Radical APM takes bold policy decisions for Malawi
Great leaders inspire and make decisions that leave the citizenry scratching their heads in disbelief.
The sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams opined and I quote: “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
This week has seen Malawi undergoing some of the if not perhaps the greatest radical policy implementation the country has ever seen – Leadership par excellence displayed without regard to consequences.
The government of APM, as how President Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika is fondly called by the masses, announced two key policy decisions that will have a far reaching impact in the education sector.
APM’s Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Dr. William Susuwele Banda, made the following policy announcements on Thursday in Lilongwe.
“…Quota System of selecting students into various colleges and universities is abolished forthwith…
“…Government is re-introducing JCE Examination with effect from the 2020/2021 school calendar year. The first JCE Examinations after the re-introduction will be taken in 2021…”
This is huge. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines radical as ‘extreme changes in existing views, habits, conditions, or institutions.’
Now what APM has done is truly radical. Something that all other mortals in the country have been blaring on the political podium with little action.
Quota system, was introduced to achieve parity in tertiary education in 1987, but having achieved its aim, no one dared to scrap it off until one great son of the nation called APM made that daring decision to completely end it.
All we can say as a nation is bravo to APM! Be blessed Sir. By making that bold policy decision, APM has given the nation an opportunity to change the discussion discourse on quota system to other development issues.
And if that was not enough, APM also took the decision to re-introduce the Junior Certificate Examinations (JCE) having listened to the outcry from the masses – What a listening President.
As it has been said, ‘The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action — an unconventional strategy, a unique product-development roadmap…even as the rest of the world wonders why you’re not marching in step with the status quo. In other words, real leaders are happy to zig while others zag. They understand that in an era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special.’
The above clearly defines President Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika who has stood out regardless of the political machinations that are going on around the country.
During the May, 2019 Tripartite General Elections, that President Mutharika convincingly won, he stood against many candidates including United Democratic Front (UDF) President Atupele Muluzi.
Fast forward nine months down the line, APM took another radical decision in a Mandela-sque way, where he has taken on board the UDF President and his party in a political partnership ‘to serve the nation.’
That is tremendous, not just by Malawian standards, but even globally. It is almost unprecedented.
Just like in the Bible, Mathew 8:27, which records that, ‘The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!”
All we can say is ‘what kind of man is this radical; APM, who takes and implements radical decisions selflessly not for his benefit, but for the benefit of the nation.
Long Live radical APM, the living hero of the nation. Malawi, the Warm Heart of Africa.
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Malawi does not belong to the Mutharika and Muluzi families, Malawians deserve a chance at living non mediocre lives…. and we are voting as so
Its too late to throw such a bate considering the damage it has already caused. Was better to maintain it, coz it doesn’t hold water now, after all we will witness when the right time comes. APM is already unpopular now, whether u like or not. His time is over, whether u write good things of him, his time is over.
ACHEDWA!!!!!
Koma where was his brain when this JCE was abolished. EMPTY EMPTY EMPTY
A Kapote ndi azibambo aja ati “amanenela mkazi NDIKUGULIRA ndege”. Mkazi amangowaona a “chitsiru awa”, nkhani yake yomweyi.
Ingodyani mabanzi awo but don’t make a fool of yourself in public. Aliyense achite kuziwa awa kwawo lero adyela nyama chifukwa cha mafuta kukamwa NONINONI, kkkkk
Abolishing the 1987 quota system for selection into university ????? What about the equitable system introduced by Bingu ? And what system will apply when selecting pupils into secondary schools ???
Obviously the guy who wrote this article didn’t do his research well before publishing his article. How do you abolish a system which was already abolished? This government thinks Malawians are fulls and don’t reason. Please, abolish the unjust equitable system first and then you can start clapping hands for the president. Boot lickers suck!!
when 150 days scares the shitty thieves they at it again deceiving the gullible who went to mbombera University KKKKKK
As a learned mortal and a villager, i see this man wants to fool people, typical of muluzi games promising to buy shoes for all people. He needs to explain to us the villagers why he has abolished the system he loved dearly, without which am not buying any of his hallucinations.
Radical? Mbuzi ngati agogo ako omwewo. Mwawuponda, no votes for you tribalists.
Kapote Mwakikunga ?? may be it is a pseudo name, whatever the case no substance in the article just bla bla bla, no radical measure here.
Kapote citizens are scratching their heads because your praises are baffling to a normal person, with this kind of thinking even if the ship is sinking you are busy telling the captain ALL is well. The truth of the matter is the voice of reason has defeated the systematic tribal war that was wedged against citizens. you are painting an ass to look like a horse. you are wasting your time Kapote.
Yes radical in the sense that he knows there are no votes in the Eastern region to be won as he already took them from Atupele Muluzi. So knowing this he thinks he can hoodwink the Northerners to vote for him. I see a hand of Muluzi senior in this with his games” AMALAWI SACHEDWA KUYIWALA” “BUT” this is big but that era is past like”ZONSE ZIMENE MUKAMBIRANE TIGWIRIZANA NAZO”.
The writer of this article is clearly a cadate. He licks APM’s boots for a living. He is a shameless moron. What a waste of time and space!
I couldn’t agree with you more. And I don’t understand how Nyasa times editorial could allow this partisan article to appear on their page. Where is their independence?
you are generous to say he licks boots……I thought he licks shit
Koma iwe Kapote, iwe Kapote, iwe Kapote, ndakutchula kangati? Katatu, Ndiwe mbuzi, bakha, pumbwa. Ndipo sindinawone mMalawi ochititsa khambi ngati iwe! Iweyo coronavirus ikuchepera kaba
cadet
Where was he all this time to abolish quota system now?Because of the elections?You can fool some people sometimes but you can not fool them all the times.People know all this gamic and they can’t buy his foolishness anymore.Malawi is not what used to be,people have changed and knows what is good and wrong.
bravo, serious I have fallen In love with this article. Long live Kapote mwakikunga
Sure boss inganyase bwanji galimoto yet there is always that 1 in a million person to fall in love with the funny shape
Cadets shall always be cadets. Mutharika abolished JCE, his brother introduced quota system against all odds. Now we have presidential elections, he has realised people don’t want his policy, he is reversing the policies just because of extreme pressure, then cadets think he is radical. Useless team.
Cadet reporter…ku MANEB ma data entry clerk onse ngaku lomwe belt…tiulule pano..Aphunzitsi akachonga mayeso mumawa tulutsa kenaka mumayamba kutsintha ma pass grade a ana aku Lomwe belt nkuwapatsa ma grade abwino amene sali awo ndi kuchepetsa akwinaku kenaka mumvekere mwathesa Quota…mapeto ake kumapedzeka ana aku lomwe belt kuoneka ngati akhodza bwino chimene si true reflection ya ma results mulungu akuona….sumumasowatu mukapanga chinyengo chifukwa mumayamba kubwebwetuka mumvekere kumene akhodza bwino ndi ku phalombe,kwakuti kwakuti etc etc mbwee,mukunamizandani poti Bingu anachita kulengeza kuti iye wanena wanena quota system basi ku msonkhano wa ku liwonde and anachita kunena kuti anthu akumpoto amangopereka 17% ya Malawi economy…DPP why bodza?why kupotodza chilungamo?why kubera anthu?
Where was The “Radical Man” all these years when people cried foul about the evils of Qouta system and Abolishing JCE. This piece is trash and nonsense., accord the right People with Proper titles. There is nothing like being radical in the said actions. Great leaders make radical decisions timely not this retrogressive of leadership.
Please write something else, osatipusitsapo apa. Atidye nawo achabechabe inu, anthu amene mukuononga dziko.
There is nothing radical that has happened with the so called policy changes. The radical thing that has happened in Malawi between May 27, 2019 and February 3, 2020 is the Constitutional Court ruling. This APM inspiring the nation is a lie, may he had done so to those closer to him including you Kapote.
Kkkkkkk…kodi paja UTM yathi igwilitsa ntchito the same manifesto that it used during the previous elections. And one of their promises was to abolish the quota system of selecting students to the public universities. I see you DPP government you are trying to neutralize UTM, I just hope that the masses will be able to read into this move and vote correctly and not be misled by an eleventh hour desperation to gain votes only to be discarded once again after the elections. For one, they did not meet all the promises that they promised during the 2014 campaign why should they be given another chance? All they have been doing is siphoning funds from the government coffers. #throwingmyhandsintheair#
Laporte the Sycophant! How much did APM pay you to write this sycophantic garbage?
Kapote have you been bought to write this rubbish? Are you a Cadet or what have drunk? Which leadershop????? You mean after being rejected by the masses & your APM being imposed to Malawians by one Jane Ansah then yourw talking of leadership??? Which leadership your APM has ever displayed?? A puppet President like him.
Next we want to hear where things are regarding Dual Citizenship.
You have waisted my time reading your stupid Article mbuzi ya munthu zowombera mmanja ndi ziti? Mupusitse alomwe akwanuko musamati Malawi as a Nation
Mediocre Kapote Mwakikunga, uku nde timati kuwombera mfiti manja, mbuzi iwe!
The writer is a Bakha sympathiser, hugely biased and shambolic minded person.
You may not have gone far with your education, that’s why you define these mediocre terms as radical. If you have nothing to write here Kapote, go and drink beer!!!
Its a long over due decision that old useless man must feel ashamed for his arrogance
Kkkkk. You create a mess despite popular disapproval and years down the way you reverse the policy and you label that new policy and the leader radical and bold? You must be stupid writer blinded by tribalism and corruption. You will not corrupt our judgement though
These two guys brought shit in this country, Bingu and Peter the Mutharika’s they brought green card Education system which they can not manage for both of them, we were so happy with JCE before these dogs came here we had no problem with Kamuzu’s Education system, but these two pai Pai think they are the best Educated in whole world start changing Education system. Who are they. They just fools.
Silly.
Senseless Kapote, he is doing this bcoz he is scared of 50+1%. He want to convince the Northerners that he is listening leader and he has heard their outcry while in reality he is evil.
Checking the Timing he is changing his policies, it speaks it all, we are going to elect the president on 19May 2020 based on 50+1% that’s why he has suddenly decided to change his marginalised policy.
Join the discussion…Kapote Mwakikunga, think before you write! Don’t incite people’s ugly comments! People have been given names because of the same issue! Heap your praises on something different!!!
Kapoor, you are stupid. I repeat, you are stupid.
Hahaha Leave Merrian Webster dictionally alone. We all know the definition of bullsht. No need to find a definition of it anywhere
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣our idiot president talking again
The writer should be an idiot. I thought Quarta system was reintroduced by Bingu.
God will punish you, masses of children’s futures has been destroyed because of your stupid policies. La chi 40 limakwana mwazindikila tsopano.You are a goner.
I will never trust Times online , this writing shows you have a side
Nkhani zolemba ana adadi zimawoneka, what is so special with what the president has done now except that he what to buy Malawians’ heart just to vote for him. Write something sensible we will buy that, not these nonsense of African politics in order to fool their people for votes.
Mr Kapote are you in Malawi or you are an alien.People criticised the decision by your so called radical man when his administration abolished JCE. SOME Organisations even thought of doing their own JOE. That idea was a non starter and if you start gloating about the reversal then you are not a Malawian. Please stop praising people who are destroying the fabric of the Malawi nation. There is nothing to smile about that action. That is what people have been calling for all along. He has just succumbed to people pressure. Stop this noise if it is for campaign purposes then SORRY.
You guys are really useless. I see Biss in the way you have written Ur article. Very basic n stupid. Please tackle the issues just as the way our friends do it outside Africa.
Not radical decisions, but careless for a group of thieves leaving no stone unturned to cling to power. It’s a typical behaviour of conmen, they stop at nothing. They have tried every trick so far to stay dubiously in power. For example, MEC irregularities and illegalities during last election, attempted to bribe judges, flip-flopping policies to fool Malawians as if there are up to genuinely serve the country, (abolishingJCE, quota). All they care is stay illegally in power, plunder resources for their insatiable appetites.
Shit in a hole load of bullshit
Shameless
Ma Cadet, don’t waste our time reading your fluff. Adore your stupid Peter without us being included in your show. You can lick his ass or whatever, paja amatchukanso ndi mathanyula. You wanted quota system at all cost and you erased JCE yourselves. Because of chisankho, you are doing this.
I sometimes laugh why a person with brain can write this shit? Do u think Malawians are happy with Tippexed president? Ma civil servants akulandila chicken feed, salary yoti munthu amamalizila within two days kuyamba kuvutika. Ena have upgraded four years ago koma sakupasidwa ma promotion bcoz your stupid government. Shame on u!!!!
Kapote are you a retard or just plain stupid. Anybody who can read this rubbish apart from you knows that Mr Muluzi removed the quota system but was reintroduced by Bingu. Peter removed the .jc exams. Both actions were a terrible mistake which were going to be corrected after the May 2020 election.This would be an embarrassment to DPP just like the flag issue. There is nothing spectacular here after all this is what the nation has been demanding.)
Bola wawerenga hahaha yakudunya eti
I’d go for “plain stupid “, although it’s almost impossible to believe a single person can be this stupid. His is the most idiotic and sycophantic commentary on APM we will see for a while.
50 +1 yamu kangantha
Every Malawian now matters
The writer is a cadet. Mutharika vehemently kept quota under rap. Mutharika and Chilma scrap off JC. It took visionary leadership of MCP in their policy, speak against them, showing interest for change. I do not trust abakha inu. This is a blindford for you to win the forth coming election komabr phwaaaa. This is just the begining tiwona zambiri zomwe mumakana mukuchita promise for a change. Ndikukhulupilirani mukachotsa u appointing authority ya ACB from the president.
However this might be the fruit of 50 + 1 yomwenso you have been part of it.
50+1 anakonzadi, simunati koma sitikuvotelani nda let zopusa
It is always nice to have bread with butter (salted butter). And ..oh…some Jacobs coffee!
Quota system was introduced by Bingu wa Mnthalika in the year 2009 soon after reelection. By then the minister was Devil George Chaponda. When northerners tried to complain Bingu insisted that quota system had come to stay. And it really stayed up to now.
Junior certificate exams were there until Dpp under Peter removed it. Today the same dpp say they have stopped both. After Peter is on injury time serving.
Peter your actions are just like the devil. You had known all along that what you were doing was bad but you were still doing it. Just go to hell. Northerners can’t call you bravo. Go to hell go go go go go go go go go go go!
@ Kapote, this president you call yourself all sorts of names, I don’t know if you have been here in Malawi. This is his last term may be you don’t know right? When is the term of selecting students going to University start? When is the election? At his term( your president) which development has he completed in the North? Mombela University? Can’t you see that he wants votes from North after this crush with the Judges? Mr Mwakikunga,you are a big disaster to the community,a problem to the family, in fact you are a Coronavirus in Malawi, am telling you. Before clapping has, first check the dancer,the type of the song,the time which the facing taking place. You are idiot, I can see that your brain is full of irrigullities and have been altered with Tipex. Your president is not going to do that, try to choose him again, all what he done is to take other parties manifestos, that is why am wondering if you are in Malawi, Northern Malawi can produce Mwakikunga like you. So low and useless!
Kapote I think you don’t know what you’re talking about. Sounds like you’re a quarter baked baked journalist.
I have always said, APM is the best leader for Malawi. He has stabilised the economy after western donors withdrew aid. Now we are collecting more taxes and people are actively holding government to account for their money. Second, APM has been cool-headed. Calm. Speaks less. Does not insult others. People have harassed him. Called him names. Talked ill and plotted to get power for themselves. But Malawi with him is in a better place. It is true that wealth is not shared equally – South, central, north – and we as a country need to work on that. We need comprehensive polices to do this. I feel proud to be Malawian with a leader who is radical, loving and calm.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Iwe Banda, what are you high on? Let me have some of that shit
Lembani mu chichewa ngati English yavuta
Cheat us not. The fact is that Kamuzu started quota system. Bakili removed it and Bingu put it back. This is 21 May 2020 fever. Sitizakuvoteranibe basi.