Ali Mwamulima

@penuelist_ We have to be honest. Moat of those seeking asylum are economic refugees and not fleeing conflict. Prospects back home are low and South Africa gives the opportunity to live a half decent life. We need to be honest if we are going to sort out our problems as a Continent.

When it comes to countries like Ethiopia, Somalia & the DRC... a lot of the foreigners in SA have refugee status. - When you are a refugee you are legally in a country. - The SAn govt gets money from the UN to host refugees. - The SAn govt should have created isolated camps for refugees, but chose to let them live freely in SA. - When you have refugee status, you're allowed to get jobs or start businesses in your host nation. - Refugee status needs to be renewed every few years. - Refugees can apply for permanent residency after some years. Many have this. - There are conflicts in these nations, specifically tribal & political. - Neighbouring countries are often too poor or lack infrastructure to host them. - Neighbouring countries are often also hostile to these people. - Some people have lived in SA as refugees for so long that they don't see any other place as their home. - Some of the foreigners acknowledge that some Ethiopians & Somalians are in SA for bad reasons. - Some of the foreigners acknowledge that some spaza shop owners have now become territorial about their businesses within SA & are violent. - These guys crave democracy & rule of law in their home nations. - Ethiopia is relatively calm today but Ethiopians don't want to go back. - Somalia & the DRC are still very hostile. - With most of the guys from Ethiopia, Somalia & the DRC... the only way to get rid of them is to get govt to revoke their refugee status. - They will never leave South Africa unless it gets as hostile as their home nations. - Many top politicians or politically-connected people in SA own mines or benefit from mines & other businesses in the DRC, including Cyril Ramaphosa. PS. Every foreigner who flees their nation due to conflict applies as an asylum seeker & gets temporary documentation. Once approved, they officially become refugees. If rejected, they need to leave the country. Many foreigners have asylum seeker documentation for years without being given formal refugee status. End.

@DobaniSingoJR That was Mineral Royalty owed to the BRE by the BSA company. There was no 78m lying around. People think colonialists would leave that kind of cash? It was debt that was supposed to move from The British Crown to the newly independent State according to the Barotse Agreement.

The general belief is that through the 1970 constitutional amendment act, KK took control of Barotseland assets. This included the Barotse Native Treasury that had £78,000,000 (around £1.5 billion today).

@LankyObserver One thing you can be sure of a Gyokeres penalty is pace. Wee have come to Athleti and be overwhelmed. Unimaginative going forward but we are at least looking stable and comfortable. Saka and Eze to spice it up later hopefully.

Dull first half. Penalty the only real highlight of a largely unimaginative display by Arsenal again. Hardly tested the hosts. Gyokeres converts from the spot, but could easily have fluffed that with less pace on the ball. Atletico Madrid nowhere near inspiring either. Boring.

@GeezBanda @Anarchy_Me_ The Order in Council in 1911 that formed the Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia joined North West Rhodesia ( Barotseland) and North East Rhodesia. At Independence there legally was only one entity getting Independence from the Brits, Northern Rhodesia.

Because we wanted to know and you went quiet 😂, because as far as we know these two Barloste and Rhodesia had to come together and appear as one under some conditions promised by KK and the friends ( which were never fulfilled) so that the white can fully handover Zambia to a united nation. Yes they were a kingdom with some connections and some money, but rich rich no.

People say Zambia was rich at independence. Zambia wasn't rich. Barotseland was rich. That Zambian money was actually Barotse money.

@GeezBanda @Anarchy_Me_ The money that I think the Baroste Royal Establishment claimed at Independence was money owed to it in Mineral Royalty by the BSA Company for copper exported from the Copperbelt. From the 1890 treaty till Independence nothing had been paid out.

@Anarchy_Me_ How much?

@AMwamulima Yes

@Nelsonkray We would probably need a multiple articles/ documentaries with varied perspectives. It is sad indictment of our apathetic attitude to documenting and analysing history. Probably why we make the same mistakes over and over again. We need more Shishuwa Shishuwas.

Is there an unbiased documentary or article on Kenneth Kaunda? One that honestly covers his successes, mistakes, repression and positives. No hero worship or propaganda. Need the unfiltered truth.

@Mukonde17 @tallzedgirl Before it was because KK was President and was hogging the limelight. It is 35 years hence and I don't know what the excuse is. Probably our poor attitude towards documenting, analysing and studying history.

@tallzedgirl Otherwise its concerning how other founding fathers and mothers are rarely talked about even on independence day

If Lewanika, Nkumbula et. al., deserve more than footnotes- and they do, write the threads!Give them the full account they deserve. That's how you uplift forgotten history. Not by making a footnote in someone else's thread to prove it's a lie.

@SentimentalCook @HenryMumbiMumbi We back home have a bad attitude about diasporan money. We think it is endless. A remember a friend asking me to message a diasporan bululu to send us something because we were broke on the weekend. He couldn't understand it when I said no, felt I had some divine right to ask.

@HenryMumbiMumbi Doc, ine I gave up on remote investing back home. This is the reason I focus on the stock market..I am in control. I don't have to deal with being shown pics of other people's harvests or building constructions as our own.

In the early 2000s I shipped a car to Zambia 🇿🇲 from the UK through South Africa and registered it as a taxi. It was even painted in those blue and white colours. The aim was to support my mum financially. We employed a driver and my young brother was responsible for collecting the money. The driver kept a record of all transactions. When I travelled to Zambia 🇿🇲 I was astonished to find out that mum was not getting the funds. I looked at the records (cashing by the driver) it was a lot of money. Asked my brother about the money, it was a long story. I then directed the driver to put the money direct into my bank account in Zambia. He complied for few months and eventually stopped. It was very difficult those days to communicate. After nearly two years I got the message that the vehicle was returned but beyond repair. Through my investigations I discovered that the driver had bought himself two vehicles. I confronted him about the money and car situation when I visited Zambia 🇿🇲. Again, a long story! He was looking worth ‘kupopoka’. May His Soul Rest In Eternal Peace.

@eliasmunshya @HonMushimba Do MPs represent land masses or people? Geographical spread will always be a factor as an MP needs to effectively represent his or her constituents, but this will be underpinned by the principle that MPs represent people, not land masses.

@HonMushimba Perhaps because in balancing between population and geographical size, Lusaka is four times smaller in size.

How does Lusaka, with a population of ~1m more people than southern province, only has 18 total constituencies compared to 29 in southern province? Make this make sense please.

@FMwenge @Yikucha2 "bullying pedestrians." I don't get how people have found that inspiring enough to warrant handing over the keys to a city of 2 million. Pantu babusaka? The City's problems extend to more than just garbage. But even if garbage was THE problem, what are his solutions?

@Yikucha2 Even if it was clean, Lusaka city problems are institutional and political, cannot be resolved by merely bullying pedestrians.

Simoson is filthy but the owner will make Lusaka clean?

@luchi7 There is a pollster in the US who uses that very phrase just before he calls a result from exit polls. For a second I thought we were talking an election somewhere .

I’ve seen enough

@briansimasiku Are we to support the argument for international law and norms been made by the very people who less than a month ago launched a war of aggression, in contravention of those very rules and norms?

May not agree with Donald Trump on many things, but on the Strait of Hormuz, the logic is hard to ignore. A global trade route can’t be turned into a leverage tool. If one side restricts access, the response will always be to restore it, by force if necessary.

@villagemujika You got to love the stories they tell, or how they tell them. Man, we all know they're into a buck, providing zero to little in the way of value addition, sustained and meaningful community development, and knowledge transfer. Let's cut the farce and just maximise on taxes.

Your mission was, allegedly, to "..gather on the ground business intelligence, not only from boardrooms and mine sites, but from policymakers, environmental experts, infrastructure planners, farmers and local communities. So where are they? Instead, what we got is a polished echo of Barrick’s PR deck, with corporate ambition packaged as inevitability. No policymakers. No environmental scrutiny. No community voices. Did you talk to farmers and they said an airport is their priority? This isn’t field reporting. It’s unchallenged amplification.

@eliasmunshya @MwimbuZ @ssishuwa You sound like you might not be fully on board with the current position and only hold it because of collective responsibility and organisational discipline. Understandable. But maybe you then should not be making an argument you don't believe in fully. Silence is an option.

It was on TVBAKWETU where I spoke about that. My views though weren’t government views. Our opinion then, went contrary to government’s position and policy. I now agree with government policy on this point and the Lungu Administration was right to insist on a state funeral and state burial for the former head of state.

10 months ago today, a former president died. His successor heard. Since then, the successor’s primary concern has been the same: not grief nor concern for the deceased’s family, but self-service. “I must attend the funeral or else there will be none.” After failing to get his way, he moved to block the burial and waste millions of taxpayers’ money on hiring lawyers in a foreign land to secure his interest. That is his mind in its purest form: what is in it for me? Not empathy. Not compassion. Not dignity. Just a presidency where even death gets measured in personal benefit. The man is EVIL. He does not care about anything and anyone except for their use and benefit to him. Vile. Despicable.

@LankyObserver We see the problem and understand the challenges, but what is government's solution? Or at the very least the plans to cushion its effects. Does Boma have a plan? Should we begin rationing? Have alternative sources been secured?

Makebi is condemning govt uku, saying these fuel shortages are "unacceptable". Ma politician che. Simuona what is happening ku Hormuz? Mufuna Bally achite bwanji manje?

@CrytoChand @FinanceLancelot Political resolution? Between Iran and Israel?

@FinanceLancelot You’re a piece of shit for having posted an older clip after a political resolution between countries.

BREAKING: Iran has launched a new wave of missiles towards Israel

@DSimbayi @LankyObserver Iwe, don't bring Arsenal mu fyaupuba!!!😂😂😂😂. And we will win the league. That was an off day.

@LankyObserver Spoken with the confidence of an Arsenal fan, just like a whole lot of Arsenal fans, thinking you are going to win the league after watching the mess on Sunday

Makebi Zulu emerged as a dark horse in the PF Presidential race and stole the win from under his competitors' noses. One would have thought Lubinda or Chilufya should have won it. That's democracy. It's why I remain cautious about all these predictions of an assured UPND victory

@MHopeMK If a government can't run a Mine then surely we can't expect them to run a country competently, which is a far more complex undertaking. We say this guy can't drive a ka corrola but then are bizarrely ok with him driving a truck and trailer!

I will say it again? The Zambian government CANNOT run mines. You see Kobold metals investing 2.5 billion in Mingomba Copper mine and you think govt can do the same? The same govt that cannot fix drainages? Please. Let us let the investors do their thing and make sure we get the appropriate taxes when the mine is productive.