Published: September 2, 2010
Veep’s backyard backs Peter Mutharika |
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Vice President Joyce Banda’s (JB) backyard of Zomba and the country’s eastern region has thrown its weight behind Minister of Education, Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika’s 2014 Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential bid. This is JB’s heaviest blow since the tussle between Mutharika and herself started for the country’s top job. However, a senior member of [...]
Published: September 2, 2010
MP Kalinde wants private prosecution for DPP ‘terrorist-in-chief’ |
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Member of Parliament (MP) FOR Thyolo North, Anita Kalinde, has hired former Attorney General, Ralph Kasambara of Ralph and Arnolds to commence private prosecution against ruling DPP ‘terrorist-in-chief ‘ Louis Ngalande. Kalinde was beaten by DPP youth militia led by Ngalande who is the party southern region youth director, at Chileka international Airport few weeks [...]
Published: September 1, 2010
Tom Li's Diary: Word on the Street 3 ... and a new flag flaps |
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Bingu assents to new flag bill screamed the front page of one daily in early August. President endorses flag change, read another. Thus, in one fell swoop, the famously beautiful and richly meaningful Malawi flag, which featured a rising sun in red on its top black band, was history. In its place was something hardly [...]
Published: September 1, 2010
Joyce Banda snubs Mutharika, Bishop offers to mediate |
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Vice President Joyce Banda has turned down an invitation from President Bingu wa Mutharika to a reconciliation discussion because the environment was not favourable, Nyasa Times has learnt. Mutharika invited Banda who is reported to be in Brazil to find solutions to the sour relationship between him and his vice last week. But Banda snubbed [...]
Published: August 31, 2010
Bishop calls for sedition law to be abolished, ‘no inheritance of power’ |
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Chairperson of the Anglican Council of Malawi, Bishop Joseph Tengantenga has added his weight to moves aimed at abolishing sedition law. Malawi Law Society and former Attorney General now in private practice, Ralph Kasambara have lodged an application to the Chief Justice to abolish sedition law, arguing that it is inconsistent with the constitution in [...]
Published: August 31, 2010
Veep ropes in ANC, church and donors in 2014 job opening |
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Vice-President Joyce Banda is said to have met ruling South Africa African National Congress(ANC) women’s league, a move seen in Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as her attempts to rope in support for the 2014 presidential bid. Banda, a shrewd politician who has served the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), United Democratic Front (UDF) and DPP has [...]
Published: August 30, 2010
Tom Li's Diary: Word on the Street 2 -- Beauty and the Beasts |
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Blantyre weather, much like Dunstain Mwaungulu, has a great capacity to mesmerise. I was walking along Victoria Avenue in a kind of shower. Not your garden variety shower, mind you. This one was very light and there was no breeze. This was no Chiperone shower, this was a fluffy precipitation in which you could walk [...]
Published: August 30, 2010
I am not interested in presidential candidacy – Peter Mutharika |
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In a twist of events, Education Minister Professor Aurthur Peter Mutharika has publicly declared that he is not interested to stand as presidential candidate for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 2014. The declaration comes a month after the party’s legislators and Southern Region Committee members endorsed Peter, President Bingu wa Mutharika’s young brother, [...]
Published: August 29, 2010
Vice President is ‘second-in command’ |
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The debate on the role of the office of the Vice President rages on as a constitutional expert and a leading member of the former ruling party says the Veep is a second citizen and second-in-command after the Head of State. Chancellor College law lecturer Edge Kanyongolo told Capital Radio that the position of Vice [...]
Published: August 29, 2010
Tom Li's Diary: Word on the Street 1 |
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I would like to thank His Excellency the State President of the Republic of Malawi in Africa, Professor Ngwazi Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika, for abandoning his previous practice of making the life of returning Malawians based abroad, whom he knew held political views different from his own, difficult. Under his leadership, these used to be [...]
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