The politics of tribe in Malawi
Published: November 26, 2009
The cultural festival of the Lhomwe tribe took place on 25 October in the village of Chonde in the Mulanje District of southern Malawi, its Malawian heartland. This is close to the Mozambican border over which this group migrated in the course of the last two centuries and across which chiefs Mutharika (whose name Bingu borrowed when he tired of his original name of Brightson Webster Thom), Nasiyaya, Mpeni and Khoromana came for this celebration. It was attended by the Lhomwe’s most prominent member, President Bingu wa Mutharika, and thus attracted to this small village in the shadow of Mulanje mountain a crowd estimated at 40,000; also a large number of official limousines and military uniforms, a television crew from the state-owned Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, many yards of Mulhako wa Alhomwe cloth, and a host of soft drinks traders to serve the usual thirsts of the country’s hot season. It was a peaceful and colourful festival which the President insisted, in his opening speech, was “non-political”. “Some critics”, he explained “suggested that I should not come to this function because I am president of this country …. But the Mulhako is non-political. It is about promoting Alhomwe cultural and traditional values including our language” [Daily Times 26/10/09]
It is Malawi’s misfortune that almost everything a president does is political. When its first president, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, shifted the country’s capital-city from Zomba to the heartland of the Chewa people, at Lilongwe in the Central Region, and made their language into the official one of Malawi, it was a political act against the Tumbuka-speakers of the North and the Yao and Ngoni peoples of the south, however justified by the brutal logic of modern state-building. When Malawi’s second president, Bakili Muluzi, made public appointments from his own Yao people, and was seen to be favouring the Yaos’ Muslim faith over Christian ones, and to be building more roads and power lines in their Mangochi district than elsewhere, he was strongly criticised too. The fact that post-independence Malawi has escaped large-scale ethnic violence, and is proud of its peaceful and friendly spirit, cannot altogether conceal those bitter ethnic resentments and jealousies that plague other African states and which lie close to Malawi’s surface at all times. A president’s favour or disfavour can make or break an entire region’s economy, just as they can do for individual careers, and if those favours and disfavours are seen to be based on tribe, then resentments gain political force and coherence.
Suspicions of Bingu’s ethnic favouritism had already surfaced before the Chonde gathering. The arrival there of official limousines containing Lhomwe Cabinet ministers such as Patricia Kaliati, Anna Kachikho, George Chaponda, Richie Muheya, and the President’s own brother and minister of Justice, Peter, was not the only occasion for a counting of Lhomwe heads in Bingu’s government. Lhomwes at the head of the Anti Corruption Bureau (Alex Nampota), the police service (Peter Mukhito), the Malawi Electoral Commission (Anastasia Msosa); of government-owned corporations such as the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Charles Matabwa) and the Malawi Social Action Fund (Edward Sawerengera); of Principal Secretaries of major government departments (Joseph Mwanamvekha is the latest on the scene: Chairman of Mulhako wa Alhomwe, and since October, Chief Secretary to the Treasury); the Chief Justice (Lovemore Munlo) and the Attorney-General (Jane Ansah) – all these Lhomwes in high places had been noted with varying degrees of alarm. Nor were the sellers of soft drinks the only businessmen at Chonde to profit by their proximity to greatness. Leston Mulli, the rapidly rising star of the Malawian business community, with a multitude of blossoming investments in Malawi’s freight and passenger transport, tourism and timber concessions, and in Mulanje District’s large tea estates, was there too as patron of the event. He too is a Lhomwe and the brother of Felton, another of Bingu’s cabinet ministers.
The suspicion of Mutharika’s “tribalism” by members of Malawi’s twenty , or so, other ethnic groups expresses itself in many different ways. The veteran Sena-speaking political baron of the Lower Shire valley, Gwanda Chakuamba, who was leader of the powerful Mgwirizano Coalition in the 2004 elections, and who now leads the New Republican Party, was recently convicted (but not punished because of his age and growing eccentricity) of incitement to violence against the Lhomwe people. He told a crowd in November 2008 that the Lhomwe were becoming “cheeky” and deserved to be beaten-up. More significant, perhaps, was the more recent action of Harry Mkandawire, a powerful figure in Malawi’s Northern Region and (until his sacking last month) within the ruling Democratic Progressive Party hierarchy. His “Open Letter” to the President of 22 October expressed the concerns of Malawi’s northern, largely Chitumbuka-speaking, peoples, who had given Bingu overwhelming support in the recent general election, but who now feel sidelined and ignored by him. Mkandawire’s particular complaints were directed against the reintroduction of Kamuzu Banda’s old regional quotas for the selection of university students (because northerners were, and are, seen to be over-represented in the student population); and the Southern bias in Bingu’s appointments to government departments and corporations. He expressed a particular concern about Mulhako wa Alhomwe: “As the President of Malawi, you are expected to … embrace all tribes and their cultures. It is a paradox for you to be looked upon as favouring one tribe which is synonymous with being called a tribalist”.
Malawi’s ethnic and regional politics are, for the time being, balanced by a growing sense of a common, non-violent, Malawian culture. Its tribalism is often expressed in a healthy respect for cultural ties across those political frontiers established by nineteenth-century European colonialists with little knowledge or respect for such things. It still offers important solidarities and reassuring cultural identities and it allows the presidents of Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania and South Africa to celebrate their common Chewa, Zulu, Lhomwe, Tumbuka, heritages as easily as their own people have always done . Bingu may be genuinely innocent of deliberate tribalism. His Democratic Progressive Party on the approach to the 2009 elections did well in the Tumbuka-speaking North, the Chewa-speaking Centre and the Sena-speaking South. But he has to be careful to ensure that the legacy he leaves for Malawi in 2014 will be the golden one he anticipates. He hopes that it will be that of the modern Moses, leading all of his people to the Promised Land of economic and political security. But it could be that of Humpty Dumpty on the wall in the popular nursery-rhyme of another cultural tradition, who carelessly fell off and could not be put together again. The tribal politics of Kibaki’s Kenya are a grim warning to Malawi of what happens when a president becomes careless with tribal politics. Malawians familiar with Michela Wrong’s “It’s Our Turn to Eat”, are now openly wondering whose turn it will be “to eat” after the Lhomwes of Malawi leave the dining-table
The cultural festival of the Lhomwe tribe took place on 25 October in the village of Chonde in the Mulanje District of southern Malawi, its Malawian heartland. This is close to the Mozambican border over which this group migrated in the course of the last two centuries and across which chiefs Mutharika (whose name Bingu borrowed when he tired of his original name of Brightson Webster Thom), Nasiyaya, Mpeni and Khoromana came for this celebration.
It was attended by the Lhomwe’s most prominent member, President Bingu wa Mutharika, and thus attracted to this small village in the shadow of Mulanje mountain a crowd estimated at 40,000; also a large number of official limousines and military uniforms, a television crew from the state-owned Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, many yards of Mulhako wa Alhomwe cloth, and a host of soft drinks traders to serve the usual thirsts of the country’s hot season.
It was a peaceful and colourful festival which the President insisted, in his opening speech, was “non-political”. “Some critics”, he explained “suggested that I should not come to this function because I am president of this country …. But the Mulhako is non-political. It is about promoting Alhomwe cultural and traditional values including our language” [Daily Times 26/10/09]
It is Malawi’s misfortune that almost everything a president does is political. When its first president, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, shifted the country’s capital-city from Zomba to the heartland of the Chewa people, at Lilongwe in the Central Region, and made their language into the official one of Malawi, it was a political act against the Tumbuka-speakers of the North and the Yao and Ngoni peoples of the south, however justified by the brutal logic of modern state-building.
When Malawi’s second president, Bakili Muluzi, made public appointments from his own Yao people, and was seen to be favouring the Yaos’ Muslim faith over Christian ones, and to be building more roads and power lines in their Mangochi district than elsewhere, he was strongly criticised too.
The fact that post-independence Malawi has escaped large-scale ethnic violence, and is proud of its peaceful and friendly spirit, cannot altogether conceal those bitter ethnic resentments and jealousies that plague other African states and which lie close to Malawi’s surface at all times.
A president’s favour or disfavour can make or break an entire region’s economy, just as they can do for individual careers, and if those favours and disfavours are seen to be based on tribe, then resentments gain political force and coherence.
Suspicions of Bingu’s ethnic favouritism had already surfaced before the Chonde gathering. The arrival there of official limousines containing Lhomwe Cabinet ministers such as Patricia Kaliati, Anna Kachikho, George Chaponda, Richie Muheya, and the President’s own brother and minister of Justice, Peter, was not the only occasion for a counting of Lhomwe heads in Bingu’s government.
Lhomwes at the head of the Anti Corruption Bureau (Alex Nampota), the police service (Peter Mukhito), the Malawi Electoral Commission (Anastasia Msosa); of government-owned corporations such as the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Charles Matabwa) and the Malawi Social Action Fund (Edward Sawerengera); of Principal Secretaries of major government departments (Joseph Mwanamvekha is the latest on the scene: Chairman of Mulhako wa Alhomwe, and since October, Chief Secretary to the Treasury); the Chief Justice (Lovemore Munlo) and the Attorney-General (Jane Ansah) – all these Lhomwes in high places had been noted with varying degrees of alarm. Nor were the sellers of soft drinks the only businessmen at Chonde to profit by their proximity to greatness.
Leston Mulli, the rapidly rising star of the Malawian business community, with a multitude of blossoming investments in Malawi’s freight and passenger transport, tourism and timber concessions, and in Mulanje District’s large tea estates, was there too as patron of the event. He too is a Lhomwe and the brother of Felton, another of Bingu’s cabinet ministers.
The suspicion of Mutharika’s “tribalism” by members of Malawi’s twenty , or so, other ethnic groups expresses itself in many different ways.
The veteran Sena-speaking political baron of the Lower Shire valley, Gwanda Chakuamba, who was leader of the powerful Mgwirizano Coalition in the 2004 elections, and who now leads the New Republican Party, was recently convicted (but not punished because of his age and growing eccentricity) of incitement to violence against the Lhomwe people.
He told a crowd in November 2008 that the Lhomwe were becoming “cheeky” and deserved to be beaten-up. More significant, perhaps, was the more recent action of Harry Mkandawire, a powerful figure in Malawi’s Northern Region and (until his sacking last month) within the ruling Democratic Progressive Party hierarchy.
His “Open Letter” to the President of 22 October expressed the concerns of Malawi’s northern, largely Chitumbuka-speaking, peoples, who had given Bingu overwhelming support in the recent general election, but who now feel sidelined and ignored by him.
Mkandawire’s particular complaints were directed against the reintroduction of Kamuzu Banda’s old regional quotas for the selection of university students (because northerners were, and are, seen to be over-represented in the student population); and the Southern bias in Bingu’s appointments to government departments and corporations.
He expressed a particular concern about Mulhako wa Alhomwe: “As the President of Malawi, you are expected to … embrace all tribes and their cultures. It is a paradox for you to be looked upon as favouring one tribe which is synonymous with being called a tribalist”.
Malawi’s ethnic and regional politics are, for the time being, balanced by a growing sense of a common, non-violent, Malawian culture. Its tribalism is often expressed in a healthy respect for cultural ties across those political frontiers established by nineteenth-century European colonialists with little knowledge or respect for such things.
It still offers important solidarities and reassuring cultural identities and it allows the presidents of Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania and South Africa to celebrate their common Chewa, Zulu, Lhomwe, Tumbuka, heritages as easily as their own people have always done .
Bingu may be genuinely innocent of deliberate tribalism. His Democratic Progressive Party on the approach to the 2009 elections did well in the Tumbuka-speaking North, the Chewa-speaking Centre and the Sena-speaking South. But he has to be careful to ensure that the legacy he leaves for Malawi in 2014 will be the golden one he anticipates.
He hopes that it will be that of the modern Moses, leading all of his people to the Promised Land of economic and political security. But it could be that of Humpty Dumpty on the wall in the popular nursery-rhyme of another cultural tradition, who carelessly fell off and could not be put together again.
The tribal politics of Kibaki’s Kenya are a grim warning to Malawi of what happens when a president becomes careless with tribal politics. Malawians familiar with Michela Wrong’s “It’s Our Turn to Eat”, are now openly wondering whose turn it will be “to eat” after the Lhomwes of Malawi leave the dining-table
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Countrymen, let’s say NO to any kind of incitement. Let’s say NO to any attempt to drive us berserk. Though poor, we have to be proud of being a peaceful nation. Being peaceful requires sacrifice and the sacrifice that we make is our own ability to forgive and forget those trying to tear the nation apart.
I believe in the principles of objective reporting and I have always commended Nyasa Times for that and especially their reporting style that tries to avoid the traditional reporting system by trying to tell us ‘Why a story matters’.
In this story however, I will not have done justice to my own conscience, if I do not revile them (Nyasa Times). I stand to be corrected and I welcome criticism of any kind on this. While it is easy for someone who has studied Journalism or Mass Communications to know the motive behind any article, Nyasa Times – a publication that I respect – tries to have forgotten that not all its readers are journalists. I find no objectivity in this article. A lot of questions remain unanswered. The number of people highlighted in the article as signaling Bingu’s favoritism still fall short of desirable levels. Five or six ministers and five or six senior executives in a few public institutions are still too few to show the highlighted favoritism. I will believe these sentiments if a thorough analysis is made regarding how the president or his aides appoint ambassadors and high commissioners, senior judiciary staff members, other senior public officers apart from the very few mentioned in the article as well as regional and district commissioners.
I will also believe the sentiments if Nyasa Times tells me that the aforementioned were not appointed on merit but rather on prejudice.
Before I wind up, let me declare my interests in this. As my name suggests, I am a northerner, who has never seen Mr Bingu personally expect through his pictures posted on Nyasa Times and other websites and on television. I am happy and satisfied with what I earn. However, I hate the tendency of some politically-impoverished people who think they can achieve their political ambitions by mudslinging others. The duty of a modern media house is to set agenda. What agenda is behind this article? Probably, Lady Madeya will come up with something tangible. MAY GOD BLESS MALAWI!
I strongly doubt if you are a notherners, possibly you have just put on the coat of a northerner. Your arguments are enough to tell who you are -Lomwe, if not the boot linker of machona type. The names and positions given here are just sample to what is happening. Infact most of the strategic positions are now filled by southerners in particular Lomwes. If you can’t see this then you have a big problem that needs scaning may be. On merit, YES, some of these people are chosen on merit but most of them are appointed on just tribal basis. Make a head count yourself and you will see the merit of this report here. Don’t deliberately make yourself brind -possibly because you are one of the major beneficialies from bingu. Learn to call a spade a spade.
You sir are in the circle. I cannot truly understand that you cannot see this. I believe you thought when Kamuz and Tembo were populating the cabinet with Dedza and KU people or Bakili selecting his yao tribes in imptortant position was on merit. You sir need to come to your senses.
The kye as Achimayi says is the strategic positions. Check it out-all positions menntioned are the most strategicwith the exception of Finance which is headed by a yes bwana who Bingu knows can manipulate as he the finance minister is a crooked ruffuian as well.
I fear for yoursanity dude. You must be one of them that’s all I can conclude.
A man [Bingu] of his extensive experience in IMF. UN, COMESA etc knows that appointing someone from a certain region of MW does not make any improvements to government policies. Bingu is intellectually sound not to base his political ideologies on regions.
It is, however, the underdeveloped CIVIL SOCIETY of MW that constantly brings forth ‘politics of tribes’… especially those not understanding the political complexities of policy making & implementation will jump on that bandwagon!
Somebody told and warned me just after the elections that we should expect tough times ahead. I thought he was lying because i did not agree by then. This is the time i now realize that some people can have foresight. I started to realize about it when the respected and reknowned former Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe was removed from being in charge of the same ministry he was heading. Then Victor Mbewe was the next. What i hear is that these guys never accepted silly issues as far as money or economy was concerned. Eventually they were booted out because they have been saying NO to some uneconomic tendencies by Bingu and some of his boot-lickers. This is the problem with our politics whereby we have had no wise leaders to save us from poverty and other problems as such apart from just being bootlickers or trying to enrich themselves. I never imagined that Malawi being led by an Economic Engineer as well as his trusted Lomwes could have no forex for example as per ‘ntchito zamanja awo’. Bingu is busy blaming International institutions or governments for lack of forex for no apparent reason.
The other problem is that we are being led to believe in tribal politics. Currently is the quota system for selecting university students by openly saying northerners have been dominating the scene. Lamely, Bingu is claiming that there are many schools in the north. This was said even without real research on the same. For example, people in the north have been able to construct their own day secondary schools without any government support. And to-date, the government has done nothing to assist. The other thing is that the president is deliberately forgetting that it relates to how many would start school and reach the university level. This relates to drop-out rates between the regions.
The big problem is when the president is being advised by useless people who are only to appease him for appointing them. We have real issues in Malawi that require attention and not just thinking of fighting against a tribe or people from a region just because they are able to finish their education up to university level. I wish people from regions start constructing their own day secondary schools if they are to compete for places at the university level. This is the only we can achieve merit there. Mind you university education in Malawi is meant for those that have done well at MSCE level and not merely coming from a region. Education does not need to be based on appeasement. Students at MSCE level are writing the same type of exams and why should someone from Rumphi or Nkhatabay for example where i know some schools have got only three teachers be ignored a chance to go to the university after doing well due to hardwork just to appease someone with lower passing mark just because he/she is coming from another region with more teachers and resources?
ESCOM has been struggling for the recent past due to lack of support by the government. There are old machines that require replacement there but our president and his Lomwe cohorts are only spending time attending to useless things in town. Why should Malawi be without fuel and forex as if we are in war? Zimbabwe is even better off than us Malawians, who are only fighting to bring each other down just because one comes from region X.
God should save us from this bondage!
Inu musandikumbuse za chimtundu chonunkha ngati ichi cha alomwe ndipo I dont want to hear about Mhlakho… kodi afisi amenewa anachokera kuti akungoti mphuno bii patauni pano chonsecho ndi angulu opanda ntchito. whatever reason kaya mukuti preserving culture ndiye mtchonayu ndiye awuze anzke kuti tizipanga zakhomo la alomwe zoona. Sakhuta anthuwa mpaka ena anaferapo pamilankho yawoyo. Mwinanso forex tikunenayi munagula n’gombe pa function inali kwachonde kuphatikizapo izi mwapasa apongozi a Bob pa Harare. Munthuyu pano tamudziwa sanganamenso amakonda kunamizira anzake chonsecho he is afailure and I dont think this person we leave us in good economic times, akamazachoka basi dziko lasanduka Southern Rhodesia. Kaya lets just see we will her kuti PHD man uja zamuvuta.
amalawi kutengeka mkulu uyu anasokoneza ku comesa mumati angalongosole malawi. next ndi nchimwene wake aztiphulitse njerwa za moto
Mukagwele uko. Anthu amangoganiza zogawa Malawi. So you mean if a lhomwe is quolified for the job should not be picked because one is a lhomwe. Fotseki
zisamakomele mbuzi kugunda galu,if it is university akachuruka anzanu on merit ndiye kuti zaipa , zikafika pamaudindo alomwe akachuluka ndiye kuti zili bwino. hypocrites !
Your article lacks balance. To make a good comparison, you should have listed your Tumbuka speaking people who are in cabinet. A small group of people, but there are as many in cabinet as Lohmwes. Ndiye mukulira chiyani? Do you want all cabinet posts to go to Tumbukas? Zimenezo sizingatheke. Ngati mumapatsana maudindi ku maNGO anuwa, it can’t happen in govt. Mukufuna mipando yonse apatse atumbuka? With this Tumbuka selfish atitude, it will be very difficult for a Tumbuka to rule in Malawi.
mukasowa zonena mungokhala chete , why are you considering every constructive critisism as coming from tumbukas , do you think MALAWI is only for tumbukas .kungoti zakuvutani , economeso yakukanikani , tikuonerani .
Mlomwe ndichani chanzeru anapangapo pa Malawi.Munthu wanzeru kumakanika kuyankhula mother tongue until their tribal chief came to teach them about their culture. Ntchito kuyankhula zichewa zophotchokaphotchoka ndi kusakaniza with vague english and some portuguese.Alomwe musatitopetsa apa ndi failure nzanu akungobwebweta chilichonse chamuyenda mutu masiku ano.
Kungoti a Tumbukanu ndinu amakani kwambiri. That’s why kumavuta kukumverani chisoni nthawi zina. The problem is your altitude. You always support somebody with conditions. Believe me, anthu ana a ndale sakukhulupirirani ngakhale pang’ono.
A Bob Finye, zitukuko mmidzimu zikuyendesedwa ndi ma NGO amene mukuti azaza ndi a ku mpoto. Ayeni anu a Boma muli busy kuyenda yenda mu ma workshop! Ndangokuthandizani kuwonenetsetsa apa.Yankhani
A tumbuka kukonda kubera mayeso koma osagwidwa. Kukonda kudzitama kuti ndi anzeru. Kukonda udzikweza kuti kukhala mtumbuka nchapamwamba, hahahah! Anthu othawa mmapiri inu. Inu chabwino mwapanga nchani ku dziko lino?
Freedom- kuyambila fighting with a zungu for independence, Kulimbana ndi Kamuzu, bringing down Bakili and and economy imayenda bwino kuli Goodall and Malawi National Team ili ndi atumbuka okhaokha-Netball ndi iyi northerners okhaokha. University ndi iyi mukufuna musokonezeyi after nsanje. Hehehehehehddddeeeeee uluuuuu!! Wagwa nayo Tito-tiuzeni tsono za inu!!!
Asa national team pagolo mumadalira mu Yao sanudi.Bwanji simukupeza Mtumbuka.
Ehe ATonde Wadula is very illiterate Mkutuweliwa’s tribe a Ngulu.Even the english itself sounds Lomwe.This is a tyipical example that these Lomwe are very dull like Thumbukaz.Apa mwangokumana Alomwe ndu Athumbuka.I visited Phalombe I could hardly see brown people especially Nyezerera,Masingolo,Migowi,Phaloniand Chilinga.People there are very black in comlexion men!!I have seen Leston Mulli,Elvis Masangwi,Joseph Mwanamveka,ehheee these people are very ugly men!!I evn went to The North,Good all Gondwe and the Mwenifumbo all those epole are seemingly the same.Yes pitilizani kunyozana nokha nokha please because you are very ugly in Malawi..Which other tribe voted for Bingu its you Thumbukaz and the Lomwes and those who thought that they will gwet good posts in Bingu government .Today you two bulshit tribes why are yiou trying to condem one another.You gave Bingu titles like Ngwazi and Mwapwiya mogwirizana nankha lelo zatani abale.Ife ayawo tili phee zathu!!Zithukanananinokha nokha.This time Malawi yathat Lucius Banda waimba nyimbo yoti 1515.Kanga ndisiyioreni he mean Leston Mulli Ted who has domoianated the whole Malawi business wise.Buses are his,Tankers are hi,s Banks are his,Farms are his,Groceries are his,maize mills are his,Produce buying is his.Garment clothing is his,Nachimpanti is his,Employment of sexworkers is his,Beating people is his,bribing policemen is his,Killing people in Mulanje is his,Kutukwana is his,Kuthamangitsa anthu anatchito mwachipongwe is his,Umbuli is his,Mlakho is his.Kulemba ana antchito ku Namphasa is his,Kubaforx is his,Kugula zimagalimoto zakutha is his,Tsopano what is left for others!!!Lucius anaimbanso Mbuli zachuma is the same Leston Ted Mulli.This guy is very dull listen to his enlish when he presents speach on TVM ahhha rubish Matama angati chule.Lets find out these type of people just make lots of noise they don’t have single tambala in their accounts.Great Pepole are silent there making money not barking like big baboons!!
So Mwinithako Black is ugly as you would like to believe.No wonder you think in slave mentality and that’s why mitundu yanu have been copying names from slave masters like Thom webster lyson.My friend those are slave names mumakopela or mwina amakupasani azungu amuma tea estate inu ndikumasangalala.Kodi kumalawi kuli azungu?I’m proud to be black and a very confident person.No wonder aunt anu kaliati breaches her skin with chemicals kufuna kukhala mzungu mpakana skin cancer inzapweteke.I hate people like mwinithako who are not proud of their colour.Keep on kuzola ambi shubaba mpakana musanduke azungu akuphalombe…mbuli zopanda ntchito.
ineyo ndi Mlhomwe onunkhanso bwino koma ndilibe udindo bwanji? the fact that you are identifying us (excluding yourself) as Lhomwes implies that there is another tribe you associate yoursef with. Atumbuka amati kulowola ndi chikhalidwe chawo, Angoni akuti mowa, amwenye arranged marriages, so whats wrong with Lhomwes speaking out or displaying what they do? Nkhaniyidi balance ilibe yalembedwa ndi munthu opsa mtima. And for Msosa would we say because she is Lhomwe or she is competent? mmesa munachita kumumulilira kuti abwererenso?
mr man dont cheat people about tumbukas, let me tell you that acording to national stastics office, the north nis leading in the number of people going to school at 33% and cnetr 27% and south 27% now the 28% of malawians are the ones going to school, what is bingu doing to force many lomwes who am very sure that the 72% most of them are lomwe, force them to go to school,you also claim to be rich in the south and centre but according to NSO the north is also leading on ox carts, and radios, tell us about literacy level in Malawi and its the north again leading in literacy level at 79% cnter62% and south 62%.what we are saying is that quota system is done out of jealousy,not looking at real issues.
So in this case, there is need to balance up. Hence quota system. You mean we need to continue this kind of trend, where there are inmbalances.
we don’t have time to fight against u alomwes or other tribes but the truth is that we r choosen ones on theland.kasi icho mukumanya?.if not why r u introducing so called quota system.who r u targetting. dont fight against asibweni otherwise u will see the consequences [dar es salaam]