Malawi’s opposition party, People’s Transformation Movement (PETRA), says Malawians need to combine forces if they are to effectively fight any form of exploitation by foreign businesses. PETRA’s remarks follow Paladin Africa Limited’s declaration that it will not renegotiate the Kayelekera uranium mining agreement with the Malawi government until the expiry of the current 10-year contract. […]
Opposition People’s Transformation Party (Petra) recently launched what it calls Malawi’s 3rd Liberation Movement. The following is the unedited statement made by Petra’s president Kamuzu Chibambo at the launch: Economic Bondage Malawi has for many decades now been gripped in economic bondage of gigantic magnitude. This pathetic and heart-rending reality has been fastened to the […]
Malawi’s opposition People’s Transformation Party (Petra) has added its voice to the concerns raised by African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) that the government of Malawi had made a bad choice of project given the absence of transparency and accountability in the deal. PETRA president Kamuzu Chibambo told reporters in Blantyre on Monday that his […]
Malawi’s opposition People’s Transformation Party (Petra) on Monday the 3rd Liberation Movement for Malawi in Blantyre with promises of delivering real change to the country’s treacherous political landscape. Chibambo, a lawyer by profession, described the struggle for independence and multiparty democracy in 1964 and 1994 as first and second liberations respectively. He said 2014 Malawi […]
As the count-down to the January 17 demonstrations championed by the Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) nigh, leaders of the Malawi’s opposition People’s Transformation party(Petra), say are yet to decide on whether they should take part in the protests . The Malawi’s consumer lobby group is organising the demonstration in a bid to push government […]
Association of Veteran Politicians executive director Odinga Chifi is back in active politics and has joined opposition People’s Transformation Party (Petra.) Mulanje based Chifi announced his membership to PETRA at a rally addressed by the party’s president Kamuzu Chibambo in the district on Saturday. Chifi said PETRA is the only party that offers hope for […]
Leader of tiny opposition People’s Transformation Party (Petra) Kamuzu Chibambo says the ruling People’s Party (PP) government came into office without proper strategies on how it would address the country’s economic challenges left by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration. Addressing journalists after a political rally at Limbuli area in the southern district of Mulanje on Saturday, […]
President of the Malawi’s opposition People’s Transformation Party (PETRA) Kamuzu Chibambo has joined a bandwagon of stakeholders and critics who are outraged President Joyce Banda’s decision of appointing the vice president Khumbo Kachali as responsible for the Electoral Commission (EC). Chibambo who is also a trained lawyer says the appointment is not only unconstitutional but […]
The Malawi’s opposition People’s Transformation Party (PETRA) is condemning in strongest terms on what it calls government’s spending of huge sums of money paying out former senior government officials as compensation for their removal from office before the expiry of their contracts. The party says in a statement seen by Nyasa Times which is signed […]
The number of political parties is expected to keep rising as the country prepares to hold the fifth general election in 2014 if the country’s laws governing the official establishment of political parties are not reviewed, experts have warned. The laws which were hurriedly passed in 1993 to usher in the democratic dispensation through the […]
Opposition People’s Transformation Party (Petra) has spoken against President Joyce Banda’s announcement that her government intends to repeal the country’s ban on homosexuality, saying that would give a lee way to same-sex marriages. During her state-of-the-nation address on Friday, President Banda told parliament that “some of the laws that were duly passed by this house […]
People’s Transformation Party, (Petra) president Kamuzu Chibambo has accused President Bingu wa Mutharika’s government of stealing their ideas in the manifesto to run the country. But DPP publicity secretary Hetherwick Ntaba laughed off the claims by Chibambo, saying his “untested”party “has no experience of what government is all about.” Chibambo on Tuesday evening told Capital […]
A lawyer-cum-politician Kamuzu Chibambo has said threats which President Bingu wa Mutharika made against the media through a statement issued by State House press officier, Albert Mungomo, is based on archaic pieces of legislation . Mutharika warned that government will not hesitate to revoke pieces of legislation such as Section 3 (2) of the protected […]
The Malawi government has secretly drawn a list of human rights activist and critics of President Bingu wa Mutharika for arbitrary arrests and even causing physical harm this year, Nyasa Times sources have disclosed. Topping the list are vocal human rights defenders; Undule Mwakasungula, Unandi Banda, Benedicto Kondowe, Reverend Macdonald Sembereka, Voice Mhone and Rafik Hajat. Journalists, lawyers […]
President of Peoples Transformation Party (PETRA), Kamuzu Chibambo, says he is backing the calls to have the young generation assume the leadership of the country including the presidency. Chibambo says the older generation has “terribly let down” the youth by deceiving them that they are leaders of tomorrow. He said time was ripe for the […]
Some officials and security officers involved in the distribution fertiliser under the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) have started abusing their positions by selling the commodity meant for the poor at market prices. Already government has warned that people who are doing so will be arrested and prosecuted because it cannot condone such criminal acts. […]