The Access to Information (ATI) Bill, which Malawi President Peter Mutharika promised to implement and expedite its enactment process, is not among the items on the agenda for the sitting of Parliament which started on Monday. But Mutharika, who has been promising to expedite the process to enact the Access to Information Bill into law, says […]
Civil society organisation has called for a free and open Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) in a petition presented on Tuesday during the anti-government protests in Lilongwe. The rights campaigners accused government over the use of the public radio station and television, saying they were not operating as national broadcaster but propaganda stations for the ruling party. “Malawians are […]
Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Tourism and Culture Chimwemwe Banda has advised President Peter Mutharika to seriously consider the enactment of the Access to Information Bill saying it will help in curbing corruption which has been rampant in the country. Banda made the remarks at Sanjika Palace on Tuesday evening where President Mutharika […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika on Tuesday hosted journalists from both print, electronic and online media houses at official Sanjika Palace in Blantyre where he was persuaded to consider signing the ‘Table Mountain Declaration’ that urges governments in Africa to abolish “insult laws” and set free press high on the agenda. During the presidential interface, journalists […]
Malawi’s new President Peter Mutharika plans to next week meet with journalists from all media houses in the country, including online Nyasa Times as Sanjika Palace in Blantyre on Friday, according to Ministry of Information. Secretary for Information Ministry, Chimwemwe Banda said in an invitation that the presidential interface will be “an opportunity for the media to interact […]
Malawi Government through its Chief Information Officer John Chilikizo has defended government’s decision not to table the Access to Information Bill in the current sitting of Parliament. Minister of Information, Tourism and Culture, Kondwani Nankhumwa, told Parliament in June this year that the Bill would be tabled during the September sitting of Parliament for deliberation […]
Minister of Information and Civic Education Kondwani Nankhumwa has disclosed that the much touted tabling of the Access to Information (ATI) Bill during the current session of 2014-2015 national budget will not be possible, saying the draft bill and Communications Repeal Act.will be tabled in the next sitting of parliament. Speaking when he updated media stakeholders […]
“That’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything.” ~ Noam Chomsky Last weekend’s Backbencher column in the Weekend Nation – 23rd August 2014, made what I consider a […]
Minister of Information, Tourism and Civic Education Kondwani Nankhumwa on Friday told parliament that Malawi government will be sending journalists to its diplomatic missions abroad to work as press attaches and also end the culture of ‘press rallies’ which the Presidents have been conducting. Nankhumwa said this when he presented r a ministerial statement on the status […]
A Bill to give the public the right to access information held by the State will be submitted to Parliament in the next sitting in October, Minister of Information, Tourism and Civic Education Kondwani Nankhumwa informed legislatures on Friday in Lilongwe. Presenting a ministerial statement on the status of Access to Information Bill, Nankhumwa said almost […]
In rare show of commitment, United Democratic Front (UDF) President Atupele Muluzi, says once vote into power, his government will speedily present the Access to Information Bill to Parliament and sign the Table Mountain Agreement on Media Freedom promptly. Atupele made the commitment at a news conference in Blantyre where he also outlined what they will do […]
Malawi’s rights groups, Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of the People (CEDEP) are expressing dismay over ‘conspicuous’ missing of the Access to Information Bill on the list of bills to be discussed during the ongoing parliamentary session which started on Monday. In a statement which Nyasa Times possesses, signed by […]
Director of Information in the Ministry of Information, Isaac Cheke Ziba on Friday said the Access to information Bill which is yet to become a law is not a tool only for journalists but the whole public. Ziba who officially opened the final national consultative meeting for the drafting and development of the Bill in […]