Malawi’s national netball team on Tuesday afternoon lost 43-59 to the She Clanes of Uganda in their second match of the 2021 Debmarine Pent Series tournament currently taking place in Namibia.
The Malawi Queens who are ranked sixth in the world started their Pent Series campaign yesterday with a 56-38 win against Zimbabwe.
However the Queens failed to continue the good work on Tuesday as they get thrashed in all the four quarters by the She Clanes who are currently ranked seventh in the INF World Rankings.
Malawi’s next game will be against hosts Namibia on Wednesday.
Six teams namely Malawi, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya and Namibia are taking part in the five-day tournament taking place from 1st to 5th November, 2021 at the Israel Patrick Iyambo Police College in Olympia.
The Malawi National Examinations Bord( MANEB) says the administration of Malawi School Certificate of Education ( MSCE) English paper 1 examinations at Ching’ombe and Chadza 1CDSS in Lilongwe Rural East Was yesterday, November 1, 2021, disrupted by stormy rains which blew off roofs of facilities where candidates were sitting examinations.
Maneb says a total of 171 candidates had their scripts completely soaked by the rains and three candidates sustained some injuries and were treated as outpatients at Nathenje Health Centre.
However, In a statement dated November 2, 2021, the borad’s Executive Director Dorothy Nampota says to ensure fairness in the administration of examinations, the board will administer a deferred examination of the paper to all the 171candidates affected by the disaster. ” The date for the administration of the deferred examination will be communicated to the candidates in due course.
Arrangements have been made to relocate the candidates to the nearest available facilities where they will continue writing the remaining examinations as well as the deferred English paper 1 examination”, says Nampota.
Malawi national netball team, the Queens have started their campaign in this year’s Debmarine Pent Series with a 56-38 win against Zimbabwe.
The queens were a better side right from the word go as they won the first quarter 15-9.
The Peace Chawinga-Kalua girls continued to dominate as they took a 31-16 lead in the second quarter.
By the end of the third quarter, the queens were leading 49-24 before finishing the game with a 56-38 in the last quarter.
Malawi’s next game will be against Uganda tomorrow at 12:00 noon before meeting the hosts Namibia on Wednesday.
Six teams namely Malawi, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya and Namibia are taking part in the five-day tournament taking place from 1st to 5th November, 2021 at the Israel Patrick Iyambo Police College in Olympia.
In a quest to equip practicing and aspiring smallholder farmers, entrepreneurs and all interested parties with relevant knowledge on poultry farming management, agricultural firms Bizy mind Investment, Sly Investment and Agriculture Entrepreneurs Society ( AGESO) have organized capacity building series of workshops called Mega Poultry Management Workshops in the cities of Blantyre,Lilongwe and Mzuzu starting from November to December,2021.
In an interview, Sly Investment Operations Manager Bester Kayaye said the workshops seek to capacitate smallholder farmers with right tools for them to venture into poultry farming business and take it as integral element for economic conclusion. ” We have organized these series of poultry workshops in order to capacitate smallholder famers and other interested individuals with right tools for them to properly manage poulty farming and take it as a source of in come. Poultry faarming is a viable business and instrument for economic transformation and sustainability and this is another reason why we have decided to organize these workshops”, said Kaye.
Bester Kaye, Sly Investments operations manager
He said through the workshops participants will be taken through all the appropriate levels of poultry management that include, proper housing management, feed formulation, vaccination programme, marketing disease and parasites control , Biosecurity, Brooding system, and basic accounting concepts which he said are very important for a farmer to make sound decisions on daily developments of his poultry business. ” These workshops are very essential if the one is to make sound decisions in his/ her poultry farming as all the necessary steps will be followed”, he said.
Kayaye added that the workshops are also focusing much on inclusiveness of youths into poultry farm in proven through provision of special packages for those who have just wrote their Malawi School Certificate of Education and the University students to attend the workshops on the reduced registration fee of K7,000 ( Seven thousand Kwacha )from K12,000 ( twelve thousand Kwacha). ” currently we are engaging with various media platforms to advocate on the need to incorporate young people into farming as one way of reducing high levels of unemployment, inclusion of youths on wealth creation. So far, we have opened our portals for people to register through submission of registration fee of on the K1000 ( one thousand Kwacha)”, he added.
Founder of and Chief Executive Officer for Bizy Mind Investment Yusuf Labana confirmed about the workshops in an interview with this publication. ” I would like to confirm that Indeed we are organizing these workshops being sponsored by Dhala Chickens, Al Falah and Charles Stewart Foods Limited, with an aim of capacitating poultry farmers with right management tools for successful business administration, as many tend to venture into business poultry business with little to zero knowledge on how they can run the business. ” So we these workshops try to curb such challenges and am arguing all people to patronize these events as they will act as an eye opener for successful poultry farming business”, confirmed Labana.
The workshops will have 3 raffle draws in each centre, where three lucky winners will walk away with cash prizes ranging from K30,000, K20,000 and K10,000.
Guardians at Karonga District Hospital’s Guardian Shelter are under a trap of unhygienic conditions as the country draws close to rainy season due to lack of electricity at the facility.
A visit at the facility revealed that all the rooms, kitchen inclusive have no lighting and residents use light sourced from torches which is not reliable during evening and night hours. In an interview, one of the guardians at the facility, Mercy Mwalughali described the condition as critical saying it has potential of causing unhealthy conditions. “We are facing challenges of lack of electricity here, so when rains start it will be pathetic and it might cause water born related diseases to us and the patients we are helping too,” she said.
Concurring with Mwalughali, Elfrida Kapira said at night the situation is bad as there is a lot of uncleanliness. “Lack of electricity is really of much concern as without light, there is a lot of uncleanliness and there is also danger that thieves can take advantage of darkness to steal from us,” she said.
In a separate interview, Director of Health and Social Services, David Sibale, said the facility is out of the jurisdiction of the hospital hence the hospital is powerless and refered the reporter to the council.
On his part, Council Chairperson for Karonga District, Belliam Msukwa said he was not aware of the challenges but was quick to say the council will work towards solving the problem. “As a council we have not formally received a complaint, however since we have received it through the media, we will take action and work with concerned members towards solving the problem because it is very important during rainy season as it is dark and people can face difficulties in performing their normal duties,” he said.
