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Joyce Hilda Banda

Date of Birth: 12/04/1950
Place of Birth: Malemia, Nyasaland


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Fraud furore engulfs Chakwera

Nor has comment been spared on a 'deafening silence' from ex-President Peter Mutharika's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ex-President Joyce Banda's People's Party (PP) Atupele Muluzi's United Democratic Front (UDF) and even Vice-President Saulosi Chilima's UTM...

President Joyce Banda suffered from voters associating her with the Cashgate scandal and President Peter Mutharika had to cope with fall-out from the case of Zameer Karim a businessman who allegedly deposited 120 million kwacha ($150 000) into a party account controlled by the then president (AC Vol 59 No 14 Rationing corruption)...


Chakwera tightens grip

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...


President's situation is no joke

Unlike him both his predecessors Peter Mutharika and Joyce Banda enjoyed honeymoon periods with the public in their first two years of office...


No justice for Cashgate crooks

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...


Chakwera loses his lustre

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...


Stress test for the Tonse Alliance

He feels he is being kept at a distance and that the President has a closer relationship with former President Joyce Banda than him...


For sale: one used war machine

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)...


A shaky start for the new broom

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...


Lazarus rising

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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Poll in a plague year

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...


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