W.K. Mutale Nalumango (born 1 January 1955) is an educator and politician who is the 14th and current

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, the second woman to hold the position. She previously served as vice-president of the Secondary Schools’ Teachers Union of Zambia before resigning to begin her political career in 2001. She first became a member of the

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in 2001 as a member of the

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, representing the Kaputa Constituency. She later served as deputy minister of information and deputy speaker in parliament, the first woman to hold that position.

Career

Mutale, born in 1955, is a teacher by profession. She served as Secondary Schools’ Teachers Union of Zambia vice-president before entering politics in 2001 and was elected member of parliament for Kaputa in 2001 under the MMD. She also served as information and broadcasting minister under the Levy Mwanawasa's government. As information and broadcasting minister, her actions raised concerns on press freedom in Zambia after police raided Richard Sakala’s Omega TV following a letter written by then-solicitor general Sunday Nkonde in which he stated that the TV station was operating illegally and needed to be shut down. In her second term as member of parliament for Kaputa in 2006 she stood for deputy speaker of the

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and won unopposed, becoming the first ever female to hold that position. After the

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she lost her parliamentary seat to Maxas Ng'onga of PF. She then joined the UPND where she was appointed the party’s national chairwoman in 2013, a position she held until February 2021 when she became the vice president of the party.

References

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