Maligned Vice President Dr. Saulos Chilima has been delegated to represent Mutharika administration tomorrow Saturday, January 16, 2016 at the burial ceremony of Mrs. Rose Chibambo, first female cabinet Minister in independent Malawi, at Mzuzu Heroes Acre.
Chibambo, who was born on September 8, 1928, died on Tuesday morning at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in Blantyre due to heart complications.
She was also a high ranking politician in the inaugural black led government around Independence in the early 60s. She was the Deputy Minister for Hospitals, Prisons and Social Welfare and was later to fall out of favour with Kamuzu Banda and was thrown in jail in 1959, a day before she gave birth to her fifth born son, Gadi.
Chibambo was christened as a Political Veteran by the Livingstonia Synod in 2006 and recognized by the Mzimba Heritage Association in 2008 and in 2009 late President Bingu wa Mutharika bestowed upon her the Grand Achiever of the Malawi Order of Achievement accolade – Mutharika, also named a street in Mzuzu after her viz “Rose Chibambo Crescent”.
Chibambo studied Adult and General Education in Britain and had six children Roy, Royce, Malibase, Khataza, Gadi and Phumile.
