About 450 people from the areas of Group Village,  Headman Namulu, and Traditional Authority Kadewere in Chiradzulu are expected to venture into various small-scale businesses after being provided with the start-up capital.

Emmanuel University has vowed to enhance adherence to the guidelines, the Ministry of Education has instituted to ensure that learners in about ten southern region districts whose schools were closed due to Cyclone Freddy catch up with the time lost.

Sons and daughters of Chiradzulu, a grouping of people who have the origins of the district, has urged people who have not directly been affected by the cyclone Freddy and are living either within or outside the districts to be on the fore front in identifying long term solutions for the problem.

Some communities in the areas of Traditional Authorities (TAs) Kadewere and Ntchema in Chiradzulu East Constituency have expressed fear of the looming hunger which has been exacerbated by the Tropical Cyclone Freddy.

Some 632 families whose houses were partially demolished by the Cyclone Freddy in the Area of Tradition Authority Kapeni in Blantyre rural have returned to their respective homes giving room to primary schools learners to concentrate in their classes in camps which were in schools.

Learners at the Providence Industrial Mission(PIM) and Mkhande primary schools in Chiradzulu are struggling to access library services apparently because libraries at their respective schools have been turned into head teachers' office.

Stakeholders have expressed different opinions on whether government's decision to relocate all major public offices from the commercial city of Blantyre to the administrative, Lilongwe will jeopardise business activities in the commercial city.

The Malawi Police Service (MPS) is not coming out clear if it has shelved a height requirement for those wishing to join the service as has been the case.

The Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA) has disclosed that most individual telecommunication operators in the country have adhered to its directive to revise downwards voice and text message charges.

Ministry of Health is non committal on whether it is considering instituting a ban on the use of diapers as a measure of containing the raging Cholera epidemic among other illnesses.