Kalusha reported to police for beating journalist
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Zambia’ soccer legend and current president of Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) Kalusha Bwalya has allegedly beaten up Post sports journalist Augustine Mukoka.
According to City Press, the incident happened in Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday when the two met at Press Day of the World Cup 2010 draws.
Kalusha is said to have slapped Augustine in the face.
And Post Newspaper Managing Editor Amos Malupenga has announced that the matter has been reported to the police.
Malupenga said in a phone interview that though Kalusha apologized to Augustine, the apology was not in good faith and Kalusha is unrepentant.
He said the apology by Kalusha Bwalya was not initiated by him but by FIFA officials who felt disgusted by the behavior of Kalusha.
He said this is not the first time Kalusha has behaved in that manner saying he has always showed hostility to Post journalists.
46 Responses to Kalusha reported to police for beating journalist
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Iam ready to give kalu my ten or more fingers for having been a commited and great player for Zambia, no one not even negative, selfish or destructive critism can delete that record from zambia’s football page record, but not even at a point of death can i give him a skin from my small finger for administration, the chap has no leadership skills and i wonder how he manages his home.Being good at Kicking the skin of a dead animal does not mean you can lead people, so kalu’s leadership failure is a lesson to others who wrongly and poorly think that they can do anything just because they have made it in one area.
Mumba zulu - December 9, 2009
12:44
Strengthening on what Bbulu Bbasopu said, people need not look further that this so called “great kalu” is an impediement to soccer development pa zed.. iliyashi yatu bende.
Checkout what his peers have done back in their countries( recent example is drogba’s donation of 3million pounds towards building a hosipital in his home country)…academys that even youngsters such as quinton fortune managed to setup. Whereas kalu managed to bring the sports dept on its kneees after spending 365days in a hotel(pamodzi) until late LPM questioned the dept for missusing govt funds.
he continues fleecing the state thru FAZ with mediocre service.
If i stood next to this kalu i would have smacked his coconut head back to mufcane.
Mwaekwa - December 7, 2009
19:53
This Kalu chap must be stopped. He has done nothing to warrant him all the praises he is receiving from pipo like Mongu resident. What is it that people see in this stupid galu. He should be fired and beaten even. That is why whoever will come close to me and talk about this chap, I promiss you one uppercut. Trust me I will kick ass.
Bbulu Bbasopu - December 7, 2009
16:57
i 4 1 do not accept somthing thats white to b called Black…..Kalu is wrong no matter wat the siyuation was,,,,looking at his current position and the status his carrying Representing the country….wat he did was totally rubish n unacceptable….thats y pipo take us Zambians to be stupied n not serious…..the chap is a disgrace n i really dont know y we put him at such a high level…if the Minister of sport was serious they shud hav caled the chap…fired him on the spot n that can send a very strong message to all thoz pipo carrying the name of the country around so as 2 behave themselvz wenever they r in public especially representing the country……….SO foe kalu lets not wast much time n effort…let just forget the chap his a let down….what next for our boyz…Angola is next month ka.
Godfather - December 7, 2009
15:50
Sizala
Why waste space and time commenting on that group, when we have CECAFA and AFCON to think about, equally to think about as a country is how to remove RB from power in 2011, as well as consolidating the PACT and bring in educated and vision oriented guys to the Pact like Mpombo , Namulambe, Magande, Prof. Chirwa, Shikapwasha, General Miyanda, Kenny Ngondo to mention but afew.If u comment slightly out of context let it be on the same person being talked about, lets have discipline on the blog .
Mongu resident - December 7, 2009
14:43
If you have followed Mukoka`s reporting/reasoning, you would have done something worse to the chap a long time ago.
Ask us in sports circles-Augastine alitumpa.
In life you reap what you sow
Ba Zambia - December 7, 2009
14:42
ZAMBIA IN ANGOLA
sizala - December 7, 2009
13:57
BRAZIL, POTUGAL, IVORYCOST, URUGWAY any comment guys
sizala - December 7, 2009
13:49
viva great Kalu. you even spared the baga, balitumpa aba ba post journalist. they think they are on top of everything. kalu you should have hired proper thugs to treat the baga well with nice beatings
tembo - December 7, 2009
13:44
Embrassing behaviour from Kalu. SA police arrest the chap and charge him accordingly
The Reflector - December 7, 2009
13:39
guys but how do u look at the performance of zambia at the ongoin CECAFA tounament, can the boys win it. i hear Milanzi is in the country is he still good as he used to be? lets support the boys
sizala - December 7, 2009
13:01
Iwe u r right somtimes our journalists dont know when and how to interview some people. he is afrastated man under the sun u even know. please be carefull guys u may be killed.
sizala - December 7, 2009
12:54
we talked abt dis kalu,we must learn alot as zambian, he used to be a player but he can not be good manager. we could have voted for hanif adams. this kalu is a disgrace to the football fratnity in zambia
sizala - December 7, 2009
12:48
Maybe Augustine asked kalusha over the selling of zambian players to Asian clubs and his FAZ presidency of remote cotrol
Iwe - December 7, 2009
10:11
Why a are POST journalist up in arms with the famous? Guess the POST need to find answers to this problem. Great Kalu’s behaviour is not welcomed but his apology must be welcomed.
Again, agenda setting like seen with the post makes a print media thrive regardless of the nonsense they write true or false. But the status quo of Kalu is beyond that and should accept media critic. Its sad that we are now being looked at as a boxing nation though not in the ring. Ester Phiri is a good boxer cos she fight in the ring and not street/gang related fights like what Kalu has done. Kalu is still a good guys and i again apologise to the POSt on his behalf.
Volcanologist - December 7, 2009
10:05
Back to the debate…Great Kalu was very popular but this does not suggest he more popular than FTJ. In 1991, FTJ was more popular than Great Kalu. Charlse Musonda was equally popular. The 1988 Soel Olympics heightened the popularity of not only Great Kalu but also Charlse Musonda, Joneson Bwalya, Lucky Msiska etc. Great Kalu would have maintained his popularity if only he had not ventured in football administration. This area needs leaders not swimmers or people kicking the ball. For instance, Great Kalu can’t make a good republican president. He does not understand genuine leadership. Leadership cannot be measured by cheap pride or popularity!
Chicago city - December 7, 2009
09:28
inshimbi says:
CHICAGO CITY, Thanks for the message, I have taken it. But your writing skills is also bad.You have written errors, atleast me they are just mistakes. Let me point out atleast your ten errors from your passage below:
Peace of advise [it is advice a noun not a verb 'advice'].polish [Capital 'P'] up your writing skills and a bit of grammar.secondly [capital 'S'for Secondly' followed by a comma]you might have been absent from an era when chiluba was at the helm of the union [sense is missing] and great kalu [Great Kalu, not great kalu] was at his prime.mwana ba [why code switch?] chiluba [name of a person starts with a capital letter] was popular we can’t deny that but kalusha bwalya mwana [Using capital letter when writing the name of a person and don't code switch]was beyond description.he [begin a sentence with a capital letter] used to bring business in a town to a stand still. If you have got your elder sister ask her.so [wrong punctuation] you cant[there is no English word 'cant' do you mean the word can't or cannot?] compare kalusha’s appeal to chiluba.it’s [It's]blasphemy.that’s [That's]why even this dung that these guys are throwing at him wont [won't] stick. He is too smart. Stay well, this blog is mainly for conveying ideas. Semantics, syntax and discourse analysis should not be our concern!
Chicago city - December 7, 2009
09:09
CHICAGO CITY,
Peace of advise.polish up your writing skills and a bit of grammar.secondly you might have been absent from an era when chiluba was at the helm of the union and great kalu was at his prime.mwana ba chiluba was popular we can’t deny that but kalusha bwalya mwana was beyond description.he used to bring business in a town to a stand still. If you have got your elder sister ask her.so you cant compare kalusha’s appeal to chiluba.it’s blasphemy.that’s why even this dung that these guys are throwing at him wont stick. He is too smart
inshimbi - December 7, 2009
03:45
Now, dont give that he is a human being crap! What is it about us that makes it difficult to accept the fact that even those we regard as heroes can be total jerks sometimes? Kalu, great footballer that he once was for zambia, has made a mistake and we dont need to apologise on his behalf and find some excuse for his stupid behaviour!
Chilombe - December 6, 2009
21:21
Mongu resident good advice for Kalu!
Chicago city - December 6, 2009
21:03
Lets’ not jump to conclusions about great Kalu’s behaviour. Kalu was not wrong to approach the Journalist, just like anybody else would if u write funny things about me , now its up to the trained journalist to use his professional ethics to diplomatically avoid a fraca’s iam sure they learn all these things, for example Augustine would have said sorry boss in few minutes u are addressing the world and here is my phone number any question see me after, another way would be if u have any complaints follow the right channel cos, iam a junior officer and cannot answer on behalf of Mmembe , i can assist to find u which articles u have appeared this yr and can take it from their. Iam sure if Augustine took the manner in a professional manner Kalu would not have done what he did, rmember as the post put it he was going to make a speech. so u know the pressure that pipo have before addressing others and iam sure kalu would want to add more pressure than what he already did.Whether post was their or not foreign journalist would have picked whatever he was to say and post would get the stori.
Mongu resident - December 6, 2009
20:57
Kaps Maybin, what do u mean watchdog is hiding some facts? We have read the same story from the Post itself, Lusakatimes and Zambianfootball.net and they are all saying the same thing.Its only Mukoka’s story which is known for now and we can’t buy that as the chap has been proved to be extreamly unfair towards Kalusha. Leave the watchdog out of this!
Ponyax - December 6, 2009
20:47
Great Kalu is not as popular as once FTJ. Chiluba, now FTJ has been humbled. Kalu should know he has a PS Mulonga who doesn’t buy childish behaviour. The end for him has come. All the secrets of Kalu will be brought to light. Look at RB it is the POST that has helped the opposition! Kalu does not regret, is he now in a third marriage? No wonder his former wives run away! Is this guy still holding a diplomatic passport?
Chicago city - December 6, 2009
20:38
Kalusha assaults Post reporter in Cape Town
By Chibaula Silwamba
Sun 06 Dec. 2009, 04:01 CAT [1270 Reads, 2 Comment(s)] Text size Print
Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) president Kalusha Bwalya
FOOTBALL Association of Zambia (FAZ) president Kalusha Bwalya on Saturday slapped Post sports journalist Augustine Mukoka in Cape Town, South Africa.
The incident happened around 15:00 hours when Mukoka was heading back to the auditorium for the next session of the World Press Day of the World Cup 2010 draws.
Mukoka narrated from South Africa that he was in the company of his colleague from Swaziland’s Swazi Observer Kenneth Dlamini when Bwalya attacked him.
Below is Mukoka’s narration of the incident:
“I met FAZ president Kalusha Bwalya at the security check point to the auditorium. The program indicated that he was scheduled to make a presentation in the next session.
“Kalusha greeted me and I responded but immediately he asked me to stop. ‘Please my friend, I want to ask that you stop writing about me.’ My response was, ‘we can’t stop writing about you because you are the FA Football Association president.’
“Kalusha said: ‘No please… stop writing those lies…!’ I asked him: ‘which things?’ Kalusha responded: ‘things like I stopped players from talking to you.’
“I said to him that: ‘No! It’s not a lie.” Then Kalusha asked me: ‘Who told you?’ But I declined to reveal my source. I told him that: ‘I can’t tell you who told me but it is true.’”
After exchange of words, the following happened:
“Then Kalusha smacked my face and the spectacles dropped to the ground before I pushed him away. Two female police officers manning the security check point and other onlookers approached the scene to separate us as Kalusha continued shouting: ‘Don’t f*ck with me!’” Mukoka narrated. “Kalusha continued shouting: ‘Don’t even write this’. But I told him that I was going to write.”
Mukoka said he was immediately asked to enter the auditorium.
“I declined and asked the police officers that I wanted to put the matter on record. The police officers said it could only be done at Cape Town Central Police. I insisted I wanted this matter on record and I was directed to an officer upstairs,” said Mukoka.
In 2006, Kalusha while serving as Zambia National Soccer team coach had another altercation with Mukoka in France during the team’s training camp ahead of the Egypt AFCON tournament.
Mukoka had been assigned to cover the team’s preparations in southern France but Kalusha told him he was not welcome anywhere near the team and the hotel where they were staying. He asked him to leave the hotel.
Chicago city - December 6, 2009
20:35
Ba watchdog why ar u hiding some facts-its dis stupid kalu who provoked mukonko,its ther on zambianfootball.net.Ar u watchdog pipo tryng 2 protect dis idiot kalu?my timely advice 2 u kalu is jst 2 step down coz i can c u painted black & white by de post!
kap's maybin - December 6, 2009
20:31
I meant to hear
Ponyax - December 6, 2009
20:29
I agree with all those who are saying that we need to here it from the winesses of this fracass and not the Post jealous journalist.
Ponyax - December 6, 2009
20:28
Shame it happened like that! But kalu is a human being and can make mistakes, please Lets know what this guy did to him before we conclude. certain questions can lead you into temptations they are provocative. If he insulted him then the chap should also apologize.
salus - December 6, 2009
20:12
Kalu, we are behind you my brother.Though I don’t support the slapping but I know that this jealous journalist has been provoking you for sometime.Continue doing well in your field and these jealous chaps will continue chocking with unger. You are were ou are because your efforts and not anyone’s favor.Infact, you won the FAZ presidency even when the post and some unscruplus Zambians were aganst you. Just watch your moves and don’t fall in their traps.
Ponyax - December 6, 2009
20:09
yeah,meant to say if kalusha is a villain in this poor country called zambia,he is a hero in that prosperous country called south africa and the accomplished journalists in that high class press trat him with respect.no jelous
inshimbi - December 6, 2009
19:48
Great kalu,you have always been great in your life and through your own efforts you have achieved a lot.so small chimps like that ka failed journalist will never manage to pull you down.infact you should have just gone to berea and hired pimps for only R200 and they would have castrated that foolish boy.why should someone embark on an agenda of just bringing down his friend.zambain journalism has hit the garbage heights.malupenga ought to know that the south african goverment can not do any shit to kalusha even without FIFA interference
If he is a villain in this poor country he is a hero in this prosperous country
inshimbi - December 6, 2009
19:38
can the watch dog please find out what Augustine Mukoka said to him. then il make my judgement, im with Kalu all the way. he should stay as FAZ president. Those who want him to stand down should shove it. Kalusha Bwalya has been carried the mantle for a long time and today on 6 dec 2009 some has got the guts to insult him.
LUBILO - December 6, 2009
18:37
This stupid Kalu should behave. He has let us down on many occasions. He has to step down as FAZ president. I hate him from the time he missed the penalty against Angola. Who does he think he is?
Ba Zambia - December 6, 2009
18:18
Dear Kalu
Well done, I am also yet to beat these chaps as well. Keep it up Great Kalu.
Zambia - December 6, 2009
17:54
KALU YOU DID RIGHT !!!!!!!!!!
trust - December 6, 2009
17:08
ba kalu,u were once a soka hero bt mwilipwa fye n wht u jst exhibited is a clear evidence of frustration..poor finishing!
Wanzelu - December 6, 2009
16:53
Hahahahaha,
Augustine Deserves more slaps actually.We need a braii to celebrate this beating of the Year.
Polokondo - December 6, 2009
16:49
What kind of behavior is this from Kalu…beating a fellow Zambian on a foreign soil…it is shame and Kalu must be arrested for this. Outside people must be laughing at how the two Zambians are eating each other even when the Zambia team is not playing…Kalu must face the law in South Africa and in Zambia…
Bwalya - December 6, 2009
15:48
the chap is so silly..let him be arrested for 2 days..
boboy - December 6, 2009
15:41
What ever the reason or history of these two, there is no justification for beating someone in this age. Kalu may be missing kicking balls so maybe Augustine’s head reminded him of a ball.
Mike Mposha - December 6, 2009
15:35
It seems this Post guy has been looking for an opportunity to nail Kalu and he thinks it has now presented itself. Well, go ahead and report him to satsfy your satanic igo. I have been following his writings and I must say its pathetic. It leaves much to be desired and it’s not anywhere near constructive criticism.It seems he is still bitter from the time Kalu chased him from the national team camp site in France in 2006.
Ponyax - December 6, 2009
15:24
kalu iz generaly a cool person, this post guy must have provokd him 2 a point of no return. am sure he waz just lukin 4 anotha headline 2 sell their paper. mayb malupenga tod him 2 cum back 2 zmbia with sum cntrovercial news since they had spent a lot of mney 2 send him there or else
The eye - December 6, 2009
15:01
Na ine kuntu na mu shempa!
Smurf - December 6, 2009
14:53
kalu why?learn to accept constructive criticism I know augustine has been revealing the
deals within FAZ.
My advise to you is just to resign before you lose the little dignity remaining.
EGWUGWU - December 6, 2009
14:24
aaaaaaaaaaah !
kaye - December 6, 2009
14:18
This is not acceptable behaviour for a man of Kalus stature and the amount of exposure he has had around the world.
Lepercaun - December 6, 2009
14:11