predecessor successor birth_name birth_place president death_date death_place nationality office field birth_date spouse term_start article_title term_end name
'' position created '' simon kapwepwe reuben chitandika kamanga chitandika village , chipata district , northern rhodesia kenneth kaunda 20 september 1996 zambia zambia & nbsp ; zambian vice president of the republic of zambia politician 26 august 1929 edna mwansa kabungo 1964 reuben kamanga
 1967 reuben kamanga
reuben kamanga

reuben chitandika kamanga -lrb- 26 august 1929 -- 20 september 1996 -rrb- was a zambian politician .
he was educated at munali secondary school .
kamanga was imprisoned several times during the independence struggle especially during the period 1959 -- 60 .
he later went to live in cairo from 1960 -- 62 .
before zambia 's independence he served as the deputy president of the united national independence party and as minister of labour and mines .
after independence in october 1964 he became the country 's first vice-president , serving for three years under kenneth kaunda .
he was demoted to minister of foreign affairs in 1967 , and then became minister of rural development in 1969 .
in 1983 kamanga was appointed to the central committee in charge of rural development .
he retired from politics in 1991 and died at his home in 1996 .
