Jean Namathanga

Jean Mathanga is a Malawian politician who served as minister of Energy and Mining from 2025. She has been a Malawi Electoral Commissioner and the director of elections for the Democratic Progressive Party. She was the chair of the board for the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) and she has been accused by the Anti-Corruption Bureau of an illegal procurement. Malawi's Director of Public Prosecutions stopped the case against the minister in 2026.

Life Mathanga has a first degree in business administration and a master's degree in leadership and management.

She and Escom's CEO John Kandulu were arrested in 2020 regarding the procurement which the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said was done without paperwork. Her lawyers tried unsuccessfully to argue that the case was outside the ACB's jurisdiction because ESCOM was not a public body. The court said that ESCOM was wholly owned by the state and it was therefore a public body.

Mathanga was a commissioner with the Malawi Electoral Commission before she worked for a Malawian political party. She became the Democratic Progressive Party's National Director of Elections.

In 2025 she and three others were to be tried by High Court Judge Violet Chipao concerning the 2017 pronouncement. The evidence was said to go back to 2011.

In February 2026, High Court Judge Violet Chipao called on Malawi's Director of Public Prosecutions to account for why they stopped a financial case against Jean Mathanga (and others) was stopped. The judge ordered that the reasons be given to the Legal Affairs Committee of the National Assembly within ten days.