Sunrise Pa Garaja in Chigumula, Blantyre, is a place to be this Sunday, February 19, 2022, for a daytime pool party featuring live music from Rashley, Waxy Kay and Smac Stoner.
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The pool party is expected to start at 1 o’clock in the afternoon and will be hosted by Bhima Ndalama of Mibawa Television.
According to the organizers, 10 girls who will turn up early will have a chance to taste Red Wine from United Kingdom.
Apart from enjoying the music people will also go for a dip in the pool and enjoy cocktails.
The Government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that President Lazarus Chakwera will not attend the 36th session of the African Union Summit meeting scheduled to take place in Addis Ababa,the Federal Republican of Ethiopia from February 18 to February 19,2023.
According to a statement from the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the Malawi leader will not attend the Africa’s top meeting due to other equally important national commitments assigned to him during the same period, including Cabinet’s ongoing preparations for the Budget Meeting of Parliament.
The statement says, therefore, Chakwera has designated Minister of Foreign Affairs Nancy Tembo to represent him at the Summit Meeting.
” His Excellency the President, will, however, attend certain AU sessions virtually, ” reads the statement in part.
The 36th Ordinary Session Assembly is the AU’s supreme policy and decision-making organ.
It comprises all Member State Heads of State and Government.
The Assembly determines the AU’s policies, establishes its priorities, adopts its annual programme and monitors the implementation of its policies and decisions.
The Summit will be held at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
It is themed “The Year of AfCFTA: Acceleration of the African Continental Free Trade Area Implementation.”
In its quest to support tailoring and fashion design skills among the youths in the country,Old Mutual Malawi has today donated K3 million to Tingathe Malawi Organization.
Among other things, the amount will support 80 young people taking tailoring and fashion design skills at the organization.
Speaking with the members of the press, Old Mutual Group Chief Finance Officer, Vera Zulu, said the donation has been made because the company believes the youth are critical to the nation’s development.
” You may wish to know that our partnership with Tingathe started in 2017, and today we are glad that over this period, we have together managed to graduate three cohorts of around 600 young people form peri-urban communities of Mtandire, Mtsiriza, Njewa, Senti, Kauma, Ngona and area 49 in Lilongwe,” she said.
In his part, Tingathe Malawi member Chikondi Kaponda said the donation has come handy when there is need and that the support will indeed be used for appropriate tasks.
Said Kaponda ” We are very excited with the donation from the old mutual and we believe this will help us a lot. We thank Old Mutual for the gesture.”
The overall goal of the Tingathe program is to help Malawi towards achievement of the UNAIDS 95-95-95 benchmarks, which call for 95% of HIV-infected individuals to know their status, 95% of patients who know their status to be started and adherent on ART, and 95% of patients on ART to be virally suppressed by 2030.
The organization strongly believes that the global community is at a turning point in the fight against HIV and AIDS, and that the resources, tools, and knowledge are available to truly realize ‘Control of the Epidemic’.
Tingathe is committed to serving this vision and capitalizing on this unique opportunity through a skilled, coordinated approach that will contribute to an ‘AIDS-Free Generation’ in Malawi.
The Dedza Senior Resident Magistrate court has today convicted and ordered two women Olivia Mazinga, 23 and Ivy Nkhata,20 to pay a fine of K650,000.00 each, or in default serve a 6 months imprisonment with hard labour for being found in possession of medical drugs without a license.
The court, through state prosecutor Inspector Dickson Chipote, heard that Nkhata and Mazinga were arrested around Panda Superstore in Dedza District after receiving a tip-off from members of the public.
Magistrate James Mankhwazi sentenced the two to each to pay a fine of K150,000.00 for the first count, K100, 000.00 for the second count and K400, 000.00 for the third count or in default serve 6 months imprisonment with hard labour as a deterrent to other would be-offenders.
The medical drugs are to be forfeited to Malawi Government, in this respect to Dedza District Hospital.
247 Malawi journalist McLloyd Kudzingo won the Best Online Sports Journalist award during the TNM Super League awards presentation ceremony held last night at Amaryllis Hotel in Blantyre.
Kudzingo beat 6 other contestants namely Edwin Mbewe of The Maravi Post, Eric Chiputula, Anthony Isaiah and Pemphero Musowa.
Speaking after receiving the award Kudzingo said he was very excited with the award.
“I feel honored, because this is obviously a big award,” said Kudzingo.
Kudzingo receiving his award
“I want to thank TNM, Sulom and the Judges for recognizing my work, and I would also like to thank my family, friends and the 247 family for their support,” he said.
Other media award winners include Joy Ndovie from Nation Publications Limited who won the Best Print Journalist of the Year and Frank Kandu of Radio 2 FM for the Best Radio Journalist of the year.
The Best Television Journalist of the year award went to Idah Mwambazi of Mibawa Television.
Richard Isaah of Television Islam won the Best Camera Person award while Mabvuto Kambuwe of Times Group won the Best Analyst Award.
Veteran Broadcaster Steve Liwewe Banda won the Best Commentator Award, radio category.
The awards are held annually to reward the most outstanding players, coaches, teams as well as journalists in the TNM Super League.
