Sylvester Namiwa Mutharika's press officer during his 2014 to 2019 term is making the running accusing Gertrude of sabotaging relations between Mutharika and his Vice-President Jane Ansah (AC Vol 66 No 20 Mutharika makes octogenarian comeback as economic crisis bites)...
An ordained Pentecostal minister who runs a church with her husband in the British city of Nottingham as well as Malawi Ansah has been publicising her charity the Jane Ansah Foundation which focuses on persons with albinism and dwarfism...
After their comfortable election win 85-year-old former president Peter Mutharika and his running mate Jane Ansah are expected to move quickly with an economic stabilisation plan after they are sworn in on 4 October...
According to one pollster Mutharika's running mate – former Elections Chair Judge Jane Ansah whose 2019 results were nullified – is unpopular with 43% of respondents saying they dislike her...
A leading light in the MCP campaign is the firebrand civil society leader-turned-politician Timothy Mtambo who was highly effective in the mass protests against electoral commission chair Judge Jane Ansah in the run-up to the decision by Malawian judges to cancel the 2019 presidential election which was re-run on 23 June (AC Vol 61 No 3 Shock ruling resets poll)...
Compounding an already complex situation the controversial Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Chairperson Jane Ansah resigned on 21 May just a month before the proposed polling date of 23 June she had just announced...
As a result the existing commission whose chair Jane Ansah was one of the main targets of the demonstrations remains in place...
NegligenceThe court ruled out rigging intimidation and influence of voters by polling staff saying the anomalies themselves supported by an audit report reflected gross negligence by the commission which is chaired by former Supreme Court Judge Jane Ansah...
They demand the resignation of the Malawi Electoral Commission chair Justice Jane Ansah and accuse her of mishandling the elections...
Other prominent Lhomwes include Principal Secretaries of major government departments (Joseph Mwanamvekha is the latest on the scene: Chairman of Mulhako wa Alhomwe and since October Chief Secretary to the Treasury) the Chief Justice (Lovemore Munlo) and the Attorney General (Jane Ansah)...