Malawi’s new President Her Excellency Mrs Joyce Banda has been praised for the most dignified way in which the fallen Malawi leader Bingu Wa Mutharika has been sent to his final resting place. This was observed during the funeral ceremony for the late president who ruled this southern African country for eight years. From the […]
Malawi’s late president Bingu wa Mutharika has been buried at his sprawling Ndata farm in southern Malawi tea growing district of Thyolo. At 16:38 on Monday the casket with carried the remains of Mutharika was lowered to his final resting place next to his first wife Ethel who died in 2007 in a huge white […]
The late president Bingu wa Mutharika who succumbed to a sudden cardiac arrest on April 5 2012 knew his days were numbered and that he was walking in the shadows of death that he summoned all his children four days before his demise to bid farewell and to encourage them not to lose hope in […]
President Joyce Banda has been sworn in as the fourth president of the republic of Malawi. She is its first female president and the second one not titled “Doctor” at the time of attaining the office. That is not a bad thing considering that the two PhD holders were branded dictators almost immediately after being […]
In a true spirit of reconciliation, President Joyce Banda on Monday threw behind all the condemnation she suffered just a few weeks ago when she took time to sing praises of departed leader Bingu wa Mutharika for the significant contribution he made to Malawi. Until his death on April 5th, late Mutharika and members of […]
Brother to late president Bingu wa Mutharika , Professor Peter Mutharika has assured widowed former first lady Callista Mutharika that she “will never walk alone” as he will be there to comfort her. Callista married Mutharika in 2010, after the late president’s first wife, Ethel, died of cancer in 2007. A former legislator, Callista was a […]
Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Mutharika says late president Bingu wa Mutharika’s controversial multi-million dollar multi-roomed White House style Ndata Farm House which shows obscene opulence has five bedrooms contrary to what he said were incorrect media reports of 85 rooms. Speaking at the sombre funeral ceremony in the southern tea-growing district of Thyolo on Monday, […]
The former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will continue being a formidable political party, younger brother of late Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika, Peter has assured. Peter who is the acting president and DPP presidential candidate of DPP said in his eulogy at the funeral ceremony of the late president in Thyolo. “I promise you […]
Malawi’s Foreign Affairs Minister Prof Peter Mutharika who is brother to late president Bingu wa Mutharika says Malawi should unite in grief and move forward as a nation in a post-Mutharika era without any recrimination Peter who was anointed by the departed leader to inherit power in 2014 stressed that the time has come for […]
Four African heads of state and government Sunday afternoon jetted in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre separately to attend burial of former President Bingu wa Mutharika. The four leaders include Namibia’s Hipikepunye Pohamba, Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, Kenya’s Mwai Kibaki and late Mutharika’s close ally, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, who was also the last to land. […]
The remains of Malawi’s former President Bingu wa Mutharika arrived in his home village, Kamoto in Thyolo district on Sunday morning ahead of a state funeral on Monday, April 23. The 28-vehicle cortege left Sanjika Palace in Blantyre where the body had been lying in state since Thursday at 06:40hrs for Mutharika’s last mile to […]
The cost of the state funeral for former president Bingu wa Mutharika has already exceeded the K150 million budget, chairman of the funeral’s main organising committee Henry Mussa has disclosed. As of Saturday, the budget was running on a deficit of K92 million and still counting. Mussa, who is also the Minister of Local Government, […]
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Sunday jetted in Malawi for the burial of his closest ally the late Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika on Monday. Mutharika died of heart attack on April 5 at the age of 78. Chairman of the ministerial committee on the funeral, Henry Mussa, indicated Mugabe was “too grieved” with the […]
A Malawian living in South Africa has revealed how the country’s officials including those working at the embassy in Pretoria deserted the body of late President Bingu wa Mutharika as the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) were repatriating the remains to Malawi. President Joyce Banda had earlier announced that she had sent Malawi’s Minister […]
New Malawi President Her Excellency Joyce Banda has surely got too much on her plate to cleanse the government machinery of corruption and dubious claims Nyasa Times has established. As the whole nation is observing a 30-day mourning period for the fallen Malawi leader Bingu Wa Mutharika, some senior members at the national broadcaster, Malawi […]
Malawi Government has produced funeral cloth for the late president Bingu wa Mutharika and K21 million (about $125 748) has been spent on it. Tax payers’ money has helped government to produce 50 000 metres of the cloth which is distributed to political parties, churches, family members and women civil servants who used to dance […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika, who died during his eighth year as President of Malawi, was not many things. He was not humble. He was not diplomatic. He was not a teetotaler. He was not unflappable or tolerant of criticism. He was not a champion of free expression. Yet, he was also not the archetype African […]