Malawi’s current finance minister, Goodall Gondwe, helped to facilitate a 1.8-billion Malawi kwacha state loan for a timber processing factory that, three years later, has not got off the ground. This week neither the wholly state-owned Malawi Savings Bank, which made the loan, nor the Treasury’s Export Development Fund, which guaranteed it, would explain what […]
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has said lack of publicity on Professor Peter Mwanza’s achievents in Mzuzu City has made the constituents to be very unkind to him otherwise he had been a development conscious parliamentarian. DPP’s Regional Governor for the North Ken Sanga said this in an interview in Mzuzu dispelling stories going round […]
Mzuzu City Constituency MP and former Minister Professor Peter Mwanza will stand as a ward councillor in Mzuzu under the banner of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Mwanza, also former Vice Chancellor of Mzuzu University (Mzuni) said he decided long back that he would only serve one term as MP and retire. “I know something […]
The race for the MP for the Mzuzu City constituency is only attracting men and ironically they are all from the ruling People’s Party (PP). The lone woman, Violet Chituzu Nyirenda, a former civil servant and journalist, also from PP who a few months ago, registered her presence on the MP’s radar race, bowed out […]
Mzuzu based Mimosa Court Hotel owned by Minister of Agriculture, Peter Mwanza has fired 21 workers for demanding a 100 percent pay hike saying the Hotel is a private company owned by individuals, not a public corporation or a government entity. The workers were irked that many of them were getting MK9,000 per month despite […]
Ministry of Agriculture officials have projected that the country will have a surplus of 940,000 metric tonnes of maize from this year’s harvest. This was disclosed Wednesday at a joint news conference held in the capital Lilongwe by officials from ministries of trade and industry, agriculture and food security and information. Agriculture minister Peter Mwanza however […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda and Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Professor Peter Mwanza have said there is insufficient maize in the country, a situation that is making life hard for people both in the rural and urban areas. President Banda told reporters at Sanjika Palace on Saturday that the country has no enough maize. “Let […]
Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Professor Peter Mwanza confirmed mistakes that were done when implementing the 2012/2013 Farm Subsidy Programme. The fertiliser subsidy programme, which was launched in 2005 to help boost Malawi’s food self-reliance capacity, offers fertiliser to poor farmers at a considerably lower rate than market value. While responding to the state […]
The Minister of Agriculture has admitted disparities in the distribution of coupons under Fertilizer Subsidy Programme with some districts not yet supplied with the vouchers. Minister, Professor Peter Mwanza made admission in Parliament on Tuesday morning after a being quizzed by the Parliamentarians on the irregularities marring this year’s subsidy programme. The lawmakers wondered why […]
Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Prof. Peter Mwanza on Thursday admitted that Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) is ineffective and needs to be revamped in order to meet people’s demands. Prof. Mwanza was responding to a question asked in parliament by Chitipa North parliamentarian, Nick Masebo asking government to look into mechanisms that […]
Shoprite became the first multinational trader to open business in Mzuzu City on Thursday when it laid its foundation stone to mark the official commencement of construction of its shopping complex at the renowned former Katoto Freedom Park. Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Professor Peter Mwanza who is also Member of Parliament for the […]
Malawi Government intends to tighten security for this year’s distribution of the subsidized fertilizer in order to prevent theft. The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Professor Peter Mwanza made the remarks in parliament on Thursday in response to a question from Member of Parliament for Phalombe south Daveson Nyadani who asked him to consider […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has ordered disgruntled and warring members of the Timber Millers Cooperatives Union, an umbrella union of eight registered timber millers, to have a meeting by June 1st, 2012 and resolve their differences. The Court also ordered all relevant stakeholders in particular the Export Development Fund Limited and the Registrar of […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has granted an injunction to Timber Millers Cooperatives Union, an umbrella union of eight registered timber millers, stopping the operations of Sterling Timber International Limited from transacting any business in the 53,000 hectare Viphya plantation in Mzimba district until a judicial review is done, Nyasa Times has established. The Timber […]