THE late Michael Chilufya Sata was the fifth-born son of the late Langford Julyano Mubanga Sata and Genrieta Bukali Kabuswe Sata. Sata was born on the 6th of July 1937 at Chilonga Mission in Mpika District. He was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church on the 8th of August 1937, by the late Fr P Breyer a German Roman Catholic priest of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) at Chilonga Mission. Education: Sata attended primary school education at Mpika Local Education School in Sub A and Sub B, Standards 1 and 2. He then went to Katibunga preparatory seminary in Isoka District. After attaining his standard 6, Sata could not continue with further education due to financial constraints. In 1956, at the age of 19, he enrolled at Lilayi Police Training College in Lusaka. After six months of training, he qualified as a police constable and was posted to Mufulira Central Police Station. According to Colin Dunn, his shift officer then, Sata was by far the best African officer at the station. Dunn further stated that Sata had the initiative to work with minimal supervision and without doubt, Sata would have attained the rank of commissioner of police. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant; the highest rank an African officer could attain at that time. By 1960, Sata had become increasingly involved in the independence politics and this began to affect him as a police officer. The then Northern Rhodesia police commissioner asked him to leave the police due to his involvement with UNIP in the independence struggle. Political Life In 1961, Sata joined Roberts Construction (Central Africa) Limited in Kitwe. Besides being a worker, he was also the secretary of the local trade union organisation. The trade union worked closely with UNIP, led by Kenneth Kaunda. In 1962 at the age of 25 and while at Roberts Construction, Sata became general secretary of the National Union of Engineering, Construction and General Workers (NUECGW). In 1963, the United Independence Party (UNIP) sent him to the USSR for trade union training. In preparation of what seemed to be a difficult independence struggle ahead, UNIP sent him to the Soviet Union to train as a political commissar at a military university. This programme involved military training and political education. That training laid his solid foundation for his future political assignments. On his return from the USSR just after independence, he went into private business, working as a labour consultant. In 1968, he operated Trans-Africa Safari Limited, Ndola Inn, Tanners and Taxidermists Zambia Limited, among various businesses. In 1970, Sata went to the United Kingdom for further studies with his family. As a student, he worked part-time for British Rail at Victoria Train Station as well as a factory worker at Vauxhall Car Assembly plant in Luton, England. Upon his return in 1973, Sata became a business consultant and continued his private business establishing Delta Electrical Contractors, City Advertisers and Southend Properties, which initiated the development of the Avondale Housing Project in Lusaka. Sata had developed an interest in flying through his association with one Oliver J Irwin, a seasoned pilot. He was one of the first Zambians to hold a Private Pilots Licence. Sata returned into active politics and established the Kabulonga branch for UNIP and was later elected as a ward councillor of Bauleni ward. In 1983, he contested the Kabwata Constituency and was elected MP, where he served for 10 years. In 1985, he was appointed senior governor for Lusaka Urban District Council, where he made his mark as man of action with his hands-on approach, cleaning up of the streets, patching roadways and building bridges. In 1988, then president Dr Kenneth Kaunda appointed him Minister of State for Decentralisation in the Ministry of Local Government. Two years later, Sata resigned from his ministerial appointment and also as a member of UNIP to join the newly formed Movement for Multiparty Democracy, after the country returned to multi-party politics in 1990. Sata was voted as area member of parliament for Kabwata Constituency for the third time, having first been elected in 1983. Sata served in the first MMD cabinet as Minister of Local Government and Housing, Minister of Labour and Social Services; thereafter he was appointed Minister of Health, where his reforms improved health care delivery system. In the 1996 general elections, he moved from Kabwata to stand as member of parliament in his birthplace, Mpika, and thereafter was appointed Minister without Portfolio. He was also elected as the national secretary of MMD. In 2001, Sata resigned from the MMD following president Chiluba’s nomination of Levy Mwanawasa as the party’s presidential candidate in the 2001 elections. After Sata’s resignation from the MMD, he formed the Patriotic Front (PF) and contested the 2001 general elections within 60 days of the formation of the Patriotic Front. He further contested general elections in 2006, presidential elections in 2008 and was eventually elected as Republican President in 2011. Sata had the tenacity of asking simple but penetrating questions and was a firm disciplinarian. He had a forgiving heart and reconciled the country in its history and recognising past leaders by renaming three international airports, Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula International Airport in Livingstone, Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe Airport in Ndola, and a stadium in Ndola as Levy Mwanawasa. The unprecedented development of infrastructure across Zambia during his short reign as president bears testimony of no failed promises. He is survived by his wife Dr Christine Kaseba, children and grandchildren. May his soul rest in peace. – See more at: http://postzambia.com/news.php?id=3915#sthash.mEdWXYBT.dpuf
A very nice history of the late. May Edgar Lungu learn something from this History. Edgar want to start climbing the tree from the top. All of a sadden, the drankard man want to be president. Wait for 20 years Lungu. Let Guy Scot continue ruling until 2016.
What is suprising is that this history was edited.SATA himself would have told the man who read this ‘we chipuba we’ if he was alive.Some contents are true lies.it was not mentioned also how many children he left and what killed him.
How many children and how many grand children has he left behind?
I met a prostitute who claimed to be Chilufya Sata. I did not see her on the funeral pictures. Everyone at Rhapsody’s in Lusaka knows her as Mr Sata’s daughter. She’s always hunting for foreign men using the “First daughter” title. I think i must have her picture somewhere….
So many Imbwa iwe, you can’t see his age ai. Ask tate wako.
A rich history than that of other politicians, in fact other politician have no political history so to say. They started climbing a tree from the leaves.
rich history indeed, 5th born and 5th president of Zed wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5TH BORN AND 5TH PRESIDENT
Based on this “glowing” history, one would be forgiven for thinking he was a saint.
Hogwash!
No wonder Zambians are said to be the most docile and blind people in Africa, if not the world.
What do you mean Imbwa iwe.
U see how God was preparing this man HH where hve u strted from???????????????????
Bazafa na Idear aba, fools can vote for this man.
Went to England for futher studies? What did he study???
On a positive note, this man looks like he was very industrious and just plain hard working
Is this the truth i wonder?
Not very detailed. But for HH it reads as follows:
Graduation – Privatization – Mazoka’s death – Only a Tonga can be president – UPND president for life – Opposition leader for life.
NEVERS:
Hillcrest – Bible School – Victory Church founder – NCC party (sold) – Vice President (kicked out) – UP party (sold) – Ambassador – President (mmd)
Mumba richer than HH in leadership.aLunguuu!! Pabwatoooo!!
In short, limited education. If he was the best colonial police officer then he was used to clobber the natives, his fellow Africans. How did he find himself cleaning toilets in the UK? Can’t be education because the only education he attained beyond primary school was the online degree at Atlantic. And what did he die of? Medical check up?
Very rich history
Correction: As a minister of state for Decentralisation,Sata did not resign; he was fired by Kaunda at a press conference!
Some Presidential Candidates Have No Political History Thats Why They Have Kept On Losing. Even In This By Election They Will Loss. I Mean Tonga Bantustan President
HH HISTORY, INGOMBE ILEDE. ONLY A TONGA CAN BE PRESIDENT.
THERE ARE A LOT OF GAPS IN MCS’ BIOGRAPHY, BUT LET US ALLOW HIM TO REST IN ETERNAL PEACE. HE IS NO LONGER A FACTOR.