March 15, 2010
Violet Bwalya claims FAZ Boss Kalusha Bwalya hasn't been consultating other executive members on FAZ matters
Ndola based Football Association of Zambia, FAZ executive committee member Violet Bwalya has said the association’s constitution should be followed and has advised her fellow executive members to ‘stop scheming’ as the constitution was there to guide them.
“This in-fighting should end, we don’t own FAZ, it is not a katemba, it has a constitution. The constitution must be followed, “Bwalya, a human resource specialist at Zambia told The Post newspapers in an exclusive interview last Friday.
She added, “We should stop scheming. The constitution is there to guide us.”
Bwalya also took at a swipe at the people calling her an ‘anti-Kalusha.’
“I hear people say I have been dark corner meetings, it is not true. I want my position to be known. Times of Zambia and Daily Mail have been writing stories about me without checking, their stories are not balanced.
“I call a spade a spade and if a person is wrong I make sure that I tell them that they are wrong. A lot has been said about me and this why I am saying all this. I don’t hate anybody. There’s no accountability and transparency in FAZ’s income and expenditure.
“And when you talk about it then you are anti Kalusha, this has led to wrangles in the association,” she said.
“Being a human resource person, I wanted to know how much was made during the African Cup of Nations and how much was spent during CHAN, if people will perceive me to be anti-Kalusha, and then let it be. What I am saying is that as a committee we need to take to plan together for the good of the association, “she said.
“Tell me, If I question how much about how the association is spending money and asking to be part of the planning and not just seeing the budget at the AGM, does that make me anti-Kalusha?’’ Bwalya, one of the two ladies in the FAZ Executive asked.
At the moment their are two camps in the FAZ Executive; One led by Kalusha Bwalya & the other by his vice; Emmanuel Munaile.
Kalusha Bwalya camp- Boniface Mwamelo, Keagan Chipango, Lenny Nkhuwa and Marcha Chilemena
Emmanuel Munaile Camp- Pivoty Simwanza, Henschel Chitembeya and Violet Bwalya. To make decisions during the FAZ executive meetings, a two thirds vote is needed for a decision to be approved. In the current scenario, the Kalusha camp is in majority.
Bwalya has also maintained that the suspension of Simataa Simataa was unconstitutional.
“It was unconstitutional to serve a person with a suspension without hearing them first, it was not right to give Simataa a suspension. His case should have gone to the disciplinary committee.
She also defended the famous petitioners meeting at a lodge in Longacres which was attended by four executive members; Emmanuel Munaile, Pivoty Simwanza, Henschel Chitembaya and herself. During the course of the meeting Kalusha, Boniface Mwamelo and Keagan Chipango stormed the meeting.
“There’s no smoke without fire. And at the meeting, the petitioners were asking things that were written in the constitution and not that I was holding dark corner meetings.
60 Comments on "FAZ Executive Member: We don’t own FAZ, It’s not a Katemba!"
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daddy on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 12:40 PM
Honestly we are tired of this, CHAN is coming and instead of finger pointing can we get to business please, do we need a petition and organising “coup de’tta” for eriing officers? the next election are coming fopr now lets hold them accountable, why are people in a hurry and starting calling your selves petitioners? vachilamo mwe
ROK on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 12:44 PM
For those who have been defending the Kalusha Bwalya-led FAZ executive, this article, which is a self-critique, should help pin-point where the problem is. The lady has tried to speak her mind without mentioning names but brought out salient issues such as lack of accountability and transparency in FAZ. What is important here is the fact that the person who gave this interview is currently serving a a committe member of FAZ and for those of you who have been wondering why it is always the Post writing negative stories about FAZ, you will notice that the story is appearing in the Times of Zambia. Reading between-the-lines of this article, all the problems that has beset the Football House have been laid bare for all to see.
lelo12 on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 1:21 PM
Lets us first of all sort the messy at football house, The whore FAZ must honor up and resign on moral grounds, they must alos go with their coach. To much of tolerance is stupidity
Big Steve from SA on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 1:34 PM
@ROK
I agree, I hope this is an eye opener to the blind kalusha loyalists. I should say I am a little shocked at this report. I was initialy of the opinion that this cagey behaviour and lack of transparency was with the whole FAZ EXCO but this report from a sitting EXCO member now shows us that Kalu and a handfull of his croonies are busy running FAZ like a ka ntemba. The lack of transparency even extends to other EXCO members!!! wow this guy is really just a crook who turned out to be a great soccer star. I bet him and his croonies just look at FAZ as a cash cow and want to milk it dry before the next election. A lack of tranparency only indicates shady dealing.
Bashi Warren on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 1:34 PM
Yaaba ! Fighting always . This should stop. Can we have serious people to run our number one sport.
chiti chitundu on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 2:14 PM
fighting all the time. no time for development just fighhting fighting and pucnhing each other awe mwe twanaka mwe
Chali Cool on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 2:21 PM
Lets just wait for the next FAZ elections. There is completely no need for this lady Violet to play a saint. Surely, even if you are against your own executive, do you have to hold a dark corner meeting with people scheming to overthrow your institution? It just shows that the petitions originated with this group of disgruntled members who have no guts to resign on moral grounds. If you don’t like what they do, resign. This action will put more pressure on them than organising a coup.
Uncle Bobs on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 2:45 PM
People what about each of us giving back to the clubs we support, FAZ letting go of the NFL to be run by a team of business-minded people (in the right sense of course) and FAZ concentrating on running the National Team. Ifwe naba Kalampa we are on the roll and twamilomba all you Kalampas out there to dig deeper in your pockets as our Chairman has outlined a ZMK1.8bn budget. What is missing big time in our sports is leadership (not just at National level but even pa club level) and the earlier we realised the better. Zesco and Power have what it takes coupled with the good sponsorship,in my opinion!
Justice Kafusha on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 2:45 PM
Chali Cool if you are a driver of a car and you notice that you are driving in the wrong lane, do you continue your journey until you reach your destination or do you correct the situation? Can you please advise
Justice Kafusha on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 2:47 PM
Good points, leadership at club level leaves much to be desired
Big Steve from SA on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 3:34 PM
Chali must be another blind Kalu loyalist. We should let FAZ keep nose dving into the ground until the next elections??? what on earth is wrong with correcting the situation now??
sido on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 3:53 PM
Dont naive my brother, this is what we call politics at its best.@ROK
sido on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 3:54 PM
I mean dont be@ROK
Ku ma final on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 4:09 PM
Not helpful…madam get to work!!! FAZ must focus and not join MMD/PF/UNDP/FFF/ZANU way of doing things. FIFA is a great example, running football is a business and should be a kantemba, wheres FIFA is the Shoprite as FAZ is a ntemba. Principle is the same. Too much democracy wont get us any where.
Paulsn on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 4:46 PM
It seems like Zamfoot is now thriving on politics. People are tired of politics and want to hear football. Are you also championing the cause of certain individuals? You posted rumours headlined HR linked to… you know the countries. The man HR spoke his position last week and I dont see you writing anything. Am begining to question your newly found direction. Shape up or you will be like other mediocre mediums.
Zimandola on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 4:51 PM
Ba Justice you are offside here. The answer to your question is : i will make amends by getting to the correct lane, but remember that i will still be the same person driving the car.
Zimandola on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 4:52 PM
I would make amends by getting to the correct lane, but remember that i will still be the same person driving the car.
lelo12 on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 5:02 PM
Zambian football is better off without Kalusha bwalya in administration, we have performed much better than this nonse we are seeing now in FAZ
lelo12 on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 5:06 PM
Are we sure there are no honorable men and women in Zambia we can lift us from this messy we have been subjected to for to long
Justice Kafusha on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 5:06 PM
Very good response though you are not Chali Cool. Why can’t FAZ do the same? Correct the situation and go forward? Please advise me
Justice Kafusha on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 5:11 PM
Why can’t FAZ correct their mistakes? There is a tag of war apa and when 2 elephants fight it id the grass that suffers. The grass in this case are the football clubs and soccer fans, in case you do not know
Cheers my young brother, you are welcome to critisize me cause I am not a Mr. I know everything. Amano wafumine mwi fwesa yaya na mu chulu. I will always be ready to listen and apologize when I am wrong, cause that is the way forward
Justice Kafusha on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 5:12 PM
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Emmanuel on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 5:30 PM
zambaians we are foolish .why do we allow people like simaata simaata freash from being chased at city of lusaka for selfish ambitions to bring comfusion to zambian football?The sports page of The post newspaper has displayed pure childshness unbalanced reporting.Above all Augustine Mukoka has vowed to bring down the most celebrated soccer player this country has ever produced. is this the zambian way of doing things?after zambia prepared so well by playing quality friendlies before the african cup of nations did any of these FOOLS give kalu any part on the back NO.
Never on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 5:33 PM
kALUSHA should be left to finish his term and those that want to sort him out can do so next year when elections will be held.As for now all those calling for his removal are just there to revenge on what might have happened in the past.
Kalusha Bwalya is awful when it comes to administration and in fact he is a dicatator.May be he is learning it from the overall boss of world football Sepp Blatter.I feel he also has some elements of dicatorship.
Nonetheless, it wiil be folly for me not to mention that alot has been achieved under Kalusha Bwalya.The sponsoring of the league by KCM can be attributed to the ‘Kalusha’ brand.The TV rights from supersport constitute a major income for most of the team in our premier league.That is no mean achievement.
There is an improvement in the Zambian game over the years.A good example is Zesco’s performance in the orange champions league.That was not by accident but as a result of an improvement in the league.This explains why KCM was voted one of the best leagues in Africa last year.
With the exceptions of irregularities during transfer,during Kalusha’s time, Zambia has seen a number of its players getting some proffessional contracts in foreign leagues.
As much as we criticise this FAZ, let us be mindful that with what they have achieved, they do not deserve to have their term cut short, no.Let them finish their term and those very ‘few individuals’ that want to challenge them are free to do so. A ‘coup should not be allowed at all.Twakana ! The ballot should prevail!
Chizman on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 6:11 PM
Assuming Kalu & Co booted out of FAZ, what next? The current FAZ may have its own shortcomings but quite honestly they have made achievements that warrant that they continue.
What Violet and others can do is resign and let Kalu continue.
Infact, Violet’s language sounds like from a typical Kantemba and really personal!
Chali Cool on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 6:38 PM
You know what Justice? One thing I have come to like about you is that you do not call names the people you differ with opinions unlike some people on this blog. I think thats a plus on your part. We can still be friends even with different opinions. Coming to your challenge, I am of the view that this whole issue has been seriously politicised and there are people in the background who are bent at seeing the Kalusha executive fail come rain come sunshine. Howcome they just see mistakes and ignore archievements. I would rather people become objective and not basing their arguments on their personal relationship with Kalusha. For example, Under this executive, we came out third at CHAN,reached quotas in Angola and Zesco reahed the group stage of the African champions league. Surely justice are those minor archievements that should not be recognised? Why should people just talk about the bad and ignore the good. The principle of reinforcement in Psychology entailes that when someone does a good thing and you praise them, then you are reinforcing that good thing to happen again. But instead of applying principles of reinforcements, people are just concentrating on negatives. If you read the article Mukoka wrote when the CHAN squad came back, he said that FAZ should not take credit because in his reasoning they did not play any role in preparing the team. Is that fair Justice? Suppose the team did not perform well,would Mukoka have said that FAZ should not be blamed? These are some of the things that make me question the sincererity of the people spearheadingthe so called petition. As an intellectual, I am taught to be objective in all anlytical work that I undertake. My reasoning is not influenced by Kalusha’s archievements as a player or the Post’s manuvores to brainwash people’s thinking by continously reporting negatively on some people untill they bring them down. Iam guided by principles of fairness and objective analysis. Coming to your question, I would apply corrective but not punitive measures. If going in a different lane is caused by overspeeding or dosing, I would advise the driver to reduce the speed and get back on track or take “red bull” to avoid dosing. What I would not do is to take him to road traffic or police so that they confiscate his driving licence.
Chali Cool on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 6:42 PM
I can’t agree more my brother.
Chali Cool on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 6:45 PM
By the way justice am your Neighbour. I’m in Norway so if you don’t mind we can chat on phone.
jeremiah on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 7:48 PM
Please zamfoot stop the post articles on this site because they are biased after kalusha beat one of them……
DaMwiinger on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 7:58 PM
@Chali Cool
Interesting points you raise. I am curious to know from you how you define failure?
ife ndife ba zambia on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 8:01 PM
mayukka is action for his club
DaMwiinger on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 8:01 PM
I have read the article again and I am struggling to find anything personal. can you please help me out here?
ife ndife ba zambia on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 8:02 PM
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Sceptic on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 8:33 PM
Mayuka Red carded!!!!!!! – No use in continuing watching this game
ife ndife ba zambia on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 8:35 PM
mayuka red carded
Chali Cool on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 8:38 PM
@ DaMwiinger, failure is a state of inability to perform a normal function. It can also mean the inability to archieve results. Against this background, the question u need to answer is; has the Kalusha led executive failed to archieve results? If u are honest with yourself, u’ll be able to admit that they have performed above average. Evidence being: CHAN bronze, Zesco- Champions league group stage and Angola-quota final. These are results that have eluded the country for so many years and yet all people are doing is ignoring them and concentrating on negatives. Am I saying Kalu and group have not made mistakes, NO! They have been found wantig in the way they have been handling player transfers and they need to improve on this one. Furthermore, transparence should be part and parcel of all dealings at FAZ. In conclusion, what is needed is to give praise were praiseis due and to criticise objectively were we think things are not going well. Taking radical measures like most of you are advocating will just kill the game in Zambia. By the way, careful with people who have scores to settle like Mukoka and Simata!!!
sido on Mon, 15th Mar 2010 9:55 PM
Tell them my brother.@Emmanuel
Never on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 7:40 AM
Its just a question of a veteran soccer administrator to sit down Kalusha Bwalya and counsel him especially on issues of looking at divergent views.Otherwise he understands very well the running of modern football compared to those critics just practising ‘PHD’.
Bonaventure on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 8:36 AM
BA Zamfoot when you bring in topics for bloggers DO NOT copy and paste articles from Post. Now it looks like you are an extension of Post. If you were fair you could includ articles from other papers. I read a mature and balanced article by Chapadongo Lungu in the suday Mail of Daily Mail…”Eternal Petitions’. You will mislead bloggers who will automatically adopt Post stance. We know thay they(Post) are being subjective instead of being objective.
Poor Violet Bwalya is jumping out of a ship that will NOT SINK.
On the overall football has grown under Kalu save for allegations and divisions in FAZ(whether they are tailored to give leverage to Kalu’s downfall or not). We need to look at the macro level. Look at Zesco’s CAF history, our CHAN outing, U2o COSAFA triumphi and OLA Angola performance. Its like a team with a low ball possession beating an organised team via an own goal. The ‘inferior’ team has still achieved results and will get the three points. LETS BE FAIR. ALL ‘MAY NOT BE WELL’ IN FAZ (UNTIL PROVED) BUT WE ARE PROGRESSING. THATS MY TWO NGWEE. AMEN
ROK on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 8:39 AM
My brother the article on Vioet Bwalya’s revelations was not published by the Post. Let us discuss each issue objectively so that we clearly isolate simptoms from the real problems. Bringing in items which are not relevant to the issue at hand will not help matters. Those of you who are watching things from outside have a slightly view from those of us who are running our own football teams from our own pockets. You have no clue whatsoever how it fees, for instance, my team is playing against a team owned by a FAZ executive member and ther happens to be some issues during the game. The issue is tabled before the FAZ disciplinary committee only to find one member of the disciplinary committee is a secretary of the club belonging to this FAZ executive member who shamelessly sits there without declaring any interest. You have to run football and be at the pitch to see what i am talking about. I started my team from square one, Lusaka Amateur, to Lusaka Super Amateur, FAZ Division iii and FAZ Division ii and i have got an idea about what i am talking about. It pains those of us spending several millions of Kwacha on football only to be subjected to MEDIOCRITY. So mind your language we are all not mere spectators like yourself who is basing arguements on what you read or have head. @jeremiah
ROK on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 8:41 AM
Line no.5 should have read you have a slightly different view …
Chali Cool on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 8:43 AM
Sense
Zamfoot on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 8:46 AM
@Bonaventure
Basically our intention to just be putting a column like ‘What the Paper Says’ with links to the main tabloid but the problem is that both Times of Zambia & Daily Mail rarely update or delay in updating their websites.
That leaves us the option of let say buying both copies of papers every day and that might prove a bit too costly.
We ‘re really looking at the issue though.
Thanks for the support
Bonaventure on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 9:14 AM
IYE ATI CHINDEKEKO! KUTI WAPAPA.@ROK
ROK on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 9:39 AM
Whatever you mean by that! I think we need to have separate columns for spectators and administrators because clearly we are looking at things from a totally different angles. We are all tring to contribute to the development of football in this country and for your own information Bonaventure, i am the brain child of the recently announced national indaba on football. I did a three paged document to FAZ. So please do your research before you make a mokery of people on issues that you dimly understand.@Bonaventure
Winza Sichali on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 11:33 AM
At the same time Kalu has to show willingness to learn. No doubt FAZ have achieved some decent measure of succcess within their tenure as pointed out by some bloggers – the Bronze medal at CHAN, quarter final at AFCON, sponsorship by KCM, Supersport and now finally my favourite Copper / black Jersey is in. Even the green one is now appropriatelt designed. There are however still many more areas which cry for improvement in their administration. Day to day running of an organization like FAZ requires proper admin skills, which should be certified ie GS should have such and such qualifications etc. This is set in such a manner so that whoever is in position does not get lost in the complexities of running the organization. He has to adhere to what the constitution says ( there is no negotiation on this one ), he has to plan activities of the organization well in advance so that eg the national team has freindlies on FIFA days, foreign based players and local ones get visas in time for crucial frendlies ( you avoid the London debacle this way ), disciplinary cases are dealt with in time so that you dont have unneccessary quarrels between clubs about players that shouldnt have been playing etc. I like the Justice question about driving in the wrong direction and zimandola’s answer that he would change course but would still be the same driver. The question however is : is Faz willing to change course ? have we seen signs of this ? The clear thing is that FAZ have to accept that their administrative skills can be improved upon. Kalu has had a lot of opportunities to work under seasoned and very qualified administrators and i hope he took advantage to learn from them ie the likes of Teddy Mulonga, Blatter . He ‘s had a lot of exposure too, at FIFA, COSAFA and basically all over the world in his playing career. The critical thing is that exposure has now got to be used for the betterment of the game. Have we seen the benefits of this exposure trickling down in the operations of FAZ ? Have we seen a willingness to learn from experienced people ( The Mulonga issues which went all the way to COSAFA were a big mess and am sure lessons were learnt ). Undermining your boss is rarely progressive in an organizations and am sure Kalu has now seen clearly that this is not the best way to manage things in ligt of dark corner meetings. He should have provided a bit more support and loyalty to Mulonga and managed his ascendancy without much controversy.
Ku ma final on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 11:34 AM
The guys calling for a balanced view/analysis of issues in football have a point. My question is how did you get to be allowed to use Post articles when Phoenix what the papers say is not allowed. Just wondering!
Never on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 12:10 PM
ZAMFOOT: Can you PLEASE run an opinion poll on this site to check how many people are against the Kalusha led FAZ.Am made to believe they are very few but I may be wrong.The opinion poll could help us on this.
tino on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 12:25 PM
i think its not a matter of for and against but an issue of what is right or wrong. i dont have to like Kalusha for me to say he is right. if he is right,he is right, if he is not he is not. full stop. the best we can do is point out what wrongs the excutive has committed and weigh them against what great things they have done
tino on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 12:25 PM
@Never
i think its not a matter of for and against but an issue of what is right or wrong. i dont have to like Kalusha for me to say he is right. if he is right,he is right, if he is not he is not. full stop. the best we can do is point out what wrongs the excutive has committed and weigh them against what great things they have done
Paulsn on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 1:19 PM
ROK you have a very bad attitude. You come out as I know it all. You are a true reflection of the poor club administration in Zambia that finds its final resting place in FAZ. Zamfoot is a blog for fans so you come up with your own for administrators. Just because you own a club doesnt give you monopoly to knowledge. With people like you we will always have problems coz…finshi twingamyeba? You know it all.
DaMwiinger on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 1:31 PM
What are normal functions in your view? Isn’t professional behaviour a normal requirement? How about transparency in your dealings? And sound corporate governance? Isn’t arranging proper friendlies normal duties? Isn’t having a plan and communicating this to stakeholders normal function? Isn’t upholding the constitution of FAZ normal? The list goes on. I wouldn’t call FAZ’s shortcomings mistakes, this is blantant failure!! And some of us don’t accept failure and mediocrity. Nothing personal against anyone, no scores to settle, just want our game to be run properly. Kalu and his team are taking things personal-slapping a journalist, blocking journalist in Angola, unbecoming behaviour towards those petitioning them, HR’s rantings in Angola. Come on mate, you have to see through these things. Believe you me, there is serious corruption at FAZ.
I don’t understand why you are giving credit to FAZ for Zesco’s performance? CHAN and AFCON are positives I agree but I wouldn’t classify them as success. For me, success is building on what you have done. Ask yourself this, what has happened post CHAN and AFCON?
ROK on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 1:51 PM
With you i just have to agree to differ with you. You are entitled to you opinion but theory is different from practice that is what i was trying to put across to you and you may elect to disagree with me. @Paulsn
ROK on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 1:55 PM
Regarding developing my own website i wish to state that a website for my club will be launched b4 the end of this year. Watch this space but let me remind you there are no enemies in football. When my website is launched i will still solicit for your ideas as we are in it together. @Paulsn
Paulsn on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 2:42 PM
Well, wish you all the best with your club ROK. Will look up your site when its up and running. My wish and challenge to you is that you give Zambia a practical model of proffessional football admin. Give us something that people will look up to and say we want that kind of admin in FAZ. Granted, practice is different from theory, one can still learn from the least experienced.
Paulsn on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 2:59 PM
On the issue of divisions in FAZ spoken of by Violet, none is a saint, Violet inclusive. What has she done to stop the division? What have the others done? These people in FAZ need to be responsible. They are behaving like a bunch of kids fighting for the last cookie in the cookie jar. I know people will say Kalu is supposed to bring unity in the house and I agree with that. My point here is that all FAZ members owe it to us to work as 1
Chali Cool on Tue, 16th Mar 2010 8:32 PM
Hi bro, you have raised some important points that make sense. For example the questions you ask in the beginning are important and need to be attended to. What is needed as someone suggested earlier are seasoned administrators(fatherly figures) who can sit down with Kalu and company and give them genuine advice aimed at building not destroying. Iam sure that if this was to happen, Kalu would really appreciate it and he would be willing to change for the better. The problem we have is that lumpens calling themselves administrators and journalists have ganged up to bring down Kalusha at all costs.This is plain to see by anyone with the least intelligence unless one decides to deliberately interpret it the other way round. You talk of Kalusha having slapped a journalist, well the incident happened in South Africa and upto now the police have not found any grounds to prosecute him even after the Post management waged a viscious campaign to see Kalu crucified . Meanwhile, Mukoka has continued writing disparaging and personal articles on Kalu and you can’t see anything wrong with that? All this is being done against a man who has no platform to defend himself. Where as Mukoka can use the power of the pen through the post to brainwash simple minds, Kalusha has no platform. For Simata, he’s on record as having said that he can never work with Kalu. The history of these two’s relationship is there for anyone to see. These are the peolpe who have decided to desregard any little success scored by this administration so as to concentrate on negatives. Nothing that Kalu does will ever be good for Mukoka and Simata. Unfortunately, most of you guys have fallen prey to their schemes if we are to judge by the insults that Kalusha receives on this medium. I even see it in you bro when you say you don’t consider whatever archievements these guys have scored success because they have not built on that.Surely, how can you be so mean with praise?Lets point out success just the same way we point out their perceived failures. Even if we say they are to build from the success scored at the Africa cup, when can they do that when they have not been given chance to settle and concentrate on developing the game from the time the Africa cup ended. It has been petition after petition, accusations after accusations and Mukoka also runing riot with his articles.
Never on Wed, 17th Mar 2010 9:16 AM
Am sure you realise a lot people who post on this blog are quite educated and have the ability to analyse any given situations from all angles.What you have pointed out I feel is already being done on this site but there is nothing wrong running a poll just to see what people think about the current impasse in FAZ.It may not be a true reflection of what the entire population of Zambia is feeIing but at least it will give a guide on what a certain quarter of society is thinking about the happenings in FAZ.
ROK on Wed, 17th Mar 2010 10:18 AM
Chali Cool calling people who have divergent views from your s a bunch of lumpens calling themselves administrators is unfair unless you want all of us to think like you. Stubbornly refusing to listen to what other people are saying is the actual problem at FAZ. People like me have made efforts to go to Football House to share some ideas with our colleagues there a few months after ushering in the current FAZ executive only to be thrown out of the office as people ‘were busy’. I had to write three times to FAZ for a call for a national indaba for all soccer stakeholders before this idea was finally announced before the Parliamentary committee on sport. So before you call us lumpens, make an effort to listen to us preferably on a telephone conversation because if we also call you a lumpen then people will be confused as to who the real lumpen is. Let us deliberately create room for divergent views including those you may not agree with but without calling each other names.@Chali Cool
Chali Cool on Wed, 17th Mar 2010 1:35 PM
Surely Mr Simata and Mukoka behave like Lumpens. I refered to them when I said some “administrators and journalists” and I have no regrets cause thats their description. Well, we can debate and debate on this issue but it seems people are grounded in their beliefs. So maybe,I can end here for this one.