Blantyre Magistrate Court has on Wednesday released on bail seven people who were arrested last week on suspicion of pelting stones at President Peter Mutharika’s motorcade in Blanyre squatter township of Ndirande. The seven – Maloya Gulani, Jonathan William, McCloud Mulima, John Meleka, Daniel Kaole, Precious Zulu and Joseph Matchado – were separately arrested on […]
Seven people charged over their alleged role in the stoning of President Peter Mutharika’s convoy with stones in Ndirande last Thursday have been formally charged in Magistrate Court. The suspects, who include renowned Ndirande career criminal Dan Kaole, have been slapped with four counts, three charges of malicious damage to three vehicles contrary t Section […]
There was was drama at Ndirande Police Station on Friday when renowned political thug Sam Chulu, one of the suspects in the murder of student Robert Chasowa, stormed Ndirande Police Station in Blantyre and shouted at police officers for apparent denying bail to suspects who pelted President Peter Mutharika’s motorcade with stones in Ndirande. Sam Chulu, […]
The 41-year-old Atupele Muluzi, the running mate to President Peter Mutharika, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) torch-bearer in the fresh presidential election set for July 2, stormed Ndirande squatter township in Blantyre on Friday to reassure “friends in the hood” to support the DPP-UDF alliance. He energised the youth with his upfront talk, saying “we […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) director of campiagn Moses Kunkuyu and UTM Party member Lewis Ngalande have distanced themselves from allegations that they mobilised the youth to organize violence against President Peter Mutharika on Thursday in his tour around townships in Blantyre after presenting his nomination papers to Malawi Electoral Commission [MEC] ahead of the July […]
Deputy Minister of Defence, who is also the Member of Parliament for Ndirande (Blantyre City Centre), Chipiliro Mpinganjira is reportedly furious with his constituents over reports that they attacked President Peter Mutharika’s convoy by pelting stones in the voilatile township on Thursday after filing nominations papers to Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC). Mutharika, 80-year-old but still alert filed his nomination […]
Residents of Ndirande-Malabada are totally not convinced that the decomposed body that was discovered on Thursday, March 26 2020 in a water chamber at Blantyre Water Board’s Chamber 79 in the area did not contaminate the supply to the residents. In a statement after pressure from the residents for an explanation, BWB explains it had […]
Member of Parliament for Blantyre City Centre Chipiliro Mpinganjira joined the Ndirande for Strategic Development Organisation for the ‘Keep Ndirande Clean’ initiative where they cleaned some toilets of Kachere Primary School. Speaking to Nyasa Times, Mpinganjira , said they could not wait and watch rubbish accumulate around the school , hence the decision to remove […]
German Ambassador Jurgen Borsch has assured Malawi of his government’s total support to improve on the standards of health centres in order to ensure good health service delivery in the country. The ambassador said this during a visit to Ndirande Health Centre on Sunday morning. Speaking in interview after touring the health centre, Borsch said the Germany government is set […]
Amidst the poverty and despair prevalent in Ndirande, the popular high-density township that defines the abyss of urban poverty, a 50-year-old woman shines as a beacon of hope. For the past 22 years, Josephine Mussa has been caring for disabled and orphaned children in the township, using her meager resources to make a difference where […]
Emotions ran high on Wednesday in the squatter township of Ndirande in Blantyre when members of the Apostolic Church members stormed police station demanding an immediate release of one of the members who was arrested. Police arrested Zakeyu Mapira, on August 13 2019, and charged him with abduction of a 13-year-old girl and failing to […]
Ndirande in Blantyre, Malawi’s most populous city township, was from Friday, June 6 2019 until on Sunday, engulfed in deep sorrow following the death of one of the township’s most longtime revered women, Jethro Che Wilisye Sangala. The late Jethro Sangala, wife of the late James Frederick Sangala, the nationalist on the K100 note, died […]
Malawi Police in Ndirande have launched a manhunt to arrest a 28-year-old man for allegedly killing his three-month old daughter after he stepped on her neck during a fight with his wife. Ndirande Police Station Public Relations Officer, Edina Mzingwitsa confirmed the incident in an interview, saying the fugitive identified as Wadi Mutheko, 28, on […]
Malawi Police in the squatter township of Ndirande in Blantyre City have arrested three people suspected to have broken into Terrastone company premises in April 2019 and stealing K11.2 million. Spokeswoman for Ndirande Police Sub-Station, Edna Mzingwitsa identified the suspects as Milwad Chikoko, 55, an ex-convict from Kaziko Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Malemia in Zomba, […]
Humphrey Chimphando Mvula, the renowned political commentor who is aspiring to become independent Member of Parliament for Blantyre Malabada Constituency in Ndirande during the May 21 Tripartite Elections, says once voted into the august House he shall advocate that the area is accorded a proper non-paying hospital. He says Malabada Constituency lacks the provision of […]
Multitudes of residents of Ndirande Township in Blantyre on Sunday November 18 2018 witnessed the memorable official launch of construction of the Majiga-Zambia Road, which would start next month, December. Local Government Minister Kondwani Nankhumwa announced the good news to the people of Ndirande when he inspected the road. He was accompanied by Blantyre City […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Vice President for the South, Kondwani Nankhumwa, will on Sunday, November 18, 2018, go on a tour of the Ndirande Township in Blantyre to inspect some of the projects that government plan to undertake in the township. The tour is a follow up to the pledges that he made […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) southern region vice president Kondwani Nankhumwa whipped up support for the party when thousands of Blantyre Ndirande and Malabada residents filled the Nyambadwe School Ground on Sunday, November 4 2018 during a mass rally as a massive show of strength where he unveiled ambitious plans which government would initiate. […]