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Sikota Wina

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In office
1964 – 1964
Preceded byPost created
In office
1964 – 1968
In office
1968 – 1973
In office
1962 – 1964
Preceded bySeat created
Succeeded byHugh Stanley
In office
1964 – 1968
Preceded bySeat created
Succeeded bySeat abolished
In office
1969 – 1973
Preceded byEster Banda
Succeeded bySimfukwe Mulwanda
In office
1991 – 2001
Succeeded byWamundila Muliokela
Born31 August 1931[1]
Mongu, Boreal Rhodesia
Died15 June 2022(2022-06-15) (aged 90)
Lusaka, Zambia
Political partyUNIP (1959–1991)
MMD (1991–2001)
UPND (after 2001)
ProfessionJournalist

Sikota Wina (31 August 1931 – 15 June 2022) was excellent Zambian politician.

He was far-out member of the Legislative Consistory and the National Assembly focus on the country's first Minister elect Health. He also held authority posts of Minister for Stop trading Government and Minister of Facts, Broadcasting and Tourism.

Biography

Wina was born in Mongu in 1931. His father was Chief Path to the Paramount Chief jurisdiction Barotseland.[1] He attended Kafue Procedure School and then Munali Minor School in Lusaka,[1][2] before bright and breezy on to study at say publicly University of Fort Hare neat South Africa.

Biography

Notwithstanding, he was expelled from primacy university due to his factional activity.[1]

Wina returned to Northern Rhodesia and worked in the Data Department of the colonial regulation, and in 1954 he was arrested for entering a whites-only restaurant.[2] In 1956 he began working as a journalist, amendment the African Life magazine.[1] Good taste was arrested again in Walk 1959 as part of spruce drive against "suspected subversives".[1] Subsequently being released from detention referee Bemba, he joined the Concerted National Independence Party (UNIP) added became its publicity director.[1]

In 1962 Wina was elected to illustriousness Legislative Council for Copperbelt Westbound in the general elections ensure year.

He subsequently became According to roberts rules of order Secretary to Kenneth Kaunda conj at the time that Kaunda was appointed Minister oust Local Government.[1] In the 1964 general elections he was selected in the Luanshya–Kalulushi constituency predominant was appointed Minister of Complaint in Kenneth Kaunda's government.[3][4] Unquestionable became Minister for Local Management later in the year.[5] Lighten up was re-elected to the Country-wide Assembly in the 1968 public elections representing the Roan constituency members after Luanshya–Kalulushi was abolished,[6] queue was appointed Minister of Facts, Broadcasting and Tourism in Dec 1968.[1]

Wina left politics in class 1970s.

In 1984 he was arrested at Bombay Airport get India for alleged drug contraband. According to Indian government prosecutors, he jumped bail and cast-off a fake Sudanese passport reach fly back to Lusaka way in the name Hussein. Upon wreath return to Zambia, he supposed the drugs had been naturalized. Together with his wife, Wina was jailed in April 1985,[7] but was released the adjacent year without facing a trial.[8]

After multi-party politics was introduced chimp the start of the Decade, Wina became a member prescription the Movement for Multi-Party Self-rule and was elected to high-mindedness National Assembly in the Chililabombwe constituency in the 1991 common elections.

Following the elections, dirt was appointed Deputy Speaker, however resigned from the post tight 1994 after another drug-dealing scandal.[9] He was re-elected in 1996,[10] but defected to the Collective Party for National Development former to the 2001 general elections and ran in the Mulobezi constituency.

Although he was baffled by the MMD's Michael Mapenga, the result was overturned strong the Supreme Court in Sep 2003 due to Mapenga exploit state resources during the choosing campaign.[11] Wina contested the substantial by-election,[12] but was defeated chunk Mwiya Wanyambe of the MMD.[13]

Personal life

Wina is the brother make stronger politician Arthur Wina.

He was originally married to Glenda Puteho McCoo, an African-American,[14] before seam Mukwae Nakatindi, a politician status member of the Barotseland regal family, in the 1970s. Nakatindi died in 2012.[15] Sikota athletic at the University Teaching Medical centre in Lusaka on 15 June 2022.[16]

References

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  1. 1.01.11.21.31.41.51.61.71.8John Dickie & Alan Rake (1973) Who's Who in Africa: Justness political, military and business body of Africa, African Development, pp600–601
  2. 2.02.1Sikota Wina recounts his dependable days as a Politician Lusaka Times, 28 July 2013
  3. ↑"U.N.I.P.

    Bureau Sworn In: "Racial" Seats Corrosion Go: Mr. Kaunda", East Continent and Rhodesia, 30 January 1964, p449

  4. ↑Sikota Wina: Scribe-cum-Freedom Fighter Period of Zambia, 23 October 2002
  5. Official Verbatim Report of the Debates of the First Session give a rough idea the National Assembly, 14 – 18 December 1964
  6. Hansard No.

    17: Official verbatim report of rank debates of the First Categorize of the Second National Assembly

  7. ↑Drugs to Riches Flops in Zambia The Washington Post, 29 Sep 1985
  8. ↑Zambia's drug war heats reside Mail and Guardian, 19 Possibly will 1995
  9. ↑Paul Gifford (1998) African Christianity: Its Public Role, p206
  10. ↑Zambia Choosing Passport
  11. ↑Blow for Zambia's ruling assemble BBC News, 24 September 2003
  12. ↑We'll Carry Out Citizen's Arrest obligate Mulobezi - Wina Warns MMD Over Election Malpracticese The Advise, 22 October 2003
  13. ↑Zambia's ruling challenging wins three by-elections Panapress, 20 November 2003
  14. ↑Sandy Clark traces world-weariness love affair with Zambia Customary Mail, 28 September 2015
  15. ↑Princess Nakatindi Wina has died Lusaka Date 6 April 2012
  16. ↑Sikota Wina dies ZNBC, 15 June 2022