By Collins Mtika, Nyasa Times The High Court in the northern Malawi city of Mzuzu has stopped Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo and other members of the party from expelling 30 members of the party’s Mzuzu district committee and ordered to recognize them. The party leadership fired the members after the committee aligned […]
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has thrown its weight behind the calls for Speaker of Parliament, Henry Chimunthu Banda to invoke Section 65 on all Members of Parliament who crossed the floor and defected to ruling Peoples Party (PP). The party’s stand came about following the meeting Public Affairs Committee (Pac) had with the Speaker […]
The fight between Shareworld Open University (Blantyre campus) and Matindi Business College over Malawi Congress Party building in Blantyre has taken another twist with the former obtaining a court injunction to stop the latter from occupying the premises. Shareworld had no choice but to seek court intervention on Thursday to enable classes for the weekend. […]
Malawi’s oldest political party, the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), has embarked on a campaign for revival by injecting new blood as it strategizes for next year’s elections. The party is on a membership recruitment drive, with the youth being main target, to get its old glory back. “We have to hit the ground running,” said MCP’s senior official and […]
Drama erupted Monday afternoon in Blantyre when two tenants, Shareworld Open University and Matindi Business College fought over tenancy of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) building. The building, which used to be MCP Southern Region offices situated at Chichiri, has for the past 20 years, been used as Shareworld Open University campus. However, the university management […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo has declared that he is ready to retire from front-line politics and pave way for a new leader to guide the party to 2014 three-tier polls, Nyasa Times understands. MCP sources say Tembo has hinted to party inner circle that the party national convention slated for early next […]
Can I be principled and critical in my engagement with political reality in Malawi? Is there a chance for me to re-examine my role in the establishment of a state that protects the rights of both minority and majority groups? Do I really have the time to reflect on how my previous votes aided the […]
People’s Party (PP) officials on Tuesday challenged that they will do all it takes to win the 2014 tripartite elections, arguing former ruling Malawi Congress Party (MCP), United Democratic Front (UDF) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will never rule the country again. Speaking during a ‘development’ rally at Chule ground in T/A Kaphuka, Dedza, some […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader John Tembo and four other senior members of the party turned down the offer by President Joyce Banda to be included in the recent re-organised cabinet, Nyasa Times understands. Government insiders and MCP sources have collaborated that President Banda approached the opposition leadership to offer some of their members to join a new cabinet […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) lawmakers have been conducting their role of checks and balances in responsible way in the national assembly, the recent being from McSteyn Mkomba who criticised President Joyce Banda over her unstoppable public spending under the pretext of donating relief maize to the needy. President has of late engaged herself in […]
Malawi’s ruling People’s Party (PP) has extended an olive branch to main opposition block in the land Malawi Congress Party (MCP) in a bid to boost its parliamentary figures. This followed a meeting the party’s vice president Khumbo Kachali held with MCP leader John Tembo Monday night at his official Area 12 residences that was […]
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 […]
The Lilongwe High Court has once again reinstated the full membership of embattled Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Secretary General, Dr Chris Daza, to the party. But the legal battle between Daza and his party appears far from over as MCP lawyer Wapota Kita has questioned the manner in which the ruling was made hinting he would apply […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) secretary general Chris Daza says he will fight tooth and nail to block his party president John Tembo to seek amendment to the MCP constitution paving way for his third-time lucky in the presidential race. Daza said Tembo, the 78-year-old veteran politician, is barred by the party constitution to contest for […]
Malawi lawmakers were engaged in a public debate as part of the activities marking International Day of Democracy on Saturday at Rumphi Boma. Speaking during a panel discussion, Member of Parliament for Mangochi Central, Dr Clement Chiwaya who is also UDF Chief Whip in Parliament said constituents should understand that the role of a parliamentarian […]
Recently Nyasa Times, the most influential online newspaper in Malawi, wrote an editorial critical of government on issues surrounding devaluation of the national currency. That editorial was one of the many, and still growing number of, voices displeased with the Joyce Banda administration. We have also heard from human rights activists like Mr. John Kapito, political experts […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP), Malawi’s oldest political party is reportedly facing bankruptcy if it fails to settle 3.6 million, Malawi Kwacha – substantial sum for a financially handicapped party. The contrast could never appear so stark with the countries youngest political party, People’s Party (PP), which has just emerged from its first ever convention. Yet in the […]
The Political Hegemony of the Centre and North, 1994 – 2009 Malawian politics since the advent of plural democracy in 1994 has largely been defined by dominance of a particular political party to a particular region – Centre (Malawi Congress Party), North (Alliance For Democracy) and South (United Democratic Front) – with the only exception […]