Malawi’s former first lady Patricia Shanil Dzimbiri has joined the United Transformation Movement (UTM) and made the political statement on Saturday when she attended the political grouping’s official launch at Masintha Ground in Lilongwe. Shanil, who is Member of Parliament for Balaka West, was introduced at the rally by another former first lady Callista Mutharika, and confirmed her […]
Former deputy Speaker and New Rainbow Coalition (Narc) president Loveness Gondwe, who competed against former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika and others in the 2009 polls has joined Malawi Congress Party (MCP). Gondwe was welcomed in the rank and file of MCP at political rally with took place at Euthini in Mzimba over the weekend. […]
The second woman in Malawi to become a candidate for president, United Independent Party (UIP) president Helen Singh, presented her nomination papers to electoral officials on Monday with a woman as a runningmate. Loveness Gondwe, a former deputy speaker of parliament, was a first woman to contest on the presidential ticket in 2009 but performed […]
About 200 political activists in Mzuzu and some parts of the northern Malawi have teamed up to mobilize support for National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) a political party led by Loveness Gondwe “to produce many opposition parliamentarians and local councilors” to be fighting for issues affecting the region in parliament and local councils. This comes barely […]
The National Coalition for Rainbow (NARC) president Loveness Gondwe has confirmed her failure in politics to contest as presidential candidate in next year’s polls. Gondwe, according a report in The Nation newspaper, says she will not contest because she has sensed that Malawians “cannot vote for another female president.” Because of that she has shelved […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) national chairman Enock Chihana has challenged former deputy Speaker of Parliament, Lovenes Gondwe against her decision to contest as president of Aford at the national convention unless she tenders evidence that she de-registered her New Rain-ball Coalition (NRC) party. Chihana made the challenge on Friday at Mary Mount Secondary in Mzuzu where […]
The much awaited Alliance for Democracy (Aford) elections at the national convention held in Mzuzu had to be postponed to Saturday because candidates disagreed on speakers from other parties. The candidates included acting party president Godfrey Shawa, Minister of Youth and Sports Enoch Chakufwa Chihana and Secretary General Khwauli Msiska, former deputy Speaker Loveness Gondwe and UK […]
A daughter to former parliamentarian for Mzimba North Constituency Yeremiah Chihana (name deliberately withheld) is nursing serious wounds on her thighs and close to her private parts which she sustained following physical assault occasioned by her step-mother who is former parliamentarian and president of the opposition Rainbow Coalition party, Loveness Gondwe. Family sources told Nyasa Times that Gondwe viciously descended on […]