Paramount Chief Kyungu of Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga has made a strong appeal to political leaders in the country to avoid elevating chiefs in a bid to gain political mileage. Addressing 47 chiefs from Karonga and Chitipa districts during a meeting held at Karonga district council’s offices, Kyungu also asked the chiefs not […]
A Malawian senior traditional leader from Dedza district has been committed to prison for a 21-day period for contempt of court. Police arrested Traditional Authority (TA) Kasumbu last Friday on instructions by the High Court after violating an injunction it issued instructing him to stop cultivating on somebody’s land. The traditional leader spent Friday night at Dedza […]
Dust has finally settled down at Nkope in Mangochi district after Samson Naoza was finally installed Group Village Headman (GVH) Chiwalo V with government assuring him of its full backing. Installation of the new chief was nearly stopped by another party that had gone to District Commissioner’s (DC) office a day before the event to […]
Controversy has exploded in Mangochi district following the impending installation this Saturday of Group Village Headman (GVH) Chiwalo in Traditional Authority Nankumba’s area. Two warring parties have emerged with one being led by son to the former GVH who has vehemently vowed to stop the installation of the new chief. A source close to the family told […]
Traditional chiefs in Malawi deserve total respect because they are catalysts of social and economic development of the nation, President Joyce Banda said. Speaking on Saturday during the official elevation ceremony of Senior Chief Mponda at his Headquarters in Mangochi, President Banda said chiefs provide the significant link between the government and the governed – […]
Traditional Authority (TA) Mkumbira of Nkhata Bay District has disclosed that Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) used to threaten chiefs seen attending any other political grouping than DPP when it was in power. TA Mkumbira made the disclosure Saturday at Nkhata Bay community ground during a People’s Party (PP) political rally organized by PP National Deputy […]
Malawi President Dr. Joyce Banda on Tuesday led thousands of mourners from all walks of life in burying Senior Chief Chapananga of Chikhwawa who died on March 1, 2013 at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital after a long illness. Apart from his traditional leadership role in his area, the fallen chief was also Vice Chairperson of the […]
President Joyce Banda will Tuesday join the Chapananga family, Chikhwawa community and Malawians at large for the burial of Senior Chief Chapananga who died on Saturday at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in Blantyre. The burial will take place at the departed chief’s headquarters, Chibisa, some 50 kilometers West of Chikhwawa Boma. State House Press Officer Tusekele […]
Malawi’s President Joyce Banda says she has no regrets in according state funeral to the departed Ngoni Paramount Chief M’mbelwa IV of Mzimba, who died on Tuesday at the age of 56 at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in Malawi’s commercial city, Blantyre, where he was treated for a diabetes attack. In her eulogy during the burial […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has asked government to allow the due process of the law to take effect before any Chief’s appointment is made saying the duty of the court is not to interfere with administrative actions of the Executive branch. “It is important to note that there are many cases involving chiefs. Therefore […]
Traditional leaders in Malawi’s northern district of Nkhata-bay lost their cool on Friday and described President Joyce Banda’s relief food distribution exercise as a ruling party’s ploy to enrich themselves at the expense of poor people. Group Village headman Chandira from the area of Traditional Authority Timbiri in the district was reacting to what he […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has maintained her message to traditional leaders in the country to look forward to 2013 with renewed energy and focus on the nation’s prosperity. President Banda was speaking at Chikoko Bay State Lodge, Monkey Bay in Mangochi on Sunday when she hosted a luncheon for 150 traditional chiefs from T/A Nankumba […]
President Joyce Banda Wednesday advised traditional leaders in the country to look forward to the forthcoming year with renewed energy and focus on the nation’s prosperity. President Banda was speaking at Chikoko Bay State Lodge, Monkey Bay in Mangochi when she hosted Yao Chiefs drawn from nine districts of Mangochi, Machinga, Dedza, Blantyre, Zomba, Balaka, […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Wednesday pledged to make a personal donation of fertilizers to the chiefs in the country. She made the pledge at the New State House in the capital Lilongwe where she was hosting 66 chiefs from the country’s central region. The President said she is pleased with what she said rightful […]
Former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential hopeful Arthur Peter Mutharika is reportedly splashing cash to buy supporters as his elections campaign funds t is reportedly running into billions. DPP sources told Nyasa Times that Mutharika -who inherited the party leasdership from former Head of State late Bingu was Mutharika -is paying people attending his rallies […]
People looking to buy residential development plots in the city of Lilongwe face a growing wave of land ‘laundering’ crime as senior chiefs have joined criminal groups selling land and plots to more than one individual, Nyasa Times can reveal. In newly developing Lilongwe’s Area 49, Dubai sector, a group of self-styled land owners are […]
Malawi President Mrs Joyce Banda has warned traditional rulers against corruption, especially in the implementation of farm input subsidy programme, warning that she will crack down on the corrupt. Banda was speaking on Thursday at Mtalimanja Village in T/A Chakhaza Dowa, when she presided over the graduation ceremony of 29 families (58 students) who have […]
Chiefs from Mzimba in the northern region on Sunday paid a courtesy call on President Joyce Banda at the New State House in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, to thank her for appointing a person from their region as the country’s vice president. Led by Inkosi ya Makosi Mmbelwa 1V, the chiefs gave President Banda eight cows, […]