Tonga Heritage officials say during the organization’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on August 27, 2017, members agreed to change the name from Tonga Heritage Limited to Mudawuku Watonga. Mudawuku Watonga organizing Chairperson Reverend Mezuwa Banda Friday told a full Nkhata Bay District Council meeting that as one way of preserving Tonga language, the members agreed […]
As the preparation for the October 7 by election comes to an end, Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has assured people of Malawi that the by-elections would be free, fair and credible. This comes following a training for MEC staff and also all stakeholders who are to be part and parcel in this coming by elections in the […]
Outspoken Rev Maxwell Mezuwa Banda of Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) has warned Christians against what he called “worshipping individuals.” He said this on Sunday at St Andrews CCAP in his sermon broadcast on Transworld Radio which he said was to touch on contemporary events. Preaching from Colossians chapter 1 and Psalm 105, Banda said that the Christians and the Church belong to […]
“For us Church, sometimes we are told…not to interfere with politics. We as Church leaders are told to concentrate on preaching and on spiritual things. The Church is therefore seen as an intruder and not part of the society…” These words from the Catholic bishop, Joseph Zuza, Chairman of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM), […]
The July 20 Commission of Inquiry currently sitting in Mzuzu nearly went ballistics after a defiant and militant witness – Ipyana Thakomwa of Friends of Aford group- engaged it in a debate by posing back questions instead of answering them. “Why is it that people here in Mzuzu decided to go ahead with demonstrations before […]
Reverend Mezuwa Banda of the CCAP Synod of Livingstonia said at the July 20 Commission of Inquiry that only colonial government killed their people and not those in the multiparty dispensation. “Whoever ordered the killing of those people on July 20 last year must be out of his mind. Life is a God given gift […]
Mzuzu based politician Harry Mkandawire and Reverend Mezuwa Banda of the CCAP Synod of Livingstonia have been subpoenaed to testify before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on anti-government protests in July which claimed almost 19 lives, following Police testimony that the duo were part of the master minders of the demonstrations. Northern Region Police Operations […]
The blame game seems the latest fad in Malawi with everybody from the President to a common man in the street blaming everything on every one. And now it’s the Police who have never accepted any wrong doing for the killing of at least 19 people during a police crackdown on demonstrations against President Bingu […]
By Andrew Nyayah, Nyasa Times The CCAP Synod of Livingstonia has described as ‘unfortunate’ and ‘misleading’ assertions by the First Lady Madam Callista Mutharika that people who live in the rural areas do not need fuel and forex. “She should be the right person to advise the president but her pronouncements have cast doubt about […]