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Traders and Zambians of Asian origin clash over land

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Lumumba Road
Lumumba Road

Confusion has ensued between traders and Zambians of Asian origin over land in Buseko area along Lumumba road.Lusaka District Commissioner Davison Mulenga who visited the scene said that government will not allow construction of permanent structures on road reserves.

Zambians of Asian origin have allegedly started extending their wall fences and other structures, building on top of service cables for ZESCO and ZAMTEL and sewer lines for Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company.

He said government will not be subjected to compensating illegal land developers to pave way for roads extension.Mr. Mulenga also said that it is not fair for few individuals who are illegally building structures to inconvenience the traders whose livelihood depend on the small businesses they conduct under the makeshift shelters.

Meanwhile the Traders who claim to have been operating from the area from as far back as 1987 said they have on several occasions asked the Lusaka city council to allocate them plots but the council refused saying the land is a road reserve and can only allow temporal structures.

Lovemore Nyirenda and Christopher Banda who are car wash dealers have asked for government intervention in the matter adding that they are tired of being harassed by the Zambians of Asian origin who have since displaced them.

One of developers Memood Ajaj Patel who has extended his wall fence claimed that he has legal documents from the Lusaka City Council permitting him to extend his structure.He however said he is ready to cooperate with government promising to avail his documents to the District Commissioner’s office.

Meanwhile, Lusaka deputy mayor Potiphar Tembo says the council will follow up the matter when they receive the documents from the client.He however warned that if the documents are not legal, the land developers will be prosecuted.Mr. Tembo also reiterated government’s desire to protect the interest of Zambian citizens.

49 COMMENTS

  1. Try go to India or where ever they come from as a black Zambian and tell them you want to buy land… even one GBM or our HH can’t be allowed.

    Why should we allow them to control our land..?

    • PF now is doing what is best known of. If Dora Siliya come-out frank about the issue, then Kambwili will go about telling that she has to apologize.

    • Which land are they controlling? Study physical anthropology to understand the cradle of humanity. you may discover that you share same ancestor with the one you are trying to chase away.

    • INTRODUCTION TO XENOPHOBIA: When it happens elsewhere it looks almost “impossible” that you can experienced it at home. Zambia’s case may be more serious than what SA township communities were protesting about – Chipata is a case in point; anything good or of economic value is Indian owned. Look at Kamwala and Madras in Lusaka. The Kaunda era made it acceptable for Indians (not Zambians of Asian origin) to excel over indigenous Zambians in ALL SECTORS OF LIFE (Areas of human endeavour). But as Zambians become more and more entrepreneurial I can assure you that the worst is yet to come for these fellows. Government should redress these imbalances by seriously regulating the fixed property ownership laws to favour indigenous Zambians.

    • Namyebelapo mukwai bana Xeno; it does not pay to pretend that Zambians don’t feel bad and downtrodden in their own motherland.

    • Shows how illetrate you are and your most backward thinking, there is alwyS two sides of the story so before you talk find out, asian origin of zambian nationality u dumb wit. Read before you comment at the end of the day they are zambians.if you have nothing better to do than shut up

    • I am born/bred pa zed and really dissapointed that we have jeoulous black people on this sites _50 yrs after getting independence and you still cannot comprehend the things there have encountered in this nation.There have toiled and sweated and also fought with blacks from colonialism .helped blacks in so many ways pa zed .You people need your heads examined in one way or another.

  2. Zambians of Asian origin. Zambians period, like the ZP shot the Zambian Chinese, they shall tackle our Hindu bredren accordingly. They are Zambians so call them Zambians.

    Viva President Nawakwi.

    • WE NEED A PROPER LAND AUDIT IN ZAMBIA AND REDISTRIBUTE IT WITH COMPENSATION TO INDEGENOUS ZAMBIANS, PURELY ON THE BASIS OF AFFORDABILITY OF THE MARKET VALUES OF THESE PROPERTIES, THANK YOU. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE ADVOCATING FOR ZIMBABWE STYLE LAND INVASIONS, BUT JUST LEGITIMATELY CLAIMING OUR SPACE, NATOTELA.

  3. …but they are Zambians and you have allowed them to be so, what are you talking about Mr Ndwende? Zambia should go back to the drawing board and start afresh. Sooner than later, there will be no Land for poor zambians…

  4. please do not be racists. they are zambians period. most of them came before Zambia become independent. they know nothing about india. why refer them to india and even compare then to GBM . learn to respect human beings. i have been in the same class with them. they are wonderful guys. I wish we could have plenty of them around us. I actually want them plenty. let them live with us, the so called black zambians.

    • They are Zambians of Indian origin, meaning they got another country called India they call home. I’m a native Zambian meaning i got no other country i would call home, catch the drift? That said, my welfare takes precedence over any ‘charlie came lately’.
      Dear Zambians we need to wise up asap, God stopped making countries many light years ago, land is what makes Zambia.

  5. Corruption at LCC.the way fwd is to revoke the said document as the road will be extended at some point.do we still hav town planners at LCC

  6. They are Zambians yes, but when you go into details, you can describe them as Zambians of Asian origin. Even black Zabians are still classified as ba kolwe, bakachema, bahopani etc. Nothing wrong with that, just being specific. In America, blacks are classified as Afro Americans, Americans of African origin. Then you have Hispanics, Indians, Wops and so on and so forth.

  7. Why is LCC not doing anything about the illegal squatters mushrooming,,When and indian does something its headlines.
    Why south africans does something like this its xenophobia,,,
    Why cant everyone just follow the rules of the laand and all will be fine.

  8. Zambians are waking up to the reality of life. In the meantime Boko Haram and ISIS have taken over all the best land in Lusaka and Chipata.

  9. City council must start revoking more of such kind of land ownership documents. It does not make any sense to have only Zambians of non zambian origin to own all the land in all CBDs of the country ‘s cities and towns. I saw no black african in Asia particularly in India with a piece of land in two years that I worked there. As a matter of fact I saw no black african living freely amoung indian communities. With us they should freely live , but never should they take ownership of land all. It’s not being hospitable, it’s a clear failure of self rule as zambians

  10. Saddened by the amount of blatant racism exhibited by most bloggers. Problem is with the issuing authority, you do not give documents for land that can not be developed, period. A piece of land given to a Zambian of Zambian origin, in Chipata is almost covering Lunkhwakhwa stream, has anyone raised an eyebrow? No, why? Because he is Zambian as Zambian origin??? Give it a break guys, let us look at things outside colour, creed, religion, tribe etc. Zambians of Asian origin are Zambians, most are anyway, like it or not, same way our ancestors came from Congo, SA or Tanzania, their ancestors came from India.

    • ba mwenye ba fee kala very stingy. Glad my whole life i’ve never had to work for an Indian or report to some mwenye boss.

  11. Interesting how the population least of all the reporters here have racial tendencies. Yes the Asian community in Zambia has money there is no doubt about that. This Money has been earned / made by investing in high risk investments. The asian communities tendencies to waste money is no where near the Black Zambian tendencies. look at the high society of Lusaka these black Zambians act like spending money is a fashionable thing. When the cash runs out then there is an automatic hate for those who manage their money wisely. With regards to send the indians away where do you want us to go. In certain cases we are more Zambian than the local zambians. This nonesense on racial lines is what divides a country.

    • Divide which country you fool.Go and invest your money in India.We should also blame ourselves these fag got evade tax pay their workers poorly don’t maintain their properties well and own the best pieces of land and we proudly call them Zambia n’s. Go to India and see if you will be accepted.

    • NAME ME ONE COUNTRY IN AFRICA THAT HAS INDIANS IN CONTROL OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND IS RELATIVELY WELL OFF? NAMBIA? BOTSWANA? SOUTH AFRICA? OR IS IT ZAMBIA? MALAWI? TANZANIA? YOU DONT EVEN PAY TAXES; RARELY IF EVER GIVE RECEIPTS DUE TO TAX AVOIDANCE! STEAL OUR NATURAL RESOURCES, DEPLETE OUR WILDLIFE, HARVEST OUR ORGANS, AND POLLUTE OUR YOUNG GIRLS! KOOLIES GO HOME “RAILWAY IS BUILT”.

  12. GRZ is partley funded by these mwenyes who hardly employ black Zambia and prefere others from India.
    They are the most racist group in Zambia.
    Hopefully we are waking up to them

  13. now is it going to b the mwenyes fault that us zambians can sell land just to be able to buy beer. i have heard stories of parents leaving prime properties only to b sold by their children a week after they die. some are even waiting for the parents to die.

  14. and mind you these guys are paying huge sums of monies to get these properties. a talking of rebased billions. thats in madras and kamwala.

  15. so u guys sitting in the diaspora cum n buy the houses if u can afford instead of posting crap on the net.

  16. kaluba 1 you are so right its not even funny. We do not have any succession planning. As soon as the tent is in the yard, we start squabbling like hyenas, each trying to get a piece of the cake. We sell off our properties and go blow the money on a few cases of beer. Others buy our properties. They DO NOT steal our properties. A few years later, with the population growth, land becomes expensive and we have blown our money on wine, women, and song. Who is to blame? Now we are left with nothing and we want to cry over our own faults.

  17. To understand the extent of this problem, look at how much land Lamasart has been allowed to acquire in Lusaka. This is a recipe for anarchy. We will all wake up one day and find that it owns all the prime land in Lusaka. The sale of land particularly to foreigners or Zambians of foreign descent who have not lived in Zambia for 10 years must be restricted. In fact land must be leased and not sold to investors.

  18. Spy Mashra. As a black man, try go into India or China and try compete there and make a living my friend. You will come back licking your wounds. No Zambian can ever work like them. Even our President has come back from China with respect for them (and loans kikiki ).

    There are a billion Chinese and a billion Indians. They can show us Taj Mahal and Great Wall of China which is 6000km long. Can we shown them anything besides mud huts in our history. Any double storey structure before the whites came ?

    They can come here and make a fortune. This is the land of milk and honey for those who want to work. Huge land, natural resources, etc. We can also progress, but there is no substitute for hard work.

  19. Its a policy implementation failure. Make it a policy that you only support what is local. Thats what we all have to learn. I was approached by a fella who deals in blocks; i categorically stated that i will buy from my other Zambian, even if he never came to say thanks, at least i gave him business. small decisions like this change economies. Else stop complaining.

  20. Are the traders Zambian of Zambian origin or traders from across borders? This is an insinuating article that needs to be censured. There are generations of light-skinned people of ethnicity that are otherwise alien to the African continent in our country who know no other place than right here because their forebearers came out here! Let us be fair in the way we report – this is the 21st Century for Jakes’ sakes!

  21. Corruption at LCC is the cause of all these problems. We all know that most Indians and Chinese are very corrupt. But here I blame LCC since the the Indian man has documents from the Council. Those documents are either genuine or fake but still it was a council employee who wrote them. In Zambia, we need to look at the interest of the nationals first. here I mean nations whether black or Indians, whites or any colour.

  22. no wonder Idi Amin got rid of them. they are a curse. you see what they have done to UK. Taken all businesses and they make their cities and towns in UK so filthy ,dirty and garbage everywhere. And you think Lsk city is dirty. they have trashed UK. The queen will never forgive Idi Amin. All the indian trash ended up in UK
    . The UK health care system is overwhelemed by the expenses of treating and giving special treatment to the kids who are ‘Mongos’ mostly born to couples who are closely related and genes too,too closely related and results is more mongos born. Now they encourage them to take DNA before arranged marriages
    At leas in Zed we have no more of this indian nonsense of “calling us Boyi! Boyi! and spitting on us their saliva”. No more. Gone are the days of 1960’s and…

  23. Mwenye!! Keep your ideas and Indian opinions to yourself otherwise we Zambians, will send you packing like Idi Amin did.

  24. Re: Muzungu’s target African girls 4 sexual abuse
    Postby Indian Prostitues in Zambia » 23rd May 2013, 15:53

    There are lots of Indian prostitutes in Zambia, they only go unnoticed because of their skin color, the police concentrate on harassing Zambian natives and Zimbabweans leaving out no Indian prostitutes to work freely on Zambian soil.
    Infact indian prostitutes are like flies on a piece of sh!t according to one ‘foreign client’ they demand lots of money and threaten the white folks.. usually Indian prostitutes in Zambia, take their baits home, but also patron in big hotels.
    I would’nt be suprised if there are Chinese, and Brazilian pro’s too!

  25. Indians are the most racist people in Zambia. They will never let a black Zambian into their circles. Time to wake up to these parasites who externalize their profits.

  26. If the have a Zambian registration card the are Zambians whether there parents came from India it is of no consequence.

    • Dont be naive! You think an indian doesn’t see color? Google how Fijians are being ill treated now that indians have assumed control of Fiji! Google George Speight!

  27. On this issue I can blame Kaunda , when he was in power he only allowed Zambians of Asian origin to own shops , while African Zambians could only work for them. On race both our Asian friends are just as black as any black African .they are also black people and some of them even much darker than me , the issue of colour is not there maybe with their hair which is straight. How ever things need to be corrected with speed these friends need to integrate , as they have no where to go they are Zambians just like any one of us .

    • Kamwala has fallen, Rhodes park fairview has fallen, Northmead Harvy Tiles side has fallen, Emmasdale has fallen, Zambia State Insurance flats by fly over – all tenants are indian, MULUNGUSHI Village is under invasion, Rhodes Park is under invasion, Livingston has fallen, Chipata fell, Chingola has fallen, light and heavy industry in the private sector is indian, Zambian emrald’s have been hijacked by india, mwanawa’s KCM is under indian control and looting, maamba and other coal mines given away by the thief felix mutati are under indian control, the list sadly goes on! Before any of you spew words of brother ship with indians, consider the fate of the untouchables in india and how the wide spread belief, amongst indians, of them being of African descent has subjected them unbeliv…

  28. STOP BUYING INDIAN GOODS AND IN LESS THAN 6 MONTHS WE WILL HAVE VANQUISHED THIS INDIAN MENACE! MALAWI, TANZANIA, ZAMBIA ARE POOR WITH EQUAL NUMBERS OF INDIANS RULING THE ROOST BUT NAMIBIA, BOTSWANA, SOUTH AFRICA, SWAZILAND, ZIMBABWE 20 YRS AGO, ARE MUCH BETTER OFF WITH WHITEIES! INDIANS, LEBANESE, GREEKS, AND EVEN SOMALIS ARE A CURSE UPON US, THEY BLIGHT OUR BEAUTIFUL LAND!

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