Tonga people

Now the Kariba Dam was conceptualized in the 1950s as a hydroelectric project and in 1956 construction on the Kariba Dam actually started.

Now the Zambezi River Valley was obviously inhabited, the Tonga people had lived in the valley for I don't know how many hundreds of thousands of years.

And with the construction of the dam, thousands of the Tonga people got displaced.

As well, there were huge construction projects of housing for the workers, hundreds of, if not thousands of little houses got put up.

All the infrastructure needed, the shops and the roads, and you name it, for several thousand construction people was necessary.

So

that was one of the weird consequences of the building of Lake Gariba.

But the Tonga people obviously lived on both sides of the river, both in Zambia and in what is now Zimbabwe.

Even Bemba tribalism, we don't want it also.

We don't want Tonga tribalism.

We don't want Bemba tribalism.

It, it doesn't matter which tribe is in front, as long as it's tribalism, to us, we don't want it in Zambia.

We are one Zambia, one nation.

Whether you're a Muslim, you're a Christian, you're Seventh-day, you're Catholic, one Zambia, one nation.

Whether you're Bemba, you are Tonga, you are Lozi, you are, you, you are whatever, one Zambia, one nation.

We need to develop a sense of tolerance towards one another.

You've seen how, uh, the UPND would use someone who's not Tonga, and then they would ditch them.

Now, you would, you don't, you, you, you would have no problem if there were people in the UPND who were non-Tonga and they are working with the president.

Life goes on, because that's what, how it should be.

But it is how when a season passes, when, when a certain period of time passes, the UPND comes back to those same people who are not Tonga and trash them like, like, like, like, you know, like they were useless, okay? And that is happening to George.

Omuze ndowakwohotera emuntu ngota hiyebo.

Kito kutukukwana obukuta kwanoobo ulimu bwiteebo.

[outro jingle] [upbeat music] I'm deliberately playing that because the police will never arrest that young lady for the tribal insults against voters of Brown Munvula and a threat against non-Tongas that should be evicted from Southern Province because she suspects they voted for Brown Munvula.

Just this morning, the UPND newspapers are celebrating that a young man from Kabwe who's who had issued insults has been arrested.

We have divided our country.

Today is Tonga.

Tomorrow is what? No.

One Zambia, one nation.

Many people that have been detained, some of those that have been tortured, are all talking about the facility in Chilanga.

and we we discussed that issue and then there were statistics that were released that were made aware to us about uh the sda especially that is a second largest change almost rivaling the catholic change bogus At Google, the statistics don't show that.

But it's the same statistics agency that said the Tonga language had become the second most spoken language in Zambia.

Same Zambia statistics agency.