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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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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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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