Malawians who share unverified rumours on WhatsApp and social media could face criminal prosecution or crippling civil damages, a UK-based Malawian lawyer and former journalist has warned. Writing in The Nation’s “My Turn” opinion column, Peter Makossah said phrases such as “forwarded as received” and “just sharing to find out if it’s true” have long […]
Trained lawyer Alexious Kamangila has written to the High Court demanding it fix a date for hearing his application, arguing that the court has sat on the matter for close to two months without action. In a letter dated 11 September 2026, Kamangila renewed his complaint that his case is being treated differently from an […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) national governing council member party spokesperson of finance Joseph Mwanamvekha has sued Malawi Voice online publication and its managing editor Justice Mponda who is also former State House deputy press secretary defamation after a story which he argues was fabrication and work of propaganda. Malawi Voice carried a story titled “Eexposed! Abdulla […]
Clement Mukumbwa, a contractor trading under Fukumele Building Contractors, has written Times Television (TTV) demanding an apology and withdrawal of a ‘defamatory’ news item which was broadcast on March 4 and March 5, 2021 news bulletins on the television. According to a letter by Mukumbwa’s lawyers, Blackstone Chambers, which Nyasa Times has seen, Times Television […]
Private practice lawyer Oscar Asima Taulo has sued his estranged client and former Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) student, Moses Michael Mwalabu, for defamation. Both Taulo and Mwalabu have confirmed the development in separate interviews, saying the suit originates from the allegation the latter made that the counsel swindled him of millions […]
Lilongwe-based Prophet Favour has denied making a prophesy on the four-year-old boy who went missing and only to be found dead along the banks of Lingadzi River. On Monday morning, people surrounding Midland in Area 23 in Lilongwe had running battles with the police as the latter tried to demolish the house of a lady […]
Call it things falling apart in the erstwhile governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The Nyasa Times has just confirmed that the DPP member of Parliament (MP) for Thyolo South West, Chimwemwe Chipungu, has filed a lawsuit against his brother-in-party politics and fellow legislator for Blantyre City South, Noel Lipipa. Lipipa has been dragged to court […]
Malawi Police in Kanengo, Lilongwe are hunting for a group of females which have been scandalising men by posting their pictures on their open WhatsApp group and affixing unprintable words to them. Over 20 men have been victims to this crusade. Police sources at Kanengo indicate that six complaints have been lodged and eight leads […]
Firebrand politician Dr Jessie Kabwila has said ‘fake news’ should be criminalised as it tends to destroy the fabric of Malawi society. She was reacting to social media stories that she had been beaten up after she collected huge sums of money from State House in Lilongwe on Monday to put spanners in the newly […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has said it will file summons against the public broadcaster Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) for alleged defamation after describing the rights coalition as a terrorist group. HRDC was allegedly labelled as a terrorist group in one of MBC news bulletin following one of its nationwide demonstrations. Lawyer for HRDC, Wesley […]
South Africa-based leader of the Enlightened Christian Gathering Church (ECGC) Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has filed a lawsuit against Malawi24 an online news site for defamation over a “malaicious and reckless” article it published against the Man of God. Bushiri is also suing the publication’s owner Dr Pearson Nkhoma for the same article which was posted online […]
Minister of Homeland Security, Nicholas Dausi, has filed a lawsuit against State vice-president and UTM Party presidential candidate Saulos Chilima for defamation over the 2014 Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) warehouse torching allegations made against Dausi. Defamation is a “cause of action”: a basis for commencing litigation and seeking a remedy from a court. Chilima made […]
Former Kasungu Municipality chief executive officer, who was sent on forced leave pending an investigation following accusations of maladministration, has gone to court to claim K50 million from Minister of Local Government and Rural Developmen Kondwani Nankhumwa for his loose tongue. Nankhumwa alleged that Ngoka and Nkhotakota district commissioner Felix Mkandawire were sent on forced […]
Chief Executive Officer for Kasungu Municipality Council Stewart Ngoka, who was sent on forced leave pending an investigation following accusations of maladministration, has gone to court to claim K50 million from Minister of Local Government and Rural Developmen Kondwani Nankhumwa accusing him of defamation. Ngoka ‘s claims through a demand letter to the Attorney General’s […]
Objections and poor time managent took center stage in defamation case by former Minister of Agricuture Dr George Chaponda against media giant Times Group and some of its editorial staff in connection to stories and comments on the suspicious maize deal between Malawi and Zambia as court has to adjourn the matter until corruption related case […]
South Africa-based Malawian prophet Shepherd Bushiri of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) scored a giant legal victory on Tuesday when the Gauteng High Court, in Pretoria, ruled in his favour that the organisers of Wednesday’s ‘False Prophets’ march should stop using the event to defame the name of the renowned man of God. The court underlined that […]
Malawi has started to crack down hard using existing laws to prosecute comments made on Facebook and other social media platforms which break the law which has seen a 23 year old Mchinj man, Protazio Nkhoma convicted and jailed 42 months in prison over Facebook post. Nkhoma post was successfully proved by prosecution that it […]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, George Chaponda is suing Times Group for defamation on a series of stories it has been publishing highlighting his alleged wrongdoing in his role in the involvement of a local firm, Transglobe, in Malawi’s questionable procurement of relief maize from Zambia. In a Civil Cause number 55 of […]