When Robert Chasowa, a student at the University of Malawi’s Polytechnic campus, was found dead at the premises of the college, the police moved quickly to stem any mayhem the death might have resulted in. Students, after all, had already begun to run riot. The Police quickly announced that the death was suicide. The deceased […]
Malawi’s light heavyweight boxer Isaac Chilemba scored a 2nd-round knockout of Brooklyn’s Jameson Bostic in his second American bout at Atlantic City on Saturday October 1 Chilemba‘s litany of punches on Bostic sank him to the corner after a flurry and looked like he wanted none of the ‘Golden Boy’. The ‘Golden Boy’was making a […]
At exactly half past one in the afternoon on Saturday, state vice president Joyce Banda took her seat at Masintha Ground where her newly-registered People’s Party was being officially launched in the central region. When she took to the podium to address thousands of enthusiastic supporters, most of whom clad in the party’s official orange […]
Malawi’s vice president Joyce Banda on Saturday paid homage to the late Robert Chasowa, a fourth-year engineering student and political activist who was found dead under suspicious circumstances within the Polytechnic campus on September 24, 2011. Chasowa was the vice-chair of a student activist group, Youth for Democracy (YFD). The YFD printed a weekly pro-democracy […]
Malawi’s pathologist Dr Charles Dzamalala who carried out a post-mortem on the body of a final year engineering student Robert Chasowa whose mysterious death police say was a case of suicide, has refuted ever realising any report as police were claiming. Dzamalala told Malawi News on Saturday that he did not produce any autopsy report […]
Your body was laid to rest the other day We interred your remains: the clothes you wore your shoes, the wrist watch still ticking to tell us endlessly the changing of the seasons the signs of the times We buried your football skills But we failed to bury your soul. Your spirit lives on […]
Malawi’s former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) has decided to suspend lawmaker Austin Atupele Muluzi, former president Bakili Muluzi’s 33-year-old son, after he announced he will seek nomination to stand as presidential candidate for 2014 general elections. UDF communicated the suspension to Atupele through a letter signed by Secretary-general Kennedy Makwangwala on Friday. In the […]
Santos are being forced to release Malawi captain Peter Mponda who has been called up to play for Malawi even though he is continuing his rehabilitation after a long term knee injury. Malawi have called up the utility player for their vital African Nations Cup qualifier against Chad in Ndjamena although Mponda has not played […]
Unicef in conjunction with the Mzuzu based Youth Watch Society have donated 20 bicycles to some youths groups operating in Mzimba district to help them with mobility in disseminating HIV and AIDS messages or linking the youths to some service providers. Some of the youth groups that have received the bicycles are; Ekwendeni Community Organisation, […]
Reserve Bank of Malawi says the country has been hit by counterfeit money especially targeting biggest bill of 500 kwacha, has since put a K50 000 rewards if anyone will come forward with information leading to the people behind the syndicate dealing in fake money, promising that all information received from well wishers will be kept […]
Malawi’s president Bingu wa Mutharika has hired a new 32-member cabinet, including himself and wife First Lady Calista Mutharika. State vice president Joyce Banda’s name is conspicuously missing from the new list. According to a list of the new ministers read out on state-owned Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), there are several prominent members of the […]
Malawi’s opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) members of parliament have condemned plans by some party gurus to expel Machinga North East MP Atupele Muluzi because of his alleged interest to contest for the party’s presidency. Atupele, son to UDF founding president and former Malawi President Bakili Muluzi, was summoned to a hearing at Grace Bandawe […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) founding president Chakufwa Chihana’s son on Tuesday scooped the Rumphi central constituency seat deemed as the heavily contested parliamentary by-election . Results indicated Enoch Chihana polled some 6, 641 votes against DPP’s Norman Nyirenda’s 3, 275 votes. Chidumba Mkandawire of Mutharika’s estranged Vice President, Joyce Banda, came a close third with […]
Miss Malawi Faith Chibale to star in Zimbabwe’s latest action film titled, The Gentleman, which also features one of South Africa’s leading actors, Presley Chweneyagae and Zimbabwe business tycoon Philip Chiyangwa. Rufaro Kaseke, the movie producer, said the Joe Njagu production is a tale of twin brothers whose worlds had gone drastically wrong. The Gentlemanis […]
Malawi Defence Force (MDF) commander, General Henry Odillo has thanked the British Government for sponsoring the Managing Defence in a Wider Security Context (MDWSC) course currently underway in Salima. “My thanks go to Her Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom for sponsoring the course as part of f its Africa Conflict Prevention Pool Security sector reform,” […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of president Bingu wa Mutharika and newly formed northern region based People’s Development Movement (PDM) on Tuesday officially protested that Aford candidate Enock Chihana was tactically campaigning while voting is in the process on Tuesday in the Rumphi Central constituency by-elections in defiance of the electoral law. According to […]
Kingsley Mulewa, an auditor at Malawi Union of Savings and Credit Cooperative (Muscco) has been elected Institute of Internal Auditors Malawi (IIA), a national registered professional body dedicated to the promotion and development of the internal audit profession in Malawi. Mulewa was ushered into office during the 2011 Internal Audit Annual Conference held in Mangochi […]
Paladin Africa, the company that is running Kayelekera Uranium Mine in Karonga district has reportedly started buying food stuffs from Tukuyu in Tanzania depriving hardworking locals of income. The development has since irked local suppliers, who blame the procurement shift to the departure of the Australian born Chris Mattinson, who used to buy from locals […]