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CONTENTS
March/April 2014
Issue No. 83
Features
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Hong Kong
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Downtown in Dakar
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Contonou
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Busanga
Regulars
2-3
Map of Zambia
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Sudoku, Crossword & Quiz
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Birds of Zambia - The White-headed
Vulture
47 Recipes
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Crossword & Quiz answers
Kids Corner
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Cover story
By Davis Mulenga
Steaming ahead: Part of the construction work at the $2 billion under-construction Sentinel Mine scheduled for second quarter commissioning.
By Davis Mulenga
ommerce, Trade and Industry Minister Emmanuel Chenda has hailed the $2 billion
under-construction Sentinel Mine by First Quantum Minerals (FQM) as a catalyst
for Zambias industrialisation drive.
Company news
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HONG KONG
Richard Rhys Jones discovers sleepy fishing villages, colourful markets, a giant Buddha and
the worlds longest suspension bridge
satay sticks and delicate raw
Japanese sashimi are your choice,
theyre all here for the tasting.
International matches are a
regular attraction in this sportscrazed centre. You could be there
when Djokovic plays tennis against
Federer, or South Africa and New
Zealand clash in the annual Hong
Kong Sevens rugby tournament.
And if you visit in June you can
watch the colourful Dragon Boat
Festival, a boisterous event
spawned by Chinese legend.
Victoria Harbour is a continuous bustle of cruise ships, freighters, barges, sampans, junks sight-seeing launches and ferries
Long queues of hopeful visitors wait for the red funicular tram to
Victoria Peak
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HONG KONG
Continued
The 2.2- km-long Tsing Ma bridge, the worlds longest suspension bridge
of Medical Sciences and the
Sheung Yiu Folk Museum.
The City of Lights lives up
to its name every evening at 8
p.m. when 40 buildings on both
sides of the harbour perform their
spectacular Symphony of Lights,
and the best spot to enjoy this
15-minute laser show is the Tsim
Sha Tsui waterfront promenade.
The accompanying narrative
with lively music is in English
on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays.
Another major attraction is the
worlds largest seated outdoor
Buddha, a 26-metre-high statue
unveiled in 1993 at the Po Lin
Monastery on Lantau Island,
site of the new airport. Lantau is
bigger, far less crowded and more
mountainous than Hong Kong
Passengers on cruise liners like this help swell Hong Kongs annual tourist numbers to an incredible 48 million
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DOWNTOWN IN DAKAR -
Kate Nivison
and the Chinese have now arrived in force. In effect
this means that over a quarter (an unusually high
proportion) of the entire population of this vast, dry
country now lives in greater Dakar. During rush hour
in the downtown historic and administrative district
of Plateau, or in crowded quarters such Mdina and
Gueule Tape, it can certainly feel like it.
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contacts with planes and flight
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on the kind of schools where
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By Davis Mulenga
s there a panacea to a competitive mining tax regime? The significance and relevance
of the question was amplified when 33 representatives of global investors who
included Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse recently took an on-spot
check of Zambias attractiveness as an investor haven.
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Sentinel Mine by the worlds largest investors
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ere are the stakes the most staggering conceivable: On one hand, more happiness
and prosperity with better education. On the other, infinite cycle of poverty. But to which
shall we incline?
Opinion
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Apprentices at the FQM-inspired three-year apprenticeship programme at Solwezi Trades Training Institute (SOTTI).
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By Anthea Rowan
STRATEGIC
PARTNERS
ave you ever wondered what the fastest thing on earth was? This is a very
difficult question to answer as there are so many different variables, land,
sea or air? Human, animal or machine?
Both scholars of all things fast and those people possibly a little more
ignorant, can argue for ages with different viewpoints rendering different
opinions. But when it comes to the fastest acceleration on the planet, hands
down the king has to be the Top fuel dragster.
Called Top Fuel because these cars are run on a mix of approximately 90%
nitromethane and 10% methanol (also known as racing alcohol) rather than
conventional petroleum as we know it. These cars are purpose-built for drag
racing, with an exaggerated layout that in some ways resembles open-wheel
circuit racing vehicle. However, top fuel dragsters are much longer, much
narrower, and are equipped with large wheels on the back and small wheels in
front, all in order to maximize their straight-line acceleration and speed.
When it comes to out and out number crunching, the thought of what these
poor drivers (or should we rather call them pilots) go through in these very short
spaces of time is nothing short of terrifying, and the only thing going through
more torture than the 4G suffering driver, is the engine!
Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 7 litres of nitro per second,
the same rate of fuel consumption as a fully loaded 747 but with 4 times the
energy volume.
The supercharger takes more power to drive than a standard hemi engine
develops.
Dual magnetos apply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc
welder in each cylinder.
At stoichiometric (exact) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture (for nitro), the flame front of
nitromethane measures 3900 Celsius.
Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the
engine is dieseling from compression-plus the glow of exhaust valves at 760
Celsius. The engine can only be shut down by cutting off its fuel flow.
If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in those
cylinders and then explodes with a force that can blow cylinder heads off the
block in pieces or blow the block in half.
To exceed 483 kph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of
over 4Gs. But in reaching 321 kph well before 1/2 track, launch acceleration is
closer to 8Gs.
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that NHRA Top Fuel dragsters can exceed 450 kph in
just 200 metres?
that from a standing start, NHRA Top Fuel dragsters
accelerate faster than a jumbo jet, a fighter jet or a Formula
One race car?
that a fuel pump for an NHRA Top Fuel dragster and
Funny Car delivers 295 litres of fuel per minute, equivalent
to eight bathroom showers running at the same time?
that depending on size and angle, the large rear wing on
an NHRA Top Fuel dragster develops between 1800 and
36000 kilograms of downforce?
that the 17-inch rear tyres used on NHRA Top Fuel
dragsters and Funny Cars wear out after four to six runs, or
about 3.5 kilometres? Some brands of passenger-car tyres
are guaranteed for 60 000 kilometres.
that it takes just 15/100ths of a second for all 7,000
horsepower of an NHRA Top Fuel dragster engine to reach
the rear wheels?
that its desirable for an NHRA Top Fuel dragster to
race with its front wheels inches off the ground for about
the first 60 metres of the run. This ensures proper weight
transfer to the rear wheels, a crucial part of a good launch
and quick run.
that the nitromethane used to power the engines of
NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars costs about
US$6.60 per litre?
CHALLENGING
MOTIVATING
REWARDING
Be part of the team
operating one of
the largest copper
mines in the world.
With investment of over $2 billion
dollars, First Quantum Minerals
is creating new and exciting
employment opportunities for
people in the north-west of Zambia.
Were developing three new mines,
located 150km west of Solwezi,
collectively known as Trident.
Sentinel, a copper mine, is the first
of them to be commissioned and is
on schedule to begin operations in
the middle of 2014. When its fully
operational it will produce in the
region of 300,000 tonnes of copper
per year.
www.first-quantum.com/careers
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In a remote corner of South Africa lies a long and undisturbed freight railway line which holds a world
record of staggering, breathtaking statistics.
staggering 71,210 tons of iron ore from Sishen to Saldanha Bay. The
achievement is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as follows:
Total length of train - 7.3 km
Distance covered - 861km and a maximum speed of 80km/h
No of locomotives - 7 diesel and 9 electrical, 3 up front, the rest
pushing from behind
No of loaded freight trucks - 660
Average speed - 38,00km/h, in a time of 23 hours.
Transnet have recently invested Rand 1.7 billion ($US 277 million)
on refurbishing and improving the Sishen-Saldanha freight link. This
will allow the transport of iron ore freight to increase by 6 million tons
to 30 million tonnes annually. A thoroughly sound investment, we are
informed!
And they say they do things bigger and better in Texas... I think
not!!
In 2010 Transnet Freight Rail placed the first of seventy-six Class 15E
heavy electric freight locomotives with a Co-Co wheel arrangement in
service on the SishenSaldanha iron ore line
Busanga
Jeff Pieters explores the plains, wetlands and the rich and varied wildlife of northern Kafue.
shallow pans of lush grazing
pockets. This is the favourite time
to observe the huge numbers of
wildlife. Sightings of lion, cheetah
and leopard are common. There
will also be roan and sable, puku
antelope, wildebeest, eland and
zebra, blue wildebeest, Vervet
monkeys and yellow baboons and
huge herds of grazing buffalo.
Oribi are found throughout the
park, but are especially common
here. Elephant pods, once
depleted, are now a common
sight along the Lufupa River.
Large numbers of the graceful and
timid lechwe antelope fill the vast
plains of Busanga in their tens of
thousands.
Fish eagle
equipped these trees with a fire-resistant bark. A less
common eco-type in Kafue are riverine forests and
the Mopane woodland. These areas are particularly
associated with the mighty Baobab which is found
mainly in the south of the park.
For visitors with an interest in the birdlife,
ornithologists have recorded over 400 species of
birds in the woodlands, waterways and open plains of
Busanga in a single season. Resident, seasonal and
migratory birds including such rarities as Chaplins
Barbet, Green-headed Sunbird, Pels Fishing Owl,
Anchietas Sunbird, Wattled Crane, Spoonbills,
Bocages Akalat, Black-tailed Waxbill, Blackbreasted
Snake Eagle, Scaly-throated Honeyguide, Goliath
Heron and, of course the Fish eagles.
The Busanga plains are remote and not particularly
suitable for day trippers. Visitors should allow several
Sable antelope
Vervet Monkey
Sitatunga
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White-headed Vulture
(Trigonoceps occipitalis)
The White-headed Vulture (Trigonoceps
occipitalis) is an Old World vulture endemic
to Africa. It has a pink beak and a white
crest, and the featherless areas on its head
are pale. Its has dark brown upper parts and
black tail feathers. The feathers on its lower
parts and legs are white. It spends a lot
of time soaring looking for food. at night it
roosts in tall trees near water.
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Quiz answers
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1. Monkey.
2. Marine snail.
3. Michael J Fox.
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6. M*A*S*H.
7. Mammals.
8. My Way.
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