Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:04:50 +0000 By Charles Musonda THE House of Chiefs has rejected the newly announced chiefdoms’ boundary map by the Ministry of Lands, on grounds that it was not a true reflection of facts on the ground. In an interview in Lusaka, House of Chiefs, Chief Whip, Chief Chipepo said the traditional rulers had not met to approve the map nor had the Surveyor General done a physical study before making the announcement. “We had not met at House of Chiefs level and the Surveyor General did not physically go chiefdom by chiefdom, province by province, or district by district to find visible chiefdom boundary maps. The 1958 map is not a true picture because in some cases some chiefs had encroached other chiefdoms. “That map was rejected in 1964 and we had suggested that the surveyor general should, together with the Minister of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs, and the Minister of […]
