Government has said it wrong for opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to accuse the Joyce Banda administration of abandoning the Nsanje World Inland Port Project which was initiated by late president Bingu wa Mutharika. Speaking in Parliament, Leader of the House, Henry Phoya, said the Joyce Banda administration has not abandoned the Nsanje Port. He […]
Any sensible person should know that the past, whether good or bad, is a reference point for the present and future. Therefore, it goes without saying that it is necessary to first look at the performance of the Bingu wa Mutharika government so as to objectively comment about President Joyce Banda’s government. Politics aside, no […]
A political professor at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Blessings Chinsinga has that leaders “we have had so far are more or less copy cats.” Chinsinga made the critique in an article which appears in the May-June issue of the Catholic magazine, The Lamp titled ‘A half century of progress or stagnation’. The academician who was […]
President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday welcomed Malawian President Joyce Banda in Zimbabwe whom he has invited the to officially open this year’s Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo. The trip is Banda’s first official visit to Zimbabwe since taking over power after the death last year of her predecessor Bingu wa Mutharika, who was […]
Following the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika, his young brother Peter Mutharika faced a nation deeply angry about the highhanded conduct of the Democratic People’s Party (DPP) government. However, the young Mutharika quickly rushed from the mourners’ wake to take over the leadership of a party in ruins. That swift but manipulative move, unlike […]
“My first formal interaction with the late Bingu wa Mutharika was at the late Dumbo Lemani’s residence in Area 12, Lilongwe. I was serving then as Dumbo Lemani’s Personal Assistant. Bingu wa Mutharika came by a minibus which dropped him at the gate. Adam – the late Dumbo’s chef – asked me if I knew […]
Thursday, 5th April 2012 was the day when Malawi experienced the greatest sudden change ever in the course of its politics and history. The unexpected collapse of State President Bingu wa Mutharika at the New State House (Kamuzu Palace) in the Capital City, Lilongwe and his eventual death due to a heart attack marked the end […]
Today April 5, 2013 Malawians will commemorate the first anniversary of the death of President Ngwazi Professor Bingu wa Mutharika. I am not certain how Malawians intend to memorialize this day, but I have no doubt that in one way or another, all Malawians will, remember him, because he lived, reigned and died in a […]
It’s April 5, one year since the death of Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika. His anniversary is being commemorated with mixed feelings. Mutharika died after suffering a cardiac arrest. The late president’s private home at Ndata Farm in Thyolo has been opened to relatives, friends and Malawians in the Southern Region willing to be with […]
Dr Dan Namarika, who was personal physician for the late president Bingu wa Mutharika, has been summoned by Medical Council of Malawi (MCM) to appear before its disciplinary committee to answer charges of negligence on how he handled the deceased after his collapse at the New State House in Lilongwe last April. Namarika was criticised […]
Opposition DPP acting president Peter Mutharika, who handed himself over to police in Blantyre in the morning of Monday, arrived in Lilongwe in the afternoon and charged with two counts. Mutharika who was welcomed by hundreds of DPP supporters who converged at National Police Headquarters (Area 30) in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, demanding his release and that […]
Chief Secretary to the Government Bright Msaka and Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall Gondwe have been arrested after a commission of inquiry report into circumstances surrounding the death of former president Bingu wa Mutharika exposed their their key role played in the failed plot to block President Joyce Banda from ascending to power. Minister of Information […]
Malawi Police on Monday morning rounded-up former six cabinet ministers who addressed a controversial news conference at night on April 5, 2012 to block President Joyce Banda to rise to power following the death of her predecessor Bingu wa Mutharika who suffered cardiac arrest. First to be picked was former information minister Patricia Kaliati who was […]
Opposition DPP president Peter Mutharika will hand himself in to police in Blantyre Monday after an arrest warrant has been issued on him in relation to the transition plot when his brother late president Bingu wa Mutharika died after a heart attack last year, his lawyer Chancy Gondwe has confirmed to Nyasa Times. Police are […]
The Medical Council of Malawi is to begin a disciplinary examination of the role of late president Bingu wa Mutharika;s physician , Dr Dan Namarika, criticised by an official Commission of Inquiry into circumstances surrounding the death of former president, which was released on Wednesday. Namarika is accused of unprofessional conduct on the way he […]
The official Malawi Commission of Inquiry on the death of president Bingu wa Mutharika on April 5, 2012 could not clear the suspicions Mutharika’s widow Callista had that her husband had sexual encounters with some of the women that met him before he suffered cardiac arrest. Malawi President Joyce Banda on Thursday made public the […]
Trio wanted Army to take over power They plot a constitutional coup Goodall was the kingpin during transition Msaka played a crucial role in concealing death of Bingu An official Malawian commission of inquiry into circumstances leading to the death of former president Bingu wa Mutharika has exposed the Chief Secretray to Office of President […]
.Peter says plot to advance personal and political agenda .Peter insists facts surrounding Bingu’s death already known Malawi’s former president, the late President Bingu wa Mutharika’s brother, Peter, has said the Mutharika family’s position remains that they did not agree with the setting of the Commission of Inquiry into his brother’s death. Peter said the […]