Deputy Speaker of Parliament Esther Mcheka Chilenje has challenge defamation lawsuit filed by her former husband Chief commissioner of Malawi Prison Service (MPS) Kennedy Nkhoma. The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, through her lawyer, has however countered Nkhoma informing the court that there are “marriage issues to be sorted out” and prays that the action be […]
Lawyers for business tycoon, Mohammad Sidik Mia said are waiting for a go-ahead to proceed with lawsuit against Peoples Party (PP) acting secretary general, Paul Maulidi who accused the retired politician of allegedly bribing voters at a polling centre in Chikwawa Mkombedzi during the May 20th elections. Maulidi told local radio stations that Mia was […]
Former Peoples Party (PP) second deputy Director of Elections, Benedicto Chambo has dragged to court Minister of Energy Ibrahim Matola for defamation and unlawful detention, Nyasa Times has established. Chambo who dumped PP in earlier this year has filed the lawsuit at Blantyre High Court in relation to his detention by Mangochi police on January […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera has been sued for slander and defamation. Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) treasurer general George Chaponda took out the legal suit against Chakwera over the remarks he made to the media that Chaponda said DPP did not need the Northern Region vote to win the May 20 Tripartite […]
President Joyce Banda has been accused of threatening the thriving democracy and press freedom according to an editorial comment in the Malawi News following the lawsuit which Joyce Banda Foundation has filed against Blantyre Newspapers Limited (Times Group), the publishers of Daily Times, Malawi News, and Sunday Times newspapers. The newspaper publishing house has been […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Uladi Mussa, is challenging a High Court order to pay United Democratic Front (UDF) President, Atupele Muluzi, for defaming him. The High Court in Blantyre last Friday instructed Mussa to pay Atupele for the costs incurred since the defamation case started. Atupele sued Mussa for allegedly uttering unfair […]
The High Court has asked Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Uladi Mussa to find replace lawyer rPaul Maulidi because of his persistent failure to attend hearing in which United Democratic Front (UDF) president Atupele Muluzi is suing Mussa for defamation. Atupele sued Mussa for allegedly uttering unfair remarks against him on Zodiak Broadcasting […]
Malawi government authorities are warning people they say take advantage of the country’s absence of legislation regulating on online media to defame others, saying there are laws that can catch up with them. The warning comes from government spokesperson Moses Kunkuyu following recent complaints by former Big Brother Africa,The Chase representative Fatima Nkata, who said she felt defamed by negative comments […]
Lawyer for Prophet Shepherd Bushiri of the Enlightened Christian Gathering, Christopher Chiphwanya was on Tuesday fined K50, 000 by the Lilongwe High Court Judge Ivy Kamanga in a case where Member of Parliament Jimmy Bauleni Mannah sued the ‘man of God’ for defamation. Kamanga said the fine is solely for the lawyer because for his negligence […]
From two weeks ago, after Malawi President Joyce Banda hosted in audience representatives of the Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa), who lobbied her to sign the Declaration of Table Mountain, much has been said about the declaration. The President is yet to sign. We reproduce the declaration in full: Abolishing […]
Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi) has condemned the arrest of Malawi Voice’s online editor, Justice Mponda and says it considers his detention and treatment as unconstitutional and retrogressive for Malawi’s nascent democracy. Mponda, 27, was arrested by heavily armed police officers in the early hours of Monday at his Chiwembe […]
Member of Parliament for Dowa East, Bauleni Manna, has launched a lawsuit against Malawi’s renowned man of God, Prophet Shepherd Bushiri of the ‘go deeper’ fame for allegedly smearing a defamation of character on the lawmaker’s person, Nyasa Times has learnt. Lawyer for the legislator, Gift Nankhuni, lodged the summons on Thursday through Lilongwe High Court, alleging […]
Malawi’s Minister of Information and Civic Education Patricia Kaliati has challenged President Bingu wa Mutharika’s first Attorney General Ralph Kasambara, now government’s fierse critic, that he has erred by suing her personally since her actions are on behalf of government as its spokesperson. Lawyer-cum-politician Kasambara is demanding K60 million from the minister over her remarks […]
Malawi’s outspoken and foul-mouthed Minister of Information and Government Spokesperson Patricia Kaliati will not be paying K60 million as demanded by caged presidential critic Ralph Kasambara for defaming because she denies the accusations and that she is also facing bankruptcy proceedings after failing to settle a K300, 000 debt. Kasambara’s lawyer, Wapona Kita, has written […]