CHIPOLOPOLO coach Honour Janza’s team selection is questionable as most of the players are not up to the task.
The players assembled for the AFCON 2017 qualifiers will not bring the desired results.
The majority of the players are not national team material.
The Football Association of Zambia should immediately engage a new coach, failure to which qualification to the AFCON and world Cup is doomed.
CONCERNED SOCCER FAN
LUSAKA.

MMD heading nowhere

THE MMD in its current form is heading nowhere as things are not well in this once vibrant party. The National Executive Council members should call for fresh elections in the party at national level in order to usher in a new breed of leaders. Let them reflect back at the MMD of 1991 which ushered in democratic politics in Zambia. The leaders
in the party should stop being defensive and own up as the party is slowly collapsing just like UNIP.
M B KAPOGOLO
MMD member
NAKONDE

Lunda, Luvale rivalry unnecessary

THE issue of wrangles between Senior Chief Ishindi of Zambezi East and Senior Chief Ndungu of Zambezi West dominated President Edgar Lungu’s recent visit to North-Western Province.
Let me state unequivocally that, no matter what the two senior chiefs and their subjects choose to call or think of themselves, they are all Zambians.
In their case, being born and raised in Zambezi District was simply an accident of history.
Their parental roots are from the Mwati Yanvwa’s Lunda-Luba Empire, and before that, somewhere in Angola.
The Lunda or Luvale settlements that either dot the Eastern or Western banks of the mighty Zambezi River likely hold the key that might unlock the door revealing more specific places of their ancestral beginnings.
To emphasise the point, people like Lundas and Luvales can call themselves whatever they want and speak. Freedom of speech and thought are worthy values they should always cherish and embrace.
But none should blindly assume that they are a superior people with a nasty, brutish and short history that only began during the colonial era when Zambezi District was called Balovale by the British colonial masters in order to drive a wedge between the Lundas and Luvales.
By sheer dint of will and grace of the God Almighty, Zambia’s First President Kenneth Kaunda renamed the district as Zambezi.
The Lunda and Luvale-speaking people must be proud, but if not proud at least be aware of who they are. They are all Zambians. Can there be any justification for wrangles between Chief Ishindi and Chief Ndungu? What’s the House of Chiefs’ take?
Concerned Citizen