Leader of the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) John Tembo has described the party’s spokesperson Jolly Kalelo as too childish and that he is not fit to be a member of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC). Tembo said during Tiuzeni Zoona program which airs on Malawi’s local radio Zodiak Broadcasting Station hosted by multi-award winning journalist […]
Divisions have rocked opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) over a decision to shortlist the candidate’s eligible to run for the party’s presidency and other executive posts at the party’s convention slated for August 9 to 11 in Lilongwe. A two-day National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held at the MCP current president John Tembo’s Area 10 […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) politburo on Thursday agreed to hold their long awaited national convention which will run from August 9, to 11, 2013 at the Natural Resources College in the capital, Lilongwe. National Executive Committee (Nec) members meeting in Lilongwe on Thursday agreed in the dates and its now all-systems-go for the indaba. MCP spokesperson Jolly […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) politburo will be meeting Wednesday set the date for the the long awaited convention which was initially scheduled to take place in April before it was indefinitely postponed. Portipher Chidaya an aide of MCP president John Tembo and Director of Elections Joseph Njobvuyalema, who will also be chair of the convention confirmed […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Member of Parliament for Lilongwe South -East Willard Gwengwe got a rude awakening and shock of his life when mourners refused a coffin he bought for the late senior group village headman Mwachilolo who was buried on Monday. Gwengwe was sent back with coffins at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) mortuary after mourners […]
One of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopefuls Felix Jumbe has said Malawians will go without food this year as there is no maize in the silos. Launching what he calls “Wealth creation for all” campaign, in the capital Lilongwe on Friday, Jumbe said government has failed to purchase enough maize to stock the storage […]
“Whatever my people should have or not, I want them to have three basic things. Enough food, decent clothes and houses that do not leak,” founding president late Ngwazi Kamuzu Banda’s simplified, household wealth creation strategy and focus on agricultural production. As daggers have been drawn for the showdown at this month end convention, it […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo, who is being asked to step down and pave way for ‘new blood’, has maintained that he will contest for the presidency during the party’s forthcoming convention but says he will honorably accept defeat if he loses. MCP, which ruled the country from independence in 1964 to the dawn […]
Members of Young Politicians Union (YPU) in the opposition Malawi Congress Party, (MCP) from central region districts of Salima, Nkhotakota say they want President John Zenus Ungapake Tembo to be the party torchbearer in the next year’s tripartite elections, arguing that without him, the MCP will disintegrate. The youthful politicians made the call at the end […]
With the advent of multiparty democracy, Malawi has witnessed a proliferation of political parties. Just before the 1994 general elections, only five political parties existed. In 1999, eleven political parties contested in the presidential and parliamentary elections (PPE). In the third PPEs that took place on 20 May 2004, fifteen parties took part out of […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) President John Zenus Ungapake Tembo is said to be campaigning to have his successor and the party’s torch bearer in next year’s elections to come from the central region, where the veteran politician also comes from. This has been revealed following a meeting which Tembo, fondly known as JZU, had with […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has scheduled the long awaited national convention this month end in the capital Lilongwe in readiness for the tripartite polls next year. MCP in May cancelled its long-awaited convention which attracted about 10 contestants for the party’s presidency including retired Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo, former Malawi Assemblies of God president Dr. Lazarus […]
We are concerned members of our beloved Malawi Congress Party(MCP), a mother of the too many political parties existing in the country. We are proud to be bonafide members of the party who strictly adhere to values and philosophy of the party as taught to us by the late founding father Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda. […]
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) aspirants for the party presidency have been asked to contribute about K3 million each to qualify as a candidate at the party’s convention which was scheduled for April at the Bingu International Conference Centre in Lilongwe but was postponed to an indefinite date. The convention which will among others, elect […]
Just days after Malawi ex-spy Bintony Kutsaila’s re-admission into the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) seemed to be certain, some of the youth members have written the party’s President John Tembo asking him not to accept the former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) strongman into the party. In a letter addressed to Tembo the group calling itself the […]
The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has said it is not shaken with the defections that have happened in the party saying such is an act of exercising constitutional rights. The party’s spokesperson, Nicholas Dausi said this in reaction to the defection of some of its members in the central region saying this does not […]
Rogue politician and ex-spy Chief Binton Kutsaira has, in suspicious circumstances, been accepted back into the Malawi Congress Party (MCP). It took no less than four visits to the residence of party president Honourable John Zenas Ungapake Tembo for Kutsaira to secure reception back in MCP. On his first three visits, in keeping with the […]
For more than 20 years, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has had no chance of winning presidential elections. This bad luck could change in 2014. Peter Mutharika and Joyce Banda are certainly heavy contenders for the presidency. But if MCP chooses Lazarus Chakwera, he may be the man to beat. MCP is the only truly […]