QUOTA SYSTEM VS MERIT: should students be selected to government schools based on merit or quota system?

By the time Malawi won the fight against the rule of the colonial masters, Britain, education was a far fetched […]

Malawi: Mind the Gap

The historian Dame Margery Perham was a major architect of the British colonial technique of indirect rule. “The great gap […]

Malawi Hospital Expands Use of Electronic Records

Electronic medical records are not only for wealthy, industrialized countries. A test project in Southern Africa suggests that using computers […]

Madonna writes a hardly legible, error-filled handwritten letter to the President of Malawi, addressing president Banda by her first name “Joyce.”

Madonna has become embroiled in a war of words with the President of Malawi after she sent her a tatty, […]

Why Did The President Inform The Nation That The Country Had No Maize While Most Of It Was Rotting In The Silos? Cama’s press release on rotten maize in silos

Why Did The President Inform The Nation That The Country Had No Maize While Most Of It Was Rotting In […]

Ignorance or Lies?

There is nothing worse than a president that lies to the people constantly. A state visit to the UK involves […]

Madonna hits back at critics in Malawi

Madonna has explained to her Malawian critics that her motive for being in the country was because she “cared deeply” […]

Charity Organisation fund-raises for Mulanje Hospital

In a special IWD Crowdfund we’d love to fund training of 2 birthing assistants at Mulanje hospital in Malawi (£650). […]

Why Should Women Die Like Goats?

In Malawi, one in 36 mothers dies in childbirth—but even the U.S., which ranks 50th in the world in maternal […]

Press Release: SSCG to host Malawi SMEs Development Conference on Thursday 25 April in Lilongwe

Sub-Saharan Consulting Group (SSCG) to host Malawi Small Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) Development Conference on Thursday 25 April in Lilongwe […]

Let Malawians judge me, says Pres. Banda after one year in power

Malawi on Sunday April 7  marks one year since President Joyce Banda took office after the death of president Bingu […]

Chiwembe,MDC grounds to host league games

Chiwembe and MDC grounds are to be used for super league games next season as one way of easing the […]

Lets take inspiration from Martin Luther Jr

It is a little known fact that the columns that appear in your newspaper on Saturday actually have to be […]

Memoirs of late Dumbo Lemani’s Personal Assistant: The making of Bingu’s presidency

“My first formal interaction with the late Bingu wa Mutharika was at the late Dumbo Lemani’s residence in Area 12, […]

Wellingtonian finalist in global film challenge

Wellington-based film-maker Michael Hobbs is one of five finalists in a global film challenge called MicroFlicks. MicroFlicks aims to raise […]

Malawi Pres. Joyce Banda’s BBC Focus on Africa interview: Transcript

BBC—Madam President, who is in charge of Malawi? JB—The Malawians are taking decisions about their own destiny. What has happened […]

Malawi and Mozambique agree on water way feasibility study

The governments of Malawi and Mozambique say the feasibility study being carried out will determine the viability of the Shire Zambezi Water […]

Has Joyce Banda fulfilled hopes pinned on her?

Yes if those hopes were making fuel available with prices that go up every fortnight. Yes if those hopes were […]

Actor Max DC cuts dreadlocks, to launch own church

Renowned actor cum singer and story teller Maxwell Chiphinga also known as Max DC who has been spotting dreadlocks all […]

Madonna pens JB

International pop star Madonna has offered to join hands with President Joyce Banda in any project that supports children in […]

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 […]