For 35 years now, more than 400 subsistence farmers at Chisita in Malawi’s central region have been traversing the country’s courts, Non-Governmental Organisations and the offices of the Ombudsman in a bid to reclaim 600ha of land, which Illovo Malawi occupied in 1979. The famers claim the company, in collusion with a senior Chief, pushed […]
Central Region Association of Real Estate Agents is geared to flush out all bogus agents operating in Lilongwe. The body’s Chairman Fred Kapito was speaking on in Lilongwe he mduring eeting the association had with its members ion Fruday. The city’s residents have, for a long time been losing money when dealing with bogus estate […]
Disagreements have ensued between Mulanje district concerned citizens and National Smallholder Tea Development Committee (NSTDC) over demands to confiscate land from some tea estates and redistribute it to communities. Comedian Bon Kalindo popularly known as Winiko is leading the concerned citizens, demanding authorities to reclaim ‘idle land’ in some tea estates in the district and […]
Police in Thyolo have arrested 11 people who led a demonstration some irate villagers staged on Wednesday afternoon in a quest to repossess 250, 000 hectares of land from various tea estates in the district. The demonstration, sprouted from Chibwana village, was organised by a Thyolo-based Peoples Land Organisation (PLO), which is leading calls to […]
A land dispute between two villages in the Northern Region district of Karonga has resulted in 25 families being rendered homeless after their houses were demolished. The land wrangle is between the people of neighbouring villages of Muchenjere and Mwakabanga, an official at Karonga District Council has said. The incident has left about 101 people […]
Angry residents from Machinjiri Area 10 on Monday morning demolished houses meant for the homeless built under Blantyre -Machinjiri Federation Housing Project. The residents argued that the Blantyre city council cheated them for failing to honour compensation agreement between the two parties. About 15 houses were demolished and leader of the residents Edward Mdeza said the people […]
The Lilongwe City Council (LCC) has expressed concern over the rate at which residents are encroaching on land in the city. LCC chief town planning officer Catherine Kulemeka told a public consultation on the draft urban structure plan for the city recently that it is sad that most encroachers are aware of the law. “If […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau assistant director for operations Victor Banda is accused of snatching land belonging to some Kajepo Theu villagers in the area of chief Mzukuzuku in Mzimba district. The land wrangle went awry on Wednesday when one of the villagers, Owen Banda, was arrested together with his child for manhandling one of the agents of the ACB […]
Traditional chiefs across the country on Tuesday ganged up to petition Parliament, asking it to withdraw Customary Land Bill until through consultations have been done on the issue. The MPs passed Land Bill and is currently awaiting President Joyce Banda’s signature to be law. In a petition made available to Nyasa Times, the traditional chiefs […]
The Singini clan at Luwinga in Mzuzu has accused the CCAP Church of grabbing part of its 10 hectare land for use as a football ground for the church’s primary school. Spokesperson for the clan Owen Singini told NyasaTimes in an exclusive interview that Mzuzu City Council and Ministry of Land officials notified them that […]
Malawi Parliament has passed a Land Bill will will mean foreign nationals in Malawi will no longer be allowed to own land except when they enter into a partnership or joint venture with a Malawian to use the land for investment purposes only. Minister of Lands and Housing Henry Phoya says the passing of the Land […]
Shocked with Malawi President Joyce Banda’s declaration that her country will adopt the Zimbabwe land reform policy as a way of empowering locals, the country’s main donors that include the United States, UK and the EU summoned Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Emphraim Chiume for an explanation. President Banda said recently while in […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has ordered the Mzuzu City Council to immediately stop selling, transferring or demarcating a piece of land it wanted to confiscate at Group Headman Mayinga, Traditional Authority Mtwalo in Mzimba district. The village though in Mzimba district lies within the city boundaries just off the M1 road to Karonga. Under […]
Malawi Police in riot gear clashed with irate villagers at Engucwini in Mzimba who were resisting attempts to push them from the land they had encroached illegally. Mzuzu Police Station spokesperson Sergeant Maurice Chapola confirmed the development saying there were no casualties but said six villagers were arrested. Those arrested are: Edward Phiri 52,Namasalimo Village […]
Residents of Mangulu Village in the area of Traditional Authority Kilupula in Malawi’s northern district of Karonga have written President Joyce Banda demanding her to provide them with security, food and other relief items following recent attacks by residents from a neighbouring village known as Chakwera. The residents from the two villages have long been […]
People looking to buy residential development plots in the city of Lilongwe face a growing wave of land ‘laundering’ crime as senior chiefs have joined criminal groups selling land and plots to more than one individual, Nyasa Times can reveal. In newly developing Lilongwe’s Area 49, Dubai sector, a group of self-styled land owners are […]