Vol 42 No 21 | ZAMBIA Payback time 26th October 2001 The President's cheque is stolen and the election heats up The arrest of three men last week on charges of stealing President Frederick Chiluba's salary over the past 16 months is instructive. Apparently Chiluba hadn't noticed that 82 mill...
Vol 42 No 21 | ZAMBIA Presidential runners 26th October 2001 Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD): formed 1990, governing since 1991. Support: Copperbelt and Bemba people, trades unions; endorsed by Dean Mung'omba's Zambia Alliance f...
Vol 42 No 18 | ZAMBIA Puppet or prince? 14th September 2001 The ruling MMD's new flagbearer seems too close to Chiluba and too far from the voters Levy Mwanawasa's emergence last month as the ruling Movement for Multi-party Democracy's candidate for president is the least bad option for incumbent Frederick Chiluba, who has no...
Vol 42 No 15 | ZAMBIA Post-summit blues 27th July 2001 Everything is going wrong for President Chiluba's renewed bid for a third term President Frederick Chiluba must be disappointed that the relatively successful Organisation of African Unity summit in Lusaka has not immediately helped his subterranean campaign ...
Vol 42 No 14 | ZAMBIA Anglo accused 13th July 2001 Activists are challenging Anglo American's role in the messy copper privatisation Zambian activists accuse the mining giant Anglo American of breaching the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's code of conduct when the copper mines were privati...
Vol 42 No 13 | ZAMBIA Too many defects 29th June 2001 Having failed to secure an unconstitutional third term (AC Vol 42 No 10), President Frederick Chiluba lacks a successor since he sacked the former front-runners from his ruling Mov...
Vol 42 No 10 | ZAMBIA Disbelief 18th May 2001 President Frederick Chiluba has sworn that he will not after all seek the unconstitutional third term that he worked so hard to win. On 8 May he reaffirmed: 'I am not going to stan...
Vol 42 No 8 | ZAMBIA The cock crows 20th April 2001 Opposition to President Chiluba's term is growing by the day Born-again Christian President Frederick Chiluba arrived back in Lusaka for Easter to denounce the 'ministerial treachery' against him in biblical terms. He compared those minister...
Vol 42 No 8 | ZAMBIA The two-is-enough group 20th April 2001 Fifteen senior members of the governing MMD's National Executive Committee publicly oppose Chiluba's bid for a third term...
Vol 42 No 6 | ZAMBIA Third time unlucky 23rd March 2001 The President's plan to stand again divides the nation and his party President Frederick Chiluba's bid for a third term is in trouble, with three quarrelling factions in the ruling Movement for Multi-party Democracy (AC Vol 41 No 24). The ultra-loya...
