After watching relay races that were organized to entertain people as they awaited for the Blantyre Marathon athletes to arrive at the Kamuzu Stadium finish line, guest of honour Minister of Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development Grace Chiumia, was impressed with the enthusiasm that the participants, especially the school-going youths, had that she has […]
I expected Mighty Be Forward Wanderers to get their just revenge in the Round of 32 of the FISD Challenge on Tuesday at Kamuzu Stadium for the embarrassment they got from Masters Security when they upset they tables by coming from a goal behind to force a draw with a few minutes towards the end […]
There are reports that football clubs in Tunisia are threatening to boycott their new season because their government have failed to honour their annual subsidies. The reports say the Tunisian government gives every club a certain amount of money each season and just last year, it gave each top-flight club 90,000 US dollars and 50,000 […]
Defeating one of African football’s strong man, South African Danny Jordaan for Anglophone African seat on the all-powerful FIFA Council is no mean achievement and our compatriot Walter Nyamilandu deserves a huge pat on the back. He soundly beat Jordaan by 35 votes to 18 in the second round of the voting after also defeating him by 23 votes to 16 in […]
Football Association of Malawi (FAM) president Walter Nyamilandu refused to bow down to the pressure of recent weeks coming from a section of the general public that threatened to march demanding his resignation and that of coach Ronny Van de Geneughden (RVG) on the basis of the national team’s poor performance. Nyamilandu alleges that the motives […]
I got introduced to marathon races at Kamuzu Academy, which was an annual charity event and was open to the public including elite athletes for the Athletics Association of Malawi (AAM). The elite AAM athletes as well as our own elite student athletes lined up first at the start and the rest of us behind. […]
On their return from Morocco where they were hammered 0-3 in their 2009 Africa Cup of Nations Group B qualifier in Casablanca, some of the Flames players posted pictures of themselves but the way they posed angered Malawians so badly. They circled the thumb and the second finger and held it over one eye indicating a […]
Congratulation to Chess Association of Malawi (Chessam), which has its first woman president, Susan Musa Namangale, voted into office last Sunday August 26 at Bridgeview Hotel in Lilongwe. Namangale presented a very attracting manifesto that swayed the sport’s members and I urge her and her entire committee to get down to work to try to fulfil the […]
Malawian athlete based in South Africa, Edson Kumwamba, is carrying the national flag higher and very little is known about him. This reporter managed to connect with him through a lady he has asked to become his personal manager. He revealed that at the recent 80km Ultra PURfeR 2018 race in South Africa broken the record as he […]
We are all proud of netballer Mwawi Kumwenda’s exploits in Australia where she has won several individual accolades as she helped her club to greater heights there. Her exploits there and for the Malawi national netball team made her such a celebrity that she was voted World Sportswoman of the Year. She was also engaged […]
Minister of Sports Francis Kasaila has told Netball Association of Malawi (NAM) to be proactive and not just wait for invited and funded foreign trips for the Queens and I agree with him. This is what the Malawi media, yours truly inclusive, has always advised NAM that they need to do more for the Queens […]
High on her agenda once voted as Chess Association of Malawi (Chessam) president, Susan Musa Namangale plans to run the sport as an institution with proper facilities by creating an office to be managed by an administrator. I think this really is the way forward for this sport that is gaining confidence from its stakeholders. […]
I believe Africa is being represented at the World Cup by wrong teams — wrong in the sense that it’s the usual teams that qualify at the expense of what are minnows and yet they always fail to shine at the bigger stage. Teams like Egypt, Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria who have won the Africa […]
After nine years, Mdina Malawi Open chess championship has reaped its fruits by producing an African Amateurs champion in the name of Chiletso Chipanga and galvanised by this achievement, sponsor Tione Mdina has pledged a cool MK1 million to celebrate the 10th anniversary in next year’s edition. The news was received with a huge applause at the prize presentation […]
As usual the whole world, Malawians inclusive, is in euphoria as they look forward to watching yet another football fiesta — the 2018 to be hosted by Russia from Thursday. Though Malawi national football team are not there, and they have never been, we still look forward to it and we always spare a kind […]
It’s been a while since the Flames made us smile with a good performance at the Cosafa tournament when they brought back the Plate and we thought that since we haven’t lifted this cup since it was inaugurated in 1997 maybe the next shot would the next one — all to nought. In those days […]
It really seems untrue that Malawi Under-20 staged a stunning comeback to beat Angola coming from a 1-2 first leg defeat to wallop the junior Negras Parancas 4-1 away in the second leg of Under-20 Caf qualifiers for Niger 2019 finals. As it was reported in previews in almost all media outlets, it seemed like […]
We should not forget that just a three or so years ago one family was devastated after their son was brutally beaten and died of his injuries incurred by suspected Malawi Defence Force (MDF) after a fracas that happened at a football game involving and MDF team Red Lions and Big Bullets at Kamuzu Stadium. […]