Tuesday, November 17, 2020

(LUSAKA TIMES) The Economist Magazine’s Report About Zambia is a Lie

COMMENT - Full disclosure: the Rothschild barons control The Economist Group which owns The Economist Magazine, was well as De Beers, the world's largest diamond miner and Glencore (1, 2, 3), one of the world's largest mining companies and headquartered in Switzerland. Glencore is a major miner in Zambia. De Beers wants to control the Zimbabwean diamond mines, Chiadza and Marange, which could supply 20% of the world's diamonds every year. Other than controlling the World Bank (1, 2) and IMF, they also "took an early role" in the Eurobonds. Notice how The Economist Magazine selectively waves away the effects of the WEF inspired lockdown or their Eurobond debt, the same way they selectively wave away the effects of economic sanctions (Section 4 C 1 and 2) on the Zimbabwean economy. Their problem is that they cannot attack the neoliberal political class they have been supporting all across Africa because it was profitable for them, and now criticize the disastrous consequences of those neoliberal policies. So they talk about 'dictatorship' and 'human rights'. However only when it's convenient. - MrK

The government blames covid-19. It should look in the mirror

Middle East & Africa
Nov 14th 2020 edition
LUSAKA

In his studio Fumba Chama gets ready to play his new song. Unlike in most Zambian workplaces there is no photograph on the wall of Edgar Lungu, the president since 2015. Looking down instead is a young Kenneth Kaunda, who led Zambia for 27 years after independence from Britain in 1964.

If that is a silent protest, then out of the speakers comes a louder one. In “Coward of the County” Mr Chama raps laconically about Mr Lungu’s failings over—why not?—a sample of the song of the same name by the late Kenny Rogers, a bearded American country star. It is his latest track about how the ruling Patriotic Front (pf) has crushed civic freedoms and crashed the economy. As if to prove his point, the authorities have repeatedly arrested and intimidated Mr Chama, whose stage name is PilAto.

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(LUSAKA TIMES) The Economist Magazine’s Report About Zambia is a Lie
November 16, 2020
BY ISAAC CHIPAMPE

In their 14th November, 2020 edition, The Economist magazine published an opinionated article that at best describes Zambia as a collapsed economy caused by its President’s authoritarian style of leadership and called for neighbouring countries, and the rest of the world to press for regime change.

Now, this is not a new call out because the international media, in tow with the main opposition in Zambia, have been calling for the rest of the world to declare Zambia a pariah state. But it is normal these days for a frustrated opposition to wish a country bad omen as long as that helps in discarding the ruling party from power, patriotism aside.

What is new, however, is the extent to which an internationally recognized and probably authoritative magazine went in demonising President Edgar Lungu. And I assume here that this malicious article was written by the publishers, themselves, and not a correspondent or even one of their reporters because at end, the Magazine does not proffer any disclaimer about the origin of the article but states cheekily that “This article appeared in the Readers Section of the print edition under the headline “Zambia’s descent”.
The online version, however, is a little more blunter with a multi-faceted headline: “The Mugabe model…How to stop Zambia from turning into Zimbabwe…Neighbours and creditors should resist its slide into autocracy and economic collapse.”

And it is in this headline or headlines that one clearly sees the push for regime change. It is obvious that firstly by likening President Lungu to the late Zimbabwean leader, The Economist tries to brand and frame the Zambian President as a dictator, and by doing that they hope Zambia’s bilateral partners would react in a similar way they punished Zimbabwe. But it is also a ploy to force those who hated President Mugabe to shift their focus to President Lungu, that the Zimbabwean leader is no more.
President Mugabe’s nemeses are obviously missing him and now that he is no more they have been looking at which African leader they could calibrate as a dictator. They want to create imaginary authoritarians in Africa because in truth dictators are now in short supply here. The pendulum is moving to them.

In their effort to scandalise and chastise President Lungu and his Government, the magazine tries to portray Zambia as headed for economic destruction and calls for Zambia’s neighbours (who ironically include Zimbabwe, by the way) to embark on a mission to remove President Lungu and his Government from power. Reason?

President Lungu is more dangerous to Zambia’s economy than covid-19;
he scares away investors by seizing mines;
he detains mining bosses;
he fired the Central Bank Governor for resisting to print money;
he arrested opposition leaders before the 2016 elections;
he shut down the main independent newspaper; and
he has arrested Hakainde Hichilema, the main opposition leader, as well as journalists, musicians and other critics.

The Magazine then makes a clarion call:

“Many Zambians worry that their country is sliding into autocracy and economic ruin, like next door Zimbabwe. To stop that slide, the region and the wider world need to start paying attention now, rather than just sending election observers a few weeks before the poll.”

Obviously, The Magazine painstakingly tries to portray President Lungu as an authoritarian they would like him to be, but at the expense of truth. And “truth” is the heart and soul of good journalism which this respected Magazine has foregone. The Economist is being economical with the truth. For what gain? Only them and their Zambian allies would know. The truth is in all the bullets above, the magazine is either lying or spinning facts i.e slanting facts out of context. There is absolutely no need to explain bullet point by bullet point because every Zambian knows that The Economist Magazine is lying. The authors of this article were either deliberately lying, or were lied to by their sources but what is important is that, out of all these lies above, none would persuade a Zambian to frown upon President Lungu. Why? Because Zambians know these are fibs…outright lies! No amount of demagoguery will skew the thinking of Zambians about the President.

Brand him and frame him in whatever way you like, President Lungu is anything but a dictator. He has allowed the Zambian media to criticize him day in day out. More importantly, through the operationalisation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), a plethora of vibrant radio and television stations have been born under President Lungu’s administration. This has allowed citizens to hold Government to account on a daily basis. This has also allowed a plurality of voices on air, unlike before when Zambians relied only on the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) for information. President Lungu has also allowed his opponents to criticize him, and sometimes intrusively defame him, on a daily basis. President Lungu has allowed civil society to thrive and they are in numbers here, some of them very critical of him and his Government. He has also not tampered with the independence of the Judiciary, legislature, and critical governance agencies like the Anti-Corruption Commission, the Drug Enforcement Commission, and the Electoral Commission of Zambia, to mention but a few.

It is, therefore, a shame that ignorant international media can pick on him to be a dictator when there are dictators not far from their newsrooms. The world must not worry about President Lungu, they must instead worry about the trajectory being taken by the Western media, especially the likes of The Economist and their ilk.

The author is Special Assistant to President Edgar Lungu for Press and Public Relations

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The Zimbabwe smear meme is also repeated by Robert Sichinga.

(THE MAST ONLINE ZM) IT’LL GET WORSE…we’re all going to pay the debt price, Sichinga warns

"“They have not realised the seriousness of default. The country will go into what is called hyperinflation; nothing is stable in terms of price; it changes by the hour. Finding foreign currency is going to be a big issue. With all due respect, we are going to go the Zimbabwean way, that’s where we are going to be,” Sichinga said. “The debt is heavy, and it’s not even the numbers we’re talking about; it is towards US$37 billion."

 
At 6:16 PM , Blogger MrK said...

COMMENT - If foreign currency is going to be a big issue, then taking over the mines is the only solution. Pay people in copper, or with a copper backed local currency.

And default on the debt. Zimbabwean hyperinflation was caused by the confiscation of credit lines at the IMF, WB, etc. through US Senate legislation called ZDERA 2001 or the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001 - interestingly sponsored by Bill Frist, co-sponsored by Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Jesse Helms.

All links here:

http://maravi.blogspot.com/2010/04/sticky-mrk-zimbabwe-dollar-collapse.html

 
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