Mighty Mukuru Wanderers have on Wednesday announced the appointment of Panganeni Ndovi as their new Chief Executive Officer(CEO) replacing Roosevelt Mpinganjira, who parted ways with the club in February this year.
Chancy Gondwe,Wanderers’ Legal Advisor and Company Secretary has told 247 Malawi News that Ndovi has been given a two-year contract.
“It is true that Mr.Ndovi is now our CEO and he has been given a two-year contract at the club,” says Gondwe.
Ndovi
Ndovi is an experienced individual with a demonstrated history of working in various government organizations, non-governmental organizations and profit-making entities.
He is skilled in Project Management, Research, Organizational Management, Training Management, Partnership Management, with good Analytical and decision-making Skills.
Ndovi is also a strong professional with excellent communication skills who has worked in a number of fields focusing on managing teams with diverse backgrounds.
He previously served as the Vice-Chairperson of the National Beach Soccer Association(NBSA).
As a footballer, he played as a defender for the National Football team, Silver Strikers, and FCB Nyasa Big Bullets, among others.
President and Commander in Chief of Muvi wa Chilungamo Revolutionary Party (MRP) Bantu Saunders Jumah, has urged Malawians to look for moral leaders and moral government to address moral decay the country is sailing through.
Jumah said today, Malawians are engaged in physical fighting in the church and worse still young toddlers are being caught stealing fresh maize in gardens asking Malawians where the country is going and what is the root cause of all this?
Bantu Saunders Jumah
He said he was deeply touched to see a young boy being treated in an inhumanly manner as if he was an insane person wondering that with hunger devastating the country the way some Malawians are treating their fellows is very bad and need condemnations.
Speaking through his face book page followed by millions of people in Malawi and Africa, Jumah has thanked Prophet Shephered Bushiri for rescuing the young man who was caught stealing maize in Salima and was treated like an animal.
Jumah has expressed fears with escalation of violence in Malawi recalling that a boy in Mulanje had two of his arms amputated after being press-ganged by a police officer observing that for 5 times social media reports had indicated that people that are being caught stealing maize are being punished through mob justice.
He has appealed to all Malawians to stop this character of taking the laws on their hands advising them that if the police are not helping, they should find other means either going to the chiefs and village leaders other than imposing in humanly punishments on the suspects.
The MRP President said Malawi is a God-fearing nation lamenting that it has now become a nation without laws saying people are borrowing a leaf from the MCP led Tonse Alliance government for not respecting the country’s laws.
He has noted with a great concern that many Malawians are angry with what the MCP led government has done inflicting to them untold sufferings advising them not to pour their anger on fellow Malawians in one Malawi, one nation.
“Chaining a thief behind the car, this is not the way to live but inhumanly manner which all must stand up to condemn this act,” said Jumah.
He said for Malawians to show anger with the MCP led government, they should register in their large number to prove to the electoral body that they are in anger so that moral decay to be dealt with in a country which has moral leaders and government.
Jumah has warn Malawians that without addressing moral leaders and government, the country would continue to be reckless and lawlessness urging Malawians to vote for moral leaders in 2025 to replace the MCP government’s moral decay.
Self Help Africa (SHA), an international organization which has been working in partnership with the Dowa District Council since 2019 working closely together to provide access to safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Dowa district has donated a laptop, desktop and tablets to the council.
The computers and tablets will be used to strengthen the monitoring processes for the Water Monitoring Assistants to know functionality of water points in the communities that Self Help Africa is serving under traditional authorities Mkukula and Dzoole in the district. Presenting the donation at a function held at the Boma, Smorden Tomoka WASH Programme Manager for Self Help Africa, said the organization has been working closely with the Dowa District Council to make sure that communities in the district are being supported in accessing safe drinking water and using basic sanitation services.
Presentation of computers to Dowa DC, Stallich Mwambiwa
Tomoka said that the organization is expecting that the assets donated will go a long way to improve efficiency in the work of Water Monitoring Assistants so that they are able to monitor functionality of water points in real time because they will be going more digital. “We expect them to manage the assets so that they can play the purpose for which we have donated for,” he said.
Receiving the donation, District Commissioner for Dowa Stallich Mwambiwa, welcomed the donation saying Self Help Africa has been one of the critical partners working closely with the council in strengthening access to safe drinking water and use of basic sanitation services for the district.
Mwambiwa said with the support received, the council will be able to enhance monitoring and supervision on water points particularly in the areas Self Help Africa is currently implementing their projects under T/As Mkukula and Dzoole in the district.
The DC assured Self Help Africa that the council will make full use of the donation saying this is just a pilot phase expressing hope that the organization will go beyond the 2 traditional authorities Mkukula and Dzoole to Kayembe, Chakhaza and others in the district. traditional authorities in the district. “We will be making follow-ups on all matters to do with water supply, which boreholes are working and not working and what to do,” said Mwambiwa.
The donated items include one desktop, one laptop and 6 tablets all valued at around K6.2 million.
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has described its victory in Karonga ward local government by-elections as a big signal that the northerners have not lost their hope and trust in the leadership of Dr. Lazarus Chakwera.
Speaking in a phone interview on Wednesday soon after the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) declared three of their candidates as winners, deputy regional chairman for north north [which consists of three districts; Karonga, Rumphi and Chitipa] Uchizi Mkandawire said the results are also against the recent Afrobarometer findings which said over 70 percent of Malawians are not comfortable with the current leadership of Chakwera.
According to Mkandawire, Karonga district is like a political mouthpiece in the northern and scooping all three seats mean that the region is still in love with Chakwera’s administration.
MCP deputy regional chairman for north north, Uchizi Mkandawire
“Our opponents including some pundits have been attacking the leadership of Dr Chakwera as a failed one. And many expected that we shall not make it in this by-elections. But what the voters have said is totally different,” he added.
He said Malawians are aware that the problems the country is facing such as hunger or economic hardship are not because of Chakwera and that they’re because of natural disasters as well as global.
“Malawians are not stupid. They are able to follow current affairs and know the cause of the problems they’re facing. They’re also aware that Chakwera is doing all it can save their lives but some politicians are politicizing it,” he disclosed.
He said then said that people should expect MCP full house [MPs, councilors and Chakwera’s votes] in the coming 2025 elections.
Karonga district chairperson for the ruling Malawi Congress Party, Emmanuel Nkhoma said the victory has silent their opponents and the recent afrobarometer results.
But political pundits including George Phiri have asked MCP not to be over excited saying the by-elections results will not represent 2025 elections.
One of Malawi’s top Private Universities Exploits, on Tuesday donated assorted books to Mlodza Secondary School.
The donation took place at the Secondary school campus in the capital city Lilongwe.
Speaking during the function Exploits University Registrar Chrisssy Kafoteka said the University decided to donate the books after noting that most of their students come from the same area hence the need to carry out social corporate responsibility in the area.
Kafoteka said the function is also a milestone because it will help the students to prepare for themselves because university education requires a lot of reading.
“Today we came here to Mlodza Community Day Secondary School to donate some books, because it’s from the catchment area where most of our students come from. We also wanted to share with them an aspect of the learning that is lacking in most students now. And also to tell the students to start preparing for university education, where reading is very extensive as compared to secondary schools, ” She said.
The registrar discouraged students from being overzealous with social media.
“But on the other hand, it’s also becoming like a habit nowadays, that most students are more of social media people than schoolwork. So you will find that affects their reading practices, ” she said.
Receiving the books, Mlodza Head Teacher , Loise Kumtamula commended Exploits University for the donation of books. She said there are many Community Day Secondary schools but Exploits decided to donate books to Mlodza.
She said the books will go along way in improving quality of education at the school.
