Leader of Opposition and former president of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) John Zenus Ungapake (JZU) Tembo bade the party farewell with an appeal to its members to support his successor, Dr Lazarus Chakwera. Tembo on Sunday returned to Natural Resources College which was the venue of MCP convention hat elected Chakwera president on Saturday and […]
Former Malawi Assemblies of God president Lazarus Chakwera has been elected Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president i during the party’s national convention held in Lilongwe on Saturday. Chakwera, 58-years-old, defeated former Secretary General Chris Daza retired Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo; former Cabinet Minister Jodder Kanjere; former secretary general Betson Majoni; MPs Joseph Njobvuyalema (Lilongwe Mapuyu South); Watson […]
Veteran politician John Tembo on Saturday introduced lawmakers Theresa Mwale (Mchinji west) and Christina Chiwoko (Lilongwe Mapuyu north) as new members of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP). Tembo welcomed the injection of new blood in the party’s rank and file but also that the old guard should still be providing “guidance and wisdom in the […]
The verdict has been passed. Veteran Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo has been stopped from contesting for party presidency for the third term. About 670 convention delegates meeting at the Natural Resources College in Lilongwe expressed a big ‘No’ in the vernacular when a bid to amend the party constitution to allow Tembo […]
Tens of delegates to the long awaited Malawi Congress Party (MCP) convention were denied accreditation on their arrival in Lilongwe after they were alleged to be ‘bogus’ delegates. Surprisingly, only a few hours later, most of the rejected delegates managed to find their way back into the system and got accredited while others were sent […]
The race to the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidency has reached an exciting time with news that former president of Assemblies of God Rev Dr Lazarus Chakwera and former Chief justice Lovemore Munlo have been shortlisted to run. Party delegates and district chairperson who spoke to Nyasa Times Thursday night said they were tipped that […]
The stage is finally set for the long awaited Malawi Congress Party (MCP) convention which would be a make-or-break affair for the party as it elects a new leader who is also expected to lead the party in next year’s tripartite elections. However, Nyasa Times is reliably informed that despite the earlier arrangement that the […]
As the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is geared to hold its long waited convention on August 9, some candidates have expressed total confidence of winning the votes. The party convention committee headed by Joseph Njobvuyalema postponed the meeting for two times due to some disagreements with the party as to who is supposed […]
The Mzuzu High Court has reinstated a 30 member Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Mzuzu District Committee after party president John Tembo ordered their expulsion after it aligned itself to estranged Secretary General Dr. Chris Daza whom the party had also expelled. The consent order dated August 5, 2013 quashes the court’s earlier directive that Tembo’s faction […]
If Honourable John ZU Tembo ever read history as His Excellency Ngwazi Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda encouraged everyone to, he either has forgotten all of it, or wasted his time. Even if history was not his cup of coffee, I can bet my two blogs that he must have read, in the very least, English […]
District chairpersons from the central region in the country’s main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) are rejecting the decision by the party’s leader John Tembo of trimming the number of presidential candidates from twelve to three arguing doing so would likely lead to the delays in holding of the convention saying some contestants have already […]
Dust is refusing to settle over the August 9 Malawi Congress Party (MCP) indaba with a new revelation that the party’s out-going president John Tembo and the convention’s organizing chairperson Joseph Njobvuyalema schemed to frustrate Reverend Lazarus Chakwera’s ambitions to run for the MCP presidency by getting his “dirty money” story to the media, Nyasa Times has […]
It’s all systems go for opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) to hold its long-awaited national convention from August 9 to 11 2013 at the Natural Resources College in Lilongwe, the party’s outgoing president John Tembo has confirmed. Tembo said the party has moved the convention from Bingu International Conference hall which will be engaged with […]
The Mzuzu High Court has directed that Malawi Congress Party (MCP) incumbent president John Tembo’s faction and estranged Secretary-General Chris Daza’s faction send six delegates apiece from the Mzuzu District Committee to the forthcoming MCP convention. The MCP constitution allows 12 members from each district committee as delegates to its indaba. The development comes after […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo has been petitioned by district chairmen from the central and lakeshore regions demanding that the party should not postpone again its convention which is now set for August 9 to 11. The fourteen chairmen from the two regions who have signed the petition said on Thursday that any further […]
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) says it will no longer trim the number of its presidential aspirants and will instead let delegates to its forthcoming convention to decide the fate of its hopefuls. Lingson Belekanyama, one of the members of a special committee tasked to scrutinize the candidates, said on Wednesday that the decision to leave the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) incumbent president John Tembo has said he refused a cash “donation” of K600 000 from presidential hopeful Rev Lazarus Chakwera because he feared it would influence the party politburo which was discussing among other issues the eligibility of the candidates interested in the MCP presidency. MCP is in the process of […]
The resistance to reform being demonstrated by the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is a cause for concern, not only for followers of the MCP; but for all Malawians who believe that a functioning democracy entails strong and democratic political parties whose undertakings are transparent, righteous, fair and beyond reproach because charity begins at home. Going […]