Month: November 2018 Posts

Malawi voter registration certificate earns man 3 years in prison

Nov 20, 2018 Towera Chisi - MEC Stringer 0 &

A craving for K230 thousand kwacha and a voter registration certificate for the 2019 Malawi Tripartite Elections have landed Tiyanjane Frank from Balaka a 3-year jail sentence. The 21-year-old man was found guilty and convicted by… ...

50+1 does not guarantee peace and stability, says analyst

Nov 20, 2018 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Malawi should stick to the First Past The Post system as one of the ways of ensuring continued peace and stability in the country, an analyst has said. The analyst, Imran Jaffali, was speaking in… ...

Mutharika’s 2014 ‘lies’ catch up with him

Nov 19, 2018 Stanley Onjezani Kenani 7 &

Politicians can indeed fool some people some of the time, but in the end, the chickens come home to roost. The promises President Peter Mutharika made as part of his 2014 presidential campaign have returned to… ...

Malawi Electoral body gets thumbs up

Nov 14, 2018 Patricia Mtungila - MEC Stringer 0 &

Malawi’s Development Partners have commended the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) for successfully registering 6.8 million voters in the first ever digitized voter registration process which used the Biometric Voter Registration system. The Development partners; Britain,… ...

AG Kaphale drags UTM to Malawi Court of Appeal: Supreme Court dismisses appeal

Nov 08, 2018 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

...Appeal will be "nugatory, pointless and otiose” if UTM is registered, argues Kaphale Newly appointed Attorney General (AG), Kalekeni Kaphale, has asked the Supreme Court of Appeal to suspend the registration of UTM as a… ...

Court rescues UTM: Chilima to stand in 2019 Malawi presidential race

Nov 02, 2018 Kondwani Mkhalipi-Manyungwa 1 &

The High Court in Blantyre has officially registered as a political party UTM (United Transformation Movement). The Office of the Registrar of Political Parties had rejected Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima's UTM because he opted… ...

Scandalous MEC! Credibility of 2019 Malawi elections down the drain

Oct 29, 2018 Alex Chikanga 0 &

The credibility of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to conduct free and fair elections in 2019 is in tatters following reports that a laptop with crucial voter registration data is missing. Reports reaching Malawi24 indicate that… ...