Malawi Police in southern tea growing district of Thyolo have rescued kidnapped the owner of Satemwa Tea Estates and recovered K6 million worth of goods and a Nissan pickup. Thyolo Police Publicist, Edith Likaka, said on Wednesday that they worked together with private security firms to rescue Chip Kay, 85, and recover the stolen property. Likaka […]
By Ochewa Mtimauwawa Daily Times Newspaper of January 22, 2013 carried on its front page a pictorial story of a mother, Tereza Jailosi, of Thyolo who has given birth to Siamese twins. The article quotes her appealing to well-wishers and government to intervene so that the babies can be separated through medical operation. Though the […]
By Hudson Mphande, Nyasa Times Malawi Government would have to cough more than K25 billion (almost US$71 million) to see through the opening of the Malawi University of Science and Technology, the brainchild of the country’s late President Bingu wa Mntharika which coincidentally was constructed at his home in Ndata, Thyolo district. The project has […]
People from Thyolo are failing to access hospital screening services in time due to the breaking down of x-ray machines at the district hospital forcing some patients and guardians to use their own transport to access the same services from Mulanje District Hospital. A guardian, Christopher Kanyowa said on Friday it had taken his sister […]
A woman in Thyolo died on Wednesday after drinking Kachasu on an empty stomach. Thyolo Police Public Relations Officer, Edith Likaka said the deceased, Mary Jonasi on Christmas day went on a drinking spree with her husband and they drunk through the night on an empty stomach. “She died on Wednesday after she drunk a […]
Opposiiton Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) says the ultra-modern Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) at Ndata Farm in Thyolo is a living economic recovery plan left by former president late Bingu wa Mutharika. The university is being constructed with a $79 million grant from the Chinese government and wouuld be officially handed over to […]
The High Court in Blantyre has granted bail to five people who were held in connection with the assault of eight supporters of Malawi’s ruling People’s Party (PP) in Thyolo on November 13. The suspects Francis Ngongoliwa, Harrison Munlo, Dafter Lucius, Victor Chilambe and Limbani Tensoni were arrested for allegedly stoning PP supporters as they […]
Thyolo Police have arrested five people in connection with the assault of eight supporters of the ruling People’s Party (PP) at a function that took place on Tuesday at Kalimbuka Primary school in the area of Traditional Authority Chimaliro in Thyolo District. President Joyce Banda was at the function where she distributed maize flour to members […]
The ruling People’s Party (PP) has blamed opposition Democratic Progressice Party (DPP) youths for a savage attack on their supporters who were travelling to a development rally of President Joyce Banda at Goliati in Thyolo district on Tuesday. The PP supporters were blocked by the DPP youth militia at at Chipendo village on our way […]
Police in Thyolo have arrested 18 year old Chamasowa Makwiya for stoning his mother, Ketrina Bulaundi to death. Thyolo Police Public Relations Officer, Edith Likaka told the Malawi News Agency on Monday that on October 5, the suspect quarreled with his aunt, Egry David over a knife. “The aunt was blaming the suspect that he […]
Thyolo district hospital says over 130 people in the district have undergone male circumcision which was aimed at reducing the risk of contracting HIV and AIDS. District hospital HIV and AIDS Coordinator, Richard Chidakwani disclosed this on Friday at a Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) partners District Coordination Meeting. Chidakwani said 101 people were circumcised […]
Police in Thyolo have arrested 18 -year- old Enock Uledi for allegedly kidnapping a 9- year- old boy of Njaiti Village in Traditional Authority Nanseta in Thyolo. Confirming the incident) Thyolo Police Publicist, Edith Likaka said that on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, the suspect went to the house of Usita Malombe at around […]
Preliminary results for Thyolo district reveal that the district has registered 94 percent HIV negative cases of the 17,131 people that were tested in the just ended national HIV Testing and Counseling (HTC) week. Thyolo District Health Officer, Dr. Andrew Likaka revealed this to the Malawi News Agency on the sidelines of the district’s launch of […]
A 24-year-old man in Thyolo was on Thursday convicted and sentenced to two and a half years in jail with hard labour for robbery and forcing two girls to strip naked in front of him. The man, John Finias, on May 24, 2012 robbed the girls of their Nokia phone and a sum of K17,000 […]
A Friday turned sour in Mathotho Village in Thyolo when a bush fire lit by children burned a five year old girl to death. The tragedy occurred when three children including the deceased, Ivy Nakeli were sent out to burn a heap of dry grass in a nearby garden. Narrating the ordeal, Police Publicist for […]
Member of Parliament for Thyolo North, Anita Kalinde has called on senior chiefs in the district to take a leading role in developing the district instead of engaging themselves in active politics. Speaking on Friday during a consultative meeting held at the Boma, Kalinde said it was sad to note that chiefs in the district […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika is in trouble with villagers at his retiring home Ndata in Thyolo district who are demanding compensation for their land which the President has snatched from them for the construction of a shopping mall. Mutharika is constructing a shopping mall near the Malawi (Mikolongwe) University of Science and Technology (Must) at […]
Police in Malawi’s southern tea growing district of Thyolo are keeping in custody a 28-year old man for allegedly sodomising eight young boys. Thyolo Police spokesperson Edith Likaka confirmed the arrest of Duncan Mafaiti on Wednesday, 18th of January, 2012 for committing the alleged crime. He has since been charged with sodomy. “On 9th January […]