In this bruising and personalised encounter the party with most to gain may be neither Bingu's DPP nor Muluzi's UDF but the Malawi Congress Party still the official parliamentary opposition and is firmly controlled by John Tembo Hastings Banda's one-time henchman...
Mutharika will carry on praising President Mugabe and the ‘Zimbabwe model’: his leadership style looks like a hybrid between late-period Mugabe and Malawi’s former dictator Hastings Kamuzu Banda...
His state funeral recognised his brave open stand against the dictatorship of Hastings Kamuzu Banda in 1992; the government hoped the funeral which together with his medical and travel expenses cost 25 million kwacha (US$199 400) would appease his Northern Region political constituency...
The parties have realigned and younger politicians are waiting to take over from the old guard which has dominated politics since the demise of Hastings Kamuzu Banda in 1997...
Speaker Munyenyembe another UDF member and with considerable ministerial experience under former Presidents Hastings Kamuzu Banda and Muluzi was striving to bring 100 angry members to order and to bring calm by sending the bill to committee...
In the late President Hastings Banda's inner circle; his niece Cecilia Kadzamira was Banda's 'official hostess'...
Some who opposed him then are still officially in opposition including John Tembo leader of the late President Kamuzu Hastings Banda's old Malawi Congress Party and Aleke Banda who leads the People's Progressive Movement (PPM) and seems still untarnished by his ministerial service under Muluzi...
The old-fashioned values he proclaims are those of many Malawian Christians and Muslims but when he appeals to those values it is to Hastings Banda not to Muluzi that he is referring...
This legacy may in the end blot out a well deserved gratitude and respect for the real freedoms which that second presidency introduced into the repressive and sinister order established by the country's liberator the late and newly lamented Hastings Kamuzu Banda...
Financial crimes were compounded by violent occasionally murderous activities by Young Democrats (UDF youth wing) during Muluzi's rule though they did nothing on the scale of the late President Kamuzu Hastings Banda's Malawi Congress Party Young Pioneers...
Aironi's critics accuse him of politicising the police force which despite substantial British aid for training and reform retains many habits acquired in the days of President Kamuzu Hastings Banda lining the roads all day for VIPs neglecting community law and order and valuing property above human life...
John Tembo: exceeded expectations with well fought campaign; starts again at 77 as leader of the opposition; before election seemed finished; is now stronger as power-broker than since Kamuzu Hastings Banda fell...
