THE continued high price of mealie meal is a source of great concern. It is puzzling and shocking for millers to continue selling a 25kilogramme bag of mealie-meal at high price, when the country is boasting of a bumper harvest and stability in fuel prices.
The Government and millers should sit down and find a lasting solution to the high prices of mealie meal which is Zambia’s staple food.
TIMOTHY KAMBILIMA
Luanshya

If the dead could hear

IF the dead could hear the good things we say about them, many of them could have resurrected.
The words spoken at somebody’s funeral are just so sweet that the dead would wake up to hear more.
The very people who are quiet about your toil and those who think evil of you when you are still living will become choir masters at your funeral. Hypocrisy is mankind’s specialty. Ingratitude is the nature of man.
If some of the good words and memories were spoken when the deceased were still alive, many of the deceased could have lived longer because good words are medicine to the bones and help prolong life while bad wishes shorten somebody’s life.
It is a fact that some praises or acclaims are rather too late because the dead neither read nor hear.
Such lateness must teach us to appreciate people when they are still alive because they are able to hear or read what we say or think about them.
The lesson also extends to those who serve people at any level to continue serving diligently.
Great people do not get their motivation from the praise of men. They do exploit to please God and to better the lives of others, period!
My message is simple, appreciate somebody now.
REV WILLIE NYENDWA
Ndola

AFCON 2015 here we come

WATCHING on ZNBC TV on Sunday November 9, 2014 the Zambia soccer team pay their last respect to President Michael Sata at Mulungushi International Conference Centre gave me assurance that the boys will die for mother Zambia.
The unfortunate passing on of President Sata has affected all of us including the Chipolopolo, but the team should be encouraged to win as their face the Mambas of Mozambique in the Africa Cup qualifier on Saturday.
I am sure coach Honour Janza has a strategy to beat Mozambique so that they can put a smile on face of many Zambians.
However, I remember in 2012, President Sata working with the corporate world arranged a plane for soccer fans to go and cheer the national team during the finals of the AFCON which we won for the first time in the history of the country.
I was one of those who travelled to Gabon on that chartered plane with the first Republican president Kenneth Kaunda and fourth President Rupiah Banda on board.
Thank you President Sata for having made it possible for many soccer fans to go and cheer the team in Gabon.
Let the next president emulate President Sata in this regard!
Go Chipolopolo go Zambia!
Rest in peace President Sata!
GADY MUSEKA
Soccer fan
Kabwe