Other senior UNITA people include Jerónimo Wanga new head of its parliamentary caucus and Jaka Jamba Deputy President of parliament...
But really critical will be the reaction of former foreign affairs spokesman Abel Chivukuvuku and education secretary Jaka Jamba in Luanda and former military negotiator Brigadier Isaías Samakuva in Paris...
Others in this group are the veterans Jaka Jamba and Manuel Savihemba who has been in trouble with the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola for some time because he was seen as close to Savimbi...
A leading figure is Colonel Almerindo Jaka Jamba once UNITA Secretary for Education and Culture and prominent among the parliamentarians elected in 1992 when UNITA won 34 per cent of the 220 seats (a minority has crossed over to UNITA Renovada)...
UNITA's Jaka Jamba and Chivukuvuku have signed up as well as economists and MPLA dissidents such as Vicente Pinto de Andrade and his brother Justino...
Some see him as a potential third force rejecting both Savimbi and the MPLA but he is thought arrogant by others such as Holden Roberto and even his nominal ally Jaka Jamba a respected UNITA member in Luanda just elected as Second Vice-President of parliament...
Yet he failed to win the necessary backing of old UNITA supporters such as Jaka Jamba Geronimo Wanga and Fatima Roque to break with Savimbi and start a new party...
Chivukuvuku has also apparently failed to recruit former UNITA Culture Secretary Jaka Jamba and former Education Secretary Jeronimo Wanga...
Sharing power in the coalition are UNITA's political front line: Abel Chivukuvuku Jorge Valentim Jaka Jamba Marcos Samondo and Vitorino Hossi...
This means exemptions for those individuals in ministerial positions in April's Government of National Unity and Reconciliation (including such UNITA heavyweights as Jorge Valentim Marcos Samondo and Vitorino Hossi) the 70 elected deputies who have taken up their seats in the National Assembly (including UNITA's chief negotiator in the peace process Brigadier Isaias Samakuva and senior UNITA officials such as Abel Chivukuvuku and Jaka Jamba) and former UNITA generals who are now serving in the unified Angolan army (including Gen...
That category includes such prominent UNITA figures as the Minister of Mines and Geology Marcos Samondo; the Tourism Minister Jorge Valentim; the Commerce Minister Victorino Hossi; and members of parliament such as negotiator Samakuva Jaka Jamba and Abel Chivukuvuku...
