Presidential bodyguard-turned-Deputy Minister Norman Chisale MP, has scored a dramatic legal victory after the Supreme Court of Appeal discontinued the long-running K5 billion asset case that had hung over him for years. The case centred on explosive allegations that Chisale had unlawfully amassed money and property worth more than K5 billion during his years at […]
The High Court in Blantyre has dismissed a K30 billion compensation claim which businessman Rashid Tayub and his agribusiness company Transglobe initiated against the government. Tayub and Transglobe Produce Export Limited dragged the Attorney General and the graft busting body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to court to demand compensation following the dismissal of the infamous […]
Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) notorious cadets are issuing threats to Judge Dingiswayo Madise who was one of the Constitutional Court judges who two weeks ago annulled the May 21, presidential election and ordered for a fresh poll in July, Nyasa Times understands. A senior judiciary official has confirmed of the threats through mobile phone […]
University of Malawi (Unima) law lecturer Sunduzwayo Madise is receiving many congratulations on social media on successfully defending his doctorate degree with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom (UK). Madise has been studying with the university and attaining his PhD on Wednesday to become Dr Sunduzwayo Madise aka Mfundisi Many Malawians took to Facebook to express delight […]
Thomson Fulaye Bokhobokho, who 17 years ago when he was 33 years old, confessed to have been responsible for six brutal murders and mutilations of women in Chiradzulu District after a High Court upheld his life sentence. Killings in the remote district in the Southern Region has all the same hallmarks – missing breasts and […]
High Court Judge Dingiswayo Madise, who is also chairman for the Football Association of Malawi (Fam) Electoral Committee has advised Fam to extend the Malawi Schools Certificate of Education (MSCE) requirement to its affiliate bodies, when holding elections. Madise gave the advise last Saturday after presiding over the screening exercise for the sole candidate of […]
People with albinism in the country are over the moon following a landmark judgement in Mzuzu where a 33 year old man has been sent to serve a life sentence without parole for attempting to kill an 11 year boy of the condition. An official from the Association of People with Albinism Overton Kondowe described […]
High Court judge in Mzuzu, Dingiswayo Madise has granted three-Mzuzu residents an injunction banning herbalists from operating in Malawi as one way of curbing the attacks on persons with albinism. The injunction has been obtained on the premise that herbalists are fueling attacks on persons with albinism in Malawi. “After the request of the three […]
The Judiciary has rejected reports from some online publications that claimed Mzuzu High Court Judge Dingiswayo Madise ruled that it is illegal for spouses to pry into each other’s cellphones without permission. Judiciary spokesman Mlenga Mvula explained that the report circulating in some online publications and social media groups is not correct because it is […]
The High Court in Mzuzu on Wednesday acquitted five police officers who Chitipa Magistrate Court convicted to seven years imprisonment with hard labour for robbery. The officers, who were all serving at Chitipa Police Station, reportedly stormed Mpelachisa Resthouse in the district during the night of March 22 last year, armed with an offensive weapon and robbed businessperson Mistone […]
Former governing People’s Party (PP) members are dragging High Court judge Dingiswayo Madise into the party civil war for aiding the faction of former vice president Khumbo Kachali and having adverse interest in the party infighting. The PP hierarchy say Justice Madise should have recused himself in the matter when some party members obtained a […]
Mzuzu High Court Judge Dingiswayo Madise has criticised the country’s rogue and vagabond law, describing it as “drunk and incapacitated.” He said at Mzuzu University (Mzuni) during a public debate on vagrancy laws organized by the Centre for Human Rights, Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA). Madise who earnestly recommended review of the law argued no law […]
High Court judge Dingiswayo Madise has told Kaporo Stars FC that the club violated rules of the game by taking football disputes to court and dismissed the application for an injunction to stop TNM Super League. “In all fairness, football disputes never seek solutions in the ordinary courts and to us as Mzuzu High Court […]
Newly enthroned Inkosi ya Makosi Mmbelwa V of Mzimba has appointed five eminent Ngonis to be his advisors. The 29 year old Mkhosi Jere, was installed Paramount Chief M’mbelwa the fifth during a colourful coronation ceremony at his Edingeni Headquarters in Mzimba district on Saturday. He has appointed Dean Lungu, former board chairman of conglomerate Press […]