KABWE CENTRAL CONSTITUENCY

KABWE CENTRAL CONSTITUENCY

Kabwe is the capital of the Zambian Central Province. It was named Broken Hill until 1966, after the Broken Hill in Australia. This beautiful small town, lies by the railroad line Lusaka-Ndola. The city has an estimated 210,000 inhabitants. In the city were lead, zinc, cadmium, vanadium and manganese mining facilities. Kabwe's main industry was historically zinc, lead and silver mining, although these metals are now only extracted from old dumps. Prior to the closure of the mine, the town's resources included hydro-electric power from the Mulingushi and Mita Hills dams. The town is known for its football club, Kabwe Warriors. Kabwe Warriors are one of the top 3 teams in the country.

This town is famous for being the 'Birth town of Democracy" in Zambia. The first political party, UNIP, was formed here, which was the driving force (along with the ANC) to gain independence from Britain.

The town lies on the Great North Road and the railway from Lusaka to Kitwe. It is known for the Homo heidelbergensis (Broken Hill Man) remains found in the town. Kabwe is also home to a golf course and lies on the Kitwe to Livingstone via Lusaka railway.

On behalf of the entire people of Kabwe Central Constituency, Central Province, Zambia, I am delighted to officially launch this website which has been designed as a tool for constantly updating all interested stakeholders and upholding our mandate to the people of Kabwe Central to constantly inform them of all our intentions and pursuits.

It is an opportunity to also thank the people who decided to cast their most treasured vote in favour of the MMD because they judged that we could be trusted with their sustainable development as well as account to them. It is more so an excellent opportunity to extend an olive branch to my colleagues in the opposition that together let us push the wheel of development and ensure that we mean well for them. We are one big family and we are required to celebrate our diversity. I therefore invite you all to keep abreast with development as it unfolds in our area through this website.

I am extremely delighted as Area Member of Parliament (MP) that as a constituency, we can go online in this information age. This was after appreciating the fact that much as the development we seek will be internally generated and mobilized, the role of the external environment becomes critical to its sustainability.