Director of Women affairs and Parliamentarian for Malawi’s opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Patricia Kaliati on Thursday received cheers and ululation from patrons who attended an inter-party gender rally at Masintha Ground in Lilongwe. The event was organised by Centre for Multi-Party Democracy (CMD) where party leaders explained their efforts in promoting women candidates in the three tier 2014 national […]
Blantyre Magistrate Court has set October 22 when it will start the prosecution trial of former Minister of Information and Civic Education Patricia Kaliati on corruption allegations and abuse of office. Kaliati, two of her accomplices, Oscar Maganga, former Ministry of Education assistant chief education officer and Clement Nkuya, her brother appeared before the court […]
Former cabinet minister Patricia Kaliati will from October 1 face prosecution on corruption allegations and abuse of office. Kaliati, while serving as Minister of Gender, Children and Community Development, influenced Ministry of Education officials to admit 76 students into various secondary schools in the Shire Highlands Division. Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) investigated the matter – exposed by Weekend […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) might be closer to get former Malawian outspoken cabinet minister Patricia Kaliati following revelations that the corruption busting body is now working with the International Police to handle corruption cases that crosses borders. Kaliati was implicated in a corruption scandal in 2007 when she was Minister of Tourism after she dubiously […]
Malawi’s former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is proving to be one of a tough contender come 2014 if the mammoth of crowd that mobbed the party’s presidentiald candidate Peter Mutharika’s visits in Mwanza and Neno districts are anything to go by. On Tuesday, Mutharika and his DPP entourage stormed Mwanza and Neno in their […]
Opposition DPP lawmaker for Mulanje West, Patricia Kaliati has called for prices of goods to be reduced to demonstrate that the Kwacha currency has indeed gained currency. Speaking in Parliament, Kaliati, a former Information Minister, wondered why prices of commodities are still high when Kwacha is being touted to be gaining strength against the major […]
Three ruling People’s Party (PP) lawmakers and one opposition DPP MP are repositioning themselves ahead of 2014 elections by dumping their constituencies to relocate to new areas, Nyasa Times understands. Minister of Lands and Housing, Henry Duncan Phoya, who is MP for Blantyre Rural East reportedly wants to contest as MP in Blantyre City South East […]
Comedian Boni Kalindo aka Winiko and Dr. Hetherwick Ntaba among others have gone unopposed at the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) convention currently being held at Comesa Hall in Blantyre city. Patricia Kaliati, former minister of information is national director of women; Bessie Chirambo has been confirmed as national campaign director and will be deputized by Yasinta […]
As the battle for top positions in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) National Governing Council (NGC) during the party’s first ever national indaba underway in Blantyre, legislators Patricia Kaliati (Mulanje West) and Nick Masebo (Chitipa North) are going to take their positions unopposed. Former information minister Kaliati and former Presidential Advisor on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) […]
Former cabinet ministers, among them Patricia Kaliati have denied allegations they were integral of the letter in which President Joyce Banda reportedly tendered her resignation to the Speaker of the National Assembly due to illness. This follows the arrest of the 34 year-old Wells Tsidya Phiri who is on remand at Maula prison in Lilongwe […]
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 […]
Opposition DPP president Peter Mutharika will hand himself in to police in Blantyre Monday after an arrest warrant has been issued on him in relation to the transition plot when his brother late president Bingu wa Mutharika died after a heart attack last year, his lawyer Chancy Gondwe has confirmed to Nyasa Times. Police are […]
The official Malawi Commission of Inquiry on the death of president Bingu wa Mutharika on April 5, 2012 could not clear the suspicions Mutharika’s widow Callista had that her husband had sexual encounters with some of the women that met him before he suffered cardiac arrest. Malawi President Joyce Banda on Thursday made public the […]
There was drama in Kasungu Central Constituency on Sunday as People’s Party (PP) parliamentarian for the area, Ken Kandodo, tussled over venue with Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Mulanje West parliamentarian, Patricia Kaliati. The two camps crashed over Chipanga Primary School ground with both sides claiming to be the first to book the venue. Reports indicate […]
Former information minister Patricia Kaliati will remain as one courageous “village idiot” who made efforts to fight child trafficking through strengthening legislative measures, activists have said. Talkative Kaliati was praised by anti-trafficking expert and advocate Habiba Rezwana Osman for her concerted effort to have the 2010 Child Care and Justice Protection Bill enacted into law […]
We are all familiar with the village idiot (chitsiru cha m’mudzi) – that character who speaks whatever comes to mind with very little attention to decorum. If, like me, you grew up in a village you know that every village has an idiot of its own. The village idiot usually comes home drunk and, in […]
Director of Women and Parliamentarian for Malawi’s opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Patricia Kaliati has quashed reports that she was arrested Sunday evening following her outbursts against President Joyce Banda at a DPP’s rally held earlier in the day at Njamba Freedom Park in the commercial capital Blantyre. Report from social media networks had indicated […]