KK FELL ILL WHILE ATTENDING A LIBERATION MOVEMENTS REGIONAL MEETING IN NAMIBIA

Zambia’s first president Kenneth Kaunda fell ill while attending a meeting of liberation movements in the Southern Africa region, the Watchdog understands.

Contrary to lies by government and his family that Kaunda went on holiday to reflect on his memoirs, it has emerged that he specifically traveled to attend the meeting of liberation movements.

The meeting held last Thursday in Windhoek was highly charged with anti-colonial rhetoric and demanded the lifting of sanctions on Zimbabwe and release of some Cubans held in USA.

Liberation movements present were MPLA (Angola), ANC (South Africa), Chama Cha Mapinduzi (Tanzania), FRELIMO (Mozambique), SWAPO (Namibia) and ZANU-PF (Zimbabwe) and UNIP of Zambia.

In attendance were Presidents Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, FRELIMO secretary-general Filipe Chimoio Paunde, ANC’s Gwede Mantashe, and Chama Cha Mapinduzi secretary-general Wilson Mukama.

The MPLA of Angola was represented Alberto de Almeda.

The meeting was chaired by Namibia’s President Hifikepunye Pohamba, who is also the president of the country’s ruling SWAPO.

Kenneth Kaunda could not attend the last  meeting on Thursdays as he was taken ill the previous evening.

The real intentions of these liberation heroes is not yet very clear but  the Southern Times, a newspaper funded by regional government gives some insights.

The newspaper reports that the first such meeting was in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in May 2010 in response to a scaled-up onslaught by neo-colonial forces.

Their coming together has its historical basis in the Front Line States, which in turn formed the core of the Southern Africa Development  Co-ordination Conference that later morphed into the Southern Africa Development Community.