Hakainde Hichilema

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Hakainde Hichilema (2021)

Hakainde Hichilema (born June 4, 1962 in Hachipona near Monze , then the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland , now Zambia ) is a Zambian politician , businessman and the President of Zambia since August 24, 2021.

education

Hakainde Hichilema was born in Hachipona, a village west of Monze in Zambia. He attended the Mooya Primary School from 1969, the Nkandela School from 1973 and graduated from the Kalomo Secondary School in 1980. He then served the National Service at Mushili Camp near Ndola for six months . From 1981 to 1986 he studied economics and management at the University of Zambia in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, thanks to a scholarship . He then obtained a Masters Degree in Finance & Business Strategy from the University of Birmingham in the UK. Hichilema is a member of the Tonga people and married to Mutinta Hichilema, with whom he has three children, the daughter Miyanda (* 1994) and the two sons Habwela (* 1997) and Chikonda (* 2000).

Professional career

He has worked at: Equator Advisory Services, Assistant Advisor, 1986; Coopers & Lybrand , restructuring of the Industrial Development Corporation (INDECO) , 1986. From 1994 to 1998 he was CEO for Coopers & Lybrand Zambia, and from 1998 to 2006 he held the same position for Grant Thornton Zambia. Both companies belong to multinational management consulting and service groups. During these years he held the following positions:

Chairman of the board of:

  • Sun International
  • Greenbelt Fertilizers Ltd
  • Media Trust Fund
  • Export Development Program

Director of:

  • Zambia Investment Board
  • Seedco Zambia
  • African Financial Services Limited
  • Zambezi Nickel or Bermuda Limited (Bermuda)
  • West Lake Investments (Mauritius)

Board member of:

  • Zambia Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry
  • Zambia Business Forum
  • seven other board members

In the meantime, as a private entrepreneur, he has become the second largest cattle breeder in Zambia and a multimillionaire.

Political career

Hichilema election results in presidential elections
choice percent
2006 25.32%
2008 19.96%
2011 18.54%
2015 47.16%
2016 47.63%
2021 59.02%

Hichilema is President of the United Party for National Development (UPND). He succeeded the late Anderson Mazoka in this capacity .

Hichilema has run in six presidential elections since 2006. In the 2006 election in Zambia , he was nominated for the presidency by the United Democratic Alliance , a three-party alliance of the United Party for National Development (UPND), the United National Independence Party (UNIP) and the Forum for Democracy and Development Zambia set up. With 25.32 percent of the vote, he reached third place just behind the future President Michael Sata , but he proved to be a political heavyweight and a bearer of hope. In the early presidential election in 2008 , which was made necessary by the death of incumbent Levy Mwanawasa , Hichilema ran as the top candidate of the UPND and came in third place with 19.96 percent of the vote. Even with the presidential election in 2011 he was UPND-Spitzendkandidat, reaching 18.54 percent. After the death of Michael Sata, an early new election in 2015 became necessary, in which Hichilema faced Edgar Lungu from the Patriotic Front and was just defeated with 47.16 percent. The result was even narrower in the following election in 2016 , in which Hichilema again lost to Lungu with 47.63 to 50.35 percent. Hichilema and his supporters did not want to recognize the election result due to alleged irregularities and as a result there was a permanent feud between Lungu and Hichilema. In April 2017, Hichilema was arrested after allegedly not clearing enough space for President Lungu's car convoy and thus allegedly endangering it. He was released after 100 days in detention.

In the presidential election on August 12, 2021 , Hichilema and his vice-presidential candidate Mutale Nalumango won with over 2.8 million votes (59.02%) against incumbent Edgar Lungu, who received a good 1.8 million votes. Four days after the election he was declared the election winner by the election commission. Incumbent Lungu described the election process as not free and not fair and initially rejected the result. Hichilema's party called this the last desperate act of an outgoing government. Lungu later accepted his defeat.

The election victory of the opposition candidate Hichilema in Zambia despite adverse conditions also sparked hopes for a peaceful change of power among opposition leaders in other African countries. Exemplary expressed Nelson Chamisa in Zimbabwe , Tundu Lissu in Tanzania and Mmusi Maimane in South Africa that even in their country a democratic change of power after sambischem model must be possible. In addition, Hichilema had expressly invited not only incumbent heads of state and government, but also opposition leaders from other African countries to his inauguration on August 24, 2021 in Lusaka .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dickens Olewe: Hakainde Hichilema: Zambia's new president inspires African opposition leaders. August 24, 2021, accessed August 24, 2021 .
  2. ↑ a b HH’s curriculum vitae. September 19, 2008, accessed August 16, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Aislinn Laing: Africa needs leaders to run countries like CEOs, Zambia's opposition leader says. January 19, 2015, accessed August 16, 2021 .
  4. ^ Zambia: opposition claims fraud in presidential vote. Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2016, accessed August 15, 2016
  5. ↑ Police arrest opposition leaders in Zambia. Der Standard, April 11, 2017, accessed April 19, 2017.
  6. ^ Hakainde Hichilema's treason trial puts Zambia at crossroads. BBC News, May 24, 2017, accessed August 17, 2021 .
  7. ^ Opposition leader Hichilema wins presidential election , DLF, August 16, 2021.
  8. ↑ https://www.lusakatimes.com/2021/08/14/president-lungu-has-rejected-the-elections-results-the-elections-were-not-free-and-fair/
  9. ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58226695
  10. ↑ https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/zambian-president-lungu-concedes-defeat-after-rivals-landslide-win-2021-08-16/
personal data
SURNAME Hichilema, Hakainde
SHORT DESCRIPTION Zambian politician
BIRTH DATE 4th June 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hachipona near Monze