Malawi’s court clerks, reporters and other employees of the judiciary resumed their work from a two week recess Monday January 9 with a ‘pen-down’ strike over work conditions. The judiciary workers say government has failed to implement new condition of service as approved by Parliament in 2006. It was all a quiet mood at the […]
Presidential aspirant Atupele Muluzi, the 33 year-old son of former President Bakili Muluzi, told a mass rally in Blantyre on Sunday that Malawians are suffering and said he wants to work with a team of all talents to be on a “rescue mission” to haul the country back from a deepening economic crisis . The lawmaker had […]
Civil society organisations (CSOs) have set a deadline for President Bingu wa Mutharika to provide solutions to problems causing misery to citizens or again, face nationwide mass demonstrations. The deadline is three months from now, March 2012. CSOs resolved at their Mangochi meeting last month to opt for protests should government fail to meet this […]
The economic and governance problems and erratic rainfall in Malawi have forced churches to hold national prayers on Friday in Blantyre to pray for God’s intervention. The prayers are convened by Malawi Council of Churches which is an umbrella body of all churches and religious groups. Rev. Osborne Jodda Mbewe said on Wednesday that the […]
Defiant Malawian leader Bingu wa Mutharika has maintained his stand that the year 2011 was economically successful and described his critics who think to the contrary as having sick minds. Taking advantage of the launch of the 2011-2012 National Tree Plating Season which he officiated at Sekwele Primary School in Zomba on Wednesday, Mutharika said […]
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika has told his critics and the country’s citizens to stop “crying” needlessly because of the current social and economic crisis facing the country. Mutharika, speaking in Zomba where he presided over the 2011-2012 National Tree Planting Season, said Malawi was not a nation of chickens which just cry pointlessly whenever […]
Malawi national women football team will not play Zimbabwe in strength testing match which had been set for Blantyre on Saturday, because Football Association of Malawi (FAM) they have no finances to host the visitors. FAM chief executive officer Suzgo Nyirenda wrote to Zimbabwe women football boss Mavis Gumbo advising her of the development. “We […]
The Roman Catholic body called Centre for Social Concern (CFSC), that come up with monthly surveys of cost of living in Malawi has said its cost of living survey in Mzuzu, Zomba, Blantyre and Lilongwe shows the cost of living is continuing to soar. CFSC said an average family of six had to spend more money […]
Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda says the Head of State Bingu wa Mutharika has earned himself the position of a hate administration from citizens including herself because she is leading a “suffering” nation. Banda, said she cannot take blame of the government she is part of, because she has “no opportunity to provide counsel” to it […]
Revered Anglican Bishop the Right Reverend Dr. James Tengatenga has challenged Malawians to be vigilant in safeguarding their hard won democracy and also check their morals including that of others particularly political leaders. Bluntly telling his flock in Blantyre, the Anglican Bishop said Malawians must ensure that leaders stop nurturing bad behaviours “otherwise failing to […]
During the year 2011, the global economic crisis combined with poor governance, financial mismanagement and unpredictable rainfall patterns pushed several African countries to a point of crisis and Malawi was not spared. The country’s escalating social and economic crisis which left many common people grinding their teeth in the year has not just gone unnoticed. […]
Frustrated with government’s empty promises, hundreds of teachers from Blantyre Rural primary schools on Monday and vowed never to resume teaching unless they are paid their salary and hardship allowances’ arrears. Second term of school calendar opened on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 across the country and the development forced thousands of pupils to fail start […]
Despite incessant leadership problems rocking the United Democratic Front (UDF), the party has lived to its billing as an opposition party by presenting to the DPP led government a New Year ‘panacea’ for some of the hardships Malawi is facing today. “The UDF expects President Mutharika in 2012 to learn to listen and respect alternative […]
If the problems Malawi is facing are being caused by Satan, then Satan is using the President because the problems centre on poor economic and political governance led by him as President, the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and the Centre for Development of the People (CEDEP) have said. “We strongly ask President […]
There is an adage which says that, ‘if all else fails lower your standards’. The majority of Malawians have applied this adage in order to survive under the Mutharika regime. People have lowered their living standards to the bare minimum and can do no more. Imagine due to fuel shortage, people with cars have resorted […]
As President Bingu wa Mutharika struggles to push the blames of Malawi’s economic woes to satan and the opposition, some industrial professionals say government must first localise service provisions to Malawian companies as a major way to save forex. The industrialists say government is major culprit in forex wastage as it always prefers foreign based […]
Several mêlées were reported in most drinking joints in Malawi’s commercial capital of Blantyre on New Year’s Day as imbibers and bar tenders tussled over new beer pricing. Carlsberg Malawi announced price adjustments on all its clear beers, minerals, squashes and spirits with immediate effect. For instance, the new official retail price for the popular […]
The Malawi leadership first needs to understand its own current trade and investment strategy and how its policies are affecting the strategy. Both domestic and foreign investors make decisions on the basis of prevailing policies and the policies have to convince them that they will make a profit. For foreign investors, policies also have to […]