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Leadership matters: remembering Levy Mwanawasa

On 19 August 2008, Levy Patrick Mwanawasa, the third President of Zambia, died in a French hospital after reportedly suffering a stroke. Twelve years later, Mwanawasa remains as vivid in death as he was in public life. He is widely regarded as one of Zambia’s most effective leaders, who secured debt relief, steered the country through a period of sustained economic growth, promoted constitutionalism and the rule of law, and consolidated the country’s democratic tradition.

Although many people know him as president, the presidency was simply the ultimate platform on which Mwanawasa enacted important values whose origin lay in his early life and which define his legacy. These include the importance of family and community, a deep love for learning and growing, capacity for effective and selfless leadership, loyalty to principle, moral force of character, faith in one’s fellow human being, and the proactive use of the law as a shield for the weak and ordinary citizen and not as a sword for the elite and the powerful. Throughout his li

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In 1905, 117 years ago, British Engineers constructed the Victoria Falls Bridge linking Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) across the mighty Zambezi river. This was part of Cecil John Rhodes mega project of connecting Africa from Cape Town to Cairo via rail.

Note, however, that the bridge was built/prefabricated in England and then shipped to Mozambique and transported to its current location from the Port of Beira by rail for assembly. The assembly took only 14 months, and it fit according to specifications.

Note, that this was 117 years ago, before computers & GPS’s were invented. The British Engineers had earlier come to assess the Victoria Falls gorge, take measurements and designed the bridge based on the geology of the gorge, then went to England to build the bridge!

To this day, the bridge is fully operational carrying both trucks and cargo trains – 117 years later.

(Video Courtesy of SINKS TV)

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Levy Mwanawasa

Former President of Zambia (1948–2008)

Levy Patrick Mwanawasa (3 September 1948 – 19 August 2008) was the third president of Zambia. He served as president from January 2002 until his death in August 2008. Mwanawasa is credited with having initiated a campaign to rid the corruption situation in Zambia during his term.^[1] Prior to Mwanawasa's election, he served as the fourth vice-president of Zambia from November 1991 to July 1994,^[2] whilst an elected Member of Parliament of Chifubu Constituency.

Early life and legal career

Mr. Mwanawasa was born in Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia, as the second of 10 children. He held a law degree from the University of Zambia. He worked in private law firms from 1974 until 1978 when he formed his own firm: Mwanawasa & Company. In 1985, Mwanawasa served as Solicitor General in the Zambian government but he went back to private practice in 1986.^[3]

In 1989, he led the legal defence team for Lt. Gen Christon Tembo, who was accused by the Kenneth Kaunda government of conspiracy to ove