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Minister of Home Affairs Jean Kalirani has not ruled out government hiking passport fees, saying the fall of the kwacha...
I believe, the only solution is federal system as everyone will reap from his or her harvest!
A typically well-written and well-argued piece by Likambale. It has provoked an equally interesting and thoughtful correspondence. Presumably Tom would say that his own consistent attachment to UDF and the Muluzi family, through thick and thin, has been based on their party manifestos and official records? Permit my scepticism —!!
Tom, I agree with you. However, the answer to the puzzle is already in your article. After all is said the ultimate cardinal deciding factor is the ballot. Now, what I see in Malawi is that we are all decided voters apriori. We are already decided voters based on our tribal/ regional inclination. Of course tribal inclination are of more severe proportions in some regions than others. I would bet, even if, for example, MCP had a sound political idealogy, it would be almost impossible to win the electorate from say, Phalombe district because the electorates there already tribalistically made… Read more »
The major problem in Malawi is “the best can be done by me and my party only”syndrome.While Governing Parties try their best to prevent any good willing malawian or organisation(party) from assisting malawians for fear of gaining political popularity, opposition parties rejoice at the prolonged problems facing the government as their stepping stone into government in the next elections.Now my question are,”for whose benefit are the political leadership if not for ordinary malawians?Why do you rebel against those helping Malawians especially when they are not affiliated to governing party?And Why do you opposition rejoice at the prolonged suffering of malawians… Read more »
Politics in Malawi is for the 17% who live in towns and cities. The other 83% can go whistle for improvements in our lives. The city-based politicians throw inputs at us the way we thrown chicken shit on our gardens. These inputs help us to survive for another year – but they do not make our lives any happier. Nowadays, nearly everything that is interesting or entertaining requires electricity. When will the politicians reveal their plans to provide the rural areas with subsidized solar power? It’s about time we looked at the numbers and the demographics. Farmers produce nearly all… Read more »
central region and southern region are the only regions in this country who vote to protect their base, koma ATUMBUKA IFE TILIBE NZERU. TIPAPHA CHIPAN CHATU. tINADANA NDI CHIHANA CHIKWA NDIFE OZIKONDA.
OTHER PARTIES STILL STRONG
It’s very true, political parties are corrupting us! See, some of us have no idea which political party stands for what? What is its uniqueness and its essential difference? No wonder our political leaders remain political prostitutes, who knows? To day I am blue, tomorrow I am Tambala, then yellow is seducing me, I will end up being orange because all of them as political parties have no specific identity. The worst is that when I am to vote I am left with no criterion to make an informed choice. Regionalism becomes the only plausible alternative… With our poor system… Read more »
Tom, mbuzi zimabala mbuzi. The parties merely reflect the situation of general Malawian thinking. Malawians cherish lies. A parliamentary who, for example, promises to provide checks and balances will never be elected in Malawi. We are ready to vote for somebody who promises lies. In that environment, parties can never be objective. I would give the example of the “20 point plan” offer by PPM. It is fair to say that Malawi gave the party fewer votes than the value of their manifesto in 2014. The blame is on biased electorate. Another problem is lack of funds belonging to the… Read more »
This analysis, while credible at identifying the lack of clear_cut vision in Malawi politics, fails to articulate the major reason for this state of affair; an illiterate electorate that lives on its stomach and is therefore only concerned with basic survival. A polished western policy discourse wouldn’t make sense to such an audience. You are right that mcp and udf did appeal to the same masses, but such appeal was again in the context of survival; against white cruelty and sheer nationalism on the one hand, and banda’ cruelty on the other: the result of the later revealed the inherent… Read more »
I do agree. We as a people have lost a broader vision of what we want to achieve by the end of the day. Both at the personal level or the highest level. Political parties do not have a clear vision of what they want to do for Mother Malawi. Unless we as a nation have clear goals, visions and objectives; and design ways and means of achieving these then we can start dreaming of progress and development.