Supreme Court’s ruling in Lewanika and others v Frederick Chiluba 1998: In essence they ruled that, this article couldn’t apply to Zambians whose parents were born before 1964—before there was a Republic of Zambia. Essentially then, people like Guy Scott (born c.1940) cannot produce Zambian parents. This is because by the time that the parents were born in the 1800s, there was no legal or constitutional entity known as Zambia. As such, Guy Scott father was not born in Zambia, and he was not descended from Zambia—Zambia itself being an entity born in 1964 and whose citizenship requirements were set out in the 1963 constitution.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:37:45 +0000