Monthly Archive for November, 2009

Since November 10, 2009 when we experienced black out in Chinangwa village, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi showed no any interest to restore the power to Chinangwa village. Robert and I went to meet the Nchalo branch manager to fully understand what was happening for his organization not restoring electric power. The manager just told us that he was going to organize his team to investigate the causative problem of the black out.

Chinangwa people are failing to enjoy electric power since installation because they plant already weary transformers having advantage that Chinangwa based people are not most of them literate. The premium funded electrification project paid lots of millions to supply the typical Chinangwa village village, but ESCOM tricks residents by using very old transformers that failed to supply power even for only 30 days. Since 2007, almost 5 transformers have already planted but not working.

Many village headmen had been loosing their trucks for a very long time. A certain village headman was involved in the stealing of three cattle. Being the leader, he ordered some boys to look for butchers to buy the rescued cattle from thieves during the last five nights. When people rescued stolen properties they refer them to the village headman while looking for owners to take their found properties.

Unfortunately owners were tipped that their lost cattle were kept at a certain village by the village headman. When they approached the headman, he expressed that he was tired of feeding them and that was why he just decided to sell them. The issue was referred to Chikwawa police where it was again referred to Chikwawa magistrate court. The village headman was sentenced two years imprisonment with hard labour for being corruptive leader.

My mother’s sister’s son, Nkhonde might born unfortunate. He married the first wife in Mozambique. The wife spent only two months and then she fled at 4 am for her home. He went with other elders to negotiate but the wife refused to go back to her husband’s home without valid reasons.

On this day it was like unfortunate when another wife he married in Malawi spent two weeks only and left when she pretended to draw water while the husband was at the garden. The wife packed her clothes and paid an excuse to the neighbouring family that she was going to wash. The husband followed her at the stream where he thought she might be there washing. He asked other village women who were at the stream washing. He was told that they saw her heading a certain way that made the boy realizing that she was heading back to her home, Fombe village.

He followed her on his bicycle and found her footing just about arriving her home. When asked, the wife responded nothing. She just told her mother that she did not like the place where the husband lives.

It was 2 am, when I heard a certain family members calling for help. Other neighours flocked to assist the family. Using arrows and lights it was seen that there were two hyenas which caught the goat. It was rescued but the front leg was already broken and left eye was too broken. Goat’s owner demanded that it should just be slaughtered for it was already damaged by those two hyenas. Others suspect that those hyenas were from Lengwe National Park which is almost 25 km from Chinangwa village.

Ndaona’s birthday

My family and I were very happy on birthday of my second born daughter, Ndaona. It was very special day when my wife prepared snacks and chips for Ndaona’s on her absence. Ndaona was at her aunt in Lilongwe. She was just called and advised that she should feel that her friends were enjoying for her birthday.

Most people leaving in Shire Valley depend on farming. They start growing their different crops during the rainy season. The rainy season starts in November up to March. It seems to the better year whereby most farmers thought The Shire Valley is going to receive good rain. It was showering in the morning.

There were thick clouds late in the afternoon. It rained not really enough for planting. Many elderly people said that this year would be more better than 10 last consecutive years where people in Malawi had been starving of hunger in various areas in Malawi specifically Shire Valley (Chikwawa and Nsanje).“Let us see if this might be good year” others said.