The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) National Governing Council (NGC) meeting has on Wednesday elected the party’s Publicity Secretary and Mwanza Central lawmaker Nicholas Dausi, as chairperson of the party’s forthcoming elective convention scheduled for December 15 and 16,2023 at Natural Resources College (NRC) in Lilongwe.
Dausi is being deputised on the position by Baxter Kita.
The NGC meeting which was chaired by Cecilia Chazama has also,formed various organising sub-committees for the convention.
Nicholas Dausi
These are food and accommodation, transport and logistics as well as accreditation committees.
In his speech, Dausi said he believes the preparations for the elective convention will run smoothly as well-wishers have already expressed interest to provide financial support.
“We are ready for the convention and we will do it smoothly,” said Dausi.
But in a statement, DPP Spokesperson Shadric Namalomba is describing the the meeting as illegal and mere plays.
He says the party’s president, Peter Mutharika will soon call for a Central Executive Committee meeting to discuss and map the way forward.
While Grizelder Jeffrey believes they breached no law in the party’s constitution by holding the NGC meeting.
Court ordered the party to hold the convention in 90 days from September 29 this year.
Multichoice Africa Holdings (MAH) has announced the resumption of DStv services in Malawi.
In a statement, MAH say they are happy to be resuming services in Malawi and they have assured their customers that they can start accessing their services as before.
They say as part of goodwill to their customers, the will provide free access to their Malawian customers who have been active for at least once within the current year from and who have an operational Dstv decoder on their premium package for nine days.
The free service will run from December 6 to December 14, 2023.
“We would like to inform our customers that we are reactivating all their payment platforms to enable the resumption of the payment of subscription fees as per the price schedule effective August 1,” reads the statement in part, which has been signed by MAH group executive corporate affairs and stakeholder management Keabetswe Modimoeng.
MAH suspended the services months ago after a legal battle with Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) over tariffs hike by the services provider.
MACRA argued Multichoice Malawi (MCM) did not seek consent from it when it was raising the prices.
But a High Court ruling faulted MACRA for acting outside its jurisdiction, saying MCM does handle DSTV tarriffs.
Super League of Malawi (SULOM) has announced that TNM Super League gate revenue has almost doubled to at least K916 million from the previous season’s K588 million.
SULOM President Fleetwood Haiya disclosed this at a press briefing held at SULOM Offices in Blantyre yesterday.
Haiya attributed the rise in revenue collected to strict fiscal measures imposed on ticket and gate management and efforts to curb gate fraud among others.
He then commended sponsors for making the just-ended season a success.
The SULOM boss said he will negotiate with potential sponsors for a hike in league sponsorship and the Man of the Match award, considering the devaluation of the local currency.
Haiya also asked the government to recognize sponsors in their taxes to woo more of them to come on board.
Last Sunday, Haiya, who is also vying for Football Association of Malawi’s presidency on December 16 polls, said the association would hike club subvention to K20 million from K10 million per team during the 2024 season.
In 2022, SULOM collected gate revenue of about K600 million.
Lilongwe City Council Mayor Councilor Richard Banda on Wednesday on Wednesday unveiled a long term partnership with Good Vision Glasses with an aim of providing opportunity to those with sight problems access care and support.
Speaking during the unveiling ceremony, Banda said was so grateful to see the institution coming to help the people with sight problems. During the function , the Mayor bought glasses for 50 people.
The Mayor with Good Vision Glasses Officials
Good Vision Glasses distribution Manager, Barton Chirwa expressed his organisation commitment to reach out to people in restoration of their sight.
Chirwa said was aware that not everyone can afford to access glasses hence the partnership which is destined to bring good sight for the people in area 23.
Meanwhile Block leaders in the area have hailed the Mayor for the initiative.
Football Association of Malawi (FAM) remains adamant that the second leg quarter final match between Mighty Mukuru Wanderers and Silver Strikers in the Airtel Top 8 will not be postponed despite the former’s appeal.
On December 4,2023, Nomads sought postponement of the match scheduled for December 6, 2023 citing dissatisfaction with FAM Disciplinary Committee’s determination on its appeal.
Quoting Article 14(2) of the 2023 Airtel Top 8 Rules and Regulations, the team further demanded the Disciplinary Committee to provide reasoned determination which will enable it to substantiate the grounds of appeal that it filed to the association.
‘Take further notice that the grounds of appeal shall be furnished once the Disciplinary Committee issues a reasoned determination as undertaken in the letter dated 2nd December 2023, but served on the appeallant on 3rd December 2023,’ reads part of the Wanderers’ appeal.
Therefore, the team has prayed for postponement of the match up until the Appeals Committee makes a reasoned determination.
‘Pending issuance of the reasoned determination and pending hearing and determination of the appeal by the Appeals Committee, Mighty Mukuru Wanderers Football Club humbly prays the second led fixture against Silver Strikers Football Club be postponed,’ dared Wanderers.
However, in its counterstrike through the letter dated 5th December 2023 signed by FAM Chief Executive Officer, Alfred Gift Gunda addressed to Wanderers’ Chief Executive Officer, Roosevelt Mpinganjira, the football mother body remains intransigent in listening to the team’s appeal insisting the game is still on.
Gunda said the decision respects guidelines stipulated in Article 8.5 and 8.6 of 2023 Airtel Top 8 Rules and Regulations.
On providing the team with reasoned determination as per its request, FAM caved in to expedite issuance of the same in written form within this week.
Regarding gross misconducts by Wanderers during Airtel Top 8 first leg quarter final match against the Central Bankers on 23rd September 2023 at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe, FAM Competition Committee slapped Nomads with MK22,083,400 penalty for repair and restoration of damaged facilities, MK2,000,000 for bringing a game of football, FAM and sponsors in disrepute and again MK500,000 for failing to control its supporters who damaged seats and strewn objects into the pitch.
Worse still, the committee scraped off Nomads’ hard-earned goal in the match that ended 2 – 1 in favour of Silver Strikers by awarding the latter a 2 – 0 cushion as the Lali Luban side contradicted Article 10.3 of 2023 Airtel Top 8 dos and don’ts when it abandoned the match.
