Category: Lost history
Lost history
IN THE WAKE OF FRESH PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS HELD ON 29 JUNE 1978, LIFE PRESIDENT DR. KAMUZU BANDA ANNOUNCED A NEW CABINET ON JULY 5.
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Cable sent from US Embassy in Lilongwe to Department of State in Washington DC on 6 July 1978. FOLLOWING MINISTERS (WITH THEIR NEW PORTFOLIOS) HAD SERVED IN PREVIOUS CABINET: GWANDA CHAKUAMBA – YOUTH AND CULTURE AND REGIONAL MINISTER FOR THE SOUTH E. BAKILI MULUZI – MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO M. MALANI LUNGU – MINISTER AT LARGE…
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THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME FOR MALAWI TO CONDUCT FRESH NATIONAL ELECTIONS UPON NULLIFICATION.
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Malawi held the presidential elections on 20th May 2019 which were nullified by the Constitutional Court on 3rd February 2020. The fresh presidential elections were held on 23rd June 2020. 1. Was 3rd February 2020 the first time in the history of Malawi for a national election to be nullified? 2. Was 23rd June 2020…
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KEY LESSONS FROM HISTORY ON CRITICAL MOMENTS LIKE THIS WHEN CHANGING FROM ONE ADMINISTRATION TO THE OTHER.
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HIDING AND DESTRUCTION OF PUBLIC RECORDS At the Eve of Independence in 1964. Following the departure of the last and only Governor-General, Sir Glyn Jones on 5th July 1966, records from the Secretary to the Governor-General were transferred to the National Archives of Malawi on 9th July 1966. The Government Archivist (John Drew) at the…
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A VETERAN LESOMA CADRE WHO WAS ALSO A DISTRICT COMMISSIONER FOR CHITIPA LAID TO REST IN KARONGA
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HUMPHREY GONDWE left Malawi with his twin brother Maxwell Mandere to stay with an elder brother in Zambia in 1974. The twinkle brothers studied in Zambia from Grade 7 (Primary School) up to Form 5 (Secondary school). It was while in Zambia that they both joined the opposition political party during one party state called…
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Three CECAFA tournaments that the Flames were geared to win in the 1980s, but didn’t.
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Despite being crowned the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) cup champions for the 1978, 1979 and 1988 editions, there were three CECAFA tournaments that the Malawi National Soccer Team (Flames) were geared to lift again but couldn’t make it. The first one was the CECAFA tournament held in December 1984 in…
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The Flames encounters mayhem in Madagascar in August 1983 and qualifies to the AFCON for the first time.
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After clobbering Zimbabwe in Lilongwe (2-0) and in Harare (2-0) on 12 September 1982 and 3 October 1982 respectively in the preliminary round and upon the withdrawal from the 1st round by Zaire, the Malawi National Soccer Team (Flames) was left with two (home and away) fixtures to fulfill for the 2nd round against Madagascar…
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The Tragedy for the Flames in December 1987 in Eritrea.
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For many soccer fans in Malawi if asked to mention any tragedy that ever occurred in the history of international soccer in Africa, they will be prompt to mention the loss of the entire Zambia National Team squad in a plane crush on the evening of the 27th April 1993 in Gabon en-route to Senegal…
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Some African graduates from Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow in the 1980s.
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Lindiwe Zulu is currently South Africa’s Minister of Social Development. In 1989, she was in Lusaka, Zambia where she held the position of head of communication in the ANC department of Religious Affairs. In 1990 she moved to Uganda where she was the head of communication and administrator in the ANC office. In 1991, she…
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AS WE CONTINUE TO COMMEMORATE THE STRUGGLE OF WORKERS IN THIS MONTH OF MAY
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As we commemorate the historic struggles of workers world wide in this month of May in which labour (workers’) day falls, there are notable female workers in Malawi who deserve to be honored as heroines of the workers’ rights and the broader struggle for human rights and democracy in Malawi. Among these is a woman…