Mazabuka

Mazabuka is a town in the Southern Province of Zambia and the capital of Mazabuka District, one of the thirteen administrative units of the province. Its name comes from the Tonga word kuzabuka, to cross over the river, and is believed to recall the Tonga people crossing the Kafue River near Nanga during their migrations. The town lies on the south-eastern edge of the Kafue Flats wetland along the Lusaka to Livingstone Road, about 135 kilometres by road south-west of Lusaka, at an average elevation of 1,067 metres. It grew around sugar cane plantations and is the headquarters of Zambia Sugar, the country's largest sugar manufacturer. The article gives its population as 24,596 in 1990, 47,148 in 2000 and 71,700 at the 2010 census, and the Zambia Railways line connects it to Lusaka and Livingstone.