Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda has said she will be willing to seek an electoral alliance with like-minded parties for contesting the next general election in 2014. Banda, who is president of the opposition People’s Party, told Zodiak Radio’s Tiuzeni Zoona programme on Sunday that her party with over 2 million members was however strong […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) Regional Governor for the north Kajiso Gondwe has alleged that the ruling DPP is funding some of the party’s top brass in order to destabilize it ahead of the 2014 general elections. But DPP Secretary General Wakuda Kamanga has laughed off the allegations saying they do not make sense. Speaking to Nyasa […]
A question opinion poll conducted by the leading media house in Malawi, Times Group, has revealed that most people would favour lawmaker Atupele Muluzi to lead the country in 2014 with his ‘agenda for change’ amongst the opposition candidates sampled. Times Group through one of its titles, Daily Times newspaper, asked its readers to vote on […]
Of late, the Malawian President His Excellency Ngwazi Professor Bingu wa Mutharika has made some very out of the ordinary remarks on the podium that have had listeners in stitches. Mutharika made Malawians, and many citizens of other nationalities living in the country, end the year 2011 ridiculing and parodying him just as they did […]
Some United Democratic Front (UDF) senior members who had been advancing suggestions that son to former Head of State Bakili Muluzi, Atupele may not have succeeded in his university studies in the United Kingdom had a rude awakening on Friday when it was reported otherwise. Malawi’s broadsheet, Sky News, reported that the University of Leicester, […]
The existence of wrangles within political parties is as old as political parties themselves. This usually emanates from competing interests, ambitions, visions, ideals and sometimes simply out of idiocy and egos of the people involved. This is normal and natural. However, prolonged infighting has enormous potential to undermine the standing of the party in the […]
At a press conference addressed by the United Democratic Front (UDF) faction led by interim president Friday Jumbe in Blantyre on Tuesday, it transpired that the current mudslinging and misunderstanding between that camp and that which supports former Head of State Bakili Muluzi’s son, Atupele, are nowhere close to the end. At his private Superior […]
Irate Muslims who were attending an Islamic gathering on Saturday stormed MBC-TV premises in Lilongwe where they asked the state broadcaster not to beam an interview its journalist Charles Vintula did with one of Muslim cleric from Mchinji, Imran Omar earlier in the day. The move followed a secret interview which Omar did with Vintula […]
Presidential aspirant Atupele Muluzi, the 33 year-old son of former President Bakili Muluzi, told a mass rally in Blantyre on Sunday that Malawians are suffering and said he wants to work with a team of all talents to be on a “rescue mission” to haul the country back from a deepening economic crisis . The lawmaker had […]
UDF presidential aspirant Atupele Muluzi on Sunday laughed off talk that he is being hawked to partner Peter Mutharika of DPP as a running mate in 2014 elections, saying it is propaganda by his detractors. Sam Mpasu of the other UDF faction accused the parliamentarian and son to former president Bakili Muluzi of having secret […]
Intro: With about thirty months to the 2014 General Elections, pundits are supposed to be crafting and fine-tuning strategies for their political parties. Political parties on their part are supposed to be positioning themselves to launch campaigns accordingly. But what is happening on the ground? the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), despite the writing on the […]
I have always followed Malawian politics but lately I have done so with great fervency. What has singularly provoked my interest is the concept of “younganisation of malawi’s politics”. According to proponents of this school of thought, the objective is to create an environment that encourages the youth to take a leading role in public […]
High Court premises in Blantyre was on Thursday nearly turned into a battlefield when some of the UDF members exchanged bitter words with officials from the Friday Jumbe camp after the court vacated the injunction against the party’s national executive committee (NEC). Most of UDF royalists mobbed and showered insults at the deputy publicity secretary […]
The vice president in the one of the factions of the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF), Sam Mpasu, is warning that the party will not hastate dismissing those who will disobey its rules and regulations. The threat comes days after members of the faction announced that they have dismissed the party’s Secretary General Kennedy Makwangwala […]
About 480 traditional leaders from Machinga district including thousands of United Democratic Front (UDF) loyalists have vowed to support Atupele Muluzi’s bid to contests for 2014 presidential polls. The chiefs who included traditional authorities Chiwalo, Kawinga, Kapoloma and Mposa said this on Sunday at a New Year’s cerebrations which Atupele organized for people in the […]
A political scientist has asked members of the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) to remain vigilant and united against outside forces that are bend to divide and bring confusion in the party. Catholic University political science lecturer, Vincent Kondowe said this in reaction to current development in the party that has seen some of its […]
Background: All in all six articles were published under these series in the year 2011. The first, Potholes on the Road to 2014 Part I, was published in March 2011 at the peak of an MBC Television programme bearing the name Road to 2014. The articles, carried by Nyasa Times with some appearing on MaraviPost, […]
Former ruling United Democratic Front(UDF) officials on Wednesday failed to hold their scheduled national executive committee meeting at the party’s headquarters in Limbe after their effort to vacate the injunction against the gathering hit a blank wall. An executive member of one of the party’s factions Humphrey Mvula obtained an injunction Tuesday night through High […]