FAM wants more women in coaching
Football Association of Malawi (FAM) wants more women to graduate as football coaches in the country. FAM executive committee member Flora Mwandira made the statement at BAT Ground in Blantyre on...
View ArticleIchocho pulls out of boxing curtain-raiser
Mr. Malawi Bodybuilding Championship runner-up Yasin ‘Ichocho’ Suwedi has chickened out of showcasing at next week’s non-title boxing rematch between Limbani Masamba and Alick Mwenda at Lilongwe...
View ArticleMzava returns to action
Flames key defender Limbikani Mzava returned to action for his South African club Bloemfontein Celtic on Wednesday evening after being reduced to a side show for slightly over a month. Mzava was in...
View ArticleNew faces on GOtv netball best players list
Three new faces are on the list of nominees for the Player of the Tournament Award in the GOtv Fast5 Netball Champions League which winds up tomorrow at Don Bosco in Lilongwe. Complex Tigresses shooter...
View ArticleFAM rules out Cecafa presence
FAM has ruled out the possibility of Flames playing in the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup later this month in Ethiopia. Football Association of Malawi (FAM) president Walter Nyamilandu said on day that...
View ArticleSana’s bridal art
It is every bride’s wish to look stunning on her wedding day, for this is a once in a lifetime celebration. If you get to have more than two weddings in your life, then you are twice as lucky. In...
View ArticleThe hidden art of Dzaleka
The dream of one asylum seeker from DRC to have an art celebration at Dzaleka Refugee Camp came to life on Saturday with the inaugural Tumaini Festival. This was a first for the refugee camp. In its 20...
View ArticleLegend: Matafale the fiery legend
The year was 1978. The place Chinkango Seventh Day Adventist Church in Chileka. The church was packed to capacity that Saturday morning. One of the choirs performing that morning had a nine-year old...
View ArticleNew chapter in education?
Last week, government launched the new Education Sector Implementation Plan (ESIP II)—documents which will help government turn its policies into action until 2018. I explore the plan by looking at how...
View ArticleDialogues, weapon in HIV fight
The global HIV and Aids pandemic is affecting all levels of society, creating orphans and deepening levels of poverty, threatening to reverse years of development efforts. It lurks the human resource...
View ArticleBullets to end 10-year league title drought?
After a barren 10-year search for the holy grail, it now appears rosy on the red side of town and Big Bullets can win the TNM Super League title this afternoon if they clear one more hurdle that is...
View ArticleProper Fisp implementation can help reduce hunger
Government says the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (Fisp) is an excellent weapon for fighting hunger in the country. Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Dr Allan Chiyembekeza said this last week...
View ArticleGuest spot: PAC wants cohesion on federalism
The Public Affairs Committee (PAC), an inter-faith democracy watchdog, organised a two-day national stakeholder’s forum on inclusivity and federalism at Sunbird Mount Soche Hotel in Blantyre from...
View ArticleOur song as 2015 approaches…
Esteemed Raw Stuffers, as 2014 comes to an end, some of us are looking back at what we have done in the last 11 months, where we have faltered, where we must patch up in the remaining 30 days and what...
View ArticleA sting: Our drugs are in Mozambique, health selling govt drugs in Moz
Some health workers stationed in border districts clinics are causing constant stock-outs of essential drugs by stealing and then selling them to private clinics and pharmacies in Mozambique, a Weekend...
View ArticleCivil servants salaries to delay
Civil servants will have to wait a little bit longer to receive their salaries, government has announced. In a press statement dated November 27 2014 signed by secretary to the Treasury Ronald Mangani,...
View ArticleLutepo is cracking up
Imagine yourself to be Oswald Lutepo living in a poor African country called Malawi. You are accused of a myriad of crimes that include stealing billions of poor taxpayers’ money; laundering a couple...
View ArticleBlue booklet journalism and journalists’ realities
We love the State of Machinga. We love the friendliness of the rural Machingian folks. We also love the urban Machingians, particularly the Liwondians whose lives have been so dollarised since the Vale...
View ArticleAre you ready for sex?
When is the right time to experience physical intimacy with that someone special? Whether it is the first time to have sex or the first time to have sex with that person…what drives your decision? If...
View ArticleMadonna named Malawi child welfare Goodwill Ambassador
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has appointed US pop star Madonna as Malawi’s Goodwill Ambassador for child welfare. The Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), made the announcement following a...
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