Nelson P. W. Khonje, Date of Birth
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Politician; Speaker of the National Assembly; Schoolteacher
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About Nelson P. W. Khonje
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- Khonje (born 6 December 1923) is a Malawian politician who was Speaker of Parliament from 1975 to 1987. Khonje was born in Neno, Malawi (formerly Nyasaland).
- He went to school at Matandani and Malamulo Seventh Day Adventist schools.
- He taught whilst upgrading himself and by 1959 had qualified for Cambridge O-Level through correspondence.
- In 1962, alongside Late Aaron Gadama he applied for a scholarship and was sent to Moray House College of Education in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Returning to Malawi in 1964 to teach at Masongola, Ntcheu and Ntchisi Secondary Schools up to 1971.In 1971 when Mwanza was de-linked from Blantyre as district he was asked by the constituents to represent them in the Malawi national Assembly.
- He became the first member of Parliament for Mwanza in the same year.
- In 1974 he was made a Deputy Speaker of parliament and was made full speaker in 1975, a position he held up to his retirement in 1987.
- He holds the record of being Malawi's longest serving speaker of the National Assembly, under the one party dictatorship of Dr.
- Hastings Kamuzu Banda.
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