Malawian foreign minister Eisenhower Mkaka is dominating news in South Africa media is reporting that he behaved strangely during President Lazarus Chakwera’s visit to South Africa and caused a scene when he was not allowed to board the plane at Waterkloof Air Force Base. Mkaka was part of Chakwera’s advance mission, which meant he arrived […]
South Africa’s immigration and extradition expert Gary Eisenberg has said that Prophet Shepherd Bushiri is a very clever and well-informed man and Nthakoana Ngatane a senior political reporter for Eyewitness News has published an opinion article which she states that South Africa may get a taste of its own medicine in its bid to extradite […]
Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) in South Africa has confirmed that in 2018, a case of alleged police corruption/cash extortion was opened by Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s lawyer on his behalf in Sunnyside, Pretoria. “It is alleged that the police officers investigating several allegations of rape against Mr Bushiri were trying to extort money from Bushiri […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has spoken to his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa on phone over the treatment the Malawi presidential entourage faced on departure in South Africa forcing Chakwera’s presidential jet to delay for about seven hours. State House press secretary Brian Banda has confirmed that Chakwera and Ramaphosa have talked on telephone over the […]
President Lazarus Chakwera says he would not guarantee favours to prophet Shepherd Bushiri who is being sought in South Africa to answer a number of cases as SABC News reports that the Pretoria Magistrates Court which granted the Christian preacher bail, convinced that they were not a flight risk, has since revoked the bail and […]
Malawian lawyers have said there is no guaranteed timeframes as South African government begins the process to have prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife, Mary, extradited from Malawi following their bolting from the rainbow nation, saying a formal extradition hearing in the High Court may take time. Extradition is the formal process where one country […]
Prophet Shepherd Bushiri is adamant that he’s not running away from his trial in South Africa but that he and his wife Mary bolted out of the rainbow nation to travel back home in Malawi to seek intervention from his home country. South African government says it has commenced an extradition process for the two […]
South Africa government has put to an end to the rumour that Prophet Shephered Bushiri fled on Malawi’s presidential jet with President Lazarus Chakwera, saying they verified that the controversial Christian preacher used other means to escape and they have started the official extradition process in order for the Malawian prophet, and his wife Mary, stand […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has rejected assertions that he facilitated to smuggle Prophet Shepherd Bushiri on the President’s plane out of South Africa on Friday when the Malawi leader was returning home from a two-day visit of Pretoria. Some social media outlets have been setting the narrative that Bushiri, leader of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) […]
Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera has signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Economic Cooperation with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on the final day of his two-day working visit to the ‘rainbow nation’. Chakwera arrived in South Africa on Thursday through Waterkloof Military Airbase in Pretoria and held bilateral talks with his South African counterpart before […]
Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Lucky Sikwese says all agreements that will emanate from bilateral talks in South Africa need to be followed up at ministerial level. He said this on Tuesday during a preparatory meeting ahead of President Lazarus Chakwera’s two-day working visit to South Africa. Sikwese emphasized the […]
President Lazarus Chakwera in continuing his “solidarity visits” will be on a two-day visit to South Africa for talks with his counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa amidst a background of Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s problematic stay in Pretoria. Both Foreign Minister Eisenhower Mkaka and State House director of communication and executive assistant to the President, Sean Kampondeni have confirmed […]
Government says bilateral working visits by President Lazarus Chakwera is helping Malawi regaining its position of influence within the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Region. Minister responsible for Foreign Affairs and International cooperation Elsienhower Mkaka said this ahead of the State President’s two-day working visit to the Republic of South Africa. Mkaka says there is […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has assured Malawians that his government will find out what is happening to Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s problematic stay in South Africa. Chakwera made the comment on Sunday night in Mzuzu while meeting with local traditional leaders. One of the chiefs had asked Chakwera to investigate what is happening to Bushiri in South […]
It’s always inherent in us to, unconsciously, conclude that if it’s published in the mainstream media, then it’s true. Sorry to disappoint you because what you get from mass media—newspapers, radios and Television—is not, always, the entire story. What you get, from the media, is a news product sternly filtered by a strict editorial process […]
South Africa’s SPAR Proteas have announced they will be playing a three-Test series against the Malawi Queens from 26 to 30 November in Rustenburg. The matches will see two more international sides returning to court after England and New Zealand faced-off in Hamilton. This will be the first time the two countries have met since the […]
Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) leader Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, his wife Mary and the other co-accused have been granted bail by the Pretoria Magistrate Court this Wednesday. In her ruling, the magistrate said the couple is not a flight risk as they are having a permanent resident status in South Africa. She further ruled against State’s […]
South Africa-based self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd ‘Major 1’ Bushiri and his wife, Mary, on Monday returned to the Kgosi Mampuru Prison where they are on remand as Pretoria Magistrate’s court said it will rule on their bail application on Wednesday. The prophet and his spouse face charges of fraud, theft, and money laundering in connection with an alleged […]