Where does the Tevet Levy go?
By Justin Mkweu Every employer in Malawi is required by law to contribute 1 percent of their basic payroll to the Tevet Fund, which...
Category : Feature
‘They robbed my livelihood’: Inside electricity vandalism crisis
The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) and the Scrap Metals Association believe an unregulated scrap metals trade, which has emerged outside the association’s membership,...
Ridding children’s education of divisive wedger
By George Banda For years on end, young, bright boys such as 12-year-old Asher Machinjiri could only watch in wonder as their peers of...
’It is dirty and unsafe’: A school without walls, desks and water
A classroom at Mafunde Junior Primary School in Blantyre. Photo by Chisomo Break When Dorcas Mabedi, a passionate trainee teacher, arrived at Mafunde Junior...
How power infrastructure vandalism in Malawi is becoming a regional menace
Linesperson fixing a fault. Photo credit: Escom Lights go out mid-surgery at a clinic in Blantyre. A nurse freezes. For a few seconds, there...
In the dark: Vandals deny 2, 500 rural households power
By Justin Mkweu Emanyareni is an area in the outskirts of Mzimba District under Traditional Authority Mabulabo, which appears to be cut off from the...
Mwanza traders dump their worries over waste
By Catherine Alumando Gladys Naliwa usually walks from Biliwili Village to Mwanza Trading Centre where she sells her merchandise to support her family of...
Out to replenish millions chopped, one by one
It is mid-morning down in the Shire Valley district of Chikwawa and despite the scorching sun, students at Chikwawa Secondary School are moving between rows...
‘They believed she was possessed’: Inside Mwanza’s backstreet church that overruled medical care
On the left, Martha Nthengu, a self-proclaimed faith healer, kept Agnes for three months at her backstreet church to “redeem” her from evil spirits....
Farmers regain hope in Mutharika’s first 100 days
Grace Madalitso, a farmer in Nsanje, has already accessed quality inputs and is hoping for higher yields. Madalitso Kasanga, 54, of Traditional Authority Nchilamwera...