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My Last Year at Kitwe Boys High School – 1964

George Lazarevic - kitweonline

REFLECTIONS LEADING TO MY LAST YEAR AT KITWE BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL 1964 Scholar occupation of the newly built school took place in 1957 with the then head master Mr J Hall. Initially the school was a co-education one, with building of the proposed Girls’ High School, next door, having been ‘completed’ in 1959 but it was only…

Kitwe Soccer Legends – Jericho Shinde

football

A Meeting With Jericho Shinde   One of Zambia’s most creative Midfielders of the 1980’s, Jericho Shinde lives a quiet life now after having coaching stints at Nkana, Kabwe Warriors and Kalulushi Modern Stars. This writer caught up with Jericho at a restaurant in Kitwe’s heavy industrial area. The place used to be a post…

Down Memory Lane – Sheila Fitzpatrick

Kitwe town center

I lived in Kitwe from 1967 to 1972 with my husband and two daughters. My third daughter was born there in 1971. We lived on Geddes Street. Got quite nostalgic reading all the names. There were some streets in alphabetical order called after Irish towns and cities. We loved it while we were there and…

Down Memory Lane – Kingston Bookshop, Kitwe

Kitwe City Square-North East view-KitweOnLine

What is where Kingston Bookshop was? Kitwe changes. If you have been gone from Kitwe for over 17 years now, you will find some places have changed their names. Other places have not just changed names and ownership, but also their structural outlook. Do you remember Kingston? Kingston was one of largest distributor of Books…

KOMBE to Premier at Kitwe Little Theatre

KOMBE - movie poster - kol

Finally, the long wait is over for a movie made in Kitwe and directed by George Howard Musonda. Written by John Katebe, KOMBE in  is a film about a man who does not treasure his wife as a partner and about what it takes to persuade him to re-examine his views.   KOMBE is a Zambian movie…

Kitwe Bus and Taxi Fares – 2014

Volvo 9900 coach bus

  The following are revised prices to reflect the recent rebasing of the Zambian currency. The new currency is basically three zeros less than the old currency (K1,000 is now K1). The fares are usually adjusted as indicated below, whenever there is an upward movement in the price of fuel: Minibus fares      …

Video of Kitwe in the 1960s

Kitwe in 1960s video - kitweonline

A Video from the Huntley Film Collection The Huntley Film Archive Collection is a private UK library of documentary film dating back to 1895 and contains varied footage from the United Kingdom and the rest of the world. There are over 80,000 titles. This archive includes, among others, footage from Northern Rhodesia(now Zambia), Southern Rhodesia…

SHE – Meet BECKY

Wedding day

.. .. MEET BECKY “God has blessed me,” says Rabecca.  She is 23 years old, married and recently had her first baby.  She is the youngest in a family of 8 siblings.  She lost both parents while quite young and has worked hard to get to where she is today. She spent her childhood in…

Bridging Kitwe Communities

Nkana East - Ndeke Village Bridge_Kitwe

Nkana East and Ndeke Village communities have always lived apart yet the distance between the two communities is a mere one kilo metre and six hundred metres. The communities are separated by the railway line and two streams. One stream runs close to houses along Mwenda Street from the foot of the tailings dam in…

SHE – Women of Kitwe – 20.09.2013

Kutemba Muchima

.. .. MEET Kutemba Muchima Kutemba Muchima, born from Obed Julaki Muchima and Joyce Mwangu Muchima on the 14th July 1983, is the second last born in a family she can only describe as a tree with branches. With her biological parents deceased, she says God has blessed her with a second set of parents…