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The Village @ Mandevu Farm has organised a marathon of events for Festive Season

December 23, 2019

By Duncan Mlanjira Traditional dances, live band performances, dancing competitions, egg and sack races, sumptuous traditional foods are some of the activities that The Village @ Mandevu Farm has on offer for the Festive Season. Located between Malosa and Machinga along the Zomba-Lilongwe/Mangochi Road, The Village @ Mandevu Farm’s mouth-watering menu for Christmas Day as well New Year’s Day include traditional meals offering Chigwada, Zipokolo, nyama yotendera, smoked Bombe, Zikanyanga, Thelele, Chilembwe, Nkhunda, Zinzili and others. The traditional…

Malawians dwell too much on complaining rather than creating solutions to problems faced — President Mutharika

December 21, 2019

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By Duncan Mlanjira President Arthur Peter Mutharika urges Malawians not to dwell too much on complaining but rather strive to create solutions to problems they face. President Mutharika said this when he graced the 2019 MBC Innovation Awards at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre on Friday, in a speech he themed as ‘A Country of Great Opportunities’. “We see a problem. Instead of stepping out to look for a solution, we want to find someone to blame. We enjoy complaining…

MultiChoice launches Christmas promotion

December 20, 2019

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By Duncan Mlanjira MultiChoice Malawi has launched a Christmas festive season promotion in which they will be upgrading its clients’ packages when they will be renewing their DStv and GOtv subscriptions starting Friday, December 20 to January 1. Those who are on Access package at K8,500 will be upgraded to the next level of Family, which goes at K13,500 and so on for a whole month. The other packages are Compact at K22,500; Compact Plus at K35,500 and…

Blantyre Round Table maintains 59-year Christmas luncheon tradition with Mpemba Reformatory Centre kids

December 17, 2019

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By Duncan Mlanjira Charitable organization, Blantyre Round Table No. 20 on Saturday once again honored its annual social fellowship commitment when it treated kids at Mpemba Reformatory Centre to a Christmas luncheon at the institution based in Blantyre along the Chikwawa Road. The kids were first taken on a leisure bus ride from Mpemba through the streets of Blantyre Central Business District all the way along Masauko Chipembere Highway to Chichiri Shopping Mall where they were treated to…

Events management company set to go beyond connecting brides and grooms to wedding service suppliers

December 12, 2019

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By Duncan Mlanjira An events management company, We Events, eyes to go beyond connecting brides and grooms to wedding service suppliers by developing a wedding planning mobile app that will bring digital innovation to the long process of planning a wedding. Founder of the company, Tawina Mbeza — a marketer, graphic designer and entrepreneur, who runs a startup creative agency called Roadville Studio — says on the We Events app, brides will be able to receive daily tips,…

South African crowned Miss Universe 2019

December 10, 2019

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By Associated Press South Africa’s Zozibini Tunzi was crowned Miss Universe 2019, giving the country its second title in in three years in a pageant that also saw strong showings from contestants from Puerto Rico and Mexico. Tunzi, a 26-year-old gender violence activist, said she was forced to abandon her studies for a year because of her family’s economic difficulties, but her modeling work allowed her to continue her education. She studied public relations at Cape Peninsula University of…

Malawi to hold first-ever beautiful African fashion show

December 6, 2019

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By Harris Chimatiro, MANA Lilongwe Angeles Modeling Agency will on December 14, 2019 hold the first Beautiful African Fashion Show at Gemini House in Lilongwe, which has been organized to promote Malawian fashion industry. Speaking to Malawi News Agency, the Agency’s executive director, Chris Daka said the objective of the show is also to promote and put local designers and models on the map. “It is also designed to define an inclusive definition of the true cosmopolitan lifestyle…

Jacaranda Foundation maintaining 32-year tradition of French drama festivals

November 25, 2019

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By Duncan Mlanjira Jacaranda Foundation is maintaining the 32-year old the national French drama and in March 2020, six secondary schools from the three regions are expected to showcase their talent in creativity coupled with French language articulation. The six schools qualified through regional finals held last Saturday under the theme ‘Climate Change’, and they are Zomba Catholic and Jacaranda from the Southern Region, Marymount and Kaseghe from the North, Likuni Boys and Robert Blake from the Centre, who…

A group of Malawian generation of the 1970s organising fun train ride for Limbe to Balaka

November 11, 2019

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By Duncan Mlanjira A group of Malawians who were born in the 1970s, calling themselves Oldies Connection 70s on a Facebook profile that started in September this year, is organising a fun train ride from Limbe to Balaka on November 30 as a reminisce of the good old days when the country used to have such fun events ahead of Christmas. According to one of the organisers, Harold Bema, the idea was mooted during one of their…

Famous Brazilian filmmaker Iara Lee to film C.O.D.E. Sangala’s Music Against Malaria NGO Cultural Festival

October 24, 2019

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By Duncan Mlanjira Famous Brazilian filmmaker Iara Lee is in the country to among others, film performing artist C.O.D.E. Sangala’s Music Against Malaria Cultural Festival set for Saturday, October 26 at College of Medicine Sports Complex Hall in Blantyre from 6pm to midnight in aid of the children’s ward at Chikwawa District Hospital. Sangala said Lee contacted him after she saw a poster on social media of the festival and the online appeal to well wishers for funding for…