The Super League of Malawi (SULOM) has awarded three referees for their professionalism during the 2023 TNM Super League season.
The Best Centre Referee award has gone to Mayamiko Kanjere. The Best 1st Assistant Referee award went to Happiness Mbandambanda while Lameck Phiri scooped the Best 2nd Assistant Referee award.
The three referees were voted for by the country’s referee body, the National Football Referees Association (NFRA).
According to Sulom, the recognition of the referees will not only motivate referees but also underscores the league’s commitment to maintaining the highest standards of sportsmanship and excellence.
Minister of Labour, Agnes NyaLonje, has expressed disappointment with substandard construction works of Mtowe Community Technical College in Nsanje District.
NyaLonje said it is worrisome that the technical college failed to be finalised unlike other colleges in Machinga and Chiradzulu districts after being allocated equal budgets.
“It is surprising that other colleges in the same category were finalised and are of good quality using the same allocated resources and remaining with few final touches but Mtowe Technical College has a long way to be completed.
“Further, it is of poor quality such that some structures have already developed cracks,” she said after touring the project on Friday.
Nyalonje
She said her ministry will investigate matters surrounding the project.
NyaLonje was surprised that the contractor went with a certificate of completion and a lot of money was paid yet constriction hasn’t been finalised.
“We have so many questions; what happened? Where is the money for the project? Who allowed this to happen? Those questions have to be answered,” said NyaLonje.
She has warned that government will not tolerate any negative issue in government projects.
She, therefore, called upon the people of Nsanje to actively participate in project implementation as one way of ensuring quality in projects.
The Minister has promised the people of Nsanje that government will make sure that the project is completed so that the youth in the district should benefit as others are doing.
Nsanje District Council Chairperson, Mike Kafalachi, said for a long time the district has been a victim of substandard construction works and there is need for government to task contractors who offer substandard work.
Kafalachi revealed that Nsanje District Council was not involved in any way regarding construction of the college which started in 2019.
Ministry of Health, with support from the Global Fund, has installed an incinerator at Zomba Central Hospital designed for high volume waste management at the facility as well as other health facilities surrounding the district.
Minister of Health, Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda, and officials from the Global Fund visited the site earlier this week to appreciate the installation progress.
Hon Khumbize Chiponda
After touring the works for the housing of the incinerator machine, the Minister was satisfied with the progress which has been made so far.
“I am very satisfied with this incinerator housing. As you are aware that when managing a hospital, you get infectious waste in different forms and as such waste management is a very important part of hospital management.
“That is why we have to be strict on how we manage each and every waste which comes from the hospital from our patients and medical supplies which we use. At Zomba Central Hospital, waste management was really problematic and I am sure that once this machine starts operating it will make a change.
“We had to ask for the support from the Global fund and they supported us. This is why we are here inspecting. The installation of incinerator is almost finished,” said Chiponda.
She said by using the machine, it will protect the surroundings and even the environment.
Zomba Central Hospital Director, Dr Saulos Nyirenda, thanked Government of Malawi and the Global Fund for the initiative.
Nyirenda explained that the incinerator will be beneficial to more than 15 health facilities surrounding Zomba Central Hospital saying the current way of managing the waste at the hospital is not optical.
“The main problem that we have now is that we use the traditional way of burning waste but waste from the hospital includes metals, and heavy duty plastics so we use diesel or petrol to burn these things and it does not generate enough heat to completely burn the materials. It is risky for both our workers and the community.
“With this machine, we will be able to completely burn waste into ashes. As such, we will create a safe place for our people and the environment,” he said.
Programme Manager for Global Fund, Doreen Sanje, said they have been supporting Government of Malawi since 2003 and will continue to do so.
“We are still committed to supporting Malawi and what is important is to ensure that the resources given should be used satisfactorily,” she said.
Malawi Police in Lilongwe are keeping in custody one of their officers for allegedly stealing two motorbikes from his workmates at C Division in the Capital.
Lilongwe Police Public Relations Officer Hastings Chigalu says the suspect Nokesi Kashitiyano,31, did the offence in December last year when his colleague the owner of the bike was deployed for guard duties at area 10 in Lilongwe.
He says the case was reported by his workmate after seeing his bike with a Kabaza operator.
“The Kabaza operator referred him to the owner who disclosed that he bought it from the police officer who accepted to have stolen the bike at the said place,while still questioning him another police officer came and disclosed that his motor vehicle also went mission at the station in the same way,”says Chigalu.
Kashitiyano hails from Mgona village Traditional Authority(T/A) Tengani in Nsanje.
Minister of Local Government who is also Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Director of Youth Richard Chimwendo Banda has asked expelled DPP NGC member Nicholas Dausi not to get worried following his expulsion from the DPP, saying the MCP is well prepared to warmly welcoming him back.
Chimwendo has also extended the invitation to DPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Mwanza West Constituency Joyce Chitsulo telling the two, Dausi and Chitsulo that MCP is not a family party, it is a national party saying it has an office for all its affairs and not using someone’s house as an office.
Flirting with MCP – Dausi and Chitsulo
Speaking during a Development rally addressed by President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera in Mwanza on Friday, Chimwendo said Dausi was expelled from the DPP for no offense claiming that he asked for the construction of a stadium and other projects in Mwanza but the DPP failed despite of him being a cabinet minister.
Chimwendo said Dausi was not alone to ask for a sports stadium, Mark Katsonga Phiri asked for the same but their Party did nothing only promising lies for years until President Chakwera came and is fulfilling the development projects failed by the previous DPP in government.
“Chakwera is walking in the footsteps of Ngwazi Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda spreading development projects across the country even in areas which did not vote for him,” he said.
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) District Youth Governor for Lilongwe Urban speaking on a strict condition of anonymity, has thanked Chimwendo Banda for publicly opening doors to those who have been expelled and suspended from the DPP to join the MCP.
The Governor said it is the wish of the party to see to it that all who have been expelled and suspended from the party joins the MCP claiming that they have been working with the MCP inside and outside Parliament to make sure that the DPP goes to the 2025 elections without a presidential candidate.
He said sanity has now come to stay in the mighty DPP following the expulsion and suspension of some of the party’s members advising all that if they have political muscles, they should join their MCP other than continue fighting with the DPP as this will take them nowhere.
The Governor has assured all the expelled and suspended members that the DPP remains a strong party and is poised to win the 2025 elections with or without castigations and insults from expelled members claiming that some of the members have already started advising Malawians not to vote for the DPP anymore.
“Just join the MCP or form your political party, don’t dream that your departure will divide DPP members, genuine DPP members are with the party and cannot follow you to the MCP,” he said.
The Governor has since appealed to all DPP patriotic members not to be shaken by failed politicians who are doing everything possible that infighting continues in the DPP assuring all that DPP under Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika will defeat President Chakwera even if elections are held today or tomorrow.
