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  • Official Name: The Republic of Zambia
  • President: Frederick T. J. Chiluba
  • Vice President: Gen. Christon Tembo
  • Size: 752,618 sq km. or 290,586 sq m.
  • Population: 9,100,000 - 12 per sq km
  • Largest cities:
    • Lusaka
    • Kitwe
    • Ndola
  • Monetary unit: Kwacha - Ngwee
  • Languages: English and 73 indigenous languages.
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    HUMPREY MULEMBA

    SECRETARY GENERAL
    1981 - 1985


    Humprey Mulemba, Zambia's Secretary-General from 1981 to 1985, was born in September 1932 in Lusaka and went to school at St. Canisius College. He worked in the mines in Chingola until he went into the labour movement, rising to the full-time secretary of the General Workers' Union.

    In 1959, he was detained for his political activities and released a year later. He was elected to Parliament in 1964 and was appointed deputy speaker, serving until 1967 when he was appointed a deputy minister. He became a full Cabinet minister in 1968 as Minister of Luapula Province.

    He later served as Minister of Trade and Industry, Minister of Mines before he was appointed Secretary-General, the number two position, on February 18, 1981. He held the position until April 24, 1985 when he was replaced by Grey Zulu. Mulemba was sent into diplomatic service. He later became a member of the opposition party.

    Mulemba died in 1998.

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