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  SADOCC - News - Death of Mainza Chona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Zambias liberation leader and first prime minister, Mainza Chona, died on December 11, in a South African hospital where he was taken for an operation.
Chona’s actual age was not known, but his family believed he was born around 1930.
Chona was also among elders who initiated moves to bring all the political parties in Zambia together in a bid to resolve conflicts before general elections due to be held on December 27.
www.sadocc.at /news2002/2001-94.shtml   (339 words)

  
 Part 1 Chiefs and the State in Independent Zambia : exploring the Zambian National Press
Mainza Chona, had organized hearings in all provinces of the country, and had generated a general reflection and debate as to the future constitutional and political structure of Zambia; the Commission’s report was published in October, 1972 (Republic of Zambia 1972).
Vice-President Mainza Chona was among several hundreds of people who attended a two-day ‘chisungu’ (initiation) ceremony of his niece, 21-year-old Miss MacLeanah Hangala which ended yesterday.
Mainza Chona), the ceremony suggests a considerable continuity between neo-traditional and modern leadership, and shows how a chief’s capital can still form the focus of regional ties between modern politicians.
www.shikanda.net /ethnicity/part1.htm   (6324 words)

  
 Part 2 Chiefs and the State in Independent Zambia : exploring the Zambian National Press
The very notion of patronage suggests the crossing of boundaries between socio-political spheres differing in power; and in this respect the chiefs seeking to establish ties of patronage with modern politicians and civil servants are emphatically not civil servants themselves.
Already in 1972, in her testimony before the Chona Commission, Princess Nakatindi argued that the House of Chiefs should be given greater powers, by allowing it to contribute two ministers to the Cabinet [4.31]; and the House should be ‘to be more effective on matters of tradition’ (a suggestion from the Ndola City Council, [2.8]).
By contrast, the member of the House of Chiefs, Senior Chief Mushili, in his statement to the Chona Commission, is very critical of the way police officers cannot carry out their duties without interference from politicians.
www.shikanda.net /ethnicity/part2.htm   (10226 words)

  
 The Namibian | Africa News | Chiluba declares day of mourning for Zambian liberation hero
Chiluba has declared Sunday as the day for national mourning for the late Chona, who was the nation's first prime minister, the report said.
Chona died on Tuesday in a South African hospital where he was taken for an operation.
His actual age was not known, but his family believed he was born around 1930.
www.namibian.com.na /2001/December/africa/0130ABA61B.html   (298 words)

  
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LUSAKA -- Zambian president Frederick Chiluba has declared tomorrow a day of mourning for liberation leader Mainza Chona, who died in South Africa two days ago, state radio said yesterday.
Chona was the nation's first prime minister, the report said.
The declaration means all entertainment activities will be banned tomorrow, while flags will fly at half-mast and state radio will only play solemn music, the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation said.
www.dispatch.co.za /2001/12/15/foreign/GUPDATE.HTM   (300 words)

  
 Southern African News Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was decided that the talks would be reconvened later in South Africa at the invitation of the South African government.
Zambian liberation leader Mainza Chona, who was the nation's first prime minister died in a South African hospital early this month.
He relinguished power to his close friend, Kenneth Kaunda, who became the first Zambian President.
www.sardc.net /editorial/sanf/2001/iss24/NewsBriefs.html   (642 words)

  
 Chona, Mainza M - Former Prime Minister of Zambia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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people.africadatabase.org /en/person/2248.html   (255 words)

  
 Trendsetters : By Youth for Everyone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Unfortunately in 1959 the Governor of Northern Rhodesia banned anything involving ZANC and imprisoned its leaders.
Subsequent to the bane Mainza Chona formed the party known as UNIP, which he later handed over leadership to KK because he felt that Dr Kaunda was the best man for the job.
Not only did UNIP have to contend with British rule, but it also had to put up with tribal bickering and party violence amongst the Zambian people.
trendsettersonline.org /content/archives/2001/backto1964.htm   (520 words)

  
 Zamnet Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He said the bills resulted from the cases in which lawyers, Nelly Mutti, Sakwiba Sikota, Sachika Sitwala, Prof.
Patrick Mvunga., and the late Mainza Chona's law firm represented first republican president Dr. Kenneth Kaunda in a number of cases including the Kabwe shooting incident.
He said judgement had been pending for four years that were given to UNIP in which to settle the bills, but that the period had elapsed without the party paying off the debt.
www.zamnet.zm /newsys/news/viewnews.cgi?category=6&id=1103105102   (378 words)

  
 1997 Human Rights Reports: Zambia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jambwa was detained for 10 hours at Lusaka Central prison and asked to reveal the source of his story.
In December 1996, police charged the opposition's legal counsel, Mainza Chona, with "publishing false news with intent to cause alarm among the public".
This followed a statement that Chona made in the Supreme Court that a suspected bomb had been planted at former president Kaunda's house.
www.usemb.se /human/human97/zambia.html   (5966 words)

  
 Welcome to the Daily Dispatch - 2001/12/15
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Zambia mourns Chona LUSAKA -- Zambian president Frederick Chiluba has declared tomorrow a day of mourning for liberation leader Mainza Chona, who died in South Africa two days ago, state radio said yesterday.
Aborigine arrests on rise SYDNEY -- Nearly a third of Australia's indigenous people have been arrested in the past five years, a study released this week showed.
www.dispatch.co.za /2001/12/15/foreign   (454 words)

  
 Great North Road (GNR, Northern Rhodesia, Zambia) -- Message Board
For example, Busiku in Tonga and Wamuwi in Lozi denote that one was born at night while Mainza and Miyoba in Tonga indicate that one was born during the rainy season.
Among the people of southern Zambia a baby who gets the name Nchimunya which means "as before" denotes that baby’s sex is the same as the sex of the previous one while Mutinta denotes that the baby has broken the sex line of the previous births in that family.
In the 1950s and 1960s it was common for people to give names of Zambia renown nationalists like Kaunda, Chona, Nkumbula, Kapwepwe, Munukayumbwa,Kamanga and many others to identify themselves with the liberation struggle.
www.greatnorthroad.org /bboard/archived/2003_04_Apr.php   (16164 words)

  
 ZAMBIA
On December 5, a senior and founding member of the opposition UNIP, Mainza Chona, was summoned by police to appear before a magistrate because of a statement he had made three weeks earlier (November 14) about a bomb being planted in the home of the UNIP president Kenneth Kaunda.
The December 11 Post reported that Chona was charged with publication of false news with intent to cause fear and alarm to the public and that he had made the statement knowing or having reason to believe that such statement was false.
On December 12, police summoned ZDC President, Dean Mung'omba, to Central Police Station for "interviews." He was told to report to the divisional criminal investigations officer, but did not.
www.hrw.org /reports/1997/zambia/Zambia-03.htm   (11049 words)

  
 Zamnet Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mr Silwamba also benefited with motor vehicles from the Zamtrop account.
Mr Mwanawasa, the late Litunga, Mrs Betty Kaunda, Late Mainza Chona, Grey Zulu, Chief Mpezeni, Chief Chitimukulu, late Chief Mushili and the retired boxer Lottie Mwale were alleged as some of the people who received medical treatment abroad using the Zamtrop account.
Chungu alleged Mrs Kaunda was taken to England every year for treatment and given 50,000 British pounds and 15,000 pounds spent on five air tickets for the entourage.
www.zamnet.zm /newsys/news/viewnews.cgi?category=30&id=1044091718   (1265 words)

  
 ZAMLII - The acts of Zambia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The modality for'this would be carried under Commission of Inquiry.
A Commission of Inquiry, headed by the Vice-President, Mr Mainza Chona, was appointed to receive evidence and examine the form Zambia's one-party state would take.
The presidential directive made it clear from the outset that the Commission had no power to hear evidence on the admissibility or otherwise of a one-party state.
www.zamlii.ac.zm /media/news/viewnews.cgi?category=6&id=1061194867   (17847 words)

  
 Ideias para Debate: June 2005
Escrevi noutra ocasião que é preciso reconhecer a trinta anos de distância a grandeza e valor simbólico do gesto.
Do lado zambiano estavam os Chonas e salvo erro Grey Zulu, Secretário Geral da UNIP, o Partido no poder.
Do lado português Mário Soares e Otelo, do nosso lado Samora, Chissano e eu.
ideiasdebate.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_ideiasdebate_archive.html   (16451 words)

  
 The Presidential Term of Office - Oasis Presentation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The issue of a limited presidency has universal support in Zambia.
As far back as 1972, during the Mainza Chona Commission of Inquiry on the Establishment of the One-Party State, people rejected the idea of a freehold term for the presidency.
Consequently, the Commission, as John Mwanakatwe has explained,
www.ccjp.org.zm /michelos-paper.htm   (5738 words)

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