The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

This meant that he was in no state to submit his nomination. This resulted in a UNIP–ANC Coalition Government with Kaunda as Minister of Local Government and Social Welfare. However Chona did not see himself as the party's main founder.

International pressure forced Kaunda to change the rules that had kept him in power. Kaunda is the youngest of eight children born to an ordained Church of Scotland missionary and teacher. Multi-party elections took place in 1991 in which Frederick Chiluba the leader of the Movement for Multiple Democracy ousted Kaunda.