North Malawi protest against ‘education genocide’, demand abolition of quota system
Northern Region was on standstill on Thursday as people went to the streets to hold demonstrations against the quota system of selecting learners to public schools and they have demanded the government to abolish the system.



The anti-Quota protesters feel the system was put in place to oppress people in the North and some are sayin it is “education genocide”.
Coordinator of the movement Charles Kajoloweka, who is also executive director of Youth and Society (YAS), said they resolved to hold protests across the region because they feel some students in the Northern Region are being denied their constitutional right to education.
He told crowd of protesters in Mzuzu City thar government should abolish the quota system which they feel has also been applied in this year’s secondary school selection.
Kajoloweka said people in the region are not happy that a number of learners from the Northern Region have been denied places in national secondary schools.
“We demand that government should abolish the quota system. We are also challenging the Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education (PSLCE) results that government should re-do the selection,” he said.
Dan Msowoya one of the organisers warned that if government will not abolish the quota system and nullify the secondary school selection, learners selected to secondary schools this year will not be allowed to access the schools.
He saidno student in the Northern Region has been selected to any Southern and Central region secondary school, while many students from the two regions have been given places in Northern Region secondary schools.
The peaceful protests by Quota Must Fall Movement with support from the Church of Central Africa Presbytery (CCAP) were held mostly in Mzuzu City and Karonga District.
Rumphi people have arranged to stage the protests on Friday because Thursday was their market day.
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Principal Secretary Justin Saidi is on record as having said the equity-based quota system is the best system for selecting students into public schools, as opposed to the merit system which CSOs want.
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It is not the first time that the Tumbukas are doing very well in schools.During the colonial era,theTumbukas were leading in schools to the fact that,white collar jobs were taken by the Tumbukas while people from the Central and Southern made their trips to Zambia (Northern Rhodesia) to work under ground,some went to Southern Rhodesia(Zimbabwe) some few Northerners went there too but,in small numbers.It is unbelievable for the Malawian government to isolate some people because of talents in colleges and schools.It is only GOD THE ALMIGHTY could stop the Northerners for their intellectual capacity.Back in the South and Central Malawi,especially the MBEWA EATING LOMWE,could hardly go to school this also retarded people from the Central Region with their NYAO dance.The CHIKAMWINI business also plays distrative role in education capabilities.So,the triumphs of the Northern people to higher offices comes from hard work.Just imagine,the first Cabinet Ministers 5 came from the North and 3, came from the South and Central why,NYAU and RATS. ALUTA CONTNUA
Praise the Lord that am seeing this while am still alive, in 1990 and 2000s we have been discriminated against ku nkhani ya education and employment by northerners. Just look at admin of Mzuzu university and alumni of the university from 2003 to 2010 pure discrimination against central and southern regions, u guys u should have taste of your own medicine. i am a chewa by tribe and because of that i was told in the face that i couldnt occupy a certain off campus house in Luwinga when I was selected to study at Mzuni because ndine mchewa in 2006. whether the PS quota selection is by design then i will vote for DPP into power in 2024.
Malawians we are creating a very bad Precedent or we have already created it,
We have instilled in our Children that to pass an exam or to do well you must be born in a certain Region. This is not true, it will take time for certain groups of people to come to terms that intelligence comes from hardwork and from GOD and because of that we are using Politicians to Manipulate us into hating one another. I will not and will never support the quarter system and when it is Politicised then we are creating a hatred that at a certain point we will fail to harmonise it. When other regions in Malawi dont do well in Exams in certain years there are no problems and it is taken as students from those regions as being dull and not hardworkers. One thing we must know this is a digital age and what ever used to happen in the 60s, 70s and 80s is different from what is happening now.
Lets just accept that those who did not do well in the exams must just accept go back to School and work hard, MANEB is not a political party, there is a provision to query if one feels his paper was not properly asessed rather than Generalising that the North is being Marginalised. I feel MANEB must open up with the results and put up to shame those who are Politicising the Examinations issue, Malawians need to instill a hardworking spirit in our Children rather than depend that if you are from the what ever Region then its automatic that one should do well.
Abwana ndiwe mbuzi tonde
Chopanda nzeru
CRY MY BELOVED COUNTRY WE HAVE PRINCIPLE SECRETARIES WHO THINK LIKE NURSERY SCHOOL TODDLERS !!
I do not support bias and quota syatem. But this year, Northerners did not perform well. The best way is to work hard and not to go to the streets. Loyala Secondary School in Kasungu has performed well. This school is not in the north or in the south. Thumbs up to central region for the best school and the south for producing the best student. As for northerners, please work hard next year.
National CEO, do you know that we were told just to mark the exams and not indicate the marks? Find out from the teachers who mark the exams. Do the research then argue later.
I think he crazy ps ,who cant be trusted with respobility.he answer like crech child.
KODI ATUMBUKA SIMUKUDZIWA KUTI QUOTA ADABWERETSA NDI KAMUZU? bY THE WAY, YOU WANT EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND OTHER AMMENITIES BUT NOT EDUCATION?
THATS WHY JON TEMBO ADANGOKUTIBULANI NDI KWANUMKWANU 1989. MWAIWALA?
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APA ndakumbuka nthawi IJA wakumpoto ndi wakumwera nthawi yoipa ngati ya chipani chimodzi cha MCP yafikanso muulamulilo wa DPP
We need merit selection of students to public schools and not this hypocrisy of Llomwelization of education system .
I support the Northerners for staging this Demo against Quota system. Why sending Llomwes to Northern Region and not Tumbukas to Southern Region??? Sankhu mwayamba nokha a Llomwes so the way
I know the Tumbukadzi will indeed chase all the students from Southern region in retaliation for this evil quota system and this will be the beginning of the breakaway northern region from Malawi. Don’t underrate this threat of Dan Msowoya and Kajoloweka is with the blessing of people from the North due to long time marginalised system .
Expect this to happen once no action is taken by the government. Division will start from schools and no parents from that region of the North will entertain their Children to be subjected to quota system. Find solutions now b4 it’s too late. This is the beginning of more trouble to come from that particular region if not taken care of .
Nzelu ana anuo alibe basi vomelezani. muphulika simunati.
You are not Kamanga at all you are from somewhere where education it’s so difficult to attain.
Yeah where currently people r not complaining
DPP is evil
Umburi basi munayiona DPP ikuchonga mayeso ,wolephera ndi wolephera palibeso kukokerana kubwereza basi.
Mbuli ndiweyo suziwa chomwe ukunena.
Mburi is the one who does not the ruling party is the one behind this divisive policy.
Kajoloweka and Dan Msowoya: Atumbuka opusa inu. Stop these hinya wakwithu demos. Stop fooling yourselves that Malawians of other regions wambura mahara. The regional divisions are superficial and not DNA related. Get this in your thick thengere heads you idiots.
So you believe that no student from the north deserved a palace at a school in central and southern region? This is a systematic way of killing education in the north. The best way to end all this is to secede from this country dominated by cowards akamwini.
Agreed. Pitani Kwan ku tumbukaland republic of thengere, Nyika.
Abwana, mwapenyatu tsopano. Southerners were busy ndi kugulitsa malonda pamodzi ndi a Yao. Centrals were busy kulima ndi nyawu. Northerners were busy with school and akaphunzira amadzakulamulirani mbuli inu kwanu konko. Atumbukawo sumuwathatu. Akusintha mayina. Panopa atopa ndi kusintha mayina a ma parts a njina, they want their real beautiful names they are proud of.
Agalu inu, nde Quota muzipanga ndi ku ma team ampila; mukuwopa chani, kuluza?
kodi amazitenga ngati anzeru bwanji pamene sali choncho apatu zaonekera kuti kukonderana mumachita kuja chakachino kunavuta mpata wachinyengo chawakwithu apa sichinapezeke vomerezani kuti aliyense amabadwa ndi nzeru basi. atumbuka omwe ali kummwera kuno kodi akutaniko? why do you want to bring division nanu a ccap kodi mumakondwera anthu akamakangana eti? chitani manyazi mutumikire mulungu mwachikondi chaonse
Alegria you are foolish. Do research and comment with substance. Ana Aku North amene adalemba standard 8 adakhoza bwino. You will find mwana wokhoza ma A in all subjects wakhozela ku Day Community, while akutenga mwana amene alindi B from Zomba akumuyika pa Chaminade because they want equity not merit. Upon realising that their stupidity has been discovered, they told the MSCE markers not to indicate the marks, nati angochonga, why? Do the research and bring the argument. I am a secondary school teacher and mark the exams. Does Quota System not bring division pumbwa iwe?
What don’t you understand about giving all people equal opportunities? Cambridge and Oxford universities in the UK are now admitting more black students (with lower GCSE grades) compared to white people. Vuto lanu ndi chiyani?
But not at the expense of the other. I dont think they have increased the intake of black students with lower grades by reducing the intake of whites with higher grades.
And who told you they have? reality has now taken over vomelezani all this time mmangokondelana kumaoneka ngati ndinu anzeru koma chonsecho ayi. Panopa ku manebo kulibe Kamanga, Nsowoya, thindwa muvutika simunati.
Meaning in this case Northers can be equated to Whites and the rest to blacks?
hahaaha tafunsenidi?
Anyapapiwa koma zikakhala zina ndiye umva tifanane. mmene amakonderana muja nkumanamiza dziko kuti ndi a nzeru lero aona Phalombe ikuwatimba ayamba kubangula? chitukuko ndiye umva tikufuna equitable distribution, education ndiye amvejkere quota system? Dont they know that the genesis of this equitable palcement of students to universities was done during MCP era?
Nyapapi ndi wokalima fodya ku mpoto chifukwa adakanika Sukulu. Lero mwapenya kuti ma Northerners akutumiza ma graduates ku South and central pamene inu mumatumiza ma tenanti ku North, nde mwati muchepetse chiwelengero chamatenanti; muli bo 👍 🇲🇼
Ya! ulije mfundo. Why openya inu the nganyas mukuthawa ku thengere kwanu mtchiremo nkumakamanga nyumba mMachinjirimu? Nzeru ndi kepenya kuli pati pamenepa? Lero Absalom ndi Lazalo akunamizani nkumaotcha nkumagumula zochepa zomwe DPP yakumangirani. Munaona ku Bt anthu akuotcha, kuphwanya ndikuononga that beautiful city mma demo mtumbuka wa ku Burundi uja amasogolera?
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