Banda’s ‘well-wishers’ threaten activists Ntata, Chiza with lawsuit

Controversy prone Ichikowitz family, on record to be the publicity-shy “well-wishers” footing the bill for President Joyce Banda’s image sprucing costs, owners of the firm that recently supplied patrol boats for Lake Malawi and now reported to be flying Banda around in a jet that the Malawi leadeer “sold” and vowed never to use; ended […]

The folly of engaging foreign media at expense of local over Malawi cashgate

By now the whole State House communication machinery, if there is such a thing in the first place, must have seen that perhaps the idea of engaging an up market UK public relations firm to clean up the cashgate- battered image of government in the eyes of a foreign audience was a bad one, after all. […]

JB’s UK PR firm Bell Pottinger is‘Devil’s representative’

A London-based public relations firm, Bell Pottinger which Malawi President Joyce Banda has engaged for reputation management in the wake of the cashgate scandal, is regarded as ‘The devil’s representative worldwide’ Banda hired Bell Pottinger to boost her image in the eyes of the international community  as Malawi has been rocked by widespread corruption, losing […]