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==Early life and education== | ==Early life and education== | ||
Changufu’s roots can be traced to [[Chief Mwamba]]’s area in [[Kasama]] where he was born in October 1927. That is where he started his school, going up to standard six after which he could not go to secondary school following the ban on his entire class from doing so by education authorities in the district after failing to do certain chores despite having written their exams.<ref name=dailymail>[https://www.daily-mail.co.zm/?p=64915 Changufu: Death of Cha Cha Cha mastermind, Zambia Daily Mail, 30 April 2016]</ref> | Changufu’s roots can be traced to [[Chief Mwamba]]’s area in [[Kasama]] where he was born in October 1927. That is where he started his school, going up to standard six after which he could not go to secondary school following the ban on his entire class from doing so by education authorities in the district after failing to do certain chores despite having written their exams.<ref name=dailymail>[https://www.daily-mail.co.zm/?p=64915 Changufu: Death of Cha Cha Cha mastermind, Zambia Daily Mail, 30 April 2016]</ref> | ||
==Masterminding the Cha Cha Cha Uprising== | ==Masterminding the Cha Cha Cha Uprising== | ||
[[File:Lewis Changufu - KK leadership.jpg|350px|thumbnail|left|Lewis Changufu (second in top row from left) with [[Kenneth Kaunda]]'s [[United National Independence Party]].]] | [[File:Lewis Changufu - KK leadership.jpg|350px|thumbnail|left|Lewis Changufu (second in top row from left) with [[Kenneth Kaunda]]'s [[United National Independence Party]].]] | ||
As A way of compelling the British government to end the unpopular Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the [[United National Independence Party]] (UNIP) embarked on a campaign dubbed ''Cha Cha Cha'' meant to make the then Northern Rhodesia ungovernable.<ref name=dailymail/> | |||
Initially, there was a ‘war cabinet’ which was constituted to oversee the whole operation. Its members were Lewis Changufu as leader, first independence [[:Category:Ministers of Finance|Minister of Finance]] [[Arthur Wina]] and an Irish party member, Mr Edmund. The committee was to identify targets for attack, and to do so, they engaged a group of youths to execute the scheme. One of the targets was a fleet of new government vehicles that were parked at the former Mechanical Services Branch (MSB) premises in [[Lusaka]].<ref name=dailymail/> | Initially, there was a ‘war cabinet’ which was constituted to oversee the whole operation. Its members were Lewis Changufu as leader, first independence [[:Category:Ministers of Finance|Minister of Finance]] [[Arthur Wina]] and an Irish party member, Mr Edmund. The committee was to identify targets for attack, and to do so, they engaged a group of youths to execute the scheme. One of the targets was a fleet of new government vehicles that were parked at the former Mechanical Services Branch (MSB) premises in [[Lusaka]].<ref name=dailymail/> | ||
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[[Lillian Burton|Four people]] were arrested, convicted and hanged in connection with the attack. Two other brothers who were connected to the attack were sent out of the country by UNIP and only returned home after qualifying as medical doctor and accountant. For Changufu, he saw the former men – [[Paikani Phiri]], [[Kaimana]], [[John Chanda]] and [[Ngebe]] – as heroes and not villains. | [[Lillian Burton|Four people]] were arrested, convicted and hanged in connection with the attack. Two other brothers who were connected to the attack were sent out of the country by UNIP and only returned home after qualifying as medical doctor and accountant. For Changufu, he saw the former men – [[Paikani Phiri]], [[Kaimana]], [[John Chanda]] and [[Ngebe]] – as heroes and not villains. | ||
==Political career== | |||
Other than being the mastermind of the Cha Cha Cha, Changufu, underwent training at the International Police Academy in Washington and was attached to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in the United States, was also in charge of intelligence gathering in UNIP with the main task being the recruitment of civil servants into the party in readiness for the imminent independence. | |||
With his training in security affairs, at independence, he was appointed [[:Category:Defense ministers|Minister of State for Defence and Security]] before being elevated to the position of [[:Category:Ministers of Information|Minister of Information and Postal Services]] in January 1965. He later served as [[:Category:Ministers of Home Affairs|Minister of Home Affairs]], twice in 1967 and between 1970 and 1973, and also at Labour and Health, and Power, Transport and Works.<ref name=dailymail/> | |||
In the 1973 elections, he was moved from his traditional constituency of [[Mansa]] which he had held since independence to go and stand in Kasama. He stood against his brother in-law, [[Joe Kapilikisha]] in the parliamentary election, which he lost. This marked the end of his political career. | |||
After leaving politics Changufu served as Chairman of the [[Human Rights Commission]] at one time. | |||
==Business career== | ==Business career== | ||
