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'''Joyce Hilda Banda'''<!--for a reliable date of birth a pre-2011 source is needed, 2012 news reports likely copied from Misplaced Pages--> is a ]an politician who has been the ] since 7 April 2012. An educator and grassroots woman's rights activist, she was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2009 and ] from May 2009 to April 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17644009|title=Joyce Banda sworn in as new Malawi presiden|publisher=The BBC|date=7 April 2012|accessdate=7 April 2012}}</ref> Banda took office as President following the sudden death of President ]. She is Malawi's first female president and was the country's first female vice-president.{{Fact|date=April 2012}} | ||
| She was also Member of Parliament and Minister for Gender, Children's Affairs and Community Services. Prior to an active career in politics she was the founder of the Joyce Banda Foundation, founder of the National Association of Business Women (NABW), Young Women Leaders Network and the Hunger Project. She was listed in Forbes Magazine 2011 as the third most powerful woman in Africa.<ref>. Face of Malawi (11 October 2011). Retrieved on 10 April 2012.</ref> | She was also Member of Parliament and Minister for Gender, Children's Affairs and Community Services. Prior to an active career in politics she was the founder of the Joyce Banda Foundation, founder of the National Association of Business Women (NABW), Young Women Leaders Network and the Hunger Project. She was listed in Forbes Magazine 2011 as the third most powerful woman in Africa.<ref>. Face of Malawi (11 October 2011). Retrieved on 10 April 2012.</ref> | ||
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| Joyce Banda | |
|---|---|
| File:JoyceBanda.jpg.jpeg | |
| 4th President of Malawi | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 7 April 2012 | |
| Vice President | Khumbo Kachali |
| Preceded by | Bingu wa Mutharika |
| Vice President of Malawi | |
| In office 29 May 2009 – 7 April 2012 | |
| President | Bingu wa Mutharika |
| Preceded by | Cassim Chilumpha |
| Succeeded by | Khumbo Kachali |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 1 June 2006 – 29 May 2009 | |
| President | Bingu wa Mutharika |
| Preceded by | George Chaponda |
| Succeeded by | Etta Banda |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Malemia, Nyasaland (now Malawi) |
| Political party | United Democratic Front (Before 2004) Democratic Progressive Party (2004–2010) People's Party (2011–present) |
| Spouse | Richard Banda |
Joyce Hilda Banda is a Malawian politician who has been the President of Malawi since 7 April 2012. An educator and grassroots woman's rights activist, she was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2009 and Vice-President of Malawi from May 2009 to April 2012. Banda took office as President following the sudden death of President Bingu wa Mutharika. She is Malawi's first female president and was the country's first female vice-president.
She was also Member of Parliament and Minister for Gender, Children's Affairs and Community Services. Prior to an active career in politics she was the founder of the Joyce Banda Foundation, founder of the National Association of Business Women (NABW), Young Women Leaders Network and the Hunger Project. She was listed in Forbes Magazine 2011 as the third most powerful woman in Africa.
She is the founder and leader of the People's Party created in 2011, and prior to Bingu wa Mutharika's death was considered likely to contest the Presidency of Malawi in the 2014 general election. The People's Party is scheduled to have a convention later this year, with Joyce Banda likely to be confirmed as party leader.
Early life
Banda comes from Malemia, a village in the Zomba District of Malawi. She has a Cambridge School Certificate, a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Early Childhood Education from Columbus University and a Diploma in Management that she received in Italy. By age 25, she had three children and was living in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1975, a growing women's movement in Kenya provided Banda the spirit she needed to take her children and leave an abusive marriage. Between 1985 and 1997 Banda managed and established various businesses and organisations including Ndekani Garments, (1985), Akajuwe Enterprises (1992), and Kalingidza Bakery (1995). Her success moved her to help other women achieve financial independence and break the cycles of abuse and poverty.
She is sister to Anjimile Oponyo, CEO of the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls founded by Madonna.
She is married to Richard Banda, former Chief Justice of the Republic of Malawi.
Political life
Public Offices (2004–2009)
Prior to becoming Malawi's first female Vice-President and later first female President, she was a Member of Parliament for the Zomba-Malosa constituency. She was also Minister of Gender, Child Welfare and Community Services before being appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs by President Bingu wa Mutharika on 1 June 2006. As Minister of Gender, Child Welfare and Community Services she fought to enact the Domestic Violence Bill, which had failed for seven years previously. She designed the National Platform for Action on Orphans and Vulnerable Children and the Zero Tolerance Campaign Against Child Abuse.
Vice President (2009–2012)
Banda ran as the vice-presidential candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the May 2009 presidential election, running alongside Mutharika, the DPP presidential candidate. She served as Malawi's first female vice-president, before becoming the country's first woman president on Mutharika's death. In a surprise move by the DPP, Joyce Banda and second vice president Khumbo Kachali were fired as the vice Presidents of the DPP on 12 December 2010 for undefined 'anti-party' activities. In attempts to ostracize her, the president had continued to give roles that were previously held by her to Callista Mutharika who was included in the cabinet in September 2011. The court had blocked attempts by Bingu wa Mutharika to fire her as Vice-President on constitutional grounds. This included attempts to seize her official government vehicle and to block her from registering her new party. On 8 September 2011, the role of Vice President was left out in a cabinet reshuffle. However, she was still the legal Vice-President of the country as mandated by the constitution. She was urged by DPP spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba to resign as Vice-President.
Factions in DPP
The relationship between her and the previous President of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika had become increasingly tense because of Mutharika's attempts to position his own brother, Peter Mutharika as the successor of the party and as the next president of the country. Although she was fired from the position as Vice President of the DPP together with second Vice President Khumbo Kachali, she continued to serve as Vice-President of Malawi as stipulated in the constitution of the Republic of Malawi. This move led to mass resignations in the DPP and the formation of networks that supported her candidacy to become President of Malawi in the 2014 general election. The DPP denied that mass resignations had occurred and insisted that they were only a few.
People's Party
Joyce Banda is the founder and leader of the People's Party, formed in 2011 after Banda was expelled from the ruling DPP when she refused to endorse President Mutharika's younger brother Peter Mutharika as the successor to the presidency for the 2014 general election.
President (2012-present)
After Mutharika's death, there were fears of a power struggle following Information and Civic Education Minister Patricia Kaliati's statement that "the conduct of the honorable Joyce Banda in forming her own opposition party precludes her from being eligible to succeed the presidency." Agence France-Presse reported Malawi’s ex-President Bakili Muluzi as insisting on "constitutional order," saying the vice president must automatically take power under the constitution. "I am calling for a constitutional order, for continued peace and order. The laws of Malawi are very clear that the vice president takes over" when the sitting president can no longer govern. We have to avoid a situation where there is disorder. Let us follow the constitution. We have no choice but follow the constitution. It's very important that there must be peace and calm." Malawi's security forces also wanted the constitutional order to prevail. The Malawi Law Society confimed that under section 83(4) of the constitution of Malawi, she is the legitimate successor to the Presidency. She was sworn in as the country's first female president on 7 April and appealed for national unity. "I want all of us to move into the future with hope and with the spirit of oneness and unity...I hope we shall stand united and I hope that as a God-fearing nation we allow God to come before us, because if we don't do that then we have failed."
Joyce Banda Foundation
Prior to becoming vice-president, she was the founder and CEO of the Joyce Banda Foundation. for better Education. A charitable foundation that assists Malawian children and orphans through education. It a complex of Primary and Secondary School situated in Chimwankhunda area of Blantyre. It includes an Orphan Care Center that consists of 6 centres and 600 children. It also assists the surrounding villages by providing micro-credit to 40 women and 10 youth groups. Provided seeds to over 10,000 farmers, and has provided other donations. The foundation has also constructed 4 clinics in 4 of the 200 villages it assists. the foundation also assists in rural development.It has a partnership with the Jack Brewer Foundation, a global development foundation founded by NFL star, Jack Brewer.
National Association of Business Women
She is the founder of the National Association of Business Women in Malawi that was established in 1990. It is a registered non-profit foundation in Malawi. The association aims to lift women out of poverty by strengthening their capacity and empowering them economically. This is a social network of 30,000 women, dedicated to supporting women's businesses and supporting women that want to participate in business. Its activities include business training, technical training, record keeping and management skills. They work towards creating dialogue with the policy makers to make policys favorable to women business owners. Its current director is Mary Malunga. The foundation has a partnership with the Netherlands based Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (Hivos) at The Hague since 2003.
Philanthropy and development initiatives
She has been involved with many grassroots projects with women since the age of 25 to bring about policy change, particularly in education. She founded the Joyce Banda Foundation for Better Education. She also founded the Young Women Leaders Network, National Association of Business Women and the Hunger Project in Malawi. She (jointly with President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique) was awarded the 1997 Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger by the Hunger Project, a New York-based non-governmental organization. She used the prize money to fund the building of the Joyce Banda foundation for children. In 2006, she recevied the International Award for the Health and Dignity of Women for her dedication to the rights of the women of Malawi by the Americans for United Nations Population Fund.
She served as commissioner for "Bridging a World Divided" alongside personalities such as Bishop Desmond Tutu, and United Nations Human Rights Commissioner, Mary Robinson. She was also member of the Advisory Board for Education in Washington DC, and on the advisory board for the Federation of World Peace and Love in Taiwan (China).
Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health
In 2010, she became a member of the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health, a group of sixteen sitting and former heads of state, high-level policymakers and other leaders committed to advancing reproductive health for lasting development and prosperity. Chaired by former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, these leaders will mobilize the political will and financial resources necessary to achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015 – a key target of the UN Millennium Development Goals.
National awards
- Woman of the Year, Malawi, 1997
- Woman of the Year, Malawi, 1998
- Nyasa Times Personality of Year, 2010
International awards
- Women of Substance Award, 2010, African women Development Fund
- Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger, 1997, Hunger Project of NY
- International award for entrepreneurship development, 1998, Africa Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs and Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
- 100 Heroines award, 1998, Rochester, New York
- Certificate of Honors, 2001, Federation of World Peace and Love, Taiwan, Republic of China
References
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- "Joyce Banda sworn in as new Malawi presiden". The BBC. 7 April 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- Forbes Africa Magazine |The 20 most powerful women in Africa, no3: Joyce Banda. Face of Malawi (11 October 2011). Retrieved on 10 April 2012.
- Powered by Google Docs. Docs.google.com. Retrieved on 10 April 2012.
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- "Women are ready to stand in Malawi poll", Sapa-AFP (IOL), 17 May 2009.
- ^ "AFP: Malawi ruling party fires two vice presidents". Google. 11 December 2010. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- "Malawi: Mutharika's estranged deputy 'unmoved' by Malawi cabinet snub". Afriquejet.com. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- http://www.mwnation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20460:court-rescues-malawi-vps-vehicles&catid=1:national-news&Itemid=3
- "Malawi: Mutharika's estranged deputy 'unmoved' by Malawi cabinet snub". Afriquejet.com. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- Ntaba argues VP’s ‘constructive resignation’. Nyasa Times. Retrieved on 10 April 2012.
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- Jomo, Frank. (13 December 2010) Malawi’s Vice President Joyce Banda Expelled From Ruling Party. Bloomberg. Retrieved on 10 April 2012.
- Karimi, Faith. (5 April 2012) Banda sworn in as Malawi president | National News – KITV Home. Kitv.com. Retrieved on 10 April 2012.
- Malawi VP Banda takes over after Mutharika death, Chicago Tribune, 7 April 2012.
- "Mutharika: Malawi in suspense" New Vision 6 April 2012
- The Associated Press: Malawi's VP sworn in as president amid uncertainty. Google.com. Retrieved on 10 April 2012.
- Joyce Banda next Malawi leader, Muluzi and Law Society say. Nyasa Times (6 April 2012). Retrieved on 10 April 2012.
- Joyce Banda sworn in as president of Malawi – Africa. Al Jazeera English (4 October 2011). Retrieved on 10 April 2012.
- http://www.joycebandafoundation.org/
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- "National Association of Business Women". United Nations. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- ^ "National Association of Business Women / Partners / Home – Ontwikkelingsorganisatie Hivos" (in Template:Du icon). Hivos.nl. 31 December 2008. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ "Women and Trade – Home page". Intracen.org. 17 December 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
- ^ Women Deliver » Updates » The Launch of the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health
- http://www.nationmw.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10104:another-international-accolade-for-banda&catid=62:national-news&Itemid=59
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| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded byGeorge Chaponda | Minister of Foreign Affairs 2006–2009 |
Succeeded byEtta Banda |
| Preceded byCassim Chilumpha | Vice President of Malawi 2009–2012 |
Succeeded byKhumbo Kachali |
| Preceded byBingu wa Mutharika | President of Malawi 2012–present |
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