POLITICS OF INCONSISTENCY
THE most consistent feature of Zambian politics is inconsistency. The saddest part of it all is that the vast majority of citizens take no keen interest in politics yet it is the decisions of politicians that are responsible for the progress or lack of progress that characterises various facets of our existence as a collective community of Zambians. The decisions of today’s political office bearers will continue to yield fruits for generations to come. The national debt issue is a classic example of the impact of political choices on future generations. The debts that our founding father acquired to build the country and deal with economic challenges then came back to haunt the country in ways that not only significantly affected the quality of life of Zambians but also resulted in premature death of a lot of them. The Patriotic Front government is back on the path of borrowing this time not only from development finance institutions with concessional terms but also from op