Just days after former President Bakili Muluzi offered to help the current government resolve the economic crisis raiding every plot in the country, the Malawi leader Bingu wa Mutharika has “extended” an olive branch to the opposition parties to help government with developmental ideas. President Mutharika invited the opposition parties Wednesday at Jali in Zomba […]
Defiant Malawian leader Bingu wa Mutharika has maintained his stand that the year 2011 was economically successful and described his critics who think to the contrary as having sick minds. Taking advantage of the launch of the 2011-2012 National Tree Plating Season which he officiated at Sekwele Primary School in Zomba on Wednesday, Mutharika said […]
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika has told his critics and the country’s citizens to stop “crying” needlessly because of the current social and economic crisis facing the country. Mutharika, speaking in Zomba where he presided over the 2011-2012 National Tree Planting Season, said Malawi was not a nation of chickens which just cry pointlessly whenever […]
The Malawi Law Society (MLS) says President Bingu wa Mutharika and his government must in 2012 adhere to the rule of law and respect peoples human rights and never behave in an obdurate manner as he did in 2011 where they abused power with impunity. MLS president Mr. John-Gift Mwakhwawa asked the Malawian leader and […]
In its efforts to mitigate the destructive effects of climate change, Malawi has reportedly planted about 363 million trees across the country over the last seven years. This was disclosed Wednesday by President Bingu wa Mutharika in Zomba when he launched the 2011-2012 National Tree Planting Season. However, environmental experts feel the figure is far […]
Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda says the Head of State Bingu wa Mutharika has earned himself the position of a hate administration from citizens including herself because she is leading a “suffering” nation. Banda, said she cannot take blame of the government she is part of, because she has “no opportunity to provide counsel” to it […]
Revered Anglican Bishop the Right Reverend Dr. James Tengatenga has challenged Malawians to be vigilant in safeguarding their hard won democracy and also check their morals including that of others particularly political leaders. Bluntly telling his flock in Blantyre, the Anglican Bishop said Malawians must ensure that leaders stop nurturing bad behaviours “otherwise failing to […]
During the year 2011, the global economic crisis combined with poor governance, financial mismanagement and unpredictable rainfall patterns pushed several African countries to a point of crisis and Malawi was not spared. The country’s escalating social and economic crisis which left many common people grinding their teeth in the year has not just gone unnoticed. […]
Justifying the enjoyment of ‘blue’ scones, Fr. Michael Mtambo had no choice but to ask for air time on state Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) on Tuesday to defend President Bingu wa Mutharika by attacking two human rights activists Undule Mwakasungula and Gift Trapence that the two are agents of donors to destabilize government. Fr. Mtambo, […]
Despite incessant leadership problems rocking the United Democratic Front (UDF), the party has lived to its billing as an opposition party by presenting to the DPP led government a New Year ‘panacea’ for some of the hardships Malawi is facing today. “The UDF expects President Mutharika in 2012 to learn to listen and respect alternative […]
If the problems Malawi is facing are being caused by Satan, then Satan is using the President because the problems centre on poor economic and political governance led by him as President, the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and the Centre for Development of the People (CEDEP) have said. “We strongly ask President […]
There is an adage which says that, ‘if all else fails lower your standards’. The majority of Malawians have applied this adage in order to survive under the Mutharika regime. People have lowered their living standards to the bare minimum and can do no more. Imagine due to fuel shortage, people with cars have resorted […]
Zambia’s Informantion, Broadcasting and Tourism Minister Given Lubinda has advised his Malawian counterpart Patricia Kaliatu not to be mischievous over PresidentMichael Sata’s decision to forgive President Bingu Wa Mutharika over his decision to deport Sata in 2007. According to Times of Zambia, Lubinda was reacting to Kaliati’s statement that the Malawian government had not yet received official communication from the […]
In this short ‘article’, I want the interested readers to make their own judgment as to whether they themselves or players on the Malawi political field in the year 2011 acted like enemies, haters and obstructive critics, or as I desire, constructive critics. A much diluted definition of ‘enemy’ given in the Collins Cobuild Advanced […]
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Authorities at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology have openly disobeyed President Bingu wa Mutharika’s directive that all civil servants be on block leave for two weeks in order to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Mutharika ordered civil servant’s to be away from there offices from December 23, 2011 and report for work […]
The Malawi leadership first needs to understand its own current trade and investment strategy and how its policies are affecting the strategy. Both domestic and foreign investors make decisions on the basis of prevailing policies and the policies have to convince them that they will make a profit. For foreign investors, policies also have to […]
Experts in various fields are asking government authorities to be positive with any advice and criticism from what it considers its critics if they are to make 2012 a better year than 2011. The advice came from Chairperson of the National Media Institute for Southern Africa Namisa, Anthony Kasunda, a political scientist at the Catholic […]