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Mmihavani
Mmihavani
9 years ago

Mr Kaipa, let us resist from blaming politicians for all problems we have as a country. Politicians are not a solution. We are individuals equally responsible. Ask yourself as a man what have you done to have permanent food security for your family. What have you done to help your village mates? Your people are marrying and having many babies like nobody’s business thinking that government will bail them out. A small land like Malawi but the population is growing at alarming rate. We are not investing the little we have in manufacturing but we are leaving it in the… Read more »

yes
yes
9 years ago

This is a nice picture. The little girl is so cute and innocent.

Kalwe.
Kalwe.
9 years ago

It does not help that we have a clueless president. The president and his “wife” are busy siphoning money meant for the most vulnerable people who really feel the blunt of food insecurity.

mdabwii
mdabwii
9 years ago

I just love the little girl. Lol

vavlov
vavlov
9 years ago

50 years of independence; Malawi still poor, backward, and typed in primitive tendencies (nepotism, tribalism, witchcraft, etc). It is a shame that 5 decades after independence agric. is performing below subsistence thresholds, corruption and poverty are rife. Cry the beloved country

Angel of Doom
Angel of Doom
9 years ago

This Mr Kainja is a very good topic for serious discussion, because it transcends political alignments and politicking should be left out of it. Whether we like it or not Malawi is still a subsistence economy,in the sense that the majority of the population produce just enough to feed themselves. If we as a nation want to eliminate the persistent food insecurity, then we have to be looking at encouraging commercial farming. Let the majority produce for their food, and have a minority that will produce for the urban, and subsidise them. At the same time discourage the majority who… Read more »

me
me
9 years ago
Reply to  Angel of Doom

only nsima hand pumkings and sweet potatoes.
what about milk for children,meat,fish all those things that all people need?
because of that alimentation thats why people have too much sickness.
imune sistem stay low and people catch everything its not there fault not having money to have a proper alimentation.
but after 50 yers of independance should already live much better no?
instead stiil are using all things that kamuzu did,and nobody want to put is legacy up and continue to grow.that country today could be huge and with qualified people in every sectors.

B
B
9 years ago
Reply to  me

What is Ndiwo?

mkanda
mkanda
9 years ago

How do you expect something different when nation’s success in measured in terms of bags of Maize harvested. Unless we move out of this, we will be beggars for another generation and a few to come

me
me
9 years ago

put those people out of the government but too fast. they dont care about the people they dont give a shit. out before they fuck everything.only thieves. they are going to robb everything and after go to other country. incomppetents.people are going to stay without medication,without food,water,stay sick this ask for serious measures people. do something before its too late. peter was under investigation facing jail and as a prize win election? you people are the only guilty of this situation because you already know the mutharika family and you go and vote for them? what you have in head… Read more »

Me too
Me too
9 years ago

Hunger must become history. We need another Moses, another Joshua. When God wants to save a people, he raises up one of their own. I grew up under conditions of extreme deprivation. Education emancipated me from poverty and hunger. The long term solution is to educate every child, and equip them with employable skills. We need good, even exportable, carpenters, good plumbers, good masons, good painters, good electricians, good mechanics, skilled metal fabricators that can make good agricultural equipment, etc. Secondly, we need to revolutionalise agriculture. We have been stuck here for too long. Change starts from within; and the… Read more »

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