[civsoc-mw] Governance prize from Chatham House

[trevor chimimba]

Iwe Keyboard, 

The judges don’t need your congratulations. It is rich folks like you and your educated friend who are messing this country up.

 You even have the nerve of waking up in the morning and of all the things you could imagine, not let me give my wife a smooch or let me make myself a cup of coffee but today I have to bribe those five judges. What type of nation have we become?

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> On Oct 31, 2020, at 6:07 AM, Keyboard Boyd Kilembey <kkilembe at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Congratulations to the judges. It was a brave ruling
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>> On Sat, 31 Oct 2020, 11:46 , <cammack at mweb.co.za> wrote:
>> Fareed’s Global Briefing <GlobalBriefing at newsletters.cnn.com>
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>> Heartwarming Governance Story of the Day: Malawi Judges Win Chatham House Prize
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>> The British foreign-affairs think tank Chatham House gives out an annual award for contributions to the improvement of international relations, and this year’s prize has gone to the five judges of the Malawi Supreme Court, which held the country’s 2019 presidential election to be invalid and ordered a rerun, after finding widespread irregularities, despite pressure. (Of the vote, RFI reports: “The 2019 Malawi presidential election was dubbed the ‘Tipp-Ex election’ on social media, referring to a brand of correction fluid, after ballot tally papers emerged with areas painted with the white liquid and written over, supposedly altering results.”)
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>> Chatham House commends them, writing: “Malawi’s constitutional court judges set an example for their peers across the world by upholding the centrality of the rule of law and separation of powers. ... Despite high-level bribery attempts and threats, Justice Healey Potani, Justice Ivy Kamanga, Justice Redson Kapindu, Justice Dingiswayo Madise and Justice Michael Tembo—who arrived in court under armed escort and wearing bullet-proof vests—delivered their 500-page ruling which upheld the constitution and defended citizens’ democratic rights in the most difficult circumstances. … The Malawi ruling is unprecedented in a country where past elections have been marred by irregularities, electoral fraud and violence. The judges successfully asserted their independence in the face of significant pressures and the power of incumbency.”
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