Vice President Khumbo Hastings Kachale is disillusioned with President Joyce Banda for not considering him as running mate so that he can be maintained as the country’s second in command following reports that the President has picked Trade Minister Soften Gwengwe . Kachali, the ruling People’s Party (PP) has always argued, was not an automatic […]
Two Malawian cabinet ministers Sunday afternoon went to town and tore into pieces former Transport and Infrastructure minister, Sidik Mia, who resigned last Friday. Mia also resigned from his position as Vice President for the ruling People’s Party (PP) responsible for Southern Region. The two ministers, Sosten Gwengwe of Industry and Trade and Uladi Mussa […]
Minister of Industry and Trade, Sosten Gwengwe, has unveiled a check list, which must help people to vote for the best presidential candidate during the 2014 presidential elections. Speaking during a development rally, which President Joyce Banda addressed on Friday in Blantyre City South constituency, the youthful minister urged everyone who will have reached the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Member of Parliament for Lilongwe South -East Willard Gwengwe got a rude awakening and shock of his life when mourners refused a coffin he bought for the late senior group village headman Mwachilolo who was buried on Monday. Gwengwe was sent back with coffins at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) mortuary after mourners […]
Youthful Minister of Industry and Trade, Sosten Gwengwe, appears as third in command chain in the Joyce Banda’s cabinet hierarchy. According to a cabinet list released by Office of President and Cabinet on Monday, Banda is leading the Executive line up as Head of State, seconded by her deputy Khumbo Kachale. In the list, maverick […]
Malawi Parliament sitting in the capital city, Lilongwe, has passed companies bill. Presenting the bill the Minister of Industry and Trade Sosten Gwengwe said it will among others facilitate ease of incorporation especially for small private companies and protect investors especially the minority interest, both domestic and international by making more elaborate the duties and […]
Malawi Parliament Thursday adopted the Personal Property Security Bill which is aimed addressing challenges Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in accessing finances for the businesses. Speaking to the media after the bill was passed; Minister of Trade and Industry Sosten Gwengwe said the bill will make it possible to use movable items like bicycles and cars […]
Malawi has said by 2014 it aims at getting into the top 100 of the Ease of Doing Business Index, a survey annually done by the World Bank. Trade and Industry minister of the Sub-Saharan nation Sausten Gwengwe said government is doing all the required reforms to align the economy to investor needs. The Ease […]
Malawi on Friday, 26th April, joined the rest of the world in celebrating the World Intellectual Property Day at a function that was hosted by the Mzuzu University (MZUNI) in Mzuzu. Minister of the Trade and Industry, Sosten Gwengwe, led hundreds of Malawians from across Malawi in commemorating the day which started with an intellectual property […]
Malawi on Friday held a day long first ever high level Business Forum which attracted different development partners both local and International. The forum which took place at Bingu Conference International Conference Centre in Lilongwe is set to enable participating members to find lasting solutions to make Malawi a better place for business. Speaking during […]
A former DPP member and now a deputy minister in the Joyce Banda administration Sosten Gwengwe has said former President late Bingu wa Mutharika failed to understand his own zero-deficit budget concept by confusing it with a concept where a country is able to locally fund its other recurrent transactions (ORT). “Zero-deficit budget is not the […]
Deputy Minister of Transport and Public Works and director of Alice Gwengwe Foundation Girls School, Sosten Gwengwe has urged students at the institution to take sports seriously to develop talent and character. Gwengwe said apart from academic schoolwork designed to test aptitudes and develop other skills crucial for success in future careers and life in general, sports can […]
Opposition Aford’s Karonga-Nyungwe MP, Khwauli Msiska, on Tuesday told parliment that Malawi should take International Monetary Fund (IMF) advice to devalue the local currency Kwacha before the end of the year. “We are treading on a dangerous path if we don’t want to be truthful. Not long ago, it was almost obscene to relate the […]
Member of Parliament for Dedza Central Sosten Gwengwe, who resigned from opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) , announced Wednesday August 31 that he was joined the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Gwengwe announced at the party’s offices in the capital Lilongwe, he resigned from MCP in May because the party and its leadership has nothing […]