Mukelebai is accused of conniving with ex-President Frederick Chiluba who is on trial for corruption and theft of public funds to sabotage the cases in court...
Zambia's governing Movement for Multi-party Democracy is split between supporters of President Levy Mwanawasa and the 'true blue' backers of ex-President Frederick Chiluba (who will spend a lot of time in court facing corruption and theft charges)...
Ex-President Frederick Chiluba faces two trials this month after his lawyers failed to block the charges against him as 'vindictive and unfair' (AC Vol 44 No 19); they now insist that some of the 165 accusations duplicate one another...
He is up against opponents within his own Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) who remain loyal to his predecessor Frederick Chiluba...
Frederick Chiluba himself was arrested on 5 August to face 96 counts of theft by a public servant allegedly involving over US$40 million...
Vol 44 No 18 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Mbeki helped to deter both Malawi's President Bakili Muluzi and Zambia's ex-President Frederick Chiluba from pushing for a third term...
The arrest of three leading Bembas ex-President Frederick Chiluba ex-Foreign Minister Katele Kalumba and former intelligence chief Xavier Chungu was seen as ethnically driven...
He also sought pledges that his successors would not allow a 'Zambia situation' to emerge: Zambia's ex-President Frederick Chiluba was charged with corruption shortly after he left office...
The arrest of former President Frederick Chiluba on 24 February to face 66 charges of corruption will make a lot of African leaders even keener to hold on to their jobs...
He says he got it from the embittered ex-President Frederick Chiluba who handed Mwanawasa the presidency and now wants him out of office for fear of being prosecuted...