President Peter Mutharika is this Saturday expected to attend a memorial service for his brother, former president Bingu wa Mutharika at Ndata family home in Thyolo. Bingu collapsed and died whilst performing official presidential duties on April 5, 2012 although the Democratic Progressive Party, a party he founded said he died on April 7. A […]
In 1998, whilst working for Nation newspaper, I was very much involved in the reporting of the then high profile case of Kamuzu family led by Mrs Jane Dzanjalimodzi against Kamuzu’s right hand man John Tembo and Mama Kadzamira over Kamuzu estate. Kamuzu had just died a year earlier and battle for his multi-million estate […]
Former First Lady Callista Mutharika has denied she wielded political powers at State House that influenced former president Bingu wa Mutharika to become increasingly intolerant and arrogant during his second term of office. Mutharika said this in an exclusive interview with Times TV. “I never influenced him on anything because I had a feeling that […]
The legal attempt to declare public the Bineth Trust of former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika to become a replica of Press Trust, which was initially established as a public trust but operated and was used as a personal entity of Malawi’s founding president, the late Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, has been foiled after […]
Malawi Police arrested three of its officers and pressed charges of theft in connection to the burglary that took place on Saturday at Villa Casablanca Manor of former president late Bingu wa Mutharika at Ndata Farm in Thyolo. According to press reports, the three cops nabbed are from Police Mobile Service (PMS) B Company in […]
Late President Bingu wa Mutharika children and their step mother, former first lady, Calista Chimombo Mutharika have agreed to settle their property wrangle case out of court with negotiations currently underway to resolve the matter amicably. Lawyers representing the former first lady and Mutharika’s children under Bineth Trust, applied to the High court in Blantyre […]
The wrangle between late former president Bingu wa Mutharika’s widow, Callista Chimombo Mutharika, and his biological children has taken a new twist. The widow and former First Lady sought a court permission to manage the deceased’s president’s Ndata estate and all interests at court. The former First Lady contends that Ndata Palace – the opulent […]
Former First Lady Callista Mutharika has rushed to the High Court to get a temporary relief stopping children of the former Malawi President late Bingu wa Mutharika from evicting her from Ndata Estate property which has the magnificent Casablanca Manor and the Mpumulo wa Bata Mausoleum in Thyolo tea-growing district , southern Malawi. Mutharika’s three […]
Children of the former Malawi President late Bingu wa Mutharika have ganged up against their step-mother and former First Lady Callista Mutharika accusing her of trying to grab their duly owned Ndata Estate property which has the magnificent Casablanca Manor and the Mpumulo wa Bata Mausoleum. The scathing attacks are in statement signed by Mutharika’s […]
Late former President Bingu wa Mutharika’s widow Callista on Thursday called police to her late husband’s sprawling Ndata mansion in Thyolo to chase late Mutharika’s daughters. Police sources say late Mutharika’s daughters Duwa and Tapiwa want to claim the mansion. The daughters and Mutharika’s only son Madalitso went to Ndata to change the mansion’s locks. […]
Journalist Ernest Mahwayo who was arrested in 2011 for taking pictures at late president Bingu wa Mutharika’s Ndata farm has dragged Malawi government to court demanding a hefty compensation of K50 million, Nyasa Times can reveal. Mahwayo was nabbed while taking pictures without permission at the farm situated in Thyolo district and spent some days in the […]
The Limbe Magistrate Court has acquitted journalist Ernest Mahwayo, who was arrested in September last year for taking pictures at the late President Bingu wa Mutharika’s Ndata Farm without permission. Mahwayo, a sub-editor for Mkwaso newspaper – a vernacular publication published by Montfort media, a publishing Company owned by the Catholic Church in Balaka district, […]
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) 2014 standard bearer Peter Mutharika at the weekend held talks with his party’s legislators from the eastern and southern regions, Nyasa Times can reveal. The meeting according to impeccable senior party source took place at late Bingu wa Mutharika’s fortified bastion Ndata estate also known as Malawi’s ‘White House.’ Among the topical […]
While government workers and others were busy with final preparations for the burial of former President Bingu Mutharika at his Ndata Farm, some of his relatives were also busy removing money boxes from the Mausoleum, Nyasa Times can reveal. We can reveal that Ben Phiri, Personal Assistant to Peter Mutharika led a convoy of cars […]
Malawi government will probe the wealth of late president Bingu wa Mutharika to estashlish any wrongful enrichment in the deceased estate, Attorney General and Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara has said. The Civil society organisations (CSOs) in Malawi have been demanding government to probe the value of late Mutharika’s wealth amassed during his time in […]
Four African heads of state and government Sunday afternoon jetted in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre separately to attend burial of former President Bingu wa Mutharika. The four leaders include Namibia’s Hipikepunye Pohamba, Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, Kenya’s Mwai Kibaki and late Mutharika’s close ally, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, who was also the last to land. […]
The remains of Malawi’s former President Bingu wa Mutharika arrived in his home village, Kamoto in Thyolo district on Sunday morning ahead of a state funeral on Monday, April 23. The 28-vehicle cortege left Sanjika Palace in Blantyre where the body had been lying in state since Thursday at 06:40hrs for Mutharika’s last mile to […]