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Zambia

Zambia is an east central African country. Questions about Zambia, it's people and population, capital city, rivers and lakes, official languages, country and fauna should be put in this category.

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Who founded the country Zambia?

The first president of Zambia was Dr Kenneth Kaunda, who was born in Chinsali, the Northern Province of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).

  • Kaunda was a qualified teacher and taught in a number of schools for years. In 1951, he left teaching to become Organizing Secretary of the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress for the Northern Province. In 1959, Kaunda broke away from the ANC and formed his own party, the Zambian National Congress (ZANC).

  • In 1964, Kaunda became the first president of an independent Zambia. He remained in power until 1991, when he stepped down following pressure from his own people and the international community.

  • He was succeeded by Dr Frederick Chiluba. Since stepping down as president, Kaunda has been involved in various charitable organizations.

Which countries in Africa do not border Zambia?

There are more than 50 countries on the African continent. Of these only a few actually border South Africa - Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Lesotho (which is completely landlocked by South Africa).

What are the physical and human characteristics of Zambia?

Plateau

Basins

Rivers

Waterfalls

Rift Valley

Plains

Floodplain

Lakes

How are Paraguy and Zambia similar?

One primary geographical similarity between Paraguay and Zambia is that both are landlocked countries meaning the two nations are not surrounded by any body of water.Paraguay and Zambia also lie in the southern Hemisphere.

Why did British colonize Zambia?

Because Cecil Rhodes had a vision of Great Britain governing Africa. He was a primary mover for colonisation of central Africa,

How was Zambia found?

Zambia lies in the south of Africa. Zambia shares its borders with a lot of countries. It neighbors the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west. Zambia has no coastal line.

What is surrounded by South Africa and Mozambique?

The small country of Swaziland and the Gonarezhou National / Transfrontier Park and the Kruger National/ Limpopo Park

Does Zambia have a beach?

Not beaches like on a sea, there are muddy stretches on the shores of Lake Malawi.

Is Zambia landlocked?

Yes, Zambia is landlocked. It neighbours the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west. Zambia has no coastal line.

What capital cities does the Zambezi River flow through?

The Zambezi River goes through some major cities but no capital cities.

  • Katima Mulilo (Namibia)
  • Mongu, Lukulu, Livingstone and Sesheke (Zambia)
  • Victoria Falls and Kariba (Zimbabwe)
  • Songo and Tete (Mozambique)

What are the mineral resources in Zambia and their uses?

According to the CIA factbook they are as follows:

  • coal
  • chromium ore
  • asbestos
  • gold
  • nickel
  • copper
  • iron ore
  • vanadium
  • lithium
  • tin
  • platinum group metals
  • emeralds
  • steel

I am aware that there are also diamonds all over the country; it has also been confirmed that these deposits of diamonds are amongst the biggest in the world.

Deposits of Uranium have also been discovered in the country in 2005. 60% of the land in Zimbabwe has gold deposits underneath. Towns like Kwekwe in the Midlands have been built on unquantifiable deposits of gold.

What languages are spoken in Zambia?

The main language in Zambia is English. The main African languages are Bemba, Tonga and Nyanja, although many others are spoken locally, depending on where the people come from. Many of the people living there now have come from other areas around Zambia. When I lived there the common languages on the Copperbelt were Bemba and Xhosa, ( there were many Zulu workers.) In the far north Swahili was more common. Along the southern border, Mashona is very common.

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English is the official language of Zambia, so its government, business, and education dealings are all communicated in English. However, English is not commonly spoken as the main language outside of the urban centers. Zambia has many ethnic tribal groups, so there are many languages, and each individual region of the country has its own predominant ethnic language or languages.
Zambia's national language is English!
English is the official language, and approximately 75 African languages and dialects are spoken, including Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, and Tonga.
English
English is the official language of Zambia. They also have almost 80 other regional languages.
Official =English,Bemba 36%, other regional languages like Nyenga, ChyTong & lozi.

In total about 43 languages are spoken in Zambia.
English is the most spoken, with Bemba a close second.
The estimated number is 72 with 13 dialects counting as languages making the total 85
Zambia's official language (the one which is recognised everywhere) is English; but ciLunda, ciNyanja, ciLuvale, siLozi, iciBemba, ciTonga and kiKaonde are also recognised as official languages in their home area.

When a language has no standard form it is difficult to say with certainty what is a different language, and what is only a dialect of a language known by some other name. Zambia has at least 65 distinct languages, and may have over 300 (depending on your definition of 'language').
Bemba, Nyanja, Luvale Tonga and Kaonde are spoken by people in Zambia.
The official language is English. Other recognised languages are Nyanja, Bembe and Lunda. Regional languages include Tongi, Lozi, Lovale, Kaonde and Chichewe

Is Zambezi a city?

Zambezi is a river. It has Victoria Falls.

Where is Zambia in African map?

Zambia is immediately south of DR Congo, between Angola on the west and Mozambique on the east.

Is Zambia a west African country?

No. Uganda is considered as a developing country. Although it has had a large economic growth in recent decades the country still faces widespread poverty and corruption. Despite this, it's economy is one of the most stable in the poor East African region but the country heavily depends on Kenya for access to international markets. The country has a low HDI (Human Development Index) ranked 143rd out of 169 nations. I guess this makes Uganda a poor country.

Which country is between South Africa and Zambia?

Following the coast there is the country of Liberia. It does not cover the entire area between both countries, north of Liberia is Guinea. http://www.travelnotes.org/Africa/images/africa2.gif Is that the kind of map you are looking for?

What are the major cities in Zambia?

Lusaka, Ndola and Kitwe are the major cities.

Were Zambia and Malawi colonies of France?

Yes, Zambia was at one time a colony of a European power. During the Berlin Conference, the Europeans divided up Africa and its people for their own benefit. They were trying to obtain the resources there, and so they gave the people no say.

What is the point of view of the story train from rhodesia?

A train is heading toward a small, rural station in Southern Africa. The area around the station is impoverished, as are the people who live there. In the station, the stationmaster, the venders, and the children prepare for the train's arrival.

The train, from the white, considerably more wealthy area of Rhodesia, approaches the station. A young white woman stretches out of the train's window to look at a carved lion that an old African man has to sell. The poor villagers flock to the windows of the train, selling items or begging for handouts from the other passengers. Children ask for pennies. Dogs and hens surround the dining car waiting for scraps. One girl throws out chocolates - "the hard kind, that no one liked" - but the hens get them before the dogs do.

The young woman decides the lion is too expensive: three shillings and sixpence. Her husband thinks the price is preposterous also, but his wife urges him to stop bargaining with the old man. She withdraws from the window to sit in the compartment across the train's corridor. She thinks about the lion she has not purchased and all the other similar carvings she has already bought: bucks, hippos, and elephants. She wonders how these items, which have come to represent the unreality of her honeymoon trip, will fit in at home and what meaning they will take on in her everyday life. She realizes that she has been subconsciously thinking that her new husband was part of this unreality, as if he would vanish as soon as the honeymoon ends.

The bell rings in the station, and the stationmaster prepares the train to leave. As the train starts moving on the track, the old man with the lion runs alongside it, offering the carving for "one-and-six" - only a fraction of what he had asked for before. The husband tosses the money out the window and the old man throws the lion to him. As the train leaves the station, the old man is standing, holding the shilling and sixpence he has picked up from the ground.

The young man enters the compartment where his wife sits, pleased with having obtained the lion figure for so little, and hands it to her. Though she admires its finely crafted features and the ruff of fur around its neck, she holds it away from her. She is dismayed at this purchase because it represents the humiliation her husband has forced upon the old African. She demands to know why he did not pay a fair price for it. He protests that she herself had said it was too expensive. The young woman throws the lion onto the seat in frustration.

A sense of shame engulfs her as she thinks of the price. She feels an emptiness inside herself. She has felt this way before but mistakenly thought it came from being alone too much; now she knows that is not true. The empty feeling is tied up with her new husband and their differing value systems. Her husband is sprawled out on the seat and she remains with her back toward him. The abandoned lion has fallen into a corner.

What problems does Zambia face?

1. HIV/AIDS

2. Children don't finish school as from year 7 there are fees. since they don't finish school they cannot get a good job to support their families, so they stay poor.

3. Poverty

4. Cannot support the rapid population growth

What is a zip code for ndola Zambia?

Zambia does not have zip codes. It has postal codes. 00260

Who colonized Zambia?

Cecil John Rhodes and the British colonized Rhodesia in 1890 until 1980.

What are the sources of law in Zambia?

Where does Business Law come from?

The sources of business law are the same as law in general, most of the civil law is what is related to business. There are also some elements of criminal law which are related to business although these, hopefully, are not extensive in any normal business.( Yunus)

Sources of business law

The law is a body of principles established by Parliament and by the courts. Law is therefore made by us, the men and women who are parliamentarians and judges for us, it is legally enforceable and has developed to a set of standards of conduct between people, businesses and government. If these standards of conduct are not followed, the law sorts the conflict that arises, and punishes those who breach the standards of conduct. The law is made up of enacted law which is the law made by Parliament known as statute law, legislation or Acts of Parliament and delegated legislation. I'd enacted law other judgments usually written, of judges in cases heard by them, known as case law precedent or sometimes common-law. Together they enacted law and I'm enacted law are often known as the common law.

The common law as an expression has four possible meanings which depend upon the particular context. The law made common to the whole of England by the King in 1154 instead of law only by local application. The next meeting is the only enacted law written by judges in judgement such as case law and precedents compared to the statute law enacted by Parliament. Both case law and the common law courts and statute law, as distinct from equity which has been developed separately from the time of the 13th century. The fourth meaning is the law which originally developed in England and later in Australia, New Zealand, most states of the United States, and the other former British colonies, as opposed to foreign law of non-English jurisdictions. One subset of foreign law is the civil law of continental Europe. As the common law develops in each jurisdiction, it results in the development of the common law of Australia in the same way that there is a common law of St England or Canada. The common law winning enacted statute that only enacted case law can be classified as either civil or criminal.

Civil law enforcement as between person and person regarding the enforcement of rights and the carrying out of obligations. Most of the business law topics involve civil law which a civil cases resulting in remedies for the person winning and liabilities of the person losing. Criminal law includes all statute in case law which make certain conduct an offence. Criminal law is enforced by the government and other federal state or territory level. Civil law is the common law and is not the same as the civil law in some countries, mostly in Europe, which is based on the civilian code of ancient Rome.