Malawi Government has disarmed the security officers that immediate past president Joyce Banda has been using and she has bitterly complained that she struggles to ger her benefits including security, vehicles and gratuity since leaving office after her loss in the May 20 2014 Tripartite Elections. Banda’s spokesman Andekuche Chanthunya confirmed the the security objects […]
Former President Joyce Banda will be quizzed by government to establish the truth about the disposal of the French-made jet to Bohnox Enterprises Limited, a subsidiary of Paramount Group, a South Africa-based defence and military equipment supplier. The Banda administration had given conflicting explanations on the sale of the jet, including how the State had used the […]
Former president and leader of People’s Party (PP), Joyce Banda continue to address political campaign meetings seeking votes in 2019 presidential elections and has told people of Mzimba that her programs that target the poor are the only recipe for social economic transformation of the country. Before the rally, Banda visited the Mudzi Transformation Trust […]
Opposition political parties not represented in Parliament have roped in former governing People’s Party (PP) of Joyce Banda and Alliance for Democracy (Aford) to be part of a coalition to be called Tikonze Dziko Lathu and field one presidential candidate joint candidate in next year’s presidential election. Chairperson of the opposition grouoin. Langton Chasowa, has said […]
Former president Joyce Banda, who is also opposition People’s Party (PP) leader, has announced she will introduce universal fertilizer subsidy if she is given the mandate to rule the country again. Banda, 68, recently returned home after four years of self-imposed exile when she lost power after being embroiled in a massive graft scandal in […]
No member of the People’s Party (PP) has expressed interest to challenge former president Joyce Banda for the leadership of the party and be its torch bearer in next year’s elections. Banda said said she was ready to run in 2019’s presidential elections if nominated by her party. She said she would contest at her […]
Malawi’s leading daily newspaper has given a critique to the announcement former president Joyce Banda that she was ready to run in next year’s presidential elections and reclaim the presidency she lost four years ago if nominated by her party. Banda, 68, was Malawi’s first female president, serving from April 2012 to May 2014, but left […]
Opposition People’s Party (PP) leader Joyce Banda, wh made history becoming Malawi’s first female president and only the second woman to lead a country in Africa, has said she is readying to contest for presidency again in next year’s elections to reclaim the top post she lost four years ago. She never won the presidential race […]
Malawin President Peter Mutharika has told London-based New African magazine that he inherited a “tattered and bankrupt economy” four years ago from his predecessor, Joyce Banda and he has been engaged in repairing the damage, saying so far he is leading the nation on a path of sustainable growth. Mutharika who is seeking a second […]
Former president Joyce Banda on Wednesday met almost all the small parties outside parliament as she politically continue to garner more support to return to presidential palace. The meeting, chaired by former vice president Cassim Chilumpha, was held in camera. The quasi religious body, Public Affairs Committee monitored the talks at Sun Hotel. Other leaders […]
Erstwhile ruling Peoples Party (PP) of former president Joyce Banda has met six parties outside parliament in a bid to form an electoral alliance to oust President Peter Mutharika at the ballot box in the forthcoming elections. PP’s secretary general Ibrahim Matola, the party’s Vice President (eastern region) Roy Kachale Banda and other top party […]
People’s Party (PP) supporters have said they will not wait for convention to decide on its torchbearer in the 2019 elections as they have endorsed incumbent Joyce Banda, the former Head of State between 2012 to 2014. Banda returned to Malawi last month after four years of self-imposed exile, immediately hinting that she might make another […]
Former president Joyce Banda is reportedly shocked to learn that her People’s Party (PP) has lost many key party officials who defected to other parties and the general membership decline at the grassroots and the attempts to lure them back is proving too difficult since she returned to Malawi on 28 April after her four […]
Malawi’s former president Joyce Banda has again said she is not afraid of being arrested despite an outstanding warrant over corruption allegations, and that she is prepared to face even persecution. Banda, only woman to lead Malawi, told a crowd of supporters at Kanengo in Lilongwe she was back in the country to stay after […]
Outspoken Peoples Party (PP) parliamentarian for Rumphi East, Kamlepo Kalua sent some members of parliament into stitches of laughter in the House on Thursday with the bragging of the party’s president Joyce Banda’s return into the country. Banda has been in a self-imposed exile abroad since losing the 2014 Presidential Elections to Peter Mutharika and […]
Former President Joyce Banda has earned some rare praises because of her handling of a Zodiak Radio program which exposed her brilliance in handling political tough questions. Speaking on Sunday on Tiuzeni Zoona, Banda was calm but charming, at times shrewed, at ease but answered the questions brilliantly and with political maturity, shaking the volatile […]
Some immigration officers at Chileka International Airport (CIA) in the commercial capital Blantyre have been re-assigned to other border posts across the country for reportedly allowing former President Joyce Banda to hold a press briefing there in VVIP lounge. Banda held a press briefing at the airport where, among others, she told the media that […]
It is easy to make a speech that sounds good. The task of making a speech is simplified even more exponentially when the speech has been written by someone else, especially when that someone else is an individual who will be standing very far away when the veracity of the speech is checked, when the […]