Archive for the '2001-01' Category

So Just Where Do Our Petro-Kwachas Go?

Motorists throughout Zambia are still reeling from the sudden increases in the cost of fuel, both petrol and diesel, and the domino effect throughout the entire Zambian economy. Confusion abounds about the reason for this – is it because the fuel is being imported as a finished product rather than being refined at Indeni, is […]

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Getting To Print

Each month as I finish putting the Lowdown together, I feel deflated and apprehensive, when I should be delighted that the job is almost complete and I can relax for a day or two before I have to start on the next issue. The reason for this is quite simply that I dread the drive […]

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Our Trip To Treetops

The following article has been compiled using excerpts from diaries of students of Baobab College who visited Treetops schools camp during last October.  This was the first trip for a group of ten to twelve year olds. “Before the trip I was so excited that I could not sleep! I stayed up the whole night. […]

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Always Check The Date

We had a call from one of our readers recently who had noticed that the sell-by-date on the imported Vienna sausages being sold by one of our major supermarkets was long past.  This reader brought it to the attention of the management who duly removed all those sausages from the refrigerator.  However, on her next […]

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Delhi One -To – One

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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Restaurant Review

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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Restaurant Review

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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Mazabuka News

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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Waterfalls Of The North

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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Book Review

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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Time To Get Off Your …..

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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Those Dreaded Functions

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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Readers Have Their Say

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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