The Blantyre senior magistrate court has moved to Thyolo again on the land grabbing case a day after leader of Peoples Land Organisation said he was influenced by President Peter Mutharika and chief Ngolongoliwa to take the tea estate land forcibly and distribute it to the landless. This is the second time that the court […]
Political activist and former Thyolo Thava MP Lifred Nawena says corruption in Malawi would never end because it starts from the presidency. “When our presidents want support on an issue from people, they corrupt our chiefs and are paraded on televisions yet the traditional leaders themselves do not really understand the matter,” said Nawena. The […]
Blantyre senior magistrate court has found self proclaimed leader of People’s Land Organisation (PLO) leader Vincent Wandale with a case to answer on land grabbing charges but acquitted his deputy. Senior resident magistrate Thokozani Soko ruled that Wandale should defend himself in the case. Lawyer for Wandale, Michael Goba Chipeta said the court has however […]
Vincent Wandale and his two accomplicesaccused of unauthorised use of land, criminal trespassing and threatening violence in Thyolo points to feelings that many people in Mulanje and Thyolohave harboured: to reclaim some land that their forefathers lost to white settlers during the colonial era. Huge tracks of land were lost to white farmers for tea […]
Self proclaimed Peoples Land Organisation leader Vincent Wandale and two other suspects in a landmark land grabbing case have been denied bail. Lawyer for the suspects Michael Goba Chipeta said the magistrate denied the suspects bail because she feared the three might jump bail, the case was about to finish and the medical report which […]
Peoples Land Organisation leader Vincent Wandale has been thrown back in jail after his lawyer applied for bail as the senior resident magistrate adjourned the case to Monday for ruling on the matter and continuation of the case. Lawyer Michael Goba Chipeta told the court that material circumstances have completely changed therefore there was need […]
Peoples Land Organisation (PLO) leader Innocent Wandale is having his fingers crossed as his lawyer requests for bail for the self proclaimed president of Mulanje and Thyolo. Wandale’s lawyer, Michael Goba Chipeta confirmed he is today, Tuesday, asking senior resident magistrate, Thokozani Soko for bail for his client who has been on remand at Chichiri […]
Suspected land grabber, Vincent Wandale supporters have been suspended jail sentence to 12 month. Senior resident magistrate Thokozani Soko said the charges the 21 were answering of criminal trespass and illegal take over of land among others were a misdemeanour. Soko said the first and second offences of consipiracy to commit a misdemeanour and criminal trespass attract […]
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Atupele Muluzi on Friday conducted a sensitization workshop with senior chiefs in the central region at Sunbird Lilongwe hotel on Friday, together with the Minister of Civic Education, Culture and Community Development, Patricia Kalaiti and said traditional leaders in the country have powers on their land. Muluzi said […]
Blantyre Magistrate court has convicted 20 land grabbers who belonged to so called Peoples Land Organisation (PLO) whose leader Vincent Wandale is a self claimed president of Mulanje and Thyolo. Principal magistrate Thokozani Soko convicted the 20 after the convicts changed plea from not guilty to guilty. Lawyer for the 20 convicts, Mike Chitepa said […]
President Peter Mutharik has signed into law controversial land bills which were passed in Parliament namely: Land Bill, Physical Planning Bill, Land Survey Bill and Customary Land Bill. Speaker of Parlimanet Richard Msowoya confirmed that Mutharika has given the nod to the Land Bill which opposition MPs described as a sure way of stripping chiefs […]
The self-proclaimed supreme leader of the so-called United States of Thyolo and Mulanje and Peoples’ Land Organisation (PLO), Vincent Wandale, has hired defence lawyer Michael Goba Chipeta of Gobz and Rechtswissnschaft Legal Practitioners to represent him and his Vice Chrispin Nkhoma. Wandale, Nkhoma and 22 members of PLO were arrested on September 2 and September […]
The Blantyre Magistrate Court has again refused to grant bail to self-proclaimed leader of United States of Thyolo and Mulanje and Peoples’ Land Organisation (PLO), Vincent Wandale and 22 members of PLO charged with four counts of conspiracy to commit a misdemeanour, unauthorised use of land, criminal trespass and inciting violence. Wandale was refused bail […]
The self proclaimed leader of the United States of Thyolo and Mulanje and Peoples’ Land Organisation (PLO), Vincent Wandale, pleaded not guilty Thursday to four charges of conspiracy to commit misdemeanour, unauthorised use of land, inciting violence and criminal trespass. Wandale was arrested on September 2 2016 while 21 of his followers were arrested on September […]
Traditional leaders in the eastern region have recommended that President Peter Mutharika assent to the newly passed customary land Bill on the basis that it devolves the functions of land management to local leaders. Senior Chief Kuntumanji of Zomba gave the approval on Monday during a consultative meeting held in Mangochi between the Ministries of […]
A court in Blantyre has refused to grant bal to self-acclaimed leader of the people of Thyolo and Mulanje, Vincent Wandale who last Thursday mobilised hundreds of villagers who invaded a privately-owned Conforzi Tea Estate with an aim of distributing part of the estate land they claim has laid idle for many years. Wandale appeared […]
Malawi Police have denied widely-publicised reports that they had arrested Peoples Land Organization (PLO) leader Vincent Wandale following last Thursday’s land grabs on private-owned Conforzi Estate in Thyolo district. Almost all the national newspaper published the reported arrest of self-acclaimed leader of the people of Thyolo and Mulanje, Wandale. Wandale even wrote on his Facebook page that […]
Controversial Vincent Wandale, who claims to be the supreme leader, founder and trustee of People’s Land Organisation (PLO), is under arrest for allegedly inciting people of Mulanje and Thyolo to start grabbing land belonging to tea estates investors. The land they wanted to share belongs to Naming’oma, Makwasa, Henderson Farm and also Chitakale and Limbuli estates […]