Thu, 13 Jul 2017 12:53:55 +0000 As ‘handsome’ conman is sent to prison By Phili Chirwa IT was obvious from the look of shock on their faces that the residents of Lusaka’s New Kabwata and Kabwata Estates had never seen anything like it before. In fact, some of them even wished they hadn’t been around to witness the spectacle which they considered to be a bad omen. The question on everybody’s lips was: “But how and why?” No matter how one looked at it, the whole thing just didn’t make any sense; for it was taboo in African tradition. One could see that some people were willing to help but somehow, some invisible force was telling them: “Don’t!” For here were four women carrying a black-painted coffin on a wheelbarrow without a man accompanying them. The coffin, apparently made of cheap wood and measuring about two metres in length, was placed on the wheelbarrow at […]
