GRABBED BY INJUNCTIONS: THE NTCHERA FARM CASE

GRABBED BY INJUNCTIONS: THE NTCHERA FARM CASE

For more than four decades, Ntchera Farm Estate in Mangochi District lay dormant—until a contested court injunction turned it into a battleground of power, fear, and displacement, leaving 41 families landless, chiefs jailed, and villagers living in terror.BY MAUREEN...
MALAWI OMBUDSMAN OPENS PANDORA’S BOX

MALAWI OMBUDSMAN OPENS PANDORA’S BOX

Serious breach of the law in the hiring of SA lawyers for elections caseMarch 5, 2021Findings of the Office of Ombudsman investigation into the Malawi Election Commission (MEC) hiring of South African lawyers of the presidential election appeal case has opened a...

SHIRAZ FERREIRA WANTS A FEW MORE BILLIONS

BY GOLDEN MATONGAIn around December, as Malawians rushed for festive season, the High Court entered a default payment ordering Malawi government to pay businessman Shiraz Fereira a total sum of 24 billion kwacha for an ‘interest’ claim his company—SF international had...
GOVT IS 'HARVESTING' ALL YOUR MONEY

GOVT IS 'HARVESTING' ALL YOUR MONEY

…how taxes, levies, and fees on digital financial services are ‘sentencing poor Malawians, businesses to death’BY DUMBANI MZALEGovernment is milking Malawians trillions of Kwachas in domestic revenue using a litany of taxes, charges and fees on digital...