By Chipiliro Manyengo Some countable months ago, Seodi White, the Executive Director of Women in Law in Southern Africa (WILSA) dragged the Malawi government to court over abortion rights. White simply wanted the government to give women freedom to abort at their own choice. In her own words White said, “It’s a pity that government [...]
By: Ndirande Love Ralph Kasambara has issued a public statement addressed to the President of the Malawi Law Society and all his colleagues in which he has declared a campaign he is launching to prove to the Police in Malawi and the rest of Malawians that he is not a coward. In his statement he informed [...]
Ndirande Love The move Duncan Phoya made to join the MCP and the favorable reception the move has received from the general public somehow carries with it a symbolism of the change Malawi needs in its political leadership. Though questions abound about who Phoya really is, what he believes in and why he had to [...]
AN OUTSIDER INSIDE VIEW By MBULANJE OF NDIXVILLE That President Bingu Wa Muthalika is a visionary leader cannot be disputed. In fact as he said recently, he may be ranked first in terms of strategic planning from the two previous leaders we have had in Malawi since breaking away from our colonial masters. One would [...]
AN OUTSIDER INSIDE VIEW By MBULANJE OF NDIXVILLE Credit is due to the UDF for heeding my advice on re-branding the once mighty party which they have started with looking at their youth department structures and references. This advice was given in my earlier piece titled, “A political Engineer – Dr Bakili Elson Muluzi.” For [...]
By Elijah Phimbi, Lilongwe. There was drama in parliament on Thursday afternoon when Thyolo North parliamentarian Anita Kalinde grabbed defense minister Aaron Sangala by the neck following the disagreement that erupted as the parliamentarians were deliberating the death of Malawi Polytechnic students Robert Chasowa. During the deliberations, opposition MP’s accused Bingu wa Mutharika administration of [...]
Ndirande Love Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him — Proverbs 26:12 ‘Let the sleeping dogs lie,’ is the best reaction one can give if asked for an opinion about the Chisinga Chanco Saga wrongly dubbed the battle for academic freedom . [...]
Ndirande Love In two of my previous postings I suggested that government is better off leaving the issue of Joyce Banda clinging on to the seat of VP to Joyce’s own conscience despite her being a rogue VP. I said that because I thought that for the DPP to initiate such a move would be [...]
AN OUTSIDER INSIDE VIEW By MBULANJE OF NDIXVILLE There are several archaic sections in our Malawian constitution that need to be reviewed. Recently most people have commented on some of these. What has been worrying though is that a lot of people are picking on sections that have apparently just been amended and passed as [...]
ByHarry Mangulenje South Africa Reading the goings on in Malawi politics towards 2014 there is little assurance of emergence of coalitions once more this time around. Parties don’t seem wearing some bravado to risk it once more this time bearing in mind the disastrous experiences observed in the past elections. Coalitions occur among political parties [...]
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