Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) innovation awards will be an annual event, the national broadcaster’s director general Aubrey Sumbuleta has said. The inaugural innovation awards ceremony was held last weekend at the College of Medicine sports complex in Blantyre which was graced by President Peter Mutharika. The President encouraged the spirit of innovation among Malawians as […]
Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Director of Programmes Albert Mungomo is reportedly distributing a series of anonymous letters attacking MBC Director General Aubrey Sumbuleta, President Peter Mutharika and his aide, Ben Phiri among others. This week messages have gone viral on email and Whatsapp message sharing platform chronicling wide allegation against Sumbuleta ranging from abuse of […]
President Peter Mutharika has approved two policies for the state controlled Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) as media analysts say the policies were too minor to reach the Head f State’s table. According to MBC’s director general Aubrey Sumbuleta, Mutharika has approved that the radio and television newsrooms merge and the television should migrate to digital […]
The board of Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) has approved ormer spokesman of Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) Aubrey Sumbuleta to be director general of MBC. Sumbuleta has been acting in the post since Benson Tembo was removed and deployed to Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra). The board has also approved Albert Mungomo as director of programmes […]
The propensity by former State House press officer Albert Mungomo and his wife Gloria Banda to turn public broadcaster Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) into a ‘bedroom’ affair has irked fellow staffers who claim the behaviour is making them work in fear. Mungomo who is MBC’s Director of Programmes is said to have been making unilateral […]
In a bid to stamp his authority the new Deputy Director General at Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Aubrey Sumbuleta has brought in several changes at the public broadcaster by among several others putting several measures to control what is aired on both public radio and television. Soon after President Peter Mutharika came into power MBC promised to […]
Witch-hunting continues at Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) as political influences have made some reporters and broadcasters, to be deployed to other departments and others removed from daily news bulletin reading roaster on suspicions that they are not control freaks for ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The affected employees have since threatened to take up the […]
Government has hired former spokesman of Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) Aubrey Sumbuleta to be deputy director general of Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) where director of news Wellington Kuntaja has been removed. Sumbuleta, who has been BBC sports correspondent, will deputise veteran broadcaster Benson Tembo. He is currently production editor for Chinese TV based in Kenya. […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has explained that its former head of media and Public Relations, Aubrey Sumbuleta, was not fired but rather de-seconded to government where he came from. In a statement, MEC says Sumbuleta came to the commission from the Ministry of Information and Civic Education to fill the gap that fell after Fegus […]
A week after new blood of commissioners was injected into the Malawi Electoral Commission, the office of the body’s spokesperson also received new blood. MEC spokesperson Aubrey Sumbuleta- a journalist – was shown the exit door last week and replaced by another journalist Sangwani Mwafulirwa who once worked for Blantyre Newspapers Limited and late Bingu […]