Timothy Mtambo (born 12 August 1984) of Chitipa is a Malawian politician and serves as Minister of Civic Education and National Unity in Malawi government since 2020.
[3] Timothy Mtambo born on 12 August 1984 in Chitipa, a district in northern Malawi bordering the Republic of Tanzania.
[6] During this period he was arrested by the police, his home and offices were fire-bombed and he was shot at while driving his car in Lilongwe, the country’s capital.
On 1 April 2020, Timothy Mtambo resigned from NGO-based human rights activism at the HRDC and from his position at CHRR to form a political outfit called the Citizens For Transformation (CFT), described as a “People Power Movement”.
[9] During the announcement of the formation of the CFT, Mtambo out rightly endorsed the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM Party electoral alliance, which had just been formed to contest against the DPP in the court-ordered fresh election[10] In the fresh election of June 23, 2020, opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera of the MCP-UTM Alliance defeated incumbent Peter Mutharika of the DPP with 58.57% of the vote to become the sixth president of Malawi[11] On 8 July 2020, Timothy Mtambo was appointed Minister of Civic Education and National Unity by President Lazarus Chakwera, becoming the youngest member of the cabinet at the age of 36.