My motivation for writing this item are discriminatory statements coming from both politicians and citizens to the effect that “Malawi is not ready for a female president”, or “No more voting for octogenarians (old people)” and indeed “Peter Mutharika and Atupele Muluzi should not take presidency as chieftaincy”. The ideas I want to defend in […]
Parliamentarian for the opposition United Democrat Front (UDF) for Machinga North East constituency Atupele Muluzi has maintained that he is not shaken by the move announced by some party gurus Tuesday afternoon that he has been expelled from the party with immediate effect. During an impromptu meeting held at Victoria Hotel in Blantyre some UDF […]
Atupele Muluzi’s stated wish to stand on the United Democratic Front (UDF) ticket as the party’s 2014 presidential candidate in 2014 has more than stirred a hornet’s nest. While the UDF has in the recent past invested its energies in in-fighting, the aggression that has followed Atupele’s announcement has taken the UDF to a new […]
Ruling DPP has recruited ‘mafia’ Humphrey Mvula to work on a project of propaganda and mudslinging against lawmaker Atupele Muluzi’s presidential ambitions. According to a senior DPP official, Mvula has been tasked to work with Sky broadsheet newspaper of DPP’s Noel Masangwi to “create damaging stories” against Atupele. Plan Mvula and broadsheet reporter (name withheld) […]
Short bio: Henry Duncan Dama (HDP)Phoya was born in Blantyre on 10th December 1966. In 2014 he will be 48 years old. He privately practiced as a lawyer for 10 years before joining politics in in 2001/2002 as a United Democratic Front (UDF) Member of Parliament for Blantyre Rural East Constituency. Almost immediately, he was […]
Former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) says it has dissolved all factions formed in the leadership wrangles ahead of the December 28 National Executive Committee meeting. UDF secretary general Kennedy Makwangwala said the move is geared at forming a united front for the party as it prepares to hold leadership contest next year. Makwangala said […]
We respect Sam Mpasu very much. Mpasu who had served on different ministerial positions and at one time Speaker of the National Assembly in UDF (United Democratic Front)- led government deserve best our greatest admiration, especially if are also to consider him from the following factors: That he was the first crop of Chancellor College- […]
It is clear even to a primary school pupil that Malawi is sailing in economic and political turmoil. The problems we are facing are many and serious. More importantly that we need to collectively come up with solutions and get back to the road of prosperity is what any Malawian of good will expects. I […]
Moved by lawmaker Atupele Muluzi’s ‘agenda for change’, some students at Chancellor College have formed a grouping called University Students for Atupele’s Agenda for Change (UNSAAC) with the sole objective of pressing for change on issues of national development in all dimensions. All this follows the Atupele Muluzi’s recent declaration to vie for the country’s […]
Former Speaker of Parliament who is UDF first vice president, Sam Mpasu, says there is no benchmark for followers of presidential aspirant, Atupele Muluzi, to compare him with United States President Barack Obama. Atupele, former president Bakili Muluzi’s 33-year-old son, is seeking UDF nomination to stand as presidential candidate in 2014 general elections. But the […]
Presidential hopeful Atupele Muluzi, son of former president Bakili Muluzi, told a mass rally he held in the lakeshore district of Salima in the central region on Saturday that he has “a vision” to turn Malawi into prosperous nation. Atupele, franked by his team of UDF parliamentarians, stormed Salima with his ‘agenda for change’ campaign […]
“Malawians are afraid of their future, they are afraid that they can’t feed their families. They are afraid that they can’t get their ARVs or transport their crops to the market or power their factories, schools and hospitals….And some are even afraid to have a conversation and that is a worrisome situation to be in.” […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) loyalists say they will rally their support on Atupele Muluzi’s bid to contest for president in 2014 general elections, despite what they call cheap propaganda by some disgruntled party’s national executive members against him. The party’s interim president Friday Jumbe, secretary general Kennedy Makwangwala and director of research Humphreys Mvula among […]
A fresh wave of leadership Tsunami has hit the United Democratic Front (UDF) further threatening to tear the former ruling party into pieces. The bone of contention now is the son to former Head of State , Atupele Muluzi, with senior party official saying the lamaker is too young to contest for the presidency at […]
The recent manoeuvrings for the presidential candidature for the 2014 elections in Malawi by Peter Mutharika and Atupele Muluzi have reminded me of one of my earliest blog posts where I endorsed the then Senator Barack Obamaas my preferred candidate for the US presidency. In that post, I pointed out that: “I am reluctant to […]
One of the leading human and political rights campaigners has described the country’s politics being at a crossroads, saying what Malawians need is to redefine through thorough analysis about where they are coming from, where they are, and where and how far they have to go from now. “The greatest challenge is that we as […]
Presidential hopeful Atupele Muluzi, son of former president Bakili Muluzi, says he would like to purse his national agenda for change but highlighted that Malawi political parties must change the way politics is being practised to embrace the essence of democracy in its full meaning. “Those of us holding positions, whether in the area, branch, […]
Lawmaker Atupele Muluzi, son of former president Bakili Muluzi, stormed tobacco growing distrist of Kasungu in the central region on Saturday with his ‘agenda for change’ campaign and wooed the multitudes that thronged the venues of the rally. “My coming here today is a great moment for me and a moment I have been anticipating […]