Mchinji District Forest Office this week impounded a Malawi Housing Cooperation (MHC) maintenance vehicle (tanker) for dumping sewage in Mchinji Forest Reserve. The MHC maintenance vehicle registration number 3 SC 183 was seen by one of the district’s forest guards who reported the matter to the district office. Deputy Director of Forest responsible for Central […]
Zomba-based High Court Judge Redson Kapindu has as ruled in favour of the Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) in a case which its tenants obtained an injunction, restraining the corporation from effecting rental hikes. MHC planned to increase its rentals in July with an average of 48 percent but on August 30 this year, the court […]
Former Lands and Housing minister Atupele Muluzi, who has been moved to Ministry of Health and Population in President Peter Mutharika’s Cabinet reshuffle, cancelled on last minute a scheduled meeting with Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) tenants in Blantyre soon after an announcement was made that there was a reshuffle. Principal Secretary in the ministry of Lands and Housing […]
The Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) has reversed its decision to raise rentals of its houses across the country by between 80 and 100 percent. This comes barely few days after the tenants, under the banner MHC Tenants Association, threatened to stage mass protests over the rentals hike. MHC spokesperson Ernestina Lunguzi confirmed the withdrawal of […]
A meeting of Malawi Housing Corporation’s (MHC) tenants at Chitawira Primary School in Blantyre on Sunday was punctuated by protests chants and songs of ‘zonze zimene za Kamuzu Banda’ [ everything belongs to founding president the late Ngwazi Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda]. The tenents meeting under the umbrella of MHC national tenant association was […]
Tenants of the Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) will start to dig deeper into their pockets following the corporation’s rental hike “above 10 percent”. MHC general manager Eunice Napolo said Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development has given them the corporation a go-ahead to raise house rentals effective as one way of increasing revenue to help […]
Amid public sector reforms that government is currently undertaking, the Malawi Housing Corporation has from last month embarked on massive maintenance works and demolition of dilapidated houses in the country. The exercise follows an interface meeting Malawi Housing Corporation, Ministry of lands officials and Malawi Housing Corporation tenants had in February this year. Among the […]
Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) Chief Executive Officer Wezi Mkandawire is embroiled in school fees scam where she has been claiming tuition allowance from the Corporation on behalf of a dependent child who is not qualified under her conditions of service. Nyasa Times can reveal that for the past three years, Mkandawire has been asking MHC […]
While many Malawians are struggling to buy plots or houses from state owned Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC), its former Deputy Chief Executive Officer Wanangwa Mbereka allocated to himself plots worth K40 million, Nyasa Times has established. Mbereka, who is now seconded to the ministry of information, culture and tourism, is said to have abused his […]