Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika is on leave and it is my considered opinion that he deserves one. Any employee should go on leave once in a while; more so when things in the workplace are not well and his employers, the voters, are showing increasing disapproval and dissatisfaction. But having said that, I am forced, by the […]
Griffin Salima, President of the Polytechnic Academic Staff Committee on Welfare (PASCOW) delivered a powerful moving speech this morning during the memorial service the college organised to remember the three students it has lost this last year. The students who were being remembered are Justice Mwafulirwa (Education Business Studies, died 1st April), Madalitso Kaunda (Environmental […]
Capital FM Straight Talk programme host, Brian Banda, has claimed he is living dangerously after receiving death threats. Banda said he receive a death threatening text on his mobile phone, warning him that he will die if he continue to be critical of government and President Bingu wa Mutharika. The message said he is likely […]
Member of Parliament for Mangochi Central has disowned a comment posted on Nyasa Times story which purportedly indicated that it was him claiming to have information on the death of Robert Chasowa, a student and political activist, who was found dead on the campus of Polytechnic on 24 September. A comment was posted on a […]
Five citizens, who were arrested last Friday when they demonstrated in the capital Lilongwe carrying a banner calling President Bingu wa Mutharika dictator, were granted bail on Wednesday afternoon by Lilongwe Magistrate Court. Billy Mayaya, Comfort Chitseko, Ben Chiza Mkandawire, Brian Nyasulu and Habiba Oman were charged with offences of conducting a demonstration without written […]
Amnesty International o Monday called on Malawian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release five activists being held in connection with a peaceful protest in the capital Lilongwe on Friday. The five – Billy Mayaya, Habiba Osman a lawyer with the development NGO Norwegian Church Aid, as well as Brian Nyasulu, Ben Chiza Mkandawire and Comfort […]
Members of the Forum for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) on Friday held a protest demonstration in the capital Lilongwe against what they called dictatorship of Bingu wa Mutharika and were detained. FDD’s Billy Mayaya, Ben Chiza Mkandawire, Brian Nyasulu were in city centre at parliament building carrying placards and read out a statement calling […]
Robert Chasowa did not commit suicide – that is what pathologist Dr Charles Dzamalala said. The Police say he committed suicide. They say Dr Charles Dzamalala told them that the lad committed suicide. Dr Dzamalala says he never told the police this and that he never issued any report to that effect. Therefore it follows […]
More drama is unveiling in the death of the fourth year Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa. A few hours after Police arrested the whistle blower Duncan Phiri, police were at it again summoning editors of Weekend Nation and Malawi News who published the revealing story on Saturday. Police head of Criminals Investigation Department summoned Weekend Nation […]
Barely four days after it was revealed that top police brass is involved in the death of the fourth year student at the Malawi Polytechnic, Police on Tuesday morning arrested Duncan Nawoza Phiri who spilled the beans. Armed Police invaded the house of Phiri and picked him amid unclear reasons for their arrest. A police […]
A leading human rights activist in Malawi, Reverend MacDonald Sembereka, has expressed doubt over the level of independence of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the death of 19 people killed in cold blood during the July 20 nationwide demonstrations. “This is long overdue. It is a welcome development if it is not going to […]
Robert Chasowa’s death has provoked an enormous outburst of public indignation and protest in the country. Malawians cannot afford yet another dark era where the country slides back to the one party state and is governed with impunity and hence all Malawians of good will and intentions should demand an impartial Commission of Inquiry (CoI) […]
“Epiphania Bonjesi – shot by Police – you will be avenged yet, The July 20 martyrs – shot by Police – you we will never forget, Robert Chasowa – murdered by regime agents – your killers cannot rest, To all of you, for your murderers, let there be no respite!” Part 1: History, Ancient […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika has named Catholic Bishop emeritus Felix EugenioMkhori to head the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the death of 19 people killed in cold blood during the July 2o nationwide demonstrations. Mutharika promised to form the commission and also probe into the death of Robert Chasowa, a Polytechnic student, who was murdered […]
“The Info in this publication was put together by an intensive interview with Duncan Phiri in the presence of several Polytechnic lecturers and interviews with several Poly students. Let it be known that if the remaining members of Chasowa’s click are hurt in any way, it is the people implicated inthis document trying to silence […]
The Youth Association for Democracy in Malawi, (YADEMA) has demanded that Malawi Police should be thoroughly probed on the death of Robert Chasowa a death of a university student who may have been killed due to his anti-government activism. Police ruled the death a suicide but an autopsy report indicated that he was beaten to […]
The donor community has expressed grave concerns about several recent incidents of “politically-motivated violence” in Malawi and asks the government to set an independent enquiry into the mysterious death of University of Malawi student activist. Robert Chasowa, 25 – a final year Mechanical Engineering student, was found dead at the Polytechnic on campus on September […]
Hero or Zero? “…Now we are engaged in a great war, testing whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can endure.…But, in a large sense, we can not dedicate – we can not consecrate – we cannot hallow – this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have […]