Quota system was started by MCP, I have abolished it -Mutharika
President Peter Mutharika has abolished quota system of selecting students into tertiary education, saying the system which was introduced by the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is discriminatory.
Mutharika, who is also the torchbearer for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) Alliance during in the June 23 fresh presidential election, confirmed the abolition on Friday during his whistle stop rallies to the northern region.
He said MCP introduced quota system in 1987 with the goal of deterring some people from attaining higher education.
Quota system was a way of selecting students into tertiary education based on their districts of origin.
‘’The quota system was discriminatory especially for learners in the north. Some learners in the north who scored points as low as 6 or 8 points were not selected for higher education.
“It is therefore, the decision of my government to abolish the quota system so that learners should be selected on merit on merit irrespective of which region they come from,’’ Mutharika said.
MCP announced the introduction of the quota system in November 1987 through the then chairman of the University Council John Tembo in his opening Address at the congregation for presenting academic awards to successful university students at Chancellor College.
Tembo was quoted by The Daily Times newspaper of November 8, 1987 that with effect from the 1987/88 academic year, the government had directed that admission be on the basis of “ten guaranteed places for each district ” with the remaining places being distributed among the districts “in proportion to their population density.”
He said the University Council had welcomed the idea because all children in the country would be’ granted equal opportunities of access to higher education.
Tembo handed over the mantle of MCP leadership to Lazarus Chakwera, who is seeking his last chance bid for presidency on Tuesday.
Actually the quota system started with the 1964 primary school leaving examinations.. I know this because my brother and I were selected to go to Dedza secondary school but there had to be a second selection, when my brother had to go to Chaminade at Karonga and I had to go to Mzuzu..
Although students were supposed to go to schools in their regions, we had students of certain well-connected families from other regions. Some of these students from other regions didn’t deserve to be there, but their influencial parents had pulled strings.
Too little too late Mr Maliseche
APM the greatest destroyer of QUOTA system vote yanga woyee
What an idiot, he has done nothing but destroy the fabric of our society. The sooner he gets out of our lives the better. We don’t want to hear of this fool anymore as soon as he is gone. It would be a tragedy to continue to spend the little tax payers money on him as an expresident. He is the most destructive president Malawi has had so far
Koma wachima
Daylight liar not good to be our leader.
WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT QUOTA WAS ABOLISHED AND DPP THROUGH BINGU AND YOU PETRO MUTHALIKA RE-ENTRODUCED IT. YOU can not full us. no vote for you from north.
Amunthalika bodza, second DPP started quota system in 2009 with Bingu wamunthalika.Was that MCP.Mwathetsa Koma mutayigwiritsa ntchito Kwa Zaka 10 mwawonga tsogolo la ana ambiri akumpoto wolimbikira.Mwathetsa quota system chifukwa chofuna mavotes after kutabwera 50+1% powona Kuti vote yanu yakumwera siyingakupaseni 50+1%.Mwagwa nayo.Mukupachira basi.Always God have a plan to deal with corrupt leaders.Nyenkhwe is coming soon for DPP.
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People hate the truth. The idea of Quota system was introduced by The MCP’ John Tembo, Chairman of the University Council on November 8, 1987. Where 10 guaranteed places were allocated per district and the rest by population density with a cut off entrance of 29 points. Be thankful. PETER MUNTHARIKA has abolished it for good.
We should be thankful to evil man like him who denied my Nephew with 17points to go to university ??
I’LL be very thankful to Judges for interpreting the term Majority very well in our Constitution which has forced Peter to abandon his reckless way of doing things like quota system , he is after the Votes of Northerners whom he abused for 5years in power.
Hope northerners are not that dull people to buy this cheap tactic .
The good thing is your granny appreciates and that’s all that matters
You must be very stupit or dull
If you can back track it why did you not stop it. Ndale zauchikalamba
Mbuzi. Who are you trying to fool? Quota system was abolished way back before you and your tribalist brother came on to the scene. You came in, reintroduced it and perfected it in every aspect of northerners lives specifically. You brought in your mulakhos everywhere in government and to some extent in private sector. You are the ones that have brought in the worst tribalism, nepotism, regionalism, hate, etc. Chilima wanted this nasty quota system removed from way back in 2014 but you ignored him once you went into government. Kagwere uko nkhalamba iwe and bye bye.
Mwazindikira liti?
DPP/UDF bomaaa basi pa 23 June 2020.We are breaking the Cock’s neck on this date.It will be history of the Malawian people to see the incumbent Preisdent being sent back to State house.Namachende Chakwera alilira kuutsi chaka chino kachikena kkkk.Mwana wahule Chilima amva madzi ndimtudzu wake uja.The Satanic godmother Jowisi Mchila Bnada Namanyini zokwefuka ndichimbolo chachitonga anyeredwa chaka chino kkk.Lezala Chimuthu Banda ,the traitor will see himself shaming in the limelight kkkk.Kapirikoni wamchipani chathu cha DPP tamudziwa lero kkkk.Nkhotakota imuuuza kuti ukunama iwe kapirikoni kkkk
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Mutu waching’alang’ala sizinthu. Gogo wadwalika uyu
Chidakwa chikusowa pogwira. Chadzinyerera chokha. You are firing people from the north from top positions and you expect sympathy from us. No 98% is for Tonse Alliance. Uko upeze 2% ukukudziwa wekha.
Zopusa chidakwa iwe. Did MCP leave introduce caps for districts? Did MCP leave anyone with 12 points for a someone with 30 points from Chiradzulu or Thyolo? Did MCP bring it to secondary schools in the north? You should go and ask JZU what he did to avoid leaving out students he did well. He increased the intake and introduced extension wings both at Chancellor College and the Polytechnic. He increased the intake from 40 to 70 for various courses and constructed the lecture theatre at Chancellor College. DPP introduced caps on districts like 12 points. Any student from Rumphi with say 13 points was left out. DPP filled schools like Chaminade from pupils from Thyolo and Mulanje. DPP filled schools like Dedza Secondary School with pupils from Thyolo and Mulanje and gave the owners of the districts places in community schools with no facilicities. That is why everyone cried foul. Please do not come to the north and open the wounds that you inflicted on us. Just pack your things from the state houses and go. We are fed up with your tribal leadership style.
In October 2019, Government through Susuwere Banda announced that government had abolished quota system and would no longer use it when selecting students. Early May 2020, this same government repeated the message!! Barely yesterday, apm says he has now abolished quota system…!! Isn’t this a contradiction? All this means this government never means what they say and it is difficult to believe what they are saying now!
Was abolished in 2019 AFTER CHILIMA promised to DO IT. ….. DPP has copied and said they will implemented many of Chilima’s ideas such as reduced fertilizer prices, pension for elderly (not yet done) dual citizenship (not yet done) WHY I AM VOTING for the TEAM WHO HAS IDEAS UTMCP…… not silly jesters of buying luxury coach’s when that money could have helped so many and left a lasting legacy
And was perfected by Mulhako and DPP who extended it to contracts and employment. This President takes Malawians for granted. In 2010 his brother the late Bingu said that one of the reasons for reintroducing the quota system is to trim the North to size and when Northerners complained cadets told us to keep quite because DPP does not need votes from the North to win elections! Now ..look who is talking? Northerners are not as dumb as APM.thinks. We will show DPP what stuff we are made of!!.
Last but not least…we know that the Chief Justice is being victimised by APM because he is a Northerner!!
MCP last ruled Malawi in 1994!
All these DPP crooks like Ntaba, Bakili, Dausi were part of MCP and today they’re masquerading as men of honour.
Since 1994 only UDF and DPP have been governing Malawi and they’re totally responsible for all the rot you see today. The rot in our education system, the rot in our health system, the corruption, the poor roads, the destruction of chikangawa forest, deforestation of Mulanje mountain, Ndirande mountain, Zomba mountain, the Nsanje fake port, the death of Lever Brothers, Leather and Luggage, PEW, BAT Malawi, Air Malawi (that had planes and could fly direct to London), David Whitehead and so many manufacturing companies that used to create jobs during MCP era.
It took just 30 for Singapore and other Asian nations to develop. In Malawi we have wasted 26 precious years with UDF and DPP mediocrity.
Anyone who loves Malawi should come out and vote. Yu May be close to power and comfortable with what you have, but think about your future generations. Think about your relatives in the village. Think about the hardworking poor children whose life is doomed because public schools no longer offer quality education. In MCP days we went to the same schools with Minister’s children and we had equal opportunities to succeed. When we graduated the many companies used to pick us from campus to start work the next day. Today ministers children go to private schools and public schools are for the poor. Today all the companies that offered us guaranteed jobs have closed and jobs are given based on who you know.
This is the Malawi of DPP and UDF
Well spoken. I was there too when such used to happen.
Excellent piece Baba. Time for change.
Baba Tunde, i salute you, we need people who can tell the truth not this propaganda dpp and udf have been feeding us, that was a true, beautiful face of malawi.
Hahahaha munthuyudi ndi nkhalamba
You have now remembered Northern region, to remove a system completely is not easy, it’s easy to say, as long as the same people who introduced it are still in the system, you can never claim you have abolished the system.