He saw things he recognized but his brain, befuddled with chemicals released by fear, couldn't locate the words to describe them: the twin stacks spewing plumes of dirty white smoke, the abandoned custom's station with a faded red star painted above the door, the line of white-washed bee hives on a slope near a copse of stunted apple trees.

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Birders to Liuwa will be treated to glimpses of many winged critters that are rare in Zambia, such as the pink-billed lark, white-cheeked and blue-breasted bee-eaters, and red-crested and white-bellied korhaans.

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Under BEE laws, white-owned companies with an annual revenue of at least 5m rand are given ratings for enabling blacks to own shares, improve their skills within the company, move up the managerial ranks, and so on.

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Normally, if you cut open a bee its innards, viewed under a microscope, will appear white.

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Ground Bee is available in a range of striking colors, including purple, pink, blue, red, white, chocolate and grey.

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