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Malawians astounded with K422.5 million as cost to rehabilitate Chief Justice’s residence

October 24, 2022

Chief Justice, His Lordship Rizine Mzikamanda * If renovation alone costs K422 million, a new house would cost K4 billion—Onjezani Kenani * The house is in a dilapidated state and it’s extremely big at 6 hectares of land along Magalasi Road By Duncan Mlanjira Malawians have received with shock news that the Malawi Judiciary intends to rehabilitate Chief Justice’s official residence at Nyambadwe in Blantyre at a staggering cost of K422,557,735.99. The works have been awarded to CPL Construction…

Exploits University receives public backlash for revoking its graduate’s degree after she publicly burnt her academic paper

October 23, 2022

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* It is our interpretation that you did it to disgrace and tarnish the image of the university * Revoking an awarded degree is a serious matter that cannot be driven by emotions—Kondwanie Chirembo * This is not an honorary degree and what she has committed is not an academic misconduct—Francis Chiumia * It will just take one crazy lawyer to finish the university with a lawsuit—Kruger Bantuworld By Duncan Mlanjira The decision by Exploits University to revoke its…

Every culture plays a critical role in promoting oneness and national development—Chakwera

October 23, 2022

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Chakwera with former President Bakili Muluzi at Chiwanja cha Ayao festival * A nation which has factories, roads and different development projects but does not promote culture, lacks morality * Without cultural differences, it would be easy to achieve national development and address challenges the people face * Urged Malawians to embrace the spirit of oneness as evidenced by the gathering of many people from different walks of life for Chiwanja cha Ayao festival By Mada Ziba, MANA President…

CAMA welcomes suggestion to revive MDC but to be completely independent of government interference

October 23, 2022

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* Yes, all things being equal that’s the way to move if we want to develop—Kapito * While it might have worked in South Africa, it’s quite hard to think that such a model can work successfully in a different country * With different economic systems and challenges — especially the financing part * During Dr. Banda’s rule, the economic model was completely different than what we have today * Dr. Banda was subsidizing every industry — education, transportation,…

Top global internet service provider Starlink licensed by MACRA; Awaiting being published in Government Gazette

October 22, 2022

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Starlink offers high-speed low latency broadband satellite internet service * Starlink Lilongwe Limited is a company owned by SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, USA * Issued with Network Facilities, Network Services andApplication Service licences * Which will be effective on the day when they will be published in the Government gazette By Duncan Mlanjira At its 77th Board meeting on Friday, October 21 in Blantyre, Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) granted its first-ever high-speed low latency broadband satellite internet service…

Wholly Malawian-owned new mobile service provider Malcel Plc promises best customer experience as it becomes 6th operator

October 22, 2022

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* MACRA officially presents it with 3 licenses that have successfully been gazetted in Parliament * Minister of Information Kazako prays that this will induce competition in the telecommunications industry * Which will level the playing field and yield effective communication services for the ICT consumer * I urge Malcel to roll out their services with speed as consumers are anxious to see new services By Duncan Mlanjira New mobile service provider Malcel Plc, which has officially been presented…

Malawians encouraged to utilise SDNP’s dot mw (.MW) emails and websites on Malawi domains

October 22, 2022

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Minister Kazako presents the authorization key to SNDP’s owner Paulos Nyirenda * Malawians, as well as companies conducting their businesses in Malawi, should take pride in using .MW as part of their domain names—MACRA * Let us begin to more patriotic and identify ourselves with our country online on the World Wide Web—Kazako * .MW operates on a global internet domains that identifies that such communications are specifically from Malawi—SNDP By Duncan Mlanjira Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA) has…

CFTC inspection exercise exposes serious breach of Contract Farming Strategy by industry players

October 21, 2022

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* Some farmers indicate that they did not sign contracts with contract buyers * Some contracts were in English, and used difficult legal language which the farmers could not understand * Specific prices for inputs were not indicated * Loans were in foreign currency (US$), not in local currency By Duncan Mlanjira Following up on its mandate, the Competition and Fair Trade Commission (CFTC) conducted inspections on contract farming in which it engaged over 60 farmers’ clubs across the…

Bill prepared to constitutionally amend several areas of the Electoral Commission

October 21, 2022

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Justice Kachale, current chairperson * It is also to prescribe the period for holding by-elections * To provide for the minimum and maximum number of members of the Electoral Commission *To provide for a change in the intervals for the review of existing constituency boundaries * To provide for more clarity on the conduct of second poll in presidential elections where majority of more than 50% is not obtained by any candidate in the first poll By Duncan Mlanjira…

Sycamore Consult to host retirement planning training on November 29-30

October 21, 2022

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* The majority of people get so scared of ever going on retirement — not because they don’t want to relax after working for years * But it’s because they know that once the salary ends, they will have very little money to live on * There is need to get skills of how one can prepare for a good retirement where money is not a problem By Duncan Mlanjira After a successful wealth creation conference in Lilongwe in…