The Constitutional Court has delivered its ruling on the corruption case involving former president Bakili Muluzi validating Section 32 of the Corrupt Practises Act (CPA), effectively putting the 12 year’s case to proceed to trial. The court ruled that the requirement to explain one’s wealth is constitutional. The State questions the former Head of State of […]
Malawi’s Constitutional Court has set February 21 2018 as the date it will deliver a ruling on the 11-year-old criminal case involving the former President Bakili Muluzi, on whether the case in which the State questions the former Head of State of K1.7 billion ($12 million) during his 1994-2004 presidency which was in his personal account should continue […]
As it were, the first Malawi State president, Dr Kamuzu Banda, was a very unique man, difficult to understand his way of life. No Malawian could claim to know him well. Probably, by design, he decided to set himself apart. He was well-disciplined and not easily approachable. In the process, his way of life created […]
Former Norwegian Ambassador to Malawi, Asbjorn Eidhammer, launched his book titled Malawi a Place Apart at Jacaranda Cultural Centre in Blantyre, over the weekend. The event brought together prestigious literary intellectuals who interestingly critiqued the non-fiction book unravelling Malawi’s history to date. Eidhammer served as Ambassador to Malawi from 1999 to 2004 and then again […]
Former president Bakili Muluzi’s voice mimicker, Frank Naligonje popularly known as ‘Atcheya’ in literary circles said he will be launching a mimic poetry DVD early November 2017. Naligonje who has been mimicking the voice of the former president for six years said the DVD would be a combination of mimic and poetry. “Everything is progressing […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) lawmaker gave a rare praise to first president of Malawi’s multi-party democracy Bakili Muluzi, saying though he did not see the corridors of University of Malawi but he valued higher education and had a solution when there was academic crisis. Dowa East Member of Parliament, Richard Chimwendo-Banda was adding his voice to the barrage of […]
Malawi Police have arrested one of their own officers placed as a guard to President Bakili Muluzi at private residence at BCA Hill, Limbe in Blantyre after being suspected to have stolen motor vehicle parts, officials have confirmed. The suspect, Sergeant Osman of B’COY Police department reportedly accepted wrong doing to the offence of theft […]
Former president Bakili Muluzi has said that he does not own any page on Facebook and disowned the page called ‘Bakili Muluzi news’. The former President warned whoever was administering the page with his name to desist from it adding that the necessary security agencies had been informed and would fish out the perpetrators. “The […]
Bakili Muluzi is not everyone’s favourate politician. Even Emmie Chanika and others published a whole book on Malawi’s lost decade, the period Muluzi was in power. However almost a decade after leaving office, Muluzi is welcomed, smiled and everyone wants a selfie with him. Everyone thinks Bakili Muluzi had a human face of Malawi presidency. […]
Malawi former president Bakili Muluzi and former First Lady Patricia Shanil son, Zake Muluzi, is off the bachelor’s market. He tied the knot with a Scottish bride Lindsay on Saturday at Drummossie Hotel, Inverness in Scotland. Both father and mother were ‘over the moon’ during the wedding which they attended together with family member who […]
Those that were born towards the end of the 20th century and in fact those born in the 21st century era will hardly grasp the content of this piece. However, they should know their past in order to appreciate their present and future. The dawn of multiparty airwaves in Malawi in 1992/3 changed not only […]
The High Court in Malawi has committed the K1.7 billion graft case involving former president Bakili Muluzi to the Constitutional Court for review, a move regarded as steps to dismiss the matter. In 2011 Muluzi and his co-accused Lyness Whiskey applied to have the case shifted to the Constitutional Court but the application was voluntarily […]
Students from University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) in South Africa travelled to Malawi and paid a courtest call to former president Bakili Muluzi last Sunday at his BCA Hill residence where they wanted to tap knowledge on African leaderships from him. The delegation expressed their respect for the outstanding contribution made by Muluzi as […]
New British High Commissioner Holly Tett on Wednesday paid a courtesy call to former president Bakili Muluzi who governed Malawi from 1994 to 2004 and also toured private news organisations Times Group and Nation Publications Limited. During a coutesy call with Muluzi at his private home, BCA Hill in Blantyre, the former president thanked the […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi on Tuesday paid tribute to former Zomba Thondwe constituency Member of Parliament, Annie Lemani Singani, when he joined mourners at her funeral and burial ceremony. Singani Lemani, a sister to former United Democrtaic Front (UDF) campaign director late Rev. Dr. Dumbo Lemani, died Sunday of a heart problem at Queen […]
Former President Joyce Banda says there are a lot of good programmes and policies that Malawians today can learn from past presidents and governments, which can also be adopted to address some of the “deepening” social and economic challenges facing the nation today. In her New Year’s Message released by her office on New Year’s […]
Acting president for erstwhile ruling Peoples Party (PP) Uladi Mussa has called on Malawians to live harmoniously despite their religious differences as first-ever Yao translated Quraan is launched in the country. Muslims Association of Malawi (MAM) and Iftaa in Ulama Council of Malawi- a grouping of Muslim Sheikhs- on Saturday launched the Yao translated Quraan […]
Mourners packed Kapoloma village in Machinga district for the funeral of former president Bakili Muluzi ‘s first born daughter, Esmie Muluzi Malisita, who was on Monday struck dead by lightning, together with her close friend Hazel Busile in Blantyre. People of all walks of life travelled to Muluzi’s home village of Kapoloma, Machinga district 160 km […]