Joseph Kalimbwe
- January 10, 2024
- Columnist
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Joseph Kalimbwe Biography
| Name | Joseph Kalimbwe |
| Birthday | Mar 25 |
| Birth Year | 1993 |
| Place Of Birth | Ndola |
| Birth Country | Zambia |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
Joseph Kalimbwe is one of the most popular and richest Columnist who was born on March 25, 1993 in Ndola, Zambia. Kalimbwe was born on the 25th of April 1993, at Ndola, Zambia. It was his mother’s name was Florence Lubinda, a primary school teacher. Born and was raised in northern Namibia in Katima Mulilo where her father was social worker before going to Zambia. Her father’s name was Donald Kalimbwe who worked between Rundu and Livingstone. The death of his father occurred at the age of 2 years old. His mother passed away from cancer when his 11th birthday.
— Joseph Kalimbwe, 2017 (extracted from the New Era (Namibia).
Kalimbwe has participated in African youth activism and was elected student representative council president of the University of Namibia. He was expelled from his Master’s programme at the university in 2017 after breaking into a cafeteria with other students to use it as a study area, claiming that there were not enough designated study spaces. He also took part in the FeesMustFall protests in which university students demanded a decrease in university fees. He was later arrested as a result of this campaigning.
During the #FeesMustFall movements in South Africa, Kalimbwe was advocating for Namibian government to scrape fees for poor students. He later was arrested in 2017 after a protest in Windhoek. His trial was postponed several times. At his 10th appearance on 30 November 2018, the state found that the trial could not continue as there was no evidence and lack of state witnesses with the state advocating for the case’s removal from court roll. Later that evening, New Era (Namibia) reported that the state had lost the case against Kalimbwe whose lawyers had promised legal action against the “unfair treatment” of their client.
Kalimbwe came under public shaming after an article on China-Africa relations in which he referred to Chinese investment “parasites feeding on African blood”. Chinese ambassador to Namibia Qiu Xuejun said the publication was designed to harm China’s relations with Africa and Kalimbwe’s United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ Namibia coordinator as well as SWAPO political party Namibia National Liberation Association Chairman Nkrumah Mishelenga offered his support to Kalimbwe and said that the Chinese profit from Africa’s indigence.
Joseph Kalimbwe Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Columnist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Joseph Kalimbwe is one of the richest Columnist from Zambia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joseph Kalimbwe 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Joseph Kalimbwe (born 25 March 1993) is an Zambian birth youth advocate, author, and an ex- Namibian student representative who was the president of the student representation committee of the University of Namibia in 2017. The year 2014 saw him being elected as the president of the African Union youth simulation forum which is a youth-led advocate programme within the African Union. The newspaper he wrote for has been the Namibian Sun and has published three books, including Persecuted for Change in 2017. The Insanity of An Empty Stomach in 2015 and Teenage-Hood and the Effects on and the Western World in 2014.
Following the death of his mother during 2005, the family relocated to live the home of his grandfather in Ndola. After graduating from high school, he went to at the University of Namibia where he studied political sciences. He graduated with an honors grade in political science.
In May 2017, Kalimbwe and three other members of the UNAM SRC organised a protest for increased study areas, a decrease in tuition fees, and against alleged senior staff corruption at the University of Namibia. A month before, Kalimbwe and members of the students union had claimed they had been provided with inside information of how senior staff members in the University’s IT department, had allegedly taken N$1.3 million meant for a student system upgrade. The staff member, in emails leaked to The Namibian newspaper, later threatened to prevent the alleged claims by hunting down the student leaders and university employees who provided Kalimbwe with such information.
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