Английская Википедия:Andrew Kashita
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Andrew Elias Kashita (1932 – 13 January 2020) was a Zambian politician. He served as Member of the National Assembly and held several ministerial posts.
Biography
An engineer by training, Kashita became Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and then managing director of INDECO (Industrial Development Corporation of Zambia).[1][2] He was appointed Minister of Mines and Industry in 1973,[3] and was also given a nominated seat in the National Assembly. Following a dispute regarding his decision to reduce copper production by 15%, he was dismissed from the cabinet in January 1975,[4] also losing his seat in parliament.[5]
In 1990 Kashita returned to politics as one of the founder members of the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy. He was elected to the National Assembly in the Bwana Mkubwa constituency in the 1991 general elections, and was appointed Minister of Transport and Communications.[6] He was later moved to become Minister of Works and Supply in a cabinet reshuffle in January 1994,[7] but was sacked on 17 July 1995.[8] He did not contest the 1996 general elections.
Kashita died on 13 January 2020.[9]
References
- ↑ "Only Zambian Professional Mechanical Engineer", Farming in Zambia, Volumes 3–6, 1967, p28
- ↑ Night of long knives retold By ANDREW KASHITA Lusaka Voice, 19 May 2013
- ↑ Miles Larmer (2013) Rethinking African Politics: A History of Opposition in Zambia, Ashgate Publishing, p170
- ↑ Marcia Burdette (2021) Zambia: Between Two Worlds
- ↑ Colin Legum (1975) Africa Contemporary Record: Annual Survey and Documents, Volume 7, p329
- ↑ Katongo Mulenga Maine (2018) The Life and Journey of an Entrepreneur, Gadsden Publishers, p127
- ↑ "Chiluba reshuffles cabinet in bid to stem crisis over drug-dealing", South African Monthly Regional Bulletin, January 1994
- ↑ Jacqueline Audrey Kalley, Elna Schoeman & Lydia Eve Andor (1999) Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997 Greenwood Publishing Group, p706
- ↑ Former Cabinet Minister Andrew Kashita has died. Lusaka Times, 13 January 2020
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