{"id":15537,"date":"2022-02-06T20:36:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/lower-zambezi-money-or-box"},"modified":"2022-02-06T20:44:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:44:16","slug":"lower-zambezi-money-or-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/lower-zambezi-money-or-box","title":{"rendered":"LOWER ZAMBEZI: Money or Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Luangwa and Feira Constituency is indeed a dead district economically. There is zero industrial or macro commercial activities. Even the confluence of the two big rivers Zambezi and Luangwa has done little thus far to uplift the lives of over 150,000 Residents inhabitants in Zambia. It\u2019s even easier to access fresh fish in Matero than locals do in the river waters across borders of Zimbabwe and Mozambique.<\/p>\n

There are a number of exotic lodges on the river fronts owned by non Zambians and exclusive to tourists. Majority residents have hardly accessed these lodges as they have no \u2018visas\u2019 to given prices are in Dollars.<\/p>\n

Once on a political escapade there, I booked in one of the Zambezi river lodges for air condition\u2019s sake given the lower Zambezi valley is extremely hot.<\/p>\n

I had to check out next day as my Visa card began to issue decline receipts overnight. Lol. The locals can hardly farm due to harsh valley soils and climate conditions.<\/p>\n

A mine investment would ideally make sense to the lives of people that God made born in the Lower Zambezi. A mine investment would not make sense to the animals in the area whose existence attracts tourists for the said lodges. Herein is the conondrum. Local Human home economics benefits from the few mine jobs or cash spill vs wild animals to macro tourists economic benefits.<\/p>\n

It would be interesting to note the GDP or BOP contribution to our Treasury from the tourist activities in the Lower Zambezi. My instinct is that it\u2019s minimal because most is paid in offshore bank accounts.<\/p>\n

Then there is the view from the Lumwana Copper and Kanseli Gold mines where locals have equally not benefited economically because payments for minerals dug out from their land is paid for in accounts outside Zambia. Transfer pricing it\u2019s called. Blindfold Zambia out of their minerals and only declare a bit for wages and suppliers.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s good for Lower Zambezi? For me non as long as shareholding is not by Zambians and for Zambians. Forget one or two Zambian fronts speaking on their behalf as they are our own economic snippers or mercenaries. They are paid to pose as Incharge just to keep us quiet and yet majority locals remain in perpetual abject poverty.<\/p>\n

Hitherto any foreign contracts signed for mining in the lower Zambezi by previous regimes can be cancelled by current authorities if they choose to. It will be good to consider new local investors with names like Libangila, Tikambenji, Daka, Mbololwa, Siampondo, Hamaleka, Chandalala, Shakafuswa, Sampaula, Kasongo etc. etc<\/p>\n

Economically, Lower Zambezi born Zambians (Goba, Soli, Sala, Tongas, Nyanjas) should be able to say \u2018kuli bonesha ta\u2019 both with tourism lodges and the mine ownership in their God given land.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zambia. Luangwa and Feira Constituency is indeed a dead district economically. There is zero industrial or macro commercial activities. Even the confluence of the two big rivers Zambezi and Luangwa has done little thus far to uplift the lives of over 150,000 Residents inhabitants in Zambia. 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