Aaron Gadama Explained

Aaron Eliot Gadama was a former Malawian cabinet Minister and one of the 'Mwanza Four'.^[1] ^[2] He was born in Kasungu District and is thought to be a relative of President Kamuzu Banda.^[3]

He was a Minister for the Central Region, and a Leader of the House.^[4] He was one of the original trustees of Press Trust.^[5]

He died mysteriously on 18 th May 1983 together with Ministers Dick Matenje, and Twaibu Sangala as well as Member of parliament, David Chiwanga. Their bodies were found in Mozambique.^[6] The Banda government reported his death as a 'traffic accident.^[7] In 1995, seven people were accused of his death including Kamuzu Banda, but were acquitted due to lack of evidence.^[8]

Film and drama

The Mwanza Accident (Documentary) - 1995
The dramatic character Chibale Sakumbira is a political reference to Gadama and the Mwanza Incident.

Notes and References

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Newsletters/mno34.html MALAWI NEWS ONLINE #34
http://www.sdnp.org.mw/judiciary/criminal/MWANZA%20MURDER%20CASE%20SC.htm In The Malawi Supreme Court Of Appeal
http://www.kasiyamaliro.org/pdf/chibale_sakumbira.pdf Chibale Sakumbira, Kungoni Centre of Culture and Art
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZyIpVV3FZlAC&dq=Malawi+Police&pg=PP4 Richard Carver, Where Silence Rules: Dissent- Malawi
https://archive.today/20130221155035/http://www.presstrust.org.mw/history/3.html History - Press Trust
http://web.mit.edu/posner/www/papers/6.1posner.html Daniel N. Posner - Malawi's New Dawn - Journal of Democracy 6:1
http://www.law.buffalo.edu/Faculty_And_Staff/submenu/MutuaM/reports/kmchr0594.pdf Confronting the Past: Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Malawi, Robert F Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, 1994
https://archive.today/20130113051011/http://www.malawilii.org/mw/judgment/supreme-court/1997/2 Director of Public Prosecution v Banda (Kamuzu) and Others | Malawi Legal Information Institute