TRUTH BE TOLD
Dear Editor,
WHILE foreigners come to Zambia to look for land to build a shopping complex, and fill it up Zith their oZn businesses, Ze the local people are busy looking for empty space to hold the next political rally or church crusade.
If we are not lying to people that when they vote for us their lives will be well, we are lying to them that that if they take this “anointed water” and deal with their generational curses their lives will be well.
Meanwhile, a Chinese man is cleaning up an old building in town to sell clothes and/or start a restaurant and sell nsima to the same people who are waiting for the politician to help them or for a prophet to deliver them.
With all our curses, that is if we really have them, we are making foreigners rich by buying from them in numbers.
In fact, they don't mind how cursed we are, or how many spiritual husbands and wives we have, they still give us a job - to cook and sell the same nsima we have been cooking for years at home.
We are so fast and passionate about attending useless functions that don't help us.
We would rather go for a wedding and donate a K200 at the gate than go for a business seminar and pay K50 for entry.
We will plan for one year to attend “The Day of Thunder” and yet have no money to buy one book on Business Success.
We can spend one week attending a Fire for Fire Anointing Service, but we are too busy to attend a one-day free Network Marketing presentation.
It would seem we are either pacified by political rhetoric or too indoctrinated with religion.
We live in a country where we have more people who will go to heaven, straight, but having lived a poor life on earth.
It’s like our only role model in the bible is Lazarus, who died poor and went straight to heaven.
We don't mind Abraham who was rich in cattle, silver and gold, Isaac who was a farmer, Paul the tent maker, Peter the owner of a fishing conglomerate /uke the doctor, Job the richest man in UZ, Paul the professor, Solomon the wealthy philosopher etc.
We would rather argue passionately about tribe and which tribe is more superior to another, than argue about economic systems and which one would work well in Zambia. Joe Chanda, Lusaka.