{"id":28436,"date":"2022-08-07T21:06:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T21:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/malanji-loses-kwacha-seat"},"modified":"2022-08-07T21:22:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T21:22:55","slug":"malanji-loses-kwacha-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/malanji-loses-kwacha-seat","title":{"rendered":"Malanji loses Kwacha seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>The Constitutional Court has upheld the nullification of the election of Joe Malanji as Kwacha Constituency Member of Parliament. Constitutional Court Judge Margaret Munalula , who read the majority Judgment, said High Court trial JudgeKa Kazimbe Chenda \u2019s decision to annul the seat on the basis of lack of a grade 12 certificate cannot be faulted due to sufficient evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Munalula says the constitutional court is of the view that there was enough evidence that Mr. Malanji did not have a Grade 12 Certificate. Judge Munalula says the trial was on firm ground to shift the burden of proof to show that he had the right credentials.<\/p>\n<p>However in the minority Judgment, Constitutional Court Judge Mugeni Mulenga said that the trial judge erred in law to shift the burden of proof to Mr. Malanji, as the petitioner, UPND Candidate Charles Mulenga should have provided proof that the appellant did not have a Grade 12 certificate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. The Constitutional Court has upheld the nullification of the election of Joe Malanji as Kwacha Constituency Member of Parliament. Constitutional Court Judge Margaret Munalula , who read the majority Judgment, said High Court trial JudgeKa Kazimbe Chenda \u2019s decision to annul the seat on the basis of lack of a grade 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":28435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,8,10,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-28436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-featured","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malanji loses Kwacha seat - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Constitutional Court has upheld the nullification of the election of Joe Malanji as Kwacha Constituency Member of Pa ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/malanji-loses-kwacha-seat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malanji loses Kwacha seat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Constitutional Court has upheld the nullification of the election of Joe Malanji as Kwacha Constituency Member of Pa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/malanji-loses-kwacha-seat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-07T21:06:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-07T21:22:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_10-62f02d1a351a2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"532\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/malanji-loses-kwacha-seat#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/malanji-loses-kwacha-seat\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Malanji loses Kwacha seat\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-07T21:06:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-07T21:22:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/malanji-loses-kwacha-seat\"},\"wordCount\":168,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/malanji-loses-kwacha-seat#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_10-62f02d1a351a2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Featured\",\"homepage-english\",\"parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/malanji-loses-kwacha-seat#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/malanji-loses-kwacha-seat\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/malanji-loses-kwacha-seat\",\"name\":\"Malanji loses Kwacha seat - 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