Author: Mikozi Buzz
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected by lawmakers for a second term on Friday, after his party struck a dramatic late coalition deal with a former political foe just hours before the vote. Ramaphosa, the leader of the African National Congress, won convincingly in Parliament against a surprise candidate who was also nominated — Julius Malema of the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters. Ramaphosa received 283 votes to Malema’s 44 in the 400-member house. The 71-year-old Ramaphosa secured his second term with the help of lawmakers from the country’s second biggest party, the Democratic Alliance, and some smaller parties. They…
A man has been jailed for four years and three months after being charged with rape as he removed a condom without the woman he was having sex with knowing. Guy Mukendi, 39 and from Brixton, south London, was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court after being found guilty on 2 April. A young woman in Brixton reported the assault on 9 May last year. She had consented to having sex with Mukendi as long as he wore a condom. But during the encounter, he removed the protection without her knowledge. The Metropolitan Police said the victim was supported during…
In a startling incident at Makadara Law Courts in Kenya, a routine court session was abruptly disrupted when a magistrate was shot by a police officer minutes ago. The shocking event occurred during proceedings today, causing panic and confusion within the court room. The shooter shot Magistrate Monica Kivuti in the thigh in Court No. 9. The magistrate had made a ruling in a case involving the shooters his wife. The shooter has been neutralized by his colleagues. Emergency services were quickly dispatched to the scene, and the injured magistrate was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. This alarming…
The body of former first lady, Madame Patricia Shanil Dzimbiri has depart yesterday, 13th June, from Sunset Funeral Home in Karonga for her home village where she will be buried with full military honor today at Senzani, Balaka. Present at the ceremony yesterday was President Lazarus Chakwera and the First Lady, Monica Chakwera, former president of Malawi, Dr. Bakili Muluzi and the former president of Malawi, Dr. Joyce Banda, her children Lucy and Zake Muluzi who were accompanied by Atupele Muluzi among other notable figures and government representatives. The Mass burial ceremony of the former first lady shall commence at…
A 38-year-old father, who resides in Mtandire township in Lilongwe, is in custody at Lingadzi Police Station for allegedly defiling and impregnating his 17-year-old daughter as part of a ritual to acquire wealth. Initially, in July 2023, the suspect told his wife about his willingness to sacrifice their own child for financial gain, a thing that was taken as a joke by the wife.Again in August 2023, the husband informed his wife that he had gone to Mozambique for money-making rituals. In Mozambique, a witch doctor gave him a charm, which he said for it to function, the suspect must…
It has been confirmed that the second citizen, Vice President of Malawi and the President of United Transformation Party (UTM) Dr. Saulos Klaus Chilima is deceased following the disappearing of the military plane he was in along with 9 other party and military representatives.The development comes after 24hrs lapse of the plane’s disappearance. A search and rescue team operation was initiated by the Malawi President’s order which has resulted in the discovery of the plane in tatters today around 11 a.m. in the far end of the Chikangawa forest close to Lunjika turn off in Mzimba where the plane was…
Three Valencia football fans have sentenced to eight months in prison on Monday for hate crimes against Real Madrid player Vinicius Jr, the first conviction for racist insults in a soccer stadium in Spain, the court announced. “The ruling handed down today, which is final, establishes as proven that the three defendants insulted Vinicius with shouts, gestures and chants referring to the colour of his skin,” the court said in a statement. “These shouts and gestures of a racist nature, consisting among other things in the repetition of the sounds and imitating the movements of monkeys, caused the footballer feelings…
Messages and Prayers pours in as reports floods the media that Malawi’s Vice President’s has been missing. Its reported that the plane carrying Dr Saulos Chilima and 9 others has been missing after it went off the radar. The Vice President was traveling to the Northern Region for the burial of late Ralph Kasambala, former cabinet minister of justice who has suddenly died last week. A plane carrying Malawi’s Vice President (VP) Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine other people has gone missing after it failed to make a scheduled landing on Monday according to the presidential office. The Malawi Defense…
On the eve of the May 27 general elections, which saw the ruling African National Congress (ANC) lose its majority for the first time in 30 years of South African democracy, a major change to the country’s drug laws slipped through, barely noticed by most. Just one day before the historic ballot, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Cannabis for Private Purposes Act, making South Africa the first African nation to legalise the use of marijuana. The bill removes cannabis from the country’s list of outlawed narcotics, meaning adults are now free to grow and consume the plant (except in the…
Here is a letter by the Medical Doctors union of Malawi regarding the on going strike