When poet Jack Mapanje asked: ‘Stop lingering then: Who will start another fire?’(Before Chilembwe tree) about Dr Banda’s dictatorship, it took eleven years before the fire was started in 1992. The brief, if fragile, democratic honeymoon came to an end in 2009. Now it looks as if Malawians are once again well used to living under a […]
A political analyst has called on Malawians to end paternal leadership system if the dictatorial tendency by President Bingu wa Mutharika is brought to an end. Loudon Malingamoyo Phiri said if Malawians want to force the President to start listening to their voices, they should first treat his government as a paternal body. “Malawians need […]
On Tuesday 6th March 2012 President Bingu wa Mutharika sneaked out of the Malawi on a secret visit to Nigeria. He used his Presidential Jet for the trip. The Presidential jet is an official facility assigned to the head of state to use as a means of official transportation , because taxpayers ( Malawians that is […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has been asked to resign as part of the recommendations issued at a meeting organised to find solutions to the country’s economic and political challenges. At the closing of the meeting Thursday in the commercial capital, Blantyre, delegates which included tje clergy, politicians , civil society activists, called for Mutharika […]
Information Minister Patricia Kaliati and Nation Publications Limited (NPL) Bureau Chief for Lilongwe Mabvuto Banda brought tension at a news briefing at the Central Office of Information (COI) in Lilongwe on Thursday morning when the two had a fiery verbal exchange. The two tussled over the ongoing Public Affairs Committee (PAC) conference hosted at the […]
The much-anticipated March 14 came and passed. Today, Thursday, is March 15 and Nyasa Times snap checks in the streets and townships of the country’s two major cities of Blantyre and Lilongwe have shown it is business as usual. March 14 was the day government and the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), led by President […]
Anthony Kasunda, the chairperson of the Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi), is said to be receiving threats from unknown people over the chapter’s stance on the Malawi government’s repeated attacks on the media. Kasunda has been receiving threats since Sunday, barely two days after the chapter’s reaction to the statement […]
Public Affairs Committee (PAC) has denied claims by Malawi Police that at the end of the two-day conference aimed at finding solutions to Malawi’s economic and political challenges, they will incite to hold anti-government street demonstrations. The meeting is scheduled to end Thursday in the commercial capital, Blantyre. Police issued a statement alleging that it […]
University of Malawi political scientist Blessings Chinsinga, who was at the centre of the academic freedom standoff and eventual protests, has sounded a ‘red card’ revolution against the regime, claiming that democratic values were being eroded under the watch of President Bingu wa Mutharika’s leadership. Making his presentation at a Public Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting meant […]
A two-day meeting organised by a grouping of religious leaders, Public Affairs Committee (PAC) meant to discuss political and economic challenges in Malawi started on Wednesday morning at Limbe Catholic Cathedral in Blantyre despite threats from Bingu wa Mutharika regime. Government successfuly stopped Sunbird Mount Soche Hotel from holding the meeting but failed to press […]
Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika should end a dispute with the World Bank and IMF to bring the country back from a worsening economic crisis, a visiting team of politicians from Britain, Malawi’s biggest aid donor, said on Wednesday. Mutharika, a former World Bank economist, last week snubbed a World Bank mission and has publicly […]
People’s Transformation Party, (Petra) president Kamuzu Chibambo has accused President Bingu wa Mutharika’s government of stealing their ideas in the manifesto to run the country. But DPP publicity secretary Hetherwick Ntaba laughed off the claims by Chibambo, saying his “untested”party “has no experience of what government is all about.” Chibambo on Tuesday evening told Capital […]
A lawyer-cum-politician Kamuzu Chibambo has said threats which President Bingu wa Mutharika made against the media through a statement issued by State House press officier, Albert Mungomo, is based on archaic pieces of legislation . Mutharika warned that government will not hesitate to revoke pieces of legislation such as Section 3 (2) of the protected […]
The Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) says it is disturbed with repeated threats from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) top brass on media outlets deemed to be critical of President Bingu wa Mutharika’s government policies. Barely two days after State House issued a statement warning the media and civil […]
Learned people and respected analysts have commented on last week’s press statement issued by President Bingu wa Mutharika but signed by one former broadcaster, Albert Mungomo, now State House publicist. They have perfectly done the deserved job and the world has read and saluted all. But as an aggrieved person allow me to just say […]
Malawi government is exerting pressure on the influential Roman Catholic Church not to allow a grouping of religious leaders, Public Affairs Committee (PAC) hold their two day meeting on the future of Malawi in the House of God, at Limbe Catholic Cathedral. The pressure is coming after government successfully stopped Sunbird Mount Soche Hotel to […]
Malawi’s former vice president Dr Cassim Chilumpha, who once served as finance minister, says the decision by government to print new money and introduce a 1,000 banknotes is a “symptom of the fact that things are getting expensive in Malawi.” Chilumpha said Malawi’s economy is now ailing and needs a quick therapy “This is an […]
It never rains for Malawi’s president Bingu wa Mutharika, but it pours this time the Malawi leader who has recently touted himself as a rich man is failing to pay over K30 million he owes former Guardian Newspaper employees’ gratuities a month after the paper had folded up. Speaking on condition of anonymity, one of the […]