde – United Party
for National Development (UPND)
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He is the
only candidate who has been on the presidential ballot four times
having contested and lost in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2015.
This time he
is trying for the fifth time.
The wealthy
businessman and economist took over the reigns of the UPND in 2006 after the demise of the party's founder Anderson Mazoka and has been
its President ever since.
His 2016
campaign message is anchored on reviving the economy through his 10 Point Plan
which he hopes can reduce inflation, bring down cost of goods and create money
for public expenditure.
Mr Hichilema
is popularly known as HH and his campaign message is ‘HH Will Fix It’ meaning
he will fix the economy.
The 10 Point Plan,
as contained in the UPND Manifesto for 2016 - 2021, are:
Point
One: We plan to start with job creation and employment. From the
first day in office, our Government will help Zambian companies to create jobs,
by ensuring we start manufacturing most of the things we import. Isn’t it an
embarrassment that we are importing toothpicks? Are you telling me we can fail
to make toothpicks? We will promote investment, trade and economic growth, diversifying
the economy and investing in under-developed sectors with huge potential for
job and wealth creation such as tourism.
Point
Two: We will be an attack on poverty and inequality, with a strong
focus on youth and women. On day one we will start addressing youth and women
empowerment. The women folk present here today, can’t you sow uniforms. So why
can’t Government give you contracts to supply uniforms in Government schools?
Youths are found making furniture at Nakadoli market. Why is Government importing
furniture for their offices and not buying furniture from Nakadoli market? This
is what we mean by empowering women and the youth when you give us a vote.
Point
Three: We will be investing in our people through education. There is
no nation in this world that has advanced without a population that has the
right skills. The youths that will be making chairs and desks for Government
schools will need education before they get skills to start making desks. Our
women who will be supplying uniforms to Government schools need education first
before they can learn knitting and tailoring. This is why we are saying
education for all is a must. The waste we shall save from ending corruption in
procurement of Government goods and services, by-elections and other areas will
be invested in education. Now listen carefully here. In Zambia building a road
costs 2 million dollars per kilometer, while in South Africa its 400,000
dollars. This means the money we pay for one kilometer, you can do 5 kilometers
in South Africa. Why are our roads expensive? It’s because of corruption.
Point
Four: The PF has failed to run the power sector resulting in
load-shedding, limited and unreliable access and high costs of production. How
are businesses supposed to operate under such conditions? Our plan is very
simple, we are discussing with the private sector to build power stations from
renewables. What do I mean colleagues? Zesco is broke that they cannot build
new power stations, we will talk to our friends in the private sector to build
power stations, and the power produced will be sold to ZESCO, that is how we
will end load shedding.
Point
Five: We will improve competitiveness so that our local businesses
can grow and create jobs, and new ones can start up. We will tackle areas such
as heavy regulation, the high costs of transport and trade, access to finance
and power supply.
Point
Six: We will focus on aggressively cutting Government waste. We are
not going to have 71 ministers in our Government the way our friends did. We
are going to reduce on the number of ministers and review their conditions of
service. A minister gets 800 liters of fuel per month, that is about 500,000
kwacha for the entire cabinet. By the end of the 5 years of PF we will have
spent over 29 billion old currency on fuel for ministers. This does not include
the free phones, cars, housing and many other things we provide to them. We
cannot continue making a few people rich at the expense of 14 million Zambians.
Point
Seven: We will develop our agriculture sector. Our job once you put us
in power is to reduce the price of mealie meal. How will we do this? We will
increase farmer support in both input provision and reduce the unit cost of
production. In this country a farmer produces about 40 bags of maize per hectare
when it is possible to produce 100 bags with the same inputs. What farmers need
is a robust extension service system so that they can produce more by improving
their management of fields. Once this happens then the price of a 50kg bag of
maize will come down and with it mealie meal. We will also help farmers
diversify their crop to produce other foods and grow produce for neighbouring
countries.
Point
Eight: We will end the flip-flops and policy inconsistencies that are
costing people jobs. In this place over 10,000 miners and their affiliates lost
employment. And the PF Government looked on as our people were losing jobs.
From the time the PF took over they have changed mining tax policy three times,
scaring investors away. What we are doing immediately you give us the
instruments of power is to instill confidence in the economy. As a responsible
Government we will rather lose a bit of mineral royalty than see you lose your
wages and your livelihood.
Point
Nine: Building a healthy nation, cannot be compromised on.
Colleagues, people are going to hospitals that have no medicines and doctors.
We have a shortage of over 13,000 nurses and yet we have thousands of young
people looking for jobs – another PF miscalculation. Meanwhile, the high
maternal mortality rate remains a stain on the conscience of our nation.
Immediately we take office we are reforming procurement of medicines in
hospitals. The money we will save from a reduced cabinet and corruption will be
used to hire nurses, doctors and buy medicines. We have already spoken to
people that are willing to come and set up mini water plants in places like
Chamboli so that you people can have access to piped water.
Point
Ten: Good Governance. Zambians under PF are living in fear. If you
say something against the Government or the President, then you are threatened
with arrest. Police are being misused by the PF. People have to apply for
permits to have church meetings. We are taking over Government to ensure that
Zambians can enjoy their rights. We will immediately repeal the Public Order
Act. We are also going to embark on reforming the Anti Corruption Commission
and the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) to make them independent bodies to
pursue corrupt elements. There will be no sacred cows in a UPND-led Government.
We need to fight corruption to the bitter end, it has made us poor and I am
telling you now, anyone who is corrupt will face the law. Corruption is a
cancer that needs to be aggressively tackled.
Mr Mwamba is also a
wealthy businessman who is popularly known as GBM and has a lot of business
interests in milling, transport and other sectors.
He is
a former Defence Minister, former Patriotic Front Chairman for Elections and former Patriotic Front Member of Parliament for
Kasama Central.
He currently
serves as a Vice President for the UPND.
Kabimba, Wynter Munachaambwa – Rainbow
Party (Rainbow)
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He is
currently the General Secretary of the Rainbow Party which he formed a few
months after he was fired by late President Michael Sata in August 2014.
Since inception, the Rainbow
Party has so far taken part in a number of by-elections and only managed to win Kapililonga ward in Isoka District in Muchinga Province which produced its
first ever Councillor.
Mr Kabimba propagates
a radical approach to socialism which seeks to close the gap between class in society.
A lawyer by
profession, Mr Kabimba seeks to take Zambia back to the post colonial days when
former President Kenneth Kaunda made socialism the norm in the country.
At the launch
of the Rainbow Party manifesto last year, the opposition leader said socialism was the only
right path for Zambia because capitalism had allegedly failed to liberate the country
from poverty and inequality.
Prior to the
2011 general elections, Mr Kabimba was one of the architects behind the disintegration of
the ill fated PF-UPND Pact which both Mr Sata and Mr Hichilema hoped to use to
dislodge the then republican president Rupiah Banda.
As Justice Minister,
Mr Kabimba took radical decisions like downplaying the 50 plus one presidential
winning threshold and the need to enact a new constitution through a referendum.
He also
denied being in possession of the final draft constitution despite it being handed
over to his Permanent Secretary by the now defunct Technical Committee on
Drafting the Republican Constitution.
His openness
and frank talk is usually mistaken for arrogance as he usually speaks his
mind.
Below is a
summary of the Rainbow Party’s 2016 – 2021 manifesto:
PEASANT AGRICULTURE, EDUCATION AND HEALTH
The Rainbow Party
considers peasant agriculture, education and health as priority sectors of its
socialist economic programme and development. Consequently, the Rainbow Party
in government shall allocate 50% of the national budget to these three sectors
as follows: 15% to the agriculture sector, 20%
to the education sector and 15% to the health sector.
Agriculture
The Rainbow Party shall:
Introduce comprehensive policies
for crop diversification amongst peasant farmers so as to reduce dependence on
maize and ensure household and national food security.
Introduce co-operatives to be managed by
peasant farmers.
Promote
value-addition through agribusiness and light manufacturing.
Promote livestock production so as to meet increasing
domestic and regional demand.
Tertiary Education
The Rainbow Party in
government shall:
Introduce an apprenticeship-led vocational
training system which will provide skills training relevant to livelihoods and
job creation.
Health Services
The Rainbow Party in
government shall:
Define and provide an evidence
based package of health services that will be universally accessible by the
population by placing emphasis and focus on the sustainability of major public
health interventions.
Rationalise the capacity building processes for health cadres.
ECONOMIC OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL BY THE ZAMBIAN PEOPLE
The
Rainbow Party in government shall undertake the following:
Ensure the active participation
of the State in the commanding heights of the economy through direct ownership
and control, royalties, taxation of profits so as to create jobs, eradicate
poverty and hence accelerate rural and national development.
Establish the National Bank for Infrastructure Development.
Introduce appropriate sectoral legislation to achieve the above.
Promote indigenous owned commercial banks.
SOCIALIST DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
The Rainbow Party in
government shall undertake the following:
Establish the National Economic Research and Advisory Council.
Develop policy and legislation to support economic planning.
Create the ministry of economic and
development planning.
MINING
The Rainbow Party in
government in the short and medium term shall undertake the following:
Introduce technical, marketing and financial monitoring
arrangements for extractive industries aimed at sector transparency, taxation
compliance and economic and work place protection of the workers.
Introduce a
local content minimum requirement of 20% manufactured inputs for the extractive
sectors.
In the long
term, the Party will build State capacities in managing, processing and
marketing mineral products.
LIGHT MANUFACTURING AND JOB CREATION
The Rainbow
Party in government shall do the following:
Introduce comprehensive policies aimed at removing constraints in
the sector through the provision of public goods such as finance,
infrastructure, human capital and trade logistics.
Remove all existing policy distortions in the areas of textile,
leather, wood and metal products and also agri-business.
Introduce anti-dumping regulations for imported goods.
Enhance the capacity of the Zambia Bureau of
Standards
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
The Rainbow
Party in government shall undertake the following:
Introduce ecological approaches
which will encourage community and co-operative ownership in the sector and
promote domestic tourism for the popular masses.
Design packages that enable extension of the tourists’ period of
stay in the country.
Improve on the quality of tourism products.
Facilitate the development of tourist spots
across the country through private sector investment.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
The Rainbow Party in
government shall undertake the following:
Prepare and implement Zambia’s first
comprehensive land-use-cum-transport plan which will be an integral part of its
macro-economic planning model.
Introduce policies to direct and govern
inner-city traffic development and management. Introduce institutional and
legislative changes in order to improve routine maintenance of existing roads
and related infrastructure in the sector.
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FOR THE POOR
The Rainbow Party in
government shall undertake the following:
Develop an integrated and
sustainable approach to housing and settlement.
Assist the peasants to improve and live in environmental friendly
human shelter.
Build rental housing for the low income earners.
Introduce policy to promote human shelter as
as Human Right.
WATER AND SANITATION
The Rainbow Party in
government will:
Develop an integrated management of water resources to meet the
multiple water needs and competition for water resources.
Develop and promote a pro-poor water interface management which will
focus on a holistic approach to improving the livelihoods of the rural and
peri-urban households.
Strengthen the lines between sanitation and
livelihoods.
SCIENCE,
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND BIO-TECHNOLOGY.
The
Rainbow Party shall:
Establish the National Science and Technology Research Council.
Build and develop appropriate technological backbone by placing
priority on rural areas for ICT and bio-technology infrastructure development.
Build a robust mobile money platform in order to enhance financial
inclusion of the rural poor in remote areas of the country.
Promote mobile phone application development.
ENERGY SECTOR
The Rainbow Party will:
Formulate and promote medium and long term planning for renewable
and alternative energy generation and other options for hydropower across the
country.
Expedite rural electrification by increasing budget allocations
every year.
Ensure national petroleum security by ensuring secure supplies of
the commodity to attain at least 60 days of strategic reserves.
Ensure the development of new sugarcane
plantations in provinces for bioelectricity and cellulosic ethanol.
NUTRITION.
The
Rainbow Party shall undertake to do the following:
Embark on an intensive programme to train nutritionists and
dieticians at certificate, diploma and degree levels.
Promote the consumption of Zambian local food products which are
rich in nutritional content.
Introduce school feeding programmes in crèches, kindergartens,
pre-schools and schools.
Restructure the National Food and Nutrition
Commission to make it focus on regulation.
ENVIROMENTAL
PROTECTION, MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
The
Rainbow Party shall undertake the following:
Develop and promote environmental awareness programmes in local
communities.
Ensure that there is public participation in environmental
decision-making at all levels.
Enhance environmental protection and management in order to create
jobs and eradicate poverty.
Promote Zambia’s total commitment to international environmental
agreements and conventions.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
The Rainbow Party in
government shall undertake the following:
Decentralise local government by introducing ward
village councils, districts chiefs’ councils and provincial chiefs’ councils in
order to promote the autonomy of districts and provinces in the discharge of
delegated central government functions.
Allow local authorities to hire members of staff with priority to
be given to residents of the district so as to promote employment.
Abolish the Constituency Development Fund (CDF).
Restructure the Local Authorities Pension Scheme to ensure that it
makes prompt payments to retirees and clear all outstanding payments.
ARTS AND CULTURE
The Rainbow Party in
government shall:
Formulate a clear policy
framework within which arts and culture shall extol dignity, nationalism and
the human virtues of the popular masses.
Render support to artists, musicians and writers in advancing and
recognising their individual and collective talents and achievements through
presidential honours and awards.
Promote annual arts and cultural festivals at district, provincial
and national levels.
Create the ministry of arts and culture.
GENDER EQUALITY
The Rainbow Party in
government shall:
Introduce legislation to provide for equal pay and equal work for
men and women.
Introduce legislation for equal
responsibilities and vertical progression between men and women.
Introduce programmes to accelerate strides in making health,
education and social services available to women.
Enhance compliance with the SADC Protocol on
Gender.
CHIEFS AND TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY
The Rainbow Party in government
shall:
Abolish
the law which requires the Republican President to recognise a traditional
leader of an area.
Introduce
legislation to prescribe the period for determination of chieftainship disputes
by contending parties before the High Court and Supreme Court.
Formalise the chiefs’ advisory traditional councils and
prescribe their functions.
NEWS MEDIA
The Rainbow Party believes that
the Zambian news media needs greater freedom and openness and not more regulation
and regimentation.
In view of the above, the Rainbow
Party in government shall not pass or support the enactment of legislation or
regulations or promote policy and practices which hinder the freedom of the
news media.
THE CHURCH
The Rainbow Party in
government shall:
Forge
close links with the church and other religious groups to execute a common
agenda which recognises the poor and under-privileged as central to social and
economic development.
Collaborate with the church in the fight against
corruption, inequality and other forms of social injustice.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY AND CORRUPTION
The Rainbow Party in
government shall undertake the following:
Introduce legislation to establish an ad hoc committee of
Parliament to study the Auditor-General’s report after its adoption and make
appropriate recommendations to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Establish the Fraud and Economic Crimes Unit.
Introduce legislation requiring strict
compliance with rules for declaration of assets by the president, ministers,
deputy ministers, permanent secretaries, senior judicial officers and other
senior government officers.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND CO-OPERATION.
Promote trade with all countries on an equal footing and on the
basis of mutual benefit.
Give active solidarity and support to the Saharawi people and the
Palestinian people and forge close ties with their movements.
Continue through the AU and UN to be an active participant in the
promotion of world peace.
Join hands with those advocating for reforms in the formal
structures of the UN, World Bank and IMF.
Open more foreign missions on the Latin
American continent.
RUNNING MATE: Dr. Cosmas Musumali
Dr. Musumali
is the First Deputy Secretary General of the Rainbow Party. He is an economist.
Kaunda, Tilyenji Chanda – United National Independence Party (UNIP)
Popularly
known as TJ or Obama by his supporters, Mr Kaunda is trying his luck for the third consecutive time having lost the contest in 2011 and 2015.
He is the
President of Zambia’s independence party UNIP which governed the country for 27
years before it was booted out of office in 1991.
The party’s
fortunes have over the past 25 years dwindled with its last MP Mkondo Lungu defecting to MMD in the 2011 elections, leaving the former ‘wamuyayaya’ party
without representation at Manda Hill.
By May 2016,
UNIP only had a handful of councillors countrywide including Zambia’s longest
serving councillor Enos Hangoma of Lukolongo ward in Kafue who hds been serving
since 1989.
Mr Kaunda
projects himself as a man who would restore Zambia to its past glory which he
says was lost when MMD overwhelmingly won the first post one-party-state polls
in 1991.
Not much has
changed in the party’s socialist ideology and it uses the same old manifesto
which promotes free education and an aggressive anti-poverty drive.
RUNNING MATE: Njekwa Ement Anamela
Njekwa
Anamela is a long standing UNIP Vice President who has weathered the storm.
In the past
five years, ‘the country’s riches party’ has gone through several stages of
factionalism but Mr Anamela has stayed put in his position.
Lungu, Edgar Chagwa –Patriotic Front (PF)
He became
head of state after winning the tightly contested January 20, 2015 presidential
election which was necessitated by the death of his predecessor Michael Sata in
October 2014.
President
Lungu, the former Minister of Justice, Defence and Home Affairs, is a lawyer
who handled famous cases such as those involving Post Newspapers Editor in
Chief Fred M’membe.
At the
inception of the Patriotic Front in 2001, Mr Lungu was a relatively unknown
figure but rose through the ranks to the powerful position of Secretary General and
finally Party President.
Over the
years, he applied to stand as a Member of Parliament in Lusaka’s Chawama
Constituency but was not adopted.
In 2011, he
was adopted and won the sit leading to his appointment to several ministerial
positions.
His supporters
call him ‘Mr Walk The Talk,’ the 'humble man' who will promote prosperity, unity
and continuity.
The August
11 presidential poll will be his second.
In the last
17 months he has led the nation, Mr Lungu has used Christianity and the word of
God as his guiding factor, a thing that has won his praises from the Christian
community who have even come up with a loose organisation called ‘Christians
for Edgar Lungu.’
At the launch of his campaign in May, President Lungu said he was a democrat who will ensure that the august poll is free and fair and that his opponents will have free will to campaign countrywide.
Below is the summarised PF Manifesto for 2016 to 2021:
At the launch of his campaign in May, President Lungu said he was a democrat who will ensure that the august poll is free and fair and that his opponents will have free will to campaign countrywide.
Below is the summarised PF Manifesto for 2016 to 2021:
Education
In
order to enhance access to and improve the quality of Education, the Patriotic
Front Government shall:
Establish community – based Early Childhood
Education Centres in all provinces;
Train, recruit and deploy more Early
Childhood Education teachers annually;
Give colleges a facelift and expand them in
order to meet the demand for teachers in the country;
Increase grants to colleges;
Revise
the National Education Policy and amend the 2011 Education Act.
Health
In
order to enhance the well-being of all Zambians, the Patriotic Front Government
shall in the period 2016-2021,
Ensure access to primary health services
within a 5km radius by continuing to construct more health posts and hospitals;
By 2021, end preventable deaths of new-borns
and children under 5 years of age;
By 2021, substantially reduce the epidemics
of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat
hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases;
Agriculture Development
The
Patriotic Front government shall from 2016-2021 pursue the following
investments and policies that are crucial in stimulating an agrarian
revolution:
Sustainable rural development;
Agricultural Research and development;
Agricultural education;
Agricultural Extension and farmer support;
LOCAL
GOVERNMENT AND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
The
Patriotic Front Government shall:
Improve service delivery in big cities such
as Lusaka, Ndola, Kitwe, Livingstone through decentralisation by establishing
township management boards;
Improve service delivery in rural districts
by establishing sub-centres;
Introduce Ward Village Councils, District
Chiefs Councils and Provincial Chiefs Councils to establish a link in the
public service governance system below the District Councils and promote active
involvement of traditional authorities in the public governance system;
SOCIAL PROTECTION
In
the period 2016-2021, the Patriotic Front Government shall continue to
implement the National Social Protection Policy by:
Increasing budgetary allocation to the Social
Cash Transfer Programme;
Providing literacy and nutrition programmes
in low income communities;
Rehabilitating and providing community
development infrastructure such as welfare centres, community libraries and
recreational facilities;
Deploying
qualified staff and upgrading skills of existing staff through in-service
training.
WOMEN IN SOCIO ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT AND GENDER
The
Patriotic Front Government shall:
Continue domesticating international
protocols relating to women and gender in development so as to enhance
representation of women in decision making;
Eradicate all forms of discrimination against
girls and women including the creation of equal employment opportunities for
men and women;
Introduce
appropriate legislation to achieve the above, such as the Child Code Bill,
Marriage Bill, Sexual Abuse Bill, and Divorce Bill.
YOUTH IN
SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
The
Patriotic Front Government shall in the next five years:
Promote the economic participation of the
youth in national development through employment creation and entrepreneurship
development;
Increase access to quality and equitable
education and skills development relevant to the aspirations of the youth and
society;
Mainstream youth issues in all government and
private sector institutions for effective youth responsive programming;
ARTS AND CULTURE
DEVELOPMENT
In
the next five years, the Patriotic Front Government shall:
Construct a National Cultural Centre;
Complete construction of Provincial Arts and
Culture Centres;
Promote investment in the creative industry
through the Private Public Partnership model;
Enhance job creation in the sector through
decentralisation;
SPORTS AND RECREATION
The
Patriotic Front Government shall in the next five years:
Increase budgetary allocation for the
construction, rehabilitation and upgrading of sports and recreation
infrastructure, particularly in schools;
Introduce incentives for private investment
in the development of sports and recreation infrastructure;
Promote the manufacture of sports equipment
locally.
INFRASTRUCTURE
DEVELOPMENT
The
Patriotic Front Government shall in the period 2016-2021:
Continue to rehabilitate and upgrade the road
network to three star status including feeder roads in all districts to
prescribed standards;
Continue to construct additional inter
district roads to open up the country to facilitate accelerated development and
improve trade;
Replace existing pontoons with bridges in
order to promote connectivity both internally and externally and hence social
and economic activities in the country;
Construct
and upgrade airports an airstrips in districts;
TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
The
Patriotic Front Government shall in the next five years:
Promote private sector investment and local
community participation in the development of tourism and tourism related
services;
Promote well targeted infrastructure
development in order to open up new tourist sites in Promote cultural and
ethno-tourism in all provinces in order to create job opportunities in rural
areas;
LAND
DEVELOPMENT
The
Patriotic Front Government shall in the next five years:
Work with traditional authorities to promote
security of tenure for customary land in rural areas;
Prevent displacement of local communities by
the urban elite or foreign investors in rural areas;
Promote good governance, decentralisation and
transparency in land administration;
Curb illegal allocation of land in Zambia.
ENVIRONMENT AND
NATURAL RESOURCES
In
the next five years the Patriotic Front Government shall:
Promote decentralisation and local community
participation in collaboration with the private sector to underpin sustainable
management of natural resource;
Amend
and harmonise all pieces of legislation governing environmental policy to
reduce inter-sectoral conflicts in environmental management;
Employ Forest Rangers in order to control
deforestation;
LABOUR AND INDUSTRIAL
RELATIONS
In the next
five years the Patriotic Front Government shall:
Formulate implementation guidelines to
enforce provisions of the amended Employment Act No.15 of 2015;
Finalise the Occupational Safety Health (OHS)
Policy and consequently review the outdated Factories Act;
Enact the Social Protection Bill and relevant
regulation;
FINANCE AND NATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
PF
recognises that planning is a pre-requisite to achieving and executing an
integrated social and economic development and transformation agenda. This will
be achieved through the following:
Restructuring of Ministries to ensure only
key related activities which are clearly measurable are retained with each
Ministry. For instance separation of Ministry of Energy from the Ministry of
Mines;
Creation of the Ministry of Development
Planning;
Formulation of the 7th National Development
Plan through extensive stakeholder engagement (5 year plan);
ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
In
the next five years the PF government shall:
Accelerate and scale up public-private
partnership investment in hydro power generation to raise the installed
capacity in order to meet national demand and generate surplus for export;
Attain cost reflective tariffs by 2019,
thereby promoting IPPs to invest in power generation.
Promote investment in alternative energy
sources such as thermos electricity generation from coal and nuclear reactors;
Standardise the price of petroleum products
countrywide so as to remove distortions in the fuel cost;
MINES AND MINERALS
DEVELOPMENT
In
order to enhance the development of the mining sector the PF government shall:
Diversify mining minerals from base metals (e.g.
Copper) to other minerals such as Industrial and energy minerals;
Rump up copper production to 2 million tons
per annum by the year 2017;
Establish a centre for the marketing of
minerals from small scale mines so as to assist small scale miners realise value
for their products;
COMMERCE, TRADE AND
INDUSTRY
In
the next five years, the Patriotic Front Government shall:
Provide incentives for value addition in
order to expand the manufacturing base and create employment;
Establish micro credit financing for small
scale enterprises;
Promote the establishment of small and medium
scale enterprises and prescribe supporting curricula to enhance entrepreneurial
skills;
Establish special Economic Zones - industrial
parks, logistics parks, industrial estates and innovation hubs;
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The
Patriotic Front Government shall:
Give priority to the teaching of science
subjects in educational institutions at all levels;
Improve and expand facilities for teaching
science and technical subjects;
Create exclusively science and technical
schools, colleges and universities;
Enhance capacity by expanding training
programmes for scientists;
GOVERNANCE AND THE ADMINSTRATION OF
THE STATE
In
the next five years, the Patriotic Front Government shall:
Enact consequential legislation to give
effect to the provisions of the amended Constitution;
Decentralise the operations of the National
Prosecutions Authority by opening provincial offices;
Enhance the capacity of the Law Development
Commission in order enhance law reforms;
ELECTORAL REFORMS
In
order to address the above, the Patriotic Front Government shall:
Enhance consultation with all stakeholders to
arrive at consensus in order to review and amend the law relating to the system
of administering elections so as to achieve maximum confidence in the electoral
system;
Introduce regulations to enable Zambians
living in the diaspora to exercise their entitlement to be registered as voters
and vote in an election;
In consultation with all stakeholders to
review and amend the Public Order Act;
JUDICIAL REFORMS
In
order to ensure an efficient and accessible justice delivery system, the
Patriotic Front Government shall in the next five years:
Establish a High Court in each provincial
capital;
Progressively establish Magistrates Court at
all District Headquarters;
Ensure adequate budgetary allocation;
THE CHURCH AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS
IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
In
order to enhance the role of the Church and its relationship with the State,
the Patriotic Front Government shall:
Work hand in hand with the Church to enhance
the social and economic development of the country;
Ensure that the Church provides spiritual
guidance in State affairs;
Harmonise the relationship between the Church
and the State;
MEDIA REFORMS
In
order to enhance the role of the media in its critical role of informing,
educating and entertaining, the Patriotic Front Government shall:
Implement the provisions of the Zambia
National Broadcasting Corporation Amendment Act of 2002 so as to allow ZNBC
operate as a public service broadcaster;
Review and implement the provisions of the
Independence Broadcasting Authority Act of 2002;
Review and reconcile the provisions of the
Official Secrets Act and the Freedom of Information Bill of 2002 in order to
enact the Freedom of Information Bill of 2002 into law;
Support self-regulation of the media in
Zambia; and
INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS AND COOPERATION
In
order to maintain and enhance international relations and cooperation, the
Patriotic Front Government shall:
Retain Zambia’s membership to these
international organisations and agencies;
Promote friendly and cordial relations with
Zambia’s neighbours, all African States and other foreign countries;
Pursue
a foreign policy based on the mutuality of common interest and respect;
RUNNING
MATE: Inonge Mutukwa Wina
Inonge
Wina is an American-educated politician who doubles as Zambia’s Vice President
and Minister of National Planning.
At
the launch of President Lungu’s 2016 campaign, the head of state said: “Mrs
Wina has been a good Vice President and I cannot abandon her. She will be my
running mate.”
Mrs
Wina, the widow of Zambia’s former Cabinet Minister Arthur Wina, was a women’s
rights activist who led the Non-Governmental Organisations Coordinating Council and later became the
Member of Parliament for Nalolo on UPND in 2001.
She
later joined the PF and won back the Nalolo seat in 2011.
Before
becoming Vice President last year, Mrs Wina served as Gender Minister and PF National Chairperson.
Popularly
known as ‘Bo Inonge,’ the Vice President was not a surprise candidate for
running mate as her loyalty to President Lungu is unquestionable.
She was one
of the architects of President Lungu’s ascendance to the PF Presidency during
the leadership wrangles that rocked the ruling party after the demise of its
founder in 2014.
Mwamba, Maxwell – Democratic Assembly
(DA)
Maxwell
Mwamba is a Zambian politician who is not very much known.
He however
became prominent in the media in mid 2014 when he called for then President
Michael Sata to resign for allegedly being sick and for Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda to also resign for allegedly 'wrecking' the economy.
RUNNING MATE: Rosemary Kabungo.
Not much is
known about her.
Edith
Nawakwi is a female politician who has consistently contested presidential
elections and lost.
The 2016
contest is her forth attempt having lost in 2008, 2011 and 2015.
Ms Nawakwi
was a firebrand female Cabinet Minister in the Frederick Chiluba-led MMD
government.
She joined
politics in the early 1990s and was usually the only female among male
politicians when they were plotting the downfall of the Kaunda regime.
In 2001, she
was among 22 ministers who were fired for opposing then President Chiluba who
wanted to change the constitution and run for a third term.
She then
joined former Vice President Christon Tembo to form the Forum for Democracy and
Development, a party she currently leads.
Her
outspokenness and lack of fear on matters of national interest has won her
several friends especially in the media where she enjoys good coverage.
Since 2013,
her party has been doing well in Luapula Province where her parliamentary
candidates have been coming out second during by-elections in Samfya and Mansa.
She is a
firm believer in door to door campaigns and has been spotted doing solitary
campaigns from house to house in search of votes.
RUNNING MATE: Rev Clement Mwanza.
Reverend
Clement Mwanza was a minister in the Reformed Church in Zambia before he was
co-opted as Ms Nawakwi’s running mate.
He resigned
his religious position in order to be on the presidential ballot.
Nothing much
is known about him beyond the church and recently, The Post newspapers
described him as a ‘strange running mate’ who allegedly shocked FDD officials
who did not recognise him when Ms Nawakwi was filing her nomination.
Peter
Sinkamba is an environmental activist and politician who has lived in almost
all provinces of Zambia.
He was born
in Southern Province and is based in Kitwe where he runs an environmental
organisation and the Green Party.
Mr Sinkamba
contested and lost last year’s presidential elections.
In the area
of governance, the party wants to abolish the system of having Lusaka as the national capital.
The party wants the seat of government to be rotating from one provincial capital to the other.
The party wants the seat of government to be rotating from one provincial capital to the other.
The other
focus of the Green Party 2016 manifesto is the legalisation of marijuana and
making it a viable business.
Mr Sinkamba
argues that marijuana is a revenue earner which would give Zambia billions of
kwacha in revenue if legalised.
His argument
is that legalising and selling marijuana will create national revenue needed
for developmental projects such as the construction of roads, schools,
hospitals and other infrastructure.
His party’s
slogan is ‘Legalise! Legalise! Legalise.’
During the
2015 elections, he planned to launch his presidential bid in Chibolya, a drug
den in Lusaka but the plan did not materialise.
In Kitwe, Mr
Sinkamba has won hearts of some youths who hope the legalisation of ‘ganja’
will help in creating jobs.
Below is a
summary of the Green Party’s Vision 2030 which is being used to woo voters for the
August 11 elections:
Ecological Wisdom
In
line with the ecological wisdom principle, when elected into power, our Green
Government will:
Provide
adequate resources to guarantee sustenance of the integrity of ecosystems. In
this regard, our Green Government will on annual basis allocate not less than
10% of the national budget for this purpose
Build
capacity of institutions delegated to protect natural elements of our very
survival: earth, water, air and sun for these sustain animal and plant life,
and our own life. To this end, effectiveness of enforcement agencies will be
reviewed within two years of the Green Government and elevated to
constitutional office level. This will include but not limited to the Zambia
Environmental Agency (ZEMA), Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA), Forestry
Department, Fisheries Department, and Water Board be, to ensure adequate
resource allocation, efficiency, autonomy as well as security of tenure of
office bearers
Social Justice
In
line with the social justice principle, when elected into power, our Green
Government will:
Develop and implement
policies, laws and frameworks aimed at eradicating poverty not only as an
imperative, but as an ethical issue to ensure social, economic, and ecological
sustainability. To this end, a poverty reduction strategy will be developed and
resourced within two years of the Green Government. Not less than 20% of the
budget will be allocated for implementation of the poverty reduction strategy.
Ensure
all justice, police and prison systems are transparent, fair, just, and
democratic in the enforcement of the law. In this regard, the Green Government
will, within two years of first election into government review the justice,
police and prison systems, including the penal code and prison systems so as to
address the issue police and prison facilities, circumstantial children in
prisons, juvenile offenders, pregnant women in prisons, and establish
fast-track court systems to deal specifically with special cases, including
election-related offences and malpractices
Government
be relocated from Lusaka to provinces and operate on proportional-representation
basis
Participatory Democracy
In
line with the participatory democracy principle, our Green Government will,
when elected into power:
Develop
and implement policies, laws and strategies that guarantee privacy of
individuals and ensure individual empowerment through access to all the
relevant information required for any decision and access to education to
enable all to participate. To achieve this, the Green Government will within
the first six months of election into power, enact the freedom of access to
information legislation.
Develop
and implement policies, laws and strategies that break down inequalities of
wealth and power, as well as barriers of participation. To achieve this, the
Green Government will within two years of election into government review the
electoral legislation to ensure age and fees are not inhibiting factors to
participatory democracy. The legislation will also be reviewed to bar serving
government officials, including but not limited the President, Vice President,
ministers, deputies, or civil servants to use public resources for partisan
election interest or campaigns
Build
grassroots institutions that enable decisions to be made directly at the
appropriate grass-root levels by those affected, based on systems which
encourage civic vitality, voluntary action and community responsibility. To
achieve this, the Green Government will within two years in Government review
decentralization legislation and policies and implementation frameworks that
promote sustainable participatory democracy. The Green Government will, under
the auspices of the decentralisation legislation, review and implement the
Barotseland Agreement of 1964 or any other agreements in other chiefdoms, with
a view to entrench commitments therein
Non-violence
In
line with the non-violence principle, when elected into power, our Green
Government will:
Fully
support a comprehensive greens concept of national, regional and global
security, which gives priority to social, economic, ecological, psychological
and cultural aspects of conflict, instead of a concept based primarily on
military balances of power. In this regard, the Green Government will, within
two years of first election into government, review the Defence and Security
Acts to re-orient the role of the army and security personnel from primarily
combat to social, economic, ecological, psychological and cultural aspects.
Support
initiatives aimed at strengthening the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU)
and Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) on conflict management,
peacekeeping, and ending terrorism at global, regional and sub-regional levels.
In this regard, the Green Government will support introduction of levies on air
travel and hospitality industry to support sustainable conflict-resolution
efforts by these institutions
Sustainability
In line with the sustainability
principle, when elected into power, our Green Government will develop and
implement policies, laws and strategies aimed at achieving greater resource and
energy efficiency. This includes introducing a “Feed-in Tariffs Policy”. The
large majority of solar power in the country will be installed under feed-in
tariff (FiT) programmes.
Very simply, a feed-in tariff
programme ensures that people who install solar power systems can then sell the
electricity generated from that system back to the grid for a set price over a
designated period of time. The goal of such a policy is quite simply to
increase solar power investments and growth, and therefore help drive down the
cost of solar power systems. In this regard, the Green Party will enact the
“Feeding Electricity into the Grid Act”.
We
also plan to enact the “Priority to Renewable Energy Sources Act”. The aim of
the Act is to scale-up investments in solar power so that solar energy
overtakes hydropower and biomass-based power generation. We plan to make solar
energy Zambia’s largest renewable energy technology in terms of installed
capacity
The
Green Party’s New & Renewable Energy Policy is to bring solar power
installed capacity to stand at 4,000 MW by December 2017
Respect for Diversity
In
line with the respect for diversity principle, when elected into power, our
Green Government will:
Develop
and implement policies, laws and strategies that recognise the rights of
indigenous peoples to the basic means of their survival, both economic and
cultural, including rights to land and to self determination
Develop
and implement policies, laws and strategies that acknowledge indigenous
peoples’ contribution to the common heritage of national and global culture
Mr Tafeni is a lawyer.
He was born in Mufulira but educated in Lusaka.
He was born in Mufulira but educated in Lusaka.
His political
activities started at the University of Zambia where he served in the students
law association and after his graduation, he served as Treasurer of the Law
Association of Zambia.
Mr Tafeni is a Seventh-Day Adventist and is currently the Vice President of the Green Party.
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