Nyasa Big Bullets and their sponsors Nyasa Manufacturing Company (NMC) on Sunday trekked down to Chikwawa and donated relief items worth over K35 million to flood victims. The items included 6 000 10-kilogramme bags of maize flour each and 3 000 blankets. The club’s president Konrad Buckle, who is also NMC managing director, said the…
For the first time, four teams from the Council of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa) bloc have qualified for the 2019 African Cup of Nations (Afcon) and the Flames will continue to be mere spectators. South Africa, Angola, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Madagascar have made the grade for the continental showpiece to be played from June…
Malawi netball export Joyce Mvula on Saturday put up a wonderful display to help her English club Manchester Thunder narrowly beat defending champions Wasps 50-49 to go three points clear at the summit of the Vitality Netball Superleague. The result of the top of the table clash means Thunder lead the 10-team log-table with 27…
TNM Super League giants Be Forward Wanderers and Southern Region Select are expected to battle it out in a fundraising game for Southern Region Football Association (SRFA) at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre on April 6. Southern Region Football Association (SRFA) vice-general secretary Kingsley Simbeye yesterday said they have organised the match in conjunction with their…
Special Olympics Malawi (SOM) athletes on Tuesday concluded their participation in the World Special Olympics Summer Games in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) with five medals, comprising two gold and three silver. The three-athlete Malawi team saw Devison Junior Douglas and Christopher Namakha grabbing gold and silver medals each as female runner Clara Phiri…
Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has renamed the fourth edition of the FAM Charity Shield to Ecobank Charity Shield. This comes after the pan-African commercial bank yesterday injected K12 million into the four-team competition dedicated to the protection and advocacy against the brutal killings, abductions and persecution of people with albinism in the country. The…
South Africa-based Malawian boxer Isaac ‘Golden Boy’ Chilemba says he is fighting demons that have affected his career for the five years. The 31-year-old former International Boxing Organisation (IBO) champion made the confession yesterday when The Nation sought his reaction to an article in South Africa’s Sunday Times, which asserted that he is battling depression…
Malawi national women’s football team has received a major boost to their back-to-back 2020 Tokyo Olympics qualifiers against Mozambique following the release of strikers Tabitha and Temwa Chawinga by their respective Chinese and Swedish clubs. Football Association of Malawi (FAM) licensing and compliance manager Casper Jangale confirmed yesterday that Jiangsu Suning and Kvarnsvedens IK, respectively,…
Old Mutual Malawi plc has pumped K6.5 million into the Malawi Open Ladies Strokeplay Championships set for Lilongwe Golf Club (LGC) between April 11 and 14 to be the headline sponsor of the international event. The investment and financial services company’s corporate affairs and marketing executive Linda Poya said they have partnered the Ladies Golf…
Football stakeholders have failed to fulfil their promise to implement the installation of electronic ticketing (e-ticketing) system at stadiums in the 2019 season. Government, Football Association of Malawi (FAM) and Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) promised to have the system in place ahead of the new season as a way of eradicating gate collection fraud…
Football Association of Malawi (FAM) is yet to name the women’s football national team technical panel, a development that might affect Malawi’s preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics qualifiers next month. Less than a month remains for the new panel to identify, Malawi squad for back-to-back qualifiers against Mozambique between April 1 and 6, but…
Nyasa Big Bullets failed to break even at the end of the Nyasa Big 4 International Bonanza the club organised at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre last weekend after making a K5 million loss. Bullets chief executive officer Fleetwood Haiya yesterday said they have made a total of K25 million against their investment of at least…
Nyasa Big Bullets FC chief executive officer Fleetwood Haiya says the club will consider incorporating more local and international teams in the next edition of Nyasa Top 4 Bonanza following the “success” of the inaugural three-day contest. The TNM Super League champions organised the four-team international bonanza involving Bullets, Be Forward Wanderers, Mozambique’s Ferroviario De…
Platinum Predators have claimed the ultimate glory in the Electra Sales Indoor Cricket Tournament after beating Eazy Pack Eagles by 34 runs in the finals at Mpingwe Sports Club (MSC) in Blantyre on Saturday. Eazy Pack batted first to make 56 runs in 12 overs, but Predators ran over their opponents with a total of…
Malawi Olympics Committee (MOC) president Oscar Kanjala has been appointed to the coordination committee for the All Africa Games scheduled for August in Rabat, Morocco. Confederation of Southern African National Olympic Committees (Cosanoc) website www.anocolympic.org states that accreditations, processing of visas plus the organising of international transport, sports entries and chef de mission meetings will…
Be Forward Wanderers missed the Nyasa Top 4 Bonanza title through goal aggregate after tying on points with Mozambican side Ferroviario de Nampula yesterday. At the end of the bonanza, the Nomads and Nampula tied on five points as well as goal difference. But the Nampula-based outfit scored a goal more than Wanderers which made…
Local rivals Nyasa Big Bullets and Be Forward Wanderers on Friday had a contrasting start to the international bonanza at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre. The People’s Team lost 1-2 to Mozambican side Ferroviarrio de Nampula while the Nomads won 1-0 against Zimbabwe’s Chicken Inn. Two second half goals from Belito Antonio and Rui Milambo propelled…
Defender Emmanuel Zoya has returned to Civil Sporting Club at the expiry of his contract with TNM Super League champions Nyasa Big Bullets while Karonga United striker Sherrif Shamama has joined Silver Strikers on a four-year deal. Zoya, who captained the Civil Servants before joining Bullets three seasons ago, confirmed the move yesterday, saying they…
Nyasa Big Bullets FC has invested at least K50 million into planning and organising the inaugural four-team international club bonanza scheduled for March 1, 2 and 4 at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre. Among other things, Bullets senior business development manager Kelvin Moyo yesterday said the People’s Team are expected to use the money to provide…
Council for Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) has courted two associations for possible hosting of the 2019 Cosafa Cup, almost a week after Zimbabwe turned down the hosting rights. Cosafa deputy chief executive officer responsible for competitions Suzgo Nyirenda confirmed the development in an interview from Johannesburg, South Africa yesterday, but was tight-lipped on the…