Mte Wambali killed by Covid-19

January 31, 2021 Wongani Chiuta - Nyasa Times 33 Comments

Malawi’s legendary musician Mtebeti Wambali Mkandawire on Sunday  passed away from complications of Covid-19.

Mte Wambali Mkandawire

He was taken for burial on the same day at Area 18 cemetery in Lilongwe.

Wambali was hailed as music evangelist and activist. He won several awards and recognition for his work but he declined an honorary doctorate from  Cyprus International Institute of Texas for personal reasons.

“That was a measure of the man,” remarked University of Malawi’s Chancellor College dean of law Sunduzwayo Madise .

Cyprus International Institute of Texas has been conferring both academic and honorary papers to Malawians. It is regarded as the diploma mill.

Malawi has recently seen a surge in Covid-19 cases.

Covid-19 is the disease caused by coronavirus.

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33 replies on “Mte Wambali killed by Covid-19”

  2. Has the stadium got any/adequate supply of oxygen? Can a journalist give the nation a low down on the adequacy of oxygen in our hospitals and how many patients are needlessly dying from lack of oxygen?

  3. Give those honorary PhD to Muluzi or Mrs nkhalamba (mutharika). Kuchita kukayima nayo pa phiri. Eeee, ndine Dr so so.
    RIP great soldier.

  4. Loss of great music icon. A rare breed of Malawian Musician who genuinely enjoyed both local and international appeal and positive reviews. A great artist, performer, composer, singer and songwriter. Above all else a believer. Your music transcended all forms of identities and was uplifting. Rest well mtebeti

  6. This is very sad news. Wambali was greatly talented, served his Saviour, remained humble. I once visited his home. Such a generous man

  9. When such deaths occur , it always pricks me when I remember what Saulosi chilima was telling us that there is no Coronavirus and that people can be hugging each other. I remember Mayi Mtila Banda who preached that koronoa kulibe And fherefore no need for lockdown .We listener to them as our leaders . Koma lero zikuoneka kuti anthu wa amatinamiza. Lero anthu tikufa ngati nkhuku. Saluosi please talk to us. Mayi Joyce Banda please address us

    1. Atokwene, akutumani ndani Kodi? Atupele? This is not the time of finger pointing, Corona is the world pandemic not only Malawi , so please don’t b an asshole (pantumbo) ayi.

  10. Killed by stupid and poor decisions of the Chakwera/Tonse alliance on Covid and the incompetence of judge Kenyatta Nyirenda in cahoots with the greed of HRDC.Covid is 98% preventable. The leadership let the people down. This could have been prevented and so many lives saved but greed took over

    1. Nyoni don’t waste u r time pointing fingers at politicians,this is a world pandemic not Nyasaland pandemic. It’s time to unite, stop thinking like u r a baboon, wakutumayo akupweteketsa.

    2. Uchira kape iwe. Forget DPP.focus your future. All countries are suffering bcoz of Malawian courts? Khoswe

  11. Some musicians even went to court so their shows could go ahead. That is how bad we are. No morals. Have you seen all those students who tested positive being ill? No, it is the vulnerable. Remember we are protecting the vulnerable. Unless we are a selfish generation, our mothers and fathers will die.

    3. Most of these dying, it’s not covid
      The cunning people propagating this covid thing had already done statistics that it is often the elderly who die
      So any prominent person who dies, they have planned to attribute it to the so called covid, that is my opinion.

  12. We haven’t lost thee battle. Let’s have hope that we will win the battle. Giving up at this hour will help the spread of covid-19

  14. I think we lost the battle with Covid when we allowed Malawians in South Africa to return enmasse and also when we allowed the presidential elections to take place. We underestimated the danger and now we are paying the price. Am not against Tonse Alliance or pro DPP but we should have acted in the best interest of Malawians and placed their safety first. Look now, ordinary people are dying and also hugh profile people.

    1. We had too many wise men at the time who dismissed the pandemic. They need to say sorry to Malawians and repent.

    2. That’s only half of the story. The other half is that Covid was clearly weaponized by the corrupt DPP regime to avoid fresh elections. That’s the danger of politicizing a pandemic. Since the previous regime pocketed 80% of Covid funds as well, personally I would place more blame on those DPP guys. I am not letting Laz off the hook though. He is mishandling the school issue. We should not rush to open schools— not with a virulent Covid strain currently ravaging South Africa. You don’t need to be an epidemiologist to realize that that strain is already here.

      1. We could have opted for a negotiated political settlement of some sort, or GNU (Government of National Unity) rather than risk our safety. Innocent people who are not even politically connected are dying. Greed for power, mass deception by Joice Banda and Chilima denying there is no Covid, and that people must hug each other. Amwene, history will judge these people harshly. Aphesa anthu osalakwa. Some of us, we have buried loved ones, it pains so much waking up each morning to check who else has died and who is next.

    3. Well spoken, reasoned n I don’t know why we could not read all the signs that were very clear that we have a pandemic in our midst but alas we ended up joking about it n thereby risking a lot of innocent Malawians at the expense of politics

      1. I still believe that the current govt is the cause of all this. Chilima and Joyce, this is a result of what u were advocating for, if u have a spirit, you need to come out in the open and tell us why you were doing that and apologise for causin all these deaths. Even the President himself, he completely did nothing when he occupied that office. Pano ndiye zwetu zwetu mwabhaizika musoro, musova.

        1. We must know that the first strain was completely gone after the elections. So Chilima was right then. We had no people in hospitals suffering from Covid-19 and there were no deaths for weeks.

          This is a new strain and new wave and the govt is doing all possible. They need to account for the spend tho in public as a way of being transparent.

    4. What’s that to do with LAST YEAR’S elections? Get over it man. This virus has an incubation life of about 8 days or thereabouts. What’s your comments then on the recent elections in USA/Tanzania/Uganda, etc? This is all about the new variant and whether we did enough to deal with it.

      1. Inu covid 19 ili dziko lonse lapansi . Whom do you think you are to be spared. Uchimo uli.thoo

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