We gonna chase those crazy Baldheads out of town; I’n’I build a cabin; I’n’I plant the corn; Didn’t my people before me Slave for this country? Now you look me with that scorn, Then you eat up all my corn. Build your penitentiary, we build your schools, Brainwash education to make us the fools. Hate […]
Construction works of tombstones for innocent Malawians who lost their lives during last year’s July 20-21 nationwide demonstrations will start in April this year, organisers have said. Originally the work was supposed to start off in January 2012, but the work has been delayed due to the rains, according to Moses Mkandawire, who is the […]
Judicial workers who are on an indefinite strike over work conditions and higher pay on Friday turned Blantyre High Court premises into a demonstration arena. People, mostly women, who can safely be assumed as employees in the judiciary were camped outside the court premises with heavy hitting musical instruments dancing to the popural Fikisa song […]
A Mzuzu based senior Police officer who made headlines in Malawi by claiming that he was ‘seriously’ beaten during the last July nationwide demonstrations failed to tell his story to the July 20 Presidential Commission of Inquiry. The July 20 Commission of Inquiry has been sitting in Mzuzu to get testimonies from the public on […]
Mzuzu based politician, Harry Mkandawire, has said the July 20th Commission of Inquiry on anti-government protest is wasting time and tax payers funds because it knows the truth as to who ordered the killing of people during the demonstration – President Bingu wa Mutharika. “I find it a bit flabbergasting that you are here trying […]
It is only God and Satan now left for the so called reformed Malawi Police Service to push the blame to for the fracas that ensued during the July 20 anti government protests in Mzuzu where nine people were killed and property was destroyed. In a quest to justify their behaviour which led to the […]
Mzuzu based politician Harry Mkandawire and Reverend Mezuwa Banda of the CCAP Synod of Livingstonia have been subpoenaed to testify before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on anti-government protests in July which claimed almost 19 lives, following Police testimony that the duo were part of the master minders of the demonstrations. Northern Region Police Operations […]
The blame game seems the latest fad in Malawi with everybody from the President to a common man in the street blaming everything on every one. And now it’s the Police who have never accepted any wrong doing for the killing of at least 19 people during a police crackdown on demonstrations against President Bingu […]
Civil society organisations (CSOs) have set a deadline for President Bingu wa Mutharika to provide solutions to problems causing misery to citizens or again, face nationwide mass demonstrations. The deadline is three months from now, March 2012. CSOs resolved at their Mangochi meeting last month to opt for protests should government fail to meet this […]
Malawi’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) claims some civil society leaders and members of the clergy are planning for a “grand killing” of innocent Malawians in 2012. DPP Secretary-General Wakuda Kamanga made the claims while reacting to reports that civil society leaders would be forced to hold a grand nationwide demonstration should President Bingu wa […]
Malawi’s leading online newspaper, Nyasa Times, has made 2011 the ‘Year of the Protestor’ –on July 20 and 21 and also those who took part in academic freedom demonstrations. Nyasa Times introduced its ‘Person of the Year’ accolade in 2010 which was first given to Vice President Joyce Banda who defied President Bingu wa Mutharika […]
As part of the commemoration of Human Rights Day, Youth Association for Democracy in Malawi (YADEMA) interim chairperson Wapona Kita led the participants at Saturday night public symposium at Chancellor College in a candle lightening ceremony in remembrance of July 20 protests victims and Kingsley Misi, a third year law student who died in a car […]
Recent headlines: Italy: “Mr Berlusconi lost his majority amid an acute debt crisis that threatens the eurozone. He promised to go once MPs had approved new austerity measures. Crowds celebrated outside the presidential palace, shouting “buffoon” as he entered. The BBC’s Alan Johnston in Rome says Mr Berlusconi’s last journey as prime minister was an […]
(with apologies to Fela Anikulapo Kuti2and Benjamin Zephaniah3) (for those who died on 20/7/2011) [Brass and choppy funky guitar in key of E] Tiye! Bwela! Tiye! Bwela! Ah!!! Dem on an’ dem on! Ashiki! Ashoko! Ashiki Ashoko! Ah! Dem on an’ dem on! Dis people power gone all crazy We follow dem into a mad […]
A leading human rights activist in Malawi, Reverend MacDonald Sembereka, has expressed doubt over the level of independence of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the death of 19 people killed in cold blood during the July 20 nationwide demonstrations. “This is long overdue. It is a welcome development if it is not going to […]
Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika has disclosed that he will establish a commission of inquiry into the ‘murder’ of university student Robert Chasowa, a critic of the government and the riots that took place on July 20 national demonstrations killing 19 people. Mutharika speaking exclusively to the BBC’s Africa Have Your Say programme on Thursday […]
AMBUJE’S DIARY 2011 PART I: Adalanda ufumu kalero, naupereka kwaoledzera! (The kingdom was long confiscated and awarded to a drunkard!) – Blantyre street urchin’s rendition of a Lucius Banda tune; July 24th, 2011. Exhausted from a long series of flights through Burlington (Vermont, US), Washington (D.C., US), Addis Ababa, Lubumbashi and Lilongwe, I did not […]
Rafiq Hajat, one of Malawi’s leading rights activist and a fierce critic of President Bingu wa Mutharika, has been dealt a heavy blow as thugs stormed his offices in Blantyre to set ablaze the building. This is the second time Hajat, the director of the Institute for Policy Interaction advocacy group, has experienced a similar […]