Quite recently there have been cynical comments and provocative brainstorming on some social network forum with regards to the President Joyce Banda’s criss-crossing the country either elevating or inaugurating Traditional Chiefs. Many look at this exercise as a very costly and an unexpounded rationale – knowing that the August House has not debated it all. […]
Heartfelt condolences on the death of Marjorie Ngaunje Malawi’s former Health Minister. Malawi has learnt with shock and defeat over her demise this week. And showers of flowers raid in celebrating the life of a courageous woman. A reflection of how close she was to us as a nation brings tears. As a matter of […]
Talks are under way between two former ruling parties United Democratic Front (UDF) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to form a coalition. It started as a town joke until some journalists confirmed of being furnished with provable items of the negotiations. This is despite that no alliance has ever won elections in Malawi in the […]
Foreword The riots across Tunisia in December 2010, the demonstrations in Moscow in December 2011, the fasting and street marches in New Delhi in March 2012, the street movements in Slovenia, Quebec, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and Wukan (Southern China)… What was the common factor in all these? The answer is corruption or rather they were fuelled […]
That a number of countries in Africa are hemorrhaging from religious extremism is all there for everyone to see, and we can not be praying for our own share in order to understand how it has torn such countries asunder. Islamists have always been blamed for almost all terrorist activities happening in the world. And […]
News all over is Malawi Finance Minister Maxwell Mkwezalamba’s frustration over President Joyce Banda’s defiance on trotting in the wake of measures to wade the country against extremes of Cashgate. In Malawi history Friday Jumbe and Prof Matthews Chikaonda were the first to bang tables in similar way. My brief advice Mkwezalamba must not resign but stamp authority. He has […]
Malawi’s razor sharp, tough and straight- talking Justice Minister Fahad Assan a few weeks ago ordered institutions to stop carrying out re-registration or ownership changes on properties belonging to civil servants. Malawi is at the brink, busy solving Cash gate crisis dominated by civil servants and politicians. The next step, the State wants to impound all the properties acquired through […]
Former Malawi Congress Party (MCP) secretary general Chris Daza has recently been featured in the local media and at President Joyce Banda’s Political rallies and apparently is predicting the downfall of the country’s oldest political party, saying that many people will quit MCP before the May 20 2014 General Elections and join Peoples Party. Mr […]
The problems that Malawi is facing today are not new. Leaders promise peace, justice and freedom but in the end it is a paradox. Dr Kamuzu Banda promised freedom, peace and justice but in the end did he really live by his words? He raised himself to the status of a god after being declared […]
In a milli-second all the veterans were gone, the youths were about to take over. But just before taking over, Cashgate erupted 100 percent involving the youths! A man in the rural Malawi, the biggest voter shouts ‘no more youth leadership’ in Malawi. If the youth were to rule how many Cashgates will erupt? What about gun fights? The […]
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