Gotani Hara was a Programme Officer for the UK's
Department of International Development, in 2009, representing the
Democratic Progressive Party. Gotani Hara was the Deputy Minister of Transport and Public Infrastructure, Deputy Minister for Gender, and the Minister for Health in the
Joyce Banda government. She represented the Malawi Head of State at a number of international events, and was the Chair of the Malawi delegation to the
Climate Change Summit in Brazil. She took a break from politics from 2014 to 2019. at 97 votes to 93 against, defeating former deputy speaker
Esther Mcheka Chilenje. At the
2025 Malawian General Election she was the MCP's Deputy President. She took nearly 15,000 votes to win the
Mzimba North-East Constituency. She spoke in November in Parliament of her support for the President's proposal to increase the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) from K220 million to K5 billion. ==References==