The minister of Community Development has asked President Rupiah Banda to intervene in the wrangles surrounding Zambezi BOMA land.
Michael Kaingu says government is determined to resolve differences which cause tribal conflicts between the Lundas and Luvales in Zambezi district.
The Minister told ZNBC News in an interview in Lusaka wednesday that there are concerns that Zambezi district land is being treated as customary and not as state land.
Mr. Kaingu says it is the duty of government to ensure that all tribal groupings in the country co-exist.
The minister said he has also engaged various Ministries to intervene on issues which traditional leaders have pointed out as some of the causes of tribal differences.
On Saturday Mr. Kaingu asked the people of Zambezi district to allow him to table issues causing tribal conflicts in the district, before Cabinet.
This was in response to Senior Chief Ndungu who asked President Banda’s government to help resolve tribal conflicts in Zambezi District.
ZNBC
This is an old problem. Politician are behind all this! they use divide and rule for their own good. Lundas and Luvales are just the same people and no need for fighting.
Mwana Ka Mwanta, I think you’re very right on this matter concerning the lundas and the Luvales say that they’re, just the same and therefore one people and why fighting? Ami awa MMD ninakuikeng’a wanyi.
# 1, you are right i do not know why these guys have to fight. fighting like someone who has been caught- MAKONJI. Same people same land same Zambia- chakala Mwaata
Too much ideological influence from across where they take things for granted. Zambia is ours and we should not compare with how things are done elsewhere lest we betray ourselves. Peace all
the should fight and then the losing tribe must be forced to migrate.why doesn’t politicians do so to the other tribes
hahahahahahahahahaha reminds me of gangs in the US whether black white or Latino gangs land belongs to the people governed by the law.
There was no such thing as tribes in Africa until Europeans arrived. I Shake my head at brothers and sisters on LT with an inferiority complex. The cure is this read the story of the good Samaritan in the Bible and figure it out for your selves, if you cannot get what I am saying Africa has twenty more years to take an inch forward in development. Lundas, Luvales your black behinds are one so get with the program.
Mukulumpi, # 2 ACT na # 3 musukuma. The MPs from Yambeji should come together and deal with this problem. At times waiting for outside solutions will not work. He who feels it knows it. Dichi enu akulumpi time is now kwila contact ma MPs through their website (parliament) nakuilejha how we feel. Otherwise chinakuleta kasauntu kudi a Lunda nawa Luwali.
come on you guys you mean this time and age you want to start tribal fights,i think you respectable tribes are above that and just like my fellow contributors have put across you are just one pipo.peace and may God bless you and the rest of Zambia
#9 This is what we are saying. Some body is behind this and is benefiting out of it all. No need for any fighting. The fact is that both Lundas and Luvales are very peaceful people, now you wonder who is fueling up the fighting. The MPs from Zambezi must answer that question.
Ba mwanawakwitu don’t show your ignorance here. Tribes existed long before the whites came.
Did you do history at school? Ever heard of shaka zulu, zwangendaba, mwenemutapa? If these were not tribal groupings, what were they?
Yaba..you guys why do you want to bring Rwanda in Zambia? Why hating yo brothers and sisters? This is very retrogresive men. This bright age and we are hearing about tribes in Zambia fighting each other as if we are still in the Kingdom age? hey…!!!!
You should be ashemed of yourselves. Let those who are fueling the hatred be cursed by God.
peace peace in Zambezi pilishi.
this is a long time issue the Luvales and Lundas caught in such hot confrontations. KK is aware and records by govt has it that some wrangles have been silenced creating an impression of peace and unity. the two cultures cant even mingle together..they cant share any meaningful ideaology but for whose sake?
Kaingu is a wrong chap to put this matter forward. Let the locals have a platform to discuss these confrontations and then make a way forard. The intervention of Micheal Kaingu will put the situation in the region more disastruos..the man is a polygamous and wat good can a polygamous tongue do, divide!
Let the Luvale and Lunda headmen and the council come-together and end the cofrontations. these two tribes are lethal..knives and axes are their weapons..they can end up to a massacre.
Am sorry my tribal brothers that you can’t reason together. We are all but sojourners on this earth. We came with nothing and we shall leave without a thing then why should we fight for material gain and possession when we hold no title to anything? Let us fight to end injustice, unfairness and monoploy of power, we end the wales of evil prevailing among us. Let us strive for the heavenly masterly…to obtain an incorruptible crown.
God Bless you cousins!
Get oriented..ika!
This issue has nothing to do with the machinations of MMD. The Genesis of this problem lie in the colonial administration. There is a very good essay on this issue in a book called ‘The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa’, which is edited by Leroy Vail. The article on the Luvale and Lunda conflict is written by Robert Papstein. In the same book there is a treatise by Brian Siegel on the Lamba people which might help put into context Mpombo’s behaviour.
I find this very disturbing and unbelievable. Lundas, and Luvales, including our brothers from Luapula, the Kaondes and to an extent even the Bembas and a lot of the Zambian tribes originate from the Luba/Lunda Kingdom, let alone the fact that we are all children of God, we share the same humanity, how can we allow language to divide us?
One needs to look at Zambia and the world so much inter marriages that they are very few Zambians within families that are not part of the wider Zambia. I am supposedly Lunda but I dont distinguish myself from Luvales, Kaondes, Tongas ,Lozis the only distinction I make is to those ignorant Zambians who believe are from a superior tribe. We are all Zambians, my best friends are from across the world and Zambia. I have Luvales I will trust more than Lundas.
backward chaps luba lunda. allow aba bemba to take over. that way none of you will complain
17…..Where do the Bembas originate from?? Do you need lessons in African History?
Tell me the special qualities of the Bembas? They are as good as any Zambian, some stupid, some intelligent, some thieves just like all the other Zambian tribes. Bigots like you talk from without.
I suppose you believe the Muzungu is better than you because of his language and colour.
People like you are not worth a response but your comments are so nauseating somebody has to tell you to shift back into your nintola fye mentality.
Bembas are just fools. The issue here is about the wrangle between Luvales and Lundas. Where does your foolish tribe fit in here? This is why we say you have foolish and stupid mentality of wanting to be superior above others. Instead of advising, you are trying to show your foolish tribal character. Some tribes are spoken and found in respected countries eg Lozis IN RSA, Namibia and Botswana on national radios and TVs. They have an international presence, but you don’t hear or see them try to be pompus like you chaps who don’t even have recognition in DRC where you came from.
#19, just say ALL tribes are foolish not just bembas…that way it covers you and I and our forefathers. Better, don’t you think?
#18 you just dont seem to get it do you? this has nothing to do with origins. its about now. there is a mentality among people in north western (luvale lunda kaonde) to fight among each other all the time (bickering). in the mean time they have shown this willingness to suck up to bemba superiority so much so that on the copperbelt and lusaka and even solwezi they dont even speak their own languages because they think bemba is superior. my contribution is that if they cant run their house they should allow the bembas to whom they all suck up to take over. we have said no to that in other provinces.