Sangwa and Mundubile: The Rot in Their Thoughts.
The day John Sangwa called Zambia, a Toilet, and the day Brian Mundubile preached his economic ignorance, is the day the two 2026 presidential aspirants exposed their limited capacities to rule a nation.
Indeed, at some point, Zambia must draw a line between free speech and reckless self-hate disguised as intellect. 
When John Sangwa an individual who has lived comfortably, built a career, and enjoyed every constitutional privilege this peaceful nation offers decides to liken Zambia to a toilet, it ceases to be mere critique; it becomes contempt.
Let’s be clear: Sangwa’s statement is not just careless. It’s an insult to the collective dignity of 20 million Zambians.
The same Zambia that gave him the platform to rise from obscurity, the same Zambia that guaranteed him safety, and the same Zambia whose people he now mocks.
For a supposedly constitutional expert, his analogy reeks of arrogance and disconnection from reality.
If Zambia were the “toilet” as he calls it, then he is the one who has benefited from its sanitation.
His law firm, his clients, his income, and his public standing all thrive because of this very system he now trashes as toliet.
True patriots fix flaws they don’t defecate on their motherland’s image for applause from foreign spectators.
Brian Mundubile has also subscribed to be a man who has somehow managed to reduce economics to populist sloganeering.
When he argues that giving free food is better than free education, one can only wonder what economic textbooks he read or if he ever opened one at all.
Basic economics teaches one timeless principle: sustainable empowerment beats temporary relief.
You can hand out mealie meal today, but you’ll need to do it again tomorrow.
However, educate that same citizen, and you’ve planted a seed for innovation, productivity, and independence.
Education is not an expense it’s an economic multiplier. It creates skilled labour, drives entrepreneurship, and attracts investment.
No economy on earth has ever developed by feeding ignorance; they grew by feeding minds.
So, when aspiring leaders like Mundubile promote dependency syndrome over empowerment, it exposes a dangerous lack of vision. At least, sixth Republican President Edgar Chagwa Lungu was honest from the beginning when he told Zambians that he had no vision of his own, except to implement the one left by his predecessor, the late fifth Republican President Michael Chilufya Sata.
Zambia cannot afford leaders who romanticise poverty for political mileage. We need thinkers, not dealers in mediocrity.
In essence, Sangwa’s words insult the nation, while Mundubile’s logic insults our intelligence.
Both reflect a disturbing trend among the opposition elites, an obsession with tearing down rather than building up.
Zambia deserves better, Zambia deserves leaders who understand that criticism must come with conscience. Leaders with knowledge that economic policy must aim at progress, not pity.
It’s time to call out hypocrisy masked as intellect and reject economic illiteracy dressed up as compassion.
