President Lazarus Chakwera's reshuffled cabinet pointedly snubs his Tonse Alliance coalition partners the United Transformation Movement (UTM) of Vice-President Saulosi Chilima and the People's Party (PP) of former President Joyce Banda...
Unlike him both his predecessors Peter Mutharika and Joyce Banda enjoyed honeymoon periods with the public in their first two years of office...
As Mphwiyo slowly recovered from his injuries he was initially portrayed by then President Joyce Banda as a whistleblower who was attacked to prevent him exposing secrets...
Mpinganjira a DPP sympathiser told the High Court in Blantyre that he gave millions of kwachas to Chakwera Chilima former President Joyce Banda and the DPP...
He feels he is being kept at a distance and that the President has a closer relationship with former President Joyce Banda than him...
Vol 61 No 19 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The non-profit amaBhungane centre for investigate journalism published an unflattering profile on 18 September alleging he provided favours to Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Malawi's President Joyce Banda as reported in Africa Confidential (AC Vol 55 No 3 Banda and the jets)...
The new labour minister Ken Kandodo who served as finance minister under President Bingu wa Mutharika and as defence minister under President Joyce Banda is a grand nephew of MCP founder and the country's first president Hastings Kamuzu Banda...
Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) claimed the elections were rigged but most Malawians celebrated the win by the Tonse Alliance of Chakwera's Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Chilima's United Transformation Movement (UTM) ex-President Joyce Banda's People's Party (PP) her former deputy Khumbo Kachali's Freedom Party and five smaller parties...
Joyce Banda's son Roy Kachale who is the PP's Vice-President is also said to believe he is in line for a senior post...
Former Vice-President Khumbo Kachali is said not be seeking a cabinet appointment while those who are eyeing a senior job include Tonse Alliance member-party leaders such as Alliance for Democracy President Enock Chihana who was in Joyce Banda's cabinet billionaire businessman and People's Progressive Movement leader Mark Katsonga Phiri former presidential candidate for Umodzi Party John Chisi and Peoples Transformation Party (Petra) president Kamuzu Chibambo...
He becomes the third president to lose office at the polls after founding President Hastings Banda in 1994 and Joyce Banda in 2014...
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Ex-President Joyce Banda's People's Party which backed Chakwera at the last election and Banda's former deputy Khumbo Kachali's Freedom Party would each take 10% of the jobs if they win these sources say...
Ex-President Joyce Banda's People's Party collapsed from 26 seats to 5 while the United Democratic Front (UDF) shed four seats it won in 2014 leaving it with 10...
Atupele Muluzi whose father Bakili was Malawi's first democratically elected president lost the seat he had held for 15 years while Joyce Banda's son Roy Kachale lost the Zomba Malosa seat his mother held before she became Vice-President to President Bingu wa Mutharika in 2009...