Lundazi

Lundazi is a place in Zambia, with around 11,637 inhabitants ( 2006 estimate ). It is the seat of the administration of the district of the same with 236 833 inhabitants ( 2000 census ) and is located east of the Luangwa in the Eastern Province of Zambia near the border with Malawi. Through the village leads the largely paved road from Chipata to Isoka. Lundazi is as important to shop.

Policy

Lundazi is situated in rural surroundings. An agreement between Malawi and Zambia will convert the Nyika Plateau in both countries, Vwaza Marsh Game Reserve and Kasungu National Park in Malawi with the forest reserves of Lundazi, Mitenge, Mikuti, the Musa - Langu - hunting ground and the Lukusuzi National Park Zambia in transboundary protected areas.

Economy

It is important to cross-border trade. The dominant tribe in Lundazi is how to Malawian side of the Ngoni. The near Mzimba exercises with its high economic growth from a strong influence up to this point. The smuggling, but also the sale of agricultural products from Lundazi in Mzimba is a continuing political issue, migration also. In the south and southwest of the district Lundazi there are limestone deposits. A quarry provided Zambia with rubble. The quarries at Msoro mission were used until 1960 for limestone quarries for agriculture.

Social

One problem is the regulation of the market in Zambia. It is planted and harvested cotton, which must be delivered at fixed prices. The price is determined by the state. The farmers should not hold back for their own use cotton to spin it and weave. For second-hand clothes from Europe is offered on the market, which is much more expensive.

Infrastructure

Lundazi is known as BOMA (British Overseas Military Administration) and now has a lock according to Norman model - Lundazi Castle. Errol button let it build in the 1940s as a guesthouse for government employees and called it Rumpelstiltskin. Today, it serves as a hotel. The very broad, tree-lined park offers an idyllic castle pond - but with hippos. There are also primary and secondary schools as well as a dirt-track, 1,400 -meter-long airstrip.