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Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda

Date of Birth: c. 1898
Place of Birth: Kasungu, Malawi
Died: 25 November 1997


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Mutharika manoeuvres for a comeback

The elder Muluzi who in 1994 became the first freely elected president since the death of Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda has had a 14-year-old corruption prosecution case against him discontinued by Chakwera's new Director of Public Prosecutions Masauko Chamkakala...


Chakwera loses his lustre

Last month Chakwera sacked Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo the nephew of Malawi's former dictator and MCP founder Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda...


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

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

The MCP was the ruling party in the one-party state of Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda the bloodthirsty autocrat who ruled from independence in 1966 until 1993...


Unending flow of Cashgate

Hastings Kamuzu Banda to multi-party democracy with the United Democratic Front (UDF) winning the first free elections...


Richard Kershaw

President Hastings Banda an old acquaintance wrote to me to complain about something we had written saying he would denounce us if I did not tell him the name of our correspondent in his cabinet (he was in fact a journalist who became a celebrated national editor in Britain)...

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Richard Ruegg Kershaw

In our 40th anniversary publication Kershaw described how the newsletter had got its name: 'President Hastings Banda an old acquaintance wrote to me to complain about something we had written saying he would denounce us if I did not tell him the name of our correspondent in his cabinet...


In cash we trust

She was involved in Chitukuko Cha Amayi m'Malawi the women's development organisation of the ‘Official Hostess' Cecilia Kadzamira the late Founding President Hastings Kamuzu Banda's confidante...


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