Malawi Congress Party (MCP) youthful aspiring Parliamentarian for Blantyre City South East Constituency Innocent Mitembo has expressed worry over poor development in the area saying despite Malawi clocking 54 years of independence people still fetch water from streams and hospitals are hard to reach. Currently represented by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Victor Mbewe, the […]
Member of Parliament (MP) for Blantyre City South East, Victor Mbewe, on Wednesday handed over a two classroom school block to communities around the area of Group Village Headman Ntenje under Traditional Authority Machinjiri in Blantyre. Speaking during the handover ceremony, Mbewe said acute shortage of learning facilities is one of the various challenges hampering […]
Former president Bakili Muluzi led thousands of people to mourn former Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) governor Victor Mbewe who died at Blantyre Adventist Hospital on Wednesday night after battling with cancer for a long time. He was laid to rest on Sunday at Catholic Institute Cemetery. Until his death, Mbewe was also the United […]
Tributes have poured in on former governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM), politician and entrepreneur, Victor Mbewe who died in the early hours of Thursday at Blantyre Adventist Hospital. President Peter Mutharika has expressed shock over the death of former governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM), politician and entrepreneur, Victor Mbewe. […]
Former Governor of Reserve Bank of Malawi, Victor Mbewe, who was Economic planning director of United Democratic Front (UDF) has died, the UDF spokesman has confirmed. Mbewe, who was also chairperson of Dorvic Hotel in Blantyre, passed on at SDA Hospital, UDF spokesman Ken Ndanga confirmed to Nyasa Times. “I regret to confirm that indeed […]
Malawi’s former Finance Minister, Friday Jumbe and former Central Bank governor Victor Mbewe have described as “vain” a key statement made by the Finance Minister Ken Lipenga during the presentation of 2013/14 budget in parliament on Friday, saying it failed to highlight, clarify and summarize issues contained in the main financial plan. The two renowned economists speaking on ‘Contemporary Issues’ […]
Renowned Malawi’s gender activist Faustace Chirwa has joined opposition United Democratic (UDF). Chirwa was introduced by UDF youthful presidential candidate Atupele Muluzi on Sunday during whistle-stop rallies in the Lower Shire. Muluzi commended her for taking what he called a ‘bold decision’ of joined UDF after she resigned as Malawi Council for the Handicapped (Macoha) board chairperson because […]
Dr George Nga Mtafu on Tuesday withdrew his candidature for United Democratic Front (UDF) National Chairman post. Mtafu said he could not contest when it was clear that son of former president, Atupele Muluzi was heading for victory. Victor Mbewe – who had filled nomination papers for position of Director of Economic Planning -did not […]
Former Governor of Reserve Bank of Malawi, Victor Mbewe have joined the leadership race for Malawi opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) at the forthcoming convention after collecting his nomination forms on Monday at the party secretariat in Blantyre. UDF secretarygeneral Kennedy Makwangwala confirmed that Mbewe collected his nomination forms to contest at the party convention slated […]
Government has appointed a new board of directors for state-owned Malawi Savings Bank (MSB). According to a press statement carried in the country’s two dailies, MSB announced that former Governor of Reserve Bank of Malawi, Victor Mbewe is the Chairperson of the Board of Directors. Mbewe, a commercial banker almost throughout his career, also formerly worked […]