Khumbize Chiponda

Khumbize Chiponda is the sister of Ken Kandodo, also a politician,[1] and related to Malawi's founding president, Hastings Banda.

[4] In December 2017 Chiponda pressed the Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Jean Kalilani, to explain what the private sector was doing to promote early childhood development activities in Malawi.

[10] In July 2020 President Lazarus Chakwera appointed Chiponda to the Cabinet of Malawi as Minister of Health.

[2] Chakwera also picked Chiponda to co-chair a Presidential Taskforce on Coronavirus, together with Dr. John Phuka, a College of Medicine lecturer.

[3] On 27 July 2020 Chiponda issued a directive to health officials in Karonga to test anyone suspected of COVID-19 symptoms at Songwe Border.