Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate in the May 20 2014 Tripartite Elections, has said he is “looking forward” to the presidential debate faceoff ahead of the polls. Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) announced it will hold Presidential Debates in the run to the tripartite elections in May. Mutharika said he […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) is warning road users, mainly motorists travelling between downtown Blantyre and Limbe to expect increased traffic along the Chipembere Highway from 10 to 14 February. The electoral body’s warning comes just days before presentation of nomination papers by candidates for Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government Elections. Presidential Elections candidates will present […]
Mzuzu City Constituency MP and former Minister Professor Peter Mwanza will stand as a ward councillor in Mzuzu under the banner of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Mwanza, also former Vice Chancellor of Mzuzu University (Mzuni) said he decided long back that he would only serve one term as MP and retire. “I know something […]
Peoples Party (PP) operatives are running a scheme that may have potentially dis-enfranchised unsuspecting voters who are being hoodwinked to part with their voter registration cards, on pretext that the operative needs the voter identification card to apply for fertilizer coupons on their behalf. The operative goes on to photocopy the Voters Registration Card, opening the […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has planned to borrow gas lamps and tents from Zimbabwe. Speaking in Lilongwe on Friday, MEC Chairperson Justice Maxon Mbendera said the gas lamps will be used in remote areas. “The gas lamps were observed during the past elections in Zimbabwe where hey were effective and provided excellenct lighting to […]
Everything being equal, Malawians, and Malawians alone, will decide on May 20 who to send to the State House as their President and it is basic knowledge that this will only be known for fact after that date. It is, therefore, confounds our imagination at Nyasa Times to hear a cacophony of competing voices by […]
Prophet Austin Liabunya has prophesied Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) president Peter Mutharika’s victory in the May 20 presidential elections. Liabunya says Malawi is entering into a destiny-changing year and that 74-year-old Mutharika will form the next government taking over from the incumbent President Joyce Banda. However, Prophet Bentry Canaan Chiko Chawinga of the Mzuzu based […]
You don’t need the Timau Crew to tell you the May 20 Malawi Electoral Commission sponsored cup final is turning into the most open in Malawi’s political football history, with Peoples Party (PP), Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) all slugging it out for the title. The winners […]
With just three months left before Malawi conducts her first ever tripartite elections, the British High Commission in Malawi jointly with private owned Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) have come up with a new political and current affairs programme aimed at taking an issue based approach to the political discourse in the country. The radio and […]
Malawi is dead. Its youths are dead. Its politicians are dead. Chiefs are dead. Wizards and witches are dead. Herbalists are dead. Physicians are dead. Academics are dead. The Malawian Diaspora is dead. Musicians are dead. Dramatists are dead. Ichthyologists are dead. Ecumenists are dead. Promoters of Islamic Ummah are dead. Keepers of the Nyahbinghi […]
The role of the mass media in elections has been exhaustively studied and its contribution towards profiling candidates and creating public awareness of competing ideas, ideologies, policies and promises recorded and acknowledged. What remains controversial is the media’s role in determining the outcome of an election. Thus, the mass media are an important player in […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has said that only 16 out of 54 registered political parties had collected nomination papers for that country’s May 20 Tripartite Elections. MEC is distributing the nomination papers through Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) but MEC spokesperson Sangwani Mwafulirwa could not be drawn to name the parties that have collected […]
Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) has urged broadcasters that will be covering live political rallies to refrain from fuelling violence by ensuring that abusive expressions and obscene language by politicians or their supporters are taken off air. The regulator further says broadcasters should always ensure that they are complying with the conditions of their broadcasting […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission [MEC] has discouraged political parties from forming last-minute alliances, saying such moves would derail the candidates’ nomination process for this year’s May 20 Tripartite Elections. MEC commissioner Emmanuel Chimkwita made the remarks in Thyolo during the training of constituency returning officers (CROs). “During previous elections, some parties used to go into alliances when […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has issued statement informing independent and registered political parties’ presidential candidates that presentation of nomination forms will take at Comesa Hall in Blantyre from 10 to 14 February. According to the statement emailed to Nyasa Times, MEC will make available to all registered parties contesting in the elections nomination forms […]
It never ceases to amaze me as to how timid we, Malawians, are when it comes to standing up for our God and constitutionally given rights. One thing for sure, we are excellent at grumbling, apportioning blame and wishing things were better. But we are a hopeless lot when it comes to grabbing the bull […]
As the May 20, 2014 elections draws closer and closer, there is something exercising Malawians’ mind—re-or de-Bandaize post-election government. In as much as this is a pretty tricky case to decide, one cannot play escapist to reality; that is, either ‘re-‘ or ‘de-‘ will most certainly be the case. And which is better: re-Bandaization or […]
As the country prepares for its first ever tripartite elections in May, renowned Malawian funnyman, Micheal Usi, aka Manganya, has described most of the aspiring presidential candidates “unskilful” to manage the affairs of the country. Manganya was speaking Sunday at COMESA Hall in Blantyre during a special interdenominational sermon titled, Ubatizowu Ngwatonse [The baptism is […]