Jacquiline Chikuta

Chikuta was born on 21 July 1958, in Nyasaland.^[1]

She became an MP in 2019 for Ntchisi, North and she was vice-chairperson for the Parliamentary Committee on Education. She was a member of the Malawi Congress Party^[2] and the Malawi Parliamentary Women's Caucus. She sat on the Public Appointments Committee with Anna Katchiko and Rachel Mazombwe.^[3]

She died in Mtengowanthenga Hospital in Mponelaa in Dowa District of COVID-19 on 27 January 2021, aged 62.^[1][2] She was one of two MPs who had died of COVID-19 that month.^[1] She was buried in her constituency the next day.^[4] Wezzie Gondwe died in September 2021.^[5] She was the third MP to die that year.^[6] Bi-elections were held for the three constituencies on 26 October 2021.^[7]