Paramount Chief Kyungu of Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga is appealing to politicians to iron out their differences and concentrate on developing the country rather than wasting their time advocating for feudalism and secession. Kyungu said this during a meeting organized by Presidential Adviser on National Unity and Parliamentary Affairs Symon Vuwa Kaunda to […]
President Peter Mutharika has received a tribalism tag from a political science lecturer at the Chancellor College of the University of Malawi, Ernest Thindwa on the way he has been purging public servants. Thindwa has said he feels the dismissals of officers are based on tribal lines. “It’s normal for any new government to make […]
Malawi government’s efforts to quash federalism and secession issues in the Northern Region have taken a tumble after people in Karonga rubbished the process, saying an issue of such importance cannot only be narrowed to chiefs. At a community meeting attended by hundreds of Karonga residents and chiefs, Symon Vuwa Kaunda who is Presidential Adviser […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has gone flat out in the North Malawi to lure influential voices in rejecting calls for north secession or referendum. In his latest engagement and palm oil, presidential advisor on National unity and parliamentary affairs, Symon Vuwa Kaunda, on Sunday met chiefs from Rumphi let by Paramount Themba la […]
Peoples Party (PP) provisional chairman for the north, Reverend Christopher Mzomela Ngwira has called for a referendum vote to give the people of Northern Region a chance to prove they are supporting the idea of having the northern region as a federal state. A pressure group was recently formed in Mzimba Led by Dr. Bina […]
Malawians as a people are renowned for their love for peace, co-existence, oneness and above all else solidarity in the midst of diversity- ethnic, religious, political, socio-economic or otherwise – that is despite the myriad of challenges the nation faces across all divides. This mindset has absolved us of the chaos and strife that has […]
So – we continue to forge ahead together, a nation composed of supposed patriots in matters of minority interest; a nation made up of vociferous hostilities of a fragmented nature against common problems viewed often from sectarian perspectives; and finally, a nation of a potentially powerful political base from which a vast majority of our […]
A pressure group has been formed in Mzimba led by Dr Bina Shaba to campaign for federal system of government in Malawi. Shaba said the unitary type of government where the executive powers rests in the President has frustrated the northerners and it is time to consider change. He said the federal type of government […]
Opposition People’s Party (PP) provincial governor Christopher Mzomera Ngwira has hit back at President Peter Mutharika’s reaction to calls for the introduction of a federal system of government or even for North Malawi to be a standalone country. Proponents of federalism argue that the system should be introduced for equal distribution of development and public […]
“Change will not come if you wait for some other person or some other time; we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change we seek” Malawians are people that have longed to live in peace from time immemorial and peace has been that appended signature of our national flag. There have been times of desperation, […]
People’s Party (PP) northern provincial governor, the Reverend Mzomera Ngwira has maintained his proposal that the North needs to secede and become a standalone state. Ngwira argues that apart from leaving the country fractured on regional lines, the first-past-the-post electoral system hardly favours the region to produce a president. His call received a trashing by […]
Former vice-president Khumbo Kachali and Karonga central independent lawmaker Frank Mwenefumbo were humiliated on Friday when government protocol officers told them they had no seats at Mzuzu University where President Peter Mutharika was conferring degrees on graduates. Kachali when he arrived at the university wanted to seat at the VIP but protocol officers told him […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) has trashed calls by former ruling People’s Party (PP) to have northern region as a standalone State [North Malawi like South Sudan], saying such calls are “irrational.” PP provincial governor for the North, Christopher Mzomera Ngwira has said Northern Region needs “secession” and not federal government. Ngwira, according to The Nation, […]
It is within a specific political and historical context that the idea of federalism has started to ignite the imagination of various social and political commentators. The context has been such that ever since our independence our governments have visited various forms of atrocities on us and we have been and are largely, depending on […]
Malawi’s renowned writer and historian Desmond Dudwa Phiri, widely known as DD Phiri, has added his voice in quashing calls by some opposition parties on the issue of federal government.At present, Malawi is a unitary state consisting of one parliament, one administration or civil service and one judiciary system.Opposition political parties, among them Alliance for […]
If the Alliance for Democracy (Aford) had won Malawi’s first multiparty elections in 1994, Dr. Dennis Nkhwazi, the party’s founding member, would have led a big push to introduce a federal system of government. In the run-up to the elections, this correspondent was assigned by two journalists who were behind one of Malawi’s first pro-democracy […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) president Enock Chakufwa Chihana has rubbished Desmond Dudwa (DD) Phiri – a renowned local economic commentator and columnist – on his sentiments that Malawi “cannot” adopt a federal system of government because of its “small size.” Phiri, a graduate of the London School of Economics, was in the papers Tuesday arguing that other […]
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) lawmaker Alekeni Menyani has backed calls to adopt a federal system of government in Malawi. Alliance for Democracy (Aford) president Enoch Chihana, who is the only lawmaker for his party which once held control of all seats in the north, first said a federal system of government would be ideal […]