Madalitso Wirima Kambauwa
Madalitso Wirima Kambauwa | |
|---|---|
in 2025 in Berlin | |
| Minister of Education of Malawi | |
| Assumed office January 31, 2023 | |
| President | Lazarus Chakwera |
| Personal details | |
| Born | |
| Party | Malawi Congress Party |
Madalitso Wirima Kambauwa is a Malawian politician and educator. She has been the MP for the Kasungu North-East Constituency and she became the Minister of Education. She was re-elected in 2025 as the MCP candidate.
Life
Wirima graduated in Business Administration from Temple University in Philadelphia and became a Member of Parliament.[1]
In 2022 Lobin C. Lowe, and Kambauwa, were fired as minister and deputy minister for agriculture by the President. They had paid for a large quantity of fertiliser without the required checks.[2] In 2024 an investigation by the ombudsman.Grace Malera recommended the prosecution of the involved public officials,[3]
She was made the Minister of Education of Malawi,[4] by president Lazarus Chakwera. Her term began on January 31, 2023.[5][6] She became a member of President Chakwera's cabinet and her deputy minister was named as Nancy Chaola Mdooko.[7]
Wirima opened a renamed Institute of Continuing Education in Blantyre noting that education was the key to Malawi's ambitions.[8]
Wirima is a member of the Malawi Parliamentary Women's Caucus which in 2024 was led by Roseby Gadama.[9] She was re-elected in the 2025 election for the same constituency. She stood as the MCP candidate and she took just over 10,000 of the 20,000 votes cast.[10]
References
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- ^ Magalasi, Chikondi (2022-10-25). "Chakwera fires Agriculture Minister Lowe and his deputy". Malawi 24. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "Ombudsman engages Government on farm input subsidy investigation findings". www.theioi.org (in German). Retrieved 2025-01-26.
- ^ "RewirEd Summit @COP28 - SUMMIT PROGRAMME" (PDF). Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ SLEIMAN, Sara. "Malawi president sacks eight ministers in cabinet reshuffle". Malawi president sacks eight ministers in cabinet reshuffle. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- ^ "MalawiGovt/status/1620595793874030592". X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- ^ "THE GOVERNMENT". Malawi High Commission UK. Retrieved 2025-04-12.
- ^ "Kambauwa-Wirima Launches MUBAS-ICE". Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences. Retrieved 2025-01-22.
- ^ "PWC Home – PWC Malawi". Archived from the original on 2024-12-31. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "Kasungu Council". Luntha TV via Facebook. 30 September 2025. Retrieved 7 October 2025.