A Malawian citizen last week committed suicide in Zimbabwe after jumping off a moving bus which was enroute to Malawi from Johannesburg in South Africa. The man, identified as 28-year-old Enoch Kadammanja, is reported to have died on the spot after thrown himself out of the cruising bus through a broken rear windscreen. The accident […]
Civil rights campaigners in Zimbabwe are making a strong appeal to their Malawi counterparts to assist them address civil rights abuses they are facing in Zimbabwe. Representatives of Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network (ZESN) made the appeal in Malawi’s Capital Lilongwe during the meeting with Malawi Electoral Support Network (MESN). Research and Advocacy Programme Manager for […]
Malawi has retained the ZIMAZA (Zimbabwe-Malawi-Zambia) trophy for the second year running after emerged overall winners in the games held over the weekend in Kenya. The annual inter-country sports event which started out on bright sunshine day saw Malawians donning red, Zambians green and Zimbabweans in yellow streaming into the campus as early as 9 […]
Zimbabwe government has repaid the $23 million loan balance to Malawi for maize supplies with a barter trade of 2 million liters of fuel. The balance of $23m is part of $100 million soft loan extended to Zimbabwe in 2007 by the late Bingu Wa Mutharika’s government for buying maize to help deal with critical food shortages in […]
Malawi Police rounded-up and arrested eight illegal immigrants in the commercial capital Blantyre on Thursday night in the ongoing crackdown of foreigners staying in the country without legal rights. According to the Southern Region Police Spokesperson, Nicholas Gondwa, the raid was carried out in the city mainly to weed out foreigners who came into the […]
Energy minister Cassim Chilumpha has said Zimbabwe will supply Malawi with fuel worth $23 million as repayment for a loan extended in 2007. Malawi gave Zimbabwe a soft loan of $100 million in 2007 for buying maize to help deal with critical food shortages worsened by economic sanctions imposed by Western donors. “The government of Zimbabwe […]
Malawi has dispatched a government delegation to Zimbabwe to collect part payment of a US$23 million that country has been owing Malawi since 2007. The debt, which the Robert Mugabe government defaulted for about five years, is a balance from a US$100 million loan it borrowed from Malawi for the purpose of purchasing and importing […]
Malawi Queens continued where they stopped on Wednesday by hammering Zimbabwe in the Africa Netball Championship to book their slot in the semi-finals on the tournament. The Queens, who will face Botswana in the semi-finals, won convinsingly by 55 baskets to 22. Malawi netball tactician Griffin ‘Zagalo’ Saenda was satisfied with the results and vows […]
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who was a close ally of late Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika, has confirmed that he will fly to Malawi to attend the April 23, 2012 burial of late Mutharika. Despite reported poor health, Mugabe has confirmed that he wants to pay homage to the man he called “dear brother and […]
As a Zimbabwean in the diaspora (South Africa), I have had the privilege of happily meeting many Malawians. Much to my dismay, however, as a Zimbabwean, I am not met with the same enthusiasm, in fact rather the opposite, much hostility which has unfortunately seen me slowly change my mind about Malawians being the warm people they […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has hired a hit-squad from his political ally Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe to deal with critics and activist, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have claimed. Presidential spokesperson Heatherwick Ntaba has however refuted the allegations as baseless. Acting national coordinator of Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC), Reverend MacDonald Sembereka, speaking at a […]
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and the Zimbabwean Exiles Forum (ZEF) have launched a landmark case in the North Gauteng High Court to compel South Africa to abide by its legal obligations to investigate and prosecute high level Zimbabwean officials accused of crimes against humanity. SALC and ZEF are asking the High Court to […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika, whose government is dogged by economic and governance challenges, on Thursday flew to Zimbabwe to pay a courtesy visit to his political ally President Robert Mugabe at State House in Harare. Government insisers said Mutharika was “seeking wisdom” from Mugabe on “survival tactics” amidst social-economic problems his country is facing following […]
Zimbabwean woman, who was arrested last week on charges of defrauding a Malawian subsidiary company in a maize buying scam, has been granted $100 bail by a Harare provincial magistrate, according to NewsDay Online report. Tabeth Makombe (41) allegedly swindled Simama General Dealer — a Malawian company — of $83 562 in March last year. […]
Long winding queues snake around every service station in Malawi as motorists hunt for the scarce commodity. The scenes are reminiscent of Zimbabwe before the formation of the coalition government in 2009 with motorists queuing for what seems like an eternity. The queues tell of the true story of a Malawi on fire. They tell […]
Malawians continue to labour under a heavy burden of grave political and socioeconomic deprivation. Needless to mention, the Executive arrogance, erratic fuel supply, scarcity of forex, dry water taps, and incessant electricity failure, just to mention a few, characterize the contemporary Malawi. But while a good number of ordinary citizens understand that solutions to the […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika’s son-in-law Tonderai Mubaira is cheating on his wife, the President’s daughter, Duwa, with a well known ‘town girl’ Julie Bhamjee and has sired a child out of wedlock. Tonderai and Duwa had a high profile wedding two years ago and are yet to have a child of their own. Duwa […]
Malawi is part of an innovative project that matches two newspaper groups in Malawi with two newspaper groups in Zimbabwe for a series of exchanges including newspaper study tours, job shadowing and collaboration on business projects. According to a report on Biz Community, the Malawi-Zimbabwe Executive Twinning Programme under World Association of Newspapers and News […]