Comments on: Interrogating The Authenticity Of The Agreement On The Establishment Of The Luapula River Authority https://www.lusakatimes.com/2023/03/30/interrogating-the-authenticity-of-the-agreement-on-the-establishment-of-the-luapula-river-authority/ Keeping you Informed Thu, 30 Mar 2023 22:04:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Kunda https://www.lusakatimes.com/2023/03/30/interrogating-the-authenticity-of-the-agreement-on-the-establishment-of-the-luapula-river-authority/#comment-3464366 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 22:04:33 +0000 https://www.lusakatimes.com/?p=409712#comment-3464366 In reply to Gunner+in+Zambia.

Luangwa River too

]]> By: Umwina Zed https://www.lusakatimes.com/2023/03/30/interrogating-the-authenticity-of-the-agreement-on-the-establishment-of-the-luapula-river-authority/#comment-3464363 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:56:50 +0000 https://www.lusakatimes.com/?p=409712#comment-3464363 Traditional leaders need to adapt to the contemporary political status quo by assisting in our new nations’ progressive advancement. I dont see what the ranking of kingdoms will contribute to our new republic. We should move forward together proudly displaying our various cultures and that is where people like you the Bemba King come in.

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]]> By: Umwina Zed https://www.lusakatimes.com/2023/03/30/interrogating-the-authenticity-of-the-agreement-on-the-establishment-of-the-luapula-river-authority/#comment-3464360 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:54:10 +0000 https://www.lusakatimes.com/?p=409712#comment-3464360 Ba Chitimukulu since you state that you are a free thinker kindly stop ranking fellow traditional leaders: Iam referring to your statement: “And out of that number, only four are paramount or superior traditional rulers” Why should any traditional leader be superior in a republic? If you venture into our continent’s history, you will find that these rankings were done by the coloniser for his purposes of divide and rule. I’ve noticed that the Zulu in South Africa often want to remind other tribes that their Kingdom was recognised by the colonisers before others were recognised post 1994. I’ve seen similar arguments on LT. These are just being divisive.

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]]> By: Umwina Zed https://www.lusakatimes.com/2023/03/30/interrogating-the-authenticity-of-the-agreement-on-the-establishment-of-the-luapula-river-authority/#comment-3464357 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:53:12 +0000 https://www.lusakatimes.com/?p=409712#comment-3464357 As much as I appreciate his scepticism, on many issues the King is being suspicious for nothing. In my Geography lessons during KK’s time we learnt about the source of the Congo River. Chambeshi River has been known for a long time as being the source of Luapula River, entering the lake and coming out as Luapula. It goes on to become the Lualaba and later the Congo River. The chief should have argued against this attestation during colonialism. Geographers please help the chief.

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]]> By: Leakage at kariba https://www.lusakatimes.com/2023/03/30/interrogating-the-authenticity-of-the-agreement-on-the-establishment-of-the-luapula-river-authority/#comment-3464198 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:39:47 +0000 https://www.lusakatimes.com/?p=409712#comment-3464198 In reply to Zedyatu.

If stakeholders like the bemba chief were consulted when preparing the authority this was not going to happen.

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]]> By: Gunner+in+Zambia https://www.lusakatimes.com/2023/03/30/interrogating-the-authenticity-of-the-agreement-on-the-establishment-of-the-luapula-river-authority/#comment-3464129 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:22:39 +0000 https://www.lusakatimes.com/?p=409712#comment-3464129 In reply to Zedyatu.

The confrontational style is the only style the current Chitimukulu knows to put his points across to other people. The paramount chieftainship in whose glory he loves to wrap himself in is for all practical purposes a colonial creation which he doesn’t even need. The position already existed in the Bemba traditional government, as it did in every tribe. The colonial reinforcement was superfluous like so-called Christian names.

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]]> By: Zedyatu https://www.lusakatimes.com/2023/03/30/interrogating-the-authenticity-of-the-agreement-on-the-establishment-of-the-luapula-river-authority/#comment-3464120 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:37:33 +0000 https://www.lusakatimes.com/?p=409712#comment-3464120 The Paramount Chief has missed the point, when they formed the Luapula River Authority they were looking at the defined catchment area for the river which includes areas beyond Luapula Province, more so that Luapula river is largely a product of Chambeshi River, which starts in the Northern Province. Even in the DRC,the cathment area for Luapula river also extends in areas beyond the environs of the Luapula River itself. So if Tanganyika and some parts of the Northern Province are included into the area to fall under the Luapula River Authority, it means there are some waters that flow from there that feed into the Luapula river. There is no need for hysteria!!

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]]> By: Gunner+in+Zambia https://www.lusakatimes.com/2023/03/30/interrogating-the-authenticity-of-the-agreement-on-the-establishment-of-the-luapula-river-authority/#comment-3463958 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:41:15 +0000 https://www.lusakatimes.com/?p=409712#comment-3463958 In its current form the Zambezi River Authority does not regulate any activity upstream of the Kariba Dam. Several lodges have been built on the banks of the Zambezi river and they do not get their licences from the ZRA. It’s for all practical purposes the KRA, Kariba Dam Authority. It seems the proposed Luapula River Authority will be different.

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]]> By: Gunner+in+Zambia https://www.lusakatimes.com/2023/03/30/interrogating-the-authenticity-of-the-agreement-on-the-establishment-of-the-luapula-river-authority/#comment-3463955 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:24:27 +0000 https://www.lusakatimes.com/?p=409712#comment-3463955 The Kafue river discharges its waters into the Zambezi after the Kariba Dam. That’s probably why it’s not part of the other ZRA, the Zambezi River Authority.

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]]> By: Deja Vu https://www.lusakatimes.com/2023/03/30/interrogating-the-authenticity-of-the-agreement-on-the-establishment-of-the-luapula-river-authority/#comment-3463931 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:20:33 +0000 https://www.lusakatimes.com/?p=409712#comment-3463931 Very deep insight. But who’s going to listen ? Maybe me who has no influence at all.

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