Mutale Nalumango

Mutale Nalumango
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Nationality	Zambian
Political party	MMD 2001-2011 UPND 2012-present
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Mutale Nalumango (born 01 January 1955) is a Zambian teacher by profession, politician and is currently the running mate for UPND president Hakainde Hichilema for the 2021 general election. She served as Secondary Schools’ Teachers Union of Zambia vice-president, before resigning to join politics in the year 2001. She first became a Member of Parliament in 2001 under the Movement for Multiparty Democracy in Kaputa Constituency. She has severed as deputy minister of information and deputy speaker in parliament in 2010 making her 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 joing 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 goverment. As information and broadcasting minister her actions raised concerns on the press's freedom in Zambia was concerned 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 spakerof the National Assembly of Zambia and won unopposed for the position and became the first ever female to hold that position. After the 2011 elections 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 adpoted as the Vice President of the party.