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Bingu wa Mutharika

Date of Birth: 24/02/1934
Place of Birth: Thyolo, Nyasaland
Died: 05/04/2012


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Mutharika's woes look terminal

This makes him more dependent on alliances with largely discredited figures familiar when his brother Bingu wa Mutharika who died suddenly in 2012 was in office (AC Vol 53 No 8 How Mutharika went wrong)...


Unending flow of Cashgate

A leak of the latest audit names serving cabinet ministers for participating in contract inflation and procurement fraud during the late President Bingu wa Mutharika's time in office...

After earning praise as a doughty defender of human rights throughout the 1990s Kasambara's course changed when he became the late President Bingu wa Mutharika's Attorney General in 2004...


Small fish chase big fish

disappeared in 2013 when Banda was President but the earlier fraud could implicate the current government many of whose members including President Peter Mutharika held office under his late brother President Bingu wa Mutharika...


No end to Banda’s odyssey

The late President Bingu wa Mutharika Peter's brother secretly bought the Dassault Falcon 900EX for $13 mn...


‘Cashgate’ crisis continues

Much speculation has surrounded the role of ex-President Banda and her Former deputy Khumbo Kachali along with rumours that the current administration does not dare to implicate them in case they reveal what they know about DPP theft from government coffers during the rule of the late President Bingu wa Mutharika...


Brother with a difference

After elections most Presidents – including Mutharika's late brother Bingu wa Mutharika who died in office in 2012 – hold rallies across the country dispensing political patronage and consolidating their support...

President Banda sold the jet which Bingu wa Mutharika bought in secret to great acclaim but it later emerged that the funds went to a South African company in payment for arms bound for the Malawi Defence Force contingent with the United Nations in Congo-Kinshasa (AC Vol 55 No 3 Scandals to dominate polls)...


Mutharika, the sequel

With such vast scope for anti-government alliances and tactical combinations it will be difficult for Peter Mutharika to pursue the outright ethnically-based policies and appointments of his late brother Bingu wa Mutharika who favoured his Lhomwe group...


Poll ends in farce

The late President Bingu wa Mutharika had dismissed her from his government for refusing to support his plan to install his brother Peter as the next DPP presidential candidate although he could not sack her as Vice-President...

Muluzi is the son of former President Bakili Muluzi who had a love-hate relationship with the late Bingu wa Mutharika...


Clash of the dynasties

This is her first electoral test since succeeding to the presidency following the Byzantine intrigue over the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika in April 2012 (AC Vol 54 No 7 Lilongwe's treason trial)...


In cash we trust

Whether or not such commissions continued after the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika cannot be ascertained...


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