Times TV’s ‘Hot Current’ has new marverick host Wezi Kasambara after Brian Banda suspension
A television talk show ‘Hot Current’ on Times TV which is gaining popularity in Malawi following the ‘truth telling’ discussion has a new marverick host Wezi Kasasambara after Brian Banda was suspended.
Times TV’s flagship television and radio programme, ‘Hot Current’, which tackles the issues that matter featuring Times Group Editor-in-Chief George Kasakula is showing brave and substantive journalistic endeavours (often at great personal risk).
Following Banda’s suspension, Kasambara took over and initial ratings of the program showed she is eloquent and up to the task.
In her debut hosting, Kasambara engaged Kasakura on calls by civil society for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to pay back all the money parastatals and other government agencies gave it during its fundraising event called Blue Night recently in Lilongwe.
DPP has since rebuffed the calls, saying parastatals and councils that made pledges or paid the money did so willingly and the party will not pay back.
In his comments on ‘Hot Current’, Kasakura who is also Malawi News columnist, argued that DPP leadership is exhibiting “unbridled arrogance” and that the party also feels that it alone, with sycophants and hand-clappers, is entitled to the resources that we all generate in this country to satisfy the party’s selfish intentions.
Kasakura says DPP’s action to “ransack parastatals” is the worst form of abuse of power and that it rejects calls to payback the money because it feels it is entitled to do whatever it wants to do with this country because it won the 2014 elections.
He also raised the issue in his column, saying DPP behave as if this country “belongs to them alone and the rest of us must just watch while they ruin it for their own benefit. It does not matter to them that, in the process, our lives are affected.”
Argues Kasakura: “We have now reached a point where some Malawians are drinking water mixed with sewer in Area 18 in Lilongwe because the Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) does not have money to replace its broken pipes. And, yet, this is the organisation the DPP continues to demand money from. Indeed, this is the organisation that donates tens of millions of kwacha.
“Malawians are constitutionally entitled to hold an opinion and express the same to impart it on others. There is one fact that the DPP seems not to appreciate and that is, this country belongs to all people who live in it and not only those who hold the mandate to govern.
“That is why we, as citizens, must endeavour to seek solutions to stop a government or a ruling party which is intoxicated with arrogance and impunity, from abusing public resources.The decision by the CSOs, who want to get a court order to force the DPP to refund the money it got from struggling and impoverished parastatals, is the way to go.”
Kasakura argues DPP cannot claim that these parastatals give the money voluntarily when Malawians know that they are “bullied into doing it all the time.”
‘Hot Current’ program is discussing matters of current which are hitting headlines, taking government into task on accountability and corruption.
Kasakula is also attracting wrath of those wielding power recklessly, even criminally, with complete impunity and unaccountability as he is putting them on spot with his no holds barred critique.
The program is also shared on YouTube.
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No mention of why Brian Banda was suspended.
We don’t hate wezzie…..she is nice but she is small for the program
We need Brian banda right now if not close the station. Muziona anthu owayimisa ntchito ……if not STOP HOT CURRENT
kunena zoona sizikukomanso, pakungokhala phokoso lokhalokha, achina Brian aja amakamba modekha fundo nkumaveka, chidwi chatithera pano, kaya zanu izo
This program is not the same without Brian Banda. This lady is not up to it, She is just too loud and makes lots of noise with her fake accent. Amakhala ngati odziwa zinthu koma anangochenjera pakamwa. just one of those clever town girls!! Brian Banda is the Man,
Leave her alone. I love her.
Lodala Bere ilo adayamwa George Kasakula. Malawi is blessed to have some courageous people like George. Unfortunately Malawi is full of praise singers and hand clappers who are there to praise their party leaders whether they are performing or not.
When and why was Brian suspended? You have posted this report not because you want us to know that Brian is suspended but because you want to praise this new comer. Why Brian’s suspension was not news on Nyasa? Brian and Kasakula are both failures to their bosses. Kasakula tried his best in newspapers to make MCP win in 2014 but failed completely. He even lost MCP elections on primary level in Kasungu. As for Brian he campaigned a lot for Joyce Banda to remain in power but what were the results? So you people should stop banking on these guys for MCP 2019 win. Anything through the so called Hot Current cannot dislodge the DPP from power. It is unfortunate that the Current has come too Cold for Brian.
check your facts right,GK never stood for any primaries baba
Ineso ndikudabwa kuti bwanji nkhani ya suspension ya Brian Banda never made any headline here? Bwanji simukutiuzanso kuti Brian ampasa suspension chifukwa chani? Both guys are failures and two failures can not make a winner.The propaganda of times group has and will always yield nothing!
Why Brian has been suspended kodi abale…???
Times Times Times how many times have I called u? Please bring back Brian. He forms a formidable combination with Kasakula. Ife akumuzi chizungu sitimva
While Wezi is generally a good journalists, Brian is fully blanded with Hot Current. Though the programme’s name is English, it is well established that most listeners enjoy the Chichewa version. We understand that Brian may humanly not always be available, but whoever sits in his seat must be as ‘Brain’ as possible in presentations. It’s more marketing than journalism at this point in time. Other wise it’s a very important programme for Malawi’s accountability, and we wish it good success.
I watched the program that Wezi moderated. Yes she have the necessary skills however, she used English throughout the discussions which very few Malawians understand. This program brings out issues of national importance. Most people in our country are not aware of the nasty things our political leaders do that impact negatively on our lives. They mostly know what is happening in the country through the radio/TV. Looking at the importance of this program, as George represent many of the people who truly are at pains with the way Malawi is been governed since she got independent and particularly now in the democratic era, it has to be presented in Chichewa so many people should be able to understand it.
All I can ask from Wezi and George is that next time present the program in Chichewa otherwise, you are doing a good job that helps people know the arrogance and selfishness of our political leaders.
Now my advice to the youth of this country who are the majority is that takhala tikulamulidwa ndi nkhalamba (I don’t want to be regarded rude by using the word nkhalamba it is reality) nthawi yonseyi tinalandira democracy. Nkhalambazi zikutiwonongera dziko ife tingoyang’ana. Nkhalambazi kwawo kunatha kale zitisiya pamavuto. Pomwe tidzikavota 2019 tiyeni tikavotere wokhawo angapititse dziko lino patsogolo, womwe angatipatse ntchito, angamawonetsetsa kuti muzipatala muli mankhwala, sukulu fees yoti tikwanitse ambiri osati ochepa. Taonani masukulu momwe adulira pano ndi angati angakwanitse?Taonani momwe ndalama zaboma zikubedwera ndi andale awa koma ife wovotafe moyo wukulimba koopsya. Nanga phindu lovota ndi chani? Phindu la democracy tidzaliwona liti? Ngati tingadzavote chifukwa choti ndiwakwathu sizidzatinthandiza koma tidzavotere womwe angabweretse kusintha mudziko muno. Amakhalapo womwe akhoza kusintha dziko koma chifukwa choti kusankhana kunatitchinga kumaso sitimawaona. It’s high time we change our mentality Malawians. Taonani anzathu Ku Zambia, Tanzania momwe akutukukira chifukwa ali ndi azitsogoleri amasomphenya okonda anthu awo. Ife amangotinamiza ndi ma technical college ndi misewu yosalimba. Tikamaliza ku ma technical college sitimapeza ntchito olo kapena kupatsidwa ma loan kuti tiyambe ma business anthu. Misewu yawoyo zigamba tho yoti yinamangidwa posakhalitsa. Eeeee anatipezelera aMalawi. Olo komwe amakumana ndikhulupilira kuti amanena kuti ndiwogona maNyasawa tiyeni tidziwanjoya.
This Wezi lady is good. The only problem with her is that amalimbikira chizungu kwambiri as if satha Chichewa. At first I thought satha Chichewa only to realize that she is also an eloquent Chichewa speaker. I know she was taught at St. Andrews or Phoenix or may be she did her school in the UK but if she can speak Chichewa why not be proud to speak it during the programme? Mind you this programme is not for the elite but for the people in the rural areas and most of them don’t understand a word in English. Ine I admire people like Chakwera, Ntaba and Prof. Al Mtenje. They speak English and Chichewa better in equal measure. When they speak English, you will be tempted to think they don’t know Chichewa, when they speak Chiwewa, you will also be tempted to think they don’t know English. That’s what Wezi is supposed to do, speak your fluent Chichewa during a Chichewa programme like Hot Current and speak your fluent English during an English programme. Anthu azichita kudabwa kuti ndi munthu yemwe uja uyu? People will admire you kwambiri.
Imwe wa Times mukhumba kupwetekesa mwana wakwithu.Brian mweneyuyo ndiyo wapitilire na programme iyi.Mwana withu yayi takana nimuchoko.
Hot current without Brian Banda its useless again times TV without Brian Banda its useless we love times TV because of Brian banda hooked us
I’m a fan of hot current and I always watch it.But the last episode was terrible because mzimayiyu sakutha presenting.Only Brian is fit for programme imeneyi.Even Kasakula popanda Brian sizikukhala bwino.I have nothing personal against Wezi koma programme take si imeneyi,.Amayankhula chizungu with fake accent through out the programme and yet programme imeneyi anthu akumudzi amayikonda and amamvera pa radio.Chonde a times group ngati simubwezeletsa Brian find another presenter oti zamatama alibe but Ali serious ndi what is going on in this country at the moment just like Brian is.Amayiwa zawakanika and I for one ndasiya kuonela programme yi until Brian is back.#Bring Brian back please
Bring back Brian we enjoy his presentations