Malawi police have moved to arrest four former cabinet ministers over a coup plot. The plot is said to have taken place after the death of former president Bingu Wa Mutharika’s death last year. His brother Peter tried to get the army to take over and stop Joyce Banda from taking over. Also arrested were [...]
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Malawi Arrests Four Former Ministers Over Coup Plot
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on March 11th, 2013
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No Comments »Malawi Risks Running Out Of Friends In Africa
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on June 8th, 2012
Since Joyce Banda took over as president of Malawi, her administration has done everything in its power to look as good as possible to its Western donors. While the late Bingu Wa Mutharika often eyeballed the west, Banda has done pretty much the opposite. Anything the west wants, they get. The latest decision is the [...]
TB Joshua To Visit Zimbabwe; Set Up Church Soon
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on April 17th, 2012
There are murmurs doing the rounds that controversial Nigerian Church Leader TB Joshua will be visiting Zimbabwe soon, with NewsDay saying as early as next week. Already a notice had been posted in Ruwa that he was buying land to set up a church in Zimbabwe. Of course that should have a lot of people [...]
VP Mujuru Consoles Malawians
Posted by Three Men on a Boat on April 14th, 2012
Vice President Mujuru visited the Malawian Embassy in Zimbabwe to pay her last respect to the late Malawian President Bingu Wa mutharika who died last week. After signing the book of condolences the VP said- “We must keep our unity and must unite our people. Feel at home because we are together in this bereavement, [...]
Of African Presidents, Prophets, Politics And Murder Conspiracies
Posted by Three Men on a Boat on April 11th, 2012
So a local paper claims that Jonathan Moyo the local politician has said that the late Malawian President who died of cardiac arrest last week was in fact murdered by his enemies who used TB Joshua as a scapegoat. Meanwhile an England based newspaper, The Times Newspaper, UK published an extensive article on Joshua’s prophecy [...]
TB Joshua Claims He Told Mutharika That He Was Dying
Posted by Three Men on a Boat on April 10th, 2012
New Zimbabwe revealed that the Prophet TB Joshua has revealed that the late Malawi president Bingu Wa Mutharika knew that the prophecy of the death of an elderly African leader was talking about him. Speaking during a Sunday service broadcasted live on his Emmanuel Television, TB Joshua also displayed the letter written by Mutharika to [...]
President Mugabe ‘Returns On Wednesday’
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on April 10th, 2012
With speculation going overdrive around the status of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s health, his aides have said that he will return from his Easter break in Singapore on Wednesday. President Mugabe has been in South Asian country since March 31 on a private visit. News agencies across the world had quoted the Zimbabwe Mail, claiming [...]
Joyce Banda Is Now Malawi’s Head Of State
Posted by Three Men on a Boat on April 7th, 2012
News reports confirm that Malawian Vice-President Joyce Banda took over the running of the southern African nation on Saturday night after the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika. There were fears of a succession struggle but these seem to have faded as state institutions backed the constitutional handover. The government only officially confirmed 78-year-old Mutharika’s [...]
Electricity Shortages Forced Mutharika’s Body To Be Airlifted To SA
Posted by Three Men on a Boat on April 7th, 2012
According Reuters, Medical sources told the news agency that the late leader was flown from Lilongwe hospital to South Africa because of the power and energy crisis in Malawi. It is said the power crisis is so severe the hospital could not carry out a proper autopsy or even keep Bingu-wa-Mutharika’s body refrigerated. The final [...]
Joyce Banda Eyes Malawian Presidency
Posted by Three Men on a Boat on April 6th, 2012
While the Government of Malawi has still not given an official statement on whether Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika is dead as most reports claim, former Vice president and opposition leader Ms Joyce Banda called for a news conference at her home in the capital Lilongwe. She urged the people to remain calm and also [...]
Malawi President Airlifted to South Africa For Treatment
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on April 5th, 2012
Sources say Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika who was admitted into hospital after cardiac arrest has been airlifted to South Africa for treatment. With social media’s rumour mill – and a Malawian opposition newspaper – going overtime claiming the Malawian leader’s death official sources says that he has been taken to South African after being [...]
Malawi President Hospitalised With Heart Problem – Reports
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on April 5th, 2012
It is being widely reported that Malawi officials are saying that President Bingu Wa Mutharika has been hospitalised with a heart problem. The 78 year-old was taken to a Lilongwe hospital on Thursday morning. His current state is listed as unconscious and in ICU. This news will obviously have African tongues wagging following the ‘prophecy’ [...]
