Davies Chama

Davies Chama (born 21 August 1964)[1] is a Zambian politician. He is currently a member of the National Assembly and Minister of Defence.

Davies Chama
Minister of Defence
Assumed office
15 September 2016
Preceded byRichwell Siamunene
Nominated member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
2016
Personal details
Born (1964-08-21) 21 August 1964
Political partyPatriotic Front
ResidenceLusaka, Zambia
OccupationAgriculturist

Biography

Chama earned a diploma in agriculture and worked as an agriculturalist.[1] After joining the Patriotic Front party, he contested the Kabwe Central seat in the 2006 general elections, but was defeated by the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy's Kayula Kakusa by a margin of 171 votes.[2] He subsequently became chair of the party's Lusaka Province branch, and later Secretary-General.[3]

In September 2016 Chama was appointed Minister of Defence in President Edgar Lungu's new cabinet.[4] At the same time he was also nominated to be a member of the National Assembly.[1]

gollark: Whenever I try to visit a tweet on my phone, it just completely refuses to work.
gollark: Or use the I N T E R N E T, which probably has some information on it.
gollark: Simple decision trees *are* responding to/analyzing the outside world (well, game world), and I think some of the not-really-AI algorithms do an imagination-like thing of simulating various possible futures and picking the action which produces a lot of the better ones.
gollark: <@199529131224989696> I was thinking about stuff recently, and you know when you said `allow for introspection, imagination and probably also analysis of the outside world` when I asked `What does consciousness actually do, though?`Maybe you would need some form of consciousness, whatever that is, for introspection, but you don't for "imagination" and "analysis of the outside world". You can do those with simple "AI" like we use for games.
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References
  1. Chama Davies National Assembly of Zambia
  2. 2006 parliamentary election results Archived 2018-04-17 at the Wayback Machine Electoral Commission of Zambia
  3. "Davies Chama, Defence Minister one of the most clean man I know in PF". Zambian Observer. 20 October 2016. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  4. Phiri, Chris (14 September 2016). "Mutati Is New Finance Minister As Pres. Lungu Unveils Part Cabinet". Zambia Reports. Retrieved 2018-04-05.


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