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A Zambian national could have become London Mayor

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Margaret Mwila Buter

A Zambian national, Margaret Mwila Buter has been shortlisted among those contending for the position of London Mayor on the Conservative Party.

Margaret is currently a Councillor in Richmond Ward when she has served since 2014.She is a passionate Conservationist and Environmentalist.

Councilor Buter is the first Zambian born to make history by being elected into the British political system, she speaks of an overwhelming support from the North Richmond community during the time leading to elections in which she eventually emerged with a landslide victory.

The next London mayoral election will be held on 7 May 2020, to elect the Mayor of London. The position is currently held by Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party, who was elected in 2016 with 44.2% of the first round vote.

She announced on Twitter that she was happy with the achievement calling it a milestone.

“I made it on the approved list for Conservatives candidate for #LondonMayor a milestone achievement as an African born woman-now fully endorsing my friend @joymorrissey who has made the final 10. SMASH IT on Saturday #JoyForLondon with fire for the final list. We deserve it!” she tweeted.

Margaret Mwila Buter with David Cameron and Zac Goldsmith

30 COMMENTS

    • Margaret walinkene watemwa umusungu, nomba iwe naine teti tubweshane.
      Umulandu waku kashika nebo wankana…

    • She can’t make it !
      You need to understand the nature of British politics she has no track record of anything substantial against her name!
      She is on the conservative list not actual candidate list there is a big difference!

    • ‘Councilor Buter is the first Zambian born to make history by being elected into the British political system.’
      FAKE NEWS!
      There are lots of Zambian-born people who have been elected into the British political system BEFORE her.
      Right now, Vaughan Gething is a Labour Welsh Health Minister and he was born in Zambia. He has been a member of the Welsh Assembly since 2011.

    • Really laughable…you people dont know the evil tories …this is just another coon for them to use as poster girl!!

  1. “Could have become” and yet the elections are in 2020, what is wrong with these Lusaka Times Journalists and their misinformation through broken English?

    Thank you

  2. The Hair! the Hair! What is wrong with Au Naturale? That stringy and wavy mesh wire looks so awful on you Madam.

    • @4 Ba Folosho.. Indeed, Golden-Blonde hair on a pitch-dark skin- a total mismatch!! There is enough and alot of beauty in the hair,skin and all features that Africans are created with!! Let our ladies learn how to manage our typical African beauty and there will be no problem! Why should people be making millions if not billions out of us black people through sales of artificial or “human hair”and skin lightening creams merely out of prejudice that long straight or curly hair better than our own and that a light skin is better than black? ..and we go spending billions to make them richer again after slave trade and colonialism!!

    • Zambiasours not all Africans have deep brown skin. African skin varies in browns, some very light some darker like Ghanaians. Even Ghanaians have very light people too. The problem is the hair. Women from Africa filled themselves with a false sense of identity. You do not see black men wearing weaves in the millions. Let women handle this one themselves. kikikiki

    • @4.2 Nzelu, Yes I know, WE BLACKS COME IN DIFFERENT SHADES (even within the same family differences in complexion may appear among siblings) but I picked Pitch-black vs Golden Blonde hair bcoz that is where the negation of African beauty reaches extremes! We meet different complexions as we from the Sahelo-sahara region all the way down to the southern tip with variations within the countries!! Happily, as you have said, our men don’t wear others’ hairs!!

  3. Bushe ni mwana BY olo mwishikulu? LT please give us more information before we bring voters from Luapula and Muchinga to vote for London Mayor!! 2020 tepatali ka!!

  4. Ba LT, could you please provide more information. How is she Zambian, born where, got educated where then migrated to UK through … Is she the lady who once worked at ZNBC??

  5. Kalichenjela aka kamayo Mwila mwe.congratulations!!

    Mushota, you should be an MP in scoltland.Will vote for you.

  6. Well done Mwila Buter. It pays to work hard and let those who are bitter continue languishing whilst those with open minds and an eye to achieve win at all times.

  7. These extensions and skin bleaching are an awful sight. It is a problem of inferiority complex. Zambian girls please be original (You’re beautiful & cheerfully made by God), don’t be like Congolese, men and women; besides, it is very risk and has terrible side effects and I’m sure many can attest to this fact. God bless Zambia!

  8. Naine napapafye ichisungu ati COULD HAVE BECOME. Ba LT please edit your titles. In this case it should have been, COULD BECOME, not could have become. Mwaba Shani kanshi. Nokumfwa tamumfwa nangu abantu balance Shani. Are u not ashamed?

  9. May be headline could have been ‘Zambian born British’. A Zambian cannot be mayor in London. You got be a citizen, no big deal where you were born. Boris Johnson was born in USA was mayor of London.

  10. She won’t make it as she is in the wrong party. The conservatives are unpopular at the moment because of Brexit.

  11. She is a naturally beautiful woman; akantu mushishi (the ‘hair’) mwe bantu. Awe mwe. Ine cilankalipa, lol!!

  12. The comments here remind me of what the late FJT once said about Zambians. Very gullible!! They are very easily conned. No one is asking real questions here. Everyone seems to have fallen for the nonsense. Sad! Very sad!! Now I understand why we end up with the kind of leadership we have.

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