The barotseland agreement of 1964 pdfBarotseland Agreement • March 3rd, 2022
Quotation and beginning This agreement can be cited as the Barotseland Agreement of 1964 and will enter into force on the day that Northern Rhodesia, including Barotseland, becomes the sovereign and independent Republic of Zambia. (2) The Litunga of Barotseland, acting after consultation with its Council, for the time being constituted under the customary law of Barotseland, shall be the principal local authority for the government and administration of Barotseland. (3) The Litunga of Barotseland, after consultation with its Council, shall be authorized and empowered to make laws for Barotseland in relation to the following matters: (a) The Litungaship; (b) The authority now known as the Barotse Indigenous Government (hereinafter referred to as the Barotse Government); (c) The authorities now known as the Barotse Government; Se Native; Indigenous authorities; (d) the courts now known as the Barotse indigenous courts; (e) the status of members of the Council of Litunga; (f) local govern
THE BAROTSELAND AGREEMENT 1964Barotseland Agreement • October 27th, 2010
This Agreement is made this eighteenth day of May, 1964 between KENNETH DAVID KAUNDA, Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia of the one part and SIR MWANAWINA LEWANIKA THE THIRD ,K.B.E., Litunga of Barotseland, acting on behalf of himself, his heirs and successors, his council, and the chiefs and people of Barotseland of the other party is signed by the Right Honourable Duncan Sandys, M.P Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for common wealth relations and for the colonies, to signify the approval of her majesty's government in the united kingdom of the arrangements entered into between the parties to this agreement and recorded therein. Whereas it was proposed that the northern Rhodesia shall become an independent sovereign state to be known as the republic of Zambia.
Barotseland agreement pdfBarotseland Agreement • February 4th, 2022
The document as agreed at the Lusaka Barotseland talks was presented to the full Barotse National Council for ratification. More so that it was over the sensitive issue of the Barotseland Agreement 1964. Consequently, the three elected members of the Council on the delegation, namely: Hastings Ndangwa Nooyo, Kawana Mulemwa and Knight Kopano Mutondo, were immediately suspended from UNIP for not towing the party line during the talks. He is referred to as the Ngocana meaning ‘a tender calf’. It is in the domain of open history that the Kaunda team went to London for the independence talks at the exclusion of the Barotse government delegation. As a result, the independence talks almost collapsed because Britain would not buy the reasoning that the Lozi members of the UNIP delegation would represent Barotseland interests. As stated before, the Litunga’s role was to give some opening remarks and to wish the meeting good progress, after which he left the delegates from both governments to de
