Invitation for a ZNBC meeting with local content producers in Kitwe On behalf of ZNBC, we wish to invite seasoned and established production houses from Coppebelt and Northwestern Province and surrounding areas for the ZNBC meeting with the local content producers. The national broadcaster, through the Head Media and Creative Services Mr. Masuzyo Ndhlovu, wishes…
Kitwe, Zambia – 8 January 2018 SOTAMBE Documentary Film and Arts Festival (SOTAMBE DFAF) is a five day event held annually in the month of September with the main objective of educating and raising awareness on social issues through film and arts. It serves as a platform for: Learning institutions that want to use documentaries,…
It is not every day that we come across a song that has so much back story and tugs at your heart strings. “Live in This Moment” is such a song. A debut song by London-based Kakou hits all the right notes. It is a serene love song that celebrates love between two people. It…
The SOTAMBE Documentary Film & Arts Festival (SOTAMBE DFAF) is a non-governmental and non-profit making organization that is organized in the Copperbelt Province in collaboration with the Department of Development Studies at the Zambia Catholic University and the Kitwe Little Theatre. This year’s festival is the third edition in the Copperbelt and it is happening…
Zambia’s mineral rich Copperbelt continues to reveal new deposits of other precious metals. The population of its ten districts is now approaching 2.5 million people. Lufwanyama and Mpongwe are the largest districts. Mpongwe boasts some of the region’s largest commercial farms. The following figures are based on the 2015 Population Census figures: Table 1 District…
Kitwe City/Kaunda/Coronation Square – 24 November 2014 Kitwe has changed over the years. Photographs are an interesting way to show and compare these changes. If you are visiting Kitwe after some time, you will notice how congested the town centre has become. This is one reason the City Council has laid out plans to open up land across…
An Empty Grave(Cenotaph) at Kaunda Square There was no Facebook, Twitter or other Social Media, so the civic leaders of Kitwe City Council carved a message in stone in the middle of Kaunda Square(formerly known as Coronation Square). A cenotaph was erected outside the Kitwe Civic Centre when it was still located in what is now…
When I was a little boy, my father and mother never gave me a Christmas present. Nobody in my village got Christmas presents. Not even the chief. If you think my parents did not love me, it is because you did not know Bana Bwembya and Bashi Bwembya the way I knew them. No. It…
KITWE CHANGES What is Mutondo house now? Just in between the Kitwe Civic centre and ZIBSIP College, is a two-storey building laced with copper rails around its entrance. If you go further inside you would notice that all door handles are made of pure copper. Mutondo house was the name of this massive former ZCCM…
Letters From a Retired Miner – 12 I want to talk about what happened one day when I went to visit my son in Kitwe. My son Bwembya has given me a granddaughter. Her name is Maria Fostina Bwembya. I am very proud of her. I was looking forward to seeing her with her brother…
