{"id":133,"date":"2014-02-12T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T10:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrinead.pl-dev.co.za\/?p=133"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:41:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T13:41:55","slug":"appointed-new-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/afrinead\/appointed-new-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointed: New Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We joyously announce that one of our own &#8212; The Honourable Minister Rachel Kachaje is the new Minister of Disability and Elderly Affairs in Malawi &#8212; Rachel has been a member of the Afrinead family since 2007 and we are very proud of her achievement.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mrs Rachel Kachaje has over 25 years of Leadership experience in local and international organizations. She is proudly Malawian and a disability advocate specialist. She has represented people with disabilities in areas of public relations, lobbied and advocated for disability rights, disability policy changes. Rachel has a great passion for people with disabilities, in general, but more in particular with woman with disabilities, especially those in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>She is the first woman to be the Chairperson of SAFOD after it has been headed by men for 16 years. SAFOD is an affiliate member of Disabled Peoples&#8217; International (DPI). She is currently the Interim chairperson of DPI Africa and the chairperson of Disabled Women in Africa (DIWA), of which she is a cofounder. She is a representative of women with disabilities in the Commonwealth Disability Forum. She has won several awards for her human right stance and leadership skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We joyously announce that one of our own &#8212; The Honourable Minister Rachel Kachaje is the new Minister of Disability and Elderly Affairs in Malawi &#8212; Rachel has been a member of the Afrinead family since 2007 and we are very proud of her achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/afrinead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/afrinead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/afrinead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/afrinead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/afrinead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/afrinead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/afrinead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/afrinead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/afrinead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/afrinead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}