Malawi’s women’s football has been rocked by a blazing scandal, after Women’s Football Association boss Adelaide Migogo flew home mid‑tournament — just as the Scorchers smashed their way into the WAFCON quarter‑finals. The country erupted in disbelief as top sports officials, lawyers and furious fans piled pressure on Migogo to get back on the next […]
Lawyer Sunduzwayo Madise has been joined by other members of the public asking if City Councils should ban deafening advertising style used through public address systems in residential areas, describing it as unnecessary noise pollution. Madise, who resides in Zomba City where he is working as Dean of Law at the Chancellor College (Chanco) posted […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has appointed Sunduzwayo Madise, dean of law at Chancellor College—a constituent college of the University of Malawi, as the board chairperson of the Malawi National Council of Sports. Chakwera himself held the post of chairperson for the sports council during the reign of late president Bingu wa Mutharika. He has appointed Madise, a commissioner at Malawi […]
Legal experts have said the resignation of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah from her position has pushed the country into a constitutional criris with barely 42 days to the final countdown of the court ordered 150 days to hold the fresh presidential election. Ansah—a judge of the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal— who […]
Malawi’s former Attorney General (AG) Ralph Kasambara, SC, has censored incumbent government chieg legal advisor Kalekeni Kaphale for taking a political stand in his comment on the injunction Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda granted to the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) stopping government from implementing a 21-day lockdown. Kaphale is quoted that if coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) pandemic […]
Legal scholar, who is also Dean of Law at University of Malawi’s (Unima) School of Law Sunduzwayo Madise, has said the coronavirus (Covid-19) measures which Minister of Health Jappie Mhango has published in the Malawi Gazette – official government publication- including a nationwide lockdown should not be involving curtailing of people’s rights and freedoms. In the notice, Mhango, who is […]
President Peter Mutharika decision to refuse to ratify four election-related bills to pave the way to fresh presidential polls after his re-election last May was annulled over irregularities is lawful, according to Sunduzwayo Madise, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Chancellor College—a constituent college of the University of Malawi. Madise, who is also commissioner of […]
President Peter Mutharika has appointed the seventh cohort of 10 commissioners to the taxpayer-funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) after the rights watchdog submitted proposed names to his office. According to statement from Chief Secretary to the Government Lloyd Muhara seen by Nyasa Times, confirmed the appointment of law expert Dr Sunduzwayo Madise and agronomist Boniface Massa, the […]
University of Malawi (Unima) law lecturer Sunduzwayo Madise is receiving many congratulations on social media on successfully defending his doctorate degree with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom (UK). Madise has been studying with the university and attaining his PhD on Wednesday to become Dr Sunduzwayo Madise aka Mfundisi Many Malawians took to Facebook to express delight […]
In the case of Austin Banda trading as Land Sales & Property Transfers V Stephen Leonard Aipila (Commercial Case No 28 of 2015, Lilongwe), Justice Mtalimanja has delivered a well reason judgement that ought to be taken as a warning to Malawians, especially those who are involved in land transactions, either as estate agents or […]
The use of sedition laws to punish government critics is inconsistent with the spirit of the new Malawi Constitution which guarantees freedom of opinion, expression and the press; law scholars have said, revealing that the High Court declared the sedition laws invalid. The comments come in the wake of the arrest of opposition members charged […]
Sarai Chisala of EmGender Research Network, who challenged a Norwegian development arm over the use of “single” in an advert seeking young women for internship, has successfully won the battle and the advert has been withdrawn from a newspaper pending removal of the marital status. In the letter , Thor Offedal, country director for Development […]
Every man’s life is a classroom for the world. But some lives are almost universities; one example being Sunduzwayo Madise’s life which offers all of us one fundamental lesson in life: that whatever happens to us, we can move on and rise again Sundu was my classmate at French Cultural Centre in 2000. (I wonder […]
Starting with the live coverage of the Dr Conrad Murray [Michael Jackson murder] trial to the Oscar Pistorius trial, we have witnessed a ‘mediasation’ of the law. By the end of the ‘OP’ trial, almost anyone who cared could venture in a legal opinion of how the state and the defence had performed and how […]
Minister of Energy, Atupele Muluzi is quoted by Nyasa Times on 14 July 2014[1] as saying: “We would like to separate the functions of ESCOM into electricity production, distribution and marketing and this will be run by autonomous institutions away from political interference”. As a student of regulation and from my experience in energy regulation […]
The Chancellor College Academic Staff Union (CCASU) has elected new leaders with Dr Symon Chiziwa who was secretary being ushered into the top leadership role replacing one of Malawi’s renowned trade unionists and industrial relations experts Sunduzwayo Madise. Madise a law lecturer and Deputy Head of Department of Practical Legal Studies at Chanco is on […]
A Ngoni academic Sunduzwayo Madise has discouraged plans by the Ngonis of Mzimba to install the crown prince Mkhosi Jere, set to become Inkosi ya Makosi M’Mbelwa V, as the king of the Ngoniland in their bid to ensure that Mzimba is turned into a kingdom, independent from Malawi’s central government. According to Mzimba Heritage […]
An NGO and Government official caused a storm during the court proceedings in Zomba, in a case of child defilement where a Malawian of Asian origin Abdul Sattar Hassan is answering charges of indecent assault and defiling a 14 year old girl contrary to section 138 and 137(1) of the Penal Code. The NGO and […]