MaraviPost : most recent significant obituaries in Malawi and those affecting the Malawi Diaspora all over the world.
Three people have died, while many others were severely injured in a road accident involving a bus that overturned at Zalewa Roadblock on Friday.
According to the police report sourced by the Maravi Post, the accident took place early Friday morning, and likely to have been caused by over speeding by the driver of the bus. Continue reading Three dead, many injured after bus accident near Zalewa Roadblock on M1
Malawians, led by President Peter Mutharika and the Vice President Dr. Saulos Chilima on Tuesday, laid to rest Gerald Kalirani, an aerospace engineer and the first aircraft engineer for Air Malawi.
The burial ceremony of Kalirani, who was also the brother to the Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare Dr. Jean Kalirani, took place Mutu village in the area of Traditional Authority Mtema, in Ntcheu district. Continue reading Malawi’s first Aircraft Engineer Gerald Kalirani laid to rest
LILONGWE (MaraviPost): Malawi Congress Party Administrative Secretary, Portipher Chidaya, who died on Saturday, after he succumbed to kidney failure and low blood pressure, was buried on Monday at a ceremony attended by many MCP dignitaries, at Area 18 cemetery in the capital city.
Embattled MCP President and leader of opposition in Parliament, Dr. Lazarous Chakwera, led the mourners and paid respects to the man, who many believe served the Party diligently. Continue reading MCP Administrative Secretary, Portipher Chidaya laid to rest
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-The main opposition Malawi Congress Party’s (MCP) long serving member and Administrative Secretary, Portipher Chidaya died on Saturday, after he succumbed to kidney failure and low blood pressure.
MCP’s Deputy Secretary-General, Eisenhower Mkaka, confirmed Chidaya’s demise. The late Chidaya was admitted at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in the capital Lilongwe this week. Continue reading MCP’s administrator Secretary Portipher Chidaya dies
The Ngoni Paramount Chief, His Majesty, Ngwenayma Maseko Inkosi ya Makosi Gomani V, on Saturday April 21, 2017, honored the Mbekeani Mayombo clan when he and a delegation of aNgoni impis attended the Tombstone Unveiling Ceremony of the late Ambassador Mr. Nyemba Wales Mbekeani and Mrs. Lois Mbekeani, at the St. Michael and All Angels CCAP church in Blantyre.
Other dignitaries who attended the ceremony, were former Ambassador Mr. John Magombo and Mrs. Magombo, and Ambassador Mr. Tony Kandiero, former Minister Mr. Dama Phoya, former Minister Mrs. Eddah Chitalo, former Minister Patrick Mbewe and Mrs. Mbewe, and Mrs Mbumba Banda (wife of late former Minister Aleke Banda).
Ambassador Mr. Nyemba Mbekeani succumbed to lung cancer on September 2, 2015. This was barely one and a half months after his wife of 65 years, Mrs Lois (Chikankheni) Mbekeani, lost her long-time battle with heart disease on July 23, 2017.
Many people will remember Ambassador Mr. Nyemba Mbekeani as Mkulumadzi and the Bread People man; while Mrs. Mbekeani is remembered as the Fruit People lady. However, both Ambassador Mbekeani and Mrs. Mbekeani enter the history books of Malawi as 1950s-1964 freedom fighters: Ambassador Mbekeani as the front liner freedom fighter and his wife as the enabler.
Both husband and wife have accolades that can fill two volumes each. Ambassador Mbekeani was the first translator for Malawi’s first President, Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda.
Mrs. Mbekeani on the home front, facilitated hosting political activists that helped the eloquent medical doctor, (Dr. Banda) wrestle power from the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and British colonial rule. Achieved formally in 1964.
Ambassador Mbekeani often recounted how he and other Banda followers gave themselves up to the British-controlled Nyasaland police when they heard that Dr. Banda had been captured. He and several hundred political agitators, spent one year at Khami Prison; while Dr. Banda spent one year and a half at Gwero Prison.
From prison life Ambassador Mbekeani jumped into an illustrious international career in capitals of London, Rome, New York, Washington D.C. and Addis Ababa as Malawi’s High Commissioner, Ambassador and Permanent Representative.
As Ambassador Mbekeani performed his diplomatic duties representing President and country, Mrs. Mbekeani took First Aide, Home Nursing and Trainer of Trainer courses and led an impressive volunteer career with the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade, the (British, followed by the American) Red Cross, and the UN diplomat’s wives’ association (teaching English to wives of diplomats).
Once retired, Ambassador Mbekeani and Mrs. Mbekeani, settled in their home district Blantyre where he was appointed Malawi Housing Cooperation General Manager before embarking on a career in the bakery business; Mrs. Mbekeani continued her volunteer work with the Red Cross, St John’s Brigade and the Girl Guides Association of Malawi; and citrus farming – hence the name “the Fruit People.”
The Tombstone Unveiling Ceremony began with a Church service in the same church Ambassador Mr. Nyemba Mbekeani married his school sweetheart Miss Lois Chikankheni.
The service on Saturday was presided by Ambassador Mbekeani’s school friend – Reverend Bottleman and Reverend M’bawa. From the church, His Majesty, Ngwenayma Maseko Inkosi ya Makosi Gomani V, joined the family and guests to the grave site where the tombstone for Ambassador Mr. Mbekeani and Mrs. Mbekeani was unveiled.
Thereafter, guest converged at Ambassador Mbekeani and Mrs. Mbekeani Maoni residence in Limbe.
Ambassador Mr. Nyemba Mbekeani and Mrs. Lois Mbekeani are survived by four children (Janet, George, Joyce and Lumumba), 13 grandchildren, and 19 great grandchildren.
May their souls rest in God’s eternal loving peace.
MANGOCHI-(MaraviPost)-A boy in Mangochi, 14-year old Jafali Alli, drowned in Kapira River.
Mangochi police station deputy Public Relations Officer Amina Daudi said Jafali met his fate at 1300 hours when he and some friends went swimming.
The boy’s body was retrieved from the water and taken to Mangochi District Hospital for postmortem where results established that death was due to suffocation.
“Police in the district are therefore, advising the general public not to allow children to play or swim in rivers or the lake without the company of guardians,” Daudi said.
Jafali hailed from Ibrahim Village, Traditional Authority (T.A) Chimwala in Mangochi district.
“Patrick O’Malley has passed on in Ireland. The Earth, receive an honoured guest. For decades, Fr. O’Malley did whatever he could to help his fellow lecturers at Chancellor College who were detained without trial by the government of Dr Hastings Banda (1970’s-80’s).
When icons of Malawian poetry, such as Prof. Felix Mnthali and Dr Jack Mapanje were locked up at Mikuyu Prison, it was Fr. O’Malley who looked out for his detained colleagues’ families, and, in the case of Jack Mapanje, the Irish priest went so far as to mastermind a formidable international campaign for his release.
Rest in peace, Fr. O’Malley.”
