{"id":426859,"date":"2011-05-19T15:24:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/19\/photojournalist-roughed-up-at-former-presidents-memorial-service\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T15:24:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:24:14","slug":"photojournalist-roughed-up-at-former-presidents-memorial-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/19\/photojournalist-roughed-up-at-former-presidents-memorial-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Photojournalist Roughed Up At Former President&#8217;s Memorial Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"22.8800543663\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.misa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media Institute of Southern Africa<\/a> (Windhoek)<\/p>\n<p>19 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>press release<\/p>\n<p>The Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi) has learned with disappointment that Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) photojournalist Jacob Nankhonya was roughed up at a memorial service for the late former president Hastings Kamuzu Banda on 14 May 2011.<\/p>\n<p>According to our investigations, Nankhonya was manhandled by a man identified as Lawrence Mlambwaza. Mlambwaza reportedly stopped Nankhonya from taking pictures at the memorial service and attempted to seize his camera. The incident took place at Kamuzu&#8217;s mausoleum at the Heroes&#8217; acre, City Centre, Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>Nankhonya told MISA-Malawi that he was invited by the Kamuzu family to take pictures at the memorial service. &#8220;I had finished taking pictures when suddenly a man known as Jim Jumani Johansen, who claims to be the late Kamuzu&#8217;s son, showed up at the service . . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It happened that Jumani was passing through the spot I had focused on with the camera . . . Mlambwaza thought I was shooting pictures of Jumani and he rushed towards me and attempted to snatch my camera,&#8221; Nankhonya said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105191024.html\" title=\"Photojournalist Roughed Up At Former President's Memorial Service\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Photojournalist Roughed Up At Former President&#8217;s Memorial Service<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Media Institute of Southern Africa (Windhoek) 19 May 2011 press release The Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi) has learned with disappointment that Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) photojournalist Jacob Nankhonya was roughed up at a memorial service for the late former president Hastings Kamuzu Banda on 14 May 2011. According to our investigations, Nankhonya was manhandled by a man identified as Lawrence Mlambwaza. Mlambwaza reportedly stopped Nankhonya from taking pictures at the memorial service and attempted to seize his camera. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Photojournalist Roughed Up At Former President&#039;s Memorial Service - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/19\/photojournalist-roughed-up-at-former-presidents-memorial-service\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Photojournalist Roughed Up At Former President&#039;s Memorial Service - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Media Institute of Southern Africa (Windhoek) 19 May 2011 press release The Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi) has learned with disappointment that Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) photojournalist Jacob Nankhonya was roughed up at a memorial service for the late former president Hastings Kamuzu Banda on 14 May 2011. 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