Category: Politics

By Trouble Ziba, MANA Government has withdrawn its earlier notice to the public regarding Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda (SC) to proceed on leave, instead he will continue discharging his duties. On June 12, 2020, government, through former Chief Secretary, Lloyd Muhara, announced that the Chief Justice would proceed on leave pending his retirement in 2021. In the notice, Muhara cited accumulated leave days for Nyirenda having outnumbered his remaining working days before his retirement. “Regarding the accumulated leave days…

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By Duncan Mlanjira South Africa-based Malawian Professor and Dean of Law at the University of Cape Town, Danwood Chirwa, who has described President Lazarus Chakwera’s 31-member cabinet as probably the most incestuous cabinet since 1994, is now calling “upon all Malawians to rise up once more, raise their voices and reject this cabinet.” The strong critic of Malawi’s political and social ills, says “once again, Malawians are taken as fools. Newly elected President Chakwera has quickly transformed himself into…

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By Duncan Mlanjira South Africa-based Malawian Professor and Dean of Law at the University of Cape Town, Danwood Chirwa has described President Lazarus Chakwera’s 31-member cabinet named on Wednesday evening as probably the most incestuous cabinet since 1994. Commenting on Facebook, Prof. Chirwa said: “Someone has kindly sent me a list of the full cabinet appointments by President Chakwera. I can’t help suspecting it is fake. “If it is not, tough times still lie ahead fellow Malawians. The  restructuring…

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Analysis by Mphatso Moses Kaufulu Ritual has its purpose — yet ritual can also obscure and impede what is important. One place where ritual has become particularly paralyzing is within the Office of President and Cabinet. Firstly, the terms ‘Excellency’ and ‘Right Honorable’ which are often followed by other excessively deferential verbosity such as ‘It has pleased his/her excellency’ and so on, neither establish nor sustain the presidency. They are titles infinitesimally small in comparison to the people’s vote…

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By John Saukira Some concerned citizens have noted with sadness that some of the arrests that have been made by the new government are political in nature. In a statement issued on Friday to President Lazarus Chakwera and Vice-president Saulos Chilima, signed by Phillip Kamangira on behalf of the concerned citizens, says the nation is slowly taking a path of political persecution, witch-hunting and harassment, saying some of the arrests could have a negative impact on Malawi’s hard-earned democracy….

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By Trouble Ziba, MANA Malawi’s newly elected President, Reverend Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has described the country’s freedom from colonialism and one party system as of no use if the citizens still languish in poverty, tribalism, corruption and other vices. Chakwera was delivering an acceptance speech on Sunday at the Malawi Square in Lilongwe after taking Oath of Office administered by Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda as the country’s sixth Head of State. He said Malawi’s struggle for independence and multiparty…

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By Duncan Mlanjira Mbakuwaku Movement for Development (MMD) president, Peter Kuwani, has filed a complaint to Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), demanding that Peter Mutharika and Lazarus Chakwera should be disqualified for fielding different running mates in Tuesday’s fresh presidential polls. Addressing the media on Wednesday, MEC chairperson Justice Chifundo Kachale said Kuwani’s ground of his demand for the disqualification is that in accordance with the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal, the candidates ought to have maintained the…

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By Duncan Mlanjira Women Legal Resources Centre (WOLREC) is demanding that the next Head of State that would be voted in after Tuesday’s fresh presidential election should implement to the book that there is equal representation of women in the cabinet as well as other national positions of influence. Executive Director Maggie Kathewera Banda said this on the eve of the poll, saying this is not a request but a demand as this is contained in the Gender Equality…

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