Newstead Zimba

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Newstead Lewis Zimba is a Zambian trade unionist , politician and diplomat .

Life

Newstead Zimba, along with Frederick Chiluba, was one of the union leaders who were arrested by Kenneth Kaunda in July 1981 on charges of attempting a coup after the second strike within six months paralyzed the Zambian copper and cobalt industry. Zimba is still (as of 2012) a member of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy , which finally put an end to the one-party rule of UNIP in the 1991 election in Zambia .

From 1974 Zimba was General Secretary of the Zambian Trade Union Federation Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). After the election victory in 1991 he became Minister of Home Affairs in the government of President Frederick Chiluba, who appointed him Minister of Labor and Social Security after the 1996 election in Zambia . In September 1998, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, he took over the position of Minister for Information and Media.

In 2003, under President Levy Mwanawasa , he was accredited as Zambian ambassador to Sweden . From March 23, 2006 to 2007, he was High Commissioner for Zambia in Canada , the first after Zambia closed its embassy in Ottawa in 1995 as part of austerity measures - as did those in France and Italy .

Newstead Zimba was married to Naomi, nee Mbewe, for the second time since 1993. The couple had three children together and divorced in 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jon Kraus (Ed.): Trade Unions and the Coming of Democracy in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, ISBN 978-1-349-37021-4 , p. 128.
  2. ↑ Katharine Murison (Ed.): Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. 33rd edition. Routledge, 2004, ISBN 1-85743-183-9 , p. 1200.
  3. ^ High Commissioner. Zambia High Commission of the Republic of Zambia in Canada, accessed October 21, 2016 .
  4. ^ Newstead Zimba's wife collapses after she lost family house following divorce. In: Lusaka Times. November 5, 2013, accessed October 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Zimba, Newstead
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimba, Newstead Lewis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zambian trade unionist, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century