Election 2011 postmortem

For the country’s two top political parties, an important political lesson was spelled out in bold letters on September 20.  President Elect Michael C.Sata secured support among the youth on the back of campaign promises of creating more jobs and his criticism that Banda's government failed to let ordinary Zambians share in the proceeds from the country's copper mines. Harrison Musonda and other political pundits look at the way a national election was won. Why did the people vote the way they did? What does this now mean?