Leader of the House Kondwani Nankhumwa has confirmed that the Business Committee of Palriament, which comprises the Speaker of the National Assembly and leaders of political parties in Parliament and sets out business to be discussed, has approved for tabling a motion Nsanje South West MP Joseph Chidanti-Malunga plans to move on the age […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has asked stakeholders in the country to assume a bigger role of sensitizing to the masses the importance of taking part during voter registration to ensure that 2019 polls are successful and credible. MEC registration runs from 26th June 2018 to 9th November 2018 and phase one of voter registration has districts of Dedza, Salima […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has set aside K150 million for different activities and logistical issues in preparation for the voters’ registration with the first phase running from 26 June to 9 July. Speaking in Dedza during a training of party monitors, the deputy treasurer General for MCP, Rhino Chiphiko, said the money would […]
State Vice President Dr Salous Klaus Chilima (SKC) has urged Malawians to go and register enmasse when the voter registration exercise starts next week to enable them vote in large numbers during the May 2019 watershed Tripartite elections. Chilima made the call when he spoke at Kagwa Parish in Lilongwe where he prayed on Sunday. He […]
Esteemed dear lateral thinking readers, here we go again. First things first, without further ado, let us put things straight and in place, here and now. This column, I verily promise, will not be used to focus on people’s misfortunes or accidents. I swear! We are not interested in foolish people’s self-constructed and somewhat stupidly […]
The United Nations (UN) offices in Lilongwe have swiftly reacted to reports that some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) accredited by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to conduct voter and civic education for next year’s elections remain unfunded due to their lack of financial accountability of funding from development partners in the previous polls. The UN […]
Senior Pastor for Pentecostal International Christian Centre (PICC) Pastor Esau Banda has urged Christians to pray to God to give Malawi a better future, partly through quality leadership in next year’s Tripartite Elections. He said the country should not settle for “politics of brutality” but transformational leadership. “We need politicians that are conversant with what […]
Malawi’s leading daily newspaper has given a critique to the announcement former president Joyce Banda that she was ready to run in next year’s presidential elections and reclaim the presidency she lost four years ago if nominated by her party. Banda, 68, was Malawi’s first female president, serving from April 2012 to May 2014, but left […]
Opposition People’s Party (PP) leader Joyce Banda, wh made history becoming Malawi’s first female president and only the second woman to lead a country in Africa, has said she is readying to contest for presidency again in next year’s elections to reclaim the top post she lost four years ago. She never won the presidential race […]
Curate for Karonga diocese’s St Joseph the Worker cathedral parish in Karonga on Sunday warned parishioners to be “sober” enough and not let politics divide them as Christians during campaign time. Malawi is expected to hold Tripartite elections in ten month’s time. The curate, Father Mathews Simwela, told the faithful at Lwasho outstation in Karonga […]
Considering that in 2014 President Peter Mutharika and the DPP were in the forefront of discrediting any political survey that suggested that then incumbent president Joyce Banda was the most popular presidential candidate and destined to win the 2014 elections, I would have thought that the DPP would today warn anyone against taking political polls […]
National Initiative for Civic Education (NICE) Trust has started civic educating secondary school students in Ntchisi district on the need to register in the yet-to-start voter registration exercise if are to cast their votes next year. Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) is expected to start voter registration next month in readiness for 2019 Tripartite Elections. President […]
The youth uprisings that led to the Arab Spring started on December 17 2010 in the small town of Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. The historic revolt started when fruit vendor Mohammed Bouaziz, 26, set himself ablaze in protest against massive youth unemployment, economic hardship, corruption and repressive rule. The incident comes to mind following recent calls […]
United Kingdom-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has tipped President Peter Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to win the 2019 elections with a “landslide” victory” for filling the financial black hole he inherited from his predecessor Joyce Banda four years ago. In January 2018, the EIU had forecasted that Mutharika would win the elections […]
A former police commissioner has joined the so called Chilima movement for transformation and has since declared he would contest for a parliamentary seat in Mzimba on the movement ticket. Chilika Simfukwe said he decided to join the movement because of the quality leadership in vice president Saulos Chilima. “This country can only move forward […]
Quasi religious body, the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) board meets next Wednesday to consider a request from tiny parties to help them work as one forceful political block during the 2019 Tripartite elections. PAC spokesperson Father Peter Mulomole said the outside parliament parties had asked PAC to broker a deal among the 16 small parties […]
resident Peter Mutharika has urged the youth in the country to register in large numbers during the voters’ registration exercise that is starting on 26th June, 2018. Speaking Sunday when he greeted people who gathered alongside M1 road in Dedza on his way from Ntcheu to Lilongwe where he presided over the ground breaking ceremony […]
As part of the analysis of the press statement that Vice President, Right Honourable Dr. Saulos Chilima delivered two days ago, on June 6, let me very briefly give you two political incidences in world history which I like very much. They are case studies very relevant and central to my analysis and commentary on […]