In the multiparty 1994 Malawian general election Chitalo stood as a United Democratic Front candidate for the Blantyre City South-East constituency. She won the seat with 14,993 votes, 80.46% of votes cast.Parliamentary Elections Results 1994, Malawi Electoral Commission. Accessed 11 January 2021. From 1994 to 1996 she was Minister of State for Women's and Children's Affairs.The Gender Machinery. Women in Malawi’s Central Government Administration, CMI Brief, Vol. 15, No. 11 (June 2016), p.10. She was among Malawi's delegation to the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing.Janet Karim, My Take On It: Remembering the Malawi road to Beijing and beyond, The Maravi Post, 4 December 2020. Accessed 11 January 2021. After briefly being Minister of Community Development and Social Welfare in 1996, she was Minister of Physical Planning and Surveys in 1996–97. Between 1997 and 2003 she was a Minister of State in the Office of the President and in the Cabinet responsible for Human Resources Management and Development.
