Macha Bee-keepers association

Among entrepreneurial activities in Macha community is a bee-keeping association project situated at Mabweatuba in Macha.

The bee-keeping initiative was natured by Mr. Misheck Chimbongwe in 2001 after realizing the potential of the project.

Simple bee-hives are being used; see below;


 Currently the  bee-keeping project at Macha serves as a small income generating  activity for both men and women in the community with the following objectives:

1. create an African mind free through the use of natural resource

My experience with visiting urban offices in Zambia

I have observed with sadness that each time I visit an urban based office, I either have to wait for the minimum period of 4hours or more. This results in the increased costs our time and also our monetary resources.

It is a pity that our urban based colleagues do not consider that the communities that we serve are very poor such if such a practice continues will result in resource drains.

Apart from that, our urban based communities keep on post poning the meetings to further dates. This to me is a big shame because only few people have interest to invest their time, energy,lives in resource limited areas.

Virtual Offices, Could this be the future possibility?

Virtual offices, could this be the future possibility if wireless intenet was to be vigorously spread across the country? It is evident, firstly the introduction of internet at rural Macha has made significant developments in the community,Macha is in Choma district of Southern province of Zambia. The availability of internet has defeated the high poverty levels in the community, poor road network until it was tired in 2010, no fm or shortwave radio signal until vision community radio Macha came back to life in March 2010, no access to landline telephone network through zamtel until Celtel came in end of 2007, no access to international market for example buying of second hand vehicles from Japan, limited access to medical facilities, the list goes on....

Secondly, the flooding of smartphones with wifi and 3G network on the international market whose functions are similar to that of a laptop and desk-top computer have completely changed the ways of communication. At rural Macha, people who own smart phones no longer need to be in their offices, this is due to the expansion of internet network which covers the range of 3KM radius at rural Macha. This has enabled experts like doctors, teachers, farmers and members of the community to have access to internet wherever they are! yesterday while going to the hospital, I found a person under the shed accessing internet through wifi and when I greeted him, he did not respond to me because he was badly taken by our fast wireless network.

Is Maintenance of the Network sustainable?

Yes, our vibrant wireless internet is well maintained by our local heroes, these local heroes have been trained in Macha and they have trained local heroes from other rural communities across the country.


How does the future of internet perceived in rural areas?

In the near future people will no longer have physical offices, as they will be able to access internet where ever they shall be, people will no longer carry heavy machines like laptops, but shall instead carry smartphones, kindles, Ipads, Ipods and other portable gadgets, people shall no longer gather in one place for meetings, the world will no longer be a global village but a global family, virtual universities shall be many.

However to achieve this, internet costs should be lowered in order for an ordinary Zambia citizen to have access to internet. The ICT policy has to be perfected by ICT experts but not only politicians who may not see or know its valuable use.

Please our government, help us in rural areas and Zambia at large by subsidizing the internet costs.

No Internet, no good economy, no future!!!!