John Tembo: exceeded expectations with well fought campaign; starts again at 77 as leader of the opposition; before election seemed finished; is now stronger as power-broker than since Kamuzu Hastings Banda fell...
Next came the Malawi Congress Party's John Tembo once President Hastings Kamuzu Banda's confidant with 27 per cent then Gwanda Chakuamba of the Mgwirizano Coalition with 26 per cent...
President Bakili Muluzi's UDF government has presided over worsening poverty and corruption since it took over from President Kamuzu Hastings Banda's brutal dictatorship in 1994...
Facing polls in May President Bakili Muluzi's United Democratic Front (UDF) is accused of the same offences as its autocratic predecessor under the late Kamuzu Hastings Banda (AC Vol 44 No 9)...
Another opponent of the Open Term Bill was the ecumenical Christian Public Affairs Committee (PAC) which had successfully campaigned against the late dictator President Kamuzu Hastings Banda...
The Trust was drawn up to eliminate such presidential interference after Hastings Banda's abuse of its predecessor Press Holdings which he once headed to be succeeded by Tembo...
Muluzi 57 became Malawi's first elected president in 1994 following the late Life President Hastings Kamuzu Banda...
He is from an established Blantyre land-owning family and is related to Margaret Mlanga one of the late Hastings Kamuzu Banda's first advisors...
Mpinganjira and Makhumula are believed to have formed an alliance with James Chikwenga MP for Mangochi Malombe and formerly a bodyguard to the late President Hastings Kamuzu Banda...
President Bakili Muluzi's ruling United Democratic Front is neck and neck with the opposition alliance of Gwanda Chakuamba's Malawi Congress Party (led for three decades by the late dictator Kamuzu Hastings Banda) and Chakufwa Chihana's Alliance for Democracy (Aford)...
Vol 37 No 19 |
- HUMAN RIGHTS
UK policy on Malawi in the late 1980s changed very fast once it became clear President Hastings Banda was on his way out...