Vice President Khumbo Kachali, still bitter after being ditched by President Joyce Banda, has presented a memorandum of understanding ( MOU) to the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) to guarantee the votes he will bring to the table from the northern region, party insiders revealed to Nyasa Times. Since President Banda abandoned Kachali and announced Sosten […]
President Joyce Banda’s want-away deputy Khumbo Kachali came out of his cocoon and condoled vendors in Mzuzu with MK1 million cash relief effectively defying a directive from the Office of President that donations have to be made to the city council. In 2012, Kachali also donated MK200,000 to vendors from Luwinga market after fire gutted part of the […]
President Joyce Banda’s want-away deputy Khumbo Kachali failed to attend a ruling Peoples Party (PP) conference in Mzuzu after PP Provincial Secretary for the north Mary Mphasi had invited him but was later told he was unwelcome. Mphasi invited Kachali without the blessings of the party’s top brass and was forced to rescind her decision after Kachali had […]
Embattled State Vice President Khumbo Hastings Kachali saw the world crumbling before him when he was told an impromptu Malawi Congress Party (MCP) national executive committee meeting last Friday had turned down his political overtures to join the oldest political party in Malawi. President Joyce Banda, who is also PP’s presidential candidate in the May […]
The office of the Vice President; especially when you are working with Joyce Banda has become a vigorous political office because it affords the incumbent, amazing prospects to contribute to national and international policy formulation. Vice President, Khumbo Kachali is probably the most travelled among the past three Vice Presidents who were not given the […]
Malawi’s State Vice President Khumbo Hastings Kachali and governing People’s Party (PP) Vice President responsible for operations, has been in serious secret talks with opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) with a view to joining the country’s oldest political party. On February 13, 2014, President Joyce Banda, who is also PP’s presidential candidate in the May […]
President Joyce Banda’s want-away deputy Khumbo Kachali has been shunning presidential functions of late with the latest being rallies the Malawi leader has been addressing unlike the past when he was accompanying his boss everywhere. On Sunday, President Banda addressed a political rally at Mazengera Primary School in Lilongwe where she gave out 15 cows to 15 […]
Malawi Vice President Khumbo Kachali has distanced himself from the Facebook account in his name and bearing his pictures, saying it is the work of mischievous people. The account was created at the time President Joyce Banda picked Trade Minister Sosten Gwengwe to be her running mate and disclosing that Kachali’s “contract” as the country […]
Vice President Khumbo Kachali has allegedly failed to influence and secure a unanimous decision by the Church of Central Africa Presbytery (CCAP) Livingstonia Synod to condemn his snub as President Joyce Banda’s running mate in the May 20, 2014 presidential elections. Kachali, insiders at the Synod have revealed, has been meeting individual leaders of the […]
State Vice-President Khumbo Kachali on Thursday told a rally in Mzimba that he accepted to be left out as President Joyce Banda’s running mate, saying that he is not irritated with the development but warned haters to stop creating hostility. Kachali, speaking in Mzimba Solara where President Banda addressed a political rally attended by thousands […]
Paramount Chief Chikulamayembe of the Tumbuka tribe of the Nkhamanga Kingdom in Rumphi District has endorsed President Joyce Banda’s pairing with Trade Minister Sosten Gwengwe in May 20 elections, saying she will be offered a new contract as Head of State and Government. Chikulamayembe said Wednesday the choice of Gwengwe as Banda’s running mate was […]
State Vice President Khumbo Kachali, who is also an elected Peoples Party vice President for the north, openly showed his discontent for being sidelined as PP running mate in May 20 tripartite polls when he avoided the party’s slogan in favour of the Alliance for Democracy late Chakufwa Chihana’s mantra. He did this at a rally at […]
Malawi’s Vice Khumbo Hastings Kachali has challenged critics and those fighting him politically that their schemes will boomerang. Speaking in local dialect Tumbuka Kachali said “Uwo wakulimbana na Khumbo, Zimu khate yekha”. He did not elaborate. He said this in his less than five minutes speech full of salutations s at a rally at the Mzuzu […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Monday could not even utter a word to State Vice President Khumbo Kachali at a function the two attended in Mzuzu. Banda, who side-lining Kachali for the position of the running mate, speaking at Mary Mount Secondary school during the Zodiac radio awards of best girl student, downplayed Kachale in her […]
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed’ – Mao Tse-Tung Why is the vice presidency a poison chalice in Malawi? Check how all the vice presidents we have had since the dawn of multiparty politics have ended up. All spectacularly fell out with their bosses. Look, Bakili Muluzi mocked Justin Malewezi […]
Malawi Vice President Khumbo Kachali and incumbent MP for Mzimba South West Raymond Chatima Nkhata threw respect and dignity for late Paramount Chief M’mbelwa when they separately took their fight for the constituency to the podium at late Chief’s memorial service in Mzimba District on Sunday The service was held at late Mmbelwa’s Edingeni Headquarters […]
Vice President Khumbo Kachali boycotted the submission of nomination papers by President Joyce Banda and her running mate Sosten Gwengwe to the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) as he went up to the north consulting chiefs, religious leaders and other key people on his next move after the fall-out with Banda. If what could be either […]
Malawi President and leader of People’s Party (PP) Joyce Banda on Thursday evening formally announced that Minister of Industry and Trade Sosten Gwengwe will be her running mate in the May 20 2014 Tripartite Elections, saying the 36-year-old vice president nominee is not “baby” . Banda who has sidelined State Vice President Khumbo Kachali, who […]