Donton Samuel Mkandawire

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Donton Samuel Mkandawire (died 24 December 2011) was a Malawian politician, educator, diplomat, and former Minister of Education and Member of Parliament for the Mzimba Central seat in the Mzimba District. [1] [2]

He studied for a Bachelor of Education degree at Kingswood Methodist College at the University of Western Australia under a Nyasaland State Scholarship. [3] As an educator, he served as a professor at the University of Namibia. [1] Mkandawire served as head of Malawi Examinations Board (Maneb) and Malawi Institute of Education. [4] In 1988, there was a scandal at Maneb where 10 northerners were removed for allegedly conspiring to influence the Malawi Certificate of Education school exams with Mkandawire who was the head of the board and also from the northern region. [5] There was no evidence of this allegation, but northerners were not on the Maneb board for several years after. [5] Mkandawire was assigned a diplomatic post to Kenya at the same time, but did not take this post but instead fled the country. [5]

Mkandawire was a member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) under the Bakili Muluzi administration. [4] He was also the Minister of education. [1] In 2009, he switched parties to Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and served as Chief Executive Officer of Lilongwe City Assembly. He later ran and won the seat of MP for Mzimba. He died on 24 December 2011 at Mwaiwathu Hospital in Blantyre from cancer. [4] [6]

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  1. 1 2 3 "Donton Mkandawire passes on". Malawi Today. 24 December 2011. Archived from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  2. ↑ Chapalapata, Mc Donald (24 December 2011). "Donton Mkandawire dead". Malawi Gazette. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  3. ↑ Hartley, W (1963). "Photo details". National Archive of Australia. Retrieved 28 May 2023. Two students from Nyasaland [Malawi], Dondon Mkandawire and Heatherwick Mbale, are living at the Kingswood Methodist College at the University of Western Australia, the newest and most modern residential college on the campus. Both are studying for a Bachelor of Education degree under a Nyasaland State Scholarship ...
  4. 1 2 3 Kufa, Charles (24 December 2011). "DPP MP Donton Mkandawire, Rev Pat Banda dead". Nyasa Times. Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  5. 1 2 3 Carver, Richard (1990). Where silence rules: the suppression of dissent in Malawi. Human Rights Watch. pp. 58–59. ISBN   0-929692-73-X.
  6. ↑ "Donton Mkandawire died of cancer –relation". Nyasa Times. 29 December 2011. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  7. ↑ Mkandawire, Donton S. (1975). Application of a decision theory model to evaluate selection tests. OCLC   313131150.
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