Published: August 19, 2010
Life is the same after cabinet – Kaliati |
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Former Minister of Women Gender and Child Development affairs, Patricia Kaliati says she is living a normal life after being dropped from cabinet few days ago. Kaliati said this in an interview programme Straight Talk aired on Capital Radio Thursday evening. When asked by the host of the program Brian Banda how life is like [...]
Published: August 18, 2010
Veep join mourners to welcome Chirambo's body |
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Malawi’s vice president Joyce Banda joined thousands of mourners at Kamuzu International Airport in the capital Lilongwe on Wednesday to welcome the remains of former minister of Health Moses Chirambo, who died in South Africa this week. Chirambo a renowned eye specialist and Member of Parliament for Rumphi Central died of heart attack in a [...]
Published: August 15, 2010
Ex-health minister dies of heart attack |
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Former health minister Prof Moses Chirambo has died in South Africa of heart attack days after being sacked by President Bingu wa Mutharika in cabinet. Zodiak Broadcasting Station announced on Sunday that Prof Chirambo died. According to the private radio station, his brother, Principal Group Village Headman Kaiwale confirmed the death. Chirambo who was serving as [...]
Published: August 13, 2010
First Lady not a constitutional post –law expert |
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A law expert has argued that it wrong for President Bingu wa Mutharika to claim that the First Lady like the office of the Vice-President and the Chief Justice are the highest positions in Malawi. Trevor Chimimba, a senior legal expert, writing on Nyasanet discussion forum argued that the First Lady is not a constitutional [...]
Published: August 11, 2010
Kachale faces corruption indictment |
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Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice president Khumbo Kachali axed in the cabinet on Monday faces corruption indictment. Nyasa Times understands that the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) are investigating allegations that Kachale received a first generation Land Rover vehicle as gratification for rewarding contracts to Portuguese multidisciplinary engineering group Mota Engil. President Bingu wa Mutharika [...]
Published: June 18, 2009
Sidik Mia |
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Malawi Muslims are disappointed by their poor representation in the new cabinet, saying this undermines religious balance in the southern African country while experts see this as a wake-up call for Muslims. “There is a total under-representation of Muslims,” Alhaj Yusuf Kanyamula, Chairman of the umbrella Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM), told IslamOnline.net. President Bingu [...]
Published: June 18, 2009
Vice President, Right Hon Joyce Banda |
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Malawi’s new Cabinet took office on Thursday with President Bingu wa Mutharika appealing for patrotism and veil of secrecy. The new members of the Cabinet were sworn in at the New State House in Lilongwe in the presence of President Mutharika. President Mutharika, while addressing the ministers and their deputies after the ceremony said he [...]
Published: June 18, 2009
President Mutharika: Best team |
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President Bingu wa Mutharika on Thursday expressed “confidence” with his new 22 ministers and their deputies describing the line-up as the “best”. President Mutharika told the ministers to meet expectations of Malawians when delivering services to the nation. “The most important thing is to note that there are high expectations, there are standards that are [...]
Published: June 18, 2009
Bingu's cabinet: 2014 succession master plan |
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Commentators have described the new cabinet appointed by President Bingu wa Mutharika as a political master plan aimed at consolidating his grip to power and preparing his brother Peter Arthur Mutharika for succession in 2014 if he fails to secure a third term of office. In keeping with the true Bingu, full of intrigue and [...]
Published: June 17, 2009
Gondwe: Demoted to local government ministry |
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President Bingu wa Mutharika has named Ken Kandodo, a nephew of the late dictator Hastings Banda who ruled for three decades in a one-party system as his new finance minister. He will take over from Goodall Gondwe, who has been appointed minister of local government. Kandodo was Board Chairman for the National Food Reserve Agency [...]
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