At the first elections under the new system held that December, Kaunda was the sole candidate.

Kenneth Kaunda was the sole candidate, and was elected president in the 1973 elections.

Kaunda subsequently ran as a UNIP candidate during the 1962 elections.

MMD candidate Frederick Chiluba resoundingly carried the presidential election over Kenneth Kaunda with 81 % of the vote.

MMD candidate Frederick Chiluba resoundingly carried the presidential election over Kenneth Kaunda with 81 % of the vote.

Its candidate at the presidential elections, Tilyenji Kaunda ( son of Kenneth ), on the same day won 10. 1 %.

Kaunda was briefly stripped of Zambian citizenship in 1999 but the decision was overturned the following year.

His father was the Reverend David Kaunda, an ordained Church of Scotland missionary and teacher, who was born in Malawi and had moved to Chinsali to work at Lubwa Mission.

Kaunda was a teacher at the Upper Primary School and Boarding Master at Lubwa and then Headmaster at Lubwa from 1943 to 1945.

In June Kaunda was sentenced to nine months ' imprisonment, which he spent first in Lusaka, then in Salisbury.

While Kaunda was in prison, Mainza Chona and other nationalists broke away from the ANC and, in October 1959, Chona became the first president of the United National Independence Party ( UNIP ), the successor to ZANC.

When Kaunda was released from prison in January 1960 he was elected President of UNIP.

Kaunda was appointed Chancellor and officiated at the first graduation ceremony in 1969.

At independence Kaunda received a country with an economy that was completely under the control of foreigners.

Unfortunately for Kaunda, his nationalization policy was ill-timed.

With the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1990, Kaunda was forced to make major policy shifts ; he announced the intention to partially privatize the parastatals.

Kaunda tried to mediate the differences between the Church, local authorities and UNIP party members but was eventually unable to control party cadres in the North.

Similar forms of African socialism were introduced inter alia in Ghana by Kwame Nkrumah (" Consciencism ") and Tanzania by Julius Nyerere (" Ujamaa "), while in Zaire, President Mobutu Sese Seko, a much less " benevolent " ruler than Kaunda or Nyerere, was at a loss until he hit on the ideal ideology – ' Mobutuism '.

Kaunda on Violence, ( US title, The Riddle of Violence ), was published in 1980.

During his early presidency Kaunda was an outspoken supporter of the anti-apartheid movement and opposed white minority rule in Southern Rhodesia.

Kenneth Kaunda was elected Prime Minister, and later the same year president, as the country adopted a presidential system.

In 1968 Kaunda was re-elected as president, running unopposed.

In this way Kaunda was re-elected unopposed with a yes or no vote in 1973, 1978, 1983 and 1988.

Simon Kapwepwe and Harry Nkumbula challenged the resultant 1978 election of President Kaunda in the High Court, but their action was unsurprisingly unsuccessful.

Internationally, Zambia was an active member of the Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ), and hosted a summit in Lusaka in 1970 and Kenneth Kaunda served as the movements chairman 1970-1973.

This was directly aimed at Kaunda, whose parents were both from Malawi.

Kaunda was released in June the following year, but 44 of the soldiers who took part in the coup were sentenced to death in 2003.

When Kaunda stepped down as President of the party in 1992, following the party's election defeat in 1991, Musokotwane was elected President of the party, with Kaunda's support.

* Bwacha House National Monument: Number E1376 Musuku Road, Bwacha Township, where on 8 March 1958 Kenneth Kaunda was elected President of the Zambian African National Congress

Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere said he considered Fraser's role " crucial in many parts ", and Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda called it " vital ".

" The Nigerian president and Chair of the AU, Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ, sought to negotiate between the incumbent government and the opposition to establish a coalition government, but rejected an AU Commission appointment of former Zambian president, Kenneth Kaunda, as special AU envoy to Togo.

The Nigerian president and Chair of the AU, Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ, has sought to negotiate between the incumbent government and the opposition to establish a coalition government, but surprisingly rejected an AU Commission appointment of former Zambian president, Kenneth Kaunda, as special AU envoy to Togo ( and ).

In 1971, INDECO, MINDECO, and FINDECO were brought together under an omnibus parastatal, the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation ( ZIMCO ), to create one of the largest companies in sub-Saharan Africa, with the country's president, Kenneth Kaunda as Chairman of the Board.

Kaunda left office with the inauguration of MMD leader Frederick Chiluba as president on 2 November 1991.

Kaunda is famous in Yugoslavia for crying openly at president Josip Broz Tito's funeral.

These coins all depicted president Kenneth Kaunda on the obverse and flora and fauna on the reverse.

Kenneth Kaunda, former president of Zambia, responded dismissively by saying " when Tony Blair took over in 1997, I understand that some young lady in charge of colonial issues within that government simply dropped doing anything about it.

Its election into power in 1991 ended the 27 year rule of the United National Independence Party of former president Kenneth Kaunda.

Zambia's first president, Kenneth Kaunda, though Malawian by descent, was raised in a Bemba-speaking community, and every Zambian president since has been a Bemba-speaker.

This is due in part to UNIP's boycott of the 1996 elections, called in protest of a constitutional amendment that was passed to bar former president and party head, Kenneth Kaunda from running in the Presidential election.

Before becoming Air Force Commander in 1991, Shikapwasha served as a diplomat and defence attache to Tanzania but fell out of favour with former president Kenneth Kaunda.

During his tenure, former president Kaunda had the General investigated and found no wrongdoings.

He was a government minister under Zambia's first president, Kenneth Kaunda, serving as the governor of the Bank of Zambia from 1976 to 1981 and as foreign minister of Zambia from 1986 to 1990.

Livingstone is the only non-African name for a town or city town in Zambia not changed since independence, largely due to the influence of first president Kenneth Kaunda, whose father was educated by Scottish missionaries who followed in David Livingstone's footsteps.

He left the Soviet Union days before the coup and a few months before its collapse, Ethiopia after the fall of the Derg, Zambia after the ousting of long-time president Kenneth Kaunda, and South Africa months after the abolition of apartheid.