The Thyolo District Council has encouraged Climate Smart Enhanced Public Works Programme beneficiaries to invest their wages as one way of improving their resilience to the effects of climate change.

The Thyolo district council says it intends to construct an upstairs Boma primary school at Bingu turn off using part of K700 million of the Governance to Enable Service Delivery (GESD) funds to decongest the nearest schools.

Authorities in Thyolo have called on the non-state actors to introduce value for money and flagship projects which can bring total transformation to the lives of people.

Thyolo district council says it will soon engage chiefs and political leadership towards opening of a K400 million new Goliati market, four months after vendors objected the move arguing it's incomplete.

Thyolo district commissioner Hudson Kuphanga says they are looking for resources to relocate Cyclone Freddy survivors in Sambambidzi area, Traditional Authority Changata that are returning to the disaster-prone site.

Chairperson for Thyolo district council, Rhustin Banda, has decried that the government's delay in disbursing funding to councils is affecting operations.

Expectations are high that the construction of a K4.2 billion three-storey Thyolo District Council office complex would complete by December this year.