Malawi national team captain, Peter ‘Mjojo’ Mponda has been voted Santos FC ‘Player of the Year’ by his peers. The Malawian defender was voted despite missing a good part of the season due to injury. Mponda has just resumed light training. The Flames star said he was “excited” to be voted ‘Player of the Year’ […]
A petition has been put online , ipetitions.com,soliciting signatures to stop the Hunger Project from presenting 2011 coveted Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger to Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika. Malawi President and Liberia’s Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Florence Chenowethwere were named the joint winners of this year’s prize. The two […]
History has a tendency of repeating itself. It was an imaginable that ten years into democracy, Malawians would face another dictatorship. It is here now because some people especially leaders have already forgotten the suffering that Malawians went through during the three decades of dictatorship. Apart from other reasons, Dr Banda’s dictatorship was blamed on […]
Those who know me, both friends and foes, know me as a satirist, known for my forthrightness and bluntness, which, of course, I am judicious enough to use sparingly on the former and quite liberally on the latter. And I am a courageous satirist, too, whose most favourite biblical verses happen to be those that […]
Those who know me, both friends and foes, know me as a satirist, known for my forthrightness and bluntness, which, of course, I am judicious enough to use sparingly on the former and quite liberally on the latter. And I am a courageous satirist, too, whose most favourite biblical verses happen to be those that […]
By the peaceful standards of modern Malawi, the 20th of July was a very bloody day indeed. At least 19 people were killed and many more were injured, in demonstrations against the Mutharika government that took place in and around the main cities of Lilongwe, Blantyre, Zomba and Mzuzu. Having begun in a peaceful, carnival, […]
The Africa Heritage Society (AHS) presented Malawi’s former President Dr. Bakili Muluzi with a “Champion of Freedom” award at a gala dinner held at Emperor’s Palace in Johannesburg, South Africa on 17th July, 2011. The Chairman of the Pan-African organisation, Phineas Tichana praised Muluzi for championing the cause of a change that he wanted to […]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday expressed concern over the deadly violence in Malawi, where up to 18 people have reportedly been killed and many others injured during clashes between anti-government demonstrators and security forces this week. As many as 18 people are thought to have been killed in two days of violent anti-government protests […]
The United States on Thursday warned Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika that his security forces’ use of force in unrest that has left 18 dead and urged restraint from all sides were undermining democracy, three months after he signed a $350 million aid package from the United States contingent on good governance. “The United States […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by intimidation of the private Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) on Sunday and Monday by masked assailants as protests were planned for Wednesday in the capital. Civil society groups under an umbrella organization called the Malawi Human Rights Consultative Committee plan to march nationwide in protest of several issues—including […]
Reflective: I am one of those who danced at Dr Banda’s youth rallies, singing anti-colonial songs in the cause of nationalism in the 1960s. Later, I was to fall foul of Dr Banda’s one party state and be reduced to a meek and mute civil servant for two decades or more before I joined the […]
The UK based Malawi Diaspora Forum has called on Bingu wa Mutharika to gracefully resign as President of Malawi within 91 days after the July 20 mass demonstrations or face force removal. Meeting in the City of Manchester, Diasporans said yesterday that they “note with harrow the appalling difficulties” of people of Malawi all due […]
As Malawi is struggling to get foreign currencies, Golden Forex Bureau in Limbe which had connections with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government is secretly exchanging the forex and government officials and Asians are biggest customers. Investigations reveal that the owner of the bureau is operating under a disguised name of a milling company called […]
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday paid a day-long visit to Malawi where he briefed President Bingu waMutharika on the shaky coalition government. “I’m engaging all SADC (Southern African Development Community) leaders because I’m concerned with the discord in our shared government,” Tsvangirai told journalists after the closed-door meeting at Mutharika’s New State House. […]
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A New Year same problems, as Malawians continue reeling from the economic malaise, Information Minister Patricia Kaliati is battling to keep her share of a bribe that has characterised the purchase of the “spy machine” which is said to have cost tax payers close to K1 billion. The Minister who returned to Cabinet on 6th […]
Veteran politician, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo, 77, confirmed that people in his party are preparing to succeed him but refused to name a date for his departure. He acknowledged that there are “excellent young men” in MCP who would successfully lead the party in 2014 elections but kept his exit date close […]
By Nyasa Times Reporter Again history seems to be repeating itself where tribe has reigned supreme in the appointment of persons in key government positions in Malawi. During dictator Ngwazi Kamuzu Banda’s 31 year regime, the Chewa’s enjoyed a bigger and better share of appointments in top government positions. This had the unfortunate consequence of […]