Malawi immediate past president Joyce Banda who announced on BBC at the weekend that she is not running for presidency and endorsing State Vice President Saulos Chilima and his UTM Party on Tuesday submitted her nomination papers to Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to allow her to contest in the May 21 elections. Banda has picked […]
Vice President and UTM Party President Saulos Chilima is said to have rejected the proposal to have former President Joyce Banda’s son Roy Kachale as his runningmate which has led to Peoples Party (PP) pulling out of an opposition electoral alliance liance. PP announced through a statement released Monday that it has pulled out of […]
Leaders of the opposition UTM-PP-Aford-Tikonze alliance have been meeting at the weekend to further the discourse on a joint presidential candidate for the upcoming polls on May 21 2019 and former president Joyce Banda has disclosed that Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima will be their torchbearer. The opposition alliance does not include the Malawi Congress […]
An opposition alliance consisting of four political parties namely UTM Party, Peoples Party (PP), Alliance for Democracy (Aford) and Tikonze Progressive Party has been formed and will name its torch bearer on Monday in the capital Lilongwe. A joint statement issued by the parties made available to Nyasa Times on Friday comes barely 24 hours […]
People’s Party (PP) spokesperson Ackson Kalaile-Banda has said President Peter Mutharika who is the torchbearer for the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the May 21 Tripartite Elections, on Sunday made some statements and assertions against former president Joyce Banda (JB) which are “startlingly not true.” Kalaile-Banda told Nyasa Times thay Mutharika incorrectly told Malawians […]
Malawi’s former president Joyce Banda is clear to run for presidency in the May 21 Tripartite elections despite a ‘ghost warrant’ as the State has never even once invited her for questioning on corruption allegations with no objective material evidence linking her. The Malawi Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said it had no solid evidence against the […]
The former president Joyce Banda has said the country’s economy is worse now than it was when she was president of the country from 2012 to 2014, promising to continue her People’s Party (PP) vision of uplifting the economic and social status of poor Malawians with a ‘phase 2’ if elected in May elections. Banda ascended […]
Three female presidential hopefuls have collected nomination papers to contest in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections as they want Malawi’s topmost position and they say the electorate must look the way of women, this time around as 20 pretenders, contenders to the throne emerge. In the history of Malawi no woman has won a […]
Former president and People’s Party (PP) leader Joyce Banda has reassured local smallholder farmers that once voted into power she will exploit new export markets for their produce in a bid to give them meaningful earnings for their sweat and promised to put three million jobless Malawians on employment. She was speaking on Monday at […]
Former president Joyce Banda says opposition parties should select a joint candidate in this year’s presidential election to unseat President Peter Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and that she would be ready to “turn the page” and let anyone lead. If this happens, that alliance could pose the most credible challenge to President […]
The National Executive Committee (NEC) as well as the entire membership of the United Independence Party ( UIP) has made a political switch to join the opposition People’s Party (PP). UIP was founded by late Halen Singh. The party’s executive committee announced that political switch at a political rally held at Ntcheu Secondary School ground […]
Kabanza operators plying their trade in the Capital, Lilongwe have pledged their total support to former President and People’s Party (PP) leader Joyce Banda for promoting pro-poor policies that will help to achieve and advance sustainable social economic development for the country. They made the pledge at a meeting they had with former Malawi leader […]
Embattled Alliance for Democracy (Aford) president Enock Chihana said he was paid a courtesy visit by People’s Party (PP) president Joyce Banda at his Rumphi Central residence by has it was a normal visit and not renewing the electoral alliance. PP and Aford had a working alliance prior to the 2014 Tripartite Elections as Chihana […]
Former president Joyce Banda has blasted the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for failing to continue with development projects which her party initiated during her rule. Banda cited the Jenda-Edingeni road, the Mzimba-Eswazini-Kafukule road. She said this on Saturday in Mzimba where she held a rally. Banda said it was the duty of the government […]
Former Malawi President and People’s Party (PP) leader Joyce Banda, has challenged government to employ all nurses and doctors who are yet to be employed years after graduating. Banda made the call at a public rally she addressed at Mbumba ground in the area of Inkosi ya Makosi Mbelwa in Mzimba. The former president said […]
Former president Joyce Banda, who is also a People’s Party (PP) torchbearer in the May 21 Tripartite Elections, has challenged traditional leaders in the country to stop living in perpetual fear, of being dealt with by politicians mainly the ruling administration, when discharging their duties. Banda made the assertion at a political rally she held […]
Chiefs in Nkhata Bay have pledged total support to former President and People’s Party (PP) leader Joyce Banda in her quest to achieve sustainable social economic development for the country. The chiefs had invited Banda to a consultative meeting at Mpamba, in the area of Traditional Authority, T/A Timbiri, in Nkhata Bay on Tuesday. Banda […]
Former president and People’s Party (PP) leader DJoyce Banda made yet another stride marking a new start of year ahead of the crunch May 21 Tripartite elections when she stormed Phalombe District in the Lhomwe belt. With new hopes of the electoral year, 2019, Banda addressed a political rally that was patronised beyond expectation. The […]