Godfrey Miyanda

Godfrey Miyanda (* 1950 in Nampeyo , Monze ) is a politician from Zambia .

In 1969 Godfrey Miyanda joined the Zambian Army and was Brigadier General of the Zambian Armed Forces until 1977 , as such Director of the Army's MSB. After his retirement in 1977 he sold tractors and turned to politics. He was a founding member of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD). In 1981 and 1989, then President Kenneth Kaunda suspected him of participating in an attempted coup. Miyanda was Vice President of Zambia from 1993 to 1997, Minister of Education from 1998 to early 2001. He was expelled from the MMD when he and others thwarted Frederick Chiluba's plan to write a third term as president into the constitution. He ran for the 2001 election himself as a presidential candidate of the Heritage Party , in which he was able to unite 8.09 percent of the vote. His party won four seats in the National Assembly of Zambia . In the 2006 election , however, the political balance in the country had shifted so much that as a presidential candidate he only achieved 1.57 percent and his party failed to make it into the National Assembly. His stronghold is the southern province , where he achieved 74.35 percent in 2006.

Godfrey Miyanda was a critic of the 2003 constitutional reform, which for him was too British and not Zambian enough. Politically, he himself is rooted in UNIP and has strong Christian ties. He belongs to the old Zambian elite.

Godfrey Miyanda was born in 1950 and has seven children.

Web links

• Godfrey Miyanda on the 2003 constitutional reform
• 1981 court record