Published: January 25, 2010
Attorney General urges women to love themselves |
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Malawi’s first female Attorney-General, Dr Jane Ansah has persuaded women not to pull each other down but love one another and perform even better than men for them to be recognised. “What I have realized in life is that for women to be recognized they must perform even better than their counterparts. There are challenges [...]
Published: November 25, 2009
Bingu issues stern warning to perpetrators of gender based violence |
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Malawi on Wednesday joined the rest of the international community to observe 16 days of activism to end violence against women, a period set aside by the Women Global Leadership in 1991 in order to highlight heinous crimes committed against women. President Bingu Wa Mutharika said in a special address to the nation on TV [...]
Published: October 23, 2009
CHRR applauds Bingu for signing SADC gender protocol, calls for implementation |
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The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) has commended President Ngwazi Dr. Bingu Wa Mutharika for signing the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development on behalf of the Malawi Government. CHRR said in a statement e-mailed to Nyasa Times by Michael Kaiyatsa, Programme Assistant that the signing, which took place last Monday, October 19, [...]
Published: October 11, 2009
Glamour at summer fashion bonanza as winner gets K100, 000 |
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There was glamour at Comesa hall in the commercial city Blantyre, where Rose Kaleke of Rozes Trendy Fashions went home K100, 000 richer after emerging the best fashion designer in the 2009 Summer Fashion Bonanza. Kaleke’s ultimate design, a traditional wedding dress that she said its inspiration came from a Chewa tribe traditional wedding ceremony [...]
Published: September 12, 2009
Action Aid introduces a revolving fund for vulnerable women |
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As part of empowering women through its social empowerment on rights of vulnerable and excluded women (SERVE) project, Action Aid Malawi has set a revolving fund for vulnerable women worthy K1.8 million. SERVE Project Coordinator, Wezzie Kenani said the funds will be available to vulnerable women identified from four districts of Salima, Chiradzulu, Chitipa and [...]
Published: August 16, 2009
Malawian lecture says African women will be liberated if they own the cause |
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Malawi’s Jessie Kabwila Kapasula is a proud feminist who approaches feminism both as an academic and as an activist. This doctoral student, who also lectures on African feminism at Binghamton University in New York, was invited by -Univesity of South Africa, Unisa – College of Human Sciences to be a part of the African Visiting [...]
Published: July 30, 2009
Malawi will sign SADC protocol on gender - Kaliati |
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Malawi which did not sign the SADC Gender Protocol says it will now assent to the document. Minister of Gender and Children, Patricia Kaliati made the assurance that the government of Malawi will sign the Gender Protocol that seeks to make SADC governments’ commitment to gender equality legally binding, as a tool for cementing the [...]
Published: May 3, 2009
Police arrest man for injuring genitals of wife’s lover |
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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 [...]
Published: April 24, 2009
Gender and Malawi 09 elections, a counter reply |
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I find the tone reflective in the reply to my article on Mr Mwale by Mr Mwale, regretable. We are academics and differing and debating comes wit the territory. I wrote a reply to Mr Pascal Mwale’s article not because I am not respectful of him or any of the readers. I was under the [...]
