The vast majority of Politburo members retained their seats including long-standing Dos Santos loyalists such as Julião Mateus Paulo 'Dino Matross' Kundi Paihama Pitra Neto Fernando Piedade dos Santos 'Nandó' and Higino Carneiro...
Vol 49 No 14 |
- ANGOLA
- ANALYSIS
The generals are on their way down starting with the Defence Minister Kundi Paihama whom the MPLA recently rebuked for talking too fiercely about UNITA...
Pedro Neto Chief of the Air Staff Defence Minister Kundi Paihama and Finance Minister José Pedro de Morais...
When the Inter-State Defence and Security Committee of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) met in Luanda on 2-7 June Angola's Defence Minister Kundi Paihama poured scorn on his South African colleague Mosiuoa Lekota saying the attacks on immigrants had brought 'shame on Africa'...
Kundy Paihama Defence Minister is a veteran populist who has fallen well short of expectations that he would be a force for reform...
Second-league contenders are Defence Minister Kundy Paihama; ex-Premier Marcolino Moco and National Assembly President Roberto de Almeida...
Also mentioned was Assembly President Roberto de Almeida; ex-Premier Marcolino Moco; ex-MPLA SG and Premier Lopo de Nascimento; and populist Defence Minister Kundi Paihama...
Last month President Sam Nujoma backed Luanda's onslaught on 'UNITA bandits' straight after a summit at State House Windhoek with Angolan Defence Minister Kundi Paihama Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Congo-Kinshasa's President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...
At the February meeting the Central Committee voted Kundi Paihama a former intelligence chief onto the Political Bureau partly to acknowledge his popularity and partly as a listening post...
