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The plan came in 2004 after a life-sized bronze statue of Dr David Livingstone which is located in Zimbabwe overlooking at the Victoria Falls for more than half a century. But after years of neglect by its current owners, the Zimbabwean government the Zambia government began to start calling for the statue sculpted in the 1930s by Sir William Reid Dick, to be handed over to them. Some older Leya people claim that the statue was originally erected on their side of the Zambezi - then the British colony of Northern Rhodesia - but was moved during the 1950s to its present site overlooking the Devil's Cataract, on what is now the Zimbabwean side. The figure of the Victorian explorer, leaning on his walking stick, has stood on the Zimbabwean side of the falls and been seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors each year to one of the seven natural wonders of the world. However the Zimbabwean made it clear that it had no intention of handing the statue over<ref name=FALL>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zambia/1468390/Dr-Livingstones-statue-is-ours-we-presume-Zambia-informs-Mugabe.html ''Dr Livingstone's statue is ours, we presume, Zambia informs Mugabe"], 01 Aug 2004; accessed 15 November 2016.</ref>. | The plan came in 2004 after a life-sized bronze statue of Dr David Livingstone which is located in Zimbabwe overlooking at the Victoria Falls for more than half a century. But after years of neglect by its current owners, the Zimbabwean government the Zambia government began to start calling for the statue sculpted in the 1930s by Sir William Reid Dick, to be handed over to them. Some older Leya people claim that the statue was originally erected on their side of the Zambezi - then the British colony of Northern Rhodesia - but was moved during the 1950s to its present site overlooking the Devil's Cataract, on what is now the Zimbabwean side. The figure of the Victorian explorer, leaning on his walking stick, has stood on the Zimbabwean side of the falls and been seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors each year to one of the seven natural wonders of the world. However the Zimbabwean made it clear that it had no intention of handing the statue over<ref name=FALL>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zambia/1468390/Dr-Livingstones-statue-is-ours-we-presume-Zambia-informs-Mugabe.html ''Dr Livingstone's statue is ours, we presume, Zambia informs Mugabe"], 01 Aug 2004; accessed 15 November 2016.</ref>. | ||
The Zambia authorities want to cap their success by making the figure of Africa's most celebrated explorer the center piece of the town of Livingstone, where the tourist trade is booming and Donald Chikumbi, a senior official at Zambia's [[National Heritage Conservation Commission]], went asked the Foreign Office in London and the British High Commission in Lusaka to help get to the bottom of the mystery. He was said that "Ideally, we would like to have the Victoria Falls statue, but obviously we have a stronger case if we can show that it was originally in Zambia. What is clear is that Zimbabwe does not want us to have it," | The Zambia authorities want to cap their success by making the figure of Africa's most celebrated explorer the center piece of the town of Livingstone, where the tourist trade is booming and so Donald Chikumbi, a senior official at Zambia's [[National Heritage Conservation Commission]], went asked the Foreign Office in London and the British High Commission in Lusaka to help get to the bottom of the mystery. He was said that "Ideally, we would like to have the Victoria Falls statue, but obviously we have a stronger case if we can show that it was originally in Zambia. What is clear is that Zimbabwe does not want us to have it,"<ref name=FALL/>. | ||
