In bowing out gracefully, Mr Kaunda looks as though he has taken the advice.

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The following day, Mr Chiluba announced that Mr Kaunda was being transferred from jail to house arrest.

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America, Britain and South Africa all called for Mr Kaunda to be charged and tried, or released.

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In 1969, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda announced nationalization of copper mining companies, key to Zambia's economy contributing over 50 percent of government revenue.

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When the charges against Mr Kaunda were dropped this week, South African President Nelson Mandela denied he had intervened to secure a deal.

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In his most famous case, he defended former Vice-President Lt-Gen Christon Tembo and others who were charged in 1989 with plotting to overthrow Kenneth Kaunda.

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In 1964, Kenneth Kaunda became president-designate of Zambia, formerly Northern Rhodesia.

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After Mr Chiluba defeated Mr Kaunda in 1991, Mr Sata became one of Zambia's most instantly recognisable faces, as the now ruling party's national organising secretary.

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He also visited Mr Kaunda in prison on December 30th.

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There, on Christmas day, the current president, Frederick Chiluba, who on his election in 1991 was hailed as a fine democrat, threw into jail his once autocratic but now elderly predecessor, Kenneth Kaunda.

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Kaunda was voted out in 1991.

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