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Legacy Holdings controversy
By Boyd Chikoli

Thursday November 16, 2006 [04:00]

Much ado about nothing is what I would call the public hearing held in Livingstone on Saturday 10th November at the Legacy Holdings site. As I drove to the site, I looked at the foundation stone which former vice-president Lupando Mwape laid on behalf of the President. I then turned towards the site near Maramba River and was greeted by a horde of vehicles parked at the site. Finally I arrived where the hearing was being held and listened to the deliberations going on. One thing became clear. This was not going to be fruitful meeting. Cadres had been brought on both sides and every time a speaker spoke for or against the project, there were huge cheers. What captured my attention though was that presentations for the project were from black Zambians while the whites are against the project. They bemoaned the fact that they would no longer be able to hold picnics and see the Maramba River. They were not bothered about the poverty levels and that indigenous Livingtsone residents do not have time to idle away looking at nature when they have hungry stomachs to think about. I wondered how whites could stop development in Zambia at the expense of animals. They themselves wiped out entire populations in Europe at the expense of development and have no national parks apart from zoos. Why should it be any different with Africa?

It is amazing that one can not see the benefit of this project which will completely change the face of Livingstone.
Let us not be cheated by those who are living in the comfort zone. We have enough parks in Zambia already.