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Revolt rocks UDF, party headquarters taken over
(Malawi National/District)
... businessmen, lawyers, civil rights activists and academics around 1992, the UDF forced the MCP of founding president Hastings Kamuzu Banda out of power during the first multiparty elections in 30 years ...
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‘I am not fit to stand trial’
(Malawi National/Politics)
... wrestling power from long time dictator Kamuzu Banda, has been charged, along with his former personal assistant Liness Whiskey, with 86 counts for pocketing the money between April 1999 and November 2004. ...
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Court allows Jumani to visit Kamuzu's businesses
(SCOPE/General)
MZUZU--A judge in Mzuzu has ruled that Jim Jumani Johansson--the 37-year-old man who fervently claims he is the son of former dictator Kamuzu Banda--can visit the business empire of the founder president ...
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Civo fire warning shot at Silver
(Sports/Other Sports)
... by Blackpool in Balaka the previous day. Ailing giants Bullets FC found a soothing balm on Sunday when they celebrated a deserved 3-1 win over Blackpool at Kamuzu Stadium in the commercial city ...
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Mfunjo Mwanjasi Mwakikunga 1931-2010
(Life and Style/Obituaries)
... the former forestry and natural resources minister died around 10 a.m. on Sunday at Mzuzu Central Hospital after a long battle with diabetes. Under the late Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the man known fondly ...
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Mutharika says rail link should make Kaunda 'proud'
(Business and Finance/Economy)
... founding fathers. “Our father Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, a visionary and his Malawian counterpart Dr. Kamuzu Banda and the Mozambican leader conceived this dream long time ago,” said Banda (no relation to Kamuzu ...
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Hunt for Malawi public protector begins Thursday
(Malawi National/Society)
... the southern African country in 1994 after three decades of autocratic single-party rule under the country's founding father the late Hastings Kamuzu Banda and his former ruling Malawi Congress Party (MCP). ...
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Ta, but no Ta, Xtian girl refuses to study in China
(Malawi National/Society)
... diplomatic relations with China in 2008. Under three decades of Kamuzu Banda dictatorial rule, Jehovah's Witnesses were banned in Malawi and thousands of followers fled to neighbouring countries ...
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Kamuzu’s 'son' w/Tembo next MCP president
(Life and Style/Health)
PERSPECTIVE LIKE most Malawians, I never took Mr. Jim Jumani Johansson's claims seriously that he was the son of Malawi’s first president, the late Ngwazi Kamuzu Banda, but after the back and forth newspaper ...
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Body of ‘great professional’ Dr. Chirambo returns
(Malawi National/Politics)
LILONGWE—Vice President Joyce Banda led thousands of mourners who welcomed from South African the remains of Prof. Moses Chirambo at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) Wednesday. The former ...
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Flames find Zebras tough meat
(Sports/World Sports)
... found the visitors tough meat and had to come from behind to force a one-all draw before a capacity crowd that braved chilly weather at Kamuzu Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. It was the ...
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Flames, Zebras draw 1-1 in 2012 AFCON match
(Sports/World Sports)
BLANTYRE--A 62nd minute goal by the visiting Zebras' danger striker Jerome Ramathlakwane dampened the spirits of the 25, 000 supporters that filled Blantyre's Kamuzu Stadium Wednesday braving an ...
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Mutharika's full cabinet list: Winners and Losers
(Malawi National/District)
... job. Ken Kandodo, nephew of founding president Hastings Kamuzu Banda, has kept his job at the Ministry of Finance. So has his deputy Frazer Nohoriya. Those that have retained their ...
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Lions, Bullets share spoils in no man’s land
(Sports/World Sports)
... Escom United had the chance to topple the civil servants from the top had they won their scheduled match against Blue Eagles on Sunday at Kamuzu Stadium , which was re-scheduled at the eleventh ...
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Romance, succession feud dominate MW headlines
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... blast from Malawi's founding father's past, was still making news in the just-ending week. "Jumani Is Kamuzu's Son, Claims Gwede" was the sensational headline in the Weekend Nation reporting that former ...
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Malawi postpones local polls for 3rd time
(Business and Finance/Investments)
... held its first polls in 2000, six years after the country embraced multi-party politics following decades of a tyrannical rule under the late strongman Kamuzu Banda who lost power to Bakili Muluzi in the ...
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DPP suffocating democracy
(Malawi National/District)
... candidates who may not be the first choice of the party, later alone Malawians. This type of behaviour seems to be the norm among our politicians. Dr. Kamuzu Banda was made life president ...
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Speaking truth to power: Stop sexism, nepotism
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... and demanded various freedoms which were curtailed for decades under the oppressive regime. The bishops, encouraging the faithful not to be afraid of the tyrany of Kamuzu Banda, quoted John ...
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Jumani name change papers not here—OPC Deputy
(SCOPE/General)
BLANTYRE—Papers of the man who is seeking to change his name to Jumani Immanuel Masauka Kamuzu Banda are nowhere to be found—if he indeed filed—at the Office of President and Cabinet, a government ...
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Presidents, dead and alive, plus dogs rule the wk
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... founding father the late Hastings Kamuzu Banda. In this story Banda's family, whose company owns the Daily Times, was reported to have got an injunction stopping Jim Jumani Johansson from visiting Banda's ...