Khumbo Kachali

Khumbo Hasting Kachali is a Malawian politician who was Vice President of Malawi from April 2012 to May 2014, serving under President Joyce Banda. He is the first vice president from the Northern Region of Malawi. The three previous vice presidents came from the central and southern regions. Kachali previously held a number of cabinet positions between 2004 and 2010.

Early life and education Khumbo Kachali was born in 1966 and attended Phwezi Secondary School. He subsequently obtained a Diploma in Project Management from the University of Cambridge, England. He obtained his Master of Science Degree in Strategic Management in 2011 from the University of Derby. For his MSc thesis, he wrote a paper titled the Impact of Multiparty Politics on the socio-economic lives of people using his Mzimba constituency as a case study.

Kachali was Second Vice-President for the Malawi Chamber of Commerce and Industry and he has been a businessman for years in Mzuzu and large farming enterprise in Mzimba, his home district. He lost his ministerial position in the cabinet shake-up of 9 August 2010. The PP won his former constituency with a majority of over 5000 sending his detractors into political wilderness.

He represented Malawi at the African Union summit in the year 2012 where he helped the election of the first female AU Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. He was Banda's vocal face on the banning of Sudan's fugitive president Al Bashir from attending the initially Malawi bound 2012 AU summit.

Kachali became the president and founding member of the Freedom Party, which was registered with the Registrar of Political parties in Malawi in 2017.

In the 2025 election, Joyce Banda and Kachali ran again for the Presidency and vice-President. They represented a coalition which included the People's Party.