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30-716: Evangelical University (EU) , formerly known as Theological College of Central Africa (TCCA) , is a private Christian university administered by the Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) located in Ndola in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia . The university was developed with a help from Africa Evangelical Fellowship (AEF) and the Evangelical Church in Zambia (ECZ). It is one of the principal universities of Zambia. It

60-454: A consortium of local companies led by ZESCO Ltd (Zambia's electricity supply authority), and established a transformer manufacturing plant and an electrical meter manufacturing plant in Zambia in 2008. Both these facilities are located about 5 km south of Ndola city centre. The city is served by the operating sections of the Cape to Cairo Railway . The railway operator Zambia Railways maintains

90-505: A plant located some 5 km south-east of the heart of the city. This plant was called Chilanga Cement, Ndola Works. The parent company then was Chilanga Cement plc. Chilanga Cement ran two plants in Zambia: one built in 1949 at Chilanga (hence the parent company name) and the other built in 1969 at Ndola. In 2008, the new holding company, Lafarge Cement Zambia, completed construction of a brand new plant at Chilanga which would produce about double

120-562: A railway station in Ndola, with passenger and freight services to the city of Kitwe to the north-west and the cities of Kabwe , Lusaka and Livingstone to the south. Freight rail lines run to other Copperbelt towns and from Ndola to Lubumbashi in DR Congo via Sakania . Ndola is on the T3 road , which connects to Kitwe in the north-west (as a dual carriageway) and to Kapiri Mposhi and Lusaka in

150-516: A rugby club, and others). About 10 km north-west of the city centre, there is a motor racing track popular with weekend motorbike enthusiasts. The city has several recreational green parks which enjoy a very basic level of maintenance and are open to the public. Of particular significance is the Dag Hammarskjöld Crash Site Memorial located some 10 km west-north-west of Ndola city centre. Dag Hammarskjöld Stadium , which

180-479: A small paper cutter (guillotine), stapler, stitcher etc., also three or four cabinets of type of various fonts and sizes. The Plant was subsequently moved from Ndola to Chingola and opened for business in a corrugated-iron structure which had been a store room owned by Mr. B.I. Menashe, a prominent storekeeper in Chingola . They commenced with production of invoices, cards, small leaflets and other items however their range

210-465: Is a national daily newspaper published in Zambia and headquartered in Ndola . During the colonial period the newspaper was known firstly as The Copperbelt Times and then The Northern News It was a twice-weekly newspaper aimed at a European readership. In 1943, a small printing plant owned by Mr Roy Lentin, situated in Ndola, was sold to Mr Edward Brockman Hovelmeier (1908-2005) and Mr. Wykerd for

240-434: Is under construction in 2008. In June 2009, countrywide advertisements were published to finalise staffing for this new cement plant. Another important processing plant that is based on limestone in the area is Ndola Lime. It is Zambia's sole producer of Lime . Ndola Lime is located near the two cement manufacturing facilities. It supplies the mining industry as well as farmers who require agricultural lime. Ndola Lime company

270-502: Is wholly owned by ZCCM Investment Holdings, a parastatal holdings company via which Zambia's government maintains its active interest in the country's mining and closely related heavy industry. The four processing plants (the cement plants, the lime plant and Bwana Mkubwa ) have mining rights on land located very close to the traditional Chiefdom of Chiwala. Chief Chiwala is therefore a significant interested party to Ndola industry and economics. Egyptian company Elsewedy Electric joined

300-702: The Indeni Petroleum Refinery in the town. As with many towns on the Copperbelt, Ndola's sports and recreation life was heavily supported by the now disbundled mining conglomerate, Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd (ZCCM). With the demise of ZCCM, many facilities deteriorated fast. Nevertheless, significant sports places are Ndola Tennis Club (membership), Ndola Swimming Pool (public), the Kanini area (about 3 km from city centre and home to several sports clubs and playing fields like Ndola Wanderers Football Club,

330-524: The Copperbelt for processing at the Ndola Copper Refinery and Precious Metals Refinery. Copper exports provide 70–80% of Zambia's export earnings, making the city very important to the country's economy. The Indeni Oil Refinery in Ndola supplies the whole country with refined petroleum. It was repaired in 2001 after being severely damaged by fire in 1999. GL Africa Energy, through its subsidiary Ndola Energy Company Limited, provides 105MW of power to

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360-571: The Lambaland during the slave trade from Malawi. The name Ndola is derived from the river, which originates in the Kaloko Hills and drains in the Kafubu River . The town of Ndola was founded in 1904 by John Edward "Chiripula" Stephenson . It was started as a boma and trading post , which laid its foundations as an administrative and trading centre today. The Rhodesia Railways main line reached

390-639: The National Grid of Zambia. Power is generated from heavy fuel oil supplied by the Indeni Petroleum refinery. Ndola is home to one of the country's national newspapers, the Times of Zambia , as well as its printer, Printpak. These run as one company called TimesPrintpak . Catholic church run printing press, Mission Press , is also located in Ndola. Mission Press operates as a commercial entity. Ndola has huge limestone reserves which are believed to be among

420-525: The commercial centre (at that time) of Northern Rhodesia . They were able to obtain from the Custodian of Enemy Property, a building which had been used by the German community of the area as a social centre and it was there that the name of the newspaper was changed from the “Copperbelt Times” to the “Northern News”. The equipment was loaded into a railway truck and went by rail to Ndola. They did not miss an issue of

450-612: The mines and refineries, ceased operation in the 1960s when the Kariba Dam power station came on line. Among the places of worship , they are predominantly Christian churches and temples : Roman Catholic Diocese of Ndola ( Catholic Church ), United Church in Zambia ( World Communion of Reformed Churches ), Reformed Church in Zambia ( World Communion of Reformed Churches ), Baptist Fellowship of Zambia ( Baptist World Alliance ), Assemblies of God . There are also Muslim mosques. Times of Zambia The Times of Zambia

480-480: The most homogeneous of their kind in the world . Limestone has therefore become to Ndola's economy what copper is to the rest of the country, providing much of the wealth and employment (Lime is a major component in the production of cement; a cement plant getting its lime from limestone and manufacturing a limestone cement will consume well over 80 kg limestone per 100 kg of cement produced). Between 1974 and 2009, Ndola supplied over 50% of Zambia's cement from

510-493: The organisation's second Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld , crashed on the outskirts of Ndola . Ndola has a moderate humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa). Once the largest industrial centre of Zambia, boasting, among many high-powered sites, company facilities including a Land Rover vehicle assembly plant, Dunlop Tire manufacture, Johnson & Johnson, and Unilever, Ndola's economy shrank significantly between 1980 and 2000. Many closed factories and plants lie unoccupied in

540-590: The paper in its transferral. In the new structure Edward Brockman Hovelmeier was co-owner, works manager, editor, investigative reporter, social-items specialist, advertising salesman and layout artist which he eventually relinquished as well as his financial interest in the News Paper to Roy Welensky. It was later owned by the South African newspaper chain Argus. Under the ownership of Tiny Rowland 's company Lonhro, it

570-469: The purpose of printing small items in their spare time. Mr. Edward Brockman Hovelmeier had experience with print, having been in the advertising field in Johannesburg before relocating to the Copperbelt as a result of the great economic depression so the plant became his direct responsibility. The plant was of a very limited size, comprising two small platen printing machines, other subsidiary items such as

600-462: The setting of the type, did not allow for this increase in operations. To build the circulation of the Copperbelt Times, it was necessary to have a more central location as Chingola was at the end of the railway line and there were no developed centres beyond it. It was therefore decided to relocate the plant to Ndola. Under the direction of Mr. Edward Brockman Hovelmeier the business was taken to

630-594: The south. The M4 road connects Ndola to Mufulira (and the Congo Pedicle ) in the north. Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport , currently located 15 km west of the city centre (adjacent to the Dag Hammarskjöld Crash Site Memorial ), has scheduled domestic services to Lusaka and international services to Addis Ababa , Johannesburg and Nairobi . It is one of the country's four international airports, others being Livingstone , Lusaka and Mfuwe . The Tazama Pipeline from Dar es Salaam terminates at

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660-508: The town in 1907, providing passenger services as far south as Bulawayo , with connections to Cape Town . The line was extended into DR Congo and from there eventually linked to the Benguela Railway to the Atlantic port of Lobito (which took some of Zambia's copper exports for many years with recent interruptions by closures; the rail line is now back in service). The Ndola railhead

690-499: The town. A number of former industries such as clothing and vehicle assembly have disappeared completely. Even though the term 'ghost town' can no longer apply to it, Ndola is yet to regain its economic glory of pre-1980 days. There are no mines in Ndola itself, but the Bwana Mkubwa open-cast mine is only 10 km south-east of the city centre. Until their closure, copper and precious metals used to be brought from elsewhere in

720-440: The volume of Ndola Works. By mid-2009, the new plant was still gathering momentum toward full production capacity, leaving Ndola still a significant player in the region's cement industry. Nonetheless, the combination of huge limestone deposits and existing transport infrastructure passing through Ndola has kept the city a very attractive destination for investment into cement production and related activities. A second cement works

750-574: Was founded in 1960 after being transformed from a teachers training college. The university consists of the following faculties and departments: Ndola What is now Ndola was first inhabited by the Lamba people led by Senior Chief Chiwala, the Lamba people migrated from the Luba-Lunda kingdom around 1600 and the town of Ndola was under Chief Mushili for some time but now it is under Chief Chiwala who came to

780-541: Was founded in 2003. The following are some of the education institutions found in Ndola: The Copperbelt Museum , with a collection of gems and minerals from the Copperbelt. Small reservoirs formed by dams on the Kafubu and Itawa streams flowing through the south-east of the city are used for boating and recreation. The thermal power station which dominates the skyline near the railway station, built to power

810-439: Was limited by the size of the small platen printing machines. Shortly after opening they bought a Phoenix press which enabled them to print larger pieces and eventually a newspaper. They were fully occupied with setting for job printing, when they were cajoled by ambition and desire to help Mr. Roy Welensky into starting a weekly newspaper the “Copperbelt Times”. There were difficulties with this as their facilities, particularly in

840-574: Was located on the banks of the Kafubu River south of the city, was razed in the 1980s. Its replacement, in the north-west of the city, is the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium with a seating capacity of 50,000. Ndola is home to Zesco United , a top-flight team in the Zambia Premier League. Zesco FC is nicknamed "team ya ziko", or the national team in the Nyanja language . The Northrise University

870-672: Was renamed the Times of Zambia on 1 July 1965 and Richard Seymour Hall was appointed editor. Criticism of the government under the editorship of Dunston Kamana in the early 1970s led to the government intervening to appoint its own editor, Vernon Mwaanga , in 1972. United National Independence Party (UNIP), Zambia's former ruling party, took the newspaper over in 1975. When the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) came to power in November 1991, it went to court claiming UNIP had illegally taken over

900-597: Was responsible for the town becoming the country's centre of distribution. Before the road network was built up in the 1930s, a track from Ndola to Kapalala on the Luapula River , and boat transport from there to the Chambeshi River was the principal trade route for the Northern Province , which consequently formed part of Ndola's hinterland . In 1961, an aeroplane carrying key United Nations figures, including

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