Thengo Maloya

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Thengo Maloya (* 1947 in Zomba , Malawi ) is a Malawian politician and diplomat in retirement .

Personal

His sister was married to Henry Masauko Blasius Chipembere (1930-1975). When he was conditionally released in 1963 , Thengo Maloya resigned from his post as State Secretary in the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Hastings Kamuzu Banda cabinet in protest of the probation . His daughter is Diana Maloya.

Career

After the Cabinet Crisis of 1964 in Malawi on September 7, 1964, he took the opportunity to escape enforced disappearance . From 1999 to 2003 he was Minister for Housing, Planning and Surveys. In 2003 he was a member and speaker of the National Assembly (Malawi) for the north-eastern constituency of Machinga . From 2006 to 2007 he was ambassador to Taipei . In early 2008 he was ambassador in Beijing . On May 12, 2015, he attended Willie Chokani's funeral .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harvard Magazine , Masauko Chipembere, [1] ; British Broadcasting Corporation , [2] The Guardian , [3]
  2. ↑ Mwakasungura, Kapote, Miller, Douglas, Malawi's Lost Years (1964-1994), p. 184
  3. ↑ [4] ; Profil (magazine) , 2003, Now Planning Minister Thengo Maloya broke the taboo. At a workshop aimed at raising awareness of the disease, the politician said that 100 key employees in his ministry alone had died of AIDS in the past six years, and another 800 had contracted it.
  4. ↑ Mwakasungura, Kapote, Miller, Douglas, Malawi's Lost Years (1964-1994), p. 41
  5. ↑ The Nation (Malawi) , [5]
personal data
SURNAME Maloya, Thengo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Malawian politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Zomba , Malawi