The story below is now making rounds on social media. Am not sure which newspaper has published it, but below are historical facts behind this attack.
During that period in time, Haile Selassie was on a State visit to Malawi and one of the scheduled sites to showcase was the Malingunde Dam. As is customary, a reconnaissance mission this time led by my father Hon. R.B. Chidzanja Nkhoma went to Malingunde for inspection of preparations. In the meantime, as was also customary for my father’s house, a group of politicians had gathered at his house in area 3 after he had already left.
Anyway, upon hearing that he had travelled to Malingunde, some decided to borrow my mother’s Mini Morris and follow him. In that vehicle there was Mr. Kalumo (Uncle to Brigadier Gen. Charles Kalumo ret), Mr. Manyetela and his sister Margaret Manyetela, Hon. Sosten Kastomo Njilamalimba MP for that constituency and another person I can’t remember.
Unfortunately, on their way they got involved in an accident and 2 or 3 people died. One was Hon. Kastomo and the other Mai Margate Manyetela….
My father decided to attend Hon. Kastomo’s funeral even after he had already tipped and warned by the police that an attack was organised. He insisted in attending this funeral as he had the other funerals.
Fortunately, the police also followed him in his stubbornness. It was learnt that amongst the other ministers’ present, one of them was behind orchestrating these attacks. For obvious reasons I will not mention his name, but you can ask me ku inbox.
Unfortunately, this was not the only attempt this man had made on my father. There were other ambushes and attacks he was doing was just political jealousy. By the way he was not hurt at all, the people throwing missiles were bad at aiming or he had great reflexes at dodging. politics has and will ALWAYS be dirty.
My father was a brave man usually sent on dangerous and hostile mission like war zones by HKB.
Richard Boston CHIDZANJA NKHOMA
He became provincial chairman of the Malawi Congress Party in the Central Region and he was elected to the Legislative Council in 1961. Two years later he became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Trade and Industry, then entered the cabinet in 1964 as Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for the Central Region.
President Banda left him out of the cabinet in the 1967 reshuffle but compensated him with senior diplomatic appointments in Bonn and Nairobi. He made a political comeback in 1969 and rejoined the cabinet as Minister of Natural Resources and subsequently took over the Ministry of Agriculture.
His second setback came when he lost his seat in the elections of April 1971. Again, his political resilience brought him back to the centre of power. In March 1972 he was Minister of Transport and Communications and Minister of Labour. When the President reshuffled his cabinet on April 4, 1972, he kept Nkhoma in the cabinet as Minister without
