Cecilia Tamanda Kadzamira, GCVO (born 25 June 1938) was the official hostess of Malawi during the reign of president Hastings Banda.

In her early years, the family moved to Southern Rhodesia and lived in Old Highfield, Salisbury (now Harare) where she attended school at Mbizi Primary.

[citation needed] After her GCE she enrolled at Salisbury Central Hospital as a cadet nurse where she qualified and was briefly posted to Old Highfields Clinic.

[4] There is speculation of her role in the Machiavellian public trial and hanging of Albert Muwalo, the last MCP Secretary-General (thereafter the post was reduced to Administrative Secretary).

After much resistance and ahead of the official visit by Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya and the Kenyan first lady Mama Ngina, Banda finally 'succumbed'.