Thu, 22 Dec 2016 10:49:01 +0000 By Ronald Lwamba He said, “The wind of change is blowing through this continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.” A few months later, after this solemn pronouncement, on 8th May 1960 police dispersed a UNIP rally in Ndola. In those days political meetings were referred to as rallies.he wind of change predicted by the British Prime Minister, Harold MacMillan, when he addressed the South African Parliament in Cape Town on 3rd February, 1960, gathered momentum turning into a tornado in Central Africa, notably in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. A rally is a mass meeting held as a protest or in support of a cause. 127 arrests were made in quelling the ensuing riot. By sheer coincidence, Mrs Lillian Burton was driving her daughters home when she was forced to stop by allegedly a UNIP mob. The windows of […]
Zambia: History of hydropower: New projects after Kariba
