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Between 1998 and 2001, almost all of the MMDs Members of Parliament in Southern Province died. This made Southern Province the only province in Zambia to have had very few original 1996 incumbents by the 2001 elections. All the ensuing by-elections were swept by a new party the UPND. Of all these deaths, the most devastating was that of Bennie Mwiinga. A front runner in MMD succession politics. Through these Southern Province by-elections Anderson Mazokas UPND had risen from total obscurity to become the largest opposition block in parliament.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:58:35 +0000

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