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Beer Prices

The cost price of Mosi and Castle Lager has gone up. Chanters Lodge beer prices remain unchanged as we absorb the increase. We have not reduced the price of Chibuku! We don’t do Chibuku!

The recommended Retail Price for the two brands of clear beer has been adjusted upwards by 7.14% per 375 milliliters. Zambian Breweries Plc has attributed this to the increase in inflation. Zambian Breweries Corporate Specialist, Japhet Banda, has said in a statement to ZNBC news that the price adjustments are effective from Monday 12th March 2012.

In the same statement Mr Banda also announced the reduction in the price of Chibuku, the opaque beer. He said the price of Chibuku had been slashed by 17.9% per unit. Mr Banda says the nationwide reduction of Chibuku prices follows a successful festive season promotion that was conducted in Lusaka.

He has also announced the increase in the average cost of Maheu by nine percent.

16
MAR

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Air Namibia to Livingstone

Here’s some excellent news for Livingstone!

Namibia’s flag carrier, Air Namibia, will launch direct flights between Windhoek and Livingstone in Zambia to meet the growing demand of flights between the two countries. From October 2012 the airline will offer four flights a week between Windhoek and Livingstone.

The airline is already flying to Lusaka, the country’s capital, so that Livingstone will become Air Namibia’s second destination in Zambia.

Air Namibia is also offering scheduled services to Victoria Falls town in Zimbabwe. According to Air Namibia’s General Manager Commercial Services Xavier Masule, flights to the Victoria Falls would be split because Livingstone was increasingly becoming a popular destination for the tourists the airline was bringing in who were later distributed across the region.

Sooner the better!

23
FEB

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Africa Cup Of Nations 2012

Good luck to the Zambia National Team in the final of the AFCON tonight!

Come on Zambia!

12
FEB

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to family, friends, guests, clients, facebook friends and Twitter followers from management and staff at Chanters Lodge, Livingstone!

25
DEC

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Aussie Spin! And We’re Not Talking Warne!

They say this story isn’t true, but nevertheless it’s an excellent example of spin!

Judy Rudd an amateur genealogy researcher in south east Queensland was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that ex-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s great-great uncle, Remus Rudd, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Melbourne in 1889. Both Judy and Kevin Rudd share this common ancestor. The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows at the Melbourne Gaol.

On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription:
‘Remus Rudd horse thief, sent to Melbourne Gaol 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Melbourne-Geelong train six times. Caught by Victoria Police Force, convicted and hanged in 1889.’

So Judy recently e-mailed ex-Prime Minister Rudd for information about their great-great uncle, Remus Rudd. Believe it or not , Kevin Rudd’s staff sent back the following biographical sketch for her genealogy research:

“Remus Rudd was famous in Victoria during the mid to late 1800s. His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Melbourne-Geelong Railroad. Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad.

In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the Victoria Police Force. In 1889, Remus passed away during an important civic function held in his honour when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed.”

Says it all doesn’t it?

8
DEC

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Wendy & Lisa McCance Rock ‘The Experience’

Meet sisters Wendy (left) and Lisa McCance pictured above, guests on the most recent edition of The Chanters Lodge Experience with the Milli Jam Ingredient, our regular weekly radio show airing from 20.30 – 21.30 hrs every Sunday evening on Zambezi 107.7 fm, Livingstone’s leading local radio station. The show streams live on the internet too! Wendy and Lisa were spending a week in Zambia on holiday staying at Chanters Lodge.

Wendy is currently working for Desmond Tutu Centre for Leadership an NGO in South Africa as a project manager, Lisa works for London Borough of Croydon in economic development. The girls delighted in telling listeners about the Under The Spray Tour they had taken with Bundu Adventures on their very first day in Livingstone, the tour takes you in a raft right to the bottom of the Falls and can only be undertaken in the dry season. The day of the show Wendy and Lisa had taken the one day safari to Chobe National Park in Botswana which they had enjoyed, especially seeing elephants playing and swimming in the Chobe River. It had been hot but it had rained on their way back to Livingstone.

The music on the show was super. We opened with Noel Gallagher’s ‘What A Life’ from his hit solo album ‘High Flying Birds’ back to back with Cher Lloyd featuring Mike Posner – ‘With Ur Luv’. Milli Jam’s selection included ‘Bopemi’ by Ogga Family, ‘My Sunshine’ – Jane Osborne featuring PJ, Damian Marley’s ‘Set Up Shop’ and Jason Derulo’s ‘Fight For You’. Our oldie of the week was an issue! Regular readers and listeners will know we give away a weekly prize of a dinner for two at the lodge on the show to the first person to text us the name of the artist/s performing our ‘oldie of the week’. This week’s track was ‘Moving On Up’ by M People and could they get it? They could not! Richard 1 Listeners 0, I announced, laughing. We had nominations for everyone from Whitney Houston to Gladys Knight!

“Are you married”? Was Milli Jam’s predictable question to the girls early on in the show and both Wendy and Lisa told him they were not, nor were they spoken for and generally gave the impression that they were much too busy travelling, living life and having fun for ‘that sort of thing’. We laughed and hoped that one day they’d be swept off their feet by Prince Charmings. Milli Jam also wanted to know if they had any other activities planned for their time in Livingstone and they told him they would love to do the sunset cruise on Lady Livingstone, but for the next day or two they just wanted to relax.

Wendy revealed that she had actually been born in Lusaka when her parents had lived in Zambia in the 70’s, her dad had been a manager with Grindlay’s Bank. They had lived in lots of different countries as a result of their father working as an expatriate, including India, Australia and Kenya. These lively, intelligent, pretty girls were very much looking forward to their annual Christmas holiday with their parents this year, which would take them to Cambodia and Vietnam.

Asked where they would like to be and what they would like to be doing 10 years from now Lisa ‘had no idea and didn’t like thinking that far ahead’, Wendy hoped she’d still be working in the humanitarian field as she was now, and ‘making a difference’. Neither mentioned husbands or children.

16
NOV

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Trees For Livingstone!

I was delighted to get a visit from Marleen Lammers last week from Greenpop, trees for Zambia and we have promised to help their scheme next year. Here’s what it’s all about:

For three weeks July 2012, Greenpop is hosting an exciting reforestation project in Livingstone, Zambia; the country with the second hightest deforestation rate in the world. They will be planting between 5,000 and 10,000 indigenous and fruit trees within the Victoria Falls World Heritage Site, Dambwa Forest, and at schools around Livingstone. In addition, they will set up workshops at schools and with local farmers on sustainable living and conservation issues. This will be the start of an ongoing campaign to make Livingstone a greener and more sustainable environment.

You will be able to contribute to this project by gifting a tree – or lots of trees – and they greatly appreciate anything you can offer. Every tree counts! Trees cost $15 each but absolutely any amount will go towards planting between 5000 and 10000 trees. you will be able to buy your tree from Chanters Lodge from about 1st March next year and we are expecting a great response!

8
NOV

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Olga’s Italian Corner – Livingstone

In the past few years Olga’s Italian Corner has become an institution in Livingstone, serving great Italian food and training needy youngsters in food and beverage skills. Interesting to see that they’re now adding rooms to their operation and great that they’re offering a prize to some artists for inspiring interior decor! Olga’s is located on the right hand side of the Catholic Cathedral opposite the main Shoprite shopping complex. From town, turn left at the traffic lights.

Olga’s – The Italian Corner is inviting all artists or painting enthusiasts residing in Livingstone or in general in Zambia, provided they are Zambian by nationality to the call “Nine Rooms in Search of an Author”. The aim of the call is to find nine artists that will paint and personalize the interior of the nine rooms that are being built for the new Olga’s Guest House.

The general theme is “Novels, Legends and Myths of Zambia”. The theme has been chosen by a committee which will include officers of CeLIM, the Italian NGO behind Olga’s Project, CeLIM aid-workers and Olga’s supporters/friends. The same committee will evaluate and select the best realizations. The winners will realize the winning score in one of the rooms of the Guest House. To all the participants will also be given the opportunity to exhibit the work they have prepared for the competition during an exhibition which will be organized inside the restaurant and will take place from the 21th December 2011 until the day of the awards ceremony. As well as the chance to co-operate with Olga’s in any future exhibition which may be held within the restaurant.

PRIZE
The nine artists that will be selected will be given a prize of 750,000 Kwacha. All the expenses for the realization of the project will be covered by Olga’s up to a maximum of 300,000 Kwacha for each room. In each room, next to each painting, there will always be visible the name of the artist with his/her little biography and a description of the meaning of the work/paint.

So get painting!

6
NOV

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Charley Pride

There are times in life – and they don’t happen all that often – when you simply get blown away by someone’s generosity and kindness. It happened to me last Tuesday. I’ve been a fan of Charley Pride (above), the great Afro-American country and western singer since 1972, when I was in Seychelles, where he was (and probably still is) huge. In 2007 Mark Scarborough stayed at Chanters Lodge and I happened to mention to him that I was a fan of Charley’s. Yesterday, Mark came to stay again – with him he brought for me a photo of Charley Pride personally autographed and dedicated to me, posters, an autobiography and a multitude of albums including, brilliantly, his 2011 release ‘Choices’ – playing as I write. Charley’s getting on a bit in years but you wouldn’t know it from his voice on this beautiful album.

How come Mark did this? Well he’s a friend of Danny Hutchins. Who’s Danny Hutchins? I hear you ask. Danny joined Charley Pride as a backing musician in 1977 when Danny was just 17 and has been with him ever since. In his autobiography Charley says of his first meeting with Danny “we decided to do a medley which he hadn’t heard. He might have heard the individual songs but not the transitions and the lead-ins, the way they were put together. We played it one time through and the kid didn’t miss a damn turn. He hit every note – sharp, flat, augmented, everything. I hired him on the spot and he’s been with me ever since. I feel as though I’ve practically raised him. He’s been a big asset”. Well, Mark told Danny I was a fan and he organized all the wonderful things that Mark brought for me. Awesome!

For the uninitiated Charley Pride’s first hit came in 1966 ‘Just Between You And Me’. Since then he’s had 36 number one hit singles on the US country charts, 31 gold albums, 4 platinum and one quadruple platinum. He’s one of the best-selling country artists of all time. On RCA Records Charley Pride is second in sales only to Elvis Presley. My favourite tracks? ‘Crystal Chandeliers’ which I sang regularly on stage in the Musuku Restaurant when I managed the Ridgeway Hotel in Lusaka, and ‘Leaving Never Gets Me Anywhere’ which I also used to perform.

Charley made it in what was, and is, a musical genre dominated by white people – I guess you have to work twice as hard and be twice as tough to achieve that! Ground breaking!

Thanks Mark, Danny and Charley – you made my day!!

27
OCT

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