Lands and Housing Minister Chimwemwe Chipungu has handed over 40 completed staff houses to the Malawi Defence Force at the Support Battalion in Mvera, Dowa District. The houses were built under the 10,000 Housing Units Project for Security Institutions. Chipungu was accompanied by First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Victor Musowa, Defence Minister Featon Kaupa and […]
Minister of Lands and Housing Chimwemwe Chipungu has called for stronger partnerships and innovative housing finance solutions to help address Malawi’s growing housing challenges and ensure more citizens have access to safe and affordable homes. Speaking on Wednesday during commemorations of World Habitat Day and World Cities Day, Chipungu joined stakeholders under the global theme, […]
Salima District Council plans to construct 30 houses for vulnerable people under the Decent and Affordable Houses Subsidy Programme, popularly known as Malata and Cement Subsidy. Speaking in an interview, Salima district housing officer Bilswick Nakhaonga said the project is set to start anytime soon and it will include persons with albinism (PWAs). “We have […]
Companies that provide cement for the Malata and Cement subsidy programme including a Lilongwe- based Asian businessman are under investigations that they are ripping of poor and vulnerable families that are beneficiaries of the programme. The investigations by law enforcing agencies have come after reports that the companies are working in collusion with government officials […]
Minister of Lands Housing and Urban Development, Symon Vuwa Kaunda on has assured Association of People with Albinism (Apam) that government is ready with plans of building 600 houses for the next five years as directed by President Peter Mutharika. Kaunda med Apan executive members on Wednesday, stressing that K600 Million has been set aside […]
Government has ordered district councils and local authorities to stop accepting building materials be under the Decent and Affordable Housing Subsidy Programme (DAHSP) also known as Malata and Cement Subsidy, saying suppliers have no valid contract with the government. According to Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Joseph Mwandidya, no […]
Decent and Housing Subsidy Programme (DAHSP) regional coordinator for North, Aaron Mbubzi has expressed dissatisfaction over loan repayment for the programme, popularly known as Malata and Cement Subsidy. He said out of seven administrative districts in the region, Karonga is the only district doing well in the repayment process, with over 50 per cent of […]
President Peter Mutharika has said the the Decent and Affordable Housing (Cement and Malata) Subsidy Programme (DAHSP) will consider every household affected by the recent disaster in the affected 10 districts. Mutharika said this Thursday at Namatamba Primary School in Traditional Authority Mwambo in Zomba district where he cheered and interacted with victims of persistent […]
Beneficiaries of Decent and Affordable Housing Subsidy Programme (Dahsp) also known as Malata and Cement Subsidy in Dowa have asked government to continue with the programme so that other needy people also benefit. The beneficiaries made the request when Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Dr. Jean Kalilani inspected some of the houses constructed […]
Government in December 2014 launched the Decent and Affordable Housing Subsidy Programme (DAHSP) with pomp and spectacle. The programme, more popularly known as the Cement and Malata Subsidy programme, aims at providing decent and affordable housing to poor and vulnerable families in the country. According to the project’s concept note, the programme targets low income […]
Two brothers living with albinism under Group Village Headman Namkumba in Sub Traditional Authority (STA) Masache in Chikwawa have commended President Peter Mutharika for providing them with decent houses. The two, Alfred and Yohane Misoya expressed their gratitude on Wednesday during the visit by Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Anna Kachikho to the […]
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Anna Kachikho on Wednesday warned that the ministry would deal with all crooked suppliers of substandard materials in the Malata and Cement Subsidy Program. She said the Ministry will not hesitate to name and shame any supplier who is out to cheat the beneficiaries of Malata and Cement […]
Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Goodall Gondwe has defended subsidies aimed at alleviating poverty in the country describing them as critical welfare programmes after some members of parliament questioned the effectiveness of the programmes. Gondwe told journalists at parliament building in Lilongwe on Monday that subsidies such as farm input subsidy programme (Fisp) and […]
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Anna Kachikho has appealed to beneficiaries of the Decent and Affordable Housing Subsidy Program (DAHSP) to start repaying their loans so that others can also benefit from the program. The programme, popularly known as Malata and Cement Subsidy, has only recovered K2.3 million of the K14 billion disbursed, representing 0.1 percent. […]
The Decent and Affordable Housing Subsidy Programme (Dahsp), popularly known as Malata and Cement Subsidy programme should be reorganised as opposition members of Parliament (MPs) argue that it is a corruption scheme and that procurement processes should better be decentralised. The MPs were discussing the joint report on the programme by Parliamentary committees on Government […]
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Atupele Muluzi has warned politicians in the country against sidelining vulnerable people and politicizing the Decent and Affordable Housing (Cement and Malata) Subsidy Programme. Speaking after making a familiarization tour of the impact of the Malata and Cement subsidy programme in Dowa district, Muluzi said President, Professor Arthur […]
Firebrand opposition Peoples Party vice president Kamlepo Kalua has criticised the government for favouritism in the tax payer funded cement and malata subsidy program. Kalua, who is Rumphi east MP, said the program is going on smoothly in the south especially in the Lhomwe belt but it is facing problems in the north. “Yet this […]
Malawi Parliament’s Budget Committee has come out panting, accusing the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of high level corruption in Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) and Cement and Malata Subsidy Program. Chairperson of Agriculture Committee Joseph Chidanti Malunga has since said his committee will join forces with parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to make an […]