Four editors of Times Media Group which owns several newspaper titles in Malawi and a television station have donated to Chritian Organisation of Oprhans in Malawi the cash they received from Malawi President Peter Mutharika in what is widely criticised as a bribe to silence the Malawi journalists from playing their watchdog role. Mutharika gave envelopes […]
Media practitioners that had dinner with President Peter Mutharika at Sanjika Palace last Tuesday have been commenting on revelations that the Head of State gave the cash handouts of K50,000, saying they were rather ‘ambushed’ to receive the money. Times TV editor and columnist Graciun Tukula first went public about the money that was given […]
Battle lines have been drawn at the forthcoming Media Institute for the Southern Africa (MISA) Malawi chapter elections and its a two horse race for the top post. Nation Publications Limited (NPL) Weekend Nation editor George Kasakula will face Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) business editor Thom Khanje for the position of chairman on December 13 in Lilongwe. Speaking in an […]
It is only two months but the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), erroneously referred to as the ‘ruling party’, has already started becoming scared of independent thought and opinion. Look, the DPP took issue with my friend and colleague George Kasakula’s “tone, aggressive language and inaccurate content” when the columnist fingered DPP thugs as being […]
President Peter Mutharika has complained to Editors Forum against Weekend Nation newspaper editor and columnist George Kasakula over his no holds barred critical articles. In a letter Nyasa Times sourced, President Mutharika through his press secretary Frederick Ndala, complains of Kasakura’s ‘My Diary’ column of July 19, 2014 entitled “I won’t Say I Told You […]
A prominent newspaper columnist in Malawi on Saturday added his voice to the cacophony of accusations levelled against President Peter Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government on nepotism and ethnicity favouritism. Mutharika has come under heavy criticism from opposition in the way he has selected his cabinet and some public appointments. Critics […]
One of this academic year’s British funded Chevening scholars, George Kasakula, on Monday literally raised the Malawi flag when he gave a day-long talk on diverse Africa in general and Malawi in particular at St Theresa Catholic Primary School in Leeds, UK. This was part of an African Voices project that Leeds University, where Kasakula […]
Three outstanding Malawians have been awarded the prestigious Chevening Scholarships by the British Government acting British High Commissioner to Malawi, Kirk Hollingsworth, announced on Thursday. The three, who include an agriculturalist, a media manager and a human rights practitioner, will pursue one year postgraduate studies at three leading British universities from September 2012. The 2012/13 […]