Former Malawi finance minister Friday Jumbe has said Ken Lipenga credibility as the country’s purse keeper has been badly damaged following revelations that tax collecting body borrowed money to present a picture that the late president Bingu wa Mutharika’s experimental Zero-Deficit Budget (ZDB) was working. Legislature George Nnesa revealed in National Assembly that the Malawi Revenue Authority […]
Former vice president Dr Cassim Chilumpha said the economic and political problems caused by the Mutharika administration need people with expertise and experience in government to be in the leadership frame. Chilumpha said times for experimenting leaders are gone since it has been proven that the tendency has done bad things for the country. “These […]
Malawi’s former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) says it has no president and intents to fill the position at the convention to be held later this year, escalating feuding with acting party president Friday Jumbe. Jumbe was made interim leader when former Head of State and UDF national chairman Bakili Muluzi retired from front line politics in […]
Economist and former finance minister Friday Jumbe says newly-introduced 16.5 percent value added tax (VAT) on some banking services is a “harmless tax”. The Bingu wa Mutharika administration introduced the tax on banking services as one of measures of sustaining the zero-deficit budget. Commercial banks fear the VAT will negatively impact the country’s banking culture and the Bankers […]
Accusations and counter-accusations continue to rock the former governing United Democratic Front (UDF), with the faction that is led by acting president Friday Jumbe rubbishing a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting called by Secretary-General, Kennedy Makwangwala in Blantyre on Sunday, which appointed new people in positions held by officials supporting Jumbe. On Sunday, Makwangwala, who […]
Factional feuding within the opposition United Democratic Front( UDF) took a new twist on Sunday with the party’s mainstream announcing it has appointed new people in positions formerly held by members of the Friday Jumbe faction who have been accused of absconding party activities in the recent times. During a news conference held at the party […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has accused former president Bakili Muluzi for squandering about US$19 million meant for the abandoned five-star Namiwawa Hotel Project, saying his administration is now tasked to repay the loan from South Africa. According to Mutharika, the former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) government “borrowed US $18 or US $19m from South Africa to […]
Former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) had a busy weekend when its two factions held mass rallies in Zomba and Balaka, which all attracted mammoth crowds. In Zomba, acting UDF president Friday Jumbe held the rally at Ntonya constituency where he was joined on the podium by former state vice president Cassim Chilumpha and ex-Speaker […]
The existence of wrangles within political parties is as old as political parties themselves. This usually emanates from competing interests, ambitions, visions, ideals and sometimes simply out of idiocy and egos of the people involved. This is normal and natural. However, prolonged infighting has enormous potential to undermine the standing of the party in the […]
At a press conference addressed by the United Democratic Front (UDF) faction led by interim president Friday Jumbe in Blantyre on Tuesday, it transpired that the current mudslinging and misunderstanding between that camp and that which supports former Head of State Bakili Muluzi’s son, Atupele, are nowhere close to the end. At his private Superior […]
High Court premises in Blantyre was on Thursday nearly turned into a battlefield when some of the UDF members exchanged bitter words with officials from the Friday Jumbe camp after the court vacated the injunction against the party’s national executive committee (NEC). Most of UDF royalists mobbed and showered insults at the deputy publicity secretary […]
A political scientist has asked members of the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) to remain vigilant and united against outside forces that are bend to divide and bring confusion in the party. Catholic University political science lecturer, Vincent Kondowe said this in reaction to current development in the party that has seen some of its […]
Former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) says it has dissolved all factions formed in the leadership wrangles ahead of the December 28 National Executive Committee meeting. UDF secretary general Kennedy Makwangwala said the move is geared at forming a united front for the party as it prepares to hold leadership contest next year. Makwangala said […]
Malawi’s Energy Minister Goodall Gondwe says government has found “a lasting solution” to the chronic fuel shortage by luring investors to supply the country with fuel which can be paid in local currency. Speaking on Capital FM Daybreak Malawi programme on Thursday, Gondwe who is former finance minister and credited for Malawi’s economic success during President […]
The extent to which some people will go, to show to the world at large their stupidity can be quite amazing. Take for instance, recent developments in the former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF). The UDF, in these days of the internet, email, sms and tweeter, has rediscovered the forgotten art of letter writing. The […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi has advised UDF gurus to go to the High Court in Blantyre and study the file for his criminal case the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) is handling, saying the money they are demanding him to account for is being used by the bureau on one of the charges. In a letter […]
The former governing United Democratic Front (UDF) say it will select its presidential candidate in 2013, a year before the general elections. The party has however announced that it will a national convention in April 2012 which will not elect a presidential candidate, but a new national executive committee. “The United Democratic Front…has identified core […]
An opinion poll survey conducted by Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) to find out the popular candidate in the former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF), indicates Atupele Muluzi, the 33 year-old son of former President Bakili Muluzi emerged winner. However, the media house which promised to publish results of the opinion survey in its Sunday Times […]