Send a message to Levy Mwanawasa
We have had emails from you and suggestions left in our comments that it would be a good idea to send Levy Mwanawasa messages. We agree. Let’s send him our thanks for his support for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe and for trying very hard to get SADC to stand by the Zimbabwean people’s democractic right to elect their own leaders without fear and intimidation.
Levy Mwanawasa suffered a stroke while at the AU Summit in Cairo and is currently in France for medical treatment.
Send him messages and be sure that he knows that Zimbabweans and people all around the world are grateful for all he has tried to do for us; that he must take care of himself and get well; that we wish him a speedy full recovery. Tell him he is in our prayers.
Country: Zambia
Name: Mwanawasa, Levy
Job title: President of Zambia; Chairperson of SADC
Email 1: differmu@nkwazi.gov.zm
Telephone 1: +260 1 266147
Telephone 2: +260 1 262094
Fax Number: +260 1 266092
Website: http://www.statehouse.gov.zm/
Physical Address: Independence Avenue Woodlands Lusaka Zambia 10101 P.O Box 30135
Organisation: Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Political Party: Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) (Zambia)
Additional information: Levy Mwanawasa is the current SADC Chairman
July 2nd, 2008 14:03
Unfortunately Mwanawasa, Levy I read in one of the articles can’t remember which became ill whilst in Egypt and had to be rushed to hospital hence the reason why we did not hear from him along with Botswana….
July 2nd, 2008 14:18
Wow, great minds thinking alike there! I just sent a message on the State House website, and then came to Sok with the plan of suggesting others do likewise, only to find you’re several steps ahead (as usual).
I basically said Zimbabweans regarded President Mwanawasa as a firm, honest and courageous friend to Zimbabwe and that we pray for his rapid recovery as well as for his family.
What a contrast between this honourable, legally skilled, deeply Christian man and the grasping, screeching, lying, machinating Mugabe.
July 2nd, 2008 15:09
I have just read this on News24….. I sincerely hope it is not as bad as they say and President Mwanawasa is has been so honourable as regards to the Zimbabweabean situation
Mwanawasa ‘in semi-coma’
02/07/2008 13:38 - (SA)
Mwanawasa’s condition ’stable’
Mwanawasa moved to France
Mwanawasa remains in ICU
Mwanawasa ’still in hospital’
Mwanawasa rushed to hospital
Sharm el-Sheik - The head of the Egyptian hospital that treated Zambia’s president says he was in a semi-coma but “still alive” when evacuated to Paris from Egypt.
Saeed Abdel Fattah Essa said the Zambian president had a “brain hemorrhage” which Egyptian doctors managed to stop. Essa also said that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak visited Mwanawasa at the hospital before he was flown to France at 19:00 on Tuesday.
President Levy Mwanawasa was rushed to hospital on Sunday after he fell ill during the African Union summit here. His vice-president said late on Tuesday in Lusaka that Mwanawas’s condition “still remains stable”.
A semi-coma was a mild or partial comatose state. Mwanawasa had criticised the policies of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe.
July 2nd, 2008 15:58
Is anyone else finding this a bit suspicious? The Chairperson of the SADC, who has been extremely outspoken against Mugabe, suddenly has a stroke and at the AU meeting too? South Africa has long had the ability to do this and that ability would now be in certain people’s hands. I know it sounds ridiculous, but does anyone know just how close Mbeki and Mugabe are and what the driving force of their relationship is? Did Levy Mwanawasa have health problems before. I’m sorry, I haven’t done much research. It just reeks of something fishy. All done before Mugabe arrives. I am sure that the outcome would have been very different had Levy Mwanawasa been there.
July 2nd, 2008 17:11
I have also thought that, just find it rather strange. However, I did find this on the net and wonder if it has anything to do with his health issue now
http://www.afrol.com/html/Countries/Zambia/backgr_mwanawasa.htm
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More questionable is Mwanawasa’s health which became a vicious campaign issue. In 1992, while still vice-president, he was almost killed in a suspicious car accident that sent him to hospital in South Africa for almost a year with severe head injuries. He had been driving alone at night without a driver or bodyguard when the accident occurred in mysterious circumstances.
Opposition politicians seized on his sometimes slurred and slow speech and occasional lapses in syntax as an indication that he was physically unwell and could not handle the heavy duties of a president. Although Mwanawasa vigourously denies these allegation and says he is “fit as a fiddle” the suspicions gained notoriety. The word “vegetable” caught on and quickly became “cabbage”.
July 2nd, 2008 17:41
Unless you call holding a meeting in Egypt in mid summer a conspiracy against health, a no unreasonable view with plenty of pleasant African climate South of the Equator…there’s probably not much mileage in the theory.
Just the sad irony that the good guy collapsed while the bad guy seems to carry on forever.
I don’t know enough about Zambian politics to even guess what might happen if the President does not recover sufficiently to resume office, or what a change in the Presidency might mean for Zambia’s positions on Zimbabwe.
July 3rd, 2008 11:04
I just read an article on allafrica where they mention the car accident in 1991 and poor health then also it seems that there is a great worry that Zambia will become politically unstable too….Was glad to read that the WOZA activist are in the news and that US embassy spoke out for their release… today is the bail hearing…heres hoping and praying the judge will do the right thing and they will be released…..
July 3rd, 2008 12:04
Zambia’s president dies, say reports
03/07/2008 11:29 - (SA)
Zambia ‘praying’ for Mwanawasa
Mwanawasa ‘in semi-coma’
Mwanawasa’s condition ’stable’
Mwanawasa moved to France
Mwanawasa remains in ICU
Mwanawasa ’still in hospital’
ZAMBIAN PRESIDENT DIES
I have just got this off News 24
Johannesburg - Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa died in a Paris hospital on Thursday after suffering a stroke earlier this week, say reports.
The radio quoted a Zambian High Commission spokesperson as saying that Mwanawasa died earlier on Thursday morning.
Mwanawasa was taken to hospital in Egypt just before an African Union summit on Monday and Tuesday and then transferred to Paris.
July 3rd, 2008 12:52
Mwanawasa did have prior health problems before this heart attack.
May he RIP, at least he had the courage to stand up against Mugabe when people like Mbeki refused to.
July 3rd, 2008 13:26
May our presidents souls rest in Peace
July 3rd, 2008 13:45
If all the leaders in the AU had Mwanawasa’s courage and integrity the world would have to stand up and respect them. What they have just done, with respect to the situation in Zimbabwe and this embarrassing election, has proved that they are not worth taking notice of.
What a mighty man! He was making the difference that Africa needed right now.May God bless Zambia at this time and put the right leader in his place.
As for the theory of him being targeted, I still wonder. He may have had health problems, but it was just a little too convenient. In South Africa a lot of information about what the National Party had done to exterminate opposition came out. This would have been a walk in the park for them. Mugabe has always made his opposition disappear. Why would this one be any different?
July 3rd, 2008 14:45
from what I have read, I am a bit confused as to whether levy is still alive or not. May be I am simply in denial. Such a person, spirit and character should not just die at this cruciaal time for Zimbabwe, Africa and world crisis at large. I therefore say “Fight and hold on to dear life Levy”. We need your guidence and examplery leadership.
July 3rd, 2008 16:40
President Mwanawasa Dead?
No!!!!! The information minister says he’s still alive.We still need him as Zambians. His rule has been so peaceful!
Get well soon our Dear Dr President!
“Viva Mwanawasa’s Peaceful rule”