“As a country, we are too comfortable with corruption, and my vision is to break that.” – Martha Chizuma
Horace, in his ode titled “Ad Romanos” says: “
Quid non damnosa dies imminuit? Aetas parentum pejor avis tulit nos nequiores, mox daturos vitiosiorem progeniem”.
Translated, first, he asks, “Is there anything that disastrous times do not obliterate?”
He then responds: “The age of our parents, more degenerate than that of our grandfathers, made us even more worthless, and we will give birth to a still more vicious progeny!”
Grumbling thus about us will be our children and grandchildren. Lamenting that because of your and my high tolerance for corrupt and mediocre leaders, they are born doomed.
Well-known business tycoon Thom Mpinganjira has said that late Paramount Chief Ngolongoliwa approached him on March 30 2018 to take up leadership of the Democra