Malawians living in South Africa had a rare get-together last Saturday in Johanseburg when the High Commission office hosted the ‘AMalawi Conference’ to discuss and tackle various issues Malawians face in the rainbow nation. The conference drew more than 40 organisations across the Malawian community including religious and economic groupings with key interests in the […]
President Peter Mutharika has appointed his niece, Duwa Mutharika as first secretary in the Malawi consulate in Johansburg, South Africa. An appointment letter signed by principal secretary in the ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Isaac Munlo says Duwa will be responsible for promotion of tourism at the consulate. Duwa is the daughter of […]
Investigations into suspected fraud transactions by former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika through a bank account he opened in Jersey, Europe is still underway as the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) says they waiting for key information from authorities in Jersey. In published report on Sunday, 17 January 2016, the bureau said may proceed with the […]
Employees of Bineth Trust from Malawi’s former President late Bingu wa Mutharika‘s farms in Thyolo and Mitundu in Lilongwe are boycotting work for non-payment of their salaries. The disgruntled employees are demanding arrears of their salaries which date back to some five months ago. During the just ending week, scores of the workers journeyed to […]
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leader Peter Mutharika has renewed his claims that “government is into property grabbing” of his deceased brother’s property, late president Bingu wa Muthatrika, saying he feels the State is deliberately victimizing the children and grand children of the former president to settle a political vendetta. Bingu died of cardiac arrest […]
Children of former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika feel government is all out to persecute them on political grounds by freezing their bank accounts and to have deceased estate Bineth Trust declared public. A source close to the family told Nyasa Times that they feel government wants to squeeze them on the belief that […]
The Malawi High Court in Blantyre on Thursday adjourned to next Friday its ruling on the judicial review in a case involving late President Bingu wa Mutharika’s family and the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA). MRA wrote late Mutharika’s brother, Peter, who is also Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leader demanding customs duty on 41 vehicles the former president bought on […]
Former first lady Callista Mutharika has so far succeeded in her pursuit to remove former president Bingu wa Mutharika’s daughters, Duwa and Tapiwa as administrators of the controversial deceased’s estate Callista, who did not appear as a beneficiary in Bingu’s will drawn in March 2008, about two years before the late Mutharika married her, filled […]
Former Malawi first lady Callista Mutharika has withdrawn her application in court to remove her stepchildren, Duwa and Tapiwa, as administrators of the controversial K61 billion (about $152m) deceased estate left by the late Bingu wa Mutharika, opting for an out-of-court settlement. Callista lodged an application at High Court in Zomba to revoke letters of […]
Malawi Immigration Department says it has ordered late president Bingu WA Mutharika’s children to surrender their diplomatic passports and that all former ministers with diplomatic passports should also surrender. Chief Immigration Officer Hudson Mankhwala confirmed to Nyasa Times that the published reports on the matter were true, saying the revocation of the diplomatic passports in […]
Former First Lady Callista Mutharika is suspicious that her late husband’s children might have played a fast one on her following revelations that her name is missing on the list of beneficiaries of former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika’s Will. The will was written after the death of Mutharika’s first wife Ethel in 2007. Callista said in an interview with Nyasa […]
A rift between Malawi’s former first lady Callista Mutharika and her step daughters shows no sign of abating following Callisita’s latest move in which she is asking the Malawi High Court to remove the children as administrators of the late President Bingu wa Mutharika’s estate. The two parties are already embroiled in another legal battle […]
Human rights activist Justin Dzonzi of Justice Link, in an exclusive interview with Nyasa Times, has called on the authorities to investigate on how former President late Bingu wa Mutharika managed to amass worth totaling to K61 bilion in seven years. Dzonzi’s calls add on views expressed by many people on comments posted on Nyasa Times and […]
The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) has given Galaxy FM radio station 14 days to resume transmission or else have its licence revoked. The Lilongwe-based radio station, owned by Duwa Mutharika Mubaira, daughter to former Malawi President late Bingu wa Mutharika has been off-air for over a month due to accrued debts to various firms […]
State-controlled Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) TV and Radio has been issued with a permanent restraining order by the High Court to stop airing a programme relating to the Commission of Inquiry report into the death former president Bingu wa Mutharika. The High Court judge, Sylvester Kalembera issued the order on Monday following application by ate […]
Malawi’s only private radio station transmitting on satellite, Galaxy FM, has been forced to close down due to financial constraints. The station owned by late president Bingu wa Mutharika’s daughter Duwa Mutharika Mubaira was given both television and radio licenses by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) when Bingu was still in power. The radio, […]
Duwa Mutharika-Mubaira and Parliamentarian, Kondwani Nankhumwa have obtained an injunction restraining Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) and People’s Party (PP) officials from discussing Commission of Enquiry’s report on the death of late President Bingu wa Mutharika. MBC, through its television channel, has been running a programme ‘Kauniuni Wa report ya Imfa ya Bingu wa Mutharika’ with […]
Former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika’s only son, Madalitso is said to have sold a number of vehicles on a give away prices after the tax collecting body, Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA), demanded duty on Mutharika’s personal 41 vehicles he purchased duty free while he was in power. Madalitso is reported to have sold the […]