Presidential candidates of People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) Mark Katsonga and his biological brother Davis Chester Katsonga of Chipani Cha Pfuko on Tuesday had no kind words for homosexuals during Malawi’s second presidential debate in Lilongwe. Under the country’s laws, men face up to 14 years in jail and women a maximum of five years for […]
Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga Phiri has said that Lake Malawi oil search will not benefit Malawians. Katsonga, who will contest for presidency in May 20 elections, said after presenting nomination papers to Malawi Electoral Commission at Comesa hall in Blantyre. “The Lake Malawi oil programme will only benefit foreign countries not Malawians […]
People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga Phiri has picked educationist professor Jacob Mbunge as his running mate, saying the country is facing various challenges and that it is only PPM that has solutions. Katsonga presented his presidential nomination papers Tuesday afternoon at the Comesa Hall in the commercial capital of Blantyre. “I have picked […]
Presidential hopefuls in the May 20 tripartite elections have promised that once they get into power they will work on having a cabinet of not more than 16 members and without deputies, Nyasa Times has established. Officials of the Public Affairs Committee (PAC), which since a fortnight ago is meeting presidential candidates so that they clearly outline what they […]
Former spokesman for People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) Redson Munlo has accused president of the party Mark Katsonga Phiri of being a dictator. Munlo, who was blocked from contesting as secretary-general at PPM convention, charged that Katsonga Phiri is autocratic in the way he runs PPM. He said Katsonga runs PPM in an ‘animal-farm’ style. Munlo […]
President of Progressive People’s Movement (PPM) Mark Katsonga Phiri hopes he will guide PPM to power in May 20 elections, saying Malawians should give chance to transformational leaders to end a culture of corruption, wastefulness and secrecy. Katsonga who was endorsed by his party convention last week to be its presidential candidate in the May […]
Acting President of the opposition People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) Mark Katsonga Phiri has gone unopposed at the party’s day-long national indaba held at COMESA Hall in Blantyre Thursday. Prior to the convention, it was announced that Katsonga would face two undisclosed challengers but when time for voting came only his name was mentioned. The development […]
Mark Katsonga Phiri’s Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) Central Province Committee has defected to Chipani Cha Pfuko (CCP) a party being led by his brother, Davies Katsonga. Speaking on Saturday in Lilongwe, PPM province Director Frackson Kanjere said the committee reached at the decision following the failure by the president to run the party effectively. A […]
People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) – one of the parties expected to field a presidential candidate in the next year’s tripartite elections – says the year 2013 has been one of the worst in the history of Malawian modern politics and has since urged Malawians not to vote into government all those parties that have ever […]
Malawian politician and business guru Mark Katsonga Phiri faces a hitch in his presidential dreams after the National Bank of Malawi recently confiscated his AGMA House at Maselema in Blantyre and a farm in Neno after he failed to settle a loan of slightly over K300 million. Katsonga, who owns AXA Bus Service and is […]
As an unofficial campaign for the 2014 tripartite elections gets hotter by day with both reasonable and unreasonable promises from leaders of various political parties and the opposition People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) is promising Malawians the introduction of new and cheapest form of fertilizers once voted into power. PPM president, Mark Katsonga Phiri says the […]
People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) says once voted into power in next year’s Tripartite Elections, it will breakdown the responsibilities of the country’s sole power provider Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) in order to have efficient service delivery of the company. PPM party president Mark Katsonga said the country is experiencing unreliable service from the […]
National Salvation Front (NASAF) has described Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsionga as an empty headed presidential candidate who dreams to run government in 2014 without original ideas and instead is busy stealing such from other candidates. NASAF secretary general Lester Chikoya fumed at Katsonga in an interview with Nyasa Times that the PPM leader does not deserve […]
Malawi’s ruling Peoples Party has trashed opposition Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga for his “careless” remarks that the fire that gutted down Escom building in Blantyre on Friday night was an arson and that government was responsible for it. PP deputy spokesperson Ken Msonda described Katsonga as a failed politician who only dreams of becoming […]
People’s Progressive Movement (PP) President Mark Katsonga has promised to reform the Agriculture Development and Market Corporation (Admarc) to become a cooperative owned by farmers should they win next year’s polls. This, according to PPM President Mark Katsonga, will help farmers benefit from their agricultural income generating activities. Katsonga, who spoke during the whistle-stop tour […]
Opposition People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga on Saturday drew a poor patronage in Malawi’s considered political barometer Ndirande squatter township in commercial capital Blantyre where he called for the ouster of the governing People’s Party (PP) in elections due next May. Katsonga riding in an open roof bus conducted a whistle-stop tour of […]
Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) president, Mark Katsonga has hired renowned secular musician, Joseph Mkasa to drum up his political support with songs and discredit President Joyce Banda at a K7 million price-tag, Nyasa Times can reveal. Mkasa has since released three singles, urging the country to nominate a business-minded president in form of Katsonga during […]
People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) president, Mark Katsonga said Malawians have themselves to blame following revelations that the country’s maize silos are almost depleted and that drug shortage is currently at 80 percent. Katsonga said the failure by the country to get rid of the “recycled politicians” who have been serving the nation since multiparty inception, […]