As a small girl I always respected the men and women in uniform as they patrolled the streets in town, and as they with an air of all-powers-be-us went about their business. Yes, the men and women in khaki suits and light and dark blue blouses and skirts. The Malawi Police Service (MPS), to me, […]
I come from a very poor family. And that does not mean I do not want better things, a better life, and a better everything. So, when I was young, my parents were the junior management type that, unfortunately, stayed in the compound alongside or aside the well-to-do senior bosses. Some companies will have to […]
Democracy in Malawi seems to be taking interesting avenues. Lately, I have been all over town and the internet trying to get hold of Hollywood’s Dallas, that great all-time soap playing dynasty politics in a family rich in the oil producing industry. The tricks employed and all the treachery points to one straight thing – […]
I do not in any way support whatever political party between the struggling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its shoot-off, the Peoples Party (PP). For all I care, they both have two P’s in their acronym and a lot of nonsense across their politicized agendas. For starters, the DPP is an off-shoot of the United […]
Sipping on my gin and tonic has never been this fun, especially when I let all the jazz take place through Easter with a serenade blind eye. And throwing in the lemon in the rocks was just as much fun – tasted great and well, made me ponder over and over again what this country […]
I cannot agree more with one Goodall Gondwe. That flamboyant old man from the ex-corridors of the world’s most influential economic organs. Yes, the same Goodall who walked his talk during Bakili Muluzi’s rule and braved the learned late Bingu wa Mutharika’s economic ‘ingenuity’. I am not sure what Goodall did during Kamuzu Days if […]
Last year was a pain up most of us our a….s, just as it might have turned a gold mine for some – mostly those close to the Peoples Party (PP) administrators, Paladin management, and of course, not for many of us! Someone last time commented on one of my columns to let the laughing […]
Damn right you are. I always trusted a number of this, right from my teeth growing ages to now my ripe age. I can give birth at my age – and that is something I truly trust now. Ha ha ha ha! When late Bingu wa Mutharika forgot Kamuzu Central Hospital requires the best health […]
He was his usual cunning silent. Almost in solitary confinement. Yet recent former cabinet minister of energy and mining still struck me as an influential ‘enigma’. Kaka – as Cassim Chilumpha is affectionately known – was one of the top tier government officials Thursday morning who addressed the international conference on transparency and responsible finance […]
Petrol or diesel, both fuels, you can add paraffin to the list, do make the world go round. I have just been around Lilongwe’s City Centre only to see a beautiful array of all manner of vehicles parked strewn strings from gas stations (filling stations) snaking to wherever the last vehicle feels comfortable to join. […]
Ha ha ha ha ha, I almost forgot my laugh lines – this damning silence. But am back. And what a way to find my way back? Was busy in the cyber world, reading and learning more about the goofs and stinks of this world, when all of a sudden I landed on a rather […]
It happens so fast. Here today, there tomorrow, and whatever, says some haulage company. But with life, politics, and well, relationships, it all flies past like Speedy Gonzales, for those of you who are cartoon movie fans. And last month was one fast one. Ahem! First it was the sad issue about FAM president’s tragic […]
Sunday School taught me important Christian values. I am sure Islam and all other faiths also teaches its young how to lead virtuous lives. One thing I cherish therefore is the ability to forgive, which might as well be divine. And my assumption is therefore that Veep Khumbo Kachale’s apology has been accepted by all […]
You bet. One Bakili Muluzi, son of Malawi politics and father of average leadership, can claim high scores for his enigmatic influences on the Malawian population. To start with, the word vendor, more its practice, was born from his very words. What leadership utters is sure policy. And this is not all. Acheya or Atcheya […]
I may not have been there when the original Guns’ N’ Roses started their act and did those helluva trucks that bring many of the 60s back into their youthful heydays. And I may not have been there, again, when the British and the Germans signed that damning agreement along OUR lakeshore. Of course, LAKE […]
Hello dudes and dudesses, if we got that second word somewhere tacked deep in the dictionary. But hey, fan or no fan, somebody said the BriSHIT and, errrrr, well, instead of the BriTISH, have a saying to go: – ITS FRIDAY!!! And damn right that. What did the AmeriNACS instead of the AmeriCANS say: – DAMN […]
Several weeks ago the capital city Lilongwe ran out of Special Brew. Oh yes, some were happy and some were shocked. The majority were shocked. But that is not all. The Water Board announced there would be no water for the next two days. And that was the biggest shock for the city’s residents! Now, […]