Blantyre City Council (BCC) is yet to start reallocating people from Soche to Machinjiri Township barely two weeks after the council removed injunction that had lasted for five years. BCC Public Relations Manager Anthony Kasunda said on Monday in Blantyre that currently his office had no new information regarding the allocating process. The PRO who […]
Ntcheu Magistrate’s Court sitting at Kasinje has sentenced a 47-year-old Davie Adamson to two years imprisonment for unauthorized use of land. Deputy Police Publicist for Ntcheu Andrew Kondowe said the court at Kasinje heard that the convict sold a plot to Joyce Madenga 32, on September 28, 2017 at Sharpe Valley market at 140, 000 […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works, Jappie Mhango has warned developers on road reserves would be punished from now and charged of encroachment. Mhango issued the warning Tuesday during a ground breaking ceremony of the upgrading of the parliament roundabout to Bingu National Stadium road which will cost K6.6 billion. He said government has been […]
Mchinji District Commissioner (DC) Rosemary Nawasha has expressed concern over persistent land disputes the district is currently registering. Nawasha said women account for 80 per cent of Malawi’s food producing population, but they often do not have access to land as compared to men. She therefore asked chiefs in the district to use justice in […]
Self-styled supreme leader, founder and trustee of People’s Land Organisation (PLO), Vincent Wandale has said he has invited Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Vatican to witness a swearing-in ceremony of his “government” of Thyolo and Mulanje districts as an independent State set for October 26. Wandale said his ‘government’ will be known as African Traditionalists […]
A midnight action by the Lilongwe City Council to demolish illegally erected structures within the model Cosmopolitan projects in Area 49 New Shire has woken up the sleeping wrath between MP David Bisnowatty and his constituents. Scores of people scrambled for pieces of land following the announcement from councillor of the area a Mr Lipenga. […]
Despite Parliament passing land related bills to ensure proper land management in Malawi, controversy over land ownership across the country has not gone away, an expert on land related issues has said. Dean for the Faculty of Built Environment at the Polytechnic Rodrick Chilipunde said this on Wednesday at the start of a three day […]
Malawian President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika claimed in a BBC’s Hard Talk programme hosted by Zeinab Badawi in December 2015 that multilateral organizations were not grabbing land from villagers in the country. Basically, Mutharika told world that there is no land grabbing in Malawi. But this is contrary to both anecdotal and archival evidence publicly […]
Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM) has hailed government for allocating it a six hectare piece of land in Mangochi for the Muslim to conduct various activities and construct some infrastructure. MAM Chairperson, Sheikh Idrisa Muhammad made the commendation in Mangochi at Eid Al – Adha celebrations held on Friday at the newly allocated land along […]
Dust refuses to settle in the areas of Traditional Authorities (T/A) Ngowe, Masache and Ngabu in Chikwawa where the seven year old land dispute between the communities and former Cabinet Minister, Clement Khembo refuses to die. Armed with panga knives, hoes and placards some of which read ‘the land belongs to us; we will not […]
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Atupele Muluzi has said government was in the process of developing a master plan that would enhance the national development projects. “We are still using the old master plan to plan our cities and districts,” noted Muluzi. “This affects population planning that is why there is no sanity in the way things […]
Barely a week before government in conjunction with LandNet Malawi starts applying the newly enacted land law; Inkosi Mpherembe of Mzimba District says the law is not suitable for communities that practice patrilineal culture. The newly enacted land law, among other things, seeks to empower women to own land and have it registered in their […]
Versatile Karonga Central MP Frank Mwenifumbo has made scathing attack on government for allegedly harassing the landless in Thyolo and Mulanje who stand up to demand for their rights. Mwenifumbo, in an interview said the government should stop arresting and harassing those who are demanding their land back from the powerful and the rich owners […]
LandNet Malawi, an umbrella body of the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) that deals with governance of land, says it was high time CSOs in the country joined efforts with government to address the misunderstandings between chiefs and other quarters on the newly enacted land laws. The network has observed that the current disagreements by some […]
The High Court in Blantyre has acquitted Peoples Land Organisation (PLO) leader Vincent Wandale on two counts of conspiracy to committing misdemeanour and criminal trespass. However, the court has withheld the conviction on unauthorised use of land. Lawyer for Wandale, Michael Goba Chipeta said he was yet to contact his client on the charge that […]
The High Court in Blantyre on Tuesday heard the appeal case for People’s Land Organisation (PLO) leader Vincent Wandela who is challenging his 18 months suspended sentence on land grab in Thyolo tea estates. Wandale was convicted and sentenced in November 2016 on three counts of conspiracy to commit a misdemeanour, unauthorised use of land […]
Minister of Land, Housing and Urban Development Atupele Muluzi has said land laws will increase the impact of agricultural investment and production in the country. Muluzi said this at Capital Hotel in Lilongwe on Friday when he opened a one day inception workshop on mainstreaming of land governance in the National Agricultural Investment Program (NAIP). […]
A sugarcane farmer in Dwangwa, Nkhotakota district has spent the last six years hiring Lawyers and launching a scathing court battle trying to prevent an 89 year old woman from getting back the three hectares of land which he grabbed from her in 2011. In December, 2016 the High Court of Malawi, sitting in Mzuzu, […]