Former President Arthur Peter Mutharika has distanced himself from Kalani Thom Mutharika who claims that he is from Mutharika family despite living in miserable life.
In a statement, through his spokesperson Shadrek Namalomba, Peter Mutharika says Kalani Mutharika is not his sibling but an imposter and a fraudster.
Kalani Thom Mutharika and Hon Kondwani Nankhumwa
” The Public should know that in the family of Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika, there were six children who survived into adulthood namely Jinnie, Lizzie, Bingu, Ida, Peter ( Our President), and Christina. Any person claims to be a sibling to the Mutharika family is a fraud and an imposter, ” reads the statement in part.
The statement from Mutharika comes barely few days after the leader of opposition who is also Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP)’s Southern region President Kondwani Nankhumwa visted Kalani Mutharika where he donated assorted items and pledged to build him a house.
Ministry of Foreign affairs is encouraging Malawians to join a real Estate Webinar targeting Malawians in the Diaspora in order to encourage Diaspora, to buy land and information on infrastructure investments in the country.
In an official statement , John Kabaghe Foreign: Secretary For Foreign Affairs writes, I have the honour to inform you that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the various stakeholders will, on Saturday, 15th January, 2022, host a Webinar on Real Estate Investment for Malawians in Diaspora, and would like to request your assistance in disseminating the notice to Malawians resident in countries of your accreditation.
The Webinar has been organised to open communication channels between Malawians in Diaspora and various stakeholders in Malawi in the real estate sector in order to address questions and concerns that Malawians in Diaspora raise from time to time on the subject during interactions with Government.
The Webinar is scheduled to start at 7:00 p.m. Central African Time, and will be held via the following Zoom link:
A twenty one year old South Africa based Malawian social media influencer Jennifer Mtenje has become first Malawian to reach one million followers on Tiktok.
In an interview, Mtenje who is also a brand ambassador for a fashion company in United States of America ( USA) said it took her time and hard work to gain such more followers.
She said she spent most of her time on the platform showcasing her different skills such as dancing, modeling and story telling.
” I invested a lot of time, effort and sacrifice myself to this. I believed in myself that one day I will make it. I have been always a hard worker. I spent most of my time on the plaform practicing and showcasing my skills so as to gain more followers. Indeed, hard work pays,” said Mtenje.
Jennifer Mtenje
She revealed a secret that if one wants to have more followers on Tiktok ,one has to always entertain the audience, teach them how they can grow their Tiktok accounts and do what exactly they want and like.
Mtenje urged Malawians who are trying to have more followers on Tiktok to always work hard and have passionate about it.
” If you want to have more followers on Tiktok you should work hard and be passionate about it. Know your niche, believe in yourself, create your own profile, consistently post high quality contents, collaborate with others, think outside box and always have confidence that you can make it no matter what a challenge,” she said.
She said she is feels happy that she is a first person to have more Tiktok followers in Malawi and promises to do more than this.
” I am very grateful that I am the first Malawian to reach such huge number of followers on Tiktok. This is so encouraging and I promise to do more than this,” said Mtenje.
Mtenje said she is always inspired by a young South African Tiktoker Witney and wants to be more than like her in future.
She thanked all people who have been supporting her saying without them she would not be where she is today.
” Let me thank those who have been supporting me. For sure, without your support, I would not be where I am today . Continue giving me support for me to grow. I promise more tutorials on how one can grow his or her Tiktok account,” she said.
Tiktok is a social media platform used to create, share and and discover short videos. The app is mostly used by the young as an outlet to express themselves through dancing, singing, comedy and lip syncing. It allows users to create and share videos across the world through the smart phones.
When the user reaches 800 followers, the app allows him or her to go live which helps him or her to get various gifts from the audience or followers such as money and many others. It also provides an opportunity to collaborate with the companies who pay the Tiktok user so as they advertise their new products.
Two first year students studying bachelor of arts ( Humanities) at the University of Malawi ( UNIMA) Alfred Kamwendo and Success Masauli have published a book titled Bulb in the house.
The book is expected to be launched on February 3, 2022 at a venue to be announced later.
Speaking in an interview, a book co-author, Alfred Kamwendo said the book is a collection of poems and short stories that tackle different issues of our modern life.
Kamwendo said the main messages in the book focus on social-political problems Malawi as a nation face such as corruption, Mental health and patriotism.
He said the book has brought the solutions to these social-political challenges for social-economic growth of Malawi.
” This is a nice book where we have good and real life short stories and poems. As young people we have to provide solutions to some of the things negatively affect our nation and make it not to grow.The title ” Bulb in the house simply symbolizes the solutions, a light that enables us to see corruption and other social-politica problems and how best to solve them. We hope this book is a solution as it contains these solutions in its chapters”, said Kamwendo.
Alfred Kamwendo and Success Masauli
Kamwendo encouraged his fellow young writers to have a spirit of writing what the society must read and listen.
” Age is just a number. Dream but do not sleep. Work smarter to achieve your dreams and write what the society must read and listen,” he said.
He thanked his fellow classmates at the University for helping them to write and publish the book saying without them the dream could have dead and buried in the graveyard of forgetfulness.
Responding on how Malawi is performing in the writing industry, Kamwendo said currently, it seems that the writing culture is growing and glowing only that the reading culture is what not performing well hence a need to promote it among the youths through establishment of libraries in both urban and rural area.
In his comment, a Lecturer in the English department at the University Dr. Innocent Akili Ngulube said this unbelievable powerful book from the first year students. He said he never expected the two young writers to come up with a collection that could tackle social-political problems in the way they have done. He urged them to continue writing stories that will change Malawi.
The two are inspired by the veteran writers David Rubadiri, Zondiwe Mbano, Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka and they want to be like one these writers in future.
They are urging well-wishers to give them support so as they continue amaze the world adding that age is just a number that does not define one’s creative ability.
The Bulb in the house is currently pre-ordered at MK1,500 ( soft copy ) and MK3,000 ( hard copy).
One of the greatest Evangelists of the 21st century, CCAP-Nkhoma Synod has ever had, was the departed Evang.Shadreck Wame of Salima who was brutally butchered by the ‘devil’ himself for depopulating hell.
He preached the Word with neither ‘swag’ nor compromise.His preaching was with such great anointing and conviction that he won many souls for Christ. He had this flair and originality that could make both the sinner and the saint want to listen on to his sermons. I remember in our college days, whenever he was invited to preach at either CCAPSO, SCOM or UCC, the Main Lecture Theatre would always fill up to the brim. So powerful was his ministration that every soul would be convinced and convicted to live for God.
Privileged in our days to have led UCC and my Mesho, Joy Khangamwa at the helm of CCAPSO, we had the honor of interacting with the Man of God closely at our room.He exuded so much glory in humility and simplicity. Like John the Baptist, the late Wame’s message was the now not so common ‘repent or perish for the Kingdom of God is at nigh’
One of the tape-recorded messages which was widely circulated at the dawn of the new millennium was titled ‘Ikugwa Ntola’. It was based on a folktale that when a hunter killed his prey, he carried it up on his shoulders on his way back home.Since the animal was of a considerable size, the hind legs were hanging over the back as he walked home. When a hyena, a renowned scavenger that usually feasts on what others have already killed, saw the hanging legs of the animal on the shoulders of the hunter, it thought the carcass would soon fall off the shoulders for it (the hyena) to feast on.
Despite the fact that the journey back home was long, the hyena never got tired of following the hunter, salivating all the way thinking ‘ikugwa ntola’(I will get it when it drops off). There were times the hunter stumbled as he maneuvered his way out of the forest and the hyena could cheerfully grin thinking that was the hour the dead animal could drop off but the hunter held on to his kill until he reached the village.
Since the scavenger became so much fixated on ‘ikugwa ntola’, it did not know that the hunter had reached his home village and by the time the hyena got back to its senses and woke up from its fantasies as a result of the villagers’ shouts of ‘fisi uyo, fisi uyo’, it was too late to escape, got clobbered and prematurely returned to dust.
The ascendency of President Chakwera to power left some people groups, some Parties, Associations, Cartels, Families, Cronies, Business Associates, bitter, frustrated and heart-broken and they have hated him from day one of his office.
President Chakwera
Some of them publicly vowed that anyone from the Central Region or the Northern region will never rule Malawi again.Others usurped divine authority and cursed themselves that Malawi Congress party will never rule Malawi again as long as they were alive.(May their Souls Rest In Peace), forgetting that there is a Sovereign God above who can do anything at anytime without consulting anyone and that Him alone reigns over the affairs of men and controls their history.
For these people, there is nothing good that Chakwera can do, they will appreciate. They will always amplify his administration’s gaffes, balloon his personality weaknesses and trivialize his achievements in the name of ‘ikugwa ntola’.
HH across the western border will do something today for which they will loudly applaud and when Chakwera’s Administration does exactly the same the following week, they will ferociously bash him left, right and center.
We never knew the blue camp and their legal minds were really serious about bringing down Chakwera Administration through the Electoral Commissioners case until their leader openly spoke at Chonde in Mulanje that he was ready to be their torch bearer in the fresh elections that never were.They were so serious that they began to hold furtive meetings with some of President Chakwera’s traitors on possible combinations and permutations only to be frustrated by the Constitutional Court in a battle one of Chakwera’s Generals, Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda demonstrated that he is a legal luminary. They got slapped with litigation costs of K200 million Kwacha all in the name of ‘Ikugwa ntola’
Not wanting to let Chakwera go, like the Pharaoh’s pursuit on the Israelites, they created the Bawn Calyndal demonstrations in an attempt to destabilize Chakwera’s Administration with inflation as a perfect pretext….inflation that is global and which has affected even the developed Western countries as Covid continues to wreck social and economic havoc.
Bawn Calyndal is like a political legion…possessed by several political big shots with ‘ikugwa ntola’ hyena mentality who in their wild and unbridled political fantasies think President Chakwera will trip and loose hold of power.No, he won’t. A General who conquers a heavily fortified city, will always burn bridges he and his army used in their conquest lest another General uses the same to conquer them. So after the Court case, this Bawn Calyndal demos strategy won’t work against President Chakwera in the name of ‘ikugwa ntola’
Many have a wrong caricature of President Chakwera because he is a man who hardly expresses his feelings.He is too careful and conscientious justifiably misconstrued as tardiness by his foes and others. However his adversaries and those that have possessed Bawn Calyndal must never mistake his conscientious and magnanimous personality for naivety/ lack of sophistication. He fully knows that in this political game, you blink, you’re gone and his administration won’t blink. And those mischievously provoking his administration, must be fully aware of Newton’s third law of motion and be ready to get an equal (if not double) and opposite reaction in return.
He who comes to equity must come with clean hands.
President Chakwera will certainly soon hit a reset button for he knows exactly where there is a weak link and dead wood and all those fixated on ‘ikugwa ntola’ will have a rude awakening.Unfortunately it will be too late for them.
Flames Woyeee!
**Views expressed are those of the author, and post first appeared on his Facebook Page**
