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Chingola to SOLWEZI ¦¦ Bus trip
Solwezi is 170Km from Chingola.
I visited Solwezi for the first time and enjoyed the ride
Theres a lot of mining activity in North Western province at Kansanshi, Lumwana and Kalumbila mines.
Solwezi leads on to Kasempa, Zambezi, Chavuma and Mwinilunga among other places.
Solwezi, Zambia Market
Exploring Solwezi Market in Zambia.
Copper mines in Zambia - Straight through Africa
Trade is better than aid for Africa. They say. In a journey through copper thieves and mine barons in the north of Zambia, Bram Vermeulen investigates the truth behind that slogan.
From a distance they look like ants, the hundreds of men digging holes in the rubble slopes of an old copper mine in Zambia. They are looking for copper ore in the walls of the enormous pit, without wearing helmets and without reinforcing the walls of their caves. Life-threatening, of course. But they find enough to live on. Is it legal, Bram asks. They laugh about it. No of course not. But the Chinese buyer does not really ask where they get their ore from. You just have to leave when the guards of the mine come.
How different is it in a huge copper mine in full operation. Huge machines drive off and on. Sirens sound regularly, followed by explosions. Here, 300,000 tons of stone are moved every day, and the copper ore from it yields a profit of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. But it is a foreign company that raises that money. And if the productivity gets too low after about twenty years, the investors will move on.
From the air it is easy to see how far-reaching it all is. The mine takes big chores out of the country and turns huge plains into a kind of lunar landscape. But other changes are also visible. Houses, schools, a golf course. Prosperity, therefore, emphasizes a mine boss. Seven years ago this was still a dull provincial town, and now look!
A little further on the big changes are about to begin. There is a giant copper mine here, and for that an area of no less than four hundred square kilometers is expropriated. The new owners promise economic prosperity. Did not a city like Johannesburg also start out as a simple mine?
Naturally, people living in the area can not stay. They have worked the land for generations, but they can not show ownership documents. They have not been asked anything. They do get compensation for their houses, chickens and fruit trees, but not for the ground. Everything under the ground is state property, says a representative of the mining company, and that is what the state can rent out to us. Residents who do not want to leave are squatters who violate the law from that moment on. Even though they were born and lived there all their lives.
Those former residents are moved to neat new houses outside the area. With toilet, and bigger than the previous house, but without land to grow food. Some of them seem satisfied with that. Most do not. 'In Africa, land has sentimental value. You are no one without land, 'says one of them. So you're destroying these people. They will not pass on anything to the next generation.
Episode 6. Copper fever
For Africa, trade is better than aid, or so they say. On a journey to copper thieves and mine bosses, Bram Vermeulen investigates the truth behind the slogan.
Director: Doke Romeijn and Stefanie de Brouwer
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A day in my life in Solwezi at Georgies. Solwezi has got a lot of amazing places to visit. ????????
I went kayaking during the visit to Georgies, the video is below.
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Solwezi Road & North-Western province, Zambia
Solwezi is the provincial heaquarters of the North-Western Province of Zambia. It is approximately 170 Km from Chingola.
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NDOLA & SOLWEZI ROADS
LM On Some Bad Ndola & Terrible Solwezi Roads in late 2018. Ndola is the capital of the Copperbelt Province & was my favourite city. It was well designed too. Solwezi is a small provincial town & is the capital of North Western Province. It has been home to three copper mines; namely: Kansanshi mine (the 8th big copper mine in the world), Lumwana mine & Kalumbila mine (which has now fallen under the newly & politically created Kalumbila District). Its township roads are mainly not tarred. I hope my video will give anyone who has never been to these two places have a little idea about these areas. More videos of Ndola & other Zambian places to follow. Below, plse, watch one of my Lusaka video ( if you’ve not yet watched it.
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Jupres Executive Lodge Solwezi
Whenever you come to solwezi remember to book at Jupres Executive Lodge.
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My drive through tour of Zambia in 2016 showing the main arteries of Lusaka, Copperbelt and North Western Provinces.
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Ndola
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