The blame game continues. Now Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) first vice president Goodall Gondwe says people who organised the stripping of women in Malawi’s three major cities of Blantyre, Lilongwe and Mzuzu last week would want to be in government without an election. “They want to start something like what happened in Egypt, Tunisia or […]
Vendors in Mzuzu took turns to offer their apologises to government and President Bingu wa Mutharika in particular for incidences where women found wearing trousers, miniskirts or leggings in this northern city were stripped in the streets this week by a gang of unemployed youths and sidewalk vendors. The vendors made it clear that their […]
Malawi’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) 2014 torch bearer Professor Arthur-Peter Mutharika says his election campaign strategy will focus on issues and not mud slinging, attacking DPP officials who uttered slanderous remarks against opposition figures.. “This country has many problems and development challenges and it will not make sense if we spend our time attacking […]
By Lusubilo Sichali, Nyasa Times A meeting of senior politburo members of the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of president Bingu wa Mutharika agreed that the president’s younger brother, Professor Peter Mutharika, be appointed state second vice president and that the infamous section 46 of the penal code which empowers the minister responsible to ban […]
By Lusubilo Sichali, Nyasa Times Leaked minutes of another high level meeting held at Civic Centre in Lilongwe last Wednesday evening specifically mandated the newly appointed ruling DPP national campaign director, Zikhale Ng’oma to design effective strategy to deal with the “apparent growing popularity of the Vice president Joyce Banda and her People’s Party”. “You […]
By Nyasa Times Reporter Former Finance Minister Goodal Gondwe is not automatic running mate to ruling DPP’s presidential candidate Professor Peter Mutharika in 2014 despite being the party’s first Vice President, newly appointed Campaign Director Dr Ken Zikhale Ng’oma has said. In a recent shake up of positions, the ruling party roped in Zikhale as […]