Once described by The Jerusalem Post as 'a notorious chronic liar' Ben-Menashe worked closely with the deeply corrupt late president of Zambia Frederick Chiluba before finding fame as a prosecution witness in a trumped-up treason trial of the late Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai...

The government called in Michael Sullivan QC the British lead lawyer on then President Levy Mwanawasa's Task Force on Corruption who had doggedly pursued Zambia's second president Frederick Chiluba and managed to get a judgement against him for $58 mn...

Ben-Menashe was also investigated by Zambia's anti-corruption authorities over a maize import deal with the late Frederick Chiluba once Zambia's President (AC Vol 49 No 10 Sick man sick opposition)...

When the late President Frederick Chiluba attempted to secure an unconstitutional third term in 2001 it was the reluctance of MPs in his own party to back his plans that led to the collapse of his bid (AC Vol 42 No 6 Third time unlucky)...

Former Presidents Rupiah Banda and the late Frederick Chiluba tried to close down the paper which is edited and published by Fred M'membe...

Hichilema is also often accused of having unfairly benefited from the privatisation of state-owned enterprises under the reign of President Frederick Chiluba...

For civic activists and oppositionists that would risk a return to the era of impunity of the late President Frederick Chiluba...

They were involved in import-export business and expanded in Zambia under the protection of the late President Frederick Chiluba who was also Bemba...