https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/writing.html Economist · Writer · Socialist en Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/capitalism-chaos-in-zambia.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/capitalism-chaos-in-zambia.html Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT The system of capitalism, as it has been implemented in a periphery country like ours, is to blame for the chaos and insecurity in Zambia. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/corrupt-capitalist-exam-leakages.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/corrupt-capitalist-exam-leakages.html Sun, 21 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT The postponement of the Grade 7, 9 and 12 examinations by the ECZ is not shocking. Why does this country still hold on to a ritual made meaningless by corruption? https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/2019-zambian-budget-futile-and-deceitful.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/2019-zambian-budget-futile-and-deceitful.html Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT The 2019 national budgeting exercise would have been comical, had it not been so futile and deceitful, detached from the real economy. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/us-invasion-venezuela.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/us-invasion-venezuela.html Sun, 19 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT A US military intervention of Venezuela is highly possible, as the dynamics of American domestic politics favour the anti-Venezuelan forces. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/tendai-biti-deportation-zambia.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/tendai-biti-deportation-zambia.html Thu, 16 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT The shameful saga surrounding Tendai Biti’s deportation out of Zambia is not surprising; it is no longer the safe haven it once was. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/capitalisim-keeps-zambians-hungry.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/capitalisim-keeps-zambians-hungry.html Wed, 20 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT Food, like air, water and warmth, is a critical need for the sustenance of life, yet Zambia is ranked the third hungriest country in the world. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/capitalist-political-parties-dragging-zambia-into-a-state-of-war.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/capitalist-political-parties-dragging-zambia-into-a-state-of-war.html Sat, 09 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT Even before the Chilanga elections were held, it was apparent that innocent people were going to be attacked, harassed, and abused. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/president-lula-a-prisoner-of-capitalism.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/president-lula-a-prisoner-of-capitalism.html Fri, 08 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT President Lula changed the face of Brazil in office from 2003 to 2011, lifting tens of millions of Brazilians out of poverty. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/military-coup-not-solution-misery-masses-zimbabwe.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/military-coup-not-solution-misery-masses-zimbabwe.html Sat, 18 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT The military coup in Zimbabwe is not a solution to the long years of despair and misery of the Zimbabwean masses. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/pf-failed-zambian-economy.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/pf-failed-zambian-economy.html Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT The PF government has never been committed to fiscal consolidation, despite decisive measures being urgently required years ago to stabilise the economy. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/spain-capitalist-crisis-catalonia-national-question.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/spain-capitalist-crisis-catalonia-national-question.html Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT Spain is going through a turbulent period: the global capitalist crisis that almost crippled its economy is not over. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/scramble_for_africa_capitalist.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/scramble_for_africa_capitalist.html Sun, 20 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT It was on the 20th of November 1884 that the formal colonisation of Africa was officially settled by the imperialist powers in Berlin. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/stoplungunow.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/stoplungunow.html Wed, 09 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT The Zambian government under President Lungu is turning out to be the most repressive in the country’s 52-year post-independence history. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/usa-election-a-mockery.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/usa-election-a-mockery.html Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT Americans find themselves in a tricky situation, having to elect a President between two relatively unpopular candidates. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/state-sponsored-violence-against-women.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/state-sponsored-violence-against-women.html Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT The brutal beating and incarceration of the Director for Komboni Radio is unwarranted, but not necessarily shocking. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/tribalism-and-the-destruction-of-zambia.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/tribalism-and-the-destruction-of-zambia.html Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT Ethnicity, also derogatively called tribalism, and regionalism will destroy our homeland if the trends of the past two decades go unchecked. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/continued-zra-abuse-tragedy.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/continued-zra-abuse-tragedy.html Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT The continued and blatant abuse of the Zambia Revenue Authority as a political tool aimed at destroying The Post newspaper is a double tragedy for Zambia. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/muvi-tv-closure-zambia-is-sinking-into-dictatorship.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/muvi-tv-closure-zambia-is-sinking-into-dictatorship.html Tue, 23 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT The closure of MUVI Television, Komboni and Itezhi-Tezhi community radio is part of an on-going scheme by the PF leadership to gag critical voices. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambian-elections-fake-and-unstable-democracy.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambian-elections-fake-and-unstable-democracy.html Mon, 15 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT The just-ended elections in our homeland point to highly worrisome developments with far-reaching consequences for Zambia’s democracy. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/fidel-castro-turns-90-decades-of-revolutionary-commitment-and-resiliency.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/fidel-castro-turns-90-decades-of-revolutionary-commitment-and-resiliency.html Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT Fidel Castro turns 90 on the 13th of August 2016; an opportune time to join the progressive world in reflecting on his life and its lessons. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/political-violence-stoning-of-upnd-campaign-bus-by-pf-supporters-in-lusaka.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/political-violence-stoning-of-upnd-campaign-bus-by-pf-supporters-in-lusaka.html Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT Video of PF cadres stoning a UPND campaign bus in Lusaka raises real questions about the effectiveness of commitments to hold peaceful elections. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/split-in-organized-labour-was-imminent.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/split-in-organized-labour-was-imminent.html Tue, 09 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT The pulling out of CSAWUZ and JAWUZ from the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions is sad, but was an imminent development. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/president-lungus-threats.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/president-lungus-threats.html Mon, 08 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT Given the tense and violent atmosphere within which the current elections are being conducted, President Lungu’s threats are unwarranted and dangerous. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-catholic-church-acted-cowardly-and-shamefully.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-catholic-church-acted-cowardly-and-shamefully.html Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT It is apparent that the Catholic Church, just like many Zambian institutions, was under pressure from the PF government not to render any support to The Post newspaper... https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-post-newspapers-heroic-resistance.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-post-newspapers-heroic-resistance.html Sun, 24 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT The Post newspaper’s continued resilience, despite the closure of its facilities and repression from the PF government, is nothing short of heroic. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/2016-election-campaign-in-zambia-the-fallacy-of-petty-bourgeois-democracy.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/2016-election-campaign-in-zambia-the-fallacy-of-petty-bourgeois-democracy.html Sat, 23 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT More than ever before, the 2016 election campaign is exposing the bankruptcy of ideas of Zambia’s petty bourgeois democracy. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambia-drifting-into-anarchy-and-chaos.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambia-drifting-into-anarchy-and-chaos.html Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT Our homeland is quickly drifting into anarchy and disorder, as police, judiciary and other institutions are systematically compromised. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambia-is-the-third-hungriest-country-in-the-world-due-to-failed-leadership-and-capitalist-system.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambia-is-the-third-hungriest-country-in-the-world-due-to-failed-leadership-and-capitalist-system.html Sun, 03 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT The World Hunger Index for 2015 ranked Zambia the third hungriest country in the world, confirming that Zambian capitalism has been a total failure. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/all-zambian-capitalist-politicians-want-to-get-rich-fast.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/all-zambian-capitalist-politicians-want-to-get-rich-fast.html Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT The attacks on President Lungu’s quickly begotten wealth by politicians who preach capitalism are hypocritical. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-zambian-masses-must-stand-up-and-defend-the-post.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-zambian-masses-must-stand-up-and-defend-the-post.html Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT The PF government is resolved to indefinitely close The Post Newspaper, denying Zambians a critical source of news and analysis. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/it-is-tragic-for-our-country-political-leaders-are-not-making-efforts-to-grasp-economic-basics.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/it-is-tragic-for-our-country-political-leaders-are-not-making-efforts-to-grasp-economic-basics.html Sat, 04 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT The on-going election campaigns are empty of economic content; it is tragic that our political leaders won’t grasp the basics of economic policy. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-matero-fracas-the-pf-leadership-is-endangering-our-police-officers.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-matero-fracas-the-pf-leadership-is-endangering-our-police-officers.html Mon, 09 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT The Matero Fracas was predictable, the end result of a PF government that tolerated and facilitated cadre violence against opposition supporters. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambian-workers-liberate-yourselves-from-capitalist-enslavement.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambian-workers-liberate-yourselves-from-capitalist-enslavement.html Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT If you are a worker in Zambia today, you are not very different from a slave of a hundred years back: your voice hardly counts in political decisions. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/pf-and-its-economic-capacity.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/pf-and-its-economic-capacity.html Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT The downgrading of Zambia’s credit rating and lowering of its economic outlook was obvious and predictable, and there is little sign of a turnaround. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-people-of-itezhi-tezhi-have-been-betrayed-and-marginalised.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-people-of-itezhi-tezhi-have-been-betrayed-and-marginalised.html Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT The people of Itezhi-tezhi have been marginalised by successive governments since 1991 and consistently betrayed by their own elected leaders. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/poverty-in-lukulu-and-mitete-districts-is-breeding-discontent-and-chaos.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/poverty-in-lukulu-and-mitete-districts-is-breeding-discontent-and-chaos.html Thu, 21 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT It is hard to contain shedding tears when confronted by the stark realities of poverty and neglect in the Lukulu and Mitete districts. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/ambassador-sketchley-sachika-and-ideology-a-veiled-propaganda.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/ambassador-sketchley-sachika-and-ideology-a-veiled-propaganda.html Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT Ambassador Sketchley Sachika’s arguments are welcome, but they strengthen the case for politics with real conviction and commitment to the poor. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/hhs-understanding-of-socialism-and-capitalism-is-shockingly-naive-and-shallow.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/hhs-understanding-of-socialism-and-capitalism-is-shockingly-naive-and-shallow.html Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT The UPND president’s remarks on socialism and capitalism are shockingly naïve and shallow, and bode poorly for the poor of Zambia. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/political-alliances-will-not-eradicate-poverty-in-zambia.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/political-alliances-will-not-eradicate-poverty-in-zambia.html Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT Zambians are calling for opposition parties to form an alliance to oust the PF, a legitimate demand, but a new government alone will not end their misery. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/opportunism-in-zambian-politics.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/opportunism-in-zambian-politics.html Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT Zambia will witness increased defections of politicians from one party to another, driven less by conviction than by speculation on who wins next. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/education-no-enlightened-government-imposes-education-costs-on-the-poor.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/education-no-enlightened-government-imposes-education-costs-on-the-poor.html Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT The withdrawal of student meal allowances by the PF government hits the last nail on the coffin for tertiary education. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/political-violence-in-zambia.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/political-violence-in-zambia.html Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT The political violence Zambians are subjected to is tolerated and facilitated by those wielding state power, who could stop it if they chose to. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/specialised-treatment-abroad.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/specialised-treatment-abroad.html Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT Specialised treatment abroad will remain a thorny economic and moral issue under the neo-liberal system Zambia inherited in 1991. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-debt-of-the-zambian-mission-in-london.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-debt-of-the-zambian-mission-in-london.html Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT The debt of the Zambian Mission in London is reflective of a dysfunctional administrative system that runs through our country’s institutions. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambian-economy-poverty-levels-to-remain-high-in-2016.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambian-economy-poverty-levels-to-remain-high-in-2016.html Sun, 07 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT Poverty levels in Zambia will remain high after the 2016 elections, and for years to come, unless the underlying economic system itself is changed. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/pf-cadres-have-more-rights-than-anyone-else-in-having-handshakes-with-their-president.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/pf-cadres-have-more-rights-than-anyone-else-in-having-handshakes-with-their-president.html Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT PF cadres have more rights than anyone else in having handshakes with their president, having become the ruling party’s strongest political pillar. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/trade-unionism-cotuz-welcome.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/trade-unionism-cotuz-welcome.html Sat, 30 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT The launching of the Confederation of Trade Unions of Zambia is welcome, and the Rainbow Party congratulates its leadership on the achievement. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/political-violence-is-in-the-dna-of-the-capitalist-system.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/political-violence-is-in-the-dna-of-the-capitalist-system.html Tue, 26 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT No amount of dialogue, litigation or moral suasion will stop political violence in a periphery capitalist country like ours; the system itself breeds it. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambian-economy-pf-government-ignoring-dr-kalyalyas-advice-at-its-own-peril.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambian-economy-pf-government-ignoring-dr-kalyalyas-advice-at-its-own-peril.html Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT The PF government is ignoring the technical advice of Bank of Zambia Governor Dr. Denny Kalyalya at its own peril. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/fiscal-indiscipline-is-destroying-the-zambian-economy.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/fiscal-indiscipline-is-destroying-the-zambian-economy.html Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT Zambians do not need validation from an IMF official on the havoc the fiscal indiscipline of the PF government is causing to this economy. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/pf-leadership-abusing-police-and-intelligence-officers.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/pf-leadership-abusing-police-and-intelligence-officers.html Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT The PF leadership is abusing the police and intelligence personnel of this country with impunity, a shocking decay in professional conduct. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/president-kabila-of-congo.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/president-kabila-of-congo.html Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo has for nearly 15 years faced tremendous challenges, yet performed pretty well. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambian-economy-2016-may-turn-out-tragic-for-zambian-workers.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambian-economy-2016-may-turn-out-tragic-for-zambian-workers.html Sun, 27 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT 2016 may turn out to be the worst year for our population in the entire post-independence period, as poverty deepens and job losses continue. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-future-of-the-zambian-poultry-industry-is-bleak.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-future-of-the-zambian-poultry-industry-is-bleak.html Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT The future of the Zambian poultry industry is bleak, as constant power interruptions increase bird mortality and impair growth prospects. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambian-economy-president-lungus-parliament-speech-is-misplaced-and-without-direction.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/zambian-economy-president-lungus-parliament-speech-is-misplaced-and-without-direction.html Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT President Lungu’s speech for the official opening of the fifth session of the 11th National Assembly is misplaced and without direction. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-2016-zambia-national-budget.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/the-2016-zambia-national-budget.html Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT The 2016 budget presented by the Minister of Finance carries an appropriate theme, but is neither bold nor realistic. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/position-of-the-rainbow-party-on-the-escalating-economic-crisis-in-zambia.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/position-of-the-rainbow-party-on-the-escalating-economic-crisis-in-zambia.html Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT Zambia is facing one of its worst economic crises since independence in 1964, and the indications are that it is only just beginning. https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/declaring-a-day-of-prayer-borders-on-blasphemy.html https://www.cosmasmusumali.com/declaring-a-day-of-prayer-borders-on-blasphemy.html Sun, 20 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT President Edgar Lungu’s declaration of a day for repentance, prayer and fasting throughout the country borders on blasphemy.