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unusual facts about Zambian


Cristina de Middel

De Middel self-published The Afronauts in 2012, a photobook about the short-lived Zambian space program in Southern Africa.


Ashious Melu

Melu played as a striker and was top goal scorer in the Zambian league in 1983, scoring 43 goals in all competitions with most of them scored from distance and free-kicks, and winning the Footballer of the Year award.

Bank of Baroda

BoB (20%), Bank of India (20%), Central Bank of India (20%) and ZIMCO (Zambian government; 40%) established Indo-Zambia Bank in Lusaka.

Brightwell Banda

The following year, Banda became the first Zambian to sign a full-time contract as national team coach when he signed a three-year deal and he underlined this when Zambia demolished Cameroun 4-1 in Lusaka in a World Cup qualifier and went through to the next round after a 1-1 draw in Yaoundé in the second leg.

Chaswe Nsofwa

His funeral was attended by former president Frederick Chiluba as well as several members of the Zambian national squad.

Chisamba

:for the Zambian footballer see Chisamba Lungu

Dennis Banda

Dennis Banda (born 10 December 1988 in Lusaka) is a Zambian football defender who currently plays for Green Buffaloes in Zambia.

Ellen Lendra Hight

Ellen Lendra Hight (born February 13, 1981 in Kalulushi) is a Zambian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.

Ghost Mulenga

Buseko also produced other great Zambian stars like Bernard Chanda and Patrick Phiri.

Gilbert Choombe

Gilbert Choombe (born 7 March 1992 in Choma, Zambia) is a Zambian boxer.

Human trafficking in Malawi

Requests to work with other governments are handled on an ad hoc, informal basis, especially between district officials in Mchinji and officials across the Zambian border.

James Skinner

James John Skinner (1923–2008), Irish-born Zambian and Malawian jurist

Jean Bosco Mwenda

Bosco was born in 1930 at Bunkeya, a village near Likasi (then called Jadotville), Haut-Katanga District in then Belgian Congo, but lived most of his life in Lubumbashi, where in addition to playing music he had a job in a bank and with the local mining company, managed other bands, and owned a hotel on the Zambian border.

Jeannie Ritter

As lay missionaries with the Catholic Church, they trucked 60 tons of food a month from the Zambian capital 400 miles to their depot in Mongu.

Jim Whitley

Born in Ndola, Zambia to a Zambian mother and Irish father, Whitley originally wished to become a golfer.

Madalitso Muthiya

He took up golf at the age of six and at fifteen he caught the attention of Zambian president Frederick Chiluba, who helped to arrange for him to play a junior tournament in the United States, the 1999 Nolan Henke/Patty Berg Junior Masters in Fort Myers, Florida.

Mambwe

Patrick Mambwe (born 1944), a Zambian boxer of the 1960s and '70s

Mushaukwa Mukunyandela

In October 2003, he was honoured by the late Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa with the Order of Distinguished Service, First Division.

Rhodesian Armoured Corps

The regiment took part in a number of static but intense battles, notably at Mount Selinda against Mocambiquan Frelimo Forces (where a Bronze Cross was awarded to 2nd Lieutenant Rae) in 1977 and at Chirundu in October 1978, where heavy-machine gun, artillery and mortar duels took place between D Squadron and elements of the Zambian Army over a period of three days and nights near the Otto Beit Bridge.

Roald Poulsen

He returned to Odense BK in 1996, and brought with him Zambian internationals Mwape Miti and Andrew Tembo.

Tasila Mwale

Tasila first came to the public eye when she won the Zambian version of the Pop Idol competition, 'MNet Idols Zambia'.

Thamsanqa Dube

On 1 January 2006, Dube knocked out a Zambian heavyweight, Joseph "Ramos" Phiri, in a 12-round contest at the Bulawayo Polytechnic College.

Theo Thomson

He has collaborated with Malawian artists like Tay Grin, on his track ‘Maybe This May Be Love’ from his new yet-to-be released album ‘Nyau King’ and on the song ‘One Love One Heart’ by Tapps Bandawe that also features Nigerian artist, 2face Idibia and Zambian K’millian.

Tolomeo Mwansa

When his father retired from the mine in Kitwe, the family moved to Mufulira in 1959 and the following year, Mwansa joined Mufulira Mine Team whose name changed to Mufulira Wanderers in 1962 when the Zambian National Football League (NFL) was formed.

World Cricket League Africa Region

The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in September 2008 in Lusaka, Zambia but was rescheduled to South Africa just before the original tournament started due to the death of the Zambian President.

Zambian Defence Force

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.

U.S. State Department International Military Education and Training records from FY-2006 indicate a Zambian officer attended from 64 Armoured Regiment at Mikongo Barracks, east Lusaka.

The Zambian Defence Force (ZDF) consists of the Zambia Army, the Air Force, and Zambian National Service (ZNS).

Zeddy

Zeddy Saileti (born 1969), Zambian football (soccer) player then coach


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