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10 unusual facts about Southern Province


André Kagwa Rwisereka

Rwisereka was born on 31 December 1949 in Rusenge, Nyaruguru, Southern Province, Rwanda.

Bindi Hindowa Samba

Bindi Hindowa Samba is a Sierra Leonean paramount chief of Bo District, one of the four districts that make up the Southern Province.

Dominique Mbonyumutwa

On November 1st 1959, when he was still a "sous-chef" (equivalent to mayor today), he got attacked and slapped by a group of uncontrolled Tutsi youth at Byimana in the Southern Province.

Kalindula

In the Southern Province of Zambia, kalindula bands compete to participate in the annual Tonga Music Festival sponsored by Chikuni Radio station.

Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena

Abeywardana was born in 1955 to a prominent political family in Matara District, in Southern Province, where his father held local and provincial leadership positions.

Manil Mendis

However it caused much humiliation to the government as Galle was the provincial capital of the Southern Province, the home province of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Mashombe Blue Jeans

Mashombe Blue Jeans is one of a number of kalindula ensembles from the Southern Province of Zambia.

Mulobezi Railway

The Mulobezi Railway (once known as the Zambezi Sawmills Railway) was constructed to carry timber from Mulobezi to Livingstone in the Southern Province of Zambia, when the country was Northern Rhodesia.

Southern Province, Zambia

The south-western border with Western Province runs through the teak forests around Mulobezi which once supported a commercial timber industry and for which the Mulobezi Railway was built.

The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka

The boys (while in detention) plot revenge on Jimbo and Ned by making bogus videos of the legendary "Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka", which Jimbo and Ned then air on Huntin' and Killin.


Handunugoda Tea Estate

Handunugoda Tea Estate is a family owned plantation in Tittagalla, Ahangama within the Southern Province, Sri Lanka.

Kisimi Kamara

Kisimi Kamara was born in 1890 in the village of Vaama, Pujehun District in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone to a Kuranko father and a Mandingo mother.

Kothduwa temple

The island is located in Galle District of the Southern Province approximately 35 kilometres north of Galle and 88 kilometres south of Colombo.

Lusaka–Livingstone road

The Lusaka–Livingstone Road or Livingstone Road is the main highway of the Southern Province of Zambia from the capital, Lusaka, to the principal tourist destination, Livingstone, Southern Africa.

Shantha Kottegoda

Kottegoda was born to S. H. P. Kottegoda and Sheela Kottegoda on 6 November 1949, in Kottegoda, Matara, in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka.