Hold on: It was actually MCP which introduced quota system
The voting pattern in the just ended tripartite election has exposed how various regions and society groups assimilate and respond to campaign messages from politicians in Malawi. Of particular importance was how the northern region responded to campaign messages from the three major political parties – Malawi Congress Party (MCP), UTM and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) – particularly regarding the quota system of selecting students to the University of Malawi.
Almost all the political parties had something to say on the quota system. DPP had no clear policy pronouncement on the quota system while MCP and UTM which were agitating for the abolishment of the system.
However, in as much as MCP and UTM were singing from the same hymnbook, the message from MCP appeared mostly disjointed and incoherent. Saulos Chilima and his UTM on the other hand were more thunderous with the same message. The message from UTM was more succinct; well packaged because, apart from demonizing the quota system and christening it as satanic, the party somehow outlined what it would do as an alternatives for the system.
Looking at the fact that the quota system was and still is one of the key campaign issues in the northern region, it was the expectation of many stakeholders that UTM would make it big in the region as far as amassing votes was concerned. In fact, it was clear ahead of the polling date that Chilima and UTM were more popular and connecting with the people of the northern region than the other political parties in the country.
Some UTM officials were even heard boasting on a number of occasions that “the northern region is our base”. The reason was simple, it was Chilima who appeared to be more decisive and determined to deal and do away with an issue that continues to hold sway with the people of the northern region – the quota system.
However, as much as the UTM may have swept substantial votes in the region, it did not get as many votes as many people expected. It was actually MCP, which unexpectedly amassed a lot of votes in the region to the surprise of many people who are aware of the history of the party in this country, especially its relationship with the people of the northern region.
What many people do not know is that, contrary to the popular belief, it is MCP which introduced quota system in this country and not DPP.
DPP only upheld and sustained a system that was already there; a system authored by Hastings Kamuzu Banda and some MCP demigods of that time such as John Tembo in 1987.
On November 6, 1987, John Tembo, the then Chairman of the University Council announced the Quota System decision in his opening address at the congregation for presenting academic awards to successful university students at the Great Hall, Chancellor College.
According to Tembo, the quota system decision was arrived at “In a bid to grant equal opportunity for university students in all districts.”
Tembo, who was dictator Kamuzu Banda’s right hand man that time told a surprised audience that from 1987/88 academic year, government (MCP) had directed that admission be on the basis of “ten (10) guaranteed places for each district with the remaining places being distributed among the districts in proportion to their population density”.
This was a decision that effectively barred deserved people from acquiring university education, which also meant that lowering university education standards. The northern region, which has very small district population densities was the worst affected.
MCP should, therefore, have been the party to be crucified in the northern region in this election if only voters were more informed and well attuned to the history of this country. It was under MCP that many people from the northern region were visited with various atrocities some of which can take the whole day to document here.
Under the Kamuzu regime, so many sons of the northern region were summaraily fired from their jobs in the public and private sector for unimaginable reasons bordering on insubordination to Kamuzu; some were beaten and even killed for simply questioning decisions Kamuzu made.
Many sons and daughters of northern region were thrown in jail just for not being in good stead to neighbors who were friends of Kamuzu under the MCP system.
Sons of the northern region like Mkwapatila Mhango; Kanyama Chiume; Dunduzu Chisiza; Yatuta Chisiza; Orton Chirwa suffered immensely under Kamuzu for only showing some ‘brilliance’ in what they did and for second-guessing Kamuzu’s decisions.
Others like Dunduzu Chisiza and Orton Chirwa died mysterious deaths; under circumstances that were later revealed to be the handwork of the Special Branch, the notorious Police branch, which Kamuzu operated that time and used to carry out MCP’s dirty work such as eliminating political opponents. It was this branch, which was used to abduct Orton Chirwa from Zambia and to bring him back to Malawi where he was eventually killed in jail and also to bomb and kill Mkwapatila Mhango at his home.
It was in 1987, MCP ordered that all teachers from the northern region should be repatriated back to their homes in one of the saddest episodes in the history of this country that can best be described as sadistic. The teachers were unceremoniously hauled to the northern region without notice, and without any accommodation arrangements as long as they were repatriated to the northern region. Some were dumped at DC’s offices or even in classrooms allegedly for teaching the ‘nyau’ tradition to children when it is actually the Chewas – the tribe to which Kamuzu belonged – that are traditionally popular with the nyau practice.
MCP has always been doggy and this time it is also doggy with the notion that it has transformed. It is inconceivable how people of the northern region decided to sleep with the enemy in the just ended tripartite elections. History is, in fact, somehow beginning to repeat itself as the real MCP is beginning to show its ugly head.
The violence that the party has unleashed on Malawians in the aftermath of the polls is typical of the MCP of yester era.
People have seen how MCP leader Lazarus Chakwera – former church pastor – has ordered his supporters to beat, maim or even kill people from the southern region that are based in the central region because apparently they come from a region where their party is not so popular.
Many people are now beginning to wonder as to what could have become of this country if MCP had actually won the election. We are now witnessing how fellow Malawians are being victimized in the central region by MCP for simply supporting another party other than MCP. Is this a sneak-peak of what Malawians were going to experience under the MCP regime if they had made the mistake of voting for Chakwera and his outfit?
On the contrary, it is actually DPP, which should have been rewarded with the northern region vote because it is the only party, which has comprehensively developed the northern region more than any other political party in the history of this country.
It was under DPP that the song of Karonga Chitipa road – the song that the UDF government had sung for 10 years – actually happened. Under Peter Mutharika, the face of Mzuzu has completely been transformed with some visible infrastructural development such as dual – carriage ways and hotels; office complexes on top constructing the magnificent Mzuzu-Nkhata Bay Road.
The DPP government has also increased investment in water distribution systems in the northern region districts of Chitipa; Rumphi and Karonga, through the Northern Region Water Board, to allow access to piped water for large populations in the districts.
Apart from recording progress in the construction of Mombera University, which will be based in the northern district of Mzimba, university education has seen tremendous progress under DPP and President Peter Mutharika.
There has been an increase in bed space and intake; various constituent colleges under the university have been unbounded to allow for more autonomy and creativity so able to generate their own income through research. This approach will help neutralize the quota system because there will be more space to allow more students access university education.
UTM is a relatively new political organization and has never been in government. It is therefore not practical to judge it based on any government performance. For the DPP, it may just be a case of not adequately communicating its circumstances, particularly about what it has done for the northern region.
What is coming out clear, however, is that there has been large scale lapse of judgment on the part of the people from the northern region in this election, because MCP is a single political party in the history of this country, which has done a lot of damage to the northern region than anyone.
* Kajiso Emerson Mkandawire isa political expert and historian. He writes for Nyasa Times as a columnist
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Kajiso whether right or wrong asserts that the quota system was started by John Tembo. See not MCP. Everyone was a member of MCP. Was the author consulted on the quota system decision?
Ok to follow your logic, so let’s blame MCP, right? Obviously DPP is above reproach on marginalizing the North.
Can you answer why UDF, PP, and DPP have continued the horrible quota system started by John Tembo? Can you ask your colleagues in the DPP party or any party? What have you personally done about the quota system if you know it is hurting Northerners? By the way, John Tembo is having the last laugh. Blame MCP but no one in the DPP has balls to stop the quota system
I totally agree with the author in alot of facts he has said. Those who were at secodary schools that time we testified the situation. You had to be selected to the district yakwanu despite kuti you are learn far away from your home district of origin. Worse of all when it came kuti aliyense azikaphunzitsa kwawo. Panopa we can say that and i dont think those who experienced it can shout or kutukwana the author. However he could have differentiated with the current scenario. He has aligned much of his argument that Northerners should have supported DPP, yes some did thats y the party got 10 MPs from the region
The writer is leaving in the world of his own. I cannot support this shit
NO IF’S, NO BUT’S NO MAYBE’s!!
1 minus 1 = 0, Having being in Govt for 31yrs, MCP will soon complete 30years of being an Opposition Party (Main Opposition for that matter), so 31 minus 30 = 1. Forget that 1 year which should actually be spread over the commissioned mandatory 60 day campaign period for every General Election. This means both MCP and UTM (should it survive) will in 2024, both be ‘the parties that have never been in Govt before!! Then we shall see.
Looking at the writer’s patten, it’s easy to deduce that he’s the one who wrote almost all of Rev Kaliya’s speeches (also prepared Kaliya for that Zodiak Interview) and of cause Mbakuwaku’s constitution- very DARO!!(excuse me, am trying to communicate with him here)!!
1. The Mzuzu dual carriage way (one of the first of such kind in Malawi’s cities was CONSTRUCTED by MCP government.
2. The Mzuzu-Nkhatabay Road (by the way this Road has a name and not his nickname Mr. Mystorian) was CONSTRUCTED by the MCP Government.
Both 1 & 2 above were only Repaired/ upgraded and Rehabilitated during APM’s tenure of office-NOTE: the Benefactor of project 2 above funded and monitored the project independent of Malawi Govt and funds remaining from that project were used to rehabilitate Project 1 above(Change chomwe sichikanaoneka Boma likanayang’anira ntchito imeneyi)!!
Mr ‘Mystorian lembani ina Binkhi Watero!!!
Kajiso is just a DPP cadet musquerading as a historian. MCP has been in opposition for over 25 years and you can’t blame it for whatever is happening now nder DPP leadership.
Uselessness
A Kajiso khalani waka chete mulije chakuyowoya. The new Malawi that some of us are championing is that we should focus on the future, we don’t want to start making decision based on the past whose people who did this, said that, most of which dead now and who still hang on are very very old to put up meaningful contribution. We want to build our own history that people can identify us with not mose tinayambira MCP did this and that none of these sentiments have helped us grow economically, they just promote hatred among Malawians. Ndichitsiru chokha chimene chimaganiza kuti dziko litha kutukuka polimbikitsa chidani pakati pa a Malawi. (It is only a fool who thinks economic development of a country can be achieved by enhancing hate among Malawian population).
Malawians please wait a minute!!. We cannot progress as a country by living in the distant past. Blaming MCP is the same as blaming Welesky and others who ruled during the colonial era. MCP ruled for 30 years. And we are almost 30 years in the post-MCP one party regime. Things have changed. My question is what have we done with the recent 30 Years. What have we really changed? Nothing. Now we are saying that bring back the MCP and prove it wrong under the watch of multiparty systems of Government. Let me tell you. Things will be super! MCP will bring Malawi back on course. osati zinazi…
This is new mcp not Kamuzu/tembo’s mcp. New mcp, new policies. You seem to be so biased against mcp but north people know best and they voted for mcp. To me they seem to be more educated or learned than you.
This is 2019 not 1970s or 80s or 90s.
To the Author- This is a sad piece of literature. If you even read the Republic of Malawi Constitution you will see there’s a lot of legislation that was archaic of which some has been repealed and some acts amended to meet Malawi’s current post democratic Malawi. Very pathetic way of reasoning if i may.
Does nyasatimes allow articles from cadets?
I will never forgive MCP for all the atrocities it committed on my family ……it hurts soooooo bed!!!!!!
My family also suffered under Kamuzu mcp but I fully support the current mcp. The only party at the moment which seem more genuine. Dpp, udf, pp governments has bankrupted the country through thieving and blatant corruption. We are now socially and economically more backwards then in Kamuzu days. We have economically retrogressed.
Nothing but the truth!!!!, MCP would be the worst party to rule again
Just as your name indicates; you are really a shame.
Its not about a party names, but headless leadership that Malawians hate or love. The Muthalikas ndiwotembereredwa if you don’t know Mbuzi inu. Chitsilu chimanena zinthu za utsilu. talking about things that happened 30 years ago zithandiza chiani? MCP stopped ruling this country long time ago, and all those who were MCP leaders are no longer there. Idiots, let’s focus on the current or immediate past and not history. Mmene DPP imapha anthu 21 ku Mzuzu inali MCP???? was it not during democratic Malawi??. Mkandawire Nyoko ngwankhu?? Mwana wa muuhule kwali? stop the nonsenses. Northern region is the most democratic in Malawi if you look at the past elections. They give votes to anyone no more wa kwithu as is the case with central and southern region
IF WE ALL AGREE THAT QUPTA WAS BAD, WHY CANT WE ABOLISH QUOTA? HOW MANY PLOCIES HAVE YOU ABOLISHED WHICH WERE BEING CHAMPIONED BY MCP? AND WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH THIS QUOTA SYSTEM?
Kajiso Emerson Mkandawire, you call yourself Historian and Political experts and you write for Nyasatimes. This is your second article for Nyasatimes in this month of June. And Google search doesn’t have much about your achievments. You just want to make a name for your self.
Attack the message not the messenger please,… put substance to your arguments against what the author has said.
Signs are there that fisi ndi fisi MCP did this and will continue .Kuchotsedwa kea aphunzitsi from southern kutibsliyense abwerere kwao.Trust me chewas dont give a shit this nation if you gv it back to the chewas muzalira
The people in the northern region seem to have problems with presidents from the Southern Region. There are clear signs that they would rather sympathise with MCP than any party from the South. They shown their hatred for Bakili Muluzi, then to Bingu and now to Peter. This is a fact and cannot be disputed. Very few individuals stand out to support the South account of their eagerness to develop the north. Even the Chitipa- Karonga Road was started by Bakili Muluzi by starting with the two most important Bridges and the 13 km between the bridges, but he got the least votes but the highest criticism from the northerners. Mmmmm the north needs prayers to understand that the country needs unity.
Don’t talk of one party state, we are in a new system, multi party. Everyone was in MCP then,eg some cabinet ministers in DDP .Don’t correct the wrong with the wrong. MCP is a changed party and with new people with new visions
Chakwera is the worst president Malawi can ever Have.MCP will never change as long as sanapepetse what they did in the past they will remain the same.
iwe ndiye ndi wabodza kuposa satana.
Kamuzu while residing at Mudi House did issue an apology for all the atrocities that his men committed in his name and that of his government during the one party era. Check any issue of the Daily Times published in July, 1995. The apology is there, Surprisingly, some that took part in those atrocities are still living. One of them had a feel of the presidency. No need to mention names here …
It is amazing that there are certain individuals who really utilize their senses profitably, one of them being the originator of this write-up. Unfortunately people in the northern region were sold a dummy by the very same people they massively voted for. It is said, “The proof of the pudding is in the eating”. Before long, MCP has glared its ugly, murderous and criminal face in the public domain for everyone to make conclusions.
If you follow their arguments you begin to wonder if the party’s followers have functioning brains. Their arguments is baseless. How can sensible people continue with their useless ‘Atibera’ accusations since the multi-party dispensation was introduced? If at all it was true why didn’t they put up measures to stop the cheating instead of being childish, bad losers? The other most surprising thing is that the party is led by a pastor who is supposed to carry himself around in a dignified way and possibly think rationally like a man of God. But he has the audacity to go around lying about vote rigging? He instigates social unrest/anti-social behaviour by preaching bloodshed and telling his followers to destabilise everybody’s peace. Demonstrating peacefully does not entail vandalism and not abiding by the law.
The bottom line is that people voted blindly. From the acts Bwana Chakwera has portrayed to the innocent Malawians, it will require a good leader to be able to convince people to support MCP again whose image and reputation has further been tainted and dismantled by aBusa’s own making. Whatever was amended in the past 25 years has been fruitless and basically thrown to the dogs.
You liar! Chakwera is and has been preaching peace. Take your time, DPP is going. Take it or leave it.
Jason Bailer, read law books on electoral malpractices or fraud and you will understand how an electoral voting process is tampered with. Most of these malpractices are prevalent in manual voting systems. The “Atibela” accusation is not strange in the face of tippex being used to change figures of votes cast.
Munakhoza za MCP zija, Mukananena kuti UDF inathesa quota system, ndipo DPP inabwedzeranso.
Mr Kajiso, thanks for the history but it has been long enough since MCP got out of power. I can also remind you that MCP leadership has changed over time and, thetefore, the party can propose and implement new policies or repeal old ones in the current multiparty system of government. Therefore, it is convincing to say that the current quota system has been perpetuated and perfected by DPP. It is a DPP policy otherwise they would have repealed it. Shame on DPP for discriminating against brilliant malawians and helping mediocrity to reign in public universities.
Za ziiiii you think your tippex party will participate in the re run?they just committed a criminal offense in case you don’t know.campaign inatha we all know who should lead us musavutike and your article is divisive, ethnic and insensitive.kubela ndi mlandu don’t make us keep unnecessary hatred against a name of a party.
This is the truth. A well written historical piece. But, no comments. Chilungamo kuwawa.
25 years after MCP rule and yet you can’t reverse the quota system policy something wrong some where does it have to take 50 years to reverse the quota system, Rwanda had a genocide 26 years ago check the way they reversed the situation and now they are a shining example of Africa.
Mr Kajiso revisit your article it’s too academic and lacks substance .
i think you should be tackling quota system on national level not as an issue for a particular region
Iam from the south . I saw it. This is true. I was seoersted from my good friends from the north.
I don’t understand why northerners support this bloody thirsty party
Mcp never loved the northern region,,, i wonder why we voted for it in the just ended election,,this bloody party should rot in opposition
ZAUTSIRU BASI DPP DPP CHIANI ZAZIIIIII
the writer nearly convinced me and others who were reading the article, later we discovered that the writer does not know much. Assemble your cannons properly. It was 10 compulsory and the rest on merit. All those with good points went to college from the north, today even those of 10 points cannot go to university. DPP has brought education genocide for the north. There was no Tumbuka, Ngoni, Chewa, Yao, Sena, etc. during Kamuzu’s reign. We were all Malawians. If this stupidity continues, we are heading for a breakup. Yatuta and Mwahimba (MTSRIEP) saw this decades back and tried to liberate the north. Anyway, Kamuzu and his deeds is history now. We are talking of now, every generation has had its challenges, especially during the cold war. Now what are we doing? If anything, by now we should not be talking of quarter system.
mwasowa nkhani inu eti?
My take is two wrongs don’t make a right. The MCP that introduced the quota system was the old one during the one party state. The cry by northerners and other stakeholders for abolishing the quota system started immediately after it was introduced. After assuming power during the multiparty democracy dispensation, UDF and DPP sustained the system instead of abolishing it. As for the number of votes, I believe the quota issue was just one of the many factors that led people to vote for a particular party.
Kodi mukuti chani inu? The MCP that you’re talking about was a collective most of whose brutal members have since left and joined the other parties that you wish to exonerate here E.g. Dausi (burning poll warehouses); Ntaba (albino case) etc. You must think Malawians are stupid to try to convince them that a party is still the same as it was 30 years ago just because it’s still known by the same 3 letters even though its membership has changed
Quota was out lawed soon after the multiparty democracy but DPP reintroduced it and clearly indicated it was targeting the North. Now its even everywhere be it in the civil service.
A KAJISO MKANDAWIRE MWALEMBA ZOONA PANG’ONO KOMANSO MWABISA ZAMBIRI ZOONA.FUNSO NDILAKUTI CHIFUKWA CHANI? NDINU A DPP KAPENA? ZOONA NDI IZI; COURT RULING OF 1993 THEREABOUT WAS THAT THE QUOTA SYSTEM BE ABOLISHED ON THE GROUNDS THAT IT WAS UNFAIR,EVIL AND DISCRIMINATORY. THE SYSTEM WAS THEREFORE ABOLISHED TOWARDS THE END OF MCP ERA.BAKILI MULUZI AND UDF NEVER PRACTICED QUOTA SYSTEM THROUGHOUT THE 10 YEARS ERA BECAUSE OF THAT COURT RULING.THE DRUNKARD, MOST UNGRATEFUL AND ECCENTRIC LATE BINGU MUTHALIKA NEVER PRACTICED QUOTA SYSTEM DURING HIS FAMOUS 1ST TERM. WHEN LATE BINGU WON THE PRESIDENCY WITH 66% NATIONWIDE AND 98% IN NORTHERN REGION SUPPORTED BY THE HARRY MKANDAWIRES, WYSON MKOCHI, HE SURPRISINGLY RE INTRODUCED THE QUOTA SYSTM IN 2011. HIS DEFENSE FOR THE REINTRODUCTION OF THE SYSTEM WHICH IS THE SOURCE OF HATRED BETWEEN DPP WILL NOT HELP THIS DEBATE.LATE BINGU DEFENDED THE SYSTEM IN A DRUNKARD AND NEPOSTIC WAY AND THAT EXPLAINS THE BAD RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DPP AND LIVINGSTONIA SYNOLD.NORTHERNERS SUFFERRED DURING MCP BUT AT THE SAME TIME WERE OFFERRED SOME MOST SENIOR POSITIONS IN GOVERNMENT WHICH IS NOT THE CASE RIGHT NOW. LATE ALICK NYASULU WAS 1ST BLACK SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT, LATE CHIMWEMWE HARA WAS ONCE GOVERNOR OF RBM,SO MANY NORTHERNERS ONCE HELD KEY POSITIONS OF HEADS OF ARMY,POLICE, GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES, DEPARTMENTS AND STAUTORY COOPERATIONS.AS A MATTER OF FACT IF YOU HEARD LATE BINGU SPEECH OF NOV 2011, HE LITERALLY SAID HE WANTED TO REVERSE NORTHERN REGION DOMINANCE.THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING IN MALAWI OF TODAY.
Foseck remember in those days every Malawian was MCP member. When multiparty came came in things had to change but unfortunately with the Shit Apm and DPP government. Loved the Quota system. To hell with Mlopwana DPP
Yes indeed MCP started the system but it was so well managed that it never leftout the best of the nation in favour of poor student just because of the district they came from. For example at primary level the selection was in 3 catigories. The first was the cream of the nation . In this group there was no quota system. They all went to boarding schools scattered around the country. The second category was where the quota system applied and to insure that everyone deserving pupil had a chance the government built secondary schools in every district. In cities government built rural secondary schools and urban secondary schools. Example in the second tier all urban school in Lilongwe competed for places at Bwaila school and rural schools competed for places at Mitundu school. Those who missed out despite qualifying were encouraged to do correspondence at correspondence centres all over the country. The same system applied in the post secondary education. Each district was allocated a number of spaces based population of the district . First the best of the nation based on GCE results were given first chance regardless and most of these were the ones given scholarships. What is sad in the present system is that you find a student with 9 points in Rumphu at home while another one with 32 points in Mulanje or Ntchisi going to Chancellor college. How pathetic… It’s not only unfair to student but also to the nation. Ofcourse you wouldn’t know this because your source of information is also pathetic.
You are living in the past, people who want to deal away with this system are the one who are living with this system now not 30 years ago. That is why Malawi voted for change in 1993 so that things which oppressed them then should not be part of new political dispensation. So what wherever history you want to remind us, people many people in Malawi about 1.7 million voted for MCP and most of them they know these “facts” you want to lecture to us.
Just say that you are campaigning for DPP bwana but do not demonise others. Simple.
The problem with some elderly historians is sometimes they want to live in the past and it becomes a bigger problem when they want to drag everyone else there! Mr Kajiso you have the right to your opinion but Northerners of our generation would rather vote against the party that is implementing the Quota system than the so called “author” of the Quota system. The New MCP of Lazarus Chakwera cannot be compared with the MCP of your youth…that of Tembo, Dausi, Henry Mussa, Bakili Muluzi. Chakwera is against Quota system and to all of us his supporters ..its crystal clear! He has said it several times. Without Tippex….MCP would not have lost by 150,000 votes….this is the trending news not your Quota system vibe, old man!!!
While this analysis is correct I doubt if this type of thinking is progressive. I don’t think it is right to say that those people in the north who voted for MCP betrayed the region. I support the abolition of quota system because I feel it’s high time we start thinking beyond the regions and districts. This Malawi is whole we should start thinking about it as one.
What is your point here
its sad that this article was published here with accusations without any proof. he is clearly biased, his reasoning put his political analyst status questionable. he should know being the ones who started does not mean you should be fighting for it. The MCP voted for one party system does it mean they should not fight for multiparty democratic principals? policies should be looked into after being made monitored and changed if need be. thinking that the North mostly considered the quota system is lazy thinking we also considered who actually had a chance of winning considering it wasn’t just the north voting. anyway you are the learned person in this political thing but please next time you bring accusation of murder bring evidence and better still report to the police. no one is above the law. osamangoipisilana mbili apa. Dr. SKC stand for a new way of doing politics and i like this aboout him but some of his supporters like you are still in the past. its very sad.
I totally prefer UTM to lead Malawi than these two other alternatives.
UTM under Chilima can develop Malawi much better than these two devils, I mean MCP and DPP these are all devil’s.
Let’s change our mind set and give Chilima a chance to rule Malawi.
Trash, simply trash. I am a northerner. The writer here is not writing what “it is” but what he conjures in his head. What happened during the time of Kamuzu is now in the past. The evils that are being unleashed on the commons now is not MCP. Actually, to an honest person, the country is worse than in the MCP era. May be people don’t value issues of health and education. Our health system is so bad because of greed of current crop of politicians. More people are dying of curable diseases because authorities are busy stealing government money other than equipping hospitals.
Come on, the old MCP is way gone. Don’t live in the past journo. Analyses the present.
I have listened to Chakwera’s messages post election. No where has he said what this journo is saying.
Don’t insult us northerners, please. We know what we voted for.
This article is the correct version that I know. It is really surprising that the Northern region people can rally behind MCP; perhaps obviously because of short sightedness or lack of knowledge. Think twice. Kajiso well done!
Have lived in Kasungu as a kid….Zizukulu za Kamuzu would come to Our Home so that my Cousin ,now PHD should teach them Math,am talking about the Mzaza ,Chaloledwa …..kids.And the Ngwazi had Northern roots too…There is a Story about how the Chirwas Refused to be Moved when the Kasungu to Kamuzu academy- Chiwengo Road was being Constructed …All the Chewas moved but not this Northern Family …When the Dictator was Told …Well he said…Just Divert the Road…Heard so many Stories about Kamuzu as a kid …he was just an Ordinary Man …Who Tried hard to be the Lion you Created…Or how the Chiefs Confronted him to Release Mr Kazombo…Tell the People ku Mbalachanda how Bad Kamuzu was…they will tell you Buses used to come here…the Road was well Maintained…. If Kamuzu was Alive he Could have Tarmarked this Road…People in the North still love and Remember their Kamuzu…
MY FRIEND THIS ACHANGED MCP DIFFERENT FROM WAHT YU SAID, IF YU CAN RECALL CHAKWERA SAID IT STRONGLY IN MANY RALLIES THAT HE IS GOING TO ABOLISH STUPID SYSTEM, CHAKWERA IS AMAN OF HIS WORDS AND IS AGOD FEARING MAN
The author of this write-up is trying to insinuate that the issue of Quota System was the top reason pple in the were voting on.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t.
This article is clearly written by someone who has interest in DPP and does not have the interest of the country at heart. Truth be told that DPP is not good for our country. We only have Malawi as our country and if we do not fix things now, it might be too late. No amount of arm twisting or crooked talking will change our minds. DPP is a bunch of thieves and Malawians know that.
The So Called Historian and Analyst Does not Want to Explain Why the DPP Re Introduced the Evil Quota System after it was Abolished by Bakili Muluzi.My Uncle worked in Govt …for 36 yrs and we moved a lot almost 10 districts…Most of his Bosses were People from the North..
…Does not Explain that his Darling DPPs Bingu …Accused Northeners of Cheating Remember Mzuzu Corner Remarks… His APM thinks that Chimunthu Banda is a Northener….Northerners are Very Smart People and Can Never be Manipulated by Your Cheap Propaganda…Mr Opportunist.Maybe you are not Even a Northerner How can you Forget 20 People killed in Mzuzu…
One of the sober minded northerners I have come across in Kajiso Emerson Mkandawire. The other one I have come across is Dr. Matthews Mtumbuka, an intelligent young man who looks at issues from a professional and objective perspective. Great analysis!
If it was MCP who introduced the quota system does that mean you should continue also with the same satanic system you have nothing to say here. But one day all these nonsense will come to an end