Apart from pruning what she may have considered dead wood as well as bringing on board veteran politician Brown James (BJ) Mpinganjira as 2014 elections draw closer, the other key talking point about the Cabinet that President Joyce Banda hired on Monday is the reduction of ministers from 36 to 32. Although Malawians would have loved to […]
The foul behaviour of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) when it was in government deserves nothing less than a red card, hybrid politician Brown Mpinganjira said on Saturday at a rally in Mulanje. Mpinganjira, who is national executive member of the governing People Party (PP) , passed the indictment when he spoke in a curtain-raising […]
Way back in April 2012, this author asserted that many individuals joined the Peoples Party (PP) seemingly to support President Joyce Banda had their own parallel agendas ranging from enriching themselves (at the expense of national welfare) to seeing to it that President Joyce Banda fails. Back then, I expected well-meaning people to agree with […]
Ruling People’s Party (PP) officials led by Brown Mpinganjira on Tuesday approached Thyolo District Commissioner, Lawford Palani and asked him to organize chiefs in the district to apologise to President Joyce Banda over the remarks Traditional Authority (T/A) Bvumbwe made at Judge Joseph Manyungwa’s funeral in Thyolo Sunday. Mpinganjira held the meeting with Thyolo Chiefs […]
Firebrand politician Brown James Mpinganjira, fondly known as BJ, took Mulanje district by storm on Friday when thousands of jubilating ruling People’s Party (PP) supporters gave him a rapturous welcome at his Chisitu base. Mpinganjira, who has lately taken a low profile following his shocking defeat at the PP elective conference last year, was making […]
President Mrs. Joyce Banda on Thursday vowed to continue distributing food to needy Malawians across the country and that no-one can stop her, apparently referring to critics who accuse her of “politicizing” the exercise. Speaking when she addressed a rally in Mulanje Pasani Constituency, President Banda said the hunger situation in this country is at […]
Malawi President Mrs. Joyce Banda is expected to announce a cabinet reshuffle in the next 24 hours. President Banda is expected to appoint Goodall Gondwe as Economic Planning and Development following the resignation of Atupele Muluzi on Monday. Muluzi resigned following what he suspects is a political conspiracy against him by senior members of the […]
Firebrand politician Brown Mpinganjira has vehemently denied “propaganda” reports that he was behind Movement for People’s Party, a rebel group for prominent politicians who lost elections at People’s Party (PP) convention. Mpinganjira in a telephone interview with Nyasa Times on Monday evening while saying the group does not exist, maintained that he will remain loyal […]
Major casualties in Malawi’s ruling People’s Party convention have claimed to have no ill feelings after failing to win top positions but were conspicuously cross with the defeats. Casualties at the convention held in Malawi’s commercial city, Blantyre on Monday, were the party’s old guards, Brown Mpinganjira and Clement Stambuli, defeated by new comers on […]
SPECIAL ANALYSIS: Former State Vice president Cassim Chilumpha and Home Affairs Minister Uladi Mussa are expected to go head to head for the position of vice president for the ruling People’s Party at its first ever indaba on Monday in Blantyre. PP goes to the polls in preparation for the 2014 tripartite elections and has […]
If the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) thought by pledging its unwavering support to President Mrs. Joyce Banda and her Peoples Party (PP) would be a life line then it has to go back to the drawing board and bang heads. This follows revelations that the former ruling party has just lost its southern region […]
Firebrand politician Brown Mpinganjira has challenged the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to explain to Malawians why its leader late Bingu wa Mutharika pardoned two gay convicts Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steve Monjeza, accusing the party of secretly promoting homosexuality. The two became an international cause celebre after being jailed 14 years for after being convicted […]
Political heavyweights from almost all the country’s major political parties descended to the mountainous district of Mulanje on Monday to attend the burial ceremony of Ruth Chimwemwe Mpinganjira, a sister to ruling People’s Party (PP) treasurer general Brown James Mpinganjira. The governing party showed total sign of force and dominance as majority of the mourners […]
Malawi ‘s ruling People’s Party has warned people who are “going around collecting money” in the name of party that they will be prosecuted when caught. PP treasurer general Brown Mpinganjira told Capital FM Daybreak Malawi programme on Monday that “fraudsters” are illegally soliciting donations from distressed companies and other people. “It’s unfortunate that there […]
Implementing the law that regulates MPs on crossing the floor, Section 65, on legislators who have en masse joined People’s Party (PP) of President Joyce Banda will be catastrophic on the country’s ailing economy, treasurer general for PP, Brown James (BJ) Mpinganjira, has warned. Over 40 former ruling Democratic Progressive Party MPs who jumped ship […]
A senior ruling People’s Party (PP) official, Brown Mpinganjira, has said he buried his presidential ambitions and would not contest for the party’s top leadership at the convention. Mpinganjira also denied that PP gurus are disenfranchised because they were sidelined in the cabinet. Speaking on Capital FM Straight Talk programme hosted by Rhodes Msonkho, Mpinganjira said he […]
A senior ruling People’s Party (PP) official , Brown Mpinganjira, has said President Joyce Banda government is committed to transforming the country from the economic curse it has been sailing under the leadership of late president Bingu wa Mutharika and his DPP. Mpinganjira, PP Treasurer General, was speaking at St. Michaels School ground in Chiradzulu […]
Former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its campaign director Ken Zikhale Ng’oma have been exposed in their propaganda project with their cooked up story that firebrand politician Brown Mpinganjira and lawyer Ralph Kasambara are bitter with the appointment of Khumbo Kachali as Vice President. Nyasa Times has learnt that the story which was posted […]