Malawi Women’s National Football Team, the Scorchers, are through to the semi-finals of the HollywoodBets Cosafa Women’s Championship after finishing the group stage without a defeat as they beat Madagascar 3-1 at UJ Soweto Stadium on Tuesday afternoon.
Scorchers broke the deadlock in the 22nd minute through Vanessa Chikupira and Leticia Chinyamula doubled the lead for Malawi two minutes later.
Asimenye Simwaka scored the third go for Scorchers with a beautiful strike in the 34th minute.
Madagascar pulled one back in the 30th minute through Helisoa Kanto who scored from the penalty spot after Mercy Sikelo fouled one of the strikers for Madagascar.
The win means that the Scorchers have nine points after winning all their three matches in Group A.
Malawi will now face Mozambique in the semi-finals on Friday at Lucas Moripe Stadium.
President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has commended the Katunga-Maseya (KAMA) Cooperative Mega Farm through PressCane for taking a step in making the dream of industrialization, as contained in the Malawi 2063, a reality.
President Chakwera was speaking on Tuesday during the launch of the KAMA Mega Farm in Chikhwawa district.
President Chakwera said he was pleased to see that the private sector has been the pioneers of actualizing the Malawi 2063 agenda of agro-industrialization.
“What you have done here is to make history as a private sector player by answering the Malawi 2063 pillar of agro-industrialization,” Said President Chakwera
The Malawi leader challenged Malawians to start producing more if the narrative of Malawi being an agricultural based economy is to be realised.
He said: “Today, I want to challenge all of us as a country to stop telling ourselves that we are an agri-based economy. Why do we say that our economy’s strength is in agriculture when we produce so little from agriculture.”
Kama pools together 2600 sugarcane farmers who trade through PressCane Limited to produce ethanol under mega farm arrangement.
Malawi President Dr Lazarus McCarthy says his vision is to see Malawi becoming a self reliant country.
President Chakwera is in the southern region where he is conducting a number of activities one of them being the inauguration of the Katunga- Maseya (KAMA) 1,174 Hectare Mega farm in Chikwawa district.
The 5.7 billion Malawi kwacha worthy mega farm formed by 2,193 farmers from Traditional Authorities Katunga and Maseya has been made possible by 70% of money (5.3 billion) from Chakwera’s brain-child, AGCOM with the remaining 30% from Alliance and in-kind contribution from farmers themselves.
The president said as a country Malawi should not be looking down on itself. He called on Malawians to embrace mindset change.
“As a young nation, not only must we embrace this mindset of self-determination and self-reliance, but we must cultivate our friendships with those who are ready to support us achieve our dreams,” he said.
The Malawi leader commmended World Bank, which availed the 95 million dollars in funding for AGCOM 1, some of which have been used to create this mega farm.
“As we speak, the World Bank has already made available more than triple this amount to go towards AGCOM 2. So I want to thank the World Bank, represented here by Hugh Ridell, the Country Manager, for being a trusted partner for Malawi in our quest to achieve self-reliance and self-determination,” he said.
The President has also hailed Press-Cane, the local private sector company that is working with the KAMA Cooperative to develop the mega farm and serving as its off-taker.
“What you have done here is to make history as a private sector player by answering the Malawi 2063 Vision pillar of agroindustrialization with action. And I call on other private sector players to be inspired by your example. It is not enough for private sector players to merely pay lip service to the Malawi 2063 Vision of an inclusively wealthy selfreliant industrialized upper middle-income economy, ” he said.
The project is expected to produce sugarcane which will be sold to Presscane limited for ethanol production with some to be exported to Mozambique.
Presscane limited CEO Dr Paul Guta said KAMA Mega farm launch speaks volumes of government’s commitment to see Malawi becoming an exporting country and earn the most needed forex for the country’s economic growth.
He then said the business partnership between KAMA and Presscane will not only benefit farmers but also improve government’s economy and job creation agenda.
Dr Guta has since hailed the good working relationship between local leaders around KAMA and excellent advisory role by agriculture ministry through AGCOM for making the KAMA mega farm a reality.
Kauser Salim Jussab, wanted in Malawi for being found in possession of a motor vehicle believed to have been stolen, has her days numbered as South African Police Services (SAPS) were given a tip of her presence in Durban.
Police sources in Malawi have disclosed local authorities, handling her case here in Malawi, communicated to their counterparts in South African, and shared information with them that Kauser Jussab was a wanted person in Malawi but was in that country.
Police in Malawi have been investigating Kauser Jussab over the car, a Mercedez Benz registration number HENN4, suspected to be hot.
A police hunt for Kauser Jussab at Fasa Factory in Mapanga, Blantyre, a few months ago, yielded nothing. Fasa Factory is owned by her family.
Kauser’s son, Mohammed Shabir Salim Jussab is also wanted in Malawi over a charge in which he is accused of obtaining K26m car, a BMW registration number SK 1, by false pretence
A magistrate court in Blantyre issued a second warrant of arrest against Shabir Salim Jussab relating to the car. The offence is contrary to section 319 (1) of Penal Code.
Shabir is on Interpol Red Alert, with a warrant of arrest hanging on his head over cyber harassment crime and is reportedly in Saudi Arabia.
The car was brought to his garage at Makata in Blantyre but he never returned it to the owner.
The court, in a warrant of arrest dated 18th September 2023, has ordered police to arrest him and bring him before the court.
Police in Blantyre have also been hunting for businessman Humair Salim Mahomed Sidik Jussab, a young brother to Shabir, months after Chief Resident Magistrate Court in Blantyre issued a warrant of arrest against him over a ‘hot car’.
Humair, who is also wanted by Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA), is said to have lied to the tax-collecting body that he was a student returning to Malawi from South Africa to evade duty on a VW Amarok, double cab, which he registered as BZ 1382, in his name.
The car was discovered by an Interpol search which Malawi Police Service joined, and they relocated it at a garage in Blantyre.
Humair, who is also wanted by police with a warrant of arrest also hanging on his head for a number of criminal charges, will be answering to the charges by police relating to the ‘hot car’ and also to MRA for the duty evasion.
Sources both at police in Blantyre and MRA said the cases would move upon his arrest. He is reported to be outside Malawi.
The warrant of arrest issued against Humair requires investigators from Blantyre Police Station who applied for it to hunt the suspect and bring him before the court.
“This is to authorise and require you to enter into upon and arrest the said suspect, and if arrested, to take possession of the said suspect and produce the same forthwith before this court,” reads the warrant of arrest in part.
The warrant explains the offence is suspected to have occurred on December 15 2022 when the suspect brought the car into Malawi dishonestly.
Political Activist Hon. Bon Elias Kalindo aka Winiko during drama state acting, has crowned Executive Director of the Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) John Kapito as Man of the year 2023 for the interview which he had with Times Television’s Brian Banda.
Kalindo said those who followed the interview could agree that Kapito who was seeming to be siding with the MCP led Tonse Alliance in government, has followed another direction advising President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera to do better in government. He said he would have wished President Chakwera listened by himself what Kapito spoke that he would take one or two advices and if he can implement the advices for the betterment of Malawians, Malawi cannot be regarded as the poor nation.
John Kapito
Speaking through an audio clip circulating in various social media platforms, Kalindo has observed that envy and jealousy has destroyed the country saying these two factors have made other people to think of themselves that they are best. Kalindo said Malawians must develop a new mindset change of praising one when he is alive and not waiting for the time he will be smelling dust in the grave for them to come with showers of praising that the man was good for the country.
He observed that John Kapito and the interviewer Brian Banda have proved to Malawians that they are patriots for the country and they are doing everything possible not for their own benefit but for the good of the Malawi citizens. The Activist has observed that Malawi is lacking men and women who can speak justice like John Kapito saying they are many of such type but they are afraid of being labelled as enemies of government and that they will not be given rewards in government.
He said if John Kapito was President of the country, Malawi could have moved out from poverty level to prosperity advising all those that have a good heart for Malawi to stand up and speak justice to save millions of Malawians that have lost hope that their country has a leader. “If Malawi had a listening President, taking Kapito’s speech made, for sure, Malawi can be a rich country advising Malawians to learn to appreciate good things as spoken by Kapito,” said Kalindo.
Kalindo said envy and jealousy will take Malawians to nowhere claiming that Kapito’s speech will live for years as an entertainer of the year 2023 that God cannot allow his children to work as slaves and suffering in their own country-Malawi.
Bon Elias Kalindo…. let’s learn to praise someone when he is alive…….
