The second wave of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic has forced President Dr Lazarus Chakwera and his Second-in-Command, Dr Saulos Klaus Chilima, to review the performance of the Cabinet ministers internally. The Presidential Press Secretary Brian Banda has confirmed the development in an interview with Nyasa Times , stressing that the review is already underway. This […]
Strategy meeting for the 2025 elections by Malawi Congress party (MCP) gurus in December 2020 at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe may have contributed to the Covid-19 attack on some cabinet members who lost two of their colleagues on Tuesday. Transport Minister Sidik Mia and Local Government Minister Lingson Berekanyama both succumbed to the disease in […]
Malawi media giant Times Group is moving swiftly to change its format on cabinet assessment following an uproar over its newspaper assessment which was published in Sunday Times. Writing in a WhatsApp group, Times Group managing director Leonard Chikadya said next time the media house would engage experts and civil society groups to help in making […]
Political commentators say they expect President Lazarus Chakwera to shake up his 30 plus cabinet and drop all non performing ministers as the year draws to an end. George Phiri, a political scientist at University of Livingstonia said Chakwera should live up to his word and sack all non-performing ministers before the New Year. Chakwera […]
President Lazarus Chakwera is holding the last Cabinet meeting for 2020 today amid a wave of protests over the hiked fuel prices. State House has released photographs of some ministers arriving for the meeting at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe. However, it is not known whether the issue of the protests, mostly in Blantyre and Mangochi […]
Press Secretary for the State President, Brian Banda has revealed that the performance review for the cabinet will be done by December. On July 10, 2020 during swearing in of cabinet ministers, President Dr Lazarus Chakwera said the performance of cabinet ministers would be reviewed after five months. “You each have five months to produce […]
President Lazarus Chakwera is this Thursday chairing a Cabinet meeting at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe to discuss among other issues the flopping of Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) which has rendered farmers destitute with most having to queue for long hours without redeeming the inputs. Last week, President Lazarus Chakwera, in his weekly address, also expressed dissatisfaction […]
For the first time in Malawi’s democratic dispensation, Cabinet ministers will sign Public Sector Reforms Performance contracts with President Lazarus Chakwera, a move aimed at inculcating a culture of accountability and responsiveness in the public sector. A statement from the Office of the Vice-President says the signing ceremony will expect take place from 9am at […]
The decision by the government to hire public relation officers (PROs) for ministers and deputy ministers has sparked debate as some quarters view it as a move by the Tonse Alliance-led administration to reward its sympathizers and continue with business as usual of political patronage. On 21 October 2020, the Secretary to the President and […]
When people are appointed into public positions such as that of a cabinet minister, they must serve the best interests of Malawians and not personal or partisan interests, Leader of the Opposition, Kondwani Nankhumwa said in Parliament on Friday at the end of the 49th session of parliament and budget meeting in Lilongwe. He said […]
Cabinet Ministers have been in a Cabinet Meeting session but social media is awash with debating the spectre of their arrival. Vice-President Dr Saulos Chilima, who is also Minister of Economic Planning, Development and Public Sector Reforms, alighted from a personal car—not the fuel guzzling Toyota Prado TX; self-driving, carrying the briefcase on his own […]
President Lazarus Chakwera on Friday held his first Cabinet meeting since the Head of State following his triumph in the court-ordered June 23 Fresh Presidential Election. As the Cabinet gathered for a face-to-face meeting for the first time in Lilongwe, State vice-president Saulos Chilima, who is also Minister of Economic Planning and Public Sector Reforms,joined discussions […]
A social and governance commentator Makhumbo Munthali has said the orientation workshop for cabinet ministers and deputy ministers has been organised a bit late by government when office holders have already hit the ground 45 days. President Lazarus Chakwera said on Monday when he opened the workshop that it has been organised to set ministers up […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has urged his Cabinet ministers to embody the five pillars of his ‘Hi-5’ agenda which is premised on; servant leadership, prospering together, ending corruption, rule of law and national unity. He said toward that end, the minister will have his full support and confidence, as well as that of all Malawians. Speaking […]
Tonse Alliance election raised expectations. The country was going south, Tonse promised milk and honey. They likened a new Malawi as being the biblical land of Canaan. We all cheered, we all voted, I mean 2.6 million voted with their feet to get the Devils Propagation Programme (DPP) out of the Government. The President, I […]
This tradition by Cabinet Ministers to always begin exigency of their office by familiarization tours is steadily becoming a political wound we must hastily dress. The past month has seen a trail of ministers touring every corner of the country, visiting sites and individuals—all in the name of familiarization tours. We have even noted, with […]
Leader of Opposition in parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa has described as unrealistic President Lazarus Chakwera’s decision to give all Cabinet ministers a five-month probation period on their job. Nankhumwa said five months was too short period for Cabinet ministers to prove themselves whether they are up for the job or not. “Give them more time. A […]
Vice-President Saulos Chilima is going to engage Cabinet ministers starting this Monday to orient them for the public sector reforms programme. Chilima, who is also Minister of Economic Planning and Development and Public Sector Reforms, will be meeting three ministers daily to persuade them to champion the reform in their respective ministries. The spokesperson in the Office […]