DRAMA IN UNIP CONTINUES AS PARTY SG SEEKS INJUNCTION AGAINST TILYENJI AND 9 OTHERS zambiareports.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from zambiareports.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Born: April 28, 1924 (age 97 years), Chinsali
Spouse: Betty Kaunda (m. 1946â2012)
Children: Tilyenji Kaunda, Wezi Kaunda, Musata Kaunda Banda, Cheswa Silwizya
Kaunda is the youngest of eight children born to an ordained Church of Scotland missionary and teacher, an immigrant from Malawi.
He was at the forefront of the struggle for independence from British rule. Dissatisfied with Harry Nkumbula’s leadership of the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress, he broke away and founded the Zambian African National Congress, later becoming the head of the United National Independence Party (UNIP).
He was the first President of the independent Zambia. In 1973 following tribal and inter-party violence, all political parties except UNIP were banned through an amendment of the constitution after the signing of the Choma Declaration. At the same time, Kaunda oversaw the acquisition of majority stakes in key foreign-owned companies. The oil crisis of 1973 and a slump in export re
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Anglican Bishop Trevor Mwamba has been elected President of the opposition United National Independence Party, taking over from Tilyenji Kaunda who has been at the helm since 2001.
Bishop Mwamba who was based in Germany and returned early this year to contest the UNIP Presidency was elected leader of the former ruling party at the Party’s 4th Extra-Ordinary Congress which was held from 2nd to 4th April 2021 held at Premier Hotel.
In the race for the top position, Reverend Mwamba, polled 235 votes to dethrone long-serving Tilyenji Kaunda, who got 201 votes, while Timothy Nyirenda scored a paltry 28.
Mr. Kaunda, who has been at the helm of UNIP since 2001, left the gathering immediately after the presidential results were announced and refused to comment on the outcome.
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The former Bishop of Botswana has launched a long-shot bid to become president of Zambia under the banner of former President Kenneth Kauda’s UNIP party. If elected at the August general election, Bishop Mwamba will become the second Anglican cleric after the Rev. Wavel Ramkalawan of the Seychelles to lead an African nation.
A Zambian national, Bishop Mwamba trained for the ministry in the UK and was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Kensington in 1984 and served his curacy at St Luke’s Chelsea and All Saints, Notting Hill. In 1985 he returned to Zambia and became rector Luanshya and vocations director for the diocese of Central Zambia. Elected Bishop of Botswana in 2015, he resigned in 2012 to take up the post of Team Rector of Barking and assistant bishop of Chelmsford. In December 2019 he resigned those posts after his wife, Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba was appointed Botswana’s Ambassador to Germany. He told reporters in Lusaka his United National Independence P