1975 – Orchids of Malawi
Roman Catholic Church The Roman Catholic Church has a history of mission work in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) running back more than four hundred and fifty years. The first attempt to evangelize Zimbabwe was made in the sixteenth century by Jesuit Father Goncalo da Silveira of Portugal. His mission was short lived as he was killed…
Malawi 1982 – Remembrance Day
Butterflies of Malawi Malawi Details Date of Issue: 15th February, 1966 Designer: V Whiteley Perf: 13.5 Printer: Joh. Enchede en Zonen, Haarlem, Netherlands Print Type: Photogravure First Day Cover
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Opening of Kamuzu Academy 21 November 1981 Kamuzu Academy was officially opened 21 November 1981 in Mtunthama, 150 kilometres north of Lilongwe. Initially it had 300 pupils. It was named after, the late Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the former President of Malawi. Whilst Kamuzu Banda was still in power, the school only accepted the three best…
I. Conforzi (Tea & Tobacco) Ltd. Cholo Ignaco Conforzi (b.1885) was an Italian immigrant that brought with him a diploma of agricultural science to Nyasaland in 1907 as a manager with the Blantyre and East Africa Company. In 1909 he began his own tobacco plantation in the Cholo district. By the end of WWI, he…
