George Kahema Madafa presented his credentials to the President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca at The Palace, in Valletta.
During the ceremony, the President of Malta and the High Commissioner discussed bilateral relations.
High Commissioner Madafa was born on 10th October 1956, and started his formal education at Myamba Primary School in Pare District, Kilimanjaro Region in 1963. In 1970, he joined Lyamungo Secondary School in Hai District, Kilimanjaro Region where he completed Form Four in 1973. In 1974, he joined Songea Boys High School in the Tanzanian Southern Region of Ruvuma, where he completed Form Six, in 1975. He studied Social Arts Subjects.
High Commissioner Madafa graduated as a lawyer in 1982, and worked for two years as a State Attorney Trainee and later as a full State Attorney in the Attorney General’s Chambers. He was a High Court State Prosecutor until the end of 1983 when he was transferred to the Legal Department of the President’s Office, where he eventually became Director. In 1989, High Commissioner Madafa went to the United Kingdom to pursue a Masters of Law degree, at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, where he graduated in 1991.
Following the graduation, High Commissioner Madafa resumed his work as a lawyer within the President’s Office, and in 2015 he became the Deputy Director General.
Having retired in 2016, High Commissioner Madafa was appointed as Tanzania’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Italy, on the 20th January 2017, serving also a non-resident High Commissioner to Malta, Macedonia and Slovenia.