Michael Chilufya Sata was born in 1937and brought up in Mpika, Northern Province. He worked as a police officer, railway man and trade unionist during colonial rule. He spent time in London working on the railway sweeping the platforms. 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, he 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 constituency in Lusaka. Though once close with President Kenneth Kaunda, he became disillusioned by Kaundas dictatorial style and he left the UNIP to join the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) during the campaign for multi-party politics in 1991. After Frederick Chiluba defeated Kaunda in 1991, Sata became one of Zambias most instantly recognizable faces. Under the MMD, he served as minister for local government, labor and, briefly, health where, he boasts, his reforms brought sanity to the health system.In 1995, he was appointed as minister without portfolio, the partys national organizing secretary during which his political style was described as increasingly abrasive.He graduated as a Bachelor in Political Science at Atlantic International University on 2011. Michael Sata died on the 28. October 2014 in London. He has died while in office aged 77. May God Rest his soul in Peace!!
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:18:52 +0000
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