Hundreds of people carrying hoes, pots and beddings stormed Conforzi Tea Estate inThyolo to grab land which they claim was grabbed from their forefathers by the tea estate owners but police arrested 16 people and fired teargas to disperse the villagers. Police picked 16 leaders of the Peoples Land Organisation (PLO), a grouping of community […]
President Peter Mutharika Tuesday promised Malawians that he would do all the best to ensure that there is a change in the management of the country’s land. Mutharika was speaking at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe where he had an audience with leaders of various Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Traditional Leaders led by LandNet Malawi. […]
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Atupele Muluzi on Wednesday disclosed that Government has line-up programs on public awareness on land bill. The revelation comes after the misinformation and misinterpretation on the land bill which was tabled during the 46th sitting of Parliament. Speaking during a press briefing in Lilongwe, the minister said the […]
The Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP)Livingstonia Synod has asked President Peter Mutharika not to assent to the Land Bill which was passed by Parliament alongside other Land-related Bills. The call was made by Synod moderator Douglous Chipofya during the Umthetho Cultural Festival at Hora in Mzimba district on Saturday. Rev Chipofya said some of […]
Former cabinet minister who also served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Thyolo North during the United Front Democratic (UDF) government, Rolf Patel is embroiled in a controversial court case in which he is being accused of taking advantage of a bed-ridden business associate, Luka Sam Zumazuma, to force him sell prime land at Chigumula […]
Government has clarified to chiefs in the northern region that the recently passed Land Bill will not strip them of their powers over land and that customary land owners would not be forced to register land. Minister of Lands and Urban Development Atupele Muluzi said Tuesday in Mzuzu during the meeting with the chiefs that […]
Chiefs in the country now fully embrace the recently passed Land Bill after government’s thorough interpretation of the sections which were perceived sticky. The chiefs told journalists in Lilongwe on Friday that they were misled by other sectors of the society who despised the Bill as aiming at burdening poor Malawians with tax and relinquishing […]
Malawi Police officers equaled the number of protesters in the Customary Land bill protests in Lilongwe. There were 30 protesters against 31 police officers who peacefully escorted the protesters, led by Billy Mayaya, from Area 18 Round About to Civic offices after Police gave Mayaya a green light to go ahead with it. The law enforcers […]
Malawi Police have refused to provide security for the protest match on Monday against the controversial Customary Land bill passed by parliament but organisers of the demonstrations say they will go ahead with or without the law enforcers. Bill Mayaya, the organiser of the protest match said he was surprised that the police have decided […]
They say a man’s home is his castle, but when that home that you have spent years of hard work paying for is not on land that you can own, it is a rather hollow investment. This is as true for an international manufacturing company looking to operate in Malawi, as it is a farmer […]
Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development has come out to clear the mist over four land-related Bills passed in parliament: Land Bill, Physical Planning Bill, Land Survey Bill and Customary Land Bill. The opposition expressed worry at the way the Land Bill was rushed through Parliament which forced the MPs to walk out. And […]
Former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara has accused Peoples Party (PP) legislators of treachery after they bitterly condemned the Customery Land bill. ”The bill was first introduced in parliament by the PP led government. I supported it then and I am supporting it now. “ It is sad that those who were with me in PP […]
Human rights activist Gift Trapence of Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), a Malawian NGO working on human rights of minority groups, has accused governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for getting back to its past mistakes in bad law formulation. Trapence was commenting on the passing of controversial Customary Land Bill which will entail […]
Umodzi Party president John Chisi has made a frantic plea to President Peter Mutharika not to assent to the controversial Customary Land bill. Chisi said forcing Malawians to pay for their ancestral inherited customary land was the worst the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government could do to Malawians. “This is not politics, am not […]
Parliament on Thursday finally passed the controversial Customary Land bill after opposition demanded a fee on customary land be removed. The passing of the Customary Land bill become the fourth and last land related bill to be passed. Land minister Atupele Muluzi insisted there was no fee on customary land but that three is a […]
Opposition legislators on Wednesday accused the government of punishing ordinary Malawians by introducing a fee on customary land. Chairman of Natural Resources Committee Welani Chilenga withdrew all amendments he wanted to make to the Customary Land bill in protest against the government decision to refuse to remove the fee. “This is very bizarre, how can […]
Malawians under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government will be forced to pay tax to their inherited land as government bill proposes that all land owners under customary land will be forced to register before start paying. Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Atupele Muluzi on Wednesday found himself on a collision course with his step […]
Mulanje South MP Bon Kalindo was on Wednesday forced in parliament to withdraw a statement after he called all foreigners who grab land from Malawians as dogs. The legislator was contributing to a Land Survey Bill. “We should get back the land from these dogs. Why should they get our land, grow tea and sell […]