First and foremost, we at the Nyasa Times wish to congratulate Her Excellency Joyce Hilda Mtila Banda on her ascendancy to high office of State President of the Republic of Malawi. We wish her all the best and we have enough reasons to trust her to perform this rather tough job very well. Secondly, we […]
Chimwemwe Chinkango wanted to spend Easter Sunday with his children, but instead sold doughnuts on a sidewalk, hoping Malawi’s new president would heal the economy so one day he could take a day off. “I should not be selling these doughnuts on Easter Sunday at this hour,” he said in the early morning light outside […]
The Employers Consultative Association of Malawi (Ecama) and that Malawi Congress of Trade Unions (MCTU) have proposed a 150 percent minimum wage increase to mitigate the effects of a collapsing economy which has resulted in the rising cost of living. MCTU Secretary General Robert Mkwezalamba said the union had proposed a minimum wage of K10, […]
Limbe Central Business District (CBD) on Tuesday witnessed another ‘round’ of sugar queues as people scrambled for the rationed commodity, which has become much scarcity in a country where the economy is severely crumbling. Malawi commercial banks have no foreign exchange and service stations are dry with desperate motorists queuing for hours on end in […]
Former vice president Dr Cassim Chilumpha said the economic and political problems caused by the Mutharika administration need people with expertise and experience in government to be in the leadership frame. Chilumpha said times for experimenting leaders are gone since it has been proven that the tendency has done bad things for the country. “These […]
Civil servants in Malawi have threatened to go on nationwide strike if Mutharika government fails to award them a percent pay rise. The public servants, through their Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU), have given Capital Hill a seven day ultimatum to revise their salaries to be consistent with the poverty datum line or face ‘winter […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has been accused by the Nkhoma Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) for being responsible for the suffering of Malawians due to the worst economic turmoil. The Synod issued a scathing attack on Mutharika’s government through a Pastoral Letter read in all its churches on Sunday According […]
Lawyers to increase legal fees Just as everybody expected calmness on the legal front following the ease on impasse between the judicial staff and government, justice seekers in the troubled Malawi face new challenge-an impending increase in legal service charges, Nyasa Times can reveal. Malawi courts, prosecutors and lawyers are working around the clock to […]
Over 1,000 Electricity Supply Corporation (Escom) workers at Chichiri Power station on Monday staged a strike in demand for 35 percent pay increase, threatening to switch off national-wide power supply if their demands are not met. The workers blocked entrances into the station’s premises denying vehicles from entering or coming out, creating tension and attention […]
After some diplomatic tiff, Malawi and Zambia seems to bury their differences as Zambia has invited the economically crippled Malawi to take part to in an international trade fair to be held in Ndola starting from June 27 to July 03, 2012. According to a statement released by the office of the Zambian High Commissioner […]
Malawians have to cough deeper into their pockets, as thicost of living has gone, Nyasa Times basket survey reveals. Nyasa Times reporters conducted prices check in big supermarkets like Shoprite, Chipiku, PTC and Sana shops in the commercial city of Malawi, Blantyre to find out the prices of goods. A visit at Sana Shop, It […]
Angry residents of Area 24 in the capital, Lilongwe, on Sunday torched a police station after the security forces fired teargas and assaulted people who went to attend a whistle-stop political meetings of UDF presidential aspirant Atupele Muluzi. The disturbances began shortly after Police officers violently dispersed crowds that included elderly men and women, from […]
A Kenyan governance expert, Professor Allan Odugo Mella, has tipped Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika to shed-off whom he has described as “bad friends” to avoid losing grip of his mandate to rule Malawians. The Pan African Politics Forum (PAPF) Executive Director says by holding to the same advisors who have dragged him into chaos, […]
As a Zimbabwean in the diaspora (South Africa), I have had the privilege of happily meeting many Malawians. Much to my dismay, however, as a Zimbabwean, I am not met with the same enthusiasm, in fact rather the opposite, much hostility which has unfortunately seen me slowly change my mind about Malawians being the warm people they […]
A 70 -year old woman Nyamanda Sinjani on the wee hours of Monday shocked her residents of Kachala village in the area of traditional authority chakhaza in Dowa when she was found hanging in a Chitimbe tree close to her maize field. According to Dowa Police Publicist Kondwani Kandiado, passersby were baffled to see the […]
Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika should end a dispute with the World Bank and IMF to bring the country back from a worsening economic crisis, a visiting team of politicians from Britain, Malawi’s biggest aid donor, said on Wednesday. Mutharika, a former World Bank economist, last week snubbed a World Bank mission and has publicly […]
I have listened with keen interest to the different views advanced on the topical issues regarding the current state of the Malawi economy, and that of the devaluation of our currency in particular. What has been very fascinating to me is that the issue has been handled with a lot of emotions and I have waited patiently to see contributions from some professional economists and financial experts, […]
Malawi’s former vice president Dr Cassim Chilumpha, who once served as finance minister, says the decision by government to print new money and introduce a 1,000 banknotes is a “symptom of the fact that things are getting expensive in Malawi.” Chilumpha said Malawi’s economy is now ailing and needs a quick therapy “This is an […]