Most Malawians still vividly remember the very serious campaign that Bakili Muluzi embarked upon from April, 2003 to April, 2004 for Bingu wa Mutharika to be elected as President. He reapetedly told Malawians that what the country needed was an economic engineer. It is now when Malawians are facing numerous problems never experienced since 1964 […]
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 […]
“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.” […]
The announcement by Bingu wa Mutharika’s sibling Peter that he has thrown his hat into the ring for the 2014 Presidential election makes sad reading. Besides, it also marks a sad chapter in the democracy of our beloved country Malawi. The announcement comes at a bad time when Malawians had high hopes and expectations that […]
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 […]
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, […]
Reserve Bank of Malawi Governor Perks Ligoya said on Tuesday that it is misleading to say that country’s economy was doing very well under the tenure of Bakili Muluzi than currently under economist President Bingu wa Mutharika. Economist and former diplomat Dr Jerry Jana told a radio interview on privately-owned Capital radio that “in the […]
People’s Party of vice president Joyce Banda is set to form the next government in Malawi, the party’s national director of economic affairs, Dr. Jerry Jana has said. Jana an accomplished economist and former diplomat says he thinks that PP is ready to form the next government and that it will have a different approach […]
Malawi’s former ruling UDF party senior official Humphrey Mvula has said the party has a letter from Machinga North East constituents demanding their member of parliament Atupele Muluzi to stop his presidential bid for 2014. According to a letter, Atupule has been asked to scrap off his interest for the high office in the country […]
The extent to which some people will go, to show to the world at large their stupidity can be quite amazing. Take for instance, recent developments in the former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF). The UDF, in these days of the internet, email, sms and tweeter, has rediscovered the forgotten art of letter writing. The […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi has advised UDF gurus to go to the High Court in Blantyre and study the file for his criminal case the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) is handling, saying the money they are demanding him to account for is being used by the bureau on one of the charges. In a letter […]
Malawi’s former first lady Patricia Shanil Muluzi is now a presenter on Catholic broadcasting station, Radio Maria. She presents a programme called “Woyera walero” in which she gives life history of a saint of that particular day according to the Catholic liturgical calendar. Shanil can be heard on Radio Malawi around seven o’clock in the […]
The former governing United Democratic Front (UDF) say it will select its presidential candidate in 2013, a year before the general elections. The party has however announced that it will a national convention in April 2012 which will not elect a presidential candidate, but a new national executive committee. “The United Democratic Front…has identified core […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo has said Malawians can trust his party with power in 2014, saying his main opposition party ruled this country better for 31 years. Tembo also hinted that he wants to contest in 2014 as MCP presidential candidate. “Why s houldn’t they (Malawians) not trust me? We ruled this […]
(Shortened from a longer academic paper) Even Dr Banda, who was fond of calling Chiume, Chisiza and Chipembere ‘my boys’, did, in polite moments, call Orton Chirwa ‘Mr Chirwa’. And, even when he was ill-treating Orton Chirwa, the ‘Mr Chirwa’ sometimes slipped out (Vera Chirwa, 2007, page 74). Orton Chirwa was born in 1919, in […]
Presidential aspirant Atupele Muluzi, the 33 year-old son of former President Bakili Muluzi, says he does not believe in giving monetary handouts, saying his ‘change’ agenda also includes moving away from dishing out freebies as campaign inducement. Atupele told Nyasa Times after his meeting on Wednesday at UDF Headquarters in Limbe, Blantyre, and party members […]