{"id":2272,"date":"2011-05-26T04:57:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T04:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2011-05-26T04:57:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T04:57:39","slug":"atupele-receives-award-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/26\/atupele-receives-award-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Atupele receives award in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2273\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2273\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2273\" title=\"DSC_2334-400x268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2334-400x268-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atupele Muluzi (L): Receiving the award<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lawmaker Atupele Muluzi, son of former president Bakili Muluzi, has  been given an award by\u00a0 a pan-African organisation, Africa Heritage  Society (AHS) in South Africa and an honorary membership in recognition  for his interest to bring about change in Africa especially inspiring  the next generation.<\/p>\n<p>The younger Muluzi was given the award when  he was invited to address South African enteprenuers, academics and  politicians at the society in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35476\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0  award given to Muluzi is aimed at inspiring change. Previous  politicians who are recipients include\u00a0 former Zambian president Dr.  Kenneth Kaunda,\u00a0 former South African presidents Thabo Mbeki and \u00a0icon  Nelson Mandela.<\/p>\n<p>There are also many CEO\u2019s, business leaders and academics in Africa who have received the award.<\/p>\n<p>A  conversation of Malawi challenges and opportunities was the theme of  the event where Muluzi received his award and made an address.<\/p>\n<p>According to AHS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africaheritage.com\/news.php?id=364\">website<\/a>,  the Machinga North East MP highlighted the governments changing the  flag against the wishes of the people and that the biggest threat to  development is freedom and Malawi needs to look beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Muluzi,  who is also deputy parliamentary leader of former ruling UDF, went on to  express the need for infrastructure development in the nation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africaheritage.com\/news.php?id=364\">AHS website said <\/a>it  was evident in the conversation that the \u201cwinds of change are blowing  on Malawi\u201d \u00a0for a younger generation to lead the nation into a new era  and their involvement in the next elections in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe business  community that attended the event requested for a full geological  report on Malawi to see opportunities into the infrastructure,\u201d AHS  said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35482\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-35482\" href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?attachment_id=35482\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DSC_2304\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nyasatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2304-600x402.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a>Delegates at the conference listening to Atupele&#8217;s speech&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The  subject of member nations came up and that South Africa a is a  strategic key \u00a0partner for Malawi and that by the Chinese accepting  South Africa which they believe represents Africa with its 50 million  population can add the 13 million of Malawi to its name and participate  effectively with the Malawians playing a significant role.\u2014<em>(Reporting by Charles Kufa, <\/em><em>Nyasa Times)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmaker Atupele Muluzi, son of former president Bakili Muluzi, has been given an award by\u00a0 a pan-African organisation, Africa Heritage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[496],"tags":[494],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-udf-2","tag-atupele-austin-muluzi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}