Background
Bautis Kapula was born on September 15, 1938, at Luanshya in Western Province.
Bautis Kapula was born on September 15, 1938, at Luanshya in Western Province.
Educated at Chalimbana Primary School, then Hodgson Technical College, which dismissed him because of “political agitation".
In between earning his living as a bricklayer he was an ardent sometimes over-ardent worker for the African nationalist cause and landed himself in prison. As a full-time party official from 1962 he became regional secretary for the United National Independence Party at Mpika in the Northern Province. His devotion over the years was rewarded when he was made one of five ministers of state at the Presidency.
Political firebrand in the days before independence in and out of prison for political offences now a man of immense loyalty and industry always ready to take on special assignments for the President. With no pretensions to the higher branches of politics as a former bricklayer, he has a knack for party organisational work which first brought him to the fore as northern regional secretary.