{"id":9979,"date":"2012-05-04T03:25:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T03:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=9979"},"modified":"2012-05-04T03:25:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T03:25:57","slug":"malawi-vs-zambia-what-a-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/04\/malawi-vs-zambia-what-a-coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi vs. Zambia &#8211; WHAT A COINCIDENCE&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><strong>Amazing&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<wbr>&#8230;..<\/wbr><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Both\u00a0<strong>Dr. Kenneth Kaunda<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Dr. Kamuzu Banda<\/strong>\u00a0were longest serving President&#8217;s of both countries and their roots are somehow not traced from Zambia and Malawi, respectively. Both Kaunda and Kamuzu, having a common slogan of<strong>&#8220;Wamuyaya&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0(Forever), had something to carry in their hands as a symbol of Authority.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8747\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Sata.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8747\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8747\" title=\"Sata\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Sata-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zambia&#39;s Sata with Madam Joyce Banda<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>FTJ Chiluba, born in 1943<\/strong>, took over from\u00a0<strong>Kenneth Kaunda<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Bakili Muluzi,born in 1943<\/strong>, took over from\u00a0<strong>Kamuzu Banda<\/strong>. Both Chiluba and Muluzi went on to seek a 3rd term of office but failed after extreme opposition to both bids.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>FTJ Chiluba<\/strong>\u00a0brought in\u00a0<strong>Levy Mwanawasa<\/strong>\u00a0and campaigned for him single handedly;\u00a0<strong>Bakili Muluzi<\/strong>\u00a0brought in\u00a0<strong>Bingu wa Mutharika<\/strong>\u00a0and campaigned for him single handedly<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Both\u00a0<strong>Mwanawasa<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Mutha<wbr>rika<\/wbr><\/strong>\u00a0won those elections.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shortly after being elected as President,\u00a0<strong>Mwanawasa\u00a0<\/strong>fell out favour with\u00a0<strong>Chiluba<\/strong>\u00a0and dragged him to court over corruption; shortly after being elected as President,\u00a0<strong>Mutharika<\/strong>\u00a0fell out favour with\u00a0<strong>Muluzi.<\/strong>\u00a0The new Malawian President took his predecessor to court over corruption.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Now it gets interesting &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Chiluba<\/strong>\u00a0was prosecuted by the\u00a0<strong>Mwanawasa<\/strong>\u00a0administration and\u00a0<strong>Muluzi\u00a0<\/strong>was prosecuted by the<strong>Mutharika\u00a0<\/strong>Administration.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>7\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>Mwanawasa<\/strong>\u00a0won a 2nd Term of office;\u00a0<strong>Mutharikha<\/strong>\u00a0won a 2nd Term of office.\u00a0<strong>Mwanawasa<\/strong>\u00a0chose\u00a0<strong>Rupiah Banda<\/strong>\u00a0as Vice President<strong>, Mutharika<\/strong>\u00a0chose\u00a0<strong>Joyce Banda<\/strong>\u00a0as Vice President.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Mwanawasa<\/strong>\u00a0died in his 2nd term of Office due to Cardiac Arrest,\u00a0<strong>Mutharika<\/strong>\u00a0died in his 2nd term of Office due to Cardiac Arrest (both deaths were predicted by TB Joshua)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Rupiah Banda<\/strong>\u00a0took over from\u00a0<strong>Levy Mwanawasa<\/strong>\u00a0due to death of incumbent;\u00a0<strong>Joyce Banda<\/strong>\u00a0has taken over from\u00a0<strong>Bingu wa Mutharika\u00a0<\/strong>due to death of incumbent.The people who took over from the dead Presidents in both countries are named<strong>&#8220;Banda&#8221;!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>10.\u00a0 Afte<wbr>r 3yrs,\u00a0<strong>President Banda<\/strong>\u00a0in Zambia lost to veteran opposition leader\u00a0<strong>Michael Sata<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>Joyce Banda<\/strong>\u00a0who has taken over the Presidency will face election in 2014 which will make her serve 3 yrs;\u00a0<strong>will she lose to veteran John Tembo??<\/strong><\/wbr><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8230;.. 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Both\u00a0Dr. Kenneth Kaunda\u00a0and\u00a0Dr. Kamuzu Banda\u00a0were longest serving President&#8217;s of both countries and their roots are somehow not traced from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[300,2104,466,1781,258,382],"class_list":["post-9979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa-2","tag-bingu-wa-mutharika","tag-hastings-kamuzu-banda","tag-joyce-banda","tag-kamuzu","tag-malawi","tag-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}