Against all odds, Vanessa Banda, 16, scored 12 points in last year’s Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examination. The teen girl is widely hailed as a star performer at Mpherere Community Day Secondary School (CDSS) in Ntchisi District. The low-tier secondary schools, which typify Malawi’s desperate attempt to absorb increased enrolment following the introduction
Malawi Congress of Trade Union (MCTU) has asked government to revise the minimum wage from the current K50 000 to K100 000 to ease the challenges low-income earners are facing. Speaking in Lilongwe on Thursday during a tripartite consultative meeting between government and other players in the labour market, MCTU president Charles Kumchenga said some
President Lazarus Chakwera has said Malawi is at war with Cyclone Freddy impacts which are far from over as the country needs an additional K700 billion for recovery and reconstruction alone. The President also disclosed that experts now estimate that damage and losses caused by the cyclone exceed $500 million (about K518 billion), adding that
President Lazarus Chakwera has said that the country is still looking for estimated funds amounting to 700 billion kwacha to fully recover from the effects for