{"id":12531,"date":"2025-10-06T10:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/chihana-returns-as-malawis-second-vice-president\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:51","slug":"chihana-returns-as-malawis-second-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/chihana-returns-as-malawis-second-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Chihana returns as Malawi\u2019s second Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enoch Kanzingeni Chihana has been appointed Second Vice President of Malawi, marking his return to the country\u2019s executive leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made by President Peter Mutharika from Capital Hill in Lilongwe and takes effect immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chihana is the leader of the Alliance for Democracy, the party founded by his father, Chakufwa Chihana, a key figure in Malawi\u2019s pro-democracy movement. He previously served as a Member of Parliament for Rumphi Central and currently holds the position of Minister of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is part of the first batch of Cabinet and senior government appointments released by President Mutharika, with several key ministries still to be filled as the reshuffle continues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12532,"template":"default||default||default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-12531","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"2025-10-06 12:10:02||2025-10-06 12:10:02||2025-10-06 12:10:02||2025-10-06 12:10:02","news_description":"Enoch Kanzingeni Chihana has been appointed Second Vice President of Malaw||Enoch Kanzingeni Chihana has been appointed Second Vice President of Malaw||Enoch Kanzingeni Chihana has been appointed Second Vice President of Malaw||Enoch Kanzingeni Chihana has been appointed Second Vice President of Malaw","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18094,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12531\/revisions\/18094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}