Press Trust has said it is committed to complementing government efforts in fighting challenges rocking the education sector which frustrate initiatives to promote education standards in schools. The remarks were made Tuesday by Press Trust Trustee, Nancy Tembo when she presided over handover ceremony of K48.2 million School Block project at Chimwemwe Primary School in […]
Pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) is assuring Malawians of trouble free 2019 elections, hinting registration will be biometric as people will have national IDs provided by the National Registration Bureau. Nancy Tembo, MEC commissioner said Friday in Blantyre during a stakeholders meeting that the commission will be calling for a national conference in December […]
Commissioner Nancy Tembo of Malawi Electoral Commissioner (MEC) has advised monitors of political parties and independent candidates to jack-up when monitoring the next week’s by-elections’ polling and result counting to avoid misleading their masters. Commissioner Tembo who is also chairperson of the Media, Civic and Voter Education Committee said this in an interview on the […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) says is waiting for the High Court ruling on cases filed by two of opposition members, Umodzi Party (UP) president Professor John Chisi and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Publicity Secretary, Jessie Kabwira before printing ballot papers for the May 20th Tripartite Elections. Mec disqualified Chisi and Kabwira from contesting in the […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioner Nancy Tembo has apologised for a “discriminatory” impression which one of its civic and voter education posters for the 2014 Tripartite Elections gives to the public. The poster in question depicts eligible voters lining up for the registration process with each of them wearing a pair of shoes. Tembo made […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says credible 2014 polls will be determined by a professional workforce in the wake of civic and voter education process. Commissioner Nancy Tembo, who is also chairperson for media, civic and voter education said this in Zomba when she opened a two-day workshop for constituency civic education assistants which was […]
A seemingly innocent joke by Standard Bank of Malawi CEO Charles Mudiwa, a Zimbabwean national has opened a Pandora Box leaving his employers in South Africa no choice but to transfer him to Zambia. Mudiwa , is said to have moved in with President Joyce Banda’s daughter, Susan. Mudiwa, in a key note address at […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission, MEC, media institutions and regulatory bodies in the country Wednesday signed media code of conduct for reporting 2014 to ensure free and fair tripartite elections in 2014 at Cresta Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe The Media Council of Malawi and Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) called for the public media institutions […]
Malawi Electoral Commission says it is planning to start voter registration exercise during the third week of July, as the commission’s next major electoral event. Commissioner Nancy Tembo who is also chairperson of the Media, Civic and Voter Education Committee said this on Wednesday in commercial capital Blantyre during opening of a briefing meeting for civic and […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has said it will not provide transfer certificates to voters who have registered in one ward and want to vote in another because the process will complicate matters. One of MEC’s Commissioners, Nancy Tembo disclosed this Friday during a public hearing on ward demarcation for Zomba City Council. “Experience has shown […]
Electoral stakeholders in Malawi have finalized making recommendations that seek to harmonize the country’s electoral laws so that they should be in tandem with tripartite elections the country is expected to hold in 2014. The Malawi Electoral Commission’s commissioner, Nancy Tembo says if approved the recommendations which have already been presented to the office of […]
Proper conduct of civic education is crucial for the achievement of free, fair and credible elections Commissioner of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), Nancy Tembo has said. Tembo said this in Lilongwe when she opened a five-day workshop for civic educators drawn from the electoral body, National Initiative for Civic education (NICE), Public Affairs Committee […]
Former diplomat Tony Kandiero has been appointed as the new spokesman of opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP). Kandiero has been appointed to the position which was held by Nancy Tembo, currently the commissioner at the Malawi Electoral Commission. “MCP’s news spokesman is Mr Tony Kandiero,” confirmed secretary general Beston Majoni. Kandiero has served Malawi in […]