[highlight style=’pear-green’] Expatriates to stay on … [/highlight] Malawi has ordered local staff for the United Nations (UN) agencies in the country to vacate from government houses with immediate effect so that they can be occupied by senior government officials, but in a dramatic twist of turn, all UN foreign contingents occupying the houses will stay […]
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leader Peter Mutharika has denied any wrongful act in a multi-million kwacha housing scam at Lilongwe City Council. According to published reports on Tuesday, Mutharika was named as one of the customers who bought a house which Lilongwe City Council sold illegally in 2006 when he was Minister in his late brother, Bingu […]
As if enthused by the Blantyre City Council (BCC) sentiments that it has absolute powers to seal off houses of rates defaulters, the Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) has started sealing off all houses whose owners owe the statutory body any payment. However, the action has not gone down well with Blantyre city residents who have […]
President Joyce Banda has said her government will substantially advocate for widening the availability of decent accommodation in Malawi because she believes that better houses are a good measure of any country’s wealth. She made the remarks on Tuesday in Karonga when, as Commander-In-Chief of the Malawi Defence Force, she presided over the handover ceremony […]
Blantyre City Council on Monday defied a High Court order and went ahead demolishing illegal developments along Soche mountain. BCC last week was stopped on its tracks as it was in the process of demolishing the developments after one of the illegal residents, Chief Chisa obtained court injunction, stopping the council or its agents continuing […]
The Blantyre City Council (BCC) has been hammered with a hard punch after the High Court stopped it from clearing illegal developments at Soche Mountain. Government, through its relevant institutions such as BCC and Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC), ordered encroachers around Soche Mountain to relocate some years back but they defied the orders. The illegal […]
President Joyce Banda on Tuesday officially launched a multi-billion Kwacha housing project in the Capital, Lilongwe, with an observation that adequate and decent housing is a catalyst for development and one of the requirements for sustainable livelihoods. “Adequate and decent shelter is one of the basic needs including food, health, education and employment. It is, […]