Rupiah Bwezani Banda

Last year Sata and the PF won the elections partly because of Zambians’ disillusionment with the 20-year rule of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy and the presidency of Rupiah Banda (AC Vol 52 No 20 Troubled exit for Banda)...

Having lost faith in his own party the Movement for Multiparty Democracy former President Rupiah Banda has secretly begun financing the United Party for National Development led by Hakainde Hichilema say political sources in Lusaka...

His predecessor President Rupiah Banda had been sceptical about Mugabe feeling he had procrastinated over political reform and strung SADC along with unfulfilled promises...

Many Zambians see the judiciary as corrupt and compromised by too close an association with the previous government of President Rupiah Banda...

The Director of Public Prosecutions Mutembo Nchito has his sights on Henry Banda son of ex-President Rupiah Banda over his role in the US$257 million sale of most of the Zamtel network to LAP Green Networks of Libya (AC Vol 52 No 12 Banda brothers on the attack)...

King Cobra’s anti-corruption campaign is faring little better with little punishment on show for the ‘massive plunder’ by ex-President Rupiah Banda which he promised to unearth (AC Vol 53 No 5 Lusaka restarts the anti-corruption campaign)...

1 billion kwacha (US$395 000) dug up at the farm of former Labour Minister Austin Liato there is little to show for the ‘massive plunder’ of national resources of which the PF accused Rupiah Bwezani Banda’s government (AC Vol 53 No 5 Lusaka restarts anti-corruption campaign)...

President Michael Sata is cheering donors and his supporters by relaunching the fight against corruption begun under the late President Levy Mwanawasa but curtailed under President Rupiah Banda...

Born in 1938 Chikwanda was a member of the United National Independence Party’s youth wing during the struggle for Independence alongside Sata and former President Rupiah Banda...

During the lunch held in honour of the victorious Chipolopolo on 15 February at State House Sata quipped ‘The Chinese of [former President] Rupiah Banda are different to the Chinese of Michael Sata...