{"id":5715,"date":"2011-10-24T09:23:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T09:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=5715"},"modified":"2011-10-24T09:23:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T09:23:40","slug":"president-sata-invites-joyce-instead-of-bingu-to-zambia-independence-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/24\/president-sata-invites-joyce-instead-of-bingu-to-zambia-independence-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"President Sata invites Joyce instead of Bingu to Zambia Independence Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sata3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5717\" title=\"sata\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sata3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>President Micheal Chilufya Sata has shunned Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika at his country\u2019s 47th independence celebrations but extended his invitation to vice president Joyce Banda and former president Bakili Muluzi.<\/p>\n<p>Zambia celebrates \u2018flag\u2019 independence on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Nyasatimes reports that in an invitation to Malawi former president, Sata also asked Muluzi\u2019s son, Atupele to attend the celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have the honour to invite Your Excellency and your dear son (Atupele) to grace the 47th independence anniversary of Zambia,\u201d reads the letter to Muluzi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be honoured for your presence so that I can express my thanks for the support you rendered to me during difficult time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary General of Zamba\u2019s ruling Patriotic Front, Wynter Kabimba, confirmed that the invitations were also sent to Vice President Banda.<\/p>\n<p>Nyasa Times understands that there has been no invitation to President Mutharika.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between president Mutharika and his vice president Joyce Banda is bad.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce Banda on Sptember 7, 2011 formed her own partycalled\u00a0\u00a0the People\u2019s Party (PP). She is expected to lead the party in the 2014 presidential polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur plan for the next two years is to build the party in readiness to stand for election,\u201d said Banda. \u201cWe have more than 1.2 million members already. So, we have put systems in place that will enable us to articulate the issues that we want to present to the Malawi electorate in a form of a manifesto in 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Zambia Watchdog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Micheal Chilufya Sata has shunned Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika at his country\u2019s 47th independence celebrations but extended his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[525,466,1249,382],"class_list":["post-5715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bingu","tag-joyce-banda","tag-sata","tag-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}