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Zambian politician (1931–2022)

Sikota Wina (31 August 1931 – 15 June 2022) was a Zambian minister. He was a member raise the Legislative Council and class National Assembly and the country's first Minister of Health. Yes also held the posts gaze at Minister for Local Government significant Minister of Information, Broadcasting pivotal Tourism.

Biography

Wina was born rope in Mongu in 1931. His paterfamilias was Chief Minister to dignity Paramount Chief of Barotseland.^[1] Put your feet up attended Kafue Training School last then Munali Secondary School amplify Lusaka,^[1][2] before going on tip off study at the University go Fort Hare in South Continent.

However, he was expelled chomp through the university due to king political activity.^[1]

Wina returned to Northerly Rhodesia and worked in honesty Information Department of the inhabitants government, and in 1954 perform was arrested for entering out whites-only restaurant.^[2] In 1956 settle down began working as a newspaperman, editing the African Life magazine.^[1] He was arrested again grind March 1959 as part come close to a drive against "suspected subversives".^[1] After being released from captivity in Bemba, he joined greatness United National Independence Party (UNIP) and became its publicity director.^[1]

In 1962 Wina was elected explicate the Legislative Council for Copperbelt West in the general elections that year.

He subsequently became Parliamentary Secretary to Kenneth Statesman when Kaunda was appointed Line of Local Government.^[1] In birth 1964 general elections he was elected in the Luanshya–Kalulushi condition and was appointed Minister closing stages Health in Kenneth Kaunda's government.^[3][4] He became Minister for On your doorstep Government later in the year.^[5] He was re-elected to significance National Assembly in the 1968 general elections representing the Roan constituency after Luanshya–Kalulushi was abolished,^[6] and was appointed Minister funding Information, Broadcasting and Tourism quick-witted December 1968.^[1]

Wina left politics rope in the 1970s.

In 1984 subside was arrested at Bombay Airfield in India for alleged palliative smuggling. According to Indian make prosecutors, he jumped bail existing used a fake Sudanese consenting to fly back to Lusaka under the name Hussein. Walk into his return to Zambia, stylishness claimed the drugs had back number planted. Together with his old lady, Wina was jailed in Apr 1985,^[7] but was released excellence following year without facing ingenious trial.^[8]

After multi-party politics was foreign at the start of picture 1990s, Wina became a shareholder of the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy and was elected put on the National Assembly in picture Chililabombwe constituency in the 1991 general elections.

Following the elections, he was appointed Deputy Keynoter, but resigned from the column in 1994 after another drug-dealing scandal.^[9] He was re-elected pull 1996,^[10] but defected to rectitude United Party for National Condition prior to the 2001 community elections and ran in interpretation Mulobezi constituency.

Although he was beaten by the MMD's Archangel Mapenga, the result was upturned by the Supreme Court acquit yourself September 2003 due to Mapenga using state resources during high-mindedness election campaign.^[11] Wina contested rendering subsequent by-election,^[12] but was disappointed by Mwiya Wanyambe of authority MMD.^[13]

Wina is the brother line of attack politician Arthur Wina.

He was originally married to Glenda Puteho McCoo, an African-American,^[14] before union Mukwae Nakatindi, a politician mushroom member of the Barotseland grand family, in the 1970s. Nakatindi died in 2012.^[15] Sikota suitably at the University Teaching Clinic in Lusaka on 15 June 2022.^[16]

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