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Six Malawian tech innovators just got bankrolled by the National Bank of Malawi at the ICTAM Innovation Jam in Mangochi, with the winners splitting K75.5 million between them. Staff Nyoni scored the biggest bag for his Blind Classroom platform, which helps visually impaired kids actually learn...

Malawi's youth and sports minister wants one of the country's golfers to take home the top prize at the Seed Co Open Golf Championship, which is throwing around 20k USD for whoever wins. Patricia Wiskes said at the opening event that golf in Malawi gets viewed as this elite thing that hasn't...

Silver Strikers assistant coach Mapopa Msukwa said his squad still has a shot at the championship after they demolished Moyale Barracks 3-0 at their home stadium. Emmanuel Allan went off in the second half and banged in three goals to push the Bankers up to 44 points with eight matches left to...

Malawi is about to host a women's soccer throwdown with Zambia and Zimbabwe at Bingu National Stadium and fans can walk in free for regular seats. The home squad opens against Zimbabwe before facing Zambia while the event wraps with a Zambia versus Zimbabwe match. All three countries want to...

Energy outfit 265 and Pinnacle Finance Services teamed up in Lilongwe to get more Malawians access to solar panels and gas cylinders through payment plans that match people's salary schedules. Company founder Mfundo Mbvundula said the deal lets customers skip upfront costs while Pinnacle fronts...

Malawi Property Investment Company threw 10 million kwacha at vocational programs and just watched 37 people finish electrical installation and plumbing courses at Soche Technical College in Blantyre. Property services head Eliot Jambo said the firm keeps backing skills training for people who...

Information Minister Shadric Namalomba dropped promises that the new government will never arrest reporters during the entire five-year term under President Mutharika, while basically asking journalists to cover the country in a better light. The pledge came out when the government launched...

The Human Rights Defenders Coalition jumped back into action, telling everyone that political parties cannot block protests after Democratic Progressive Party officials supposedly said they would stop demonstrations from happening. The group got roasted online because they basically vanished...

CARE Malawi just threw over 3 billion kwacha at the hunger crisis hitting the country, after assessment reports showed almost 3 million people are already dealing with serious food shortages that could jump to 4 million when the lean season kicks in. Country Director Pamela Kuwali said her...

The Democratic Alliance dropped criminal charges against MK Party MP Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla after supposedly 17 dudes got tricked into heading to Russia, thinking they were getting bodyguard training but ended up stuck fighting on the front lines in Ukraine. Chris Hattingh and Ryan Smith from...

President Peter Mutharika dropped 10 million kwacha on Malawi's netball teams before the African championship hits Lilongwe next month with the Queens and Kings splitting the cash down the middle. First Lady Gertrude Mutharika showed up at Griffin Saenda Indoor Sports Complex to hand over the...

eThekwini Municipality got young people together at King Zwelithini Stadium in uMlazi and basically told them they need to start leading the charge against gender violence and femicide instead of just sitting back. Deputy Mayor Zandile Myeni said cops alone cannot fix this mess without families...

The Free State branch of the South African Communist Party went off on national chairperson Blade Nzimande after he dropped a discussion paper calling for a special congress to revisit the decision about running independently from the ANC in the upcoming municipal elections. Provincial leaders...

Deputy Minister Mimmy Gondwe helped Elangeni TVET College pull in over a million rand at their fundraising gala at the Premier Hotel in Umhlanga near Durban. The event drew 150 people from businesses and education who kicked in cash through pledges, sponsorships, donations and auction bids...

Rob Papen dropped DelGrain, which mashes up granular delay with tape delay plus a distortion module and filter section that all get controlled by this thing called the Disrupt Sphere. The plugin lets you route the granular processing before the delay, inside it, after it, or running in parallel...

Valhalla DSP dropped version 5.0 of their freebie ValhallaSupermassive reverb plugin and threw in a fresh algorithm called Sirius. The new mode basically handles everything from small rooms to huge cathedral spaces and keeps things clear even when the decay goes on forever. Echo density can go...

Blanketfort Audio just pushed Ruinator to version 1.1 and finally added AAX format for the Pro Tools crowd. The distortion plugin got two fresh modes called Lo Fuzz, which is tuned for bass and meant to rattle your walls, plus Fold, which is basically a West Coast wavefolder thing that works...

Scaler Music dropped version 3.2 for their Scaler plugin, and it's free if you already own Scaler 3. The big addition is Scenes on the Arrange page, which lets you bundle chords into sections like verse or chorus stuff and tweak them as a single unit. There's also User Track Recording that...

Xaoc Devices just put out the Konin, a tiny 4HP module that basically does gain and attenuation across two channels for Eurorack nerds who need precise manual control. The thing can either crank weak signals up by 20dB or squash them down to like 1% of what they started as, and it doubles as a...

Franklin Audio dropped the MP-10, which basically lets you run any microphone through guitar pedals or amps without turning your signal into hot garbage. The box has custom circuitry that fixes the impedance mismatch between mics and guitar gear, plus it gives you 12 to 60dB of gain from the...