{"id":9425,"date":"2012-04-22T13:27:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T13:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=9425"},"modified":"2012-04-22T13:27:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T13:27:26","slug":"madonna-may-have-problems-with-the-new-president-of-malawi-she-fired-her-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/22\/madonna-may-have-problems-with-the-new-president-of-malawi-she-fired-her-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna May Have Problems with the New President of Malawi–She Fired Her Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madonna \u2014 now saying she\u2019s building small, inexpensive schools in Malawi \u2014 may have a problem with the country\u2019s new president. Malawi just elected Joyce Banda, who shares a last name with the first child Madonna controversially adopted from that country\u2013David Banda. (They don\u2019t seem to be blood relatives.)
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\nBut Madonna\u2019s obsession with Malawi may now have some big hurdles. Last year Madonna hired and fired Banda\u2019s sister Anjimile Oponyo from running her never-built leadership academy. It was a very big scandal in Malawi. Madonna had contracted to pay a whopping $380,000. Then it turned out no one knew where the money was going, and Madonna\u2019s charity, Raising Malawi\u2013a front for the Kabbalah Center of Los Angeles\u2013was investigated by the IRS. IRS reported exclusively that a grand jury was convened to figure out where millions had gone.<\/p>\n

Anjimile Oponyo and the other workers contracted for the leadership academy sued Madonna, who of course counter-sued. The case was finally settled out of court, with Madonna agreeing to pay about $150,000 to Oponyo and other dismissed workers. The whole episode left a bad taste behind for all concerned. Now Oponyo\u2019s sister is president of the country. And Joyce Banda has her own successful foundation and charity in Malawi that builds schools and helps children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madonna \u2014 now saying she\u2019s building small, inexpensive schools in Malawi \u2014 may have a problem with the country\u2019s new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[2186,2187,466,286,258],"class_list":["post-9425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madonna-in-malawi","tag-cheap-schools","tag-david-banda","tag-joyce-banda","tag-madonna","tag-malawi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425","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=9425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}