Malawi Elections 2009 Presidential candidates profiles- Part 1(3 )

Presidential candidates profiles

Republican Party-  Stanley Edington Masauli:

He was born on August 8, 1945 in his home village Gomani in Traditional Authority Mlumbe in Zomba district.
He was third born son in the family of five children
He received  early primary education at a local village school
He celebrated his fourth and eighth birthdays at Marondela in Zimbabwe where his father went for employment
He continued education there
With friends, he would admire planes
In 1955 the family came back home and Masauli joined Zomba CCAP Primary School
At 16 in 1961, he was selected to Malosa Secondary School and In 1964 he qualified for Cambridge School Certificate.
In 1961 he was selected to the Polytechnic-a constituent college of the University of Malawi  where he studied engineering
In 1968 he joined Malawi Broadcasting Corporation commercial department
He later sought after a Diploma in Sales Management and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Sales Management
He left MBC in 1977 and joined Old Mutual until 1997
He started flying lessons and joined Luchenza Flying Club and had Bob McKinley for his flying instructor
Among his honours, he is a qualified flying instructor and pilot examiner for 25 years
He was president of the Rotary Club of Limbe between 1991 and 1992
He chairman and managing director of Air Charters from 1980 to 1991
He was also chairman of Press Corporation between 1996 and 1997
He is a holder of a United Nations ICAO medal of honour, Gold member of Life Insurance and author of My Life and My Aeroplanes
He joined politics in 1994 while with Old Mutual because he says his hero, the country's first president Ngwazi Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda was inhumanely treated after losing a multiparty election
He is a CCAP Christian and with his wife Bethel, they have three children-Cesna 30, Junior 28, and Nocole 26.
 

Alliance for Democracy --Aford- Dindi Gowa Nyasulu:

He was born on August 3, 1944 at Luwichi along the shores of Lake Malawi in Rumphi district in the area of chief Mwamlowe
He is the eighth born child in a family of nine. Only two children are alive
He married Enabel Nyasopela Mwafulirwa
He was baptized at Chitimba into the CCAP family
He started formal education at Chiweta Primary School before he moved to Chitimba Mission where he complted his Standard Six
Later he went to Livingstonia Secondary School up to form four then moved to the then Dedza High School now called Dedza Secondary School or popularly known as Box 48  where he wanted to do forms five and six
But government opened University of Malawi and that led to the closure of forms five and six and some of those to go into forms five and six opened the new university at Chichiri in Blantyre
Because of passion for sciences, Dindi went to Blantyre Secondary School to complete his High School.
After completing Form six with good results in sciences, in 1967 he left for the USA where in 9171 he graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in engineering from the University of Washington
He joined the Ministry of Works as a civil engineer for 15 years
In 1976, he went back in class at Birmingham University in the UK where he did  a master's degree in highway engineering
He was prematurely retired from civil service in 1985 on political reasons
He left  for South Africa at the invitation of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of Southern Africa to be technical manager from 1986 to 1996
During those 10 years, he scooped some awards from the institution's Division of Roads and Transport Technology.
In 1990, he got the Director's Award for Technological Excellence while in 1991 he received another Director's Award for Marketing Excellence
He developed the interest in politics in South Africa and was at the centre of external wing of the Aford in the early 1990s
He resigned from his South Africa job and in 1997 he won the race to parliament for his Rumphi West constituency through a by-election
In 1997 he was incorporated into he National Executive Committee of Aford and in 2002 became the national campaign director
In 1999 he was chair of the Public Works Committee of Parliament
In 2003 he became leader of Aford in the House

National Rainbow Coalition-Loveness Gondwe:

She was born 42 years ago in Chigonga Jere village in sub Traditional Authority Mtwalo in Mzimba.
She is the fifth bornin a family if eight
Her father was a teacher and his transfers saw Loveness schooling at Njuyu, Mzimba LEA school and later at Lingadzi LEA now Chimutu and Chigoneka primary school.
She went to Bwaila secondary school in 1980 before going to Ekwendeni Girls Secondary School.
She holds two diplomas in secretarial management and hospitality
She has worked for Ryalls Hotel and Smallholder Farmers Revolving Fund and Import and Export
Her interest in politics developed when she joined the South African High Commission where she worked as secretary to the last apartheid ambassador George Strobel during transition
She worked for the 5th UNDP Country Programme before she came back to Malawi
She formed NARC in 2008 after dumping Aford
In the dissolved March 20 Parliament, she served in the Business Committee, a member of the Parliamentary Service Commission, deputy chairperson of Reforms Committee. She was also a member of the Pan African Parliament which seats in South Africa.    
 In 1999, she was the only female MP in a 33-strong field of Aford MPs in the northern region.

-AEP