Malawi has dispatched a government delegation to Zimbabwe to collect part payment of a US$23 million that country has been owing Malawi since 2007. The debt, which the Robert Mugabe government defaulted for about five years, is a balance from a US$100 million loan it borrowed from Malawi for the purpose of purchasing and importing […]
The treason case of Cassim Chilumpha who is now minister of Energy and Mining will be discontinued, the new Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Ralph Kasambara has hinted. Chilumpha was arrested in 2006 when he was serving as vice-president to late President Bingu wa Mutharika for allegedly attempting to kill his boss. He is […]
When President Bingu wa Mutharika collapsed to his death and to the death of his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government, I told my friend Idriss Ali Nassah: ‘With the DPP government swept away by an act of God, there will be no more weekly drama to write about.’ It turns out I was wrong. What would […]
People’s Party (PP) of Malawi President Joyce Banda has received a boost with the joining of three members of parliament Henry Duncan Phoya, Cassim Chilumpha and Uladi Mussa. The three have announced their move at a news conference held at PP headquarters in Blantyre. The news conference was attended by State Vice President Khumbo Kachale. […]
Malawi’s former President Bakili Muluzi on Friday bade an emotional goodbye to his political buddy-turned-enemy late President Bingu wa Mutharika at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre. The body of late Mutharika is lying in state at the presidential palace to afford Malawians in Southern and Eastern regions to pay their last respects before his burial next […]
They say in politics there are neither permanent friends nor permanent enemies; this was exactly the scenario at Sanjika palace Friday morning when old time comrades joined President Joyce Banda to pay final respects before the remains of late president Bingu wa Mutharika are interred in Thyolo on Monday. Lighter moments begun to unfold soon […]
Former vice president Dr Cassim Chilumpha said the economic and political problems caused by the Mutharika administration need people with expertise and experience in government to be in the leadership frame. Chilumpha said times for experimenting leaders are gone since it has been proven that the tendency has done bad things for the country. “These […]
Malawi’s former vice president Dr Cassim Chilumpha, who once served as finance minister, says the decision by government to print new money and introduce a 1,000 banknotes is a “symptom of the fact that things are getting expensive in Malawi.” Chilumpha said Malawi’s economy is now ailing and needs a quick therapy “This is an […]
Respectable politician and former justice minister, Henry Duncan Phoya (HDP) on Tuesday cautioned Minister of Justice, Ephraim Chiume, for making “serious allegations” in parliament against critic of President Bingu wa Mutharika, Ralph Kasambara. Chiume, making a statement in Parliament, alleged that Kasambara applied Nali chilli on the private parts of a gang of three men. […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika’s government has been accused of “manufacturing” fake statistics and economic reports to hoodwink the public when in reality the country’s economy is shrinking. Former vice president Dr Cassim Chilumpha, who once served as finance minister, made the claim when he addressed a public meeting at Lunzu Primary School in Blantyre […]
Former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) had a busy weekend when its two factions held mass rallies in Zomba and Balaka, which all attracted mammoth crowds. In Zomba, acting UDF president Friday Jumbe held the rally at Ntonya constituency where he was joined on the podium by former state vice president Cassim Chilumpha and ex-Speaker […]
At a press conference addressed by the United Democratic Front (UDF) faction led by interim president Friday Jumbe in Blantyre on Tuesday, it transpired that the current mudslinging and misunderstanding between that camp and that which supports former Head of State Bakili Muluzi’s son, Atupele, are nowhere close to the end. At his private Superior […]
Irate Muslims who were attending an Islamic gathering on Saturday stormed MBC-TV premises in Lilongwe where they asked the state broadcaster not to beam an interview its journalist Charles Vintula did with one of Muslim cleric from Mchinji, Imran Omar earlier in the day. The move followed a secret interview which Omar did with Vintula […]
Malawi’s former vice-president Cassim Chilumpha has formally joined the United Democratic Front (UDF) and notified the Speaker of Parliament that he will be representing his Nkhotakota South constituency as a UDF member. Chilumpha, the reticent law scholar, was elected as an independent legislator. But in a letter date November 14 which Nyasa Timeshas obtained, the […]
The former governing United Democratic Front (UDF) say it will select its presidential candidate in 2013, a year before the general elections. The party has however announced that it will a national convention in April 2012 which will not elect a presidential candidate, but a new national executive committee. “The United Democratic Front…has identified core […]
State witness in the former vice president Cassim Chilumpha’s treason and conspiracy to murder case pocketed K60 million from government to testify. Thomas Elias Ndlovu, a Malawian living in South Africa, and Graham Minnaar, a former South African intelligence operative — are witnesses for the prosecution. Ndhlovu collected the money but said it was not […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has dragged Vice President Joyce Banda to court asking for the judges to interpret that she has resigned as VP. The VP was expelled from the ruling DPP last December and formed her own Peoples Party (PP) early this year. Private practice lawyer Wapona Kita confirmed to Nyasa Times that […]
A twelve member jury and two alternatives have been selected in the case in which Malawi government is prosecuting former vice-president Dr Cassim Chilumpha and businessman Yusuf Matumula MP on charges of treason and conspiracy to murder. The process of selecting the jury took place in the High Court in Blantyre before trial judge Ken […]