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Cancellation Of Kuomboka To Affect Tourism Revenue
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tourism, Effron Lungu says the cancellation of this year’s Kuomboka Ceremony of the Lozi people in Western Province will negatively impact on the flow of tourists into Zambia, he says incomes derived from the influx of tourists will decline as a result of not holding the famous Kuomboka Ceremony.
The Ngambela or Prime Minister of the Barotse land, Clement Sinyinda last month announced the cancellation of the ceremony citing low water levels in the Zambezi plains.
The Kuomboka Ceremony is held mainly in March when the Zambezi plains are flooded and the Lozi Paramount Chief, the Litunga is moved from his plain’s palace in Leyalui to the high land in Limulunga in Mongu.
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suicide lover
May 12, 2012 at 8:30 am
whaaaat kuomboka has been canceled why?how?we love it man its the biggest traditional ceremony in the land..
Jmc007
May 12, 2012 at 8:32 am
Too bad, we could have travelled to watch for the last time as a Zambian event. Next year we will need passports to enter Barotseland….LOL!
Tupac
May 12, 2012 at 9:10 am
@JM grow man munzelu who told you that next barotse will seceed from zambia?As for kuomboka it’s ok we have nc’uala, ukusefya pang’wena notwashala.
sniper
May 12, 2012 at 9:11 am
Y are u northern rhodesians complaining? Its a barotse thing
Bacholar
May 12, 2012 at 9:23 am
Yes a baroste busines thing we mind our own busines
tickled
May 12, 2012 at 9:23 am
The country is revolting in both forms of the word.
Ohh poor pf and Mikey. There seems no rest for the wicked. Henrys lawyers have your best lackeys looking like international clowns. Your selected PSs are as lost as pigs in a thunder storm. Busy stealing and abusing offices while their underlings take note for their upcoming trials (2017). Your Ministers are demonstrating how discombuberated, disorganised and dishevelled your commune of comedy aka the cabinet is.
Even one small group of semi literate villagers, with a canoe riding king has you against the ropes. You have failed to force them to have their boat ride where you can send your central comedy committee ‘pale face’ to sit like a bull frog and claim authority he has not.
Suspending those fellows when the cat is out of the bag, was a master humour stroke. Talk about “slamming the barn door when the horses have bolted”.
The habit of your ‘tongue’ writing cheques that your hands cannot ‘cash’ is making every speech of yours evidence in chief for your detractors.
biggie
May 12, 2012 at 9:44 am
who cares about the cancellation of koumboka ceremony as if it is the ONLY ceremony we have in Zed.one Zambia no barotseland and viva the government of unip,mmd and PF
joseph
May 12, 2012 at 9:48 am
We say it like this (Akuna lishowelela silimo se).Mwaumfwa mwe manyukunyuku.
King Pharaoh
May 12, 2012 at 10:33 am
@tickled… i am trully tickled. thanx
MUNYELO PWETE!
May 12, 2012 at 11:38 am
The lozi people need to be Zambianized! We should wipe out everything that has something to do with the lozi including kuomboka and the litunga nonsense! There are few lozis who are reasonable but majority of them are a pain in an ass!
People like Wainyelawila Ngambela need to be wiped off the face of the earth and possibly throw their bodies in a crocodile infested zambezi river!
I thought they could be courageos enough and declare war as they hallucinated so that we take advantage of that and cleanse our land of western province, but all of them are cowards! Masipaaaaa!
Wemfula Isa Isa
May 12, 2012 at 1:43 pm
The purpose of the Kuomboka was originally to shift people from floods to a place that was drier. If no floods threaten anyone’s life, why shift? I recall a year when there was a drought and the Zambezi was very shallow, people offered to push the nalikwanda across – just to have the ceremony for commercial purposes. If there is no need, just skip it this year.
leon
May 12, 2012 at 2:27 pm
chiefs are irelevant any way lets have a President and all should go to school there after go to univesty or college or what ever wil sustain their lives not this bullshit of kingdoms which is a recipe of civil warsg .
GUN
May 12, 2012 at 2:45 pm
@Wemfula isa,you said it man just as it is.To those that wish to find opotunitiz to insult others grow up or take your frustrations elsewhere ie watching porno.
ndate mbututu
May 12, 2012 at 3:41 pm
@pwete…..u shud grow up…?u are bhaving lyk a schizophrenic or manic patient…..u cant be rude to prime minister or king himslf.u are the one who is a coward to insult adults indirect,i think u hv a personality disorder……..grow up coward or take ur ADDH behaviour somewhere…….if the minister didnt see the importance of kuomboka,he wudnt hv commented abt it..check the speech used”famous kuomboka”
Atta!
May 12, 2012 at 6:18 pm
I hate this torelance of ****** lozis.give them what they want,rotten tribe!
Nathaniel brown
May 12, 2012 at 7:20 pm
4 me i gese its oke 4 de kuomboka cancelatn coz its a chalenge 2 govn that they shud bring dvlpnt 2 western province unlk being selfsh, jst dvlpn their own grown hudz!
Kaonde
May 12, 2012 at 7:40 pm
clement sinyinda, are u sure wth yo decision? where wil my cousins get money 2 start their government? kuomboka is z only source of revenue.
solwezi boy
May 12, 2012 at 7:51 pm
SINCE LAST WAS THIS CEREMONY CANCELLED . ONLY UNDER UKWAS RULE WATCH HIS MOVES
Sinukayotwa
May 12, 2012 at 8:31 pm
Munyelopwete you are a fool ukaise ni balusika lwa hao kaufela
Lozi man
May 12, 2012 at 11:08 pm
Kuomboka ceremony is the most famous ceremony in zambia and that is why i am so proud of being a lozi.
kakolwe
May 13, 2012 at 12:43 am
To all you tribalistic bloggers of any tribe or language. Your blog posts are hurting all normal thinking bloggers. You’ve made your points & exposed who really are and its enough. Your tribal points have been taken. Its time you moved on. Otherwise, an expository of your post’s effects will follow.
likaku nyau nyau
May 13, 2012 at 5:30 am
People should be happy that the floods in thr plains are not as high as to ocassion the kuomboka ceremony because heavy flooding disrupts people’s livelihoods in the area. Merely seeing the kuomboka ceremony from a tourism and money spinning event is unfortunate….why must people celebrate and dance and sing when their crop, livestock and homes flooded. I cant wait for the day when the Zambezi plains will start receiving just adequate waters that will not cause flooding but will be sufficient to sustain livelihoods in the area.
Mama waluse
May 13, 2012 at 7:04 am
Ifi Lozi uku yumfwa, atase tu. Cawama ka kuomboka ta kakabeko
western
May 13, 2012 at 9:21 am
My heart goes to all poor people of western province who wait for one year to make some real money ie. Hotels lodges motels traders including artists curio curver etc.
Chonya
May 13, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Who cares about cancelling the whole ceremony. If you expected comfort for your silly actions think twice.
Tonga Bull@1
May 14, 2012 at 8:17 am
MWASHIBUKENI MUKWAI BONSE
Dandy crazy
May 14, 2012 at 9:17 am
@tickled you sound Nevers Mumba, a desperate politician/ preacher who has no political acumen nor experience to boast about apart from the comedy of almost declaring war against Congo Dr in his short stunt as Vp.
Idah
May 14, 2012 at 11:26 am
Vilozi vose ni vindene, chachitika makola kulije Kuomboka chino chaka.
Muoli
May 14, 2012 at 11:28 am
too bad, Zambia will loose some Revenue. this ceremony attracts a lot of tourists
LWIINDI
May 14, 2012 at 11:41 am
TUMFWEKO WHY DO YOU HIDE SOME OF THE COMENTS.SHAME ON
LWIINDI
May 14, 2012 at 11:46 am
Beloved brothers and sisters. we are zambians. let us not insult each other like this. mind you some of us have children at home. how would you react if you hear your child insulting.Let us respect each tribe and its culture. contribute responsibly NOT insults. some of us know that its not about water why the ceremony was cancelled. all i can say is that our prime minister, learn to say the truth, you will be judged one day!
Champion
May 14, 2012 at 11:47 am
@likaku. Are you saying that the annual floods actually cause harm to the plain dwellers? There is so much focus on the Nalikwanda that the story and the impact on simple folk is never told. I came across a picture of a woman and her kids shifting on a hired canoe-it was touching!
Tinki
May 14, 2012 at 1:21 pm
but u Zambians, why are u all insulting each other like that? i can see the other tribes are so hurt about the Barotses cutting off from the dirty filthy Zambia. u must be really hurt for u to insult the Barotses like that, why cant u just admit it that u need them…shame on you
saga
May 14, 2012 at 3:56 pm
idah, u are a fool, i know uour mother as a *****, reason u have no manners, once she was bitten in a tarven, fatherless child, u were raised by a prositute, behave, lozis are educated fool, we mwan we hule iwe, raised in a shantie compound
saga
May 14, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Idah stoping going out with married men like your mother, why cant u get your own man, to **** you day and night, i know where u stay, What are promoting, still leave in a shanty compound and u are insulting people who have been to school, in the first place u should ahve found out who your real father is, mwana wamuchani iwe, no experience of Parental care woooooohh, fatherless child, no manners, no wonder
joseph
May 16, 2012 at 11:43 am
Brothers and sisters I have read your comments. To tell you the truth am so worried about the future of this great nation. Iam not Lozi but I can see that there is a growing HATRED for anything “Lozi” in this country, which is a very dangerous trend. Let us avoid what happened in Kenya or indeed Rwanda! STOP THE HATE SPEACH! We are all Zambians. One Zambia One Nation Kwasila. I LOVE YOU ALL. I hope the Kuomboka Ceremony takes place, we are all proud of it.
salayandavich
May 16, 2012 at 2:58 pm
Ngambela you have made many beneficiaries to suffer in barotse. Guest house owners who reap more from this will have NO MONEY IN THE POCKETS. Chabipa sana. No FOREX for the barotse subjects
salayandavich
May 16, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Those who make art crafts, sex workers no sales etc etc………………………………………………………..etc