Louis Joseph Chimango (born 19 October 1943) was a long-time cabinet minister in Late

Hastings Kamuzu Banda Hastings Kamuzu Banda (1898 – 25 November 1997) was the prime minister and later president of Malawi from 1964 to 1994 (from 1964 to 1966, Malawi was an independent Dominion / Commonwealth realm). In 1966, the country became a republic and ...

's cabinet from 1978 to 1994. He had trained as a lawyer and later on as a barrister from Grays Inn in London. He later taught at the law school at Chancellor College in Zomba, a constituent of the

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, from 1970, before being nominated for politics in 1978. He left the law school when he was the dean of the Faculty of Law. During Late Kamuzu Banda's time he held a number of cabinet portfolios including those of

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(1980-1981 and 1987-1994), Health, Local Government, and Education, among others. After Late Kamuzu's defeat in the 1993 referendum he maintained his seat in Parliament and was later elected Speaker of the

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from June 2005-June 2009. A member of the

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, he represented the Lilongwe Mpenu Nkhoma constituency, a seat which he lost during the 1999 Late Bingu wa Mutharika's regime. He was also a member of the

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. He is married to Jane Chimango, a senior lecturer at Kamuzu College of Nursing. He has four children and several grandchildren. He has since retired from active politics and is considered to be running his personal businesses. He is known to have orchestrated a number of national activities including spearheading the current constitution between 1995 and 1997. He was the favourite to pick up the mantle after John Tembo had left the presidency of the Malawi Congress Party. He is considered amongst the cleanest politicians to have come out of the Kamuzu's era of dirty crocodile politics. In May 2008 Chimango was asked to resign his post due to lack of confidence from opposition legislators for his open bias towards government.

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Members of the Pan-African Parliament from Malawi Living people Finance ministers of Malawi Speakers of the National Assembly (Malawi) Malawi Congress Party politicians 1943 births University of Malawi alumni {{Malawi-politician-stub

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