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Development
‘What a man can do, I can do’
It is approaching midday and the four of us are about to start setting up our equipment when a female…
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Development
Cities get solar streetlights
For 20 years, Grace Nduli, 50, has been selling tomatoes, onions and cassava at Zomba Central Market. Until 2017, the…
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Feature
Rural skills centres renew hope
Once, Emile Siwamba, from Chitipa, was happily married. Then in November 2016, her marriage broke up following a quarrel…
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Development
House that empowers released prisoners
Around midmorning on February 20 2015, gates at the Zomba Maximum Security Prison swung open to let out a 59-year-old…
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Health
Radio clubs enlighten on right to health care
At a meeting of radio listening clubs, one club told of how it had secured an ambulance for a health…
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Development
Tackling youth idleness
To underscore the importance of the centre, Louis Simbeye said many jobless youth in Chitipa were being lured across the…
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Feature
Improving access to vocational training
Senior Group Village Headman (GVH) Kanyenda of Nkhotakota could not hide his glee as he addressed the small gathering.…
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Development
Community colleges giving hope to youths
Last year, Patricia Mkwanda, 22, was living with her parents and had given up on ever finding a job, having…
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Feature of the Week
A testimony too touching to ignore
‘Legson Kayira made me proud’ Reading Jack McBrams article, ‘Remembering Legson Kayira again’ reignited memories of my school days and…
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Development
Remembering Edward Chitsulo
One chilly morning in the mid-1980s, I was covering a court case in Blantyre when I struck up a conversation…
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Entertainment News
‘We are one people’
Paramount Chief Inkosi Ya Makosi Mpezeni IV of Zambia says Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique are one and that the three…
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Feature of the Week
Emergency drug kit project life saver
For those that have experienced drug shortages or lost a loved one due to scarcity of primary health care (PHC),…
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Development
Raising five sets of twins with irrigation farming
Anna Phiri is 41 and a mother of five sets of twins. Phiri, who looks younger than her age, says…
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Development
Good prices woo farmers
I read with interest the news item titled ‘Chibambo Chirwa schools Marymount students’ which appeared in The Nation recently. Mr…
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