February 2017

TEVET champions #MakeMalawiGreenAgain

Feb 20, 2017 Bright Malenga 2 &

As various stakeholders are vowing to make Malawi green again, the Technical Entrepreneurial and Vocational Education and Training (TEVET) Authority engaged Blantyre Synod Youth Development in planting 2000 tree seedlings at Ulongwe hill in Mulanje… ...

Mutharika under pressure from party supporters: fire Chaponda, he is making party unpopular

Feb 20, 2017 Victoria Milanzi 122 &

As the saga involving the minister of Agriculture rages on, some Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) members have asked president Peter Mutharika to fire George Chaponda. Through a letter dated 20 February 2017, senior officials have… ...

PP slams Goodall: Malawi’s economic situation only sugarcoated

Feb 20, 2017 Joseph Dumbula 14 &

Opposition People’s Party (PP) has described as disheartening a recent remark made by Minister of Finance Goodall Gondwe that Malawi’s economy has hit the road for a turn around. Gondwe told the Parliament last Friday… ...

Bullets supporters to take to streets if executive polls are cancelled

Feb 20, 2017 Andrew Cane Chilapondwa 56 &

Nyasa Big Bullets supporters have threatened the team’s Board of Trustees that they will hold demonstrations if main executive polls are not held next month. After successfully holding supporters committee elections earlier this month at… ...

Malawians angry at Mutharika for keeping Chaponda

Feb 20, 2017 Luke Bisani 119 &

Despite two public inquiries on the maize saga implicating minister of agriculture, irrigation and water development George Chaponda for his dealings, Malawi leader Peter Mutharika has not taken action against the minister angering Malawians in… ...

Chaponda office fire: Kalua quells fears of evidence being destroyed

Feb 20, 2017 Luke Bisani 32 &

Outspoken Rumphi East legislator Kamlepo Kalua has claimed that the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the maizegate scandal has evidence on the saga which investigators can use. This follows fears that the inferno at the ministry… ...

Constituents fault MP over Nsanje-Marka Road

Feb 20, 2017 Chilenje Chilenje 1 &

Nsanje South Parliamentarian is under fire for failing to push for a good road network involving the 27 kilometre Nsanje-Marka Road which is currently in very bad shape. Concerned constituents including the business community have… ...