On the morning of 5 April 2012, Malawians woke up to the same hardships that had defined the previous two years. Foreign exchange had dried up, fuel queues stretched for miles, money was scarce and public hospitals lacked even basic medicines. Public frustration was growing, and the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) had just called on […]
As criticism mounts over the Executive’s move to force Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda to immediately proceed on leave, pending retirement, the country’s estranged vice-president Saulos Chilima has said that he stands with the head of the Judiciary. Chilima, wh is also UTM Party leader and running mate to Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus […]
Former legal adviser to former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika Allan Ntata has made a public confession that there were nocturnal meetings by the politburo of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) heavy weights after the death of Bingu trying to prevent Joyce Banda succeeding him. Ntata has revealed that there was indeed an attempt […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has been accused of succumbing to his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) zealots for spending hard earned tax-payers money for commemoration of the second anniversary of Mutharika and ‘Midnight six’ arrest on treason charges in March 2013. The press on Thursday highlighted comments from analysts condemning Mutharika for his Lumbadzi Police Station […]
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish” —Euripides If I were part of the motley crew that makes up the village of Peter Mutharika’s so-called advisors I would caution the President to mind his language. Granted, for no fault of his own, Peter struggles to make himself heard, let alone make sense […]
Malawi Government has expressed concern over some commentators who have “deliberately twisted” the remarks made by President Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika regarding the experience he went through when he was arrested for treason charges during the Joyce Banda administration. President Mutharika shared his experience on his arrest some couple of weeks ago during public rallies […]
In his Muckraking on Sunday column published in The Sunday Times of Sunday, September 7, 2014, Raphael Tenthani opines that among the many wishy-washy treason charges that have come up since multiparty politics dawned on this nation—from the Bakili Muluzi, Bingu wa Mutharika and Joyce Banda eras, the one involving the current President, Peter Mutharika, […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has been advised to desist from dwelling on past issues and move on as a statesman after he has repeatedly claimed that there was an assassination plot on his life during the time when he was in police custody after being arrested on treason charges. The President has been addressing political […]
The opposition People’s Party (PP) vice-president for Central Region, Uladi Mussa, has accused President Peter Mutharika of peddling “complete falsehood” in his claims that PP operatives plotted to kill him while in custody at Lumbadzi Police Station in Lilongwe so that he does not contest in the May 20 Tripartite Elections. Mutharika was charged with […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharia on Sunday reiterated that the treason case he and other executive members of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP0 were answering during the former administration of now opposition People’s Party (PP) was a concoction of the PP administration. Mutharika and his cohorts were arrested and charged of treason but the charges […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) heavey weights who were christened “midnight six” after being charged with treason have had their case discontinued by the State. The six former cabinet members, Patricia Kaliati, Henry Mussa, Kondwani Nankhumwa, Nicholas Dausi, Jean Kalilani and Vuwa Kaunda convened a mid-night press conference, hours before government announced the death of former […]
Speaking to Global Business Leaders at World Economic Forum in Davos on 23 January 2013, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame told a panel discussion that to change the global perception of Africa as a trouble hotspot, its story “must” start to be narrated by Africans. President Kagame observed that there was a major problem in that the Africa’s […]
The Commission of Inquiry’s 105-page report into the death, in April 2012, of President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi and political manoeuvrings in the immediate aftermath makes for compelling reading. Fully two and a half pages are devoted to considering whether a February 2012 prophecy by Nigerian evangelist TB Joshua of the imminent death of an African […]
Chief Secretary to the Government Bright Msaka and Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall Gondwe have been arrested after a commission of inquiry report into circumstances surrounding the death of former president Bingu wa Mutharika exposed their their key role played in the failed plot to block President Joyce Banda from ascending to power. Minister of Information […]
Malawi Police on Monday morning rounded-up former six cabinet ministers who addressed a controversial news conference at night on April 5, 2012 to block President Joyce Banda to rise to power following the death of her predecessor Bingu wa Mutharika who suffered cardiac arrest. First to be picked was former information minister Patricia Kaliati who was […]