{"id":53931,"date":"2023-12-06T19:50:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T19:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?p=53931"},"modified":"2023-12-06T07:47:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T07:47:21","slug":"malawi-attorney-general-accuses-amaryllis-of-racism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-attorney-general-accuses-amaryllis-of-racism-2","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Attorney General accuses Amaryllis of racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda has accused Amaryllis Hotel of racism, saying he was kicked out of the hotel to accommodate guests from North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Chakaka Nyirenda made the allegations on Wednesday last week in a Facebook post in which he described the experience as lousy with the \u201ccharacter of racism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing ordered to check out of the hotel by Amaryllis Hotel management to accommodate some guests from some North African country. I just had to move to my lovely Sunbird Mount Soche Hotel whose management happily welcomed me,\u201d wrote Nyirenda.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations which came as Malawi was celebrating the Tourism Month, have angered Malawians who condemned the hotel in comments on Chakaka\u2019s post. \u201cThis post coming from an eminent personality is way too worrying&#8230;.more so when it has been given a race card to it ..<\/p>\n<p>And if the scenario has really a racial veil to it then it\u2019s grossly worrying and irritatingly infuriating&#8230; \u201cIf it\u2019s really true about what our AG is complaining, then we have a pain in a wrong place situation.. Racism is degrading,reduces the dignity of a man to almost nothing&#8230; Let\u2019s hear what the owners of the hotel have to say on this incident,\u201d said one commenter.<\/p>\n<p>Another commenter said as a person in a position of influence, Nyirenda should take action against Amaryllis. \u201cWhat proactive steps do you plan to take to address the issue of racism against indigenous nationals within your country?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you ensure that measures are in place to protect and support them, similar to approaches taken in other countries to combat such discrimination? Thabo Chakaka-Nyirenda,\u201d the person said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nyirenda has since made another post saying a major shareholder as well as the General Manager of Amaryllis Hotel reached out to him through a phone call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to report that the issue has now been amicably resolved. It\u2019s now water under the bridge,\u201d he wrote on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda has accused Amaryllis Hotel of racism, saying he was kicked out of the hotel to accommodate guests from North Africa. Chakaka Nyirenda made the allegations on Wednesday last week in a Facebook post in which he described the experience as lousy with the \u201ccharacter of racism\u201d. \u201cBeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":53930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,410],"tags":[233,371,741,552,234,2298,525],"class_list":["post-53931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-head-lines","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-hotels","tag-laws","tag-malawi","tag-racism","tag-tourism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malawi Attorney General accuses Amaryllis of racism - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda has accused Amaryllis Hotel of racism, saying he was kicked out of the hotel to ...\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-attorney-general-accuses-amaryllis-of-racism-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malawi Attorney General accuses Amaryllis of racism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda has accused Amaryllis Hotel of racism, saying he was kicked out of the hotel to ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-attorney-general-accuses-amaryllis-of-racism-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-12-06T19:50:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/12\/sm_1701836145.537266.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-attorney-general-accuses-amaryllis-of-racism-2#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-attorney-general-accuses-amaryllis-of-racism-2\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Malawi Attorney General accuses Amaryllis of racism\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-12-06T19:50:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-attorney-general-accuses-amaryllis-of-racism-2\"},\"wordCount\":346,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-attorney-general-accuses-amaryllis-of-racism-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/12\/sm_1701836145.537266.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"hotels\",\"laws\",\"Malawi\",\"racism\",\"tourism\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"head lines\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-attorney-general-accuses-amaryllis-of-racism-2#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-attorney-general-accuses-amaryllis-of-racism-2\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-attorney-general-accuses-amaryllis-of-racism-2\",\"name\":\"Malawi Attorney General accuses Amaryllis of racism - 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