Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader John Tembo and four other senior members of the party turned down the offer by President Joyce Banda to be included in the recent re-organised cabinet, Nyasa Times understands. Government insiders and MCP sources have collaborated that President Banda approached the opposition leadership to offer some of their members to join a new cabinet […]
Malawi President Mrs Joyce Banda swore in new cabinet ministers on Monday at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe, four days after a mini-Cabinet reshuffle. Banda’s reshuffle saw former vice-president Cassim Chilumpha sacked as energy minister in and Daniel Liwimbi was also dropped as Tourism Minister. Among the new ministers taking the oath of office were former […]
Opposition Malawi Forum for Democracy (MAFUNDE) has lashed out at President Mrs Joyce Banda’s cabinet describing it as too big and “a threat to Malawi’s economy”. The party which has one lawmaker, its president George Mnesa, said it is shocking that Banda had assembled a bloated cabinet of 23 ministers asnd 12 deputies “Whilst it is the […]
This is the new cabinet list of Malawi after President Mrs Joyce Banda announce a reshuffle on Thursday. Head of State and Government is President Joyce Banda, who is Commander-In-Chief of the Malawi Defence Force and Malawi Police Service, Minister responsible for Statutory Corporations, Civil Service Administration, Nutrition, HIV and AIDS, National Registration Programme and […]
Malawi Vice President Khumbo Kachali has been stripped off the portfolio of Health Minister in a mini-cabinet reshuffle announced on Thursday but has been given a controversial job of being responsible for the Electoral Commission. In the full cabinet list named by President Joyce Banda and released by Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), […]
He was his usual cunning silent. Almost in solitary confinement. Yet recent former cabinet minister of energy and mining still struck me as an influential ‘enigma’. Kaka – as Cassim Chilumpha is affectionately known – was one of the top tier government officials Thursday morning who addressed the international conference on transparency and responsible finance […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has made some changes to her cabinet. In the reshuffle, the Malawi leader has appointed 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 governing People’s Party (PP) of […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda is demanding accountability from her ministers asking them to submit reports on achievements and progress in each ministry starting from next week. The former president, the late Bingu wa Mutharika, also demanded reports from his ministers. In a memo dated November 20 2012 from Secretary to Government Bright Msaka addressed to […]
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 […]
It is with enormous regret that I with immediate effect resign from the post of Minister of Economic Planning & Development. I joined the government in good faith and with hopes of shared common values, beliefs, vision and appreciation of political plurality. I thus felt a moral responsibility to assist the government in paving an […]
While there have been calls from various stakeholders urging Malawi leader Mrs. Joyce Banda to trim the size of her cabinet, opposition leader Kamlepo Kalua says such a move would not bring answers to the country’s problems. Kalua told Nyasa Times that trimming the current cabinet and twining ministries, as others are suggesting, would have serious […]
Fear of the unknown has gripped ministers as President Joyce Banda will reshuffle cabinet to improve her flagging political ratings following the rising cost of living and alleged corruption in her government, a top civil servant has revealed. It is being widely belived that President Banda wants to merge the Ministry of Finance and that of Economic Planning […]
Outspoken social-political activist Ben Chiza Mkandawire has threatened to organise mass demonstrations across the country against the People’s Party (PP) leadership if President Joyce Banda and her cabinet continue to abstain from declaring their assets. Chiza Mkandawire observed this through a local Radio-MIJ on Friday and on his Facebook page throughout the week that there […]
Eureka! The Peoples Party-led Government has found a way to find a way of reining in the runaway strikers. Pun intended. It will soon convene an all-inclusive indaba in the hope of finding solutions to the now pandemic of industrial strikes in the public and private sectors and university colleges. According to Malawi’s Labour Minister […]
President Joyce Banda has reiterated that for the first time in the history of Malawi, and under her leadership, an inclusive cabinet made up of ministers from various parties was formed when she took over the reigns of power on April 7, 2012 as a reconciliatory measure. The Malawi leader said this when she presented […]
Malawi government is considering to introduce a burnt bricks bill to control the effects of climate change. Speaking on Thursday when she toured various sewerages and dumping sites in Lilongwe, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Management, Catherine Gotani Hara, said her ministry is currently consulting various players to see how best to control or altogether ban […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Thursday finally let the cat out of the bag and disclosed that her government was going to sell the presidential jet controversially bought by her predecessor late Bingu Wa Mutharika bought with donor money meant to assist poor Malawians. President Banda disclosed this in London when he addressed Malawians living […]
Malawi’s former Youth Development and Sports minister Symon Vuwa-Kaunda is still clinging to a government vehicle registration number MG 91 despite being dropped from cabinet two-weeks ago. According to a government insiders. the vehicle was earmarked for the Director of Youth in the ministry. When contacted, Kaunda said government is responsible for collecting the vehicle […]