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First Lady of Zambia from 2011 to 2014

Christine Kaseba is a Zambianphysician, surgeon and politician who served as the First Lady of Zambia from September 2011 until her husband's death in October 2014. She is the widow of former PresidentMichael Sata, who died in office on October 28, 2014. Kaseba made an unsuccessful bid for President of Zambia in the January 2015 special presidential election to succeed her husband. She was appointed Zambian Ambassador to France on April 16, 2018.

Biography

Kaseba was the second wife of Michael Sata, the country's president from 2011 to 2014. Christine Kaseba and Michael Sata had eight children together. Prior to marrying Kaseba, Sata had been married to his first wife, Margaret Manda.

Kaseba is a long-time physician and surgeon, specializing in gynecology and obstetrics, at University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka. She served as the First Lady of Zambia from 2011 until the death of her husband, President Sata, on October 28, 2014. Kaseba was appointed a World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador against gender violence from 2012 to 2014.

While serving as first lady, she led campaigns against Breast and Cervical cancer under the Forum for African First Ladies. She also significantly contributed to the 6th Stop Cervical Cancer in Africa (SCCA) conference held on July 24, 2012 in Zambia.

Kaseba announced her candidacy for President of Zambia shortly after her husband's death. She filed her nomination papers on November 18, 2014, to contest the January 2015 presidential by-election as a member of Sata's Patriotic Front (PF). Kaseba was one of nine to compete for the PF nomination for president. However, Kaseba and the other seven PF candidates lost their party's nomination to Edgar Lungu at the party's November general conference

Michael Chilufya Sata, Zambia's fifth president who has died in London at the age of 77, will be remembered with equal affection and derision as "King Cobra".

Gravelly-voiced as a result of years of chain-smoking, he was a seasoned and astute politician.

Some Zambians loved him, others loathed him - but in his prime, Mr Sata was a charismatic and witty speaker.

"I would rather go to prison on behalf of the people of Zambia than keep quiet," he once said.

He once belonged to the United National Independence Party (Unip), then led by Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's first president, but later switched to the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD).

When the MMD thwarted his presidential ambitions, he broke away to form the Patriotic Front (PF) in 2001.

Mr Sata finally achieved his life-long ambition to be president at his fourth attempt, winning elections in 2011 and unseating the incumbent Rupiah Banda.

The irony is that after all his efforts, he was not able to finish his first term.

Instead, he became the second Zambian president to die in office.

President of Zambia from 2011 to 2014

Michael Charles Chilufya Sata (6 July 1937 – 28 October 2014) was a Zambian politician who served as the fifth president of Zambia from 2011 until his death in 2014. A social democrat, he led the Patriotic Front (PF), a major political party in Zambia. Under President Frederick Chiluba, Sata was a minister during the 1990s as part of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) government. He went into opposition in 2001, forming the PF. As an opposition leader, Sata – popularly known as "The King Cobra", emerged as the leading opposition presidential contender and rival to President Levy Mwanawasa in the 2006 presidential election, but was defeated. Following Mwanawasa's death, Sata ran again in 2008, losing to Rupiah Banda.

After ten years in opposition, Sata defeated Banda, the incumbent, to win the September 2011 presidential election with a plurality of the vote. He died in London on 28 October 2014, leaving Vice President Guy Scott as Acting President until a presidential by-election was held on 20 January 2015.

Early years

Michael Charles Chilufya Sata was born on 6 July 1937, and brought up in Mpika, Northern Province. He worked under the Zambian Police Service as a police officer, then later as railway man and trade unionist during colonial rule. He spent some time in London working on the railway as a cleaner. Among other things, he was a porter at Victoria railway station. Sata began actively participating in the politics of Northern Rhodesia in 1963. Following independence, Sata worked his way up through the rough-and-tumble rank-and-file of the ruling United National Independence Party (UNIP) to the governorship of Lusaka in 1985. As Governor, he made his mark as a man of action with a hands on approach. He cleaned up the streets, patched roadways and built bridges in the city. Afterward he became a member of parliament for Kabwata const

Gravelly-voiced as a result of years of chain-smoking, Michael Sata rose to political prominence in the 1980s. He quickly earned a reputation as the hardest-working governor while in charge of Lusaka and as a populist man of action. But he was also known for his authoritarian tendencies, an abrasive manner and a sharp tongue - and his critics say his nickname of "King Cobra" was well-deserved.

A devout Catholic, Mr Sata had worked as a police officer, railway man and trade unionist during colonial rule. After independence, he also spent time in London, working as a railway porter, and, back in Zambia, with a taxidermist company.

At the fourth attempt, Mr Sata won presidential elections in 2011. At first he looked as if he would keep promises to tackle corruption and create jobs and prosperity. But his term in office was marred by a crackdown on political opposition and a decline in the economy.

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