David Phiri
David Abel Ray Phiri was a Zambian businessman who was a former Governor of the Central Bank of Zambia and Chairman of the Football Association of Zambia. He died in Lusaka, Zambia onJanuary 2012 from complications arising from a brain stem infarction he suffereddays earlier. He had two sons with Elizabeth Ann Phiri Sipho Philip Masewera and Guy David Zingalume . He had two brothers, Dr. Mannasseh Phiri and Chris Phiri, both of whom live in Lusaka, Zambia, and four sisters Irene Kabwe, Zondiwe Maboshe, Cecilia Phiri and Hlupo Phiri .
David Phiri, or DARP, as he was affectionately known, was born in Zimbabwe, onMay 1937, to Abel Masewera Phiri and Elizabeth Sibanda. Abel Masewera Phiri had decided to leave Kapela village near Chadiza, Northern Rhodesia, in what is now known as the Eastern Province of Zambia, to find work in the mines of Southern Rhodesia. Abel Masewera Phiri had the firm belief that the traditional village life of the African was going to end and turned down a Chewa chiefdom to enter the new world. He left Kapela village on foot with two companions and headed South eventually ending up in a mine town called Kwekwe, where he found work at the Globe and Phoenix Mine. Abel Phiri married a local of the Shona people, Elizabeth Sibanda, and David was born in the Globe and Phoenix mine compound, the only child of this marriage.
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