Through a combination of bribery, intimidation, election malpractices, and the suffocation of civil society, Banda not only closed all democratic openings inherited at political independence in 1964, but also erected the structures of a corrupt and highly repressive one-person and one-party state
Kudzera kuphatikiza ziphuphu, kuopsezana, kuchita zolakwika pachisankho ndiponso kuchepetsa mphamvu za mabungwe omwe siaboma, Banda sanatseke mokhamo modzera ufulu wodzilamulira womwe tinapatsidwa pamene tinayamba kudzilamulira tokha pandale mu 1964, koma iye anakhadzikitsanso boma lakatangale ndi lophwanya ufulu lamunthu mmodzi ndi chipani chimodzi