Chez Ntemba International Club will on Sunday add a sparkle to the Christmas celebrations with a crowning of Miss Christmas. The club hosts the beauty pageantry just a week after it wrapped up what would go down in the memory lane as superb dance competition. With Miss Warm Heart of Africa and Miss Malawi already […]
Contestants for the Miss Malawi 2011 pageant on Wednesday had an audience with the first couple at the New State House in Lilongwe. Apart from having an opportunity to have tea with President Bingu wa Mutharika and First Lady Madame Calista Mutharika, the fourteen contestants were also given K30,000 each. According to public broadcaster Malawi […]
Exclusive: Aisha Chiwaula was last Friday crowned the first Miss Warm Heart of Africa (MWHA) during a glamorous pageant held at Golden Peacock Hotel in the capital Lilongwe. Nyasa Times(NT) caught up with the 18-year-old BMW car winner and in this interview, she shares her adventures, her plans as MWHA and the message she has […]
The Malawi government has finally bought the French Cultural Centre at an undisclosed amount following a public out cry after the French Embassy closed it. Director of Finance and Administration in the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Culture Bishop Kenson Mbwana confirmed the development to Nyasa Times but declined to disclose how much it has […]
The Miss Malawi 2011 beauty pageant will be held at Capital Hotel in Lilongwe on Friday December 23 but the winning queen will not go home with the grand prize of a car as earlier announced, Nyasa Times has learnt. Organisers of the country’s top beauty competition, Artistic Agency, have since confirmed the development to […]
The 2011 Miss Malawi pageant talent show will take place on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 at at Capital City Hotel a head of the big event on Friday 23 December 2011. According to the organisers marketing executive officer Mable Banda of Vogue,the event will take place in the evening at Mulanje room. Banda said that […]
He was billed as one of the acts to curtain-close Chez Ntemba International Club’s dance competition finals, but his conspicuous absence later revealed that the country’s Afro-pop artist, Dan Lu is in South Africa for a series of shows. Dan Lu was among the Nde’feyo entertainment constant three, Maskal, Nthumwi Pixy and Armstrong who were […]
There was low turn-out at the three-day Senga Beach music festival which took place over the weekend at Sunbird Livingstonia Beach Hotel in Salima. Despite bringing together the country’s top notch artists, among them Lucius Banda, Black Missionaries, Skeffa Chimoto and musician of the moment Maskal, the music fest attracted low patronage. The artists and […]
Freedom of expression continues to be trampled upon by the Mutharika regime as actor Thlupego Chisiza son of late theatre maestro Dunduzu Chisiza Jr was arrested Sunday for staging a play critical of the government. The play SEMO which was co-written by slain student activist Robert Chasowa lampoons the DPP led governments handling of the […]
Blantyre-based model Aisha Chiwaula, 18, is the winner of the inaugural Miss Warm Heart of Africa 2011, which took place on Friday night (December 16) at Golden Peacock Hotel in Lilongwe. A Business Information Systems student at Zanzibar University, Chiwaula beat twelve other contestants to win the crown and the grand prize of a BMW […]
Here’s one life’s great conundrum: If music is the food of love why it is then that is there’s no love among those that cook the food for love in the country? Why is it then that the Malawian musicians have for a long time been living a disintegrated a society with a genre divide? […]
One contestant will not be in the finals of the 2011 Miss Malawi beauty pageant because she was sent packing for having a child, which is against the rules of the competition. Nyasa Times understands that the girl was disqualified before going into boot camp, which started on Tuesday in Lilongwe. “They [organizers] found out […]
Chez Ntemba International dance competition 2011 reaches climax over the weekend with the final contest pledging more money and fun. To make it more competitive and ideal to watch, the organizers have raised the prize money from K12,000 for number one spot in each category to K20,000 and K10,000 for runners up from K5,000. The […]
Splendid, vibrant, amazing and inspirational are not just enough words to describe the training session for contestants for the highly rated national pageant-Miss Warm Heart of Africa-according to the training coordinator, Dorothy Kamoto of RedRose. As the contest for the debut model crown reaches the climax, we caught up with Dorothy at the outset of […]
The reigning Miss Malawi, Faith Chibale, has been appointed by the National Lotteries Group (NLG) as their Corporate Social Responsibility Ambassador. Chibale’s appointment was revealed on Monday at the group’s offices in Blantyre during the Miss Malawi pre-pageant party. NLG Chief Executive Officer Allen Cheng disclosed: “We are not only sponsoring the 2011 pageant, we […]
Forget about Hollywood movies and Nollywood of Nigeria. It’s Malawi’s movie industry, Mollywood you may call it. Msonkhamanja Transformation Theatre will launch another DVD movie on 24 December, 2011. Premier The new movie is entitled ‘The Darkest Hour’. It is the second release after the youthful group released the famous movie ‘The Black Angel’ two years […]
Female musician Upile Malenga, better known by her stage name Rina, will this week be releasing her debut album ‘Fame Academy’. The 22-year-old versatile lady-artist discloses in an interview with Nyasa Times that the long-awaited hip-hop/R&B album will hit the market before Christmas. “Fame Academy is complete, we are now packaging the album and it […]
Malawian singer from the group Team Gypsy, has clinched two deals with South African record labels. The 21-year-old Sean Focus (real name Kondwani Mapemba), who is currently in the rainbow country, disclosed this in an online interview with Nyasa Times. “I am now signed to Blayze Entertainment as a producer and Ice & Roses as […]