This makes me so angry. And despairing. Why do so many heads of state start to believe they are God? And why do other heads of state not condemn them when they do? Mmusi  Maimane tried to stand up for democracy and was mocked for it. Why did nobody from the SA government condemn Lungu's treatment of the opposition? Jeffrey Smith is absolutely correct when he says “That President Lungu has been allowed to ratchet up the repression without any real consequence or condemnation has further emboldened his heavy-handedness... History shows, unequivocally, that despots grow strength in the darkness and that is precisely what we are seeing unfold in Zambia.”  Its time for all our leaders to stand up and unequivocally condemn the slide towards dictatorship.