THE EXIT of Kenneth Kaunda, Lambias autocratic leader since 1964, in the recent elections makes him prominent of Africa's leaders to be defeated at the ballot box. His party, the United National Independence Party (UNIP), has been smashed, winning only 20 seats in the new 150-seat parlament.
Many socialists mistook Kaunda's support for national liberation struggles in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Mozambique, Angola and South Africa to e signs of a progressive regime. Though he is a genuine anti-colonialist, he is rabidly anticommunist and was happy to do business with Western capital after independence.
In 1975-76 he intervened in Angola on the side of the South African and American-backed UNITA against the left-wing MPLA. In Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe he supported the bourgeois nationalist ZAPU and lestroyed the leftist ZANU's base in Zambia. regarded Kaunda as a loyal ally in phore him recentty by canepn zambias 5250 millon recently by canIt was his mismanagement of the economy. measures and the allegations of corruption surrounding his family and close associates that bia is one of the world's largest population, owing 64.6 billion dependence, 93% of the amintry's foreign exchange in carned by extraction of copper and cobalt. The mines were nationalised in 197%, comoauns with the collapse of world cop ATLANTIC OCEAN Victorious: Frederick Chiluba per pricen.
urbanised country (60% of the population), the lifting of food subsidies in June 1990 hurt the poor. Food riots broke out and a there was a short-lived coup ed by a junior army officer nousn order was Testorea,e movement for political Prutansm was bort Popular pressure on Kaunda forced him recognise the legality of the then-unofficial opposítion coalition, the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) and promise clections in 1991.
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