Veteran Zambian politician Vernon Mwaanga has denied reports which appeared in Malawi News accussing him of interfering in the latter’s forthcoming elections. Mwaanga, together with Major Richard Kachingwe, were linked to a report that they were hired by the Malawian President Joyce Banda as political consultants ahead of the elections scheduled for May 20. But […]
The professional journalism has ethos that are religiously observed and defended at all times and at any cost. Confidentiality and protection of the witness or source of information is one such cardinal principle. However, the protection of the source becomes null and void when it is proven that the source was simply spreading malicious information […]
In the Holy Bible on 2 Timothy 4 verse 7, states “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” Today we say to Her Excellency the President Dr. Joyce Banda, we write to Mr. Atupele Muluzi, we write to Professor Peter Mutharika and we write to Reverend […]
Chairperson for Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), Maxon Mbendera SC has urged mainstream journalists in the country to desist from picking up social media allegations that the commission intends to rig the May 20 elections with the ruling party. This comes after opposition party’s raised their fears that the ruling People’s Party (PP) is planning to rig the […]
Inspector General (IG) of Malawi Police Service, Loti Dzonzi says the law enforcers will ensure that the first-ever tripartite elections on May 20 are peaceful and credible. Dzonzi said this in Zomba when closing tactical police commanders training in public order management at Police College Officer’s Mess. He said the skills the participants have acquired during public […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) said the first 100 days into power their government will save about K240 billion a 40 per cent leakage of the total national budget which Malawi is losing through looting and theft at Capital Hill. The party’s Director of Campaign Felix Jumbe told journalists in Lilongwe on Tuesday that if voted into […]
Introduction: The Two Faces of Kamuzu The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of People (CEDEP) join President Joyce Banda and the citizens of Republic of Malawi in commemorating Kamuzu Day on 14th May 2014. The fact that this year’s commemoration of Kamuzu Day falls barely 6 days to the […]
Veteran politician John Tembo has trashed opinion polls that put Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera loser, saying facts on the ground puts Chakwera winner with landslide. In an exclusive interview with Nyasa Times, the former Leader of Opposiiton said he was upbeat MCP will next week form a government after 20 years […]
In this second of the series on presidential hopefuls in Malawi, Nyasa Times’ Special Projects and Supplements Editor, Pius Nyondo, tells the profile of one of Malawi’s most extraordinary candidates Abusa Helen Singh – a Malawian lady who has defied all odds and has come up to contest men, including her fellow female contender President Joyce Banda, who […]
An observation mission from the Commonwealth group of nations has arrived in Malawi ahead of next week Tuesday’s tripartite elections. Former Vice President of Botswana, Mompati Sebogodi Merafhe isl eading the Commonwealth Observer Group. said the Commonwealth will observe elections in Malawi following an invitation from the Electoral Commission. “These elections will consolidate the democratic process in Malawi,” the Secretary-General said “Conducting credible […]
Various presidential candidate have questioned the credibility of the controversial opinion poll by the US-based Afrobarometer released Friday, saying that they are only aimed to mock the intelligence of Malawians. In the poll, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate 74-year-old Peter Mutharika commanded 27 percent of the vote followed by Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) […]
We have heard the slogans and promises of the various candidates and political parties as they desperately try to win a seat either as a councillor, member of parliament or president. The promises being made are the same old ones Malawians heard when Bakili Muluzi contested and won the presidency in 1994. For example, clean water was […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) have dismissed the controversial opinion poll by the US-based Afrobarometer opinion poll released Friday night as flawed and not credible. In the poll, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate 74-year-old Peter Mutharika commanded 27 percent of the vote followed by Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and President […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) claims there is a ploy to bus in about a million Zimbabweans to vote in the May 20 tripartite polls. The party has since called on its supporters and well-wishers countrywide to be vigilant and expose the electoral fraud. MCP Vice president and vice presidential running mate Richard Msowoya […]
US-based Afrobarometer opinion poll released on Friday had “technical problems in the analysis of the data”, the Afrobarometer’s Operations Manager from the University of Malawi, Dr Boniface Dulani indicated. Nyasa Times reported on Friday before the release of the survey report that Centre for Social Research (CSR) at the University of Malawi raised concerns of […]
Malawi government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and also department of public events is getting ready for this month’s presidential inauguration. Malawi chooses a president next week Tuesday May 20. A mong 12 people vying for Malawi’s highest office, four main candidates stand out. They are President Joyce Banda, 35-years old Atupele Muluzi of […]
Malawi’s flagship daily has said in its editorial that outcries of possible rigging during the next Tuesday elections still being expressed mostly by some sections of the opposition are unfounded without any objective material evidence. Opposition presidential candidates believe incumbent President Joyce Banda would rig to win the elections. But The Nation newspaper in its […]
President Joyce Banda has said she has a solid track record which will help her win next week’s presidential race. Speaking at Chizungu in Mzimba Hora Constituency on Saturday after she gave several houses built under the Mudzi Transformation Trust, she said: “I have come here to apply for a job and beg for your […]