Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda

The late President Hastings Kamuzu Banda Malawi’s first President made the most of the dispute claiming not only sovereignty over the entire lake but even provinces on the Tanzanian side citing cultural and ethnic ties...

Bingu wa Mutharika was Malawi’s third President after Hastings Kamuzu Banda and Bakili Muluzi...

At Independence in 1964 he became an administrator in Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s government...

The last serious civil unrest was in 1992 against President Hastings Kamuzu Banda who had ruled since Independence in 1964...

The petition called on the international community to respond to the growing repression: ‘Malawi is suddenly and quietly retrogressing into a dictatorship once again ’ it said in a reference to the rule of the first President Hastings Kamuzu Banda...

Muluzi continued the policies of Malawi’s first President Hastings Kamuzu Banda a medical doctor who refused to recognise China’s communist regime...

Banda’s life in politics (1953–2008) was devoted intensely to his country as it fought for and won Independence from Britain in 1964 as it established the political and economic structures of an independent state under Hastings Kamuzu Banda and as it created the framework of a multiparty democracy under Bakili Muluzi (1994-2004)...

Aleke Banda was also accused of involvement in some of the thuggery of the Hastings Banda era (he had helped to create the MCP’s notorious Young Pioneers) and in the financial shenanigans of Muluzi’s reign...

When founding President Hastings Kamuzu Banda shifted the capital from Zomba to the heartland of the Chewa people at Lilongwe in the Central Region and made Chichewa the official national language this was a political act against the Tumbuka-speakers of the North and the Yao and Ngoni peoples of the south...

Tembo's possible rivals within the battered grand old party of the late President Hastings Kamuzu Banda have not fared well recently...

Both his predecessors in the presidency Hastings Kamuzu Banda and Bakili Muluzi tried – and failed – to stay there for ever...