Monze

Monze is a small town on the important connection axis Walvis Bay - Livingstone - Lusaka in Zambia and the gateway to the Lochinvar National Park south of the Kafueauen. The nearest town is Mazabuka. The population is around 60,000 ( GTZ study of 2004). The eponymous district has 163 578 inhabitants ( 2000 census ).

Infrastructure

Traffic

Monze is easily accessible from the developed, paved road from Lusaka to Livingstone south direction and thus connected to the transport network to the Namibian deep-water port at Walvis Bay.

The railway line, which determines since 1908, the settlement structure in the southern province of Zambia, also performs Monze. Weekly From the colonial period in the once very important railway station provides some passenger trains to Livingstone and Lusaka.

In addition, Monze has an airstrip.

Services

In the city you will find all the basic facilities, such as a hospital ( Monze Mission Hospital ), a gas station, post office and banks.

Education

The town has primary and secondary schools, including a well-known private school that Lwengu School, attended a boarding school in secondary education of students from around the region, including the neighboring countries, and the Zambia College of Agriculture.

Economy

Monze is rural. The residents in the district of Monze - mostly Tonga - live mainly by subsistence farming with maize and livestock.

Nevertheless Monze gained a certain fame as a martial court to GM food. A famine relief was denied because anti - GM food activists delivery, denounced as poisoned as unhealthy and people so that kept people to accept the help.

In Monze, a considerable number of national and international NGOs are active, including the human rights organization, Law and Development Association ( LADA ) and the national network Civil Society for Poverty Reduction ( CSPR ). Especially LADA has it for Monze a prominent position since the organization was originally established from the villages around Monze has evolved in the last decade from a small grass roots movement in the struggle for the rights of children and women, to an effective organization of national importance. Your main goal is to strengthen legal advice, especially the rights of girls and women in traditionally male -dominated rural Zambia.

In the field of urban water supply Monze and the neighboring villages are included in the water supply and sanitation project of the Reconstruction Loan Corporation, which includes all towns on the so-called Line of Rail.

At the northern entrance to the town there is a lodge that serves as a snack with her bus stop for the bus coming from Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. In Lochinvar National Park, which was only converted in the 1970s from a farm in a national park, one finds only a lodge, but located with her tended camp right on the lagoon ( flood plain of the Kafue River ). In the National Park only a few villagers find work, because the park does not belong to the classical program of visits a Sambiareise and neither elephants are still found wild cats.

38 km before Monze are considerable gypsum -clay deposits. Gypsum is required in cement production.

Importance of the church

Great importance to the southern province of the Catholic Diocese of Monze, whose headquarters is Monze and extending over nearly all eleven districts of the province. In addition to a mission hospital in Monze be of her more hospitals, but also maintain teacher education institutions and schools. The diocese also carries an important role in the care of HIV -infected and AIDS - sick people by has in their entire congregations through a network of well-organized nursing service.

Others

A marginal Monzes is the 9- hole golf course of the Golf Club Monze. The scale of British Place has this lack of water does not have greens, but by so-called Browns. Their surfaces are not as usual in fine turf, but are covered by a mixed waste oil with fine sand. This sand is then ironed before putting with a rake.