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It’s a weevils and termites festival
Good people, the Department of Culture has appallingly left Blantyre Cultural Centre (BCC) in a state of decay-dwarfing its potential…
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Feature
Another side of by-laws
Times have become rough for guardians of schoolgirls who get pregnant or marry young. By-laws and fines are part of…
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Add some right ray to BCC
Good people, there is something about lights that they sometimes make a dull performance glow like neon. Some say they…
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Feature
Total switch to solar power
A petroleum firm has made a pioneering step from just talking about renewable energy to doing something about it,…
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Feature of the Week
Solar energy rekindles farmers’ hopes
It is 8am when we arrive in Mwalija Village, a floodplain in Chikwawa District where gushing water from Lake Malawi…
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Take Gandhi’s statue to Mumbai
Good people, every city has its own heroes and Mahatma Gandhi has nothing to do with Blantyre. Unsurprisingly, his statue…
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Business News
Coughs, urine…and stools
New findings show the search for effective TB screening is leaving nothing to chance, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA writes.…
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Feature
Pupils not teachers’ brides
Among teachers in Malawi, ‘burning a payslip’ is getting sacked or jailed for having sex with a schoolgirl. The press…
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Let Sand Music Festival begin
Good people, the festival that celebrates the immutable beauty of Malawi’s prime tourist attraction, Lake Malawi, returns tonight. The three-day…
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Feature
It’s Salome’s birthday, but…
On this day in 2001, a baby girl was born to the Felix family in Lisungwi, a rural setting in…
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National News
Researchers turn to stools for TB screening
Complex, stressful and painful are some the words coming from clinicians struggling to collect respiratory samples from children undergoing tuberculosis…
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My Turn
Veggie farmstead on wheels
In Malawi, worn-out tyres are a common sight. As vehicles on the roads increase, tyres pile. According to the…
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Add some right ray to BCC
Good people, there is something about lights that they sometimes make a dull performance glow like neon. Some say they…
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Business News
Community threaten to close Optichem mine
Disgruntled community in Phalombe District have threatened to close Thundulu Mine to force Optichem (Malawi) Limited to invest in local…
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Front Page
Mutharika’s false bubble
President Peter Mutharika has picked an unnecessary fight with human rights defenders and he does not sound brave, our Staff…
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Q & A
Setting political record straight
Youthful Malawian volunteers at the Lost History Foundation are unearthing censored and distorted history from the dictatorial era. During a…
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Q & A
Setting political Record straight
Youthful Malawian volunteers at the Lost History Foundation are unearthing censored and distorted history from the dictatorial era. During…
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National News
Priest in the dock: Unravelling Masambuka case mystery
Around 6pm on a sunny Friday, a handcuffed Catholic priest, Father Thomas Muhosha, emerged from the High Court in Zomba…
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National News
Fresh push for Yatuta’s body
Renewed efforts to rewrite history have revived demands for the Malawi Government to disclose where its agents buried former Cabinet…
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Take Gandhi’s statue to Mumbai
Good people, every city has its own heroes and Mahatma Gandhi has nothing to do with Blantyre. Unsurprisingly, his statue…
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