Lawrence contested in a Livingstone by-election held on March 14,2013; [2] he emerged victorious and succeeded Howard Sikwela as Livingstone's Member of Parliament. [3] [4]
On November 5,2013,President Michael Sata appointed Lawrence as Deputy Minister of Tourism. [5]
Zambia is a developing country,and it achieved middle-income status in 2011. Through the first decade of the 21st century,the economy of Zambia was one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa,and its capital,Lusaka,the fastest-growing city in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Zambia's economic performance has stalled in recent years due to declining copper prices,significant fiscal deficits,and energy shortages.
Barotseland is a region between Namibia,Angola,Botswana,Zimbabwe including half of north-western province,southern province,and parts of Lusaka,Central,and Copperbelt provinces of Zambia and the whole of Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga Province. It is the homeland of the Lozi people or Barotse,or Malozi,who are a unified group of over 46 individual formerly diverse tribes related through kinship,whose original branch are the Luyi (Maluyi),and also assimilated Southern Sotho tribe of South Africa known as the Makololo.
Mazabuka is a town in the Southern Province of Zambia. It is the capital of Mazabuka District,one of the thirteen administrative units in the Southern Province.
Pemba is a small town located in Pemba District of the Southern Province of Zambia. It is situated on the Lusaka–Livingstone Road,midway between Lusaka and Livingstone. The main ethnic group in the town are the Tonga. Prominent educational institutions found here are Pemba Basic School,Pemba High School,Jembo Mission High School and Kasiya Secretarial College.
Hakainde Hichilema is a Zambian businessman,farmer,and politician who is the seventh and current president of Zambia since 24 August 2021. After having contested five previous elections in 2006,2008,2011,2015 and 2016,he won the 2021 presidential election with 59.02% of the vote. He has led the United Party for National Development since 2006 following the death of the party founder Anderson Mazoka.
Michael Charles Chilufya Sata was a Zambian politician who was the fifth president of Zambia,from 23 September 2011 until his death on 28 October 2014. A social democrat,he led the Patriotic Front (PF),a major political party in Zambia. Under President Frederick Chiluba,Sata was a minister during the 1990s as part of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) government. He went into opposition in 2001,forming the PF. As an opposition leader,Sata –popularly known as "The King Cobra" emerged as the leading opposition presidential contender and rival to President Levy Mwanawasa in the 2006 presidential election,but was defeated. Following Mwanawasa's death,Sata ran again and lost to President Rupiah Banda in 2008.
Zamtel,whose official name is Zambia Telecommunications Company Limited,is a government-owned telecommunication service provider in Zambia. Zamtel is one of three mobile phone networks in the country;the others are Airtel and MTN.
Rupiah Bwezani Banda was a Zambian politician who served as the fourth president of Zambia from 2008 to 2011,taking over from Levy Mwanawasa. Banda was an active participant in politics from early in the presidency of Kenneth Kaunda,during which time he held several diplomatic posts.
Presidential elections were held in Zambia on 30 October 2008 following the death of the incumbent President Levy Mwanawasa on 19 August 2008,as the elections had to be called within 90 days of his death. It was expected that there would be internal problems within the ruling Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) as Mwanawasa had not declared a successor prior to his death,but Acting President Rupiah Banda was selected as the MMD's candidate without apparent problems. Michael Sata stood as the candidate of the Patriotic Front (PF),while Hakainde Hichilema stood as the candidate of the United Party for National Development (UPND). Godfrey Miyanda stood as the candidate of the Heritage Party.
Maureen Mwanawasa is a legal practitioner and was once a First Lady of Zambia from 2002 to 2008. She is also a member of the Association of Women Lawyers in the United Kingdom,a serving council member of Law Association of Zambia Women’s Rights Committee,and is the current Vice Chairperson for the Habitat for Humanity,Zambia Board. She is the current Patron of Breakthrough Cancer Trust and the Child Care &Adoption Society of Zambia.
Chilanga is a township located 20 km south of Zambia's capital city,Lusaka. It is situated midway between Lusaka and Kafue on the T2 road.
Guy Lindsay Scott is a Zambian politician,who served as interim / caretaker President of Zambia from 2014 to 2015,and was the Vice President from 2011 to 2014.
On 7 February 2013,a bus collided with a semi-truck and a sport utility vehicle on the Great North Road,between the towns of Chibombo and Kabwe in the Central Province of Zambia,resulting in the deaths of 49 of the 73 persons on the bus,and of the truck driver and his assistant. A further 28 people were injured.
Presidential elections were held in Zambia on 20 January 2015 to elect a president to serve the remainder of the term of President Michael Sata,following his death on 28 October 2014.
General elections were held in Zambia on 11 August 2016 to elect the President and National Assembly. A constitutional referendum was held alongside the elections,with proposals to amend the bill of rights and Article 79.
Christine Kaseba is a Zambian physician,surgeon and politician who served as the First Lady of Zambia from September 2011 until her husband's death in October 2014. She is the widow of former President Michael Sata,who died in office on October 28,2014. Kaseba made an unsuccessful bid for President of Zambia in the January 2015 special presidential election to succeed her husband. She was appointed Zambian Ambassador to France on April 16,2018.
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Charlotte Harland Scott is a British-born Zambian economic and social development specialist who served as the First Lady of Zambia from October 2014 to January 2015 during the tenure of her husband,interim President Guy Scott. She had previously served as the Chief of Social Policy and Economic Analysis,Planning Monitoring and Evaluation for UNICEF Zambia from 2007 until 2012. In 2016,Scott contested the Lusaka Central seat in the National Assembly during the general election.
Daniel Munkombwe was a Zambian politician. He worked as a political organizer and administrator for the ZANC in Northern Rhodesia before and after independence. He was elected to Parliament in 1973 and served for 19 years. In 2001,he was appointed Minister for the Southern Province by Levy Mwanawasa and continued in that and other government posts until 2015,having been subsequently appointed by Rupiah Banda and Michael Sata.