In this world, there are people who are pretty gifted at seeing what others can’t see. There are also others who, without actually seeing anything, they will pretend to see something. Others are ‘professional blind followers’, good at following blindly even when the one they are following is clearly leading them to a dangerous precipice. […]
My heart goes out to the natives of the tea growing districts of Thyolo and Mulanje who, after years of a protracted land dispute with government on one hand and the ‘foreign’ settlers on the other, they still find themselves landless. It is despicable that instead of working out a lasting solution to the drawn-out […]
It has almost become a routine for every Jim and Jack in Malawi to critically examine our Malawi’s delegation, which includes the Head of State, to the annual United Nation General Assembly (UNGA). This is because these annual trips to New York have become a way of self-enrichment for the privileged few very close to […]
Last time, I discussed the internal political squabbling in the Malawi Congress Party (MCP). It seems the squabbles are continuing with protracted court battles being almost the order of the day in that camp. It is not healthy for the country’s oldest, well-oiled political establishment and Malawi’s main opposition political party, whose president, Right Honourable […]
One day, Malawi President Peter Mutharika publicly challenged fearless Rumphi East legislator, Kamlepo Kalua, to bring to State House the names of seven ‘rotten’ ministers within 24 hours. As far as he was concerned, none of his ministers were involved in corruption. A couple of days later, President Mutharika publicly admitted that there is rampant […]
Being Head of State is a high pressure job. His Excellency Arthur Peter Mutharika (APM) holds a high pressure position. He is Head of State and Government in Malawi. He became Head of State following national elections held in May 2014. All those who aspire to take up the responsibility of serving a nation as […]
On August 11, 2013, Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera was elected leader of the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) at the party’s National Convention held at the Natural Resources College (NRC) in Lilongwe. It is exactly three years now since the former clergyman became the MCP president to replace the long time Machiavellian Leader of […]
It is not a secret that ‘cashgate’ was the worst thing to have ever happened on our soil since independence. We’ve lost our good reputation as nation; a ‘God-fearing’ one. Cashgate hit us in a bad way. In 2013, when the problem was diagnosed, necessary and laudable corrective measures were set in motion in an […]
As Malawians are beginning to digest the presidential directive to eat mice and grasshoppers as a way of beating hunger, the country recently erupted into a hotbed of chaos punctuated by police-engineered disorder. And just like it has been the case in the past, government continues to sit aside and watching from a far. University […]
Rising commodity prices; general economic malaise; and growing dictatorial tendencies by the late president Bingu wa Mutharika had led to the famous July 20 mass demonstrations in 2011. 20 young protestors died at the hands of police and at the instigation of the DPP government. Out of the 20 victims, two were shot dead in […]
Cashgate or the systematic pilferage of government money by public officials and their cohorts heralded a cosmic shift on Malawi’s social political terrain. It changed our politics; it changed our economics; it affected our values as a people and completely altered how we are viewed by the international community. The ripple effects of Cashgate on […]
In his intercession prayer, reverend Maurice Munthali of the Livingstonia Synod of the CCAP said Malawians must embrace a culture of hard work; desist from envy; and asked the God to endow Malawi with all blessings of prosperity and success. On July 6 of every year, since 1964, Malawians have commemorated the ‘Independence Day’. The […]
Public speaking is a prerequisite skill for people whose job calls them to communicate with audiences from time to time. Whether it is in the private or public sector, communicators apply various skills including joking to engage with their audiences so that they capture the content or the nitty-gritty of the message(s) they are trying […]
Malawians have a moral duty and responsibility to decide which path they want to go down—poverty or prosperity. This decision rests with them; them alone. Among others, this can be achieved through a sustainable fight against official corruption, fraud and theft of public resources. The despicable accumulation of MK61 billion by one Malawian over a […]
A landmark decision was made last week by our Parliament. The ‘august House’ adopted a motion tabled by Ntchisi North Constituency parliamentarian, Boniface Kadzamira, that government must legalize the cultivation and use of the industrial Hemp in Malawi. Industrial Hemp is from the plant species ‘Cannabis sativa’ and has been used worldwide to produce a […]
Religious tolerance should exist where we must allow other people to think about god(s) in ways that they choose to. We must accept and tolerate other people’s religious beliefs and practices even when such beliefs and practices are different from our own beliefs or lack of beliefs. Followers of most religions believe that their own […]
As if the economic pain and biting poverty are not enough, Malawians are beginning to come into sharp global focus again for all the wrong reasons. The latest is the rising spate of albino killings, which have caught the global eye. The debate is still raging and the verdict is apparently already out there about […]
What you see is not what you get! My honest reaction to the President’s appointment of new Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Commissioners is that it is a slap in the face of Malawians; we might not see credible elections again. Commissioners of the MEC are supposed to be men and women of high integrity in […]