Reverend Anderson Juma is now the new General Secretary(GS) for the CCAP Blantyre Synod, replacing Reverend Billy Gama, following a closely contested election on Monday in Blantyre.
Reverend Juma got 192 votes against 186 for Reverend Gama, a difference of 6 votes.
During a 34th biennial Assembly at HHI in the city, delegates also ushered in Reverend Dr. Humphreys Zgambo as the Synod’s new Moderator, replacing Reverend Edna Navaya who was also seeking re-election.
Rev Anderson Juma
Reverend Zgambo secured the seat with 237 votes while Navaya amassed 166 votes.
The new Moderator Reverend Zgambo will be deputized by Reverend Annie Kapinda, replacing Reverend Ernest Mpate who was also seeking fresh mandate.
The CCAP Blantyre Synod was established in the 19th century by Scottish missionaries.
The synod has about 1.8 million members in 800 local congregations.
FCB Nyasa Big Bullets have on Tuesday announced the return of Peter Banda to the club for the remainder of the 2023 season.
The 22-year-old, who was also part of Flames’ 2021 Afcon campaign in Cameroon, failed to make an impact at Simba SC due to injuries that affected his game.
Speaking to reporters, Banda said: “I am back to the club that I love, and I am very excited to rejoin the team I love. I wasn’t having game time at Simba SC, so I decided to come back. It was easy for me to make this decision because of the love I receive from the coach and the supporters at large.”
Peter Banda
On what to expect from him, he said: “I don’t want to say much, but I will give it all for this club. I am still the same player, and I will try my level best to do the job for my new team. There is a lot to play for, and I am geared for the challenge,” he concluded.
Banda, son to the late Bullets legend Chikondi, won two consecutive titles with the club before signing for the Moldovan champions FC Sheriff Tiraspol for a short loan spell.
He later completed a permanent move to the Tanzanian side.
The player will be available for selection subject to international clearance between the Tanzania Football Federation(TFF) and the Football Association of Malawi(FAM).
Mobile phone operator TNM says plans are in the in the pipeline for the company to introduce a package targeting the youth called ‘Agulu’.
Announcing the news during Gwamba’s musical show in Mzuzu, Segment Manager for TNM, Wanangwa Banda, said the package aims at empowering the youth to easily access the internet.
Wanangwa Banda
“At TNM we realise that the internet is the gateway to many aspects of development these days.
“We also realise that with the internet the youth can access limitless opportunities be it education, markets, applications just to mention a few, ” Banda said.
He further said the package will target the youth aged 26 and below.
Carrying the tagline ‘I have joined the movement’ Agulu’, TNM will provide a package that will have cheaper internet bundles, cheaper call bundles and many more freebies.
Established in 1995, TNM is the oldest telecommunications company in Malawi.
Mzuzu High Court has on Tuesday adjourned to a late date hearing of the manslaughter and trafficking in person case involving President Peter wa Mutharika’s stepson, Tadikira Mafubza.
In court, one of the defence lawyers, Gilbert Khonyongwa, said the adjournment is due to delays by the defence and state to submit their charge sheets to the court where a ruling on the plea would have been based.
“The adjournment is because both parties were supposed to submit their issues of objections to the charge sheets and the court was supposed to give its ruling as per scheduled time but the defence delayed in submitting which made the State also delay in responding, ” said Khonyongwa.
Tadikila Mafubza
He said this means that the court needed more time to prepare its ruling.
Khonyongwa added that they could not proceed without the ruling since it is the ruling that bears whether the accused has to take a plea or not.”
He however, said the court will electronically share the ruling on the submitted charge sheets to both parties later today and that a new date will be communicated.
During the day, Judge Gladys Gondwe was supposed to hear the fresh plea to be entered for all suspects on all charges following an application by the State for the amendment of the charge sheet to reflect the gravity and how the crimes were committed.
Tadikira and five others who are currently on bail are answering this case following the discovery of a mass grave in which about thirty bodies of unidentified Ethiopian nationals were buried at Mtangatanga forest in Mzimba district.
Eastern Region President for former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Bright Msaka SC says the Tonse Alliance administration has started engaging foreign individuals to rigg 2025 elections so that they elected into power again.
Msaka made the claims on Monday at a press conference that DPP organized at Mount Soche Hotel in the commercial of Blantyre.
He said they are engaging foreign experts to provide old equipment for electoral registration so as to discourage people as they will stand in queues for days.
Msaka
“They will fail as Malawians are angry and registration will be in masses. They tried to rig ward elections in Mangochi, at that level, we did not know until they were caught. What about the national vote. They are bent on trying to oust the will of the people,”said Msaka.
He continued to say that the Tonse Alliance Government started on a note to, loot from poor Malawians and enrich themselves because that is the only thing they have achieved so far.
He said since they come in power, there is no even a single week that goes without hearing something naughty.
Msaka questioned how can an entire government buy fertilizer from a butcherry, Romanian company that not even exists.
He however, demanded Chakwera to resign as president and let DPP take over the leadership.
“He promised himself that if he will fail to deliver, he will resign himself without forcing him to do so. Now it is that time to resign.
“Being eroquent does not bring results. This government was not ready to run the state of affairs and it does not have the capacity for that. If they knew what to do, inflation wouldn’t have been like this, prices of commodities wouldn’t be like this, we would have had fuel, ” he said.
In his turn, former Reserve Bank of Malawi(RBM) Governor Dalitso Kabambe described the current economy under Tonse Alliance administration as ‘Sick’
Kabambe said, rising in cost of living, high inflation rate, hunger crisis, an increase in poverty rate,depreciation of Malawi Kwacha against major currencies and fuel shortages are among signs that the Malawi economy is sick under the Tonse Alliance administration.
“Ntchito yoti chuma chadziko chikhale bwino, mafuta azipezeka, njala ithe, umphawi uthe komaso kuti katangale athe ndincthito ya anamatatule pankhani ya zachuma ndipo anamatatulewo ndifeyo tili ku DPP,” said Kabambe.
The press conference which was attended by journalists from various media houses was organized under the theme ‘ Enough is Enough, Chakwera Must Fall’
