Month: September 2020 Posts

We did it without Kamuzu –Museveni

Sep 07, 2020 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has hit at the legacy of Kamuzu Banda who worked with the apartheid regime in South Africa. The Uganda leader, in a Facebook post on Thursday, suggested that Kamuzu Banda… ...

CHRR demands compensation for over 19,000 victims of MCP rule

May 15, 2020 Barbara Chimera 0 &

Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) has expressed worry over government’s failure to compensate over 19,000 people who suffered under the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) regime. CHRR Acting Executive Director Michael Kaiyatsa said this… ...

Chilima hails Kamuzu for allowing Malawians to vote for multiparty democracy

May 14, 2020 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

Vice President Saulos Chilima has praised former Malawi leader Kamuzu Banda - who ruled Malawi for 31 years - for allowing Malawians to vote for multiparty democracy in the 1993 referendum. Chilima made the remarks… ...

Memorial held for Attati Mpakati

Mar 25, 2019 Johans Mumba 2 &

At the Attati Mpakati memorial on Saturday, organisers called upon people in the country to desist from mentioning Malawi Congress Party – MCP as a source of all atrocities some Malawians suffered when the party… ...

Jumani laid to rest

Feb 02, 2019 Mike Lyson Zgambo 3 &

Jumani Johanson, self-acclaimed son of the first head of state of Malawi Kamuzu Banda, has been laid to rest today at Chawuluma village, T/A Kampingo Sibande in Mzimba. Ashes of Jumani’s late mother Mirriam Kaunda… ...

Another Kamuzu Banda’s ‘son’ returns

Jan 29, 2019 Russell Kondowe 9 &

Dust is refusing to settle over the late president Hastings Kamuzu Banda's family with the emergence of another man claiming to be son to the fallen leader. This comes just a few days after the… ...

‘Kamuzu’s son’ Jumani dies

Jan 26, 2019 Malawi24 Reporter 8 &

Jim Jumani Johansson who claimed to be the son of Malawi’s founding President Kamuzu Banda has died this morning. Jumani, 45, died this morning after a short illness at Queens Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre.… ...

53 years of independence or in dependence?

Jul 10, 2017 Paul Nguluwe 9 &

With anguish and sympathy, I am obliged to convey my heartfelt condolence to the bereaved families of the innocent eight souls lost in the name of our 53rd Independence Day Celebrations. Had the gates been… ...

No Holds Barred! Taking stock of our 52 years of independence

Jul 10, 2016 José Safarao 9 &

This week, we commemorated our 52nd year of independence. It’s just as well that there was no celebration of any sort. Yes, there were a couple of really weird billboards painted in the colours of… ...

Mutharika turns useless rally into an English classroom

Jun 25, 2016 Aubrey Makina 172 &

…says Kamuzu only fed people to crocodiles Malawi leader Peter Mutharika turned a rally he addressed at Limbuli in Mulanje into an English classroom apparently indicating how much he has the colonial hangovers. Speaking at… ...

Unima should hang its head in shame for decorating tyrant Tembo

Mar 25, 2016 Pearson Nkhoma 271 &

If anybody ever doubted that the University of Malawi (UNIMA) is a disgrace to our democracy and the academic freedom it is supposed to espouse, the University’s decision to award a honorary doctorate degree to… ...

M24 exclusive: Call him Dr. John Tembo

Mar 22, 2016 Aubrey Makina 184 &

...Unima to award JZU In the ongoing scramble for titles which has rocked Malawi politics, Malawi24 can exclusively reveal that the University of Malawi will be awarding former leader of opposition John Zenus Ungapake Tembo.… ...

Rose Chibambo, one of Malawi’s co-founders has passed away

Jan 12, 2016 Aubrey Makina 498 &

Rose Chibambo, one of the co-founders of Malawi is dead, Malawi24 has learnt. Rose Lomathinda Chibambo, born on 8 September 1928, was a prominent human rights activists and politician against the Britain and Kamuzu Banda. Having fought… ...

MCP wants Mutharika to vacate State House

Nov 04, 2015 Kondwani Mkhalipi-Manyungwa 612 &

Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has asked President Peter Mutharika to leave Kamuzu Palace with immediate effect over comments the president made yesterday that MCP did nothing in the 30 years the party was in… ...