Parliament is expected to start meeting next week Monday with government lining-up four outstanding bills to be tabled during a three-week assembly. Leader of government in Parliament, Henry Dama Phoya told the local media that the Business Committee has set up four bills for the august House to scrutinize they are approved into laws. Phoya […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says its 2012-2017 strategic plan has incorporated establishment of causes of voter apathy in the country as one of its activities. Voter apathy is the situation whereby registered voters fail to cast their votes due to various reasons a challenge the country has registered in the elections it has been […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) veteran leader John Tembo will have to seek amendment to the MCP constitution paving way for his third-time lucky in the presidential race. MCP deputy spokesman, Jolly Kalelo, has said Tembo may not be given the mandate for presidential run if delegates will vote against amending party’s constitution in order […]
Ha ha ha ha ha, I almost forgot my laugh lines – this damning silence. But am back. And what a way to find my way back? Was busy in the cyber world, reading and learning more about the goofs and stinks of this world, when all of a sudden I landed on a rather […]
Pressure continues mounting on the newly elected chairperson of the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) Atupele Muluzi, effectively becoming presidential candidate in 2014, to abandon his post of Minister of Economic Planning and Development. The PP leader President Joyce Banda appointed Atupele into her cabinet soon after she attained the country’s leadership following the death […]
“Same politicians, riding on different parties, have ruled Malawians over and over again, promising the change that never dawns.”-Norman Lincoln There has been an outcry from various corners of the society in Malawi inviting the youths to claim their position in forefront politics and save the nation from the claws of gluttonous recycled politician who […]
There are three possible reasons Atupele Muluzi has ascended to the position of national chairperson of United Democratic Front (UDF) at the expense of other interested members, including stay-away Friday Jumbe and George Mtafu as well as tenacious, but down-on-his-luck Moses Dossi, who Atupele trounced during the elections held at the conventions. The first reason […]
Atupele Muluzi, the son of Malawi’s former President Bakili Muluzi, was elected to to lead the United Democratic Front (UDF) founded by his father in elections due in 2014. The younger Muluzi, 34, was elected National Chairman of UDF at its national convention Tuesday in Blantyre. Atupele, a British trained solicitor, defeated former sports minister […]
Austin Atupele Muluzi, son to former Malawi President Bakili Muluzi, says he will do all he can to rebuild the United Democratic Front (UDF) party in readiness for the 2014 elections. The young Muluzi was speaking in the early hours of Wednesday in his maiden address to UDF delegates gathered at Comesa hall in Blantyre as […]
Malawi’s ex-president Bakili Muluzi, who ruled from 1994 to 2004, on Tuesday formally announced his retirement from active politics, stepping down as chairman of his former governing United Democratic Front (UDF) party. The former president, who is recuperating in South Africa after undergoing a surgery, addressed a UDF National Conference in Blantyre through a message […]
One of four candidates to contest for as a chairperson for the Malawi’s opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) during the Tuesday’s national conference Moses Dossi, says is optimistic he will win the elections. “I have been encouraged by many people within and outside the party to stand for the position hence I do not doubt that […]
The spokesman for opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) , Nicholous Dausi, has hit back at President Joyce Banda observation that defections of senior members is a sign of “failed leadership” in the party. The DPP has recently lost its former vice president Goodall Gondwe and secretary general Wakuda Kamanga respectively. Kamanga has since joined the ruling […]
Former Escom human resources manager Mrs Ruth Takomana has submitted her nomination forms to join the race for the UDF national chairperson position at a convention scheduled for next Tuesday in Blantyre. Takumana is the only female candidate for the chairmanship , the winner who will represent the party in 2014 presidential polls. She will tussle with […]
Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) spokesman Redson Munlo says his party will concentrate in politics of inclusiveness in order to accommodate all Malawians when voted into power in 2014, saying it is against tendency of recycling politicians at the expense of the youth. Munlo said this on Wednesday in Blantyre when unveiling some of the PPM’s […]
The High Court in Malawi’s commercial city, Blantyre, on Wednesday dismissed Friday Jumbe’s application for an injunction to stop the UDF national convention scheduled for Tuesday next week (October 30) after an inter-party hearing. Judge Joseph Mwanyungwa heard from Jumbe (represented by Ralph and Arnolds law firm) and the other UDF camp headed by secretary […]
Malawi opposition presidential contenders will not be allowed to use helicopters and a presidential-like convoy during their 2014 campaign, the Malawi Police Service has sounded the warning. Leader of the country’s former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Peter Mutharika has been using a motorcade similar to that of the country’s president with an open Land […]
With a Malawi general election looming just over the horizon in May 2014, it should not be surprising that leadership conventions are now being bandied about. They are part of the calculus of political party readiness to do battle in nineteen months’ time. The prize: either parliamentary supremacy or state house tenancy or both. The […]
All is set for the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) convention slated for October 30, 2012 and that there will be no round table discussion on factional feuding, the party secretary general Kennedy Makwangwala has said. Makwangwala said the convention will unite the party that started disintegrating soon after its founding leader and former president […]