Vera Chirwa
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Vera Mlangazua Chirwa is a Malawi-born lawyer and human and civil rights activist. She was Malawi's first woman lawyer and a founding member of the Malawi Congress Party and the Nyasaland African Wome
Chirwa in the 1960s
Orton Chirwa
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Orton Chirwa was a lawyer and political leader in colonial Nyasaland and after independence became Malawi's Minister of Justice and Attorney General. After a dispute with Malawi's autocratic President
Vera Chirwa
…Malawi and was charged with treason, tried and sentenced to death by President Kamuzu Banda. She spent 12 years on death row. She was married to lawyer Orton Chirwa, Malawian Minister of Justice and Attorney General, who later died in prison. Vera Chirwa was born in Malawi (then Nyasaland) on 26 May 1932…
Orton Chirwa