Author Archives: Peter Chipanga

Joyce Banda urges Malawians to take farming as a commercial business

May 11, 2013 no comments

Ahead of the 23rd World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, Malawi President Dr. Joyce Banda advised her nationals to take farming as serious business. She made the appeal befo...

Female Judge now leading Malawi’s Judiciary

April 28, 2013 no comments

Malawi’s revered female Supreme Court of Appeals Judge Anastarzia Msosa, has been entrusted to manage the Judiciary in Malawi following the retirement of Justice Lovemore Munlo, SC. Newstime Africa u...

Tanzania stuck with impounded 29 tonnes of Malawi sugar

April 23, 2013 no comments

Tanzania government says it is yet to decide on what to do with the Malawi sugar confiscated last year as it was being smuggled into that country, Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food Security and C...

Mixed reactions over plans to have prepaid water supply in Malawi

April 23, 2013 no comments

Amid denunciations and counter accusations between water suppliers and clients on poor delivery service and wastefulness, respectively, the Blantyre Water Board has announced that it is rolling out a...

Zimbabwe awaits Malawi President Joyce Banda to open Premier Trade Fai...

April 17, 2013 1 comment

Malawi President Joyce Banda is scheduled to officially open the Zimbabwe 2013 International Trade Fair which runs from April 23 to 27 in Bulawayo, courtesy of an invitation of the country’s Presiden...

Mixed reactions over Carlsberg Malawi’s decision to opt for twin spons...

April 17, 2013 no comments

The decision by Malawi’s giant brewer, Carlsberg Malawi Limited to once again bankroll both Big Bullets Football Club and Mighty Wanderers Football Club when in the first place it was made public tha...

Newstime Africa joins Malawi Media in mourning

April 13, 2013 no comments

Newstime Africa (NTA) has joined Malawi’s Nation Publication Limited (NPL) and the media fraternity in general in mourning the sudden death of one of Malawi’s industrious and highly respe...

Malawi President Joyce Banda commissions new Military Barracks

April 7, 2013 2 comments

President Dr. Joyce Banda has commissioned a new Military Barracks in the Northern Malawi bringing the number of Battalions to 11, but the fourth along the coastlines of Lake Malawi. The Malawi leade...

Young men convicted for packing soil in girl’s private parts in Malawi...

April 3, 2013 no comments

Three Malawian young men who found pleasure in cramming some soil into a girl’s private parts have been condemned to prison after being found guilty of indecent assault, an offense that contravenes S...

Malawi makes strides in child labor elimination

April 3, 2013 no comments

In line with the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention on the elimination of the worst forms of Child Labor which Malawi is a signatory, the Malawi government has come up with a catalog o...

Five family members perish on Shire River after Hippo attack in Malawi...

April 2, 2013 no comments

In Malawi, five family members have died after the boat they were sailing in was crushed by an irate hippopotamus in Shire River, in the country’s Eastern Region. The police have confirmed that a 34 ...

Floods in Malawi force villagers to seek shelter on main road

March 28, 2013 no comments

Severe floods have left hundreds of families in 16 villages homeless and one woman admitted to hospital after a heavy down pour in Karonga in the northern Malawi Wednesday March 27 2013, officials ha...

Brazil World Football Cup African Group F champions race open

March 25, 2013 no comments

Failure to utilise home ground advantage by Namibia who on the log table were second with three points while the visiting Malawi side entered the pitch with two points culminated from draws, and Afri...

Malawian executed in Indonesia over drug trafficking

March 18, 2013 1 comment

The Indonesia government has resumed execution several years after nobody has been condemned to such death, a penalty, and the first to taste such a penalty is a Malawian drug trafficker. The 48 year...

Treason suspect rearrested in Malawi

March 18, 2013 no comments

Malawi Police have rearrested Symon Vuwa Kaunda former Cabinet Minister and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) official who along with other high profile persons were last Thursday released by the Hi...

In Malawi – Another economic planning minister throws in the tow...

March 16, 2013 no comments

In Malawi few months after the first Joyce Banda anointed Economic Planning and Development Minister Atupele Muluzi resigned, his replacement, Goodall Gondwe, has taken a similar route, throwing in t...