The following article was published today in BusinessDay, the largest circulation economic newspaper in South Africa. Bid to extradite from SA son of Zambia’s ex-president ‘a political ploy’ NATASHA MARRIAN Published: 2012/05/18 07:27:16 AM FRAUD allegations against Zambia’s former first son, Henry Banda — who lives in SA — were politically motivated and false, his [...]
On Friday May 11th, the offices of international lawyer Robert Amsterdam received correspondence from legal representatives of Zambian President Michael Chilufya Sata threatening litigation and demanding compensation in response to public statements made by Mr. Amsterdam. “President Sata’s crude efforts to silence and bully opponents with threats and intimidation will not work, and we would [...]
Dear Editor of the Daily Mail, I read with amusement your May 7 story entitled, “Henry’s lawyer may have boobed.” There was indeed boobing, but it was by your source, attorney Kelvin Bwalya, and your reporter who apparently accepted Bwalya’s misinformation without checking. The story contends that Robert Amsterdam, international attorney for Mr. Henry Banda, [...]