We are farmers of Minga area in Petauke District who are living in fear because of four loose lions currently terrorising the community.
The vicious cats are moving from one place to another searching for food. Many people are living in fear of being attacked by these lions.
We are therefore appealing to the Zambia Wildlife Authority
(ZAWA) to come and kill these vicious wild animals before lives and crops are lost.
Concerned Minga area farmers,
Petauke

Mr President help Mansa vendors

We are appealing to President Edgar C. Lungu to help us, the street vendors of Mansa district of Luapula Province, who are being charged K50 by the local authority in order for us to conduct our businesses on the streets in the town centre.
We are wondering if it was a Presidential directive that all councils in the country should be charging K50 per vendor who is selling on the streets country wide.
With the month-end fast approaching, the Mansa Council officials will be on us again coming to threaten us with eviction if we don’t pay the stated amount on time. Please come to our aid.
Aggrieved street vendor,
Mansa.

How Palestine became Israel

In 1897 prominent Zionists had a meeting in Switzerland and decided they wanted Palestine as their Homeland.
They said that Palestine was “a land without people for a people without land.” At that time there were 600,000 Palestinians and 54,000 Jews living there in peace.
The Palestinians owned 99.6 per cent of the land.
Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish).
The British defeated the Ottomans and occupied Palestine in 1918, and begun allowing the Jews of Europe to enter Palestine.
By 1947, there were 600,000 Jews and 1.3 million Palestinians in Palestine.
Palestinians at that stage still owned 94 per cent of the land. Palestine become uncontrollable as fighting escalated between the British, the Palestinians and Zionists attacking one another.
In 1947 Britain announced that it was leaving the following year, on May 15 1948.
In the fifth months before the British left, Zionist militia groups, for instance, Haganah and Irgun spread terror across Palestine. 750,000 Palestinians fled from their homes and up to 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed. These Palestinians took refuge in neighbouring states.
Today these refugees number 6 million. The Zionists captured 78 per cent of Palestine and declared their state, Israel, on May 14 1948. The Arab countries came in support of the Palestinians.
Egypt took control of Gaza, Jordan took control of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. East Jerusalem and the West Bank make up 22 per cent of historic Palestine.
In what is known as “the six day war in 1967” Israel captured Gaza. The West Bank and East Jerusalem.
These areas are referred to as “the occupied territories”. The United Nations passed Resolution 242 on November 22, 1967, ordering Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories.”
To date, Israel has not complied. In contravention of the Geneva Convention Israel from 1967 immediately began building huge settlements exclusively for Jews.
The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) of Yasser Arafat signed a peace deal, the Oslo accords (In September 1993) on the understanding that they would regain control of the 22 per cent as their Palestinian state.
More land is confiscated every day in the West Bank to build new settlements and to expand old ones.
As can be seen, if the Palestinians get a state on the land they presently control, it will be nothing more than a Bantustan, very much like Bophuthatswana, as in Apartheid South Africa.
The UN is responsible for this conflict because it gives validity to whims of major powers.
There is a lot more double standards and for that the UN has become irrelevant and dangerous.
Dominic Muntanga,
Kabwe