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  • noun A currency of Zambia, 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha.

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  • noun 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha in Zambia

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Examples

  • I got my import permit in 2 minutes and 31 seconds, and Colonel M. eventually got two 50-pound sacks of dried buffalo meat, or biltong, which at the time was worth more in Zambia than kwatcha or ngwee, which is Zambian currency.

    Traveling With Firearms: How Buffalo Meat Got My Guns Back 2006

  • A taxpayer could, for instance, say he wants Kwacha10. 00 of his tax to be spent on new hospitals, K5. 00 on salaries for parliamentarians, K30. 00 on subsidising a local mini-skirt factory, K1. 00 on a school near his house, 2 ngwee on agriculture and 1 / 2 ngwee on foreign aid.

    unknown title 2008

  • A taxpayer could, for instance, say he wants Kwacha10. 00 of his tax to be spent on new hospitals, K5. 00 on salaries for parliamentarians, K30. 00 on subsidising a local mini-skirt factory, K1. 00 on a school near his house, 2 ngwee on agriculture and 1 / 2 ngwee on foreign aid.

    unknown title 2008

  • A taxpayer could, for instance, say he wants Kwacha10. 00 of his tax to be spent on new hospitals, K5. 00 on salaries for parliamentarians, K30. 00 on subsidising a local mini-skirt factory, K1. 00 on a school near his house, 2 ngwee on agriculture and 1 / 2 ngwee on foreign aid.

    unknown title 2008

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  • Bright, shiny, $$$

    November 2, 2011