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wiza
8 years ago

The problem we have is self denial/not knowing what we want and selfishness. The me in me is us in me. Whoever conditioned us to call each other a ‘sir’ is the problem. The president would very much want to be addressed as a ‘sir’ and goes down the line. If Malawians had learned ownership of what their friends have started we would have been 30 years ahead of what we are now. Cry my beloved Nyasaland. Politiking nthawi zonse. This is not the time to comment on campaign events. Cow for a family a very important project for the… Read more »

Charombanthu
Charombanthu
8 years ago

I entirely agree with you Steve and I doubt if Chikopa (No.6) has read the entire article. The problem that our leaders have is that they want to erase everything that their predecessors started or hatched – there is no continuity. It all started with Muluzi who wanted to get rid of everything that Kamuzu had put in place or dreamed to put in place. I am not DPP, MCP and surely I am not PP but I am Malawian. Bingu never put in place an NCD or the HLDC (or did he?); but one can clearly and easily point… Read more »

Nkhwatakwata
Nkhwatakwata
8 years ago

When we say we are poorer today than 51 years ago, do we use the same criteria? Certainly not, I think Malawi has progressed relative to its neighbours by the mere fact that we have witnessed Zambians, Tanzanians, West Africans and in the last years Zimbabweans as economic asylum seekers, but the fact is we could have done better if we had maintained Kamuzu’s economic pace!

M'Malawi Weniweni
M'Malawi Weniweni
8 years ago

I am surprised that many Malawians (me excluded) think a National Development committee should legally bind a government about development agenda. Then what will differentiate political party agendas in election if each party will be bound by NDC’s agenda. We can as well have a one party in that case.

MALOPA Jnr
MALOPA Jnr
8 years ago

Number one bootlicker in the country is Goodall Gondwe. Nsetete za munthu. Kwathu ku NU but no tangible development to point. The only development which is in Ntcheu is as a result of M1 passing thru the Ntcheu Trading Centre. Mazoba a anthu include ntcheu people who just vote without reason. Demeti

Chikopa
Chikopa
8 years ago

Mr. Nhlane, I want to remind you that success only comes when you put an idea into a physical/tangible form. The previous regime talked about TORs or whatever you may call them. BUT did they put them on the ground? This new Kahuna is dreaming of making the plans a reality. What is the problem? He is not borrowing leaf from someone but from himself. Give him a break and let him Dream in Colours.

pat
pat
8 years ago

Kodi Steve amayi abwera liti? Mwayamba kununkha umasiyetu ana a amayi. Brian Banda ali bwanji? Osadandaula zinthu zimasintha pano achina Justice Mponda naonso adyerere nawo

Achiwechetaga
Achiwechetaga
8 years ago

Malawians really suffer from a deep-rooted distrust of ourselves. We mostly appreciate ideas from foreigners. That must stop if progress is to be at. First, we need people with rational vision and mission/action. To achieve that, we need to assess what individuals do, not their paper indicators of merit called “certificates”. Surely one weakness of western education is reliance on certificates for proof of confidence. History is full of individuals whose successes have refuted this misconception of life. Bill Gates, Bakili Muluzi, John Major, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Jacob Zuma are few of the people who succeeded in reaching… Read more »

Kaziulika Chimugonda
Kaziulika Chimugonda
8 years ago

This kind of politics will not take us anywhere. Every new administration wants a credit for recycled developemental strategies as their own. Thus why we are not going forward in terms of development. Some clever advisors get financial rewards after present recycled developmental strategies to the President. Then, the President presents it as his own brainchild to the Nation, not knowing that he has been fooled. What a Shame!!

Balamanthu
8 years ago

Steve-Good analysis.We have too many talkers, bootlickers and less action oriented people in our politics.Even when the NDC is born, managed by the same recycled politicians, it will not work.Apart from hunger, disease and envy, we now have three additional enemeies of progress-CORRUPTION AND THEFT, NEPOSTISM AND SHEER LAZINESS by the citizenry.Worse still, we have the same set of politicians who consider politics as cheating the masses because Malawians easily forget and will continue to be cheated again and again!

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