nkwazimagazine.com ISSUE 50 | MARCH / APRIL 2021 24 DANA PATEL BEAUTY IN THE EVERYDAY 38 MUSIC: SEBASTIEN DUTCH 40 CONSERVE: SNAKE SAFETY 56 FEATURE: GABON AIR DISASTER WWW.FLYZAMBIA.COM jan-2020-a4.pdf 1 2021/02/12 14:58:45 LUS-JOZ-A4-New.pdf 1 2021/02/10 14:17:28 EXPLORE ZAMBIA NOW! 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Views in this publicati on are not necessarily those of Silver Fox Publicati ons Ltd. COVER IMAGE: The love of football starts early in Zambia. Here a boy practi ces his football skills on a quiet street as the sun begins to set. This image is by Dana Patel; turn to page 24 for more of her work. CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTING Bryan Manda, Bwanga ‘Benny Blow’ PHOTOGRAPHERS PUBLISHING HOUSE Kapumpa, Daniel Kaoma, Imanga Kayama, Dana Patel, Eness SILVER FOX PUBLICATIONS LTD. Helena Opperman, Helping Hands in Photography, Kalichi +260 211 843 999 Snake Safety (HiSS), Karthik 'Dooderman' Pictures [email protected] Jayaprakash, Leelee Ngwenya, Mbuyoti www.silverfoxzambia.com Silimina, Musonda Kambikambi, Nawa Mutumweno, Noxolo Kapela, Royd Kapesa, Sarah Ramnath, Taonga Kaonga 2 nkwazimagazine.com Helping you get the most out of life more, experience more, live more. 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The impact has been enormous on every sector of this great industry: airlines, airports, manufacturers, fuel companies and countless support businesses. Job losses have been enormous and the outlook remains extremely uncertain. Aviati on is by nature a very connected industry. Therefore the Zambian industry has felt all the above shocks and perhaps more so as a key ingredient of the industry in Zambia is internati onal tourism during our dry season; this sector has all but vanished and will take ti me to recover. On a positi ve note, this has been a good ti me to be small rather than large. Traditi onal wisdom in the aviati on industry held that this is an industry where size matt ers, everything has been about economies of scale. COVID-19 has knocked this on its head and small airlines have been able to adjust more quickly to the new reality than large airlines with hundreds of planes and thousands of employees. In South Africa, the two largest airlines went into business rescue and if SAA does re-emerge it will be a shadow of its former self. At Profl ight Zambia we have been forced to adapt and have had to downsize and reduce capacity to match the changing market. Even though internati onal tourism has disappeared in the short term we have been able to conti nue to keep vital domesti c links open. The Zambian economy conti nues to operate and the mining industry conti nues to be our backbone, so we conti nue to keep the fl ights to Ndola and Solwezi open. At the same ti me, even though domesti c tourism has been hard hit by the pandemic a number of hotels and lodges have remained open and Profl ight has conti nued to keep fl ights operati ng to Mfuwe and Livingstone. Domesti c tourism is important to Profl ight and Zambia as we believe that it will recover quicker than internati onal tourism and that it is more resilient to external shocks, whether a pandemic or economic challenges. Even as we acknowledge challenges we acknowledge wins as well. This year Profl ight celebrates 30 years of operati on. Meanwhile Nkwazi is celebrati ng this, its 50th editi on. Like the airline this magazine has grown, adapted and evolved over many years. We are thankful to the readers that are the very reason this magazine exists. During this crisis Profl ight Zambia has been able to launch its own service to Johannesburg, South Africa is our most important trading partner and we look forward to conti nuing to strengthen our service on this vital link. We now have to weather the second wave of this pandemic and it is proving to be more destructi ve than the fi rst wave. 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