Monze District | |
|---|---|
 District location in Zambia | |
| Country |  Zambia |
| Province | Southern Province |
| Capital | Monze |
| Government | |
| • Council Chairperson | Powell Mutenguna |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 163,578 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (CAT) |
Monze District is a district of Zambia, located in Southern Province. The capital lies at Monze. As of the 2000 Zambian Census, the district had a population of 163,578 people. [1]
WaterAid is an international non-governmental organization, focused on water, sanitation and hygiene. It was set up in 1981 as a response to the UN International Drinking Water decade (1981–1990). As of 2018, it was operating in 34 countries.
Southern Province is one of Zambia's ten provinces, and home to Zambia's premier tourist attraction, Mosi-oa-Tunya, shared with Zimbabwe. The centre of the province, the Southern Plateau, has the largest area of commercial farmland of any Zambian province, and produces most of the maize crop.
The ten provinces of Zambia are divided into a total of 116 districts as of 2018.
Anderson K. Mazoka was a Zambian politician and President of the United Party for National Development (UPND), a leading opposition party.
Lower education in Zambia is divided into three levels and these are namely: primary, junior secondary and upper secondary. Higher education in Zambia has improved in the recent years due to the increase of private universities and colleges. The biggest university is the public University of Zambia which is located in the capital city of Lusaka along the great east road and hosts a number of local and international students. The Copperbelt University is the second largest public university and is located in the Copperbelt province of Zambia in Kitwe, and the youngest public university is Mulungushi University, with its main campus 26 km north of Kabwe. There are many other smaller universities, both public and private including the following: Texila American University, Zambia Open University, European University Zambia Zambia Catholic University, Cavendish University, Zambia Adventist University, Northrise University, University of Lusaka, Lusaka Apex Medical University, Woodlands University College, Copperstone University College, University of Barotseland, University of Africa, Information and Communication University, Kwame Nkrumah University of Education, Chalimbana University, Rusangu University, Robert Makasa University, Zambia Centre of Accountancy Studies and there are various Health training Institutes offering Diplomas in clinical medicine Registered Nursing
The Archdiocese of Lusaka is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Zambia, where it is also considered its national primatial see.
Monze is a small town in the Southern Province of Zambia and is about 180 km south-west of Lusaka. It is the administrative centre of Monze District.
This article gives lists of the National Monuments and other historic sites of Zambia, with a one- or two-line description providing links to details given on other pages.
The Kafue Flats are a vast area of swamp, open lagoon and seasonally inundated flood-plain on the Kafue River in the Southern, Central and Lusaka provinces of Zambia. They are a shallow flood plain 240 km long and about 50 km wide, flooded to a depth of less than a meter in the rainy season, and drying out to a clayey black soil in the dry season.
Chief Monze is the spiritual leader of the Tonga people of southern Zambia. The chief's palace is south of the town of Monze named after him, near a place called Gonde, where a ceremony called Lwiindi takes place. This annual festival is a thanksgiving ceremony which attracts a lot of people from around Zambia. The current Chief Monze, Chief Magunza Monze who assumed this position in 1990, is descendant of a line dating back to the 1700s.
Lwiindi is an annual festival of the Tonga people of might southern Zambia. It is a thanksgiving ceremony to appease the gods for the good rains and haverst. A number of farm produce are brought for display. The ceremony usually attracts people from around the country and outside. It takes place at a Place called Gonde, near Chief Monze's place in Monze District. The dates for this ceremony is normally, the first weekend of July during the country's Heroes and Unity holidays.
The T1 or Lusaka–Livingstone Road is the main highway of the Southern Province of Zambia. It begins 55 kilometres south of the city of Lusaka and heads south-west to the principal tourist destination, Victoria Falls in Livingstone, Southern Africa, measuring approximately 430 kilometres (267 mi). The entire route is part of Trans-African Highway network number 4 or Cairo-Cape Town Highway between Cairo and Cape Town.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Monze is a diocese located in Monze in Zambia.
Bweengwa is a constituency of the National Assembly of Zambia. It covers Bweengwa in the Monze District of Southern Province, and was originally known as Monze West.
Kasautu Saiti Michelo is a Zambian politician. He currently serves as Member of the National Assembly for Bweengwa.
William Harrison "Harry" Anderson was an American missionary for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He arrived in Africa in 1895 and established the Solusi Mission near Bulawayo, Rhodesia. Anderson and the mission survived the Second Matabele War and a 1899–1901 malaria outbreak. In 1903 he established the Rusangu Mission in the north of Rhodesia, which now hosts schools and a university. Anderson later worked in the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Angola. From 1935 to his retirement in 1945 he was employed by the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Africa Division with responsibilities stretching from Cape Town to Lake Chad.
Sister Dr Lucy O'Brien MB, MRCOG, FRCPI was an Irish missionary sister and doctor in Africa.
Events in the year 2021 in Zambia.
| Central Province | |
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| Copperbelt Province | |
| Eastern Province | |
| Luapula Province | |
| Lusaka Province | |
| Muchinga Province | |
| Northern Province | |
| North-Western Province | |
| Southern Province | |
| Western Province | |
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Coordinates: 16°00′S27°15′E / 16.000°S 27.250°E
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