Thyolo West parliamentarian Charles Mchacha has obtained a court injuction restraining comedian-turned-politician Bon Kalindo, who is also Mulanje South East parliamentarian, for visiting Thyolo district on claims that he is bringing confusion over commercial land. Mchacha confirmed in an interview that the court injunction has since been served to Kalindo. “We had to resort to […]
Thyolo West parliamentarian Charles Mchacha has strongly crticised comedian-turned-politician Bon Kalindo, who is also Mulanje South East parliamentarian, for bringing confusion in his district over commercial land. Nyasa Times has established that Kalindo has been mobilizing the people of tea growing district of Thyolo to stand up against commercial land owners and occupy the land which […]
Some disgruntled locals in southern districts of Thyolo and Mulanje have petitioned President Peter Mutharika and his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe to intervene in the wrangle involving tea estate owners and locals in the two districts. The petition, which is recognising Mugabe as African Union (AU) Chairperson, has also been copied to 13 Ambassadors and […]
Malawi Police have arrested the“ prime suspect” who chopped off private parts of Tendai Malunga of Beula village in the area of Traditional Authority Kapichi in the district. According to Thyolo police officer in-charge, deputy commissioner Josiah Kanthiti , Police arrested 75 year old Sabston Folija of Shala village whom they are treating as “ […]
Malawi Police are following leads to arrest thugs who cut off the genitals of a Thyolo man Tendai Malunga of Beula village in the area of Traditional Authority Kapichi. Malunga is battling for his life at Thyolo district hospital after his private parts were cut off by thugs. The attackers attempted to cut off the […]
The First Lady Madam Gertrude Mutharika has called on people in the country including women to be positive minded in order to unleash their full potential and positively change the course of their lives in the new year. The President’s spouse was speaking on New Year’s Day at Chisoka Health Center in Thyolo district where […]
Ambassador-designate to Germany Voice Mhone failed to persuade the Public Appointments Committee (PAC) of Parliament during interviews for diplomatic posts to confirm him by saying he comes from the President Peter Mutharika’s home district of Thyolo. All along Mhone, former chairman of Council for Non government organisations (Congoma) has used Nkhatabay in the northern region […]
Medical camp to save Malawi government K300 million The East, Central and Southern African Health Community (ECSA-HC) medical/surgical camp which starts Monday at Thyolo hospital has created a twist to the story of fistula disease as a female-only ailment with a male case scheduled for surgery. A group of some 32 medics from the ECSA-HC […]
Voter apathy characterized the parliamentary by-elections that were conducted Tuesday October 7 in Thyolo East and Blantyre North constituencies as well as in five other local wards for councillors. Voting in the Thyolo East parliamentary by-election started on a low note with most polling stations having only a trickle of voters. Malawi President Peter Mutharika […]
President Professor Peter Mutharika has urged people in Thyolo East Constituency to vote en masse for Democratic Progressive Party-DPP parliamentary candidate Gerson Timothy Solomoni during the October 7 by-elections. Speaking on Saturday during a whistle stop tour at Mikombe and Chimvuu Primary Schools as well as Chipendo Trading Centre in the constituency, Mutharika described Solomoni […]
Police in southern district of Thyolo are keeping in custody a 19 year-old boy for daring to sell a pistol to businessman. The suspect, identified as Frank Pearford, from Kaipa village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Changata, was arrested on Wednesday when he attempted to sell the firearm to the businessman at Makwasa Trading Centre in the district. The […]
Former ruling People’s Party (PP) has said it is not going to field a candidate for next month’s Thyolo East parliamentary by-elections because of the May 20 fraudulent polls. Mpinganjira said in a media statement that “there was massive cheating in the May 20 Tripartite Elections and that Malawi Electoral Commission [MEC] played a key […]
Thoko Banda, son to former cabinet minister, the late Aleke Banda, who has appointed to be Malawi ambassador to EU in Brussels has maintained his links to Thyolo, saying he is a bonafide citizen of the President’s home citizen having been born there. The fifty-year-old Banda has also clarified on his credentials. Public Appointments Committee […]
That mouth-watering piece of chicken that you routinely devour at your local restaurant or house could be laced with Anti-Retroviral (ARV) drugs, which are meant to slow down the dreaded HIV virus, according to published report. Vendors in Malawi are selling the life prolonging ARVs in order to use the scarce drug to ferment […]
Thyolo is registering high number of abortion cases and teenage pregnancies despite interventions by government and non-government organisations (NGOs). Thyolo District Youth Friendly Health Service (YFHS) coordinator Dorothy Koloviko disclosed this in an interview with Malawi News Agency (Mana) after Youth Technical Sub-committee visited Makungwa Health Centre. Koloviko, who could not immediately give figures of teenage pregnancies, said the district public health facilities […]
Police on Tuesday arrested seven people including three workers of Ndata Farm in connection with political violence that happened at Goliati in Thyolo on March 16, 2014 during a development rally addressed by President Joyce Banda. The late President Bingu wa Mutharika and brother to the current Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) President, Peter Mutharika, owned […]
Minister of Water Development and Irrigation Anita Kalinde who is also an executive member of the ruling People’s Party has described as “and insult to women in Malawi” the political violence which happened last Sunday at Goliati in the Southern tea-growing district of Thyolo in which two people including a police officer were killed. Opposition […]
There are emerging revelations supporting allegations that political violence at Goliati in Thyolo, which resulted in the deaths of a police officer and a civilian on Sunday was at the instigation of and carefully planned by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) top leadership. The violence erupted during a development rally addressed by President Joyce Banda […]