The Sound and Light Festival will return this afternoon at Blantyre Sports Club with performances by Nigerian singer FireBoy DML and launch of Castel Malawi’s new beer brand Shandie.
The event organisers Entertainers Promotions partnered with Castel to bring back this event in the Commercial city after it went into hibernation for three years.
Since it’s inception, this will be the first time that the event will feature an international artist.
Apart from Fireboy Sound and Light will also feature Mr Nobody hit-maker Onesmus and other local artists and DJs.
According to Entertainers Promotions director Tonderai Banda, people who have purchased a ticket to the event, will receive four bottles of Shandie at the entrance.
He further said with the ticket, people will automatically enter into a promotion run by Castel Malawi whose ultimate prize is a Nissan NP200 vehicle to be given out in December.
The long-awaited Lilongwe Music Festival (LiFest) has kick-started with scintillating performances by local and international artists at Lilongwe Golf Club on Friday night.
Some of the artist that performed last night include Martse, Quest MW, KIM of Diamonds, Charisma, George Kalukusha, Don Tars, Janta, Faith Musa, Suffix, Taygrin and popular South African singer-songwriter Shekhinah
Jamaican Reggae star
Jamaican reggae artist Christopher Martin and Nigerian singer Joseph Akinwale Akinfenwa- Donus, known in the music circles as Joeboy, are expected to entertain people today at this inaugural invent.
Some of the local artists expected to perform today include The Black Missionaries Band, Kell Kay, Gwamba, and Patience Namadingo.
According to one of the event’s organisers Maya Kalumo, LiFest was created to help tackling issues of mental health, and gender based violence (GBV).
He said people would enjoy the festival as they strive to reach out to people on the problems of mental health and GBV.
The Malawi UK Military Community (MUMCo) will on 4 November 2021 join other Service Personnel to collect donations for the Royal British Legion (RBL). MUMCo is a network of British soldiers of Malawi heritage that has conducted events for the benefit of communities in the UK and in Malawi. The RBL is one of the leading charities helping Service men and women past and present including their families in the UK.
Speaking on behalf of MUMCo, the group’s Communications Director SSgt Chimwemwe Musicha said “Armed Service families in particular play a large part in this year’s Poppy Appeal, an event where the RBL collects donations around the UK. We felt it is important to collect for this worthwhile cause, as a community greatly value the support of RBL”.
SSgnt Chimwemwe Musicha
Commenting on the day’s event, the Chairperson of MUMCo Sheila Tobie Banda added that “the Community has particularly been honored to have been offered its own stations to collect from in London including some of the well-recognized stations on the Underground Network. This will greatly enhance our efforts as these are some of the busiest places in the world’s renowned City of London”.
During the height of the Covid 19 Pandemic MUMCo members ran/walked/cycled 7000 miles (which represented an approximate distance from UK to Malawi) to raise a target of £7000 to buy PPE for healthcare workers in Malawi. The challenge also dubbed 7000 for 7000 raised in excess of £8000 surpassing its original target, which was subsequently donated to Malawi Health workers in Dedza and Mwanza districts.
Director for Miracle Technical Institute, Pachalo Mfune, has challenged graduating students at the institution to work in groups saying this is key to be successful in entrepreneurship.
Mfune made the remarks on Thursday during this year’s graduation which was conducted at the institution. “Graduates should go out there and use entrepreneurship skills that we have taught them and more importantly use the element of working together, this will be very important if they are to record success in whatever business they would embark on. “If they continue to work in groups, they will achieve great things as there is an opportunity for graduates who work together to access a loan which will help them run different businesses,” he said.
Pachalo Mfune
Concurring with Mfune, TEVET Regional Service Center Manager for the North, Joseph Chikopa, TEVET is working towards students who are working in groups to create jobs. “We encourage our trainees to engage into entrepreneurial activities and work together, so far, we have entered into a memorandum of understanding with National Economic Empowerment Fund and FINCA so that our graduates can access loans at softer interest rates,” he said.
On his part, Guest of honour, Danielle Teccareli, who works for European Union Office in Lilongwe said the graduates have an opportunity to be self-employed or employed by others. “These graduates made a good step by being successful in their studies which was very important as now they can employ themselves or get employed by others with the technical and entrepreneurial skills obtained from the institution,” he said.
He has since asked the college to monitor the graduates on what they are becoming after their studies and also to support the graduates on how to approach the market. This was 19th graduation ceremony and 206 students graduated where 106 were females and 101 were males.
