Acting President of Zambia, Guy Scott, announces to the herd of unquestioning journalists gathered at his holiday lodge, Royal Zambezi over Christmas 2014, that, ‘This is our land as Zambians, it does not belong to foreigners. It is part of our heritage’. He refers here to the Lower Zambezi National Park, the same Park, the same ‘heritage’ which the PF Party insisted on 17 January 2014 should be destroyed by a series of massive open-pit copper mines, overturning the decision of ZEMA and a parliamentary committee that no mining should be allowed there. And it was Scott who in February 2014 confirmed that it was the Ministry of Lands who had the right to make decisions on mining in the National Park, and not the Ministry in charge of the Park, the Ministry of Arts and Tourism. And he ignored the fact that Minister Kalaba’s predecessor, Simuusa, had admitted that the mining licences had been issued illegally to the Australians, the same OZ plunderers Scott had courted in the Pamodzi - doing nothing about the few Zambians demonstrating outside against the proposed destruction of their ‘heritage’, nor lifting a finger to help them when they were arrested. Scott says that, ‘this long tradition of indigenous Zambians who own this land not visiting places like this must come to an end’. Yet he and the PF do not recognise the decision made on 18 October 2008, by Chiefs Chiawa, Chipepo, Simamba, Sinadambwe, Mphuka and Mburuma on behalf of 17 chiefdoms of the Zambezi Basin, that no mining in the Zambezi Basin should be allowed; a decision supported by the the Nagoya Protocol on biocultural rights of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a Convention to which Zambia is a signatory. How Scott has the effrontery to step into the Park can only be explained by the PF arrogance; but the welcome given him by a lodge he will soon be putting out of business, is perhaps the most shameful of all.