Chakufwa Chihana

Chakufwa Chihana was a Malawian trade unionist and politician. He was born in Kawiluwilu, Malawi, on 23 April 1939 and died in Johannesburg, South Africa on 12 June 2006, aged 67.

Chihana was a dissident during the rule of President Kamuzu Banda and consequently spent much of the 1970s and 1980s either in detention or in exile.

He was instrumental in Banda's agreement to a referendum (on 17 June 1993) in which one-party rule was decisively rejected. In the ensuing general election Banda's party (MCP, Malawi Congress Party) lost power to Bakili Muluzi's United Democratic Front (UDF), with Chihana's new political party, the Alliance for Democracy (AFORD), placed third.

Chihana served two terms as vice-president (from 1994-6 and in 2003-4) to President Muluzi.

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