{"id":67678,"date":"2018-06-28T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T08:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=67678"},"modified":"2018-06-28T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T08:22:06","slug":"blantyre-hannover-renew-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/06\/28\/blantyre-hannover-renew-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Blantyre, Hannover renew partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY SAM BANDA JNR: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The cities of Hannover in Germany and Blantyre in Malawi have renewed their 50-year-old partnership.<\/p>\n

The renewal was overseen by the two cities\u2019 fathers last weekend in Hannover during a ceremony to mark the Golden Jubilee of their twinning.<\/p>\n

Blantyre City Mayor, Wild Ndipo, said though physically worlds apart, it was moving to think that, over the years, the two cities have grown so close.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike all the best friendships, city twinning is highly flexible in bringing communities together to share problems, exchange views and understand and celebrate both our differences and similarities; taking the best our communities have to offer,\u201d Ndipo said.<\/p>\n

He said Hannover and Blantyre\u2019s friendship and goodwill started when a delegation of young Malawians visited the German metropolis as part of their fact-finding tour.<\/p>\n

The twinning agreement came into effect in 1968 and Ndipo said it fosters mutual interest to both cities, especially in the promotion of social and cultural exchanges among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder this relationship, we have reaped benefits even in the area of education. We have Malawians pursuing professional studies here in Hannover,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ndipo further said that Blantyre has also welcomed students from Hannover on short-period internships and that there are projects such as Chilobwe Vocational College that have benefitted from this relationship.<\/p>\n

He also said a number of Blantyre-based artists had been to Hannover to hone their skills.<\/p>\n

Ndipo told the gathering that Blantyre is a small city of over one million people with minimal resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut with friends like Hannover City, who are willing and ready to support us, we look to the future with hope. I am confident that our relationship will continue to thrive as future generations discover what the two cities have in common,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Hannover City Mayor, Stefan Schostok, also described the partnership as important, saying there have been lots of benefits in areas of training and education.<\/p>\n

Malawi Ambassador to Germany, Michael Kamphambe Nkhoma, took advantage of the celebration to call upon business players in Germany to invest in Malawi.<\/p>\n

Kamphambe said it was pleasing that Blantyre and Hannover were twin cities working together in different projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cMalawi is a beautiful country with many attractions including Lake Malawi. We invite you to come and do business in Malawi. Our office is open if you need more information,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY SAM BANDA JNR: The cities of Hannover in Germany and Blantyre in Malawi have renewed their 50-year-old partnership. The renewal was overseen by the two cities\u2019 fathers last weekend in Hannover during a ceremony to mark the Golden Jubilee of their twinning. Blantyre City Mayor, Wild Ndipo, said though physically worlds apart, it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67682,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67678\/revisions\/67682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}