Dzuka Malawi: Chilima came, conquered and now, search me!
The death of Ayilesi Tambala and her 11-year old son Shrinuran is sad. Very sad that one would be angry to point at the DPP, castigate and wish coroa virus hit them hard if they had anything to do with the deaths. The Police need to rise to occasion and bring the culprits to book, the same speed they applied when one of their own Imedi was brutally murdered with stones at Nsundwe.
Violence begets violence, it should stop. It has not to have a place. Nobody should instigate, plan and shore up violence. That’s language of losers.
As I sat at the funeral, I looked at the people at the tent, yes the VIP tent where Dr. Lazarus Chakwera, a man who could become a President on July 2 and the current Vice President Saulosi Chilima who could continue his role, sat.
Chakwera spoke like a mature politician, angry with what had happened. Angry at the senseless loss of life. Chilima, who from the previous day looked unsettled, was the opposite, he sounded like Charles Kamphulusa or Kamlepo Kalua of yester years. He sounded bitter, defeated and like a man loosing it.
It was bad idea to broadcast the whole service again on Zodiak. I looked at SKC, a man who just last year could have become leader of Malawi. He sat agitated, touching his thigh, face and looking extremely uncomfortable. That was the same posture and body language he displayed at the nominations in Blantyre.
SKC knows he fought a battle and missed the ultimate prize of being tenant at Plot Number 1. He wanted to get to the top, he still remains where he was. The worst part he never told his UTM family the truth as to when he accepted to be a runningmate to Dr Chakwera. Wait for the Tsunami. Very few UTM officials would vigorously campaign for MCP.
Jessie Kabwila and all those that left Malawi Congress Party should feel like they have been thrown under the bus again. Then there are those that came from DPP who are anti-MCP. Then there are those like Norman Nyirenda who hate MCP with a passion. SKC should have managed the transition than playing hide and seek until Monday before nominations promising NEC “anything can happen.”
Failure by UTM leader to engage his own team, will cost UTM the machinery it used to hit one million. Chilima needs to deliver all the votes to Chakwera to make his claim., Unfortunately, most people that voted Chilima are not comfortable to vote for MCP.
Apart from Gwanda Chakuambas MCP in 1999 in alliance with Aford, the northern base UTM got more votes has never voted MCP. IN 2004 they followed Chakuamba to Mgwirizano, in 2009 Bingu and his DPP, in 2014 Joyce Banda of Peoples Party and in 2019 SKC and his UTM. This is a base you don’t take for granted. This is a base that saw a fair share of MCP brutality. There are villages where MCP is no gone areas where the Chisizas, Mkwapatira Mhangos and many more come from.
SKC left DPP to become a President. Today he runs again as a Vice President. He has lost his battle.
Should Chakwera win the presidency under MCP banner, he knows he has to unify Malawians, work for Malawians and deliver for Malawians. He would perfom greatly that everyone will vote for him, like Bingu in 2009. That will be 10 years of Chakwera reign.
In 10 years, SKC would have been at a political scene for 15 years. New stars will emerge, age would catch up with him. His relevance to politics fade, like Gwanda of 1999, Brown Mpinganjira in 2004 and Atupele in 2014, his firebrand would have waned.
He wont have the privilege of staying as Chakweras veep and attack the same government again, that can worked with DPP. It cant be replayed.
History is replete with people who almost became an elected President. Chakufwa Chihana, Gwanda Chakuamba, John Tembo and Joyce Banda. Saulosi Chilima, unless he dissolves his UTM and join MCP and wrestle leadership from Chakwera, unless Chakwera loses on July 2, will become the biggest loser, as I said after the ConCourt ruling.
Politically, SKC came, conquered and lost. Nobody would want to kill a loser. Claims akufuna kundipha were made by JB, Kamlepo and Kamphulusa, they should never came from a brand like SKC, they reveal how he feels, lost.
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Continue living in the past. You will wake up after Tonse Alliance candidate is sworn in this July.
I can see you had a bad day Rudo….this cadetiism will not take you far…..can you attempt to go back being “Malawi ” objective…..trust am not asking for too much when the train has left the station
Rudo, you have just forgot what Chilima said, he is ready to…….,………. For the best interest of Malawi, he had nothing to loose and he has nothing to loose as well.
Za ziiiiiiii !!
wat do you ( the article author) want to tell ur readers ?
Kapena ndi funse mchichewa kuti ” kweni kweni umafuna kutiuza kuti chiyani ” ?
If you have nothing to write , you beta keep quite rather than posting this nonsense on here.
Any one who watches football or any sports knows not to celebrate at half time. Actually even a minute before final whistle.
Why dont you understand that all the alliances have come to nought.
The competion is as follows
Dpp Peter and Chimulilenji
Utm Saulosi and Utsi
Mcp Chakwera and Sidik
And all the other presidential candidates.
Skc and Atupele will have to withdrawl their candidature and support the two leading parties and even when they win they wont be the vice presidents since they are not running as presidential candidates. They can only come to play in the runoff in case there wont be a majority winner.
Who is the biggest loser here. SKC
He has to vaccate the 2nd seat and choose which seat to occupy after 10 years.
Zolemba za u cadet
Saulos is only in his forties so to compare him with the likes of JZU ,Chakwamba and Chakufwa is erroneous. These guys were seeking for presidency in their old age.Who thought that Malawi would be ruled by an octogenarian , After we got rid of kamuzu.
This writer should mature up lest he becomes obsolete in the new Malawi. Nyasatimes can do better than this.
useless article indeed, we already know that DPP is not comfortable that Chilima agreed to Partner Chakwera and they will try all they can to bribe useless writers like you Rudo to write negative articles about this winning alliance. wait and see what Northern Region will do do this time around. Mind u, Northern Region is always united. when it comes to voting.
Zeze has turned out to be a big shame of himself. All the nasty rhetoric he’s has uttered against APM and DPP, raising the hopes of the young and old Tumbukas that he was on a driving seat taking them to a figurative “Canaan”, so many silly promises in his UTM manifesto, a lot of gusto that he whipped up soon to being the saviour of those who followed blindly his baseless promises, only to play second fiddle to the leader of the well-established murderous party of death and darkness should make him feel a villain. He did not have the strength and comfort to clearly inform his people what was agreed on who would lead the Alliance he was entrusted to negotiate on their behalf. As late as two days before submission of nomination papers for the presidential elections he feined not knowing the torch bearer. This was a glaring confession of how he cannot be trusted as a leader. His facial expression at the presentation was that of a defeated leader who could not stamp any authority at the so-called negotiations. Rest in Peace Saulos aka Arafat aka Zeze.
Rudo or Rude I don’t care of who they call you, your opinion can not win this, ask Peter Mutharika and Jane Ansah, or in simple ask the MEC and DPP, they will tell you what it means when we say, Change can not be stopped! Journalism should not be spying, what you sent for at the funeral was to spy not as a journalist,you have shown us that you work as a journalist but you are a spy, next time when you will be attacked don’t be surprised because we have seen you as a spy. The madness that has attacked you is the same that has attacked many Cadets since the Supreme Court judgement. If it was not the judgement, you would be quite, you see what I mean? Funeral services was before the judgement, why bringing this after judgement? You are the looser not Chilima, the fight which Chilima has fought my dear, Casimu failed, Malewezi failed, Joice Banda tried by the support of Msonthi and others, Chilima has won the battle!!! He has won the battle! He has won the battle! If I were Chilima to day, to make it more fire, I would tell the World that I came into Politics just for this! This was my mission, this was my main enemy, I have fought a good fight and win! Now I declare that I’m not interested in any any Position for I have won my fight!!! Rudo, Chilima is a winner!
Be ashamed! Your mission should you choose
Well written article. May have to agree with the author. With the way events r trending rt now, SKC needs to be careful. He was/ is so desperate to be a President. But seems like his dreams may never be realized.If Chakwera wins, he will be there for a maximum of 10 yrs. In 10 years time, new bleed of firebrand politicians will emerge. This Dude wont be relevant anymore. That’s what greed will do to you. Plz learn to wait on the Lord. His time is best Baba.
I wholly concur with the writer. Chilima has committed a self inflicted suicide which he will leave to regret. He indeed made rushed decisions because of greed. The votes he garnered in the previous election will disappear in his face. Now, knowing the reasoning behind the status quo when it comes to voting, using the belief that MCP previously dug it’s own political grave in those villages as narrated by the writer, where will the votes Saulos chose to discard go? Your guess is as good as mine. Three scenarios could emerge:
1. Those voters who voted for him might boycott the exercise after Chilima disappointing them
2. They could transfer the votes to the other alliance
4. Possibly distribute the votes between the two alliances.
I remember talking to a friend of mine from the UTM camp where I said they needed to advise Saulos to play his cards wise. He shouldn’t have chosen to contest fully this time around but may be wait for the next election, considering he is young, if he tells us the truth. But because of greed he has now swallowed Chakwera’s hook and sinker and line, translating the end of his political career. The outcome of their alliance is very shaky and precarious. At the end of everything he will be the loser. Possibly he is banking on the spoils he got when MCP tricked him into the messed-up arrangement.
No sense, cheap propaganda from someone who believes Malawi was meant to be ruled by the Mutharikas and Muluzis.
The writer sounds very much like an agent of DPP, it’s a campaign time again and we are not surprised at all.
Any half sensible person can easily see what utter rubbish this article by Nabetha is…You are surely and steadily becoming another Jane Ansah !
Kodi why are we even discussing SKC. This is the time for Chakwera and Peter basi. Those are the presidential candidates.
Hahahahah……useless article. Write another one
I don’t know the writer of this nonsense but my question is ” What if Mr Chilima’s intentions wasn’t to be a president in the first place? What if it was just to make own our eyes and for the betterment of the nation?” In your writing, you are assuming as if you are in his head, that he wanted the presidency but I don’t think so at all. He is a patriot who wants to make sure malawians get what they deserve from a few individuals who lead them. So leave him alone!!!
I agree with you my brother. Chilima is playing a very important role in our history even as number 2. Malawians no longer want to treat politicians as deities while they incompetently mismanage our resources. Chilima has been the voice for this much needed change.
Thn he wudnt av run fo plot # 1 in 2019. Seems u r brainless
Friends when shall we continue being on the bicycle carrier???? If may be with doubt Chakwera wins ,he will rule for the next ten years.you mean Cilima will still be holding on to the carrier for that long????? For how long? By then he will be 57. Mcp has fooled the strong party UTM. Cilima had almost close votes to chakera during the past elections .He could have done much better if he stood alone. Now he has been swallowed by a crocodile . People wants the young blood. The young blood today is Atupele who is much younger than Cilima. The journey to the palace now begins with Atupele
Chilima is only in his forties and has nothing to lose in being a VP again! He is a very astute politician that’s why he makes the decisions that he makes. When he started UTM myopic people like you the author wrote him off completely…and yet he was able to get 1 million plus votes in one kick!
Now you are suggesting SKC is done and dusted? Wait until July 2 then you will know whose political careers are gone! One thing for sure …the two families that have managed to destroy Malawi economically and socially will erased forever from Malawis political scene!!
There is a time for deceit and a time for honesty. This is a time for reckoning to the DPP government. People for MCP and UTM becaise they wanted something better as such the journey continues.
Chilima wants to take Malawi to back to MCP. He says the Mutharika and Muluzi have been ruling Malawi since 1994 he forgets that he has been part of that leadership for 5 years. JB has been part of that leadership since 1994 and so has been Khumbo Kachali, Kaliati, Callister and all those jump ships mother……s claiming to be holier than thou including certificate forgers and criminals. No Malawi is a woken today. You have been there done nothing. Is there any tangible thing you can point that you have done during your time as Vice President and you want Malawians to give you another 5 years of what? of conflicts with President Chakwera? F…..Off Kagwere uko mbuzi. . You Chilima has now become what we call a Political Prostitute. F…k Off no more vote from me. you have lost one.
I hope you were “alive” in 2009 when UDF formed an alliance with MCP and you claim Chilima wants to take Malawi to MCP. Sorry you are in for trouble. People like me and million others will vote for the new alliance.
How much have you been paid for writing rubbish??
Chilima is jst a complete embecile. Vp to running mate
Thid Cadet who answers the name of Rudo all she does is to spew vile. She has never said anything good about SKC. I wonder why Rudo you’re not writing about Mnangagwa & Chamisa or Thokozano Khupe probably Chiwenga cos its whrre you belong. We dont have Rudo in Malawi. We have the Chikondis in Malawi so as a foreigner or a refugee you dont have the right to demean SKC.
Intrigued by the xenophobic undertones; why do we as African can’t just agree to disagree without igniting hate !?
Rudo chakwera alipo
The good part is , the rural masses do not use social media and they are happy with utmcp alliance. Stop your propaganda you will benefit nothing
RidoTariro, ,how much have you received from DPP and UDF alliance? Let me tell you this,to be a leader it’s not always to be the first, Leadership is about serving the people of Malawi,that is what political leaders are supposed to do.Aperson can be a good leader when you help the poor to have a better life.Chilima has shown that.He is a servant of the people of Malawi.Chilima said that if he will stand alone, malawians will vote again for the third time,why this is will waste people’s time, which is not good.You don’t know what God wants to do next step.Chilima was in DPP, you treated him badly.This tonse alliance will win this coming election like tsunami waters, believe this.Dpp will fight to win the southern region votes which is not guaranteed with this change wave.Malawians are tired of poverty and kunamizidwa. Just wait DPP and UDF alliance will try anything,nothing good is coming their way.Chilima ndikatundu baba,akut achinyamata azikhala ndi khusa Kaya mabandulo amakwacha.shaaa ndiye Iwe ukut chiani.We deserve better.Zadazada.Malawians are moving forward with tonse alliance, Fertilizer less than K5000.Ndiye Kuti matumba 4 less than K20000,I can’t wait to see this.
I have heard this kind of trash before. My comment is, let s wait and see. Chilima is not naïve as you would like us to believe. The good thing about this alliance is that people ordinary people who vote have accepted the alliance. By the way, this is not the only alliance, there is MUMU alliance, people who left UDF to join DPP then PP and when back to DPP now they are in MUMU alliance.
Trying to play psychological games, Malawi yakanabe.
Rudo Tariro is this a Malawian name or someone is hiding behind it to campaign for DPP. This is a politically motivated article. Call it campaign strategy for DPP cohorts. Malawi deserve better leaders and the ones we have now are just the worst in our history after Bakili Muluzi. Those who are old enough can attest to how Bakili Muluzi brought poverty to this country. Chakwera and Chilima is the solution Malawians are waiting for.Rudo Tariro or whatever you call yourself tell those who have sent you that you didn’t see the Malawians you were sent to cheat.Go for issue based campaign as advocated by your compromised Jane Ansah
Wauponda just concentrate on your dirty alliance of failures. Nyekhwe.
Na ngati pali munthu yemwe akufunira zabwino a Malawi ndi Chilima. The guy is a democrat, he was able to work with the most tribalistic party in Malawi( dpp) and he tried all the best to reason with dpp shareholders but nobody wanted to take his advice. And today dpp has exposed itself. And he didn’t stop there, he is now with the party that has never tasted the sweetness of democratic electorates other than the centre. If MCP misshandle Chilima I don’t think the party will taste second term because by pushing Chilima aside it will be a confirmation that the party is not yet transformed. In that case Chilima will come out with full muscles and remind the bad side of dpp and at the same time exposing mcp’s true colours. Coming into eastern region I believe UDF continues to confuse people from this region. The UTM and UDF alliance is not for the beneficial of ordinary people but rather a political rewards to udf’s leadership. UDF/dpp continues to undermine the people of the eastern region. Demographically the region is dominated by Yao tribe and Muslims. And the recent appointments of ministers has exposed UDF/dpp Hiden agenda. All the appointments in the region are Christians. And surprisingly, the man appointed is no longer a member of parliament but member of UDF executive committee. The question is, should we say there are no active Muslim mp or member of UDF who could have been appointed as a minister? Unfortunately, people in the region doesn’t look things in that way. But by having less or no Muslim representative in govt key positions affect them in many ways. I conclude by encourage my fellow countrymen from eastern region to fight for their pie in govt otherwise their destiny looks bad and whoever think Chilima has been politically dead must think twice. Remember, Chilima is below 50 years and at that age it is so early to rule him out of political leadership ambitions.
Wishful thinking.
Chilima played hide and seek on runingmate to fool us that he was going to be considered as presidential candidate. He has neve been honest has he?
You are entitled to your own opinion emanating from your attitudes and beliefs. Mike fiko on same forum wrote that the alliance of utm and mcp won’t work and soon things would fall apart before presenting nomination papers but it has turn out to be different. I can onily say let’s wait and see.
Politics is always revolving and past political events have determined the current or contemporary politics and its leaders.
The political landscape has prompted two different alliances to appear on the political scene due to circumstances well articulated.
What the above writer is depressing in regard to Chilimas fate with UTM supporters from the north is irrelevant. What the north UTM supporters and every person in the country should understand is that what we want is a better combination of good leadership to unite the entire country.
If you try to talk of past atrocious regime of Dr Kamuzu Banda and MCP the entire country was affected and not only the north.
This kind of thinking and altitude of the above writer is appalling. This is tribalist tendancy and should not be tolerated.
If Chakwera and Chilima combination carry the day it’s gonna be a new page of new faces and progressive politics not of this tired oldman who has no clue.
Ma cadet mwagundika playing “divide and rule” There is absolutely no substance in whatever you have written. Our goal is to remove the rotten DPP and bedfellows, the UDF from the political picture. Chilima has humbled himself for the sake of Malawi. Besides, there has to be only one leader. There can never be two Presidents. According to MCP constitution Chakwera is going for his last attempt to vie for presidency. So it made sense to have him represent the Alliance. And that’s the agreement. Mukumva PHENI
People like these fail to think and have never had good thinking in their life. Rudo or whatever the name you are called, do you expect Northerners to vote for DPP? Did you see last year that MCP was number to Chilima last year elections in that region. Rudo! Where do you live by the way? Do you follow politics of today. Chilima is a leader that everyone wants to associate to, even DPP still want Chilima. So for you info Chilima is there to Stay in politics whatever position he serves.
Very stupid. This is not about personal glory, it’s about rescuing the country from the claws and jaws of these vultures.
He was our hope for liberation. He promided clean politics, but each passing day he is getting closer and closer to the useless politicians we are tired of with Careless and hate speaches. Where did our beloved issue based skc go
Chilima in chakwera’s shadow, apa wabetcha zonse and might end up being the biggest failure
Nthawi zina a little education is bad. Mwinanso munthu wamba understands what is going on in the Tonse alliance than you. Chilima is not for personal glory but the glory of all Malawians including YOU!
What is said might be true, but painful truth is that Chakwera is not a winning character. I dont want to prophesise but he will loose. If chilima was a candidate winning was obvious because be is persuasive and him and his party are clean for now.