The torrent of analysis and appraisal, hagiography and scorn levelled at President Joyce Banda’s first 100 days was relatively quiet on the issue of “Mandasi woman”. That’s shocking when you consider how all consuming the issue was during her fight with the Bingu wa Mutharika administration. Keep this point. Joyce Banda’s first 100 days in […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has sent a statement of intent on the political as its interim leader and presidential candidate Peter Mutharika drew a sea of people who gathered at Thyolo Community Ground for his rally on Sunday. As Mutharika addressed the enthusiastic crowds, they cheered him on and chanted songs of hope that he […]
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) interim leader Peter Mutharika has thrown himself into the 2014 presidential race. Mutharika made the declaration at his first rally in Thyolo district following the sudden death of his brother Bingu wa Mutharika. Peter, who after the death of his brother assumed the leadership mantle of the party, told the […]
Malawi is one of the poorest countries and is within top ten of the poorest in the world and third in SADC just behind DR Congo and probably Zimbabwe. Just like she has been overtaken by Ethiopia, Mozambique, Angola etc because such countries were on war before, the country should expect to take the last […]
Unperturbed by the death of its founding patron Bingu wa Mutharika, the Mulhako wa Alhomwe cultural heritage is set to celebrate five years of its existence. The grouping which was established in order to provide exposure and preserve the Lhomwe cultural customs earmarked October 28 for the celebrations. Speaking to local radio MIJ FM, Mulhako’s Secretariat […]
President Joyce Banda today, July 11, 2012 laid a foundation stone for the Malawi National Sports Stadium in Lilongwe’s Area 48 to mark the launch of the construction project. Olympic standard structure had been taken away from the capital and moved to the commercial city of Blantyre by the previous Democratic Progressive Movement (DPP) administration and relocated […]
The High Court in Malawi’s commercial city, Blantyre, on Tuesday adjourned the ongoing corruption case involving former president Bakili Muluzi to October 8 to 26 . The former president has been accused of misappropriating about $11millionof funds from Taiwan, Morocco and Libya. Muluzi denies the charges – and has always said they were linked to […]
We are concerned with the security breakdown in the country. No matter how hard certain ideological zealots aligning themselves with the government may try to water down this unfolding tragedy, the truth is, there is still security breakdown in Malawi. As we speak now, some prisoners have just escaped from Zomba Prison. But to get […]
Six companies have submitted bids to draw up a viability study of the Malawian proposal to open the Zambezi and Shire rivers to international shipping, according to a report on Radio Mozambique. The bids are now under consideration by the Malawian government, the secretariat of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Development Bank (ADB). […]
All indications are that civil society activists left out in the cold without any appointment into Public Service Offices have had enough. The gloves have been coming out slowly and it now looks the battlefield is demarcated where revolutionary campaign to tarnish Joyce Banda administration is in an advanced stage. Leading the pack is a […]
President Mrs Joyce Banda has said never again should Malawians die or even get injured in the course of exercising their rights: be it right to freedom of expression or right to association. Banda was speaking at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre where she presented the findings of the report into the deadly July 20 anti- […]
The People’s Republic of China has assured President Mrs. Joyce Banda’s administration of continuation in terms of infrastructural development despite the recent transition of power. Chinese ambassador to Malawi, Pan Hejun, made the assurance in interview with local radio, Capital FM’s Daybreak Malawi program. The world’s second richest country which stunned economists and western governments with […]
British government has been persuaded to reinstate its general budget support for Malawi following brave reforms ” for the better carried by new President Joyce Banda, according to MPs on the International Development Committee. In a report released on Tuesday and seen by Nyasa Times from the House of Commons website, the committee’s chairman, Sir Malcolm Bruce, recommended that […]
The Limbe Magistrate Court has acquitted journalist Ernest Mahwayo, who was arrested in September last year for taking pictures at the late President Bingu wa Mutharika’s Ndata Farm without permission. Mahwayo, a sub-editor for Mkwaso newspaper – a vernacular publication published by Montfort media, a publishing Company owned by the Catholic Church in Balaka district, […]
Malawi Parliament adjourned sine die on Friday after unanimously approving the K408 billion (about $1.6 billion) 2012/2013 budget with emotional winding speech from Leader of the House, Henry Phoya. Phoya took time to roast the ghost of late president Bingu wa Mutharika that lawmakers have not been doing praise singing in their contributions as was […]
Malawi Parliament on Wednesday passed the government’s 2012/13 financial plan totalling K408 billion (about $1.6 billion). The budget was approved after a Committee of Supply that took exactly three days to complete scfrutunising -on fast-track – the budgetary allocation. But despite days of tense, protracted wrangling with the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) over […]
Former governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) queried Minister of Finance Ken Lipenga on why government is not putting a financial allocation to six universities which late president Bingu wa Mutharika had announced to build. DPP leader in the House, George Chaponda, told Parliament that he disappointed with government of President Mrs. Joyce Banda for abandoning […]
It is common knowledge that the late Bingu wa Mutharika’s regime really failed the Malawians people. In fact that era was characterized by all manner of struggles. Most Malawians are wondering where the country would have been in 2014 if Bingu remained in power. A million dollar question is. ‘ Why did Malawians tolerate to […]