Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general Reyneck Matemba has said he is impressed with the work Youth and Society (YAS) director Charles Kajoloweka is doing in his fight to contain graft in Malawi. Matemba said the remarks during a debate which the Malawi Law Society (MLS) organised in Mzuzu on Friday under the theme ‘Fraud and […]
The Supreme Court of Malawi in Blantyre has overturned the High Court’s earlier ruling that Youth And Society (YAS) did not have sufficient interest in the K145 million food rations deal. YAS executive Director Charles Kajoloweka confirmed the development with Nyasa Times on Friday Mzuzu-based civil society organisation (CSO)dragged Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Pioneer […]
Youth And Society (YAS) has written Police Service Commission (PSC) to discipline Malawi Police Service (MPS) officers involved in the controversial K2.7 billion food rations procurement scandal. In a letter seen by Nyasa Times, dated September 7 2018 to PSC chairperson, High Court judge Charles Ching’aya Mkandawire, signed by YAS executive director Charles Kajoloweka, the […]
The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Southern African Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) have issued separate statements condemning increased threats and intimidation against human rights defenders and activists in Malawi. They two international bodies have called for the protection and civil society actors in the country and that police should […]
Business magnate Leston Mulli who obtained a court injunction with his two companies—Sunrise Pharmaceuticals and Chombe Foods Limited—against rights activist Charles Kajoloweka, restraining him from commenting on the companies’ K8 billion claim case against government, has now written the Non-Governmental Organisation Board to either suspend or cancel Kajoloweka’s Youth and Society (YAS) registration. Mulli accused […]
The High Court has has ordered Youth and Society (YAS) executive director Charles Kajoloweka to stop commenting on business magnate Leston Ted Mulli’s K8 billion interests calim from government, the matter which is before the court. Mulli rushed to court to seek an order to stop Kajoloweka from commenting on the matter after he issued […]
Malawi police are investigating death threats made to Youth and Society (YAS) executive director Charles Kajoloweka after publicly denouncing business magnate Leston Mulli claim of K8 billion interests from government. National spokesman for police James Kadadzera said Kajoloweka, renowned for speaking boldly against corruption, nepotism and impunity, lodged the complaint to Mzuzu Police where he […]
Governance expert and commentator Makhumbo Munthali has asked President Peter Mutharika to provide assurances of the State’s protection to human rights defenders and critics of the regime. Munthali said there has been some vestiges of intolerance to criticism by the current regime which did not only portray the picture of a leadership which accorded itself […]
Business magnet Leston Mulli has said he is indeed reacted angrily to Youth and Society (YAS) executive director Charles Kajoloweka after he after he commented on the K8 billion claim from a civil cause number 474 of 2012, where Chombe Foods Limited and Sunrise Pharmaceuticals Limited both belonging to Mulli. Kajoloweka called for transparency into […]
Mzuzu-based Youth and Society executive director Charles Kajoloweka has accused President Peter Mutharika of being insensitive to genuine needs of the youth for organising beer parties for youth at State House and giving cash handouts. Kajoloweka condemnation comes after reports that President Mutharika on Tuesday treated vendors to a beer party at Mzuzu State Lodge […]
Youth-Decide 2019, a consortium that recently made a historic step to have nomination fees for youthful aspirants reduced ahead of next year’s tripartite elections, says it wishes that the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) should further slash down the fees. MEC subsidized nomination fees of youth candidates from K500 000.00 to K375 000.00 and K40 000.00 […]
As the fight for youth empowerment intensifies, civil society leaders in Mzuzu have affirmed that the youth in Malawi are now ready to take over political leadership positions. Governance chairperson of Mzuzu Civil Society Network (MCISON), Peter Mumba, said this in an interview in Mzuzu on Wednesday. “More young people are coming back to their senses to realize […]
On Saturday, 28th July, I woke up to the exciting news that the High Court in Blantyre had ordered Standard Bank Plc to freeze an account for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) through which the party allegedly received K145 million from Pioneer Investments Limited in the Malawi Police Service food rations deal. The account has […]
Mzuzu-based Youth and Society organisation has asked the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to refund K145 million which was deposited in the party’s Standard Bank account by businessman Zameer Karim of Pioneer Investment who is facing investigations on fraud. There have been mounting calls for President Peter Mutharika’sresignation after a leaked report by the Anti-Corruption […]
Youth and Society director Charles Kajoloweka, one of the leaders of the Human Rights Defenders Coalition who organised the April 27 nationwide demonstrations, has categorically refuted that he was one of the people who attended about an alleged secret meeting between some human rights defenders and President Peter Mutharika at Sanjika Palace last week. Civil […]
Malawi’s leading daily newspaper, The Nation, has backed civil society organisations (CSO) for querying the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)- led government for targeting the youth on an appeasement drive belatedly, just to win votes of in next year’s elections. In outlining the 2018/19 National Budget framework in Parliament on Friday, Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe said […]
A civil society leader has described as politicking the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) assertion that the administration is set to create up to 17000 jobs this year. Countless down-and-out young jobseekers, particularly rural dwellers, are drifting from town to town scouring for work as labourers or ‘ganyu’ as the unemployment crisis knocks them further […]
Mzuzu-baded governance and youth rights advocate Charles Kajoloweka said he was proud to be able to add to his name to the Nyasa Times Person of the Year roll of honour after being awarded the 2017 honour. Based on the nominations from dozens of analysts, Nyasa Times selected Mr Charles Kajoloweka as title holder of the Persons of the Year accolade, Malawi […]