Former president of Chancellor College Academic Staff Union (Ccasu) Dr Jessie Kabwila-Kapasula has hailed newly-appointed Inspector General of Malawi Police Service, Loti Dzonzi, for his visit to Chanco and making assurances that academic freedom in the university will not be trampled upon. There has been strained relations between the Chancellor College Community and the Police […]
University of Malawi, Chancellor College Academic Staff Union (CCASU) acting president Dr. Jessie Kabwira- Kapasula (JKK) says internalized oppression and a belief in unnecessary cultural and traditional norms are some of the major challenges and human rights abuse that most Malawian women are facing. Kabwira Kapasula was among the panellist at the debate alongside political […]
Family relations and friends of caged former Attorney-General Ralph Kasambara say from Friday they will be holding a vigil protests outside the gates of Zomba Maximum Prison in the eastern city of Zomba, 70 kilometres east of Blantyre. Outspoken president of the Chancellor College Academic Staff Union in the city, Dr. Jesse Kabwila-Kapasula, says people […]
Women who are donning of mini-skirts do not represent prostitutes, says outspokesn president of the Chancellor College Academic Staff Union, Dr. Jesse Kabwila-Kapasula. Kabwila-Kapasula was dispelling the thinking after unemployed youths and sidewalk vendors stripped some women in Lilongwe and Mzuzu for mainly wearing mini-skirts, trousers and leggings. Some sections of the society have also […]
Organisers of the Friday, January 20, protests say all is set for women of Malawi to converge for constructive engagement on the protection of women and the defense of their rights through a peaceful sit in. A group of independent Malawian women and some members of the civil society are mobilizing Malawians, women and men, […]
Chancellor College Academic Staff Union (CCASU) will mark February 16 as a special day to commemorate the battle for academic freedom. CCASU acting president Dr. Jessie Kabwila-Kapasula (JKK)says the academic dons will remain vigilant to ensure academic freedom, saying the battle is not over yet. She said February 16 is “a date whose significance will […]
Malawi’s indefatigable fighter for academic freedom and democracy was elected to the Executive Committee of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). The election of the new Executive Committee occurred on Friday, December 9, 2011 at the conclusion of CODESRIA’s weekl-long General Assembly in Rabat, Morocco. CODESRIA is Africa’s leading […]
After a series of protracted battles over the academic freedom saga which saw the college closed to almost eight months, Chancellor College the main constituent college of the University of Malawi, finally opened on Monday with the registration process and some learning taking place. This follows President Bingu wa Mutharika recent directive to reinstate the […]
University of Malawi (UNIMA) lecturers have said the battle for guaranteeing higher education liberties is not over despite reinstatement of four dons at Chancellor College who were suspended on the grounds that they were the ringleaders of academic freedom protests that have gripped the nation for most of this year. Acting president of Chancellor College […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika who is the Chancellor of the University of Malawi (Unima), has directed that Chancellor College -the main constituent college of Unima -be opened and that the four lecturers who were fired for being at the centre of an academic freedom wrangle that has paralysed the university, should be reinstated. Mutharika […]
By Green Muheya, Nyasa Times Malawi police fired bullets and teargas to break a vigil by students at University of Malawi’s Chancellor College (Chanco) in Zomba on Thursday when they were peacefully demonstrating that they have not been learning due to a stand-off over academic freedom. A female student Maliyoni Mwenifumbo, 27, was arrested but later […]