Trevor Khwalala

  Student acknowledges leadership with symbolic gesture of farm produce By Trevor Khwalala F inal-year Communication and Journalism class representatives at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) on Monday, November 2025, received an unexpected token of appreciation from a fellow student in recognition of their service over the past four years. Lingstone Nsema, a final-year student, presented fresh maize from his field to the four class representatives—Mary Mwambila, Butwa Mwakalagho, Milcah Chimoyo, and Trevor Khwalala—as a gesture of gratitude for what he described as their “dedicated leadership and commitment” throughout their academic journey. Speaking during the brief presentation held on campus, Nsema said the gift was his way of acknowledging the effort that class representatives invest in coordinating coursework, communicating with lecturers, and supporting their peers. "Class representatives work tirelessly, yet their efforts often go unnoti...

  LUANAR’S CREATIVE CONFERENCE UNITES MALAWI’S YOUNG INNOVATORS AND CREATORS (Photographs by Bunda Campus Publications...). By Trevor Khwalala A wave of inspiration swept through Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) on Saturday, November 8, 2025, as young innovators, content creators, designers, and entrepreneurs converged for the Creative Conference, an event organized by Joshua Chagwa, Director of Publications under the Bunda Students Union (BSU). The daylong event, moderated by Rachael Mbela, brought together some of Malawi’s emerging and established creatives and LUANAR students to share experiences, strategies, and insights under the theme “Bringing High-Impact Learning Experiences with Malawi’s Finest Creatives and Innovators.” Among the key speakers were Ekarhi Faria, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of InspireX; Praise Malunjika, a Brand Strategist; Favour Mkombe, Founder of Fav Designs and student; Neema Soko, a young entrepreneur and...

Kutsatira imfa ya mtsogoleri wa dziko la Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, nyumba youlutsa uthenga yadzikoli yalengedza za kukhadzikitsidwa kwa tsiku lodzachita zisankho zina pofuna kusankha mtsogoleri watsopano wa dzikoli. Nyumba youlutsa uthangayo yalengedza kuti zisankho zidzachitika mwezi wa chinayi ndi chimodzi pa 28 chaka cha 2024. Imfa ya Mtsogoleri wa dziko la Iran yachitika la Mulungu sabata lomwelino pa 19 pamene ndege yomwe adakwera mtsogoleriyu idachita ngozi mmalire a dziko la Iran ndi Azerbaijani chaku mpoto kwa dzikoli mudera lochedwa Varzagham pa nthawi yomwe amachokera ku nkumano omwe adali nawo ndi mtsogoleri wa dziko la Azerbaijani, Ilham Aliyev, kumene amakayendera ntchito yomanga madamu otchedwa Qiz Qalasi ndi Khodaafarin m’malire a dziko la Iran ndi azerbaijani. Nyumba yofalitsa mauthenga ya dzikoli lati ngozi ya ndege idachitika la Mulungu mmamawa ndipo ndegeyo yapezedwa lolemba kumapiri ambali ina ya dzikoli. Pamalo angoziwa pafa anthu ena anayi ndi m’modzi kuphatikizapo...

  Shall the use of traditional farm equipment such as hoes in cultivating our farms last forever? It is not of a surprise in today’s world which is being molded and revolutionized after digital and sophisticated technologies, living no industry aside as it has also incorporated agricultural industry, with tremendous, sophisticated farm technologies and other farm practices to ease and promote effective and efficient farm operation with minimal human effort required in achieving high productivity. Yesterday was a big day where the state president of Malawi Dr. Lazarus Chakwera was officially launching agricultural mechanization enterprise at Bingu International Convection Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe. Launching ceremony led off at 8:00am where the vice president of Malawi Dr. Saulos Chilima, the Minister of agriculture Sam Kawale and other government officials accompanied the state president to the initiation of Malawi entrepreneur agricultural mechanization enterprise, which has bee...

  C entre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) regrets its prior action on pinning down Illovo sugar (Malawi) public limited company against judicial injunction in 2023, as they have returned again seeking the judiciary to remove the imposed measures against the Illovo sugar Malawi plc which was granted on 23 August. In June 2023 CDEDI worked tirelessly summoning the Judiciary to take an action on the raised matters concerning high prices of sugar, in the press briefing which was held in Lilongwe last year CDEDI claimed that the prices of sugar were too high for the Malawian to afford it, and the CDEDI Executive Director Slyvester Nawima said he wrote the Public Accounts Committee(PAC) of Parliament and the Parliamentary Committee on Trade and Industry to immediately conduct a public interrogation on sugar production and pricing. In the same month of June CDEDI demanded the Malawi government to take an immediate action on the issue which ...

Mega farms concepts premised by the state president of Malawi Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera over the long-dreamt ambitious initiative of the nation to harness poverty and rein country’s recurring food shortage yields a positive grin on Malawi’s economy and people’s needs. Mega farm program was officially launched in August 2023 from its predeveloped vision, Malawi 2023, in January 2021 by his excellency Dr. Chakwera with the main objectives of combatting the nation’s persistent to food shortage and regenerating agricultural sector through the delegate action of the Malawi Ministry of Agriculture, via the establishment of mega farm program. This is in support of its 3 anchored predefined pillars: Agriculture Productivity and Commercialization, Industrialization and Urbanization. Positive upshot has been obtained and experienced in the country as the initiative has spread across the country leading to development insights of accelerated promotion of economic transformation process of t...

It takes many years, resources and people to build a good reputation, and only takes one bad one to lose it all at once. In the dawn everything started very well as every morning expected to yield great products and bring joy, development and unity among individuals, not knowing that a dusk will bring a nightmare. A dream hoped not to be remembered at all, dream that brings dashing hopes accompanied with magnitude to shaken the unshakable hearts, move the unmovable stands, and force the crippled to runs some kilometers without holding a cane. This comes as Bunda college students hails Bunda Election Commission (BEC) for failing to run credible elections, arousing anger, discomfort and distrust in Bunda college students to opt to call Malawi Election Commission (MEC) to run the elections. A crowd of students protested around the campus and in students hostels whilst shouting “MEC is a pipe! MEC is a pipe!” (meaning there is no other authority to trust apart from MEC only, explained on...

  M alawi Government through the Ministry of Agriculture has released 2023/2024 minimum farm gate price for staple grain and other selected crops on 5 April 2024 through a press statement signed by the Ministry’s Principal secretary. Principal secretary, Dickxie Kampani acknowledged in his statement that the new prices are of immediate effect and that people will be purchasing maize at K600 per kilograms from last year’s price of K500 per kilograms, pure beans at K1200 per kilograms from last year’s K700 per kilograms, mixed beans at K900 per kilograms from last year’s K600per kilograms, unpolished rice at K650 per kilograms from previous year’s K500 per kilograms and other national relayed crops with also some great increment of prices per each quantity. According to the Ministry these new prices have been acknowledged and accepted after a recommendation of a team   of technicians from the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Trade and Industries, Ma...