The inquiry into the death of Chakwera's deputy Saulos Chilima has also prompted public interest...
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Ahead of the polls the received wisdom among pundits was that Chakwera's prospects would be damaged by the loss of support from the United Transformation Movement (UTM) led by Chakwera's Vice-President Saulos Chilima – who died in a government plane crash last year – as part of the Tonse Alliance electoral pact...
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The UTM was led by the charismatic Vice-President Saulos Chilima who died in a government plane crash last year (AC Vol 65 No 19 VP crash pilots ‘lost')...
The Tonse Alliance which allied the MCP with the UTM to beat the DPP in the 2020 election broke up after the death of Vice-President Saulos Chilima in a plane crash when both the UTM and Banda's PP pulled out (AC Vol 65 No 19 VP crash pilots ‘lost')...
Chizuma experienced a fierce backlash from the ruling elite after arresting prominent figures including Vice-President Saulos Chilima and bribery prosecutions tailed off after the government starved her office of funds...
Chakwera faces an uphill battle to be re-elected his governing Tonse Alliance with the United Transformation Movement having been torn apart in vicious rivalries and accusations of corruption which were then followed by the accidental death of charismatic UTM leader Saulos Chilima in a plane crash in June...
At one point the ACB named 82 officials including Vice-President Saulos Chilima Chief of Staff for Malawi President Prince Kapondamgaga ministers judges public servants the Inspector-General of Police journalists and civil society leaders...
The old familiar faces opposing each other yet again often after joining together in electoral pacts make the absence of Vice-President Saulos Chilima who died in a plane crash in June and was massively popular among the youth despite being arrested and indicted for corruption all the more poignant and sows doubts about the probable turnout...
Many of Vice-President Saulos Chilima's supporters have blamed President Lazarus Chakwera for the crash that claimed the lives of Chilima and eight others in a Malawi Defence Forces twin-engined Dornier 228 on 10 June (AC Vol 65 No 13 No plaudits for anti-corruption supremo)...
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Mutharika could also benefit from the death of Vice-President Saulos Chilima in a plane crash in June...
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As Chizuma went on leave prior to the end of her contract term the Director of Public Prosecutions discontinued the prosecution of Vice-President Saulos Chilima – just four weeks before he died – on charges of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from the British businessman Zuneth Sattar in what many took as a symbolic end to the anti-corruption offensive...
VP's death rocks Chakwera's poll chances The practical certainty that the death of Vice-President Saulos Chilima in the 10 June crash of a Malawi Air Force Dornier 228 twin-engined aircraft was not deliberate cuts little ice among the public 74% of whom tell pollsters they believe in witchcraft according to analysts in Lilongwe...