Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) says it has more than 30 witnesses to testify against former president Bakili Muluzi in the $11 million (about K1.7bn) graft case currently being tried at High Court in Blantyre. One of the ACB lawyers prosecuting the case, Clement Mwala disclosed in an interview with Nyasa Times on Tuesday after the case […]
The High Court in Blantyre has thrown out the application that Deputy Director for Prosecutions of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) David Nyamilandu is ineligible to practise law in Malawi following a recent Constitutional Court ruling. Former president Bakili Muluzi’s lawyer Kalekeni Kaphale sought clarification on how Nyamilandu was allowed into the bar in view of a ruling barring […]
Former president Bakili Muluzi has challenged the eligibility of Deputy Director for Prosecutions at Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) David Nyamilandu prosecuting his K1.7 billion theft case, arguing the lawyer is not Malawian citizen, therefore cannot prosecute the matter. Muluzi and his accomplice Lyness Whisky are being tried on K1.7 billion government claims was donor money diverted […]
A political professor at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Blessings Chinsinga has that leaders “we have had so far are more or less copy cats.” Chinsinga made the critique in an article which appears in the May-June issue of the Catholic magazine, The Lamp titled ‘A half century of progress or stagnation’. The academician who was […]
The claims by Malawi President Joyce Banda that she was the first Head of State to be invited to the White House by the United States of America (USA) President have been disputed with a record showing founding president Kamuzu Banda was the first According to official Malawi News Agency report, President Banda said at […]
In a couple of days, President Joyce Banda and her hangers on will be celebrating,with presumable pomp, her clocking a year in the Office of the President of the Republic of Malawi. A lot has been written on her long journey to that office and I will not repeat what has already been said. Again, […]
The Director Public Prosecution has said Malawi’s former president Dr. Bakili Muluzi’s K1.7 billion graft case will, once more, go to court on February 25, 2013 to get a new date of hearing. Director of Public Prosecution Bruno Kalemba explained that on 25th February lawyers from both sides will agree on the date of the […]
Malawi’s ruling People’s Party (PP) officials are reported to have met at Kampala’s Lodge in Mangochi over the weekend with lawmaker Yusuf Matumula proposing that they should scheme against UDF youthful presidential candidate Atupele Muluzi to block him from running for presidency next year. According to inside sources who attended the meeting, it was agreed that […]
Never before have cries been louder. A notable constituency of our society is so concerned with President Joyce Banda declaring her assets. To their dismay, she recently made it clear that after thorough consultation with her lawyers within government structure she has decided not to do so because she already did in 2009 when she […]
I have just returned from a visit to Malawi after a decade long absence. Malawi has changed a lot over the past 10 years. Unfortunately, most of the change is in the negative direction. Buildings that used to be the pride of the cities are now spotting rain-stained walls and dirty roofs. Once nicely kept lawns are […]
In this article, I argue that there is an inevitable cycle of discontent in Malawi that is as hard-wired into the Malawian DNA as is the Malawian passivity in dealing with unacceptable political leadership decisively. Malawian tameness and political docility has shaped a cycle of discontent that can be traced as far back as the […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi is suing the state for false arrest, physical inconvenience and defamation following his arrest in 2008 on coup plot allegations. Muluzi was detained in 2008 for trumped up charges of plotting to topple government, which he says was “wrongful and without reasonable and probable case”, according to court documents . […]
It is hard to know what Dr Bakili Muluzi’s real legacy will be – the man who successfully led Malawi through the immediate post- dictatorship era and masterfully instilled a culture of democracy in the country, or a man who through selfish interests suffocated and killed the once mighty United Democratic Front party. During the […]
Lawyers representing former president Dr Bakili Muluzi is answering a K1.7 billion corruption case say he needs six months to recover from the wounds he got after an intensive operation he under went recently in South Africa so that he can stand trial. Muluzi has been in and out of British and South African clinics since […]
At President Joyce Banda’s People’s Party (PP) rally on Saturday in Mangochi, top officials went to town attacking former president Bakili Muluzi and his son Atupele, who is opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) presidential candidate for 2014. Kicking off the slurs was Member of Parliament for Mangochi South constituency Yusuf Matumula who attacked Muluzi, saying during […]
There are three possible reasons Atupele Muluzi has ascended to the position of national chairperson of United Democratic Front (UDF) at the expense of other interested members, including stay-away Friday Jumbe and George Mtafu as well as tenacious, but down-on-his-luck Moses Dossi, who Atupele trounced during the elections held at the conventions. The first reason […]
Former president Dr Bakili Muluzi’s speech read by lawyer Kalekeni Kaphale at UDF convention on Tuesday October 31, 2012 in Blantyre Since I retired as National Chairperson of the United Democratic Front Party in 2010, some two years ago, I have not had an opportunity to be with you and to officially bid farewell […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) on Tuesday proven its alive and kicking as witnessed by the thousands of supporters who have converged for its national convention at Comesa hall in Blantyre. It was tough for people to get an entry into the Chichiri Trade Fair ground campus as well as into the Comesa hall as the […]