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Once the promoter of Lottie Mwale, Zambia's Commonwealth boxing champion (1974-83), President Rupiah Bwezani Banda rolls with the punches in Southern Africa's difficult politics. In his long career, he has jumped from party activist to ambassador to football, boxing manager to Vice-President and finally after 31 October, elected President. A sports fanatic, Banda was initially better known as Vice-President of Zambia's Football Association than as a politician....

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Lottie Mwale, Rupiah, Bwezani Banda, Kenneth Kaunda, Zimbabwe, Hope Makulu, Thandiwe, Robert Mugabe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Levy Mwanawasa, Sweden, Egypt, Angola, José Eduardo Dos Santos, Mozambique, Joachim Chissano, South Africa, United States, Barbara Masekela, Hugh Masekela

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