President Rupiah Banda has thanked the Litunga for stating that Zambia is one country and that there should be NO violence over the Barotse Agreement of 1964.
Mr. Banda says he is happy that the Litunga through the Barotse Royal Establishment stated that the Barotseland is part of Zambia.
He explained that it has always been government’s position that the Barotseland is part of Zambia and that ZAMBIANS are one.
Mr. Banda told journalists shortly before he left for Northern Province that every Zambian should embrace peace.
He will be in Isoka to commission road works on the Isoka-Muyombe-Chama-Lundazi road.
Meanwhile, President Banda said he will not be pressured to release those charged with treason over the Barotseland Agreement of 1964.
He said as a Republican President he will make a decision on the matter when it is necessary.
[ZNBC]
Treason suspects will be released at a rally- watch the space- everything is political!!!
RB wants to politicise the 106 chaps arrested for treason. weather u release then a day before elections, you are going for good…no vote for youthis year. we want King Cobra.
who is suppose to make the decision to let the detained lozi’s go baba?.is it the President or the DPP.?bayamba ku ulula what happens behind the scenes.. Please fellow zwmbians enlighten me..I didnt go to school because our Teacher had TB and our lecturer was HIV positive,they were both often in and out of the hopsital instead of teachong us.
Litunga bazembeleka.
RB is DPP, he is everything lady gaga….. why shud he say ..i wont be pressured. The detention is purely political now, nothing to do with maintaining peace, am sure today detainees will eat well.
This RB is crazy, why thank the Litunga when the BRE agreeement of 1964 did not even provide for the pulling out of barotseland????
Politics at Play why thank him??? I cant understand. The Barotse Agreement never provided for the pulling OUT. But MMD want to give an impression like they have convinced the useless Litunga not to succeed?
We know the people detained the MMD in Western province cheated the Litunga that those are the people that wanted to Overthrow the useless Litunga. So since RB want to appease the useless Litunga, he will keep detaining them. yes RB interferes with justice, this is the typical case. So chimudala ichi why does he always deny????
It’s cold where I’m iam far away from Zambia. But looking at RB I get goose bumps. This man should be gotten rid of.
#3, you are right. There comes a time when a thiefe confesses un knowingly. This is the time.
Now this embecile called Satana side by side with his Linyungandambo terrorists can go and camp in WP to champion secession of the province from Zambia. It looks like he knows alot about BA64 than the Malozi themselves saying BA64 is not and has no clause for secession.
RB thinks he is very clever.DDay is around the corner.Is it not the votes from western province that made him and late LPM retain plot 1?
I shall reserve my comments about the current Litunga as the position is not elective.
HH is been quite about this sensitive matter as in principal he would have sent police like RB did.
I think its time for the King Cobra to spread its VEnom come erection time….
There goes Rupiah you are thanking the Lutunga because you have oiled him and yapin. Who are u to release pipo charged for treason(fake charges) the Lutunga new hes was about to be thrown away and he asked for the pipo to be caged so he survives for a day. Time will tell.
We all know that the demonstrators were not violent. Violence is an MMD govt policy which they religiously observe.
Look at how peaceful the demonstrators are in Egypt. If it was in Zambia the govt would have violently crushed that
Ubuteko bwa ba kapoli ubu
Our Phd students have revealed thru their research that peace loving people of Western province believe that Barotseland is part of Zambia & that the Cobra & the Post had lost it on the BA64. What the people of Barostland like other provinces want is a bigger say on how the resources from the area are managed for development. One Zambia One Nation.
Some people are so disappointed as they were thinking that W province would be a no go area for MMD. If those people were not bent on causing trouble then why did they gather at an illegal demonstration with weapons after threatening ethnic cleansing on some ethnic groups? Lets see how many votes those who were fanning the flames of ethnic cleansing and violence will get from Western province. Well done quiet diplomacy! We support leaders who are serious and dont always play to the gallery. We support leaders who put the interest of the people of Zambia first as opposed to their insatiable need to enter plot 1 AT ANY COST! Viva RB, Viva BRE!
RB & Litungas: Well done
Diplomacy is a mediation that happens behind the closed doors and not barking in the tabloid paper.
RB: Well Done for the Road Commissioning
To some of us this is a Business Opportunity. $$$
Boy! I cannot wait to invite European Investors and create employment in that part of the country.
Muyombe, Chama & Lundazi has a lot of farming in Maize, Tobacco & Cotton.
Its time set up Tobacco, Maize Mill & Cotton Processing Plants.
Now we can buy the luxury coaches from Chipata to Isoka passing through Lundazi & Chama.
There is Nyika Plateau near the border of Zambia & Malawi. There are lot of European Tourist going to this plateau but go via Malawi and avoid Zambia because the roads are bad
This road will help with Trade from Northern (Nakonde), Eastern, Malawi, Dry-Port connection to Mozambique and all the way down to Lusaka.
In all vanity of these non-visionary but sacrilegious regional parties with their political miscarriages, Zambian people’s ruling party MMD wins and wins period.
There goes a kiss of death from Banda to the Litunga. The day Banda i out of office is the day this useless Litunga shall also be kicked out of Lealui.
#18 Seeing that RB is likely to win this year, that means that the Litunga has at least another five years in the palace either at Limulunga or Lealui. God for him! Am always on the side of peace makers not clowns who never know when to stop performing.
RB confesses that he controls the DPP, which makes me understand why I see FTJ smilling broadly & freely.
Typical case of a country having wrong people in wrong offices. Having unsuccesful retired farmers for presidents. Criminals & thieves, instead of being in prisons, are on the streets campaining. Potential chinama patients are party provincial chairmen.
People who are supposed to be breeding ducks on farms are DPP’s. Where u have gifted plumbers for minister of works. Marketeers for Home affairs ministry. Village headmen for VP’s. Maids for party spokeswomen. Its chaos!
This is serious! What does the DPP and his officers do apart from stirring cofffe & diluting juice in their big offices? Do we actually need the DPP? I am scared.
***BREAKING NEWS***
“Hosni Mubarak steps down.”
Lusaka Times you should be all over this.
Mr. Capitalist,
The only complex but good issue is that power heavily entrenched in the same premier military establishment remains with the General distant from the people. Its good though for regional and Global security instead of giving a platform to Islamic fundamentalist the brotherhood at the center of this revolt. Arab countries are very complicated for a soft leader to hold the country together.
Well done A Litunga and the BRE, I now see that you are a man of peace.
INDEPENDENT OBSERVER you sound like Senior Citizen!
How did he thank them? Hope he didnt give them ‘PREMIUMS’ to keep them quiet as they usually do! And this BRE has been chewing these premiums without their subjects and then standing aloof when their subjects riot! Sad indeed !!
24# MB
Can you quantify what you mean?
I believe is Self Reliance, Hard-Work and Networking Great minds. As Zambians, we should collectively contribute to growth and not expect Silver Plates. Its all about searching for visions, dreams and translating them to finished products.
This “road” will network people that have failed to move from one place to another fluently. It will bring tangible benefits for all Zambia. There are many raw materials that one can exploit from this part of the country; however, bad roads have hindered everyone.
We can set up Agriculture Companies, Cotton Processing Plants, and Tobacco Plants, therefore export them easily via the bound to be Dry Port in Muchinji or bring them in the mainland cities of Zambia.
For example; there is demand of Rose Flowers in Europe and these places are favourably good areas to grow them. Rose flowers & Vegetable will a need fast transport systems before they get to the shops in Europe. Else, they just will dry.
Kenya is exporting Rose Flowers to Europe and earning a lot of Foreign Exchange
Why not Zambia??
You are better off attempting something than just having wishing thinking !!!!!!
Mubarak has been overthrown, my appeal is to RB to stop listening to nicompoops like Gorge Kunda, Mulongoti and Shikapwasha who are cheating him that if you paint any building: Show in on TVZ and claim that development is on schedule, the people will love you are just out there to keep there miserable jobs. As soon as Rupiah is kicked out of office, these snakes will be the first ones to claim that Rupiah was an evil peron.
#26(Independent Observer)
Truly speaking,I like you line of thinking and if just half of our productive population will think like you, today,no one will be wasting time listening to Utopian stories of ‘ more money in your pockets’ and 90 days economic miracles cos we will know exactly what to do. Jim Rogers(US investor) recently when he was addressing undergraduates,he advised them against taking programs that will take them to Wall Street or The City but programs like Agriculture and Engineering cos,according to Rodgers as a veteran investor,that’s where real money is(real assets).
THE WEAK LITUNGA IS ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE EQUATION AS RB, FTJ & KK. ON THE OTHER SIDE IS THE POVERTY OF THE BAROTSE PEOPLE. MUBARRAK JUST STEPPED DOWN AFEW MINUTES AGO, SO REMEMBER NOT TO TAKE FOR GRANTED THE PIPO JUST BECOZ U GET HANDOUTS & SCHOLARSHPS 4 YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE WELFARE OF YOUR PIPO. U R NOT INDESPENCIBLE. VIVA BAROTSELAND!!! ALUTA CONTINUA!!!!
#28(Deja Vu)
What do you mean overthrown? Mubarak resigned or rather bowed to public pressure.Interestingly,his former Defence Minister Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi is an ardent opponent of political and economic reforms claimining these erode on the powers of central govt according to Wikileaks.
#30
LT why are you moderating my comment?
#28(Deja Vu)
What do you mean overthrown? Mubarak resigned or rather bowed to public pressure.Interestingly,his former Defence Minister Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi and now the Head of the Military Supreme council, is an ardent opponent of political and economic reforms claimining these erode on the powers of central govt according to Wikileaks
@ #22 Senior Citizen
That is an interesting analysis.
@ #26 INDEPENDENT OBSERVER
I agree. Small scale farmers are growing tobacco in NW Province. This is how people are empowering themselves.
North-Western Province predicts 240,000 tonne tobacco harvest
By Katongo Chisupa
SMALL-SCALE farmers in North-Western Province are this season expected to produce about 240,000 metric tonnes of barley tobacco under an outgrower scheme with an international tobacco company Alliance One International and the North-Western Growers Association.
Association chairman Kelvin Phiri told the Mail this week that about 1,000 small-scale farmers in four districts have cultivated about 400 hectares of tobacco. [END EXCERPT]
1MT = 1000KG
240,000MT = 240,000,000KG
Malawi price Tobacco (2010) = $1.50/KG
cont. from #34
So those farmers would have earned themselves over $240,000,000 in their pockets. That is empowerment.
# 19. Well, for your information Mubarak has been forced to cede power, all of it just a few hours ago. Only a few months ago, his party won 90% of the seats in parliament and how improbable that the same people who voted emass for him can all of a sudden, inside of a year, depose him in such a humilating manner. The reasons they did so flow like so: “public bitterness grew over corruption, deteriorating infrastructure and rampant poverty in a country where 40 percent live below or near the poverty line.” Banda will be foolish to rig the elections because if he does, this Tunisia phenomena will sweep his monkey toilet head from power, fast.
GOOD LITUNGA…VIVA BWEZANI…MMD FOREVER!!!!!!
THESE HATERS WILL CONTINUE HATING US TILL THEY DIE….
COME 2012 AND AFTER THAT MMD WILL STILL RULE….
¨MISPLACED HATE MAKES DISGRACE TO RACES¨-MAKAVELI ONCE SAID.
THUS, MISPLACED HATE TOWARDS MMD WILL JUST BRING FRUSTRATIONS TO YOUR ARLEADY TRAGIC FLARE LIVES….
BEFORE I LEAVE, I WANT YOU TO TAKE INVENTORY AND THINK HONESTLY K…IF ZAMBIA WERE TO BE RULED BY SATA OR HH DO YOU THINK YOUR LIVES WILL CHANGE FOR THE BETTER,NO…A MILLION TIMES NO.OSAZINAMA BANE…
¨PASS THE CUP TO JAY-Z¨……
26 Sharp Shooter
Well said….we need good minds like yours on this blog
I like your thinking. Most people think that if you have a good pay rise then your life changes in Zambia
It does not work so. If RB woke up and gave every Civil Servant a 100% Pay Rise, that will not give people a better life. This is because as long as the Economy is not getting better, the buying power of the extra money in your pocket will mean nothing.
cont..
The way forward is for everyone of use to make some “” Tiny Contribution “” to better our Zambia and grow our economy. Once you have that, then the value of the Kwacha will become strong. You do not have to be Economist to think like this.It just takes simple common sense. I am not an economist but just keep an open eye – plus the experiences I have gained in life
Some people are buying the lies from Opposition Party that Michael Sata will give Zambians pay rises or put more money in the pocket. Even if Sata did that, it will be a Political Move that will dwindle with no fruits
After Hiroshima Atomic Bomb 65yers ago – The Japanese had worked hard collectively and surpassed most western countries to become among the 3 Most Powerful Economy in the world
BRE will you please stop wearing women’s cloths.
34 # Mr. Capitalist – 3 E’s steering economic growth;
Hey!! As usual, your comment inspires some of us on these blogs.
It’s all about Empowerment and not playing “Crying Games”, “Self-Pity” or barking like “Reservoir Dogs” from our friends on the other side of the river or coin.
Iwe support your ruling party, where on earth two parties ruling one country? As if it´s those old ifas with two vidraivos, musati bukise
Iwe support your ruling party, where on earth two parties ruling one country? As if it´s those old ifas with two vidraivos, musati bunkise
39 Independent Observer –
We need people like you to consider going into Politics. You have good motives and encourage us all. You have made it big time in the UK at your age. You humble your self when you meet fellow zambains. Yet we have these cockroaches that clean toilets, tables in the corners of UK & Scottland – and when they get paid – show off like they own the land. Empty Girls like – MUSHOTA in Scotland
Just the usual petty politics of the MMD.
We have impotent leaders who cant see what the youths are crying for. The youths in Barotse are simply desperate because of of high poverty levels and hopelessness. We have leaders who dont see things like leaders but think like people on the streets and like some of the bloggers here. In any case those are agitating for restoration of the Barotse Agreement hoping that if restored things would improve.
YES,….THANK GOD WE HAVE PEOPLE LIKE ¨INDEPENDENT OBSERVER ¨
PEOPLE OF CALIBRE…NOT THOSE BLOGS WHO AS MEEKY AS THE LAND…WITH THEIR BLEEDING HEARTS AT THE FEET OF THE OPPOSITION….(DON WILLIAMS)
TO ALL BLOGS ,REMEMBER ONE THING THOUGH,POLITICS IS A HYPOCRISY… ALL THOSE PLAYERS YOU CALL POLITITIANS ARE IN IT TO WIN IT…TAKE THE LITTLE OF WHAT IS IN ZED….
DEAR Dawa1 46
WHICH PART OF THE STATES ARE YOU RESIDING…
YOU ARE THE PEOPLE WHO GO OUTSIDE AND PAINT THIS PICTURE THAT LIFE IS COOL OUTSIDE WHEN THE FACT STATE THE OPPOSITE….
YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO THAT OBAMA HAS NOT CHANGED SHIT EVEN THOUGH I LIKE THE GUY…INFO.SHOWS THAT UNEMPLOYMENT IS STILL THE ORDER OF THE DAY IN THAT COUNTRY AND YET MUFUNAKIZIMVELA….LETS HOPE YOU YOURSELF ARE NOT CLEANING VIMBUZI.SHAAAAAAAAA
YOU EMMIGRANT, GO BACK TO ZAMBIA AND EAT,MASAMUSA,VINGOBE,KANDOLO AND SONTWA…
The issue is that – We have too many PHD Qualifications.
I mean [Pull Him/Her Down] – Syndrome. Especially, from a certain group.
Theirs, is to argue without points but Name Calling & Insults. This as well is reflected on some of the Politicians.
The Parliament is there to put your points across – but some would rather keep numb but rush to Zambia’s Official Tabloid Paper, make the noise and get the 15 minutes fame of the day. To them it shows that they are performing the duty of being a Parliamentarian.
Yes BRE
#41 You have made my day, that’s women’s attire the BRE are wearing for sure, isn’t that a joke? It’s called colonial hangover. Some Lozis call that their ‘traditional clothing’.
H.E. President RB, well done for showing leadership by suppressing extremists from trying to cause instability in our peaceful country, the BRE are now begging government for forgiveness.
Infighting within the BRE is about to get even worse, this is the beginning of the end for the BRE and possibly the Litungaship at long last. Factions are emerging within the BRE, it’s only a matter of time.
Chickens, they have abandoned their own people who’ve been agitating for separation. Subject them to an Egyptian experience because they have outlived their usefulness as it is.
# 51, You must be a very ignorant Nkoya imbecile. Any one who has done history will tell you that even long before the Makololo arrived in Bulozi and even longer before Dr. Livingstone or the Portuguese set foot in Bulozi, the people there were wearing “liziba za mahahulo”. The only difference between the siziba of that time and the present day one the men above are wearing is that the former was made of animal hides while the later is made of cloth. I though wonder what the Nkoyas were wearing before muzungu arrived to dress them, you bet they were donning their full “birthday suits” leaping from one tree branch to another just like the tailed primitive primate behaviour # 51 above is manifesting.
#53 SPOT ON!!!!! KINITI!!! TEACH EM LIKE A TEACHER, BRO!
#53 whatever people where wearing in times gone past is immaterial to me. We all know that our ancestors all over Africa were wearing some kind of animal skin in one form or another but to try to use that as justification for wearing women’s clothing today in 2011 does not wash with me.
[-( It is a pity to have a parent who does not think of the hardships that his sons are going through.Why should the litunga come to an agreement with the govt without considering the well being of those who have been arrested.It is only time that will determine his fate.Come the time for elections, all will be displayed out.
# 55, If you had any sense of shame in you, one would have thought your contention would be against copying any alien dress code, and not necessarily a feminine oriented one. This just goes to show the gender bigotry that bedevils your shallow mind. I bet your name is Kahare and it spooks me immensely to figure out whether you were born of woman or you just fell from the skies above. No wonder most Nkoya women end up marrying Lozi blokes because with bigoted Nkoya male folks like these (55), which Nkoya licolocolo needs a GBM in the house?
“The Lozi outfits are interesting in both their history and design. The traditional costumes are simply a functional adaption of the famous Scottish kilt and beret. These were first worn in Zambia by Scottish missionaries who arrived in the Western Province in the 1700s. The Scotsman’s kilt, berets and even Highland women’s outfits have been stylised by the Lozi people over time” (Adam lees)
#57 So what nonsense are you trying to promote here. These outfits have nothing to do with animal skins as you had pointed out in #53. They are a foreign concept, or more accurately a Scottish concept, your BRE literally just copied the Scottish, that is why we say some of you are just Scottish wannabes. So who should be ashamed now, you or me? Isn’t this ‘copying an alien dress code’?
To begin with, there was no Scotsman in Barotseland in the 1700s you *****. David Livingstone was the first and he arrived in 1851, he was also not wearing a kilt when he first arrived in Barotseland in Linyanti where he met morena Sebituane. Secondly, he was the only Scottish missionary to have visited and he did not stay for long. Your allegation would make sense if siziba was a French adaptation because the missionary who stayed in Barotseland was François Coillard, a Frenchman. I hope the next allegation is not going to be that Lozi girls are on the hairy side because they are trying to copy French girls. By the way, what are you wearing now Kahare? I bet you’re donning some cool cloth invented by whiteman, and that makes you a white wannabe! What a forked and demented way of…
Mwene Kahare, why by the way do you skip commenting on my observation that you’re a vile male bigoted chauvinistic Nkoya? If the Lozis men adopted an alien women’s dress code well over a century ago, why do you in this modern era still choose to dress in what you are dressing in which is clearly a European male, as you could put it, dress code? Why don’t you go back to the typical nkoya “birthday suits” you were “wearing” before “rekuwa” came to dress you up? I bet you’re ashamed because you’re ill endowed in manhood and you’re comfortable wearing white man’s cloths (salaula) while happy to insult your masters.
What is Inyambo Yeta wearing in the picture above, I suppose that is not a whiteman’s suit, it is also a BRE suit right?
I am not going to sink to your level of insults.
And I don’t know were you get this idea that I’m HRH Mwene (King) Kahare of the Nkoya people of Kaoma District. What would King Kahare be doing in the USA when he has a Kingdom to run and manage in Kaoma District, Western Province in the Republic of Zambia?
Well well well, it just goes to show the extent of your shallowness and diminutive length of memory. If indeed all things western were bad as you seem to think of the Scottish kilt and how the Lozis allegedly copied it for their siziba, just what the hell are you doing in the USA? There can only be two reasons, you’re cleaning stinking toilets or are busy copying white man’s ways of dressing, eating and living etc. And what’s wrong with Inyambo wearing a suit? How does that make it a BRE suit? I accept Chief Mwene Kahare wearing his birthday suit around (except Rupiah will arrest him for indecent exposure) but I will not claim he copied it from Adam and Eve of the Garden of Eden or indeed “The King and his new cloths” who secured a patent on the style. I rest my case.
Mwata Kazembe of the Luunda people of Luapula just like the first Litunga Mbuywamwambwa departed Kola (kubuluba) and settled in Luapula and Barotseland respectively. Now, look at what the Mwata Kazembe wears during the annual Umutomboko ceremony and listen to his royal drums (Icinkumbi) and the talking drum (umondo) & compare all these to Siziba, maoma and njabilile respectively of the Lozis. If for some reason you still want to attribute purely Zambian traditions to umusungu just because you Nkoyas have zero tradition of your own, then you’re a f.o.o.l sub-village headman Kahare.