Malawi opposition lawmaker has strongly persuaded government not to offload the presidential jet which was bought by the late President Bingu wa Mutharika . Mutharika, who died in April, bought the French-made presidential jet Dassault Falcon 900 EX in 2009 for K3.4 billion (about $22.4 million) with projected maintenance and insurance costs at US$300, 000 per […]
Question: who decided to make Dr Hastings Banda life president? It was Aleke Banda who championed the idea. A lot of you did not know that, did you? I am sure you thought Dr Banda declared himself life president. I did not know either until earlier today. You will also be surprised to know that […]
Former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) welcomes a probe into Mutharika’s death despite his family’s rejection of the inquiry and proposed that they inquiry should question Nigerian church leader TB Joshua. President Joyce Banda announced an inquiry to probe the circumstances around the controversial leader’s death on April 5, including the medical attention he received. […]
The Presidential Commission of Inquiry on events surrounding anti-government July 20 demonstrations has presented its findings to President Joyce Banda and government insiders says perpetrators of the killings will soon face charges . “There will be prosecution of the violators of the right to life,” government judicial officers said, adding “all forms of arbitrary deprivation […]
Catholic priest Fr. Samuel Nawasha of St. Charles Lwanga parish in Zomba diocese said Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo’s interest to become second vice president is out of greed and not to serve the nation. “When you see somebody who says I want to be appointed second vice president. Is that not selfishness? […]
Mwanza Central parliamentarian, Nicholas Dausi on Friday was a centre of controversy in the chamber during contributions on 2012/2013 National Budget. Dausi stood to contribute to the budget which was presented by Minister of Finance, Dr. Ken Lipenga on June 8, 2012. Before he started contributing towards the budget statement, Dausi ridiculed ex- Democratic Progressive […]
Peter Mutharika the brother of the late president, Bingu wa Mutharika, on Friday insisted that the Mutharika family disavows an inquiry into Bingu’s death, describing the investigation as “nonsensical”. Malawi President Joyce Banda told a news conference on arrival in Blantyre from her foreign trips to the United Kingdom and the United States of America, […]
Joyce Banda is on a mission to get the trade tap open, to get petrol in the pumps, to get food on the shelves, and to get investment coming in. Will she succeed for Malawi? I met a President last week. We were in the same room three times in a day. At one stage I think […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has said her government would still continue with the inquiry into the death of her predecessor Bingu wa Mutharika despite his family’s rejection of the probe. Speaking at a news conference on arrival from visits to the United States and Britain on Thursday, President Banda said the probe will help end […]
Economist Dr. Cornelius Mwalwanda, who served as deputy minister in the late Bingu wa Mutharika cabinet has told parliament that the Mutharika despite being touted as ‘economic engineer’ didn’t understand basic economics. Mwalwanda commenting on the 2012/13 budget said it was “a very difficult task” to convince Mutharika on devaluation as an essential element to […]
Long time ago I used to watch lots of movies. I have not watched one for a number of years now. I always tell myself that I will go to the theatre when I get time. And it so happens that the time never seems to come. But I recall one movie I watched back […]
A former DPP member and now a deputy minister in the Joyce Banda administration Sosten Gwengwe has said former President late Bingu wa Mutharika failed to understand his own zero-deficit budget concept by confusing it with a concept where a country is able to locally fund its other recurrent transactions (ORT). “Zero-deficit budget is not the […]
Malawi’s principled refusal to invite Sudan’s president to the African Union summit in Malawi put the continental body in an impossible quandary. Their solution was imperfect, but the right move in complicated circumstances. If one ever doubted the influence that just one person can have on the fate of an entire country, then Malawi’s new […]
Family of late Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Thursday snubs a commission of inquiry instituted by President Joyce Banda to probe circumstances that led to his death saying they fear the investigations will only drag the dignity of their late relative “into political duplicity that has nothing to do with establishing the truth”. In […]
The Commission of Inquiry into the death of former president Bingu wa Mutharika has been sworn in with Vice President Khumbo Kachali asking the commissioners to “bring answers” to the questions that been raised. “Malawians and family members are eagerly waiting to hear about the events that transpired during the death of former Head of […]
The family of former Malawi President late Bingu wa Mutharika Saturday June 2, ‘let go’ the former First Lady Callista Mutharika at a brief ‘kusudzula’ ceremony held at Ndata Farm in the late Head of State’s home district of Thyolo. The ceremony held almost 58 days after the death of Bingu was, however, followed a […]
In 1915 Reverend John Chilembwe organized a group of his followers in an uprising against the British authority in Nyasaland. He was angered by the way black Africans were treated – beaten and demeaned – by the white settlers. Chilembwe’s uprising involved killing all white males. Unfortunately, his uprising did not gain traction. He was […]
Further to the death of former President Mutharika the majority of Malawians breathed a sigh of relief. There was an air of euphoria for a change of government in the offing. Surprisingly, even some perceived diehard supporters of Mutharika were quoted as saying that his death had liberated them. To show that they meant business, […]