Some district councils are yet to start implementing Public Sector Reforms, a development that is delaying the process of improving public service delivery, a senior official government official has said. Chief Director in Public Sector Reforms Management Unit Seodi White said this on Tuesday in Lilongwe during the official opening of the reforms implementation conference […]
The Public Service Reforms Management Unit (PSRMU) at the helm of the reforms in the public service in the country is itself in dire need of reform. This is clear from the manner the chief director who heads the unit Seodi White treated journalists at the on-going Sectoral Conference on the Implementation of the Public […]
Journalists were thrown out of then-going sectoral conference on the implementation of Public Service Reforms Programmes at Capital Hotel in Lilongwe by Reforms chief director Seodi White claiming there has been bad headlines. Local newspapers have been critical of the reforms, saying government claims of a success story is “not adding up”. And White conceeded that reforms were […]
In a bid to track and appreciate progress made in the implementation of reforms in various institutions, the Public Sector Reforms Management Unit in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) will from Monday to Friday next week hold Sectorial Specific Conferences on Public Sector Reforms. According to a press statement issued on Saturday […]
Malawi’s leading newspaper has investigated that public service reforms are on the deathbed, six months after they were weaned from the direct supervision of Vice President Dr. Saulos Chilima. Interviews which the Nation Publications Limited says had with multiple sources, including local government councils and Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), ministries, departments and […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika on Friday commended Vice-President Saulos Chilima for his chairmanship of the Public Service Reforms Commission, which he had held for two-and-a-half years, saying he did “a good job” as he handed over the mantle to the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC). Speaking at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe, President Mutharika […]
Newly appointed chief director in the Office of President and Cabinet (OPC) Seodi White has said government will move on with public service reforms despite the fact that some people are resisting them. White was speaking on Wednesday in Mangochi at a local government meeting for district commissioners. “These public officers are frustrating reforms because […]
A renowned gender activist Seodi White, a former commissioner for Public Sector Reforms, has been appointed as Chief Director for Public Reforms at the Office of President and Cabinet (OPC). Chief Secretary Lloyd Muhara confirmed Seodi’s appointment as one of those the President has made in the civil service reorganisation. Muhara said the President want Seodi to […]
A civil society activist and an opposition political party have censured President Peter Mutharika for his outbursts against Malawians’ concern over his blatant abuse of public resources, particularly taxpayers’ money, calling on him to come off his ‘ivory tower’ conditions to address the concerns of the nation. This comes in light of President Mutharika’s utter […]
Lawyer and human rights activist Seodi White has backed Information Minister Kondwani Nankhumwa stand suggesting that former president Joyce Banda and co-conspirators should be arrested and investigated for the murder of former president Bingu wa Mutharika, her predecessor. Though Nankhumwa referred to Banda only as “JB”, that is evidently what she is called in Malawi, claimed […]
About 15 years ago, I was doing research on inheritance laws in Malawi and their impact on women. Part of my research methodology was to engage in focus group discussions with women in village settings. In order to do this in any village in Malawi, one has to seek permission from the village chief. And […]
Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Grace Obama Chiumia has denied defrauding the family of widow Cecilia Mkandawire, who claims the Minister owes her K13.6 million from sale of a building. Mkandawire and her son Mwiza reportedly sold a lodge to US organization Hope Ministry, which advised Garry Widows Organisation of Mzuzu to handle the […]
President Peter Mutharika has appointed a Civil Service Reform Commission which will be headed by State Vice President Saulos Chilima. State House said the Commission members will include former Director of Public Procurement Bright Mangulama and economist and a renowned resilient business man Thom Mpinganjira. Social development lawyer and women’s rights activist Seodi White is also a member. An […]
During a 2005 conference in Swaziland, I presented a paper titled Can The Law Reduce HIV Transmission among Women? The theme of the conference was ‘Has Mainstreaming become an Outlived Paradigm: Is it Protecting Women and Girls in the Era of HIV and Aids.’ The arguments I presented then are still relevant today. So, I […]
President Joyce Banda on Thursday fired the starting gun on the 2014 election campaign when she addressed a rally at Namitambo in Traditional Authority Kadewere in Chiradzulu hitting at one of her challengers in May 20 polls Peter Mutharika and human rights activist Seodi White. Clad in full People’s Party attire, President Banda told the […]
Madam Seodi White was in the news last Sunday. The Sunday Times quoted her protests in respect of the President Joyce Banda’s eulogy at the funeral of late Nelson Mandela. According to Madam White, President Banda was wrong for stating that the lessons she obtained from late Mandela was his generosity of spirit to forgive […]
A week of retractions and apologies from the two dailies in Malawi. After The Daily Times retracted and apologised to the Principal Secretary for Education, Dr. Anjimile Mtila-Oponyo for associating her with the ‘kangaroo court ‘ for two gender activists, Jessie Kabwila and Seodi White, Malawi’s flagship daily The Nation has also retracted it’s comment […]
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