A 20 year old fisherman of Nakanga village in Chilundundike area of Manyama ward in Siavonga district has drowned after the canoe he was aboard capsized on Lake Kariba.
Confirming the development in an interview, Manyama ward Councilor Special Mulaziki named the deceased as Kubota Mukwangu of Manchamvwa lake shore, who met his fate around 14:00 hours, yesterday.
Mr.Mulaziki disclosed after completing an errand in neighbouring Manchamvwa Lakeshore village, Mukwangu battled with the sudden change of the tide on the lake making his dug-out canoe to capsize and consequently drowning.
He revealed that the deceased could not manage to swim for his safety as he didn’t wear a life jacket.
“Let us put on our life saving jackets whenever we are on the lake please and let us analyze the weather before going on the lake, to avoid water accidents,” said the civic leader.
The body search has been instituted.
Minister of Transport & Logistics, please introduce compulsory basic training in marine skills complete with a licensing regime. We cannot go on losing lives needlessly.
@Gunner in Zambia: People take driving course and acquire licenses to drive, and they still die. Furthermore, the people of the valley, on both sides of the river, have been rowing up and down the Kasambambezi river for more than 1600 years. They do not need, and should never accept, some official from Lusaka, originally from Mazabuka, Mansa, Mpika, Mongu, Mwinilunga, Mukushi or Mbuzi to tell them whether they can swim or canoe on their own river. Accidents happen, even in countries like America, China or England, that have lengthy maritime traditions. Let’s mourn a man who died innocently and honestly, and leave it at that. Certainly, the advice to use life jackets is a reasonable one.
Just like we need Senseli mine to be cordoned off to stop loss of life. I’m sure you are concerned because the affected are somewhat related to you. Double tongue.
De javu, you’re such a low life who thinks that there are no Zambians from other parts of the country who are doing business on Lake Kariba. They’re definitely there and include Fisho Mwale and his Yalelo fish breeding business. I know that you find this odd because of your tribal outlook on issues.
Deja vu, the licensing regime will apply to all water bodies. Check what I said on the marine accident on Lake Bangueulu this year where we lost a number of lives. I know that your hatred for HH is eating you up from inside and affecting your ability to think straight.
@Deja Vu: Do not compare a man who was on an honest errand, on a river his people have lived on for 1600 years, in custodial harmony of, with thieves who were stealing from a mine when they died in there in an accident. The people of the river Kasambabezi will never accept the government teaching them how to live on the river. What does someone from Magoye, much less Mporokosso know about the river that he can teach those who live on it? Why should the people in the area have to buy licenses to operate on their own river? So that people who come from provinces where they produce nothing, can get even more money to build more universities for their tribes? Leave the people of the Kasambabezi alone, they have not asked for your help.
@Deja Vu: If the man who perished had done so during the commission of a crime, I would have stated that it was his fault. In this case the man was living the honest, hardworking life of the Wee Tonga people on both sides of the Kasambabezi river, as his ancestors there have done for 1600 years. People have died and will die that way. It is the hazard of the life there. On the other hand, the people who died in the Senseli mine were criminals who were stealing. That they died was their fault because they should not have been in that mine, much less stealing in it. So, please, do not conflate the fortunes of law abiding men meeting unfortunate fatal accidents, and criminals accidentally dying in the commission of crime; you surely should know that they are not the same
This dam is becoming a death trap, If it is not a crocodile attack it is a boat capsizing. And we cannot say because accidents happen, we should then fold our arms. There is still need in training and educating people on dangers and dos and don’ts. Is there even an office or a number that fishermen can call to know the real state of the conditions on the lake before embarking on their fishing expeditions. Let us do something about this situation
@Sapheka: The people of the Kasambambezi valley have been living this way for 1600 years on both sides of the river. The only thing wrong is that we have taken away their land, where they lived happily in harmony with nature for 16 centuries, to build this dam. It is not our place, or business, to tell them how they should live with the river. There is no one who can come from even as near as Maamba, never mind Mongu, Mansa or Mporokoso, who can tell them how to live on their own river. We have taken enough from them. They have suffered enough. Leave them alone. Electricity generated on their land passes over their heads to go and power the villages in Mansabombwe where a politician may come from, while they live in uncompensated darkness.
Maybe this will help some of you to understand: https://youtu.be/UhS3YUGSW-o
@Gunner in Zambia. You can call me whatever you want but the fact remains that you you don’t have a brain of your own. You support nonsense. You attack logic. You will support anything Yupi-nd
How does the UPND come in when we’re talking about a marine accident on Lake Kariba?
You are asking me. Go to Namwala and ask your grandfather’s grandfather.
@Deja Vu: You have no sense or logic anyone would want to hear. Everything you say is driven by your tribalistic hatred of Tonga people. Why should he go to Namwala to talk to his grandfather. He lives in Lusaka, which is right in the middle of Tonga land. His grandfather is therefore somewhere nearby. If you do not want people to be near you, perhaps you are the one who should move far away to the land where your grandfather is, which some of us have never been to, and do not care or plan to go to. Recognise that you are the one who is in the land of someone else before you start spewing tribalistic bullsh!t