Tonse Alliance conflicting messages and personal scores: Malawi deserves better!
The gist of a political alliance, however big or small, is that all parties submit to a common route taking them to a set destination.
In the case of opposition Tonse Alliance, being led by Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera, their set destination, according to them, is to remove the incumbent government from power.
To achieve this, nine parties to Tonse Alliance have agreed to run an issue-based campaign solely meant to move Malawians to vote for them not based on tribe, religion, class and region.
Unfortunately, the question of issue-based campaign is not the message you got if you followed Tonse Alliance televised Njamba Park mass rally in Blantyre on Monday .
What you got was a highly charged gathering infuriated with long and boring speeches without a central theme connecting them together.
Further, one also got a feeling that the question of sharing power, senior posts and privileges, once after getting power, is so core to Tonse Alliance.
Let me, analyze key speakers, break it for you.
MCP secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka came to disassociate Kamuzu Banda’s MCP from those historical human rights atrocities.
In his stinging message, coloured by precise examples, Mkaka underlined that politicians behind MCP historical atrocities joined DPP.
Patricia Kaliati, UTM secretary general, came to spew vulgar at the country’s first lady, Getrude Mutharika, for warning people against bringing back MCP to power. She said the First Lady must get out of State House because it was MCP regime that built it. Further, Kaliati also attacked the ruling DPP – the party she served before jumping ship – saying they are selling an invisible candidate, Peter Mutharika.
Saulos Chilima, UTM president and Tonse Alliance vice-president, came to Njamba Park to respond to a series of personal attacks from Cabinet minister Everton Chimulirenji.
His vitriol speech, spoken in disparage and anger, stopped at ridiculing the disgraced Chimulirenji, specifically reminding him that he won’t, at any period in history, be remembered as a vice-president.
Then Timothy Mtambo, the self-styled ‘commander-in-chief’ concentrated on defining etiquettes of good leadership based on religious principles. Using scriptures, he underlined that Malawi’s leadership needs a compassionate leader, one who listens to people when they are crying.
Chakwera, on the hand, concentrated on what the Alliance will do once in power. He articulated the principles of his leadership and, with Tonse Alliance, how they rescue Malawi from the failed incumbency.
The question, now, is: If you followed the rally at Njamba, what was the common message from Tonse Alliance?
The sharp ones, of course, would say that Chakwera and Mtambo hit it all home. Quite true for the two, arguably, dwelt so much on issues.
But Tonse Alliance is not just Chakwera and Mtambo. It is the whole lot.
What is underlying in Tonse Alliance is that they will run an issue-based campaign, free from attacks and vendettas. Again, they will send a common message of hope and encouragement. In other words, Tonse Alliance symbolizes a new beginning for Malawi.
But the incoherent messages that came from Njamba on Monday don’t inspire an inch of hope.
It appears parties to this alliance have come with personal issues to score at the expense of the public. That is why there is too much interest, in this alliance, regarding sharing State spoils and privileges once in power.
Malawians deserve better.
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Tonse Alliance which tonse are they talking about they must say Yekha Yekha alliance kkkkkkkkk
Angokumanako aphuma okhaokha ku Tonse . The alliance of no further.
very good observation. take it leave it
munthu ali ngati mphaka amafuna kumusisita basi
Mr Fiko, I wonder what important issues do you want to hear. Do you want the politicians to be giving false issues that they wont do as long as they are new to you? Didnt they talk about cheap fertiliser, no corruption govt? Didnt they talk about the end of tribalism? Unfortunately when a whole journalist who writes under a pseudonym is captured by a ruling party this is what happens. I know you get paid by your blue masters to sow seeds of discord and resentment but i can assure you every speaker had something different to speak. They all couldn’t be repeating the same thing which would have been a boring stuff. Man up and realize that the blue masters tenancy in the govt is but finished.
You are the writer is biased…he didn’t listen very well am here in South Africa.but am following very well.Indeed every body brought hope and spoke differently how they will bring a total change
Unless utasintha dzina. Koma taziwa kale kuti ndiwe khadethi, dpp sponsored machinery
What of the fake accent ex-reverend Lezala Nyolonyo bragging with his right hand in a boxing glove? kkkkkkk.
Let me break it down for you:
A BETTER MALAWI FOR ALL has been the consistent message in this campaign
Now go to sleep!
Let me make it simple for you coz it looks like you have a limited IQ
1. A better Malawi for all
2. Job creation
3. Food security
4. Access to safe water
5. Access to effective healthcare services
6. Access to Reliable electricity
7. Fight corruption
8. End nepotism
9. Access to quality education
10. Quality infrastructure
11. Provide reliable markets for farmers
I will stop here because you have a limited attention span, I don’t want to overwhelm you!
I am afraid, you might be the one with a limited IQ.
Take a look at what you have just posted… that’s a “wish list”. Any fool can promise that. What matters most is the “How”. Issue based campaign is not just a matter of listing things on the podium. Issue based campaign is positioning the listing such that every normal thinking person sees the possibilities of the promises being delivered. We are talking of strategies here. So far what we have are grossly wish lists. And that’s pathetic
Now Mr. Fiji, where is the analysis? I don’t see any…!!! Why? Because it’s coming from you, a square-head. Why being selective? Are you dpp? If you’re dpp, I am not surprised. You are saying all this because you’re as shallow minded as everybody else in dpp. Sorry, your analysis is without any flesh and meaningless. So just shut up….!!!
The message is as clear as day!!
Malawi wokomela aliyense!…. a better Malawi for ALL
……what part of this message is too complicated for you not to get it??????
Anthuwa mitima ikuwawa chifukwa cha ngongole zimenen akutenga.
TONSE alliance speakers have shown that they have lost it. That rally was full of people on drugs.
The message I got was that TONSE alliance yabalalika HEAVY.
Yesterday thr TONSE alliance was exposed as a bunch of confused power hungry people.
Good analysis. I agree that Tinse alliance Njamba rally was a cacophony of anger and noise.
The author of this story his mind is not balanced. There is nothing that illustrates what the Heading of his stroy outlines. Listen, We Malawians are Learned. Stop taking us for fools. Please deacese from trying to confuse enlightened Malawians.
Anybody even a galu is better than this self centred money looting government
Stealing Tax payers money is very personal!
People I am talking about your money!
Do not be taken for a fool !
Michael Ussi reminded us that “your Malawi” is the Malawi you see. The government is out here swindoling funds, trying to reduce Duty on motor vehicles for Ministers only when people cant even afford minibus fair.
DPP has scene the last of government
1. TITHANE ndi MBAVA
2. A BETTER MALAWI for ALL and NOT 2 families
3. DON’T START A FIGHT IF YOU CAN’T TAKE THE HEAT
That is what you missed DUDE!
A BETTER MALAWI for ALL !
It’s as simple as it gets. If you didn’t get anything out of that then I question your intellectual capacity!!!!
The message/theme was SIMPLE, CONSISTENT, LOUD, and CLEAR: BETTER MALAWI for ALL!…….It does not get much clearer than this
Very true. People are so blinded by what these recycled politicians are saying forgetting that they are looking at their own interests. What did Joyce Banda do when she was president? Chilima too was in power and adhered to the same leader that he is fighting now. Kaliati was in the same government too and so are many others. Nothing has changed ever since and this time round it is them again in different cloths. This election is just a farce. Everyone wants a piece of that cake. Watch this space. We will be crying once again and elect the same come the next elections.
Now I see that every article by Mike Fiko is against MCP/UTM alliance. To put it simple, Mike Fiko is a cadet. It’s only insane who can say DPP is doing great job in Malawi.
People already heard issues in 2019. In politics you need for sure to respond what the opposing camp throws at you. One good example Patricia Kaliati by saying that Getrude Mutharika is residing in the house which Kamuzu buit. Isn’t that a fact??? To say that Chimulirenji will never be written in the history as a Vice President, isn’t that a fact? Joyce Banda to say that the old man drinks beer, if he does isn’t that a fact? To say that Bakili was Secretary General & Administrative Secretary of MCP in the dard days isn’t that a fact? To say that the likes of Dausi were in the notorious MYP isn’t that a fact. What kind of facts are you looking for????
Yes Getrude is sleeping in the house kamuzu buillt as the president of Malawi so what did Kamuzu use his money in building the house?He used taxpayers money so the house belongs to malawians not Kamuzu.Umbuli bwanji?
How can we have ‘Malawi okomela tonse’ when one person gets three cabinet level posts (yekha VP, yemweyo nduna yazachuma and also reforms).? You mean the function of minister of finance cannot be competently performed by any other Malawian? That’s very bad job designing by mcp tonse alliance leader.
‘Ndikunyenya – nyenyani’ basop. It is part of entertainment. Otherwise, these so frequent rallies would be boring.
This alliance will implode mark my words
Mr Fiko, let’s be honest here, important issues were conveyed but you chose to pour water only on everything and only pick political badmouthing which was a response to those who started who happens to be dpp that you support. We don’t need badmouthing or name calling but why should it be ok for you to provoke but not ok for someone to retaliate?
..let me retaliate on ur Mkakas response.My fwendo world class standards u don’t know them.Please get a passport and travel out of Malawi and compare your so called Kamuzu world class standards. Malawi govt now dont have a jet. JB sold it the one uR supporting.Thus ur developmental leader worthy supporting and believing will change Malawis affairs for better, right?My granny was arrested during Kamuzu time died where MCP knows and we never saw his body or burried him for mere fact that he hussled & bought a pick up. Is that mind of a leader who want people to develop let alone develop a country for everyone? Move around the world and see how Kamuzu left us in shit! While he had billions in overseas banks and property time he died Malawi had 1 lane tarmac road from Nsanje to Chitipa..get a passport!
The beauty of democracy is that everyone is entitled to his opinion but to some of the Tonse alliance is far more better off than ,,,,,,,.So we’ll continue rallying behind them
Say”I will” not we will. Not all are behind Tonse.
That is your problem. The messages were very coherent and clear. They need to speak on different topics that is how a rally is organised everywhere. If one is going to talk about reducing the price of fertiliser, should everyone standing up talk the same reducing the price of fertiliser? Cadet Fear, I can see it in this article. In this alliance, there is freedom of speech.
up to an extent of lifting a 50kg bag.Misala chiyani.Why SKC BEHAVES LIKE A KINDERGARDEN KID?
When you go fighting a war its not the spoils you are after but the betterment of your people. The chimurenga war in.Zim had good fundamentals but once achieved was out down the drain and Zim the blosomming pot of Africa is in other words the ruins itself. Share positions before reaching Cannan is the greatest mistake of all ages. Remember the world wars when states were sharing spoils Tanganyika to Britain South West Africa to South Africa what happened chaos till the mid 1990s. Its not who has what portfolio but your economic concept that’s why its collective responsibilities. Does the president to be have an economic blue print? Now IG the VP messes who is to blame? The president of course
Having struggles to understand your comment but anyway Greek on an English forum needs not yo be translated or interpreted…its another headache.
Those who understand the principles of modern politics will agree that you concentrate and capitalise on another’s weakness. It’s a war of words and we can even see it being used in US by the president himself. China has of recent engaged in a war of words with the US. The loudest wins. We already know what the winning side needs to do when they get elected
That’s your problem. Wangosankhapo zomwe ukufuna kumva. Mfundo zakambidwa sunamve
Tonse alliance people are now behaving like cadets. refusing every advice is not politically correct.Can you change and allow other views and learn something? People spoke but it was not an ordinary meeting. People expected one agenda which will draw votes.