Disability activist Chitimbe dies at 53

BLANTYRE--Disability rights activist and former banker Susan Chitimbe died on Saturday and was buried Sunday at her Lunzu home in Blantyre.

It wasn’t clear what she was suffering from.

Chitimbe was presidential assistant on disability affairs in the Pres Bingu wa Mutharika admin until her death.

Before this appointment, former president Bakili Muluzi picked her as minister of state responsible for persons with disabilities.

She once worked for the National Bank of Malawi as a telephone operator and later for Disabled Women in Development.

Chitimbe was 53.

Source: Maravipost