{"id":9309,"date":"2012-04-21T09:01:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T09:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=9309"},"modified":"2012-04-21T09:01:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T09:01:54","slug":"no-madam-president-for-malawis-banda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/21\/no-madam-president-for-malawis-banda\/","title":{"rendered":"No \u2018Madam President\u2019 for Malawi\u2019s Banda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Malawi\u2019s late President Bingu wa Mutharika insisted on being formally addressed as \u201cthe conqueror\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His successor Joyce Banda says a simple Mrs will do, according to a memo from her office Thursday.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_8641\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/joyce_banda_com.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/joyce_banda_com-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"joyce_banda_com\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8641\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Banda<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nMrs Banda dislikes being addressed as \u201cMadam President\u201d, as the trend has been since she was sworn in on April 7 following Mutharika\u2019s sudden death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease be advised that in correspondence and other communication, the state president should be addressed as \u2018Her Excellency Mrs Joyce Banda\u2019,\u201d said the memo.<\/p>\n<p>President Mutharika styled himself as Ngwazi Professor Bingu wa Mutharika, in the footsteps of late dictator Kamuzu Banda. Ngwazi is translated as the \u201cconqueror\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi\u2019s late President Bingu wa Mutharika insisted on being formally addressed as \u201cthe conqueror\u201d. His successor Joyce Banda says a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[699,466,258,526],"class_list":["post-9309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-africa","tag-joyce-banda","tag-malawi","tag-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309","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=9309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}