Nyondo slams ‘so called big parties’ in Malawi

National Salvation Front (NASAF) has slammed at major political parties in Malawi saying they are not big at all but regional or tied to families. “For starters, Malawi does not yet have national political parties. They are all either regionally or family led,” notd said NASAF president James Nyondo at a news conference in Lilongwe on […]

Katsonga under NASAF fire for ‘copying’ farming tractor agenda

National Salvation Front (NASAF) has described Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsionga as an empty headed presidential candidate who dreams to run government in 2014 without original ideas and instead is busy stealing such from other candidates. NASAF secretary general Lester Chikoya fumed at Katsonga in an interview with Nyasa Times that the PPM leader does not deserve […]

NASAF president Nyondo registers to vote in Chitipa, announces convention

National Salvation Front  (Nasaf( president James Nyondo has registered for next year’s tripartite elections at Chinunkha Primary, a few metres away from village where he was born in Chitipa district. During the 2009 elections, Nyondo voted and stood for parliamentray seat in Lilongwe on an independent ticket and also lost the presidency. But he has relocated […]

Nyondo says donor money worsens Malawi poverty

National Salvation Front president James Nyondo has condemned all the governments that ruled Malawi since independence for investing donor money into their own consumption thereby worsening poverty among the people. Nyondo made the sentiments at a rally he conducted in Chitipa recently. “Our governments instead of investing the money our friends help us to produce, […]

Blantyre City Council blocks Nyondo’s whistle stop tour

Blantyre City Council on Wednesday blocked a whistle stop tour organised by National Salvation Front (NASAF) president James Nyondo. The tour was planned to take place at Lunzu, Che Mussa and Ndirande Malabada. Nyondo confirmed that the city council blocked the tour but could not give reasons for such decision. However, Southern region police saw no problem with […]

Nyondo to introduce tractors as a tool of farming

National Salvation Front (NaSaF) Party President James Nyondo announced that through the Alabama-Malawi Investment Partnership Council, he will introduce Agriculture Mechanization-Tractor Initiative where tractors will be distributed to farmers at a club level across the country to do away with a hoe as the major tool of farming after 50 years of independence. Nyondo briefed […]

Nyondo’s NASAF party to hold convention November

National Salvation Front (Nasaf)  will hold its convention this November in readiness for next years elections. NASAF president James Nyondo said this on Wednesday when he donated drugs to Mlale health centre in Lilongwe. “All positions will be up for grabs. We want leaders who have sacrificed for the party because such leaders would also sacrifice for their […]

Nyondo’s Nasaf calls on Malawians to get rid of ‘honourable disaster creators’ in 2014

National Salvation Front (Nasaf) has urged Malawians to get rid of ‘honurable disaster creators’ in next year’s elections and says it is the only party that has the will, ability and determination to build mechanisms that can enforce the many promises politicians make to dupe the electorate to vote for them. The party’s president James […]

James Nyondo says Malawi must have 15 ministers only

National Salvation Front (NASAF), a party founded by James Nyondo is defined and described as a party of silence. In this interview with Nyasa Times correspondent, Pius Nyondo (PN); however, the party’s president and 2014 presidential hopeful James Nyondo (JN) ‘breaks the silence’ by shedding more light on what his party is all about and shares what […]

New wave of African politics: A lesson Malawi can draw from Kenya

Malawians are reflexing their muscles getting ready to vote for their leader in the forthcoming tripartite election in 2014. While they enthusiastically wait for this day to come, the similar events have been taking place in various countries across the globe; to be specific in African countries such as Kenya. Kenyans went into polls few […]

Local media give blackout to Nyondo: Malawi presidential aspirant

Local media in Malawi gave blackout to National Salvation Front (Nasaf) president James Nyondo after he held his first rally in Mzuzu on Sunday last week. Some officials from the party expressed concern that no news coverage of the rally was done in the local media. A NASAF official said the blackout challenged the party […]

Nyondo says Malawi’s ruling PP is greedy: Addresses rally in Mzuzu

National Salvation Front (Nasaf) president James Nyondo has blamed the People’s Party-led government for failing to manage the country’s economy, claiming many of its officials are living like New York senators in the US when the country cannot afford their obscene opulence. Nyondo said Malawi has become famous as a nation that frustrates ite own […]

Nyondo joins 2014 presidential race, talks tough

James Nyondo, who contested in 2009 as independent presidential candidate announced on Thursday that he will contest again in 2014 this time under National Salvation Front (NASAF). Nyondo told a news conference in Blantyre that his government will bring solutions to the problems rocking the country because the previous governments have failed since it is […]

Nyondo launches NASAF, promises to ‘transform politics’

By Charles Kufa, Nyasa Times National Salvation Front (Nasaf) party which was registered in January this year was launched at Cresta Hotel in Lilongwe on Monday with a pledge to transform politics and political leadership in Malawi. The 41-year-old James Nyondo formed Nasaf after his failed attempt at the 2009 presidential elections when he contested […]