He also attended a one year part-time course in Business Management at Evelyn Hone College of Higher Education.
He has held several positions in the Army, including Platoon Commander, Emplaning, Intelligence Officer, Adjutant, Battalion Second-In-Command, Battalion Commander, General Staff Officer Grade One, and Colonel General Staff at Army Headquarters.
Miyanda established the Zambia Military Academy, being its first head at Kohima Barracks based in Kabwe, Central Province.
[citation needed] He is a trained Caterpillar salesman, having attended intensive earth-moving science and sales courses in Nairobi, Kenya and Malaga, Spain.
[2] He joined the growing opposition to Kenneth Kaunda and was later one of the senior members of the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD).
He subsequently served under President Frederick Chiluba as Minister without Portfolio and National Secretary of the MMD until 1995.
[3][citation needed] Miyanda was expelled from the MMD, together with the famous 22 senior party officials, in 2001 for opposing President Chiluba's third presidential term bid.