We like the rest of the world have closed the curtains on 2015, calendar wise, and are about to end our peep into the year 2016, now that the most dreaded month, January, is about to be out of our way. And in just less than the first 28 days into Happy New Year 2016, […]
Well, like my namesake Aunt Patricia Akweni Kaliati, I should agree I have been rather so ‘kusowa’ much of the last part of 2015. Not by design, but as the namadya bwino and top bosses of our world usually say, I engageged with other things ‘equally important’. So there. 2015, right? A good riddance or […]
Who said silence is always golden? Why can.t it for once be diamond, or indeed cray, if you like? Lately I am seeing a variety of shades at the end of that old adage, especially that in today’s Malawi taboo and the way of life, modern or traditional, suave or damn local, does not mean […]
Just when we sent another bunch of ass-kicking troops to DRC’s Goma, at such places as Beni when rifle muzzle are still stinking hot lead, Malawi is becoming another circus, and in equal measure of relief, making the goodie headlines. The sorry side is one former journalist, minister Nankhumwa. Yes, he of the ministry of […]
The Malawian government has put aside a staggering K60 million to help bring back our brothers and sisters to the motherland. Xenophobic attacks at the hands of Zulu mobs have force foreign black Africans, and not other races and continentals, either into hiding, killed or maimed, or destitution in camps. With an already struggling economy, […]
It’s not always that one must be physically in a location to learn and talk, with near authority and strongly, about social illsand crimes committed by individuals and groups alike. Be they religious, public or private sector. The floods in Lower Shire have been devastating and fatalities have been registered. In one instance, an entire […]
Not long ago sane Malawians both laughed and wondered whether our government is serious with its governing business. It was to do, first, with civil society demanding answers on procedures in grant offering at the National Aids Commission (NAC). Some ugly heads within the governing clique supported by some overzealous business people tried to salvage […]
“Running gaffa-ment is no simple thing,” so said one of Malawi’s ex-presidents. And if you want to take anyone serious, perhaps you need to cast your trusts beyond our borders. For Malawi is now the biggest and loudest universal joke, I can almost hear the Martians poke funnies into our fabric. That’s why I list […]
So the door closes on 28th for poor February. Short but precise, a number of things have happened law key and silently. I have in mind the traffic jams and crazed frenzy in the cities of Blantyre and capital Lilongwe. Studious Big Bullets, yes that red and white coloured peoples team made Malawi proud when […]
Something pointed out Kanyama, yes Paul, would not last. The guy had a fast mouth and a so much of a slow brain. His thought never matched his utterances. Simply put, that man needed a Patricia Kaliati in his team and not a squad of dedicated law enforcers. For a brief moment, there it was […]
You always hate this. You always love this. Sometimes you don’t even know where you stand, just like me. But whatever the case, this is our country. Our nation. Our Malawi. And we all have to say something when we are happy, angry, just serene useless and where we are feeling great to be the […]
Change is inevitable. Since May 20 elections, that tripartite event has brought with it the unexpected, and sometimes, expected. For starters, we never expected that all the big fish in the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) would have their soiled reputations wiped clean as a baby’s bottom. Thanks to the politically shackled judiciary system. Yes, the Midnight Six no […]
Of course you can go ahead and pinch close those nostrils at the mention of faeces. That is the way the majority of Malawians, say even Africans, lose out on billions. Gold! I am not into practice, but those in the evergreen city of Mzuzu, that northern haven that is slowly losing its environmental touch […]
The last time I checked, Malawi had a president, APM. Also when I checked, there were 20m ministers, and a jungle of advisers. One more check shows me our MPs are much alive and happy, and kicking for some MK25 million each in loans. Advisers of peace, whatever, strategy whatever, NGOs whatever, motherhood whatever, and […]
I am still single. So what? Many of you here are also single. And of course, a good number of you here are also not single. Square and square. And again, some of you may think you are married when in fact you are married-singles. You show the outside world, beyond your door steps, that […]
The year is coming to an end and very quick at that. December is with us now. Makes me think… War Mongers Foolish people will always talk fight, war, etc. Conflict for them seems to be the right word for every occasion. They will not see reason where mediation and negotiations may be taking place […]
Well, you may think I was missing, being a lady, perhaps cohorting with the best men of Lilongwe. In particular those that have Cash-gated our national coffers and, surprisingly, failed to spend the load they spirited out of the IFMIS cash animal. Last time I checked, close to 15 people may have been arrested. Somewhat […]
Malawi just like any other African state, I presume, shall remain interesting. A good guinea pig for historical reference for all the unnecessary and so too important jazz. Madiba my hero! For starters, my hero – the African icon for liberation and democracy, Nelson Rolihlahla Madiba Mandela is not in the best of his health, […]