Category: Politics

By Duncan Mlanjira Leader of the Opposition Kondwani Nankhumwa’s attack on President Lazarus Chakwera’s address to the nation on Saturday, in which he said the state leader deceived the nation that the DPP government misappropriated and mismanaged a total sum in excess of MK1 trillion has received heavy backlash by the public. Nankhumwa said from the address, he got the impression that Chakwera may not be well conversant with the financial operations of government. He said: “President Chakwera must…

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Maravi Express In his address to the nation on Saturday night, President Lazarus Chakwera said the thieving and corruption that is coming to light is far too devastating and widespread as trillions of kwachas were plundered without mercy and second thoughts. The President said the looters and plunderers should expect no mercy once discovered the law will take its course and deal with all corrupt elements decisively. The president added that his administration will scrutinize current laws on corruption…

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By Duncan Mlanjira London’s Royal Institute of International Affairs, whose patron is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, has included three judges of the Constitutional Court of Malawi on the shortlist of nominees for the 2020 Chatham House Prize. A letter from Chatham House’s Director, Dr Robin Niblett CMG, the three are High Court of Malawi Judge President, Justice Healy Potani and Justices Ivy Kamanga, Redson Kapindu, Dingiswayo Madise and Michael Tembo. They have been considered for “the bravery in protecting the…

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Analysis by Mphatso Moses Kaufulu The terms ‘peace’ and ‘peace-loving’ have been repeatedly weaponized by the political and the donor classes in Malawi to sometimes sanitize grotesque human suffering. Politicians, who have robbed us of our very futures either by commissioning unnecessary deaths upon our families through public health denied, or by consigning us to a lack of formal education and therefore a life permanently trapped in poverty, have been quick to remind us of our “peace-loving nature” at…

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By Duncan Mlanjira Former State Vice-President and Member of Parliament, Everton Chimulirenji says he is very dismayed that some members of the general public have taken to social media and are ridiculing and portraying him as if he is an illiterate. There is a Facebook account that has been created by someone in Chimulirenji’s name on which the creator posts unsavory comments in broken English as if it’s the former legislator who does that. In an interview, Chimulirenji distanced…

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