Why are we hearing more apologies for what happened in the late hours following the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika, and not on what happened on 11th December 2010? The attempt to subvert the Malawi constitution and prevent Madam Joyce Banda from becoming president after the death of President Mutharika was a frightening prospect alright, […]
Malawi’s Head of State Joyce Banda says cabinet would soon discuss the merits and demerits of retaining the presidential jet, which was bought by government for the late President Bingu wa Mutharika amid serious reservations by Western donors, including Britain. “Cabinet will have to decide what we should with it,” she said of the presidential […]
While government workers and others were busy with final preparations for the burial of former President Bingu Mutharika at his Ndata Farm, some of his relatives were also busy removing money boxes from the Mausoleum, Nyasa Times can reveal. We can reveal that Ben Phiri, Personal Assistant to Peter Mutharika led a convoy of cars […]
Former minister Goodall Gondwe has said he is prepared to face the law over his role at the Cabinet meetings which orchestrated a “constitutional coup d’état” following the death of president Bingu wa Mutharika. President Joyce Banda has meanwhile disclosed that she has objective material evidence on the coup plot, saying a Cabinet minister who […]
Top notch criminal investigations experts have demanded that the new Minister of Justice and Attorney General Ralph Kasambara should include former MBC TV boss Bright Malopa and Chimwemwe Banda in the case where the infamous ‘Midnight Six’ orchestrated a failed “constitutional coup d’état” following the death of president Bingu wa Mutharika. The law experts say […]
The Zambian government has come out to clarify on reasons leading to its donation of five million litres of fuel to Malawi during funeral of former president Bingu wa Mutharika, saying it is worried with the severity of Malawi’s challenges. Zambian deputy president Guy Scot told BBC Network Africa programme his country had always wanted […]
Malawi government will probe the wealth of late president Bingu wa Mutharika to estashlish any wrongful enrichment in the deceased estate, Attorney General and Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara has said. The Civil society organisations (CSOs) in Malawi have been demanding government to probe the value of late Mutharika’s wealth amassed during his time in […]
Fate foils the best laid plans, so they say. Whosoever tweaked this axiom must have had in mind Thyolo East Parliamentarian and ousted Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation minister, Peter Arthur Muthalika. Nyasa Times has gathered from reliable sources that President Bingu wa Mutharika’s untimely death from an impulsive cardiac arrest on April 5 thwarted plans for […]
Could anyone have imagined in 1993-94 that Malawi would be ruled by another despot in the near future? Certainly not, but Malawi is a country where the unimaginable can happen. Barely a decade later, a new tyrant emerged in the name of Bingu wa Mutharika, who held himself out as a Banda reincarnate of some […]
Veteran broadcaster and former Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) boss Patrick Khoza has taken charge of late president Bingu wa Mutharika’s Galaxy radio replacing Chikumbutso Mtumodzi, Nyasa Times has learnt. Senior employees at the newly established radio station have confirmed the development. The source confided to Nyasa Times, members of staff at the station were informed […]
Democratic Progressive Party leader and its presidential candidate Peter Mutharika gave out monetary handouts to party lawmakers and officials for consoling him during the funeral of his brother, late president Bingu wa Mutharika. Some of the people that received the money, K40 000 each, included MP for Mwanza West Paul Chibingu, DPP regional treasurer for […]
Lady luck seems to be smiling all the time at Malawi’s new President Her Excellency Mrs Joyce Banda as each day passing, solutions to the challenges that the country faced in the last few years seem to be coming Malawi way. On Tuesday, Malawi’s former colonial master Britain restored the sour diplomatic relations between the […]
While millions of Malawians were mourning the death of their President Bingu wa Mutharika, some insatiable individuals were busy celebrating his death as to them the tragedy was their opening to enrich themselves wrongly. Last week Nyasa Times first reported how some bosses at the public broadcaster, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), enriched themselves through huge […]
The family of departed President Bingu wa Mutharika has today started its 40-day mourning period to honour the life of their relation who was buried on Monday, April 23, on his Ndata Farm in Thyolo District, 19 days after his death. The family decided to have its own mourning period despite President Joyce Banda declaring […]
Malawi’s late president, Bingu wa Mutharika’s funeral on Monday had seen condom sales in the city of Blantyre hit the roof suggesting that many people who travelled to the burial ceremony engaged themselves in extra-marital safe sexual escapades, Nyasa Times can exclusively report. According to reports reaching Nyasa Times condom sales rocketed sky-high in Blantyre […]
After escorting their former leader, late Bingu wa Mutharika, to his final resting place in a dignified manner, it was time for the thousands mourners to return to their respective homes. But not all reached their destinations. Nsanje District is today mourning the fatal departure of six members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) who […]
Former President Bingu wa Mutharika, who died on 5 April after a cardiac arrest, was on Monday buried at his sprawling farm at Ndata in Thyolo next to his first wife Ethel in a huge white marble mausoleum called Mpumulo wa Bata. These are some of the pictures from the funeral ceremony.
As the afternoon slowly gave way to evening, thousands of people that came to the sprawling Ndata Farm started leaving one by one leaving their dead president to spend the first still of night at Mpumulo wa Bata (peaceful rest) Mausoleum lying side by side with his first wife Ethel. Soon, nights will turn into […]