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Tiyeseni Phiri
Tiyeseni Phiri
5 years ago

Strictly speaking, it is good to dream big! A dream is what it is, a dream. But if a dream is spoken in terms of reality and then use that imagined reality as a tool with which to hoodwink unsuspecting people (voters) to believe that it is reality itself is probably what is disturbing most rational thinkers. How I wish we could have underground trains in Blantyre and Lilongwe by the end of this year. How I wish we could have our own Silcon Valley in five years time. How I wish Malawi could join the space race by the… Read more »

kaguta
kaguta
5 years ago

Is this article based on a bachelor’s degree thesis in philosophy or what? Chilima is talking about creating factories everywhere he goes ! Bingu was the first to be making these claims and we know why he could not do it even in eight years . Surely in making these claims, Chilima is not using knowledge of economics but may be the lesdership course at MIM.

Matter of fact, to begin to suggest this is the exact definition of upumbwa and you want people to applauding munthu akutipaka bibi?

Wiseman
Wiseman
5 years ago

Magetsi ake ati, ma compani ake ati to unable you to create 1m jobs in a year? We need to invest in power sector kuti ma company abwere kuzayamba ntchito zawo kuno, and za power supply ndi zomwe anayamba kale awa alipowa. Muzinamizana nokhanokha. And tisamangodalira kulembedwa nchito that is why kwabwera pa community technical colleges

Kanyimbi
Kanyimbi
5 years ago

Our biggest problem of Mavawi govt thru our President dont put resourses to fund innovators but turn & arrest them if at all they creat their local radio station. This Mzuzu poly graduate who is building his car no govt official let alone our APM has said any word nor think of funding him very shameful & if SKC says a million jobs these are one opportunities Malawi is waisting.

#DzukaniAmalawi
#DzukaniAmalawi
5 years ago

We must never let our limitations to thinking beyond our own vision to throw stones at those who have dreams and visions beyond our own imagination. People that created USA, “discovered” Africa or even invented the aeroplane were all laughed at by people like the “mbuyas and the gladsons”. As Alex Nkosi eloquently puts it, Malawians just lack the gift of vision and dreaming hence our inability to self-propel to achieve greater things; given the fact we can’t mobilise our energies to achieve something we are unable to imagine or visualise. I suggest both both mbuya and class in should… Read more »

mbuya
mbuya
5 years ago

Being realistic is not having an upumbwa attitude. Clapping hands to blatant lies like creating 1 million jobs in a year and kuthetsa quota through ODL is on the other hand, the true upumbwa attitude.

Gadson
Gadson
5 years ago
Reply to  mbuya

I agree with you Mbuya. I want my country men and women to strive for great things but seriously I am not going to go on a podium and lie that by next year malawi will have 1 million jobs and that our malawian scientists will , by 28 August 2019, make their first space trip to Andromeda. We’ve gone from lacking ambition to just downright crazzy in one leap.

Gwemula
Gwemula
5 years ago
Reply to  Gadson

Gadson can you hear yourself kuti your coment is not what mbuya’s analysis is all about if you don’t understand what mbuya has said just keep quiet you are the same negative people who sing the same song as aPumbwa are singing it can’t it can’t with the right mindset and zeal of everyone to make things happen in our Nyasaland the dream of 1million jobs in a year can be achieved!! For instance how many teachers nurses and doctors have been employed since 2015 by aPumbwa government?? Chilima’s well crafted reform program was frustrated by the same aPumbwa simply… Read more »

Patak
Patak
5 years ago
Reply to  Gwemula

Zoona mbale. Someone once told me that Malawians are one of the laziest people he has ever worked with. Malawians should start believing in themselves and embrace a culture of curiosity and enterprise. A country needs dreamers no matter how ludicrous those dreams might seem to the observer. Everything that we see around is a result of someone dreaming about satisfying a perceived need. The reality can only be realised by getting to work at the details of that perceived need until solutions are found. We need to change this mindset of just importing ideas. We have to start developing… Read more »

master
master
5 years ago
Reply to  Gadson

Gadson,
Another Pumbwa said he will turn Malawi intoeurope once reelected next yr , but u have never dared to comment on such mediocrity, i see some Blue colours in you based on lomwe DNA

Jigidi Jaba
Jigidi Jaba
5 years ago
Reply to  Gadson

Unfortunately it is the same apumbwa mindset that is making the two of you think like that. Birds of the same feather. Apumbwa!!! Kikiki! Mumdziwe Yesu ndithu.

Mangochi Kabwafu
Mangochi Kabwafu
5 years ago
Reply to  mbuya

Iwe mbuya, ndiwenso wopusa ngati ambuye ako. It’s very possible to create those jobs in Malawi. Infact, one can create even more than a million. Kuganiza kobwerera mbuyo ngati azimbuye anu omwewo is the reason that Malawi is the way it is.

Johane
Johane
5 years ago
Reply to  mbuya

The pro-Chilima acolytes will be upset with your post but its true. Promising things for which you do not have a coherent plan on how to achieve is an age-old politician’s trick. Evidently the trick still works on Malawians.

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