Malawi government has withdrawn a diplomatic passport for former Cabinet minister Muhammad Sidik Mia who is aspiring to be opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Vice President at the party’s national convention next month. Business mogul and politician had gone to Immigration Department to renew his passport to travel abroad. But Immigration Department could not issue the […]
Former Peoples Party (PP) senior official, Harry Mkandawire, who has now joined the main opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) says he is eying for the position of second vice presidency in his new party. Mkandawire becomes the second defector to the party to express an interest to vie for the vice presidency of the party after billionaire politician Sidik […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has dubbed the accused the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of peddling lies following the persistent power black outs in the country and accused Electricity Generation Company (Egenco) of duping Malawians. MCP second secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka, writing on his Facebook page, said the government cheated Malawians that power black outs would be […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) faced an extraordinary bit of dissent from a newspaper columnist who torched the oldest party as not being on the cusp of victory in 2019 Tripartite elections as predicted by some survey but a party that is “unravelling at the seams aided by some shortsighted individuals lacking ambition.” Suzhho Khunga, writting […]
Malawi Assemblies of God Church has rejected online reports that the Lazarus Chakwera stole money amounting to K100 miillion during his reign as the church’s president before joining politics, saying what’s was posted on Malawi Voice is utterly fake news. The State sponsored online publication had published the report alleging Chakwera had been thieving the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Dr Lazarus Chakwera—who is also leader of opposition in Parliament—is considered a self-centred political maverick by some quarters. A cleric throughout his adult life, joined frontline politics and was elected president of the MCP in 2013, succeeding longtime MCP leader, John Tembo, now in retirement. Chakwera’s vice is Richard Msowoya who was also […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera and embattled secretary general Gustav Kaliwo are set to face off and trade questions in court in a case the party obtained an injunction restraining Kaliwo from calling for a convention. In June last year, Chakwera obtained a court injunction stopping Kaliwo holding an emergency convention […]
Leader of Transformation Alliance (T.A) Moses Kunkuyu has played down reports that he has joined main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP). The denial comes barely few days after the T.A leader was spotted at the oldest party’s fundraising activity dubbed ‘Tambala Night’ hosted on Saturday 10th March 2018 in the Commercial City of Blantyre. Tambala […]
Embattled opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) secreyray general Gustav Kaliwo has obtained a fresh injunction against the party not to organise a convention in April this year expected to put in office new leadership. Kaliwo through lawyer Kalekeni Kaphale has successfully obtained the court order restraining MCP from implementing suspension orders which the National Executive Committee […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works, Jappie Mhango, should sing another song for Malawians because this song of ‘racism’ that he is singing now, for political expediency, will not win political votes for his boss, President Peter Mutharika and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Since independence in 1964, Malawians have lived together, in harmony, without […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has said it all set to hold its elective national convention next month and that the party has so far raised K70 million to finance the gathering in Mzuzu. During the convention, the party is expected to elect a president who will also be the torchbearer in next year’s […]
The immediate family of slain Cabinet minister Dick Tennyson Matenje has issued a statement clarifying that none of the former minister’s children had joined Malawi Congress Party (MCP); Don John Matenje who was unveiled by the party on Saturday is a son of Dick’s brother. Richard Dick Matenje, a biological son of Dick Matenje, said in […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has cautioned the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to put their hands off and stop taking the country as a prostitute. Chakwera was speaking in Blantyre during the fundraising dinner which was attended by cross section of the politicians especially from the opposition. “Our country is not a […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has projected himself as a “moral leader” who wants to give his compatriots “hope” and “moral direction”, saying his party is now gaining political ground in the Southern Region – considered the stronghold of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Chakwera, touted by MCP as a man of strong values, […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has downplayed the announcement of long serving members Chatinkha Chidzanja Nkhoma that she was leaving the political party. Chatinkha in company of her partner, Chauncy Mopho Jere a known Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) sympathiser, on Friday told journalists that she was leaving MCP because of its new brand of politics which she says […]
Embattled Malawi Congress Party (MCP) member Chatinkha Chidzanja Nkhoma has resigned from the party after she had been at logger heads with MCP president Lazarus Chakwera whom she helped to ascend to the party’s hot seat. Announcing the resignation at her home in Lilongwe, Chatinkha cited among other things, the removal of over “1000 members” […]
Kenneth Bwanali, who has expressed interest to contest against Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president, Dr Lazarus Chakwera for the top seat during the forthcoming convention, has challenged ythe party president to resign for being part and parcel on the initial decision to share K4 billion development fund among all legislators when it originates from ‘budget […]
Private practive lawyer Kalekeni Kaphale has withdrawn proceeding of the case in which Malawi Congress Party (MCP) first vice-president Richard Msowoya, secretary general Gustave Kaliwo and three others are stopping the opposition party from either firing or suspending some national executive committee (NEC) members. The lawyer, who also represented the outspoken publicity secretary Jessie Kabwila […]