New Republican Party (NRP) president Gwanda Chakuamba has rebutted reports circulating that he has joined the former ruling party Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). His party Secretary General Alexander William Ngulube speaking on a local media-MIJ on Tuesday said the reports are inaccurate. “The truth of the matter is that there is nothing of that sort. […]
Steven Chikanzi Gwandanguluwe Chakuamba Phiri is an unhappy man. The opposition is dying and he is concerned. We all should share this concern, especially when the so-called Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Honourable John Zenus Ungapake Tembo, says there is nothing to oppose in this new dispensation. It does not help, of course, that the […]
Old time politician Gwanda Chakuamba has come out of his cocoon and declared that he will contest as presidential candidate in 2014 elections because President Joyce Banda’s administration is “killing the opposition.” Chakuamba, a sworn political enemy of opposition leader John Tembo, also accused the latter of allowing Banda to kill the opposition by declaring […]
Leaders of opposition parties in Malawi on Thursday addressed a joint press conference in the commercial capital, Blantyre, where they admonished President Bingu wa Mutharika and his DPP regime over various governance lapses. The leaders, who included NRP president Gwanda Chakuamba, PPM leader and business magnet Mark Katsonga, MAFUNDE leader and Balaka legislator George Nnesa, […]
Plans by President Bingu wa Mutharika to have his brother, Peter, inherit power in 2014, will face a battle from a band of opposition politicians who will go flat out to fight “dynastyisation” of presidency, veteran opposition politician Gwanda Chakuamba has said. Chakuamba, president of New Republican Party (NRP), says he has come out of […]
Former Sports, Youth and Culture Minister Moses Dossi, who also has presidential ambitions, has welcomed veteran politician Gwanda Chakuamba for announcing his return into frontline politics, saying he will help in the fight against Mutharika dictatorship. Dossi in his contribution in Monday’s Capital FM’s Newstalk programme in which Malawians were asked to have their say […]
Malawi opposition parties have ratcheted up political pressure on President Bingu wa Mutharika to release detained outspoken critic Ralph Kasambara by Monday or face ‘social discontent’. The parties said Mutharika administration should release Kasambara by 12 PM of Monday, 20th February 2012 or else they would use “political means” to have him freed. They noted […]
Malawi civil society organisations and opposition have said only a referendum can give people in the country a genuine platform to decided whether President Bingu wa Mutharika should continue ruling the country or not. Addressing the press in Blantyre, a rights activists under the name Human Rights Defenders claimed that Mutharika has lost the mandate and […]
(Shortened from a longer academic paper) Even Dr Banda, who was fond of calling Chiume, Chisiza and Chipembere ‘my boys’, did, in polite moments, call Orton Chirwa ‘Mr Chirwa’. And, even when he was ill-treating Orton Chirwa, the ‘Mr Chirwa’ sometimes slipped out (Vera Chirwa, 2007, page 74). Orton Chirwa was born in 1919, in […]
Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika told donors that he was keen in putting in cage veteran politician Gwanda Chakuamba and described him as a “thug”, according to leaked documents published on WikiLeaks. The WikiLeaks cable obtained by Nyasa Times shows that Mutharika told the donor community after his election in 2004 as Head of State […]
The leader of the New Republican Party (NRP) veteran politician Gwanda Chakuamba has been given MK3 million from DPP campaign director and his close friend Ken Zikhale Ng’oma to campaign against the popular People’s Party (PP) candidate Chidumba Mkandawire in the Rumphi Central by-elections to be held on September 6, 2011, Nyasa Times can reveal. […]
By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times Veteran politician Gwanda Chakuamba has hinted at possibly running for presidency in 2014 under the banner of his New Republican Party (NRP). Chakuamba announced after 2009 elections that he had “finally” retired from active politics but later resurfaced to lead his NRP. Speaking on Straight Talk programme on Capital Radio […]