By Felie Mzumara, Nyasa Times Former deputy secretary general and member of the National Governing Council (NGC) of Malawi’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Peter Chiona has died. The late Chiona died on Wednesday night at Mzuzu Central Hospital due to High Blood Pressure, according to family members. DPP Spokesperson Hetherwick Ntaba said the party […]
History has a tendency of repeating itself. It was an imaginable that ten years into democracy, Malawians would face another dictatorship. It is here now because some people especially leaders have already forgotten the suffering that Malawians went through during the three decades of dictatorship. Apart from other reasons, Dr Banda’s dictatorship was blamed on […]
By the peaceful standards of modern Malawi, the 20th of July was a very bloody day indeed. At least 19 people were killed and many more were injured, in demonstrations against the Mutharika government that took place in and around the main cities of Lilongwe, Blantyre, Zomba and Mzuzu. Having begun in a peaceful, carnival, […]
Veteran politician, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo, 77, confirmed that people in his party are preparing to succeed him but refused to name a date for his departure. He acknowledged that there are “excellent young men” in MCP who would successfully lead the party in 2014 elections but kept his exit date close […]