Peter Mutharika

Malawi: Chivayo's Charm Offensive Reaches First Lady - Malawi's Most Awkward Donor

[Nyasa Times] There is a particular type of donor that any well-run charity ought to fear: the one whose generosity arrives with more baggage than a private jet's cargo hold. Beautify Malawi, the charity chaired by the country's first lady, Gertrude Mutharika, appears to have acquired exactly such a benefactor in Wicknell Chivayo, the Zimbabwean businessman whose K1.7 billion (US$1 million) donation has done rather more to draw attention to the charity than its organisers might have wished.