TA Bvumbwe dies at age 35
Traditional Authority T/A Bvumbwe of Malawi’s southern district of Thyolo has died, Ministry of Local government has confirmed.
The youthful chief died on Wednesday at Adventist hospital in Blantyre at the age of 36. He was born in 1980.
TA Bvumbwe was installed in October 2001 by the then president Bakili Muluzi.
In 2013, he courted controversy when he annoyed the then president Joyce Banda for the remarks he made at Judge Joseph Manyungwa’s funeral in Thyolo.
T/A Bvumbwe rebuked Banda’s People’s Party (PP) officials for distributing party T-shirts at the funeral of Judge Manyungwa.
“[Madam President] I want to say what has happened here. Your boys were distributing T-shirts. This is bad and degrading. It should never happen again. This should never happen again, if you want, hold a rally and distribute the T-shirts there,” he reportedly said.
As T/A Bvumbwe made his speech, PP regional director of youth (South) Lemani Chapitapansi, who was involved in the distribution of the T-shirts even to the local grave diggers, cast his face down.
Later, officials led by Brown Mpinganjira approached Thyolo District Commissioner, Lawford Palani and asked him to organize chiefs in the district to apologise to Banda over the remarks by TA Bvumbwe .
Thyolo District Commissioner was also instructed to sideline T/A Bvumbwe in any government functions.
He is survived by a wife and two daughters Monica and Desire.
May his soul rest in peace
SO SAD FOR A YOUTHFUL CHIEF LIKE BVUMBWE TO HAVE GONE SO SOON.
May his soul rest in eternal peace,Amen.
very sad to see youngstars like chief Bvumbe was,,,,dead @ this age….RIP…
Let mwambo wa maliro ukhale wa maliro musasakanize zochita pa maliro, mumapeputsa maliro a eniake.
Sad news. My condolences to the bereaved family and Ngonis at large. RIP
R.I.P indeed wagwa mtengo
R I P Chief
Amalawi lets be matured. Lets try to avoid posting silly comments. Look even the writer of this page didn’t inform Malawians what brought our dear chief to the grave. They are busy bringing 2013 issues. Stupid and unprofessional work piece
Ndizomvesa chisoni kuluza T /A Bvumbwe kwa anthu a ku Thyolo mbali yawo anayesa ndithu FOCHTA ena muyiziwa athandizapo kuti ibadwe kwa ma PLHIV inali mouse peace poluza mfumu ee zomvesa chisoni . otukwana zipangani poti chili kwa mzako amati chigwile nyanga mzimu wawo uwuse mu ntendere