Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has described as unfortunate and uncalled for former president Joyce Banda claims that former head of state Bingu wa Mutharika and his party are allegedly linked to plunder of K577 billion of public resources between 2009 and 2015. DPP spokesperson Francis Kasaira said his party has no connections to the […]
Malawi’s former president Joyce Banda has reacted to allegations by convicted Ministry of Tourism and Culture principal secretary (PS) Ms Treza Namathanga Senzani who is currently serving a three-year sentence after being found guilty of involvement in Cashgate—the plunder of billions of kwacha of public funds –that the highest level of Banda’s administration was involved […]
Starting with the live coverage of the Dr Conrad Murray [Michael Jackson murder] trial to the Oscar Pistorius trial, we have witnessed a ‘mediasation’ of the law. By the end of the ‘OP’ trial, almost anyone who cared could venture in a legal opinion of how the state and the defence had performed and how […]
The sentencing of top tourism ministry official Treza Namathanga Senzani who is the first convict in the so-called “Cashgate” scandal that led to the suspension of foreign aid has been shifted to Monday, October 6. Senzani pleaded guilty to stealing around $150,000 (63 million kwacha) from state coffers, part of a broader swindle worth at […]
Malawi’s Lilongwe High Court on Thursday August 28, 2014 registered a first conviction in the ongoing ‘cashgate’ cases in which government officers and some businesses siphoned billions of money from government coffers through fraudulent transactions. The first convict in the cases is former Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism Treaser Namathanga-Senzani who was found […]