Women, taking up in various social media platforms, have expressed anger over President Peter Mutharika’s disrespectful to former First Lady Callista Mutharika , his sister in-law, by calling her by her maiden name over political differences. Mutharika called the former First Lady Callista Chapola instead of Callista Mutharika. President Mutharika said he was angered by […]
President Peter Mutharika has accused former first lady Callista Mutharika, who is the President’s sister- in-law, of lacking the “moral authority” for attacking him during United Transformation Movement (UTM) rallies, but she has stuck to her ground. Mutharika said on Saturday on arrival in Mzuzu that Bingu wa Mutharika’s widow Callista whom she called by her […]
President Peter Mutharika has said his late brother, former president Bingu wa Mutharika, confided in him that he had regretted picking former president Joyce Banda as his running mate in 2009 elections. Banda made history becoming Malawi’s first female president and only the second woman to lead a country in Africa in 2012 when she […]
President Peter Mutharika has said Malawi Congress Party (MCP) cadres killed his father after him and his brother, late president Bingu wa Mutharika fled the country following the 1964 cabinet crisis. Speaking during the inauguration of the now renamed Arthur Peter Mutharika Highway in Nkhata Bay, Mutharika said him and Bingu supported the Cabinet ministers […]
Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) has filed its defence in the case in which former first lady Callista Mutharika has dragged it to court together with governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) secretary general Greselder Jeffrey Wa Jeffrey, demanding a K500 million compensation for defamation. The public broadcaster MBC has been sued for allegedly broadcasting live the words that […]
Last Thursday we met at Chitipi, in Lilongwe, and held a convention where our leader of delegation, Professor Abiti Joyce Befu, MG 66 and MEGA-1 went unopposed. She will lead our delegation until she decides to call another convention. We make this declaration with our eyes upright. Professor Befu is the delegation, and the delegation […]
Former First Lady Callista Mutharika —widow of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) founding president and the incumbent President’s elder brother Bingu — says she is consulting her legal team to sue the ruling DPP secretary general Grazider Jeffrey and her party for defamation and character assassination. Callista said she could not believe that Jeffrey would link her […]
To late president Bingu wa Mutharika with love. They are here. Those that claimed to love you, the sell-outs in suits that have corrupted your beloved Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), ruined your dream and vision for it, and taken the country into a path of economic ruin; through their insistence to pursue greedy personal agendas […]
Former first lady Callista Mutharika, who has been in the news recently attacking the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Sunday was no show at private memorial mass of the late president Bingu wa Mutharika at Chingadzi Catholic Parish in Thyolo . A representative of the family Arthur Peter Masamba said Callista, Bingu’s widow, was informed […]
Former Malawi first lady Callista Mutharika has sparked debate following her WhatsApp post which has gone viral in which she expressed her opinion that vice president Saulos Chilima was the country’s hope for a better future and that he should lead the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as presidential candidate in 2019 polls. Callista, the widow of […]
Malawians on Thursday quietly remembered former president Bingu wa Mutharika, who is respected for bringing Malawi to a sound economic path from 2004 to 2009. Bingu, brother to the current president Peter Mutharika, died after cardiac arrest at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe on April 5, six years ago. His family has not issued a statement […]
As it were, the first Malawi State president, Dr Kamuzu Banda, was a very unique man, difficult to understand his way of life. No Malawian could claim to know him well. Probably, by design, he decided to set himself apart. He was well-disciplined and not easily approachable. In the process, his way of life created […]
Malawians deserve how former president Bingu wa Mutharika’s estate which allegedly accumulated to K61 billion in eight years— up from K150 million which he declared upon assuming the presidency in 2004. Mutharika’s salary as president was K1 500 000, a leading daily newspaper has said. In 2012, the Joyce Banda administration engaged property valuer YMW […]
Malawi Parliament says public officers are derailing probe into former president Bingu wa Mutharika’s K70 billion wealth believed to be stashed in offshore accounts. Alekeni Menyani, chairperson of of Public Accounts Committee of parliament says his committee feels let down by the public officers. “We summoned them in February but we received so many excuses. […]
Former president Bingu wa Mutharika, who died in April 2012, is remembered as a legend who found the current ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), said Arthur Peter Masamba on behalf of behalf of the Mutharika family at Ndata farm in Thyolo. He thanked everyone who turned up for the memorial and wished Bingu’s soul to […]
President Peter Mutharika on Saturday joined thousands guests at the memorial service of former president Bingu wa Mutharika, who was his blood brother. But the President did not make a speech, the first time Mutharika had not spoken during the service since his brother passed away in 2012. The Malawi leader and the First Lady […]
President Peter Mutharika is this Saturday expected to attend a memorial service for his brother, former president Bingu wa Mutharika at Ndata family home in Thyolo. Bingu collapsed and died whilst performing official presidential duties on April 5, 2012 although the Democratic Progressive Party, a party he founded said he died on April 7. A […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has said they instituted investigations into former president Bingu wa Mutharika’s wealth but it did not yield any results. ACB director of investigations Dan Mponda told Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament that former boss at the bureau Justice Rezine Mzikamanda authorised investigations on the matter in July 2013. He said […]