Benny Tetamashimba

Benny Tetamashimba († September 5, 2009 in Lusaka ) was a politician in Zambia .

Benny Tetamashimba was one of the political heavyweights in Zambia, was considered idiosyncratic and a friend of open, polarizing words. The term “politician recycling” comes from him and describes those who were responsible for the economic decline of Zambia and who are now founding new parties in a democracy.

Tetamashimba was a board member of the North Western Cooperative Union and President of the Zambia Cooperative Federation until February 2004 when he was fired for "defamation".

Benny Tetamashimba was a member of parliament in 1996. For the National Party , he won the Solwezi West constituency and was then general secretary of the United Party for National Development . In the 2001 election in Zambia, he won the mandate of the constituency of Solwezi -Zentral in the National Assembly for the UPND .

After internal party disputes and exclusion from the party because of "insubordination", he moved in 2003 together with Austin Liato to the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy . In May 2006 he was Deputy Minister for Information and Media. He was also the spokesman for the MMD.

After the 2006 election , in which he won his old constituency, he was appointed Deputy Minister for Labor and Services. Most recently, he was Minister for Local Administration and Housing.

Benny Tetamashimba died in intensive care at Lusaka University Teaching Hospital after returning from South Africa to his home country for special medical treatment at the Morningside Clinic in Johannesburg .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LusakaTimes.com: Tetamashimba has died-Update 2 . on www.lusakatimes.com (English)
2. ↑ UKZAMBIANS Media: Benny Tetamashimba is dead . News from September 6, 2009 on www.ukzambians.co.uk (English)