It offers Zambian Standard syllabus and Cambridge curriculum.

It offers the Zambian syllabus.

Elim Primary School is a small school that provides pre-school and primary school following a Zambian Standard syllabus ( mainly Macmillan and Longman ), and provides the basic facilities in swimming and athletics four times a week.

St. Johns Convent School is one of the largest Catholic schools in the province, a convent school that provides pre-school, primary and secondary teaching following a Zambian syllabus and providing some facilities such as athletics, swimming, basketball, rugby, football, chess, and softball.

* 18 October-According to an Engineering News report, a 700 km extension of the Grootfontein branch is planned, to Katima Mulilo on the Zambian border.

So it is very likely they were visiting Zambian territory between 1720 and 1820.

In 1851 he started his famous exploration of the upper Zambezi River, and in 1855 he became the first European to see Mosi-oa-Tunya, the waterfalls on the Zambezi River, which he named after Queen Victoria, and the Zambian town near the falls is named after him.

The executive branch of Zambian government is filled by an elected president.

The Zambian vice-president is appointed by the president.

There is a downside to such imports, however ; the massive importation of used clothing from the developed world has resulted in a near-total collapse of the Zambian indigenous textile industry.

The Zambian Air Force is a small air force equipped with Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MFs and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19S in addition to a range of transport aircraft and helicopters.

It is encouraging that the railway on the Angolan side will reach the border by next year ,” said Keith Mukata, Zambian Deputy Minister for Commerce, Trade, and Industry.

According to African popular belief ( mainly in the Zambian / Zimbabwean region ), the meerkat is also known as the sun angel, as it protects villages from the moon devil or the werewolf which is believed to attack stray cattle or lone tribesmen.

The tune is taken from the hymn ( God Bless Africa ), which was composed by a South African, Enoch Sontonga, in 1897, the lyrics were composed at or near Zambian independence to specifically reflect Zambia, as opposed to Sontonga's lyrics which refer to Africa as a whole.

Water transport is less used on the Zambian side, except to Kilwa Island, Isokwe Island and Chisenga Island ( in the Luapula swamps ).

It is distinct from the other Sotho – Tswana languages due to heavy linguistic influences from Luyaana, and possibly other Zambian and Caprivi languages.

An urban variety of Nyanja, sometimes called Town Nyanja, is the lingua franca of the Zambian capital Lusaka and is widely spoken as a second language throughout Zambia.

This is a distinctive Nyanja dialect with some features of Nsenga, although the language also incorporates large numbers of English-derived words, as well as showing influence from other Zambian languages such as Bemba.

There are also many lagoons, the largest of which is Mofwe Lagoon on the Zambian side.

Kariba is a town in Mashonaland West province, Zimbabwe, located close to the Kariba Dam at the northwestern end of Lake Kariba, near the Zambian border.

Traditional Zambian music is rooted in the beliefs and practices of Zambia's various ethnic groups and has suffered some decline in the last three decades.

Ngoma is the generic central African term for drum but Zambian drums come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and purposes and have specific names depending on their tribal origins and functional roles.

A unique hybrid form of Zambian music is found in the so-called " banjo " tradition.

The Zambian " banjo " ( pronounced ' bahn-jo ') is essentially a homemade guitar.

Popular influences can also be heard in the newer repertory, some of which is borrowed from urban contemporary gospel, some from so-called " contemporary Christian music " from the United States, and some from Zambian popular idioms.

The influence of Euro-American hymnody is also evident in the music of many Zambian congregations.

Ralph Freeman, the bridge's designer, was also the structural designer on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and consequently the two bridges bear a close resemblance, although Birchenough is only two-thirds as long as the Australian bridge. Ralph Freeman also designed the bridge over the Zambezi at Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe / Zambian border.

The shade of green used in the 1964 flag was replaced with a brighter and lighter green and the eagle was slightly altered so as to be more like the one used in the Zambian coat of arms.

The fact that the standard Nyanja used in schools differs dramatically from the variety actually spoken in Lusaka has been identified as a barrier to the acquisition of literacy among Zambian children.

Contemporary popular forms such as Zambian Kalindula also exhibit traces of traditional music in the finger-picking style used by guitarists.

Zambian banjos are used in kalindula bands throughout Zambia.

Zambian Airways used to serve the following destinations when it operated:

New Highfield was established in 1956 and comprises Lusaka, named after the Zambian capital, a testimony to a significant part of its population who are of Zambian and Malawian origin ; Egypt, Jerusalem and Canaan named after biblical places ; Engineering ; Cherima ( Dark Zone ) used to be off the electricity grid ; Zororo ( place of rest ); and Western Triangle which literary forms a triangle to the west where Highfield border with Glen Norah and Glen View.

Mongu Airport is mainly used by the Zambian Air Force and the United Nations to transport Angolan Refugees back to Angola.

The Lewanika name is used as part of a family name, for instance by Lewanika II's children Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika, a Zambian statesman and Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika, an ambassador of the Republic of Zambia in the United States.

Chona's task was to make recommendations for a new Zambian constitution which would effecively reduce the nation to a oneparty state.

Indicating in 2001 that he would not run for a third term, Chissano criticized leaders who stayed on longer than he had, which was generally seen as a reference to Zambian president Frederick Chiluba, who at the time was considering a third term, and Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, then in his fourth term.

The Zambian African National Congress won 10 seats, and the National Progressive Party won all the 10 seats reserved for whites.

The reason for this was that the Zambian economy was heavily dependent on the copper industry, which had previously been nationalised.

In retaliation for the shooting down of Flight 825 in September 1978, Rhodesian Air Force attacked the ZIPRA guerrilla base at Westlands farm near Lusaka in October 1978, warning Zambian forces by radio not to interfere.

The major figure in Zambian politics from 1964 to 1991 was Kenneth Kaunda, who led the fight for independence and successfully bridged the rivalries among the country's various regions and ethnic groups.

In January 2003, the Zambian Government informed the International Monetary Fund and World Bank that it wished to renegotiate some of the agreed performance criteria calling for privatization of the Zambia National Commercial Bank and the national telephone and electricity utilities.

Lack of balance-of-payment support meant the Zambian government did not have resources for capital investment and periodically had to issue bonds or otherwise expand the money supply to try to meet its spending and debt obligations.

Zambia's support for the various liberation movements also caused problems for the Zambian economy, since it was heavily dependent on electricity supply and transportation through South Africa and Rhodesia.

In April 2012, according to newspaper reports, the Zambian government " has issued a permit to North-West Railway Company ( NWR ) for construction of the 554km railway line from Chingola to Jimbe on the Angolan border ".

The name derives from the Nyanja and Bemba word for " dawn ", alluding to the Zambian nationalist slogan of a " new dawn of freedom ".

The Currency Act of 1967 replaced the Zambian pound, shilling, pence currency for new kwacha and ngwee currency.

This situation caused some embarrassment for the Zambian government later when it was a " front line state " in support of insurgents into Rhodesia in that its major source of electric power was controlled by the Rhodesian state.

* Zambia: Council for Zambian Jewry

Several Americans have been detained by the Zambian Drug Enforcement Commission for possession of Benadryl and other over-the-counter medications containing diphenhydramine.

Green stands for the nation's lush flora, red for the nation's struggle for freedom, black for the Zambian people, and orange for the land's natural resources and mineral wealth.

* Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula ( 1917 ?- 1983 ), Zambian nationalist leader who assisted in the struggle for the independence of Northern Rhodesia.

* James John Skinner, former Zambian Minister for Justice and Chief Justice of Malawi.