President Joyce Banda, under pressure to resolve the current looting of government money at Capital Hill has moved her cabinet meeting to Chikoko Bay in Mangochi on Thursday. The President was expected to meet her cabinet at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre tomorrow morning but has since moved the venue to Chikoko Bay in Mangochi. “We […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda is set to announce a reshuffle of her Cabinet anytime soon, which ruling People’s Party (PP) insiders said would signal a further shift towards even more brave reforms, as her government seeks to retain power in next year’s tripartite elections. Highly placed sources said President Banda had been considering a reshuffle […]
Cabinet ministers serving in the government of the ruling People’s Party may be panicking with this article but they shouldn’t. This is their moment, their defining moment to know the truth. Addiction to old school politics is Malawi’s fastest growing problem. Our ministers instead of articulating their ministries goals or communicating to the Malawian people […]
With exactly eight months before Malawi goes for the 2014 tripartite elections the ruling People’s Party has upped its stakes by asking cabinet ministers to support it financially and materially, reminding them that their continued stay at the job will depend on their support for the party. The party’s acting Secretary General Paul Maulidi said […]
The Alliance for Democracy (Aford) hope that Khwauli Msiska, who has just been fired as deputy minister for economic planning, will now have more time for the party. Msiska is the party’s current general secretary and was drafted into President Banda’s all-inclusive cabinet last year alongside the party’s national chair, Enoch Chihana, who is the […]
President Joyce Banda on Wednesday witnessed the swearing in as Cabinet Ministers in her Government of Brown James Mpinganjira and Dr. James Munthali, urging on them to be committed to the people “whom we were called to serve” and not only her as Head of State. Firebrand politician and one of the founding members of […]
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 […]
Leader of Malawi’s largest opposition the Malawi Congress Party John Zenus Ungapake (JZU) Tembo has hailed the country’s President Joyce Banda for reducing her cabinet to only 32 ministers down from 36. Tembo has described the revised cabinet as released on Monday as an improvement from the previous ones. At one time during late Bingu wa Mutharika Malawi […]
Youthful Minister of Industry and Trade, Sosten Gwengwe, appears as third in command chain in the Joyce Banda’s cabinet hierarchy. According to a cabinet list released by Office of President and Cabinet on Monday, Banda is leading the Executive line up as Head of State, seconded by her deputy Khumbo Kachale. In the list, maverick […]
National Salvation Front (NASAF), a party founded by James Nyondo is defined and described as a party of silence. In this interview with Nyasa Times correspondent, Pius Nyondo (PN); however, the party’s president and 2014 presidential hopeful James Nyondo (JN) ‘breaks the silence’ by shedding more light on what his party is all about and shares what […]
President Joyce Banda has been hailed for living to her billing of a “listening leader” for trimming her cabinet after she named on Monday a 32-member Cabinet down from 36 portfolios , a further reduction from over 40 when she took over power after the death of late president Bingu wa Mutharika last April. Political commentators […]
One year into office, Malawian President Joyce Banda, Africa’s second female leader, continue to reasset control over her government as she on Monday made a minor cabinet reshuffle dropping Professor Peter Mwanza as Minister of Agriculture and bringing in technocrat Dr James Munthali . Other casualties are Ritchie Muheya and Jennifer Chilunga. Aford lawmaker Khwauli […]
As Malawi governing Peoples Party (PP) commemorated its first anniversary in office on April 7, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Peter Mwanza, and his counterpart, Enock Chihana, of Youth and Sports, have been rated as the worst performers in the President Joyce Banda’s administration. This is according to a 2013 cabinet assessment […]
Newly appointed Minister of Economic Planning and Development, Ralph Jooma and Deputy Minister of Finance Dr Cornelius Mwalwanda were on Tuesday sworn in at a ceremony that took place at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe. Speaking after administering oath, President Joyce Banda advised the two to work with the rest of the cabinet as a team […]
Finance Minister Ken Lipenga has defended Malawi Government expenditure of K1.6 billion (about $4.1m) on a new fleet of four-wheel-drive Toyota Prado TX models for 35 ministers and their deputies amid painful economic reforms that are impacting on 65 percent of the 14 million people living below the poverty line. Lipenga, answering a question from […]
Minister of economic planning and development, Goodall Gondwe, currently under arrest for the alleged coup plot, has offered his resignation from cabinet. He resigned on Friday after being charged with treason. In the resignation letter to President Joyce Banda obtained by Nyasa Times, Gondwe said under “prevailing circumstance” he could no longer serve in his […]
President Joyce Banda has warned that she will not hesitate to fire any Cabinet Minister proven to have been involved in corrupt practices. Banda issued the warning at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe on Wednesday when she officially opened the Orientation Workshop for Cabinet Ministers and Deputy Ministers. She said to develop the country, it was […]
An emergency meeting of President Joyce Banda’s cabinet was called on Monday at official Kamuzu Palace in the capital Lilongwe, Nyasa Times understands. According to Capital Hill sources, the cabinet led by President Banda will discuss the developments after former cabinet ministers were rounded up on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government after the death […]