Police arrest Weekend Times impostor
Police in Blantyre have arrested a Weekend Times impostor who was trying to extort money from a Seventh Day Adventist pastor on false allegations.
The mastermind of the scam, John Kaipa - who is still at large - approached The Weekend Times last Friday after his colleague got arrested in Limbe.
He told the weekly's editors that Seventh Day Adventist Pastor Wilson Jumbe had kidnapped his friend.
Kaipa alleged that the pastor...
Zimbabwean arrested for being found in possession of 38 bags of Marijuana
Malawi Police are keeping in custody a Zimbawean national Collings Jere for being found in possession of 38 bags of Marijuana.
Jere was arrested at Nathenje in the capital, Lilongwe where he stopped over with his car registration number XTL 490 GP to arrange his cargo , police say.
He was on his way to the commercial capital, Blantyre.
“It was at that point that...
Traditional healer gets 8 yrs IHL for causing bodily injury to babies in witchcraft ritual
Thyolo Second Grade Magistrate, Lameck Mkwapatira has sentenced a traditional healer to eight years imprisoned with hard labour for grievously wounding two 10-month-old babies on their buttocks when he alleged to have been cleansing them from witchcraft.
Mkwapatira convicted and sentenced Frank Josamu, 35, who was arrested on February 21 for wounding the children in witchcraft cleansing which ended in the babies sustaining second degree...
Chanco guard mutilated, assailants on the run
A Chancellor College guard has been taken to Zomba Central Hospital after he was found in a pool of blood outside Makata Hall around 6 a.m after unknown thugs cut off his private parts.
According to a source, the guard was found this morning around 6 a.m in a pool of blood and was almost immediately rushed to Zomba Central Hospital.
"He was still alive but...
Rising crime rate worries Blantyre residents
A rise in criminal activity has prompted security experts to warn residents of Blantyre and surrounding areas to be on alert at all times.
This comes in the wake of increased criminal activity, the recent one being an armed robbery in which a businessman was ambushed at gunpoint on his way home along Blantyre’s Henderson Street.
In another incident, a businessman in Thyolo was on Monday...
