Abida Mia walk in the footsteps of Winnie Mandela

April 28, 2018 Osman Faiti -Nyasa Times 32 Comments

Like South Africa’s struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela,  in Malawi a female political operative Abida Mia is proving to be  fearless and brave as she is at the heart of reconnecting Malawi Congress Party (MCP) with voters in the populous southern region and dealing with party cadres directly in operations.

Political activist Abida Mia joins the demo
The citizens during demo

Abida, wife to  frontline politician Sidik Mia, is the architect of many political developments while operating from the back room.

However, on Friday, Abida led the youth to the streets in Blantyre to join demonstrations organised by the civil society organisations (CSOs) after the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has attempted to frustrate the protestors.

ŶDPP Southern Region governor Charles Mchacha, was spotted driving around in the city shadowing the demonstrators, in an effort to discourage people from taking part in the protests .

But Abida Mia went to the streets and had to challenge Mchacha to let people exercise their right to demonstrate peacefully .

“I went to the streets after I learned that DPP attempted to disrupt the demonstrations,” she said.

“Time for Malawians to be afraid is gone. We will be brave and fight on for the good of our country,” she declared.

“I had no intention to go to the streets but after DPP demonstrations on Thursday, I was upset. What they did demonstrating against demonstrations was uncalled for. I went to the streets to protest with the people. I was the voice of the voiceless and I would not allow people to face the DPP alone. This is a direct message to Mchacha, that I only fear God,” she said.

But Mchacha said DPP deliberately staged anti-demonstrations displays because the party believed Malawi Congress Party (MCP) was behind the demonstrations.

“The Blantyre demonstrations were led by Sidik Mia’s wife. That confirms it,” he said.

Abida Mia is proving to be a woman who epitomises resilience, who will make  a significant and laudable impact on the Malawian political sphere.

The demonstrators marched from Upper Stadium through the Chipembere  Highway—stopping at the Polytechnic. They made other stops at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) bus stop and roundabout near Universal Industries.

As the protestors headed back towards the Civic Centre, hundreds of people lined up on both sides of the road but did not join the march.

Some Polytechnic students joined the fray on the return trip and nearly clashed with the police at Kamuzu Stadium Roundabout when they [students] insisted on moving around the roundabout four times to symbolise the K4 billion.

 

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32 replies on “Abida Mia walk in the footsteps of Winnie Mandela”

  1. I have never heard that Julius Malema fights for same sex marriage nor does he do the opposite of what he preaches. Trapence fights for same sex marriage and marries the opposite sex – self contradictory !!! Trapence has never stood for what he preaches like Chakwera.

  2. Is this woman a Moslem? Moslem women don’t wear tight trousers and mingle with men like that. Moslem Association of Malawi please do something about these people and acts of disglacing Islam.
    Abale comparing Winnie Mandela with Abida? What a joke? Winnie was a freedom hunter while Abida is a fortune hunter.

    1. Winnie was a politician moulded by a very harsh system apartheid akin to that of Stalinist Russia where internal banishment was the order of the day. Winnie was not an angel but the total sum up of the hurdles she surmounted automatically confers on her the best Marathon runner in the global politics in the 20th century. Abida a lady serving the whims of opportunistic hubby. The Winnie crown is yet to fall on whoever fulfills the criteria which the Mandela foundation will prescribe Malawian political turf doesn’t offer the crown let alone dangle it to SADC to turn its attention to Nyasaland keep engaging in political caressing and imagine you’re aping South African politics. Sorry sorry Abide!

  3. You fool,do not campare your Arab and unlearned garbage with Winnie Mandela.All the living African leaders,nobody comes near Winnie Mandela.What a joke?Winnie is one of Africa’s leading giants who will be remembered for centuries to come.What has your Arab master done to Malawi and Africa? Why are you Malawians so sleepy and for how long you will be enslaved by foreigners? SHAME!!!!!!! Mia and Abida,let’s accept it they are not one of us,they are Arabs full-stop.Show an African State in Southern Africa,which has an Arab government leader.It is sad that our people from the South and Central would accept an Arab Muslim leader and push aside,an African Northerner whose fore-fathers,are buried on Malawian soils.There is something terribly wrong in our country.John Chilembwe,shaded his precious blood for the Tumbukas,Yaos,Chewas,Lomwes,,Tongas,Ngonis,Senas,Nkhondes,Lambyas the list goes on.What have Arabs done to us?Enslave and castrate us? Do we have anything in common with Arabs apart from humanity? Africans are being maltreated in their countries and are called KAFFIRS (ANIMALS) and worse still,Africans are not allowed to practice their religion,but these Arabs,if they come to Africa,they do anything they want at their disposal.Malawians and Africans in general, especially in Malawi and Southern Africa,wakeup and learn from Europe what had happened in two years ago.I praise Muluzi for ignoring the tyrant of Libya Gadhaffi who wanted to build a Mosque in Malawi.Gadhaffi left Malawi abraptlly and he never returned again.Here,he showed his real Pan-Africanism unlike Chakwera who has forsaken R.Msowoya and replaced by an Arab Muslim,what a fool? As I say many times,Muslims are targeting Malawi as their next target to spread their satanic religion.WAKEUP FELLOW COUNTRYMEN AND WOMEN.DEFEND YOUR CIVILISED CHRISTIANITY AND THE WORK OF OUR LOVED JESUS CHRIST WHO CHAKWERA BETRAYED.

  5. THE DEMOS ARE A TRUE REFLECTION OF THE SUFFERING OF THE YOUTHS /LESS PRIVILEGED
    ON THE GROUND

    PETER AND HIS FELLOW MINISTERS ARE BUSY IN
    FOREIGN COUNTRIES DOING
    HONEY MOON WITH THEIR
    PROSTITUTES

    JESUS IS LORD !!

  6. People of Malawi why we always compare Great people with reefruffs? Athu obera ng ombe anthu osauka ku lower shire awa. And to compare wina openga ndi Julius malemia is a shame. Nyasa jurnos with the respect about

  7. Kana ni dada,
    Mwayankhula bwino pomwe mukuti “tikakumana pa ballot chaka cha mawa”. Awa ndiye mawu. Nanga bwanji MCP ikufuna kutenga boma through back door by perpetrating violence and anarchy through their sponsored CSOs demos? Please school your party leadership to learn to be democratic, tame their tempers and wait for the appointed time when people shall also speak through the ballot as to which party they will want to rule them. Remember God’s time is the best. Osamathamangira

  9. Sad that the demos degenerated into an MCP show. CSO, you are losing direction, MCP, you are surely displaying how desperate you are to lead the country. DPP pull up your socks, Malawians Think twice and thrice.

  11. A Police Mwalephera kumanga JB as you promised. Kkkkk. All Police hear this. You are used like toilet paper. U say this today and tomorrow u say different thing………u wanted Interpol to arrest amayi and mwakanikha nokha……u will be saying something very soon. These are politicians who keep u with meagre salaries and in small houses and guard for their wealth. Very shame of our police and army.

  12. Chakwera and Mia’s Moto Moto Moto.
    JB is here to unite with DPP and will only remember how Pitala called names of TB Joshua and his sisters. There has been tension between Pitala and Amayi. It will be interesting to see how this unfold.

  13. To compare Abida Mia to Winnie Mandela or Gift Trapence to Julius Malema, is a complete insult. These are very different individuals with different ideologies and political maturity.

    1. To compare Abida Mia with Winnie Mandela is not only an insult to the South African Heroin but a total exposure of political ignorance and misunderstanding of political events of human degradation coupled with absolute impunity of the apartheid regime netted to this woman for more than five decades. Imagine that. How can you compare that with Amina a six months political activist in a democratic Malawi. I don’t know how to compare, please teach me!!!

  14. It’s a pity that the demos had become political as opposed to a social message from Malawians irrespective of your tribal, ethnic, political affiliations. Malawi is now so divided along tribal, ethnic, cultural and political backgrounds. The sinuses that CSOs are definitely valid and need to be taken seriously by the ruling party. In fact if there’s any smart political party out there; they should take and cut the 10-point grievances and paste into their manifesto and drive policies around them. They will definitely win the hearts of urban and peri-urban votes

  15. But despite that the demos were a flop (mainly in central and south) they are worthless because they seem more political with party envy and anger than objective with fact. They are representing MPC followers and not the people. Chifukwa ma CSOs timakhulupirira kuti amayimira anthu pamene a chipani amayimira ma followers awo as they many parties. Tsono it is becoming increasingly visible and clear kuti awa anali a Kongolesi. I regret taking part. My advice to government is: disregard them as they are representing maganizo a Chipani, not the people. Why were they led by politicians. I think ayionela patali kuti they are not going to make it came May 2019. They are not worthy it. Ife si a Kongolesi ayi.

  18. Pls ..stop insulting the South African icon …
    Malawi is a peaceful country and there is no apartheid or racism

  19. Why people- even journalists and writers still believe the south is populous? Central region is now standing at 7.5 million-plus, south is on 7.4 million-plus, north is on 2.8 million-plus. So our politicians should look into this and make political calculations if they are to win the next elections- not the lomwe belt which is far less than north’s population.

  20. Let’s give DPP a task to reclaim the country’s groly, failing which tikakumana pa barrot chaka cha mawa. Ngakhale apange ant demos dzikoli silaokha. Go on madam Mia, go on Mia, go on Chakwera, go on MCP.

    1. DPP supporters were also exercising their constitutional rights as CSOs my friend. Lets respect each other.

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