There are high prospects that a 20, 000 capacity Thyolo stadium will be completed by February 2023 following a nod by Public Procurement and Disposal Authority (PPDA) to revise the construction budget of the facility from K2.6 billion to K5. 6 billion, Thyolo District Commissioner, Douglas Moffat says.

In our special report, Luka Beston, finds that the irrigation schemes which were meant to be a source of livelihood for the communities in the area of Senior chief Mphuka in Thyolo, a district in Malawi bordering Chikwawa, have turned into a ground for disturbing child labor.

Luka has discovered startling evidence of the malpractice in this Southern region district where boys and girls, as young as 11, are being used tending bean fields in the irrigation schemes.

A Thyolo-based tailor, Henry Akim, has asked private practice lawyers to assist him in legal representation in a case he is claiming K29 million of damages at the High Court from the Thyolo District Council.

The Southern Region Water Board (SRWB) has expressed hope that water woes in Luchenza municipality in Thyolo will be minimized by January 2023 following the drilling of K350 million high-yielding borehole expected to pump over a million litres of water daily.

A local leader in Thyolo has appealed to the Malawi Police Service (MPS) to redeploy police officers at Thekerani Police Unit which some irate members ransacked in May this year following a disagreement with the police.

Senior chief Kapichi of Thyolo has asked the government to open more Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) selling points as his beneficiaries including others from Mulanje are thronging the only Luchenza selling point.

At least 60, 000 customary land parcels have been registered in the country through various land and agricultural based investments in relation to the newly enacted Land (amendment) Act of 2022.

The Ministry of Education says implementation of the remote-rural school-attached hardship allowance scheme will wait until next year, after satisfying the World Bank's Performance Based Condition (PBC) of reducing the pupil: qualified teacher ratio to less than 90 in lower classes.

Police in Thyolo have arrested two men for allegedly killing two women in brutal circumstances in the district some two weeks ago.

The Malawi Police Service (MPS) has arrested 109 people who were found in possession and cultivating Indian hemp illegally from January to October this year.