Details Subject: Carmine Bee-Easter Designer: Gabriel Ellison Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd. Process: Photogravure Paper: Watermark: None Perf: 14 x 15.5 (comb) Cylinders: 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A Sheet: R5 x 10 (50 stamps) Quantity: Sheet Numbers
View More Zambia Philately: 1969 International Year For African Tourism – 25n Carmine Bee-EaterCategory: Zambia
Zambia Philately: 1969 International Year For African Tourism
The General Post Office of Zambia announces the forthcoming issue of four postage stamps to celebrate 1969 as the International Year for African Tourism. The values of the stamps are 5 ngwee, 10 ngwee, 15 ngwee and 25 ngwee, and the first day of issue will be 23 October, 1969.…
View More Zambia Philately: 1969 International Year For African TourismZambia Philately: 1969 50th Anniversary of the International Labour Organization
The only tripartite United Nations agency, since 1919 the International Labour Organization (ILO) brings together governments, employers and workers to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes promoting decent work for all women and men. The World Employment Programme was launched by David Morse at the 1969 International Labour…
View More Zambia Philately: 1969 50th Anniversary of the International Labour OrganizationZambia Philately: 1970 Preventive Medicine – 3n Clean Water
Contaminated water and poor sanitation are linked to transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio. Absent, inadequate, or inappropriately managed water and sanitation services expose individuals to preventable health risks. In the 1960s, most of Zambia’s main towns were supplied with piped, portable water.…
View More Zambia Philately: 1970 Preventive Medicine – 3n Clean WaterZambia Philately: SAPRA Studio (RZ Series/Type 1) No.1-49
Details Publisher: SAPRA Studio, Nairobi Distributor: Printer: Process: Photographer: Year: 1968 Series: Zambia In the Sun (RZ – Type 1)
View More Zambia Philately: SAPRA Studio (RZ Series/Type 1) No.1-49Zambia Philately: SAPRA Studio (RZ Series/Type II) No.1-49
Details Publisher: SAPRA Studio – P.O. Box. 5882, Nairobi Distributor: Printer: Process: Photographer: Year: 1968 Series: African Wildlife (RZ – Type 2)
View More Zambia Philately: SAPRA Studio (RZ Series/Type II) No.1-49Zambia Philately: Nyau
Nyau ( meaning mask or initiation) is a secret society of the Chewa, an ethnic group of the Bantu peoples from Central and Southern Africa. The word Nyau is not only used for the society itself, but also for the indigenous religious beliefs or cosmology of people who form this…
View More Zambia Philately: NyauZambia Philately: Tobacco
Production of tobacco in Zambia dates back to the early 1920’s when European settlers grew it on a small scale. The importance of tobacco as a cash crop grew over the years up to the early past independence years. In the 1960s, tobacco was considered to be one of the…
View More Zambia Philately: TobaccoZambia Philately: Angoni Warrior
The Ngoni (also called Angoni, Abangoni, Mangoni, and Wangoni) are an ethnic group living in the present-day Southern African countries of Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Zambia. The Ngoni trace their origins to the Nguni and Zulu people of kwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The displacement of the Ngoni people in…
View More Zambia Philately: Angoni WarriorZambia Philately: 1968 United Nations Day – 10n World Health Organisation
Twenty years has elapsed since the World Health Organisation formally came into existence. Zambia became a member country in 1965 after attaining independence in 1964. A stamp of 10 ngwee denomination is used bearing the World Health Organisation emblem and the words “20th Anniversary of the World Health Organisation.” Colours…
View More Zambia Philately: 1968 United Nations Day – 10n World Health Organisation