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Ng’ambi scores third PSL goal
Flames midfielder Robert Ng’ambi netted his third South Africa Premiership goal of the season when his Platinum Stars drew 2-2 with table-topping Kaizer Chiefs at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Limpopo...
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Former champion undermines Master, Ichocho
Former national weightlifting champion Thoko Kakhongwe vowed to undermine the superiority of defending champion Henry Master and his runner-up Yasin ‘Ichocho’ Suwedi as the Mr. Malawi Bodybuilding...
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BB PLAYERS FRUSTRATED
Want their 60% cut GS calls for patience TNM Super League champions Big Bullets players have expressed frustration over the team’s delay in responding to their request for a 60 percent cut from the K9...
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Liquidation of Citizen Insurance: Winners and losers
Creditors of the liquidated Citizen Insurance Company have high expectations now that the time frame set by the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) to accept creditors’ proof of claims has elapsed. As a recap...
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Malawi moves to address IPS woes
Against a barrage of criticism, Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) is reviewing the contract selling of tobacco, also known as Integrated Production System (IPS), to address challenges that have rocked...
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Malawi needs economic discipline, not strikes—Gondwe
Government is firmly pushing for budgetary discipline that makes public workers’ clamour for strikes and unbudgeted salary increases detrimental to efforts to heal the nation’s economic woes, Finance,...
View ArticleEvolve with change
There is a well-known saying by an English author Israel Zangwill that says that “Everything changes, except change itself”. Others attribute this quotation to John F. Kennedy. There is another...
View ArticleWhen Malawians create ‘foreign’ jobs
Yet another gloomy headline on Malawi’s negative or skewed trade balance on the international stage graced the Business News pages of The Nation this week. It read: ‘Malawi struggles under Sadc trade,...
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Conserve wildlife to attract tourists
Government says it is committed to ensuring professional standards in developing and implementing wildlife conservation and management programmes for sustainable economic growth in the country....
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Empowering women to fight harmful traditions
She does not have the face of a brave woman, but Everesi Mithi, 56, a widow from Falaminga Village in Senior Chief Chimombo’s area in Nsanje, is no coward. Mithi stood her ground and refused to marry...
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Egyptian firm to buy Malawi tobacco
The tobacco promotional trip that Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development and Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) officials embarked on in Egypt in April this year has borne fruits. The...
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Chikwawa people hail village banks concept
Blantyre-based Stephanos Foundation has urged communities in Ngabu, Chikwawa to venture into village banking to transform their financial status for the better. Stephanos programmes manager Chimwemwe...
View ArticleUnlocking decent jobs
Think of CEOs of a few public institutions whose workers are on strike or threatening to do so. Their high perks, I can imagine come up with managing such incidents. Angry workers whose jobs are not...
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Grace through music
Malawi has blessed with amazing talent, especially in the musical field. However, making it big or even penetrating the industry especially internationally is a huge challenge. Perhaps, the lack of...
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The Legend: Ray Phiri, the African jazz master
In 1972, on March 23, in Mpumalanga formerly Eastern Transvaal, South Africa a baby boy was born. That little man was later named Raymond who was to be a legendary guitarist. Growing up in the streets...
View ArticleThe ballroom dance that is m’bwiza
The moon illuminates the shores of Lake Malawi. Farmers wear a smile in response to the god harvest and the fishermen had a good expedition—they caught large chambo and catfish. A bonfire set alight on...
View ArticleLulu and bad instruments
Good people, ‘garbage in garbage out’ is no new gospel. The cliché re-emerged last week when R&B crooner Lulu refused to perform in Mzuzu JUST because the organisers, Top City Entertainment,...
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‘It feels good to be back’
Malawi’s last man standing in the Big Brother Hotshots show, Sipe, received a lukewarm reception at Kamuzu International Airport on Wednesday afternoon but that did little to dampen her mood. Only a...
View ArticleQuench the fire on the mountain
Malawi is a country on fire, and it has to be quenched before the fire sweeps the system from its very roots. Check the media. ‘Country in crisis as irate pupils march and block roads in Blantyre’...
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Defying disability odds; the story of Lekeleni
She was a regular sight at Lilongwe Bridge where she used to squat on a wrapper with her arms stretched out as she begged from passers-by. But after years of enduring harsh scorching summer heats,...
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