Wonder Mkhonza granted bail
According to a statement today from PUDEMO national spokesperson, Zakhele Mabuza, Wonder Mkhonza has been granted a bail of 15 000 emalangeni, approximately 1650 US$. Wonder Mkhonza was arrested on A...
Category Archives: Southern Africa
”Incompetent” and “catastrophic” Swazi regime ignores Swazi people...
”The results of Mswati’s absolute rule for the Swazi people have been catastrophic,” independent watchdog organisation Freedom House writes in the excecutive summary of their new report on Swaz...
Female Judge now leading Malawi’s Judiciary
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...
Malawi in integrated boarder systems initiative to check on fake entra...
Malawi has embarked on an integrated boarder control systems project, an inter-connection structure that will enable the country’s immigration department headquarters access activities happening ever...
Malawi road to 2014 Elections: Court case is not a winning strategy
Another stupid item in the People’s Party closet of reasoning is this notion namely that Peter Mutharika is not a good candidate of the DPP because he has pending court cases. Damn! Tell that t...
Joyce Banda loses round one
The People’s Party is a bereaved grouping. From President Joyce Banda to economic asylum seekers that she and her party uses as front-line strategists online, they, today, have tear-drenched he...
Concern over Malawi’s decision on arbitration
Last week, Malawi indicated that it wished to give up mediation of its dispute with Tanzania over Lake Malawi by the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) in favour of the International Court...
Canada funds IOM humanitarian projects in Zimbabwe
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 19, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has made a C$1 million contribution towards IOM’s humanitarian pro...
Zimbabwe awaits Malawi President Joyce Banda to open Premier Trade Fai...
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...
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...
Swazi regime detain PUDEMO member for handling pamphlets on state of e...
Wonder Mkhonza, National Organising Secretary of the banned Swazi political party the People’s United Democratic Movement and Secretary General of the Swaziland Processing Allied Workers Union ...
Swazi civil society warns diplomats of government clamp down
During meetings with diplomats from the embassies of several Western countries, held in Pretoria last week, representatives from Swaziland’s civil society warned that Swaziland’s governme...
Newstime Africa joins Malawi Media in mourning
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...
The ‘Gang of Three’, ‘Midnight Six’ and ‘Daniel Phiri’: Unpacking Mala...
The Commission of Inquiry’s report into the death of Malawi’s former President Mutharika makes for compelling reading. The Commission of Inquiry’s105-page report into the death, in April 2012, of Pre...
Malawi President Joyce Banda commissions new Military Barracks
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...
Five family members perish on Shire River after Hippo attack in Malawi...
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 ...