On the morning of 5 April 2012, Malawians woke up to the same hardships that had defined the previous two years. Foreign exchange had dried up, fuel queues stretched for miles, money was scarce and public hospitals lacked even basic medicines. Public frustration was growing, and the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) had just called on […]
Some Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials are comparing economist, Dalitso Kabambe, the former Reserve Bank of Malawi governor with the late president Bingu Wa Mutharika who was the leader and founder of the party. The members were reacting to the worries of some Malawians who have been saying that the former ruling party needs to […]
As some Malawians continue to take to social media to celebrate the life of Bingu wa Mutharika, government has said it is high time the nation knew the actual date the former president died. Bingu died a sudden death in his eighth year as President. He ruled the country from 2004 until his death in […]
President Lazarus Chakwera isn’t the first Malawi leader to pay courtesy call on a frustrated, angry and irritated immediate former president. Bakili Muluzi did that in 1994 when he took off time and visited the ailing and tired Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda at Mudi Residences in Blantyre. It was a courtesy call that, in all […]
President Peter Mutharika Mutharika has said his brother former president late Bingu wa Mutharika had a good taste in terms of women he dated and indeed it proves as when his first his first wife, Ethel, died, he married pretty Callista Mutharika on April 17 2010. Bingu’s widow Callista is still looking gorgenous as a former […]
Vice-President Saulos Chilima has branded the electoral alliance between the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) as the worst enemy of State for being rooted in “hatred, tribalism and regionalism.” Chilima—who fell out with President Peter Mutharika and quit DPP in June 2018 to form UTM Party and challenged his political […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) youth cadets on Tuesday commemorated the Marty’s Day in Thyolo by cutting grass and clearing bush around the burial site of former president Bingu wa Mutharika. This was after a picture went viral in social media platforms on Monday showing Mutharika’s mausoleum in a bush. The photo promoted by the opposition […]
President Peter Mutharika has disclosed that government is ready to revive the much-touted Nsanje World Inland Port project, which has already cost the taxpayer billions of kwacha, as the project awaits approval from neighouring Mozambique government. President Mutharika said this on Sunday at Nsanje Boma after inspecting Nsanje-Marka road upgrading project during a whistle-stop tour […]
A Lhomwe cultural group Mulhako wa Alhomwe will hold its annual festival on October 19 at its headquarters in Chonde, Mulanje, where it will honour posthumously former president Bingu wa Mutharika, who was the group’s first patron. Speaking at Chonde headquarters, the group’s board chairperson Leston Mulli said the hroup will also honour former chairperson late […]
Wrapping up five days of relentless cross-examination of first petitioner Saulos Chilima in the historic elections case, Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale told the five-judge panel of the High Court sitting as Constitutional Court in Lilongwe that the audience in the public gallery were murmuring against him. Kaphale, representing Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), second respondent […]
Malawi Parliament has refuted news circulating on social media that the statue of former president Bingu Wa Mutharika has been demolished by some protesters on Thursday as thousands demonstrated in major cities over last month’s disputed election. Social media is awash with photos saying that the statue has been vandalized by protestors in Lilongwe. According […]
Former lecturer of the University of Malawi, Okomaatani Aipira, has dropped his debut in the Malawi book industry with a seemingly an analytical piece that chronicles the country’s presidency from 1964. Aipira, who taught at The Polytechnic for 35 years before he joined frontline politics by serving as Mangochi West legislator, discusses the country’s status […]
UTM Party aspiring candidate for Lilongwe rural south Agnes Penemulungu has died. The party secretary general Patricia Kaliati has paid tribute to Penemulungu for her warrior like work ethic promoting the gospel of UTM. “She was a very hard working lady for the cause of UTM. We will miss her a lot in the UTM […]
Taxpayer-funded Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) on Friday moved quickly to send on suspension four journalists for their role in a story that erroneously described the incumbent Malawi President as ‘Late Professor Peter Mutharika.’ The report, that had gone viral on Thursday night was done by MBC’s Lilongwe-based reporter Mwai Mtumodzi when he was rounding- up […]
President Peter Mutharika has said he is geared to lead Malawi to for the second five-year term with a passionate determination to take it out of poverty and is upbeat to deliver by living the ‘Bingu dream’. Mutharika was speaking after presiding over the statue unveiling ceremony for late President Bingu Wa Mutharika at Parliament […]
President Peter Mutharika is Friday scheduled to unveil a statue in honour of the late president Bingu wa Mutharika, erected at Parliament Building in Lilongwe. Minister of Information and Communications Technology Henry Mussa confirmed that construction works for the sculpture has been completed. After unveiling the stature, a memorial service will follow. Renowned South African […]
People have expressed mixed feelings with reports that govenrment is constructing a statue at Parliament building in honour of the late president Bingu wa Mutharika. Bingu, the ex-World Bank economist turned politician, died after a cardiac arrest on April 5 2012. The Bingu sculpture was done by renowned South African sculptor Jean Doyle’s Artistic Works […]
Some Malawians have taken up in radio call programs and social media to express concern over government decision to erect a Mahatma Ghandi statue in the city of Blantyre. The government is erecting the statue of the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule near the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at Ginnery Corner in […]