Malawi Congress Party (MCP) losing presidential candidate John Tembo has vowed to carry on with the legal battle on May 19 general election results in pursuit of justice. The veteran politician said he will not relent his legal action until justice is known because he has all the evidence that the polls were fraudulent. Tembo, [...]
Malawi’s re-elected President ‘Ngwazi’ Dr Bingu wa Mutharika is set to hire a new cabinet expected to be on merit and lean, Nyasa Times understands. Mutharika who has promised to lead the nation into prosperity for his last five-year constitutional term, is reported to have been consulting his preferred choices for the new-look cabinet The [...]
A Magistrate court in the central region district of Salima has convicted a kinder garten school owner and teacher for defiling a pupil. Prosecution successfully proved that Macdonald Kabwabwa, 46, on April 8 at Chitala in Salima sexually defiled the girl at his school and infected her with HIV, the virus that causes Aids. Constable [...]
The British Council in Malawi will on Saturday 30th May, launch the Words and Picture (WaPi) programme which will help the young and talented upcoming artists to showcase their visual and performance art to the public, Programmes Officer for British Council Muthi Nhlema said Tuesday.”The programme will be helpful to upcoming talented artists in the [...]
Malawi’s soccer export to Russia, Essau Kanyenda has assured that he has no immediate plans to retire from national duties and has committed himself to help the Flames in the campaign bid for 2010 World Cup final in South Africa.Kanyenda was recently reported to be pondering hanging his boots for the national side.Malawi head coach [...]
Data management in Malawi is a serious concern and management of electoral results is no exception.It is not that Malawi has no professionals. Also, it does mean that the professionals do not know what they are doing. The problem lies with the authorities because they deliberately facilitate the gradual death of professionalism in order to [...]
We’re fed up with speeches from archives aimed at dehumanising John Zenus Ungapake Tembo. All of us are fed up. It’s not just Chris Daza, Ishmael Chafukila, Humphrey Mvula, Mayi Hilda Manjankhosi and our fellow Nyasa Times columnist, Nyakuchenya Ganda, (we know even without asking him).It’s the entire coalition team-Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and the [...]
Police have confirmed that they arrested Lingford Ngoma, 51 who is accused of injuring a 60 year old man when he caught him (the victim) red-handed making love with his second wife. According to Mchinji Police Station Criminal Investigation Detective Paswell Manase Phiri, Ngoma was arrested on Tuesday on allegations that he pulled the genitals [...]