Members of opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) from central region district of Nkhotakota have demanded the holding of party national convention to elect a presidential candidate in order to have enough time to hawk the torch bearer for the 2014 elections. According to Zodiak Broadcasting Service report, MCP convened a meeting for its district, regional […]
The popularity of People’s Party of Vice President Joyce Banda has set has set alarm bells ringing in President Bingu wa Mutharika and he is running scared, former minister Khumbo Kachali said. Kachali speaking in Mzuzu on Saturday at the launch of PP in the north was referring to panick stricken Mutharika who is demanding […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo is not challenging an injunction granted by Lilongwe High Court to Chris Daza, the expelled secretary general to be reinstated to his position and reclaim party membership. High Court judge Chifundo Kachale grated the injunction last Friday ordering Tembo and the party’s National Executive Council]to recognise Chris Daza […]
Traditional Chiefs have been urged to stand up against state-sponsored abuse where among other things, they are paraded on the state-owned Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) television and radio to sing praises for the Bingu wa Mutharika’s regime and denigrate the state vice president Joyce Banda. Speaking when she addressed her People’s Party (PP) public rally […]
Two opposition political parties have become part of the Alliance for Democracy (Aford) and will formaly form what has been christened as the Aford Grand Alliance. According to a statement made available to Nyasa Times, the political parties are the Malawi Democratic Party (MDP) of Kamlepo Kalua and the National Unity Party (NUP) of Harry […]
Minister of Education George Chaponda and deputy minister of presidential affairs Nicholas Dausi on Sunday turned Calvary Family Church in Nottingham, UK as a political ground to campaign for ruling DPP amongst Malawians in Diaspora. The ministers were accompanied by Ben Phiri, personal assistant to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter Mutharika, the DPP presidential candidate. […]
Lawmaker Austin Atupele Muluzi, former president Bakili Muluzi’s 33-year-old son, has said this suspension from the UDF party will not derail the ‘agenda for change’ campaign he is advancing for a better Malawi. UDF suspended Atupele after he announced he will seek nomination to stand as presidential candidate for 2014 general elections. “I will not relent […]
Acting president of former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) Friday Jumbe has criticised lawmaker Austin Atupele Muluzi, former president Bakili Muluzi’s 33-year-old son, for announcing that he will seek nomination to stand as presidential candidate for 2014 general elections, saying it is a destructive agenda. Jumbe speaking on Capital FM Straight Talk programme aired on […]
Deputy publicity secretary for the former governing United Democratic Front (UDF), Ken Msonda, has reacted with anger to assertions that some of the party’s national executive committee (NEC) members are convicts and as such they cannot hold any executive office. One of the UDF NEC members, Gerald Mponda, is quoted in the Thursday’s edition of […]
A new political movement, National Congress Party (NCP) lodged documents with the office of the Registrar of Political Parties to register it. NCP interim Publicity Secretary Jacob Banda said they filed their registration materials and that Assistant Registrar General, Violet Chibambo, acknowledged receipt of their application in memorandum dated September 5. Banda said the party […]
At exactly half past one in the afternoon on Saturday, state vice president Joyce Banda took her seat at Masintha Ground where her newly-registered People’s Party was being officially launched in the central region. When she took to the podium to address thousands of enthusiastic supporters, most of whom clad in the party’s official orange […]
Malawi’s vice president Joyce Banda on Saturday paid homage to the late Robert Chasowa, a fourth-year engineering student and political activist who was found dead under suspicious circumstances within the Polytechnic campus on September 24, 2011. Chasowa was the vice-chair of a student activist group, Youth for Democracy (YFD). The YFD printed a weekly pro-democracy […]
Malawi’s former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) has decided to suspend lawmaker Austin Atupele Muluzi, former president Bakili Muluzi’s 33-year-old son, after he announced he will seek nomination to stand as presidential candidate for 2014 general elections. UDF communicated the suspension to Atupele through a letter signed by Secretary-general Kennedy Makwangwala on Friday. In the […]
Malawi’s opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) members of parliament have condemned plans by some party gurus to expel Machinga North East MP Atupele Muluzi because of his alleged interest to contest for the party’s presidency. Atupele, son to UDF founding president and former Malawi President Bakili Muluzi, was summoned to a hearing at Grace Bandawe […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) founding president Chakufwa Chihana’s son on Tuesday scooped the Rumphi central constituency seat deemed as the heavily contested parliamentary by-election . Results indicated Enoch Chihana polled some 6, 641 votes against DPP’s Norman Nyirenda’s 3, 275 votes. Chidumba Mkandawire of Mutharika’s estranged Vice President, Joyce Banda, came a close third with […]
The recent reunion between the two United Democratic Front (UDF) ‘warring’ factions that had agreed to ‘burry the hatchet’ and work together “for the good of the larger party”, has more to it than hears the ear or than sees the eye, a senior politburo member has revealed. One of the issues behind it is […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of president Bingu wa Mutharika and newly formed northern region based People’s Development Movement (PDM) on Tuesday officially protested that Aford candidate Enock Chihana was tactically campaigning while voting is in the process on Tuesday in the Rumphi Central constituency by-elections in defiance of the electoral law. According to […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of president Bingu wa Mutharika continues to campaign in various ways while voting is in the process on Tuesday in the Rumphi Central constituency by-elections in defiance of the electoral law, Nyasa Times can reveal. According to the electoral law, campaign is supposed to stop 48-hours before polling hence […]