A delegation from Zambia recently traveled to New Delhi, India to the Progress, Harmony and Development Chambers of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) Invest-Meet forum which was followed up with a series of one-to-one meetings. Also at the meeting were delegations from Namibia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria Kenya Algeria and Uganda. Speakers from Indian Oil […]
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The Other Side Of Delhi
New Delhi, the capital of India, can best be described as a city of organised chaos. A visitor to this huge metropolis of between ten and fifteen million people can only marvel at the never-ending energy of the people which is reflected by the traffic that starts at 5 am and continues through to midnight […]
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St Elmo’s With thirteen children for my daughter’s birthday sleepover, we decided that lunch at St Elmo’s, the new pizza joint in Kabulonga would be a good idea – the kids would enjoy it, and we could relax until their respective parents picked them up at 3 pm. We hadn’t booked a table, which was […]
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Voodoo Lounge With Christmas just around the corner, it was time to make arrangements for a Christmas lunch for the Lowdown Bunch and for one of the ladies from Businet, downstairs (Paul was too miserable to give both of them time off!). Always hardworking, we agreed that this should be at one of the new […]
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A Sweet Year For Zambia Sugar The sweetest place in the whole of Zambia was sweeter still when it was announced towards the end of November that a new all time record of over two hundred and nine thousand tonnes of sugar had been produced by Zambia Sugar. .”We have two hundred and nine thousand, […]
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There are several booklets about the many waterfalls in Zambia as well as a diary written and illustrated by well-known Zambian artist, Quentin Allen. Here is a small report on another waterfall tour in Zambia’s Northern and Luapula provinces. Travelling from Lusaka, the first falls you could visit, after turning right at the signpost shortly […]
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Bill Bryson, Extraordinary Author Born and brought up in America, Bryson moved to England in his late twenties and lived in North Yorkshire with his English wife and four children, before returning to America after nearly two decades. His reason for this decision was to give his wife a chance to shop until 10 […]
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Anyone planning to travel in ‘cattle’ class on an inter-continental flight anticipates, with dread, the discomfort as a result of the cramped legroom on modern aircraft, just as I did on a recent trip to Washington, where the cheapest way of getting there was to route via Johannesburg and Paris. On the Johannesburg – Paris […]
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Have you ever tried to throw that perfect party to mark a memorable occasion? Like your child’s first birthday, or your parents’ surprise 50th anniversary? Or perhaps even your own wedding, or a business function. These can be complicated enough to plan, but what more if you want to do something a little different or creative […]
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My husband and myself wanted to visit Manda Hill to do some Christmas shopping and decided to try the Pearl Haven Inn for our two night stop over. On arrival we filled in the usual forms, was shown to the deluxe room which wasn’t too bad, apart from the door which left old scars of […]
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The unsightly billboards which we wrote about in Blot On The Landscape, our lead article in November issue of Lusaka Lowdown, have been removed and the roundabout is once again aesthetically pleasing. We have been congratulated by many who feel that they were taken down as a result of this article, but much as we […]
Read the rest of this entry »Lusaka’s Brownfields
Brownfields, are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. In Lusaka, we have our own brownfields – areas in residential and commercial zones which, only a few years ago, were green, peaceful areas within the city limits where one could escape the […]
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Mini buses, mainly owned by individuals, are the main means of transportation for most Zambians in Lusaka and other parts of the country. There are five major stations in Lusaka for boarding and disembarking from buses. These are Kulima Tower, at the south end of Freedom Way; Katondo in Katondo Street, opposite Good Hope Enterprises; […]
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Lusaka’s residents are being inundated with places to eat. Four new restaurants opened in Lusaka during November, and an old one, Danny’s & Memories of China has reopened. We will be reviewing these restaurants over the next few months. If you drive along Katima Mulilo Road in Roma, past Zambezi Road, you will find La […]
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Visages by Francois d’Elbee Visages, a book of photographs by Francois d’Elbee, was launched in Lusaka on 17 November. It comprises a collection of studio photographs of Zambian personalities, with short biographies on each, in both English and French. The collection tells many stories, as each character exposes their outer self, but most importantly it shows […]
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