Malawi’s ex-president Bakili Muluzi, who ruled from 1994 to 2004, on Tuesday formally announced his retirement from active politics, stepping down as chairman of his former governing United Democratic Front (UDF) party. The former president, who is recuperating in South Africa after undergoing a surgery, addressed a UDF National Conference in Blantyre through a message […]
A High Court judge in Malawi’s commercial capital, Blantyre, has adjourned case in which former president Dr Bakili Muluzi is answering a K1.7 billion corruption case to next month because he is recuperating in South African hospital after he went through an operation. Muluzi has been in and out of British and South African clinics […]
Muslim clerks and sheiks were on Monday disturbed and angry over a symbol of the cross which was printed on the front page of the funeral program of Gogo Chenalikusika, mother to Malawi’s former president, Dr Bakili Muluzi. Gogo Chenalikusika a Muslim passed away in the early hours of Saturday October 13 at the age […]
Malawi political leaders from different parties joined thousands of mourners led by vice president Khumbo Kachali to pay their last respects to former president Bakili Muluzi’s mother, Gogo Chenalikusika who was laid to rest Monday at Majiga Village, Traditional Authority Kapoloma in Machinga district. She was laid to rest with Islamic prayers and respects. Muluzi […]
Mother to Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi, Gogo Che Nalikusika passed on peacefully in her sleep in the wee hours of Saturday, family members have confirmed. It is believed that she had died due to old age. She was 92. This has happened while former president is receiving treatment in South African hospital. Speaking in […]
Former Malawian president Bakili Muluzi has undergone a ‘successful major’ back operation in South African hospital, family sources told Nyasa Times. Muluzi had to undergo a gruelling 5-hour operation in a Cape Town Clinic. “The former president had a successful operation for his back problem, he is recovering but obviously in pain,” said a family member. […]
Friday Jumbe and Sam Mpasu have claimed that former president Bakili Muluzi is bankrolling the forthcoming October 31 convention of United Democratic Front (UDF) to ensure his son, Atupele Muluzi, sail through as presidential candidate. Jumbe and Mpasu told local radio stations that plans by the former ruling party’s secretariat to hold elective conference as […]
Interim leader of the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) Friday Anderson Jumbe has described plans by the party’s secretariat to hold elective conference as a political ploy aimed at catapulting his rival Austin Atupele Muluzi to the helm of the party. The party’s secretary general Kennedy Makwangwala announced last Friday that his party would hold […]
Former President Bakili Muluzi of Malawi has returned home from a South Africa hospital where he went to receive treatment. But Muluzi is scheduled to return again to South Africa to continue with his treatment next week. Muluzi arrived on Wednesday through Chileka Airport. According to family sources, he has come to attend a wedding […]
Former leader of UDF in Parliament who is now deputy minister of Environment and Climate Change Management Ibrahim Matola has gone to the ruling People’s Party and is waiting for an opportune time to announce the development. Senior UDF officials confirmed on Thursday that they are aware of Matola’s move to PP. “Although he has […]
Denial syndrome reborn: This week has seen the second coming of the one and only, the incorruptible peoples’ champion, the inimitable John Kapito – the main man who refused to compromise with his appointing authority on human rights. Kapito, in his direct manner, has charged that; “Everywhere in the world, government’s main responsibility is to […]
Malawi former president Bakili Muluzi on Tuesday appeared before a Commission of Inquiry into the death of former president Bingu wa Mutharika in Blantyre. The commission which was set to establish the date and place of death plus roles played by different individuals in managing the transition of power to President Joyce Banda, met Muluzi at his BCA […]
The High Court of Malawi sitting in Blantyre is set to let go former Malawian envoy to Japan Dr. John Chikago who is an accomplice of former head of state Bakili Muluzi in the corruption case. The marathon trial, against the former career diplomat, started in 2006 however Chikago through his attorney Chancy Gondwe prayed […]
Nobody is born a politician, most of us may well argue. But for others, politics is the bonafide thing. Look at how Enock Chihana and Atupele Muluzi are fairing? The golden spoon seems to have been born with them in the political foyer! Then we have one ol’ 76 (or thereabout) years-old John Zenuz Ungapake […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has wished Muslims well for the feast of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Banda, who returned from Mozambique on Sunday where she attended Southern African Development Community (Sadc) summit, extended warm wishes to Muslim communities on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations. President Banda said Malawians should […]
I was young but I still recall what was happening that time. This is because I believe that without history, the long journey of life is nothing but just like a huge bottle tree without roots. I remember when my father told me that ‘Never underestimate yesterday’s events because they help to shape the today and gently […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi and other former African heads of state on Wednesday met newly elected African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in Pretoria, South Africa. Muluzi was joined at the meeting with Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique, , John Kufuor of Ghana and Karl Auguste Offman of Mauritius . The […]
The High Court in Blantyre has ordered the state prosecutors to respond to submissions filed by former Malawi ambassador to Japan, Dr John Chikago, in which he has asked the court to discharge him from the corruption case he is facing together with former president Bakili Muluzi. Chikago was arrested in 2006 and charged with […]