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Jean Kapata (born 25 December 1960) is a Zambian politician and former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources.

Career

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Kapata worked as a theatre nurse before being elected to represent the Mandevu constituency at the 2006 election for the Patriotic Front. She was re-elected in 2011 and 2016.[1][2]

Kapata served as Deputy Minister of Community Development, Mother & Child Health. On 2 October 2009, she was arrested with nine other Patriotic Front MPs after they protested the acquittal of former president Frederick Chiluba with car honks and whistles. They were released on 7 October.[3]

In 2014, Kapata was appointed by President Michael SataasMinister for Tourism and Arts.[4] Under her tenure, the ban on big-game hunting cats in Zambia was lifted.[5][6] In response to the international media attention surrounding the killing of Cecil the lion in neighbouring Zimbabwe, Kapata said, "the West seemed more concerned with the welfare of a lion in Zimbabwe than of Africans themselves."[7][8]

Kapata was a member of the Zambia delegation to the United Nations 60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in March 2016.[9] In the lead up to the August 2016 election Kapata received death threats and her driver was attacked by armed men demanding to know where she was.[10] The MMD candidate for her constituency, Mary Phiri, accused Kapata of sending people to attack her campaign team.[11] On 27 September 2016, she became Minister for Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection.[12] She is also the Patriotic Front's Chairperson for Elections.[13][14]

Personal life

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Kapata is married and is a mother and grandmother.[11] In 2013, First Lady Christine Kaseba officiated the wedding of Kapata's daughter.[15]

References

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  1. ^ Adamu, Peter (31 July 2016). "Prediction: Jean Kapata Will Win Mandevu Constituency". Zambia Reports. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  • ^ "Mandevu | National Assembly of Zambia". www.parliament.gov.zm. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  • ^ Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009. US Government Printing Office. 2009. p. 725.
  • ^ "Worldly Wonders". The Business Year. 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2016.[permanent dead link]
  • ^ "Zambia: Jean Kapata Says Zambia's Big Cats Intact". Zambia Reports. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  • ^ Mfula, Chris (20 May 2015). "Zambia lifts ban on big cat trophy hunting". Reuters. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  • ^ Winkler, Lawrence (2016). Fire Beyond the Darkness. Bellatrix. ISBN 9781988429038.
  • ^ Onishi, Norimitsu (12 September 2015). "A Hunting Ban Saps a Village's Livelihood". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  • ^ "Zambia reaffirms commitment to women advancement at UN meeting". Lusaka Times. 17 March 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  • ^ "Jean Kapata in death threats". Zambia Daily Nation. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  • ^ a b "Jean Kapata accused of sending PF cadres to attack MMD Campaign team". Open Zambia. 29 July 2016. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  • ^ "Jean Kapata ~Minister – Lands and Natural Resources (Sep-2016)". National Assembly of Zambia.
  • ^ "Jean Kapata calls for unity in PF". Lusaka Times. 20 December 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  • ^ "PF not in support of people declaring themselves as parliamentary aspiring candidates-Kapata". Lusaka Times. 6 February 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  • ^ "First Lady officiates at the wedding ceremony of Jean Kapata's daughter". Lusaka Times. 22 December 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
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