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Benz 2528 6×4 Tipper

Benz 2528 Tipper

Date posted 23-Sep-2013 Reference No. BTP – 01    SOLD   Make:              Benz Model:             2528 Body Type:     Tipper Cab:                Day Axles:              6×4             Year:  …

Kitwe Poetry Corner – School Village

Barney Kanjela and Moddy Muponisi 2

These poems were recited at our Kitwe Poetry Night on 22 March, 2013 at Kitwe Little Theatre.   SCHOOL VILLAGE BOY By John Kapesa and recited by Moddy Muponisi   Country boy in the villa On foot, bare his feet he trudges In bottom torn khaki shorts He runs to school Seeking classic recognition Country…

Pumpkin Leaves (Musampala) Recipe

Mundyoli dish - kitweonline

TODAY’S RECIPE IS A TASTY TRADITIONAL VEGETABLE MUSAMPALA. Musampala is made out of pumpkin leaves and is eaten mainly by the Lenje tribe found in central Zambia. Pumpkin leaves are washed, cut and cooked for a few minutes in salty water.After that they’re dried in the sun for about a month. YOU WILL NEED: 500 grams musampala…

SHE – Lynda Wangongo

Lynda Wangongo - kitweonline

MEET LYNDA WANGONGO / WHISTANCE My name is Lynda Wangongo/Whistance.  I first came to Kitwe in 1975 as an expatriate with my children and husband who was to work for ZCCM.  It took me 6 months to settle in but from then onwards I loved Kitwe as a second home. I got involved through my…

Introducing KUMWESU (Our Place) Entertainment

Kumwesu

KUMWESU, meaning OUR PLACE, is a half-hour lifestyle and entertainment magazine program that showcases the African lifestyle from across the continent. The aim of KUMWESU is to inform, entertain and update viewers on the new young emerging Africa, a continent driven by our ever growing entertainment, tourism and business industries. We cover major events such…

Kitwe City Council Website

Kitwe City Council Website

Let us build us a website. Kitwe City Council (KCC) has got a website that is up and running, Kitwe City Council. This is a welcome development. The site is not running at 100% yet, but if you go and have a look, you will see that it promises to provide a lot of useful…

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…

Ngosa’s Twitter Shame

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Letters From a Retired Miner Greetings to all my friends who read this. This week I was very happy when my grandson, Alex Bwembya Mwenda , came to visit me from Kitwe. We sat down and I asked him: “Tell me, how are you?” “I am well, granddad” he replied, “Mum and dad are well.…