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Levy Mwanawasa: Zambia's next president?

By Kunda, Anthony
Publication: African Business
Date: Monday, October 1 2001
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Zambian President Frederick Chiluba's choice of Levy Mwanwasa, a lawyer with a low political profile to succeed him stunned

many people in the country and abroad. Who is Mwanawasa and why does Chiluba want the Presidential mantle to fall on him? Anthony Kunda gives some

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Levy Mwanawasa, Chiluba's heir apparent, has repeatedly been obliged to deny questions over his ill-health. He insists he is as `fit as a fiddle', and that he would not have been chosen if the truth was otherwise.

Although very few leaders of the numerous opposition parties will openly admit it, Levy Mwanawasa, the burly-looking prominent Zambian lawyer, chosen to succeed President Frederick Chiluba, looks like a formidable candidate.

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