Vernon Mwaanga

Vernon Johnson Mwaanga (born June 25, 1944 ) is a politician in Zambia . Africa Database names June 25, 1944 as his birthday, Geocities the year 1939, which in contrast to the others is not confirmed in scientific literature.

education

Vernon Mwaanga was the son of the deeply religious teacher Rebecca Mweemba Mwaanga and her husband. They are Tonga from the Choma area . He attended Hodgson College in Lusaka, Stanford University in the USA and Oxford University in England.

job

Vernon Mwaanga became High Commissioner in Britain until 1965 in 1964 at the age of 21, then Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1965 to 1966 and then as representative of Zambia to the United Nations - other sources write: High Commissioner in Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica 1968 to 1972. He then switched to the press and worked as editor-in-chief of the Times of Zambia from 1972 to 1973. In 1973 he returned to politics as foreign minister and held office until 1975. From 1976 he worked in prominent positions on various boards of Zambian companies until 1985. He was Arrested earlier that year and charged with drug trafficking. In fact, the United National Independence Party , who were more freedom fighters, wanted to eliminate the technocrats, especially him. After that he continued to operate successfully. In 1991 Frederick Chiluba reappointed him foreign minister, which he remained until 1994. He was then National Secretary of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy . On June 18, 2006, President Levy Mwanawasa appointed him Minister of Information and Media, and thus government spokesman. In fact, he became his election campaign manager and also led the election campaign committee of the MMD. Vernon Mwaanga was confirmed in this office after the 2006 election in Zambia in October. He was appointed a member of the National Assembly of Zambia in 2006.

The press in Zimbabwe recently described Vernon Mwaanga as the leading light in the MMD. He was already considered by a US magazine at the time of Kenneth Kaunda as a later possible President of Zambia. At the National Institute for Public Administration , Mwaanga introduced diplomatic training, which points to a professionalization and an increase in the effectiveness of politics in Zambia, and which will reduce the importance of party loyalty in the future.

Private life

Vernon Mwaanga was married at least three times, with the last wife being considered a mesalliance .

Web links

• Biography Africa Database ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Mwanawasaization of Jobs ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

literature

• Vernon J. Mwaanga, An Extraordinary Life, Lusaka: Multimedia Publications 1982
• Vernon J. Mwaanga, The Other Society: A Detainee's Diary, Lusaka: Fleetfoot Publishing Company Ltd. 1986