WHILE we have heard and read stories about how some presidents’ children were gifted filling stations, apartments, luxury vehicles and more, Mwelwa Sata, daughter of the late President Michael Sata, tells a very different story about her family’s legacy. Contrary to the popular belief that the late president’s children swim in money, she says her father didn’t leave behind stacks of cash or sprawling estates in Avondale for his children. “We weren’t spoiled,” she says, describing her father as a man of uncompromising discipline and principles. She says his values ran so deep that he wouldn’t hesitate to hold his own children accountable, even permitting investigations by the Drug Enforcement Commission or the Anti-Corruption Commission if he deemed it necessary....

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