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- <text id=91TT2497>
- <title>
- Nov. 11, 1991: World Notes:Zambia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 11, 1991 Somebody's Watching
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 67
- World Notes
- ZAMBIA
- Kaunda Kayoed
- </hdr><body>
- <p> In the country's first multiparty election since 1968, voters
- emphatically rejected founding father Kenneth Kaunda in a
- landslide for the opposition. Kaunda, 67, had been President
- since Zambia gained independence from Britain in 1964 and led
- black Africa against apartheid. But his authoritarian rule and
- economic mismanagement led to riots and an aborted coup last
- year that forced him to legalize rival parties.
- </p>
- <p> The new President is Frederick Chiluba, 48, chairman of
- the 300,000-member Zambia Congress of Trade Unions. He
- campaigned on a platform of democracy and human rights, vowing
- to replace the bankrupt socialist economy with a free market.
- At election rallies he demanded of supporters, "Are you ready
- to sweat for Zambia?" His answer came in the form of 80% of the
- votes cast.
- </p>
- <p> Kaunda's people would have preferred him to step down
- gracefully instead of fighting to the bitter end. But Kaunda's
- lasting legacy may be the election itself. By accepting the
- results of a free, hard-fought contest, he provided a democratic
- model for the rest of a continent still dominated by one-party
- dictatorships.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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