High Court has granted an injunction to employees of the state broadcaster, the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), stopping the merger of the television and radio stations, retrenching and redeploying staff to other government departments until the judicial review. The order was granted by Justice Rowland Bvundula in Blantyre on Tuesday. “It is ordered that leave […]
Bosses at the beleaguered Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) will be standing in court docks to explain malice in their actions when restructuring the entity and on the other side explain to Anti- Corruption Bureau and President Bingu wa Mutharika why they didn’t engage independent consultants to handle the process. They were four in number and […]
An airbrush by President Bingu Wa Mutharika on management of the reconstituted Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) which was led by Director General Bright Malopa has created a kids play over people’s future inviting scores of lawsuits in the process. Mutharika summoned Malopa, Chimwemwe Banda (Chairperson of Transition Committee), Felistus Chikusilo Director of Finance, Mateyu Controller […]
Employees at the state owned Malawi Broadcasting Corporation have this week started receiving letters of either redeployment or end of their work at the institution. New letters of appointment indicating a harmonised salary for employees of both radio and TV were handed out and indicate that the new structure has demoted most employees. The Post […]
Strike threats by employees at the state Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) compelled President Bingu wa Mutharika on Monday to summon chief executive officer Bright Malopa and director of programmes and chairperson of the MBC radio and TV merger Chimwemwe Banda to his private Ndata Palace in Thyolo. Malopa, Banda and a third officer went to […]
By Nyasa Times Repoter Management at the state broadcaster, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), is under panic ahead of the impending August 23 strike by members of staff over the issue of merger between the radio and television (TVM). The workers have planned for a nationwide strike to press authorities to come out plainly on the […]
By Ganizani Desmond, blogger “They are jealous of me because I drive a Prado,” Mzati Nkolokosa told me at our church one day, almost eleven months ago. “They phone the ministers, saying ‘Give us his job! We can do it better.’” This was a response to my advice that he was going down a wrong […]
By Makhumbo R. Munthali In one of my last year articles, Tread Carefully on Peter [which appeared in The Nation newspaper of August 9 2010], I bemoaned the tendency by some DPP faithfuls of “prematurely” embarking on a campaign trail bent at selling by-then Minister of Justice and Constitutional affairs Professor Peter Mutharika’s 2014 presidential […]
By Nyasa Times Reporter The Malawi government has asked public broadcaster Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) to treat all employees as its own while government is in the process of integrating excess staff into the mainstream civil service, Nyasa Times has learnt. “It is the intention of the government that the implementation of the merger should […]