Outspoken legislator Kamlepo Kalua (PP—Rumphi East) has claimed that the Democratic Progressuve Party (DPP) government has been corrupted by tea estate owners to bulldoze the Land Bill in parliament to be passed and reject amendments that would benefit natives. The Land Bill was passed in the House on Tuesday after opposition law makers had walked […]
Opposition members of parliament returned to the Chamber on Tuesday afternoon after a brief protest walk out just to find the government had passed the controversial Land Bill in their absence. They fiercely demanded that the passing of the bill be reversed, saying they had amendments to make. Rumphi east MP Kamlepo Kalua and other […]
Opposition parliamentarians on Tuesday morning stormed out of parliament in protest against some clauses in a Land bill but this move proved imprudent as the government easily passed the bill without any challenge. The opposition legislators and the government were at each other’s throat since parliament started sitting at 9:30 am. The opposition wanted to […]
Opposition member of parlaiment on Tuesday walked out of the House after disagreements with goverment MPs on the Land Bill. Only government MPs left in the chamber and the bill has been passed. The opposition MPs were against some of the amendments in the Land bill and the progress of debate on the matter with […]
Lands minister Atupele Muluzi has cautioned legislators to comment with sensitivity that foreigners were grabbing land with the aid corrupt government officials. Muluzi said this on Monday afternoon during a heated debate in Parliament on Land Bill as the legislators said foreigners have large chunks of land when owners of the land, Malawians, are landless. […]
National Co-coordinator for LandNet Malawi Emmanuel Mlaka has urged members of parliament to consider discussing and pass the much awaited Land Bill into law which regulate the pricing of land apart by making it a requirement for any land sales to be published in newspapers and Malawians given priority. The Bill has provided that a […]
Leader of People’s Land Organisation (PLO), Vincent Wandale, has been branded an outcast by senior chiefs from Mulanje and Thyolo for calling on the two tea growing districts to become a ‘sovereign state’ over land wrangles. Wandale has said Malawi Government as well as President Peter Mutharika have failed to resolve the long-standing land wrangle […]
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Atupele Muluzi has condemned land grabbing in the capital city Lilongwe from Asian business people by a group of local business traders. A group f traders over the weekend grabbed land belonging to an Asian businessman in Malangalanga and shared it among themselves. But Muluzi in an interview […]
Local business traders in the capital city Lilongwe has grabbed land belonging to an Asian businessman in Malangalanga which is to be shared among them. According to the ‘land grab ‘group spokesperson, Fredrick Malata, they are going to share the land to develop it and build their shops Malata said they decided to grab the land […]
LandNet Malawi has grilled government officials in Chikwawa on land issues with a hope that the officers in their respective field of experience will help in safeguarding customary land. The three days awareness raising workshop for the government officers which took place in the district centered on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of […]
Malawi Police have arrested seven people for unlawful use of land reserved for forestry purpose in Ndirande Township, Blantyre. The suspects are 28 year-old Misheck Chibowa, Amidu Patel, 53, Austin Mwantenga 62, 32 year-old Fred Banda, 35 year-old Owen Mankhaule, 32 year-old Paulo Levison 32, and 35 year-old Mtima Njolomole. Last year, according to Blantyre […]
Renowned lawyer Dr Chikosa Silungwe last week launched his book on land reforms tilted ‘Law, land reform and responsibilisation: A perspective from Malawi’s land question, a culmination of ideas that he has shaped and re–shaped over the last 15 years from an eviction case that he worked on. Speaking during the launch of the book […]
Communities in the area of Chief Malemia in Nsanje have turned down a proposal by their traditional leaders to sale their customary land to an Indian investor, Nyasa Limited. The communities have faulted Senior Chief Malemia among other traditional leaders for secretly masterminding the selling of their land to the company which intends to open […]
A grouping of citizens from tea districts of Mulanje and Thyolo have distanced themselves from earlier calls made by some of their representatives who were pushing for secession of the region and forced eviction of tea estates as a reaction to unmet demands. Representatives of Peoples Land Organisation (PLO) and Citizens for the Protection of […]
President Peter Mutharika ordered investigations into reports that big name multinationals are grabbing land from poor smallholder farmers to diversify from tobacco farming. Mutharika ordered investigations after reports issued by land rights organisations such as ActionAid Malawi and LandNet Malawi earlier this year indicated that Malawi had entered into an agreement through the G8 New […]
Member of Parliament, Bon Kalindo, who leads Citizens for the Protection of Mulanje (CPM) which is supporting the cause for Thyolo and Mulanje people’s occupation of all idle land owned by tea estates, has exonerated his group from calls of declaring the two districts a sovereign State. Members of the People’s Land Organisation (PLO) have […]
People of tea growing district of Thyolo and mountainous district of Mulanje have said they will press for declaration of the two districts as a sovereign State if their protracted wrangle with tea estate owners is not resolved, it has been reported. According to published report, members of the People’s Land Organisation (PLO) have set […]
Government has issued a stern warning that it would grab back all idle land to resell it to new developers after issuing notices to landlords this month. Minister of Land, Atupele Muluzi, said the government is baffled that huge chunks of land, mostly owned by estates and companies lie idle in the Capital, Lilongwe where […]