* It is a growing concern with most utility companies with BWB being the most culprit * They are expected to seek permission from City Council dig up a road to repair their underground systems Blantyre Water Board (BWB) as well as most utility companies have been faulted of negligence at their disregard of reinstating […]
Blantyre City Council (BCC) is yet to start reallocating people from Soche to Machinjiri Township barely two weeks after the council removed injunction that had lasted for five years. BCC Public Relations Manager Anthony Kasunda said on Monday in Blantyre that currently his office had no new information regarding the allocating process. The PRO who […]
Following the incident in which an old and large mahogany tree (M’mbawa) fell on minibuses that damaged some of the minibuses and injured dozens of people at Mibawa minibus terminal in the commercial capital of Blantyre on Wednesday morning, people on social media condemned the Blantyre City Council of lacking the capacity to carry out […]
The Blantyre City Council (BCC) Tuesady says it will finish the surfacing of Limbe-Angelo Goveya-Manje road soon. There were concerns from residents considering that the road was partly surfaced and the part that remained is not in good shape especially now that the rains have started. According to Anthony Kasunda, BCC Public Relations Manager (PRM), […]
Blantyre City Council (BCC) has expressed concern over the increase in road accidents resulting to knocking down of street light poles. BCC Public Relations Manager Anthony Kasunda said the accidents are hindering the city council’s efforts to provide similar facilities to other city road users since they are focusing on the damaged street lights. According […]
The Blantyre City Council (BCC) is waiting for the determination of the High Court on the injunction 54 property owners had obtained restraining the council from enforcing demolition of earmarked buildings under the much-touted Red Star Campaign. BCC last year set 31st March, 2016 as a deadline for owners of earmarked buildings to either start demolishing […]
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Malawi has named Blantyre City Council (BCC) as the most improved government institution in terms of information dissemination. Just last year the institution which in the past was locked with stories of financial mismanagement and striking staff members was given a lock that represented the secretive government department. […]
Pan African Civic Educators Network (PACENET) has resumed the Zotheka Project after a six-month break with the institution calling for vertical accountability between rights holders and duty bearers. Pacenet has since 2012 been implementing Zotheka Project with technical and financial support from Tilitonse Fund. The current Zotheka project covers all Traditional Authorities (T/As) in Chiradzulu, […]
As part of its continued efforts to turning Blantyre City into a Smart/Digital City, the Blantyre City Council is participating in this year’s ‘Connecting Coast to Coast’ Summit which is being held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This is the 3rd annual C2C Summit and it started on July 2015. The summit has poled together […]
The story is well-known: parking in Blantyre’s central business district is a nightmare—and it looks there is no end in sight to this growing problem. Many motorists—from a grocer in Chilomoni Township, a shop owner in the city centre, workers in various offices, to a customer who just wants to either deposit money or cash […]
Malawi commercial city Blantyre has begun to enforce bylaws governing the city that bans the littering in the streets leading to the arrest of three. The suspects arrested on Thursday by city’s security officers and handed to police are Haji Yusufu Yakiti, 28 from Machemba Village, T/A Chowe in Mangochi, Issa Osten, 22 from Nsuwo […]
Blantyre City Council (BCC) has challenged Blantyre City residents and surrounding areas to take full responsibility of protecting and safeguarding public facilities that the council erects in the city. The council also urged the communities to report to law enforcers vandals and any suspicious so as to deal with criminals that vandalise the council’s public […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika on Tuesday hosted journalists from both print, electronic and online media houses at official Sanjika Palace in Blantyre where he was persuaded to consider signing the ‘Table Mountain Declaration’ that urges governments in Africa to abolish “insult laws” and set free press high on the agenda. During the presidential interface, journalists […]
Battle lines have been drawn at the forthcoming Media Institute for the Southern Africa (MISA) Malawi chapter elections and its a two horse race for the top post. Nation Publications Limited (NPL) Weekend Nation editor George Kasakula will face Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) business editor Thom Khanje for the position of chairman on December 13 in Lilongwe. Speaking in an […]
Journalist Anthony Kasunda has left Malawi giant media company, Nation Publications Limited after taking up a job as Public Relations Manager at the Blantyre City Council (BCC). BCC chief executive officer Ted Nandolo confirmed that Kasunda is the City’s PR manager as with effect from November 1, 2014. “Following this development, members of the public […]
Chairperson of the Malawi’s media watchdog MISA- Malawi Anthony Kasunda on Saturday night accused Minister of Information Moses Kunkuyu of lying to the nation that government was caught unawares on the rejected Declaration of Table Mountain which representatives of journalists wanted President Joyce Banda to sign last week. Kasunda, who was speaking during the award […]
Malawi government spokesperson Moses Kunkuyu has said representatives of the country’s media watchdog, National Media Institute for Southern Africa (Namisa) goofed by using “the backdoor” in an attempt to coax State President Joyce Banda to sign the press freedom accord known as the Table Mountain Declaration. President Banda this week refused without giving proper reasons to […]
Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi) has condemned the arrest of Malawi Voice’s online editor, Justice Mponda and says it considers his detention and treatment as unconstitutional and retrogressive for Malawi’s nascent democracy. Mponda, 27, was arrested by heavily armed police officers in the early hours of Monday at his Chiwembe […]