Austin Chewe

Chewe served in the Zambian Army, reaching the rank of captain and managing The Sentries, an army-based band.^[1] After leaving the army, he became a businessman.^[2] He ran as an independent candidate in the 1996 general elections and was elected to the National Assembly in Kabwe, defeating incumbent MP Paul Tembo.^[3] He later joined the Forum for Democracy and Development and ran unsuccessfully for the position of chairman in 2001.^[4]

Chewe did not stand for re-election in the 2001 general elections and subsequently joined the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD). He was expelled from the party in 2005,^[2] but readmitted in 2006.^[5] Later in the year he was the MMD candidate in Munali in the 2006 general elections. However, he was beaten by Chilufya Mumbi of the Patriotic Front.^[6] Chewe later switched his support to the Patriotic Front, campaigning for Edgar Lungu in the 2015 presidential elections.^[7]