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The United Progressive Party (UPP) was created in Zambia by Simon Kapwepwe and others all from the ruling United National Independence Party (UNIP) in about August 1971. This provoked a big crisis in the cabinet with five ministers (including Kapwepwe) expelled by Kenneth Kaunda chief of the government and of the UNIP. On 21 December of the same year Kapwepwe taking advantage of a by-election became a Parliamentarian for the UPP.