Opinion: How MCP has completely finished DPP and Chilima

I will not be an honest person if I don’t admit that while MCP has disappointingly failed to run this country with unprecedented levels of mediocrity, they are the master planners and executers of crafty clandestine political operations. For a long time, we made the mistake of overestimating DPP and underestimated MCP. DPP claimed to […]

‘Malawi vote against investigation of troubled Palestine a huge miscalculation’—Commentator

Malawi—a bona fide member of the United Nations (UN)—last week voted that the UN Human Rights Council should not establish an international commission of inquiry to investigate violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and in Israel where it is clearly apparent that rights of people have been grossly debased, and thousands of […]

Tonse Alliance govt be ware of rent-seeking behaviour

The Tonse Alliance administration should be wary of getting infiltrated with public purse plunderers in the immediate past administration. The administration should never smile at those people whose fought them during the campaign. These people fought for the continuation of the plunder and looting that was the order of the day in the DPP-led administration. […]

Mtambo’s newly-appointed PA resigns: Lyson Sibande haunted by past Facebook posts

Personal Assistance (PA)  for  Minister of Civic Education and Unity Timothy Mtambo, Lyson Sibande has resigned  as his appointment received mixed reactions from the general public. Many claimed Sibande is  Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) operative who has been a critic to President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera as well as his vice Dr. Saulos Chilima. “It is […]

Minister Mtambo faulted for appointing ‘cadet’ as personal assistant

The Minister of Civic Education and National Unity,  Timothy Mtambo, has been criticised  by some people including members of his Citizens for Transformation political movement on appointing a one-time firebrand Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) operative Lyson Sibande, as his personal assistant. In his posts on the social media prior to the commencement and during the […]

Malawi scholar Sibande publishes scholarly text on homosexuality

Malawian scholar and social commentator Lyson Sibande’s book, Homosexuality in Africa: a Political, Religious, and Cultural Dilemma, has hit the country’s bookshops and seeks to address the conflict of values, beliefs and ideals between politics on one hand and religion and culture on the other. The issue of homosexuality has been a contentious issue in Africa; […]