Tag archives: Kalekeni Kaphale

Ansah, Muhara, Kaphale shamed in Ombudsman report: ‘Acted illegally’ on South Africa lawyers’ deal for Malawi elections case

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Ombudsman Martha Chizuma on Thursday released a report titled  ‘Upholding Professionalism,’ an investigation that her  Office carried out into allegations of abuse of power and other acts of maladministration in the procedure  of procuring and engaging South African (SA) lawyers by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) for the presidential election appeal case in which former Attorney […]

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Exclusive interview with Malawi ex-Attorney General: Kaphale says poll case offers ‘mouthwatering academic dish’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Former Attroney General  (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale a Senior Councel  (SC) has returned to private practice as a lawyer  well known for taking up cases involving high-profile individuals in society. Nyasa Times solicited an exclusive interview with Kaphale who has been a lawyer for 29 years and has previously served in the public sector as chief […]

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HRDC accuses Attorney General of suffocating Malawi fresh elections

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) says the sitting Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale is the worst legal advisor to the government and the biggest deterrent to the entrenchment of democracy and good governance in Malawi. HRDC chairperson Gift Trapance has also condemned Kaphale for allegedly choosing to play partisan politics through the advice it supposedly […]

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Legal expert backs Kaphale over Malawi poll date setting

By Nyasa Times Reporter

A legal expert has said the Legal Affairs Committee has no powers to write the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to set date for the holding of the presidential election. This was after the Legal Affairs Committee of parliament chairperson Kezzie Msukwa confirmed having written MEC that the election be held on June 23, 2020. But […]

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Malawi elections not on June 23: Attorney General scoffs at Parliamentary Committee

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Attorney General (AG) has said the June 23 polling date is not set and has advised the Parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee that the resolutions the committee made after their consultations with stakeholders, including Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), were errors of law, saying it is the whole National Assembly that can decide on voting day not […]

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YAS delighted with probe on Attorney General’s ‘professional misconduct’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Youth and Society (YAS) executive director, Charles Kajoloweka, has  said he is delighted  with the launch of investigations into the suspected professional misconduct by Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale and the illegal payment he allegedly received from Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC). YAS, a Mzuzu-based human rights and governance watchdog, had initially written the Office of […]

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Ombudsman probes hiring of South Africa lawyers by MEC

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Following a request by Mzuzu-based civil society organisation Youth and Society (YAS),  the Ombudsman  has launched investigations into  Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) procurement of  legal services of South Africa-based law firm—Mboweni Maluleke Inc Attorneys—to defend the case in the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal at a contract sum of $788 500 (about K600 million). YAS […]

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Legal Affairs Committee summons Kaphale, Ansah over Malawi poll date

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has summoned the embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah and Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale on Thursday over a new date for the fresh presidential elections. MEC proposed the new vote should take place on July 2 2020 but also changed tune that Parliament should consider moving it to June 23 2020. Legal […]

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MEC faces another court battle over payment for Kaphale, South African lawyers

By Nyasa Times Reporter

It is no longer a pouring rain, but hailstorm for the embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC). Fresh from the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) where it was slapped with a K9 billion bill in legal costs, the electoral body faces another legal battle over the payments it made to Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale and […]

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Attorney General withdraws challenge against Malawi lockdown injunction

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale has withdrawn an application to the High Court to challenge   an injunction obtained by Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) stopping implementation of a three-week national lockdown to curb coronavirus. Government through lawyer Neverson Chisiza from Attorney General Chambers on Wednesday filed a sworn statement with the High Court of Malawi Lilongwe […]

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Law experts censor Malawi’s Attorney General Kaphale on media quotes

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawi’s former Attorney General (AG) Ralph Kasambara, SC, has censored incumbent government chieg legal advisor Kalekeni Kaphale for taking a political stand in his comment on the injunction Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda granted to the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) stopping government from implementing a 21-day lockdown. Kaphale is quoted that if coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) pandemic […]

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Judge Kenyatta did not suspend coronavirus from spreading in Malawi – Kaphale

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale has said High Court judge Kenyatta Nyirenda who  on Friday granted a temporary injunction against the government’s 21-day coronavirus lockdown period pending a judicial review within seven days,  did not issue an order against the virus to stop spreading. Kaphale said government is yet to make a decision on whether to […]

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YAS pushes Ombudsman to probe Malawi’s Attorney General Kaphale

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Mzuzu-based civil society organisation, Youth and Society (YAS), has penned Ombudsman Martha Chizuma to probe the conduct of the Attorney General (A-G) Kalekeni Kaphale in relation to the retention of South African lawyers and the attendant expense on public money, as well  as  payments deemed “illegal”  he received from the Malawi Electoral Commission  (MEC) for […]

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YAS query AG  payments from MEC, South African lawyers  ‘obscene expenses on public funds’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Youth and Society (YAS), a civil society organisation, has penned Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale  to querry the hiring of  foreign lawyers for the election appeal case at a staggering  $788 000 (about K600 million) million on public funds and why he is still acting for Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC)  indirectly through procurement of legal services. In its […]

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AG apologizes in court for Ansah’s statement calling parliamentary inquiry ‘sham’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale has apologized unreservedly in Court on behalf of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah who in a sworn statement called  a Constitutional Court sanctioned parliamentary Public Appointments Committee (PAC) hearing on the competency of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) as a sham inquiry. Kaphale, who never drafter the sworn statement,  […]

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Law expert faults Attorney General for preparing MEC appeal submissions 

By Nyasa Times Reporter

A South Africa-based Malawian law professor  Danwood Chirwa has faulted Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale for preparing the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) appeal submissions  to the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal challenging the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judgement that nullified the May 21 2019 presidential election.   University of Cape Town legal expert says there are some […]

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Kaphale says ‘nothing shocks a lawyer’: Malawi Law Society hails new ballot court order

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale dismissed an asserting by a journalist of being shocked with the the Constitutional Court ruling nullifying the May 21 2019 presidential election, saying “nothing shocks a lawyer.” Kaphale was granting an interview to reporters soon after the soon after the judgement as he was asked if the ruling by the five-judge […]

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Kaphale shreds Chilima, Chakwera petitions: ‘No valid vote was affected in Malawi elections’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Lawyers for the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) winded up the hearing of the historic case in which first petitioner Saulos Chilima and second petitioner Lazarus Chakwera are seeking a nullification of presidential results in the May 21 Tripartite General Elections by tearing into the evidence of the both Chilima and  Chakwera asserting that the case […]

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