It goes without saying that, ignoring the voice of reason results into a failed government. In the process the country collapses. This has been the case with the Mutharika government. Every sector and system of government has simply crumbled in Malawi. Malawians are aware that time and again both the DPP and government spokespersons have […]
Contestants for the Miss Malawi 2011 pageant on Wednesday had an audience with the first couple at the New State House in Lilongwe. Apart from having an opportunity to have tea with President Bingu wa Mutharika and First Lady Madame Calista Mutharika, the fourteen contestants were also given K30,000 each. According to public broadcaster Malawi […]
The Limbe Magistrate Court in Blantyre has set aside December 28, 2011 as the day Montfort Media journalist Ernest Mahwayo will know his fate on whether or not he has a case to answer. According to Mahwayo’s lawyer, Lusungu Gondwe, the court will make its ruling on the day after all parties in the case […]
It is clear even to a primary school pupil that Malawi is sailing in economic and political turmoil. The problems we are facing are many and serious. More importantly that we need to collectively come up with solutions and get back to the road of prosperity is what any Malawian of good will expects. I […]
The trial of five Malawian human rights defenders, Ms Habiba Osman and Messrs Billy Mayaya, Brian Nyasulu, Ben Chiza Mkandawire and Comfort Chitseko, has been adjourned to Janury 13 2012 at the Lilongwe Magistrate Court after state prosecutors did not obtain consent from Director of Public Prosecution to proceed witht the case. The activists were […]
Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika facing intense pressure from his people and the international community to reverse deteorating economic standards in this southern Africa impoverished nation has declared a two week holiday for all civil servants in the country. Announcing the holiday in the administrative capital, Lilongwe, Mutharika, through the Office of President and Cabinet […]
Am writing this article in response to the arrest on stage of one promising Malawian dramatist, Thlupego Chisiza, whose play titled Semo, co-written with martyr student activist Robert Chasowa, has just been marked subversive by Malawi authorities. According to Nyasa Times, Thlupego wanted to pay tribute to Chasowa, an engineering student at University of Malawi’s […]
The article “Malawi a Failed State – Cama”, which appeared in the print media, deserves commentary and critical analysis. Two terms were used in the article: “Failed State” and “Collapsed State” and, it was the statement “government has collapsed and has completely abandoned management of the country”, attributed to John Kapito, that, in actual fact, […]
Most Malawians still vividly remember the very serious campaign that Bakili Muluzi embarked upon from April, 2003 to April, 2004 for Bingu wa Mutharika to be elected as President. He reapetedly told Malawians that what the country needed was an economic engineer. It is now when Malawians are facing numerous problems never experienced since 1964 […]
Inspector General of Malawi Police, Peter Mukhito, on Friday testified in Lilongwe at an inquiry into the July 20 protetst that left 20 people dead but journalists were barred to cover the proceedings. It was announced that the Inspector General had asked not to give public testimony. He faced scrutiny over the killing of 20 […]
Political analyst and social commentators have hailed President Bingu Wa Mutharika’s younger brother Arthur Peter Mutharika as being the rock behind the survival of his presidency. The analysts that Nyasa Times has spoken to have praised the younger Mutharika as being the brains behind the recent strides in trying to bring back the country from […]
The human rights situation in Malawi is degenerating rapidly. This year has seen the government, headed by President Bingu wa Mutharika, become an authoritarian regime openly resistant to criticism and human rights governance. In particular, Mutharika has cracked down on protestors, civil society, human rights defenders, academics and the media – allegedly because he does […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Thursday had the real feeling himself that he is ruling an angry and sad nation when scores of people in Lilongwe booed him on his arrival from Doha, Qatar. Mutharika left the country on December 8 for Tanzania where he attended that country’s 50th independence celebrations and proceded to […]
Britain’s committee on international development in the House of Commons has opened up an inquiry into the July 20 rallies in Malawi that left 20 people dead. According to the House committee’s website, people both in Malawi and abroad are being asked to submit any evidence explaining what happened. The inquiry will also look at […]
The facts are there for all to see – even the most ardently blind supporters and defenders of this government; I mean this DPP and Mutharika led government. Endless queues are everywhere and in most cases people queuing just in anticipation and not that what they are looking for is at the end of any […]
Malawi’s Energy Minister Goodall Gondwe says government has found “a lasting solution” to the chronic fuel shortage by luring investors to supply the country with fuel which can be paid in local currency. Speaking on Capital FM Daybreak Malawi programme on Thursday, Gondwe who is former finance minister and credited for Malawi’s economic success during President […]
Malawians continue to labour under a heavy burden of grave political and socioeconomic deprivation. Needless to mention, the Executive arrogance, erratic fuel supply, scarcity of forex, dry water taps, and incessant electricity failure, just to mention a few, characterize the contemporary Malawi. But while a good number of ordinary citizens understand that solutions to the […]
Who said Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is a democrat? Certainly, he is not, according to former Speaker of parliament Sam Mpasu. Speaking on Capital FM Straight Talk interview programme monitored by Nyasa Times through live streaming on Tuesday, Mpasu said by any definition of a democrat, Mutharika is not one. “He hasn’t shown any […]