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DIED. HASTINGS KAMUZU BANDA, 90s, Malawi's self-proclaimed President-for-Life whose idiosyncratic tenure was ended by democratic elections in 1994; in Johannesburg. After his country won freedom from Britain in 1964, Banda delayed Africanization and curried favor with apartheid South Africa to bolster the economy...
Munthali, then an apparatchik in the ruling Malawi Congress Party, fled the country in 1964 with a group of dissident Cabinet Ministers. From abroad they organized a movement to oppose the despotic Hastings Kamuzu Banda, then Malawi's Prime Minister and since 1971 President for Life. Munthali, who is in his early 60s, reportedly returned to Malawi in 1965 and was arrested. By some accounts, Munthali was never tried. According to others, he was charged with a firearms offense, served an eleven-year prison term, was immediately detained again when it expired and has been held since without charge...
...Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, 60, chief executive of the London-based conglomerate Lonrho, Ltd. Rowland has transformed a small initial stake in Africa into one of the continent's biggest commercial empires. Among his friends are Presidents Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaïre, Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya -not to mention Prime Minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia...
...South Africa in public while carrying on a brisk covert trade (perhaps as much as $100 million a year) with the white regimes. Malawi (pop. 5,100,000) practically flaunts its desire for cordial relations with the white governments. Says the country's U.S.-educated President, Hastings Kamuzu Banda: "I'd trade with the devil if it's for the good of Malawi...
...Jehovah's Witnesses, who now number more than 2 million worldwide, that is a command to boycott all political activity. Various nations have found this irksome, but few have matched the violence of Malawi's response. During a 1972 crackdown by President-for-life Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, a Presbyterian elder, Malawi Witnesses were robbed, beaten, raped, even murdered. Thousands fled to neighboring Zambia, which shipped most of them back to Malawi. Eventually, about 34,000 found refuge in Portuguese Mozambique...