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Malawi Govt urgently recalls RSAâ€™s High Commissioner, 3 diplomats to return home in seven days

Source: Maravi Post, 11/11/2018

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Government this week fired four diplomats at
Malawi High Commission in Pretoria South Africa including the head of
the mission and they have been given seven days each to pack up and
return home.

According to Foreign Affairs Ministry, Malawian High Commissioner to
South Africa Professor Chrissie Kaponda, Defence AttachÃ© Colonel
Lawrence Mambo, first secretary (protocol) Kondwani and Daniel Salimu
second secretary (social services) were effectively out of work and
must return home.

â€œI write to inform you that government has directed that the
exigencies of services require that you be recalled to Malawi with
immediate effect,â€ reads a communication from Foreign Affairs Ministry
signed by acting Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International
Corporation Veronica Chidothe.

The letter dated November 1 2018 under reference number EA/1/3/55B
says the recalled diplomats are expected to return to Malawi within
seven days.
High Commissioner Kaponda confirmed she has been recalled but could
not state the reasons behind the recall.
Meanwhile, the two that have survived the chop are those related to
the power-that-be. They fare deputy head of Mission Gloria Bamusi and
Rosaline Mapundula, First Secretary (Political Affairs).
Bamusi becomes the de facto acting head of the mission.

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