Kamukwape's Diary

Do you feel strongly about the environment and the issues that affect it? Do you enjoy getting behind the camera to make films? Do you want to be in with a chance of winning $1500? If you answered ‘yes’ to all of the above, read on! The hugely successful tvebiomovies competition is back and is giving you the opportunity to show off your creative film making abilities through YouTube. With 5 categories to enter, there is something for everyone. If your idea makes it to the shortlist, we’ll give you $300 to turn it into reality. Finalist films will be screened at the UN COP18 Conference in Qatar and they’ll also go head-to-head for 5 prizes of $1500. To find out more and to submit a proposal, visit www.tvebiomovies.org. You’ll also be able to watch some of last year’s winning films. Proposals must be entered by 5th September so you haven’t got long. The clock is ticking for you and for the planet…what are you waiting for? Originally posted on http://ys4d.posterous.com

Botswana is a landlocked country in southern Africa. The country’s name comes from its largest ethnic group, the Tswana. A large majority of the population lives in the eastern part of the country, near the border with South Africa. Botswana’s diamond mines and other mineral deposits have made it one of the wealthiest African countries. The country has maintained an impressive rate of economic growth since independence. Most of the country is quite dry and unsuited for agriculture. The Kalahari Desert covers much of central and south-western Botswana. The country is noted for its many animal reserves. According to the CIA World Fact book as of July, 12th 2011, Botswana has a population of approximately 2,065,398, with an area of about 581,730 sq km. The 2003 estimates population share between rural and urban areas were 49% and 51% respectively. However, the share for urban areas is expected to have grown as more rural youths are recorded to have migrated to urban areas in search of emp...

Kitwe District is located in the central part of the Copperbelt. The name Kitwe depicts the skull of an elephant (in vernacular [Bemba] Icitwe chansofu) which was found near the strearticles_thumbam alongside some copper ore deposits. Foreign settlers could not pronounce the name “Citwe” as local used to call it and pronounced it as “Kitwe”. The district is the most populated district on the Copperbelt province of Zambia and second most populated in Zambia. In 2000, the district had a total population of 376,124 accounting for about 23.8 percent of the total population of the province. The population was 410,448 in 2002 with an estimated growth rate of 1.1 percent per annum. The demographic trend of Kitwe shows that the population has been increasing at a decreasing rate. This trend is attributed to the rise in HIV/ AIDS parallel diseases such as Tuberculosis and diarrhoea. Additionally, the privatisation of mines and liberation of the economy resulted into massive job losses, causing ...

Let’s Leverage Youth success through engagement in agriculture as a societal means to success. I can…! I have to…! I am in Agriculture, and I can find agriculture more attractive with support from my society. Empowered by ICTs, inspired by society, I am a motivated young professional to be successful through agriculture. Because we act together and ‘we are’, engagement in agriculture will forever remain my successful path to sustainable success. It does not matter the ‘portrayed’ class of this sector, what matters is my success and I am determined to prove that the notion that the agriculture sector is for the uneducated, not profitable…….. ‘is a myth’. If our attitude goes towards this direction, we are definitely making agriculture real! Agriculture as a means to engage young people in sustainable development A youth perspective means that young people are actors and resources in development cooperation. Poverty can be reduced once young people have the chance to have an impac...

He is a young man, a Zambian citizen in his early 20s. A mild and intelligent yet shy young man in his expression, and as they say every face tells a story, his can be read at a distance. He is an orphan, his father passed away when he was three years old, ever since, he has been brought up by an old and housewife mother. He completed his high school education with impressing results such that he was offered a bursary to study a five years Bachelors Degree program in Chemical Engineering at a University in Zambia. Towards the end of his third year of study, as he was coming from a school event –celebration which was held at a nearby park, he was attacked by a group of thugs. They beat him up, left him unconscious and got all his clothes and belongings. The following morning, his was rushed to a psychiatric clinic on grounds that he was suspected to have started having psychosis. There he was admitted for about three weeks and treatment continued from home for about two months. This ca...

Southern Africa Telecentre Network is working hard to improve information sharing and exchange among various practitioners in the ICT for Development sector. The SATNET website has various features that can be utilized, and coupled with other platforms helps to bring effective knowledge sharing to life. Currently, the website has a 'share'  feature that allows website visitors to share website content with their networks through various social networks such as twitter, facebook, linkedin, reddit, blogger, as well as through email. The website also has RSS feed, enabling website visitors to subscribe RSS feeds for the latest updates on blogs and news as well as other website updates. The SATNET Repository is one such a platform that enables SATNET and its members to share various information resources by uploading or downloading content from this portal. The SATNET Repository has now been integrated into the SATNET Website. This simply means that the SATNET Reposi...