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Blantyre-based businessman, Richard Chaponda has dragged to court FDH Bank for breaching loan contract and the High Court has since...
We have devised some of these terms on ourselves to be second class citizen and have passed this inferiority complex to our children.Everything that looks super and nice is related to the mzungu.A very big tasty guava,A very big beautiful looking dog,A big chicken and any good looking thing is termed chachizungu even some nice foods bought locally and cooked well are termed chachizungu.Its a mindset we have grown with.Even kids are taught to abandon their mother tongue for a white man language.You find some families struggling communicating with their kids in a queen’s language and even some adults in… Read more »
iam black and working abroad and am called an expatriate, so dont use your experience to stereotype all of us blacks.
We can only be called expatriate if Malawians open companies outside Malawi and get people to work there or if Malawi become rich and donate to other countries like grants and take Malawians/ Africa fill most of the top jobs on those projects, but as it is, the poorest country, and continent who would want to learn frm a third world man? Take for example, Malawi, MTL used to host people frm Botswana, RSA, ZIM etc in a telecommunication sch called Mult-Country behind Mesium at Chichiri, but due to the poorer Malawi used to be since multiparty politics, these other… Read more »
They get more respect and paid more that us blacks, even if they have less academic qualification, simply because we Africans are like children; we can not do things well on our own. Take primary education or agriculture for example. We have the man power and other resources to make them function well. But we can not build the schools, or maintain them, or supply them with textbooks and chalk, let alone pay the teachers in time. The lake is all before use, but we can not put the land under irrigation and produce enough to feed ourselves and sell… Read more »
Much as this article is coming from a well meaning and an ambitious mind, it is very difficult to defend the mediocre way on how citizen from low socioeconomic countries conduct themselves. Africans and/or citizens from low socioeconomic status countries don’t need to verbally demand their rightful place in the global set up. We, as citizens from low socioeconomic status countries, need to change the mediocre way we conduct ourselves if we really want the respect citizens from high income countries enjoy. Our actions and not words will speak louder. Just imagine the high levels of corruption, poor service delivery.… Read more »
In my opinion an expatriate is a professional sent by an organisation from one country to another usually but not always with skils not readily avalaibl. I haver seen several Black expats in our country. However highly Educated one may be if you enter another country on your own looking for a job and find one do not expect expatriate status.
That’s a very good subject .the only person who’s good to dealing with this problem is best man him self .Robert Mugabe.forward and long live mr president
The white people are principled and respect their office. Imagine ur giving statement at a Police station n the officers office rings she answers the phone starts chatting in front of all the people jokes giggles hung up and tells you to start from where you stopped. Punctuality does not count they will attend all the funerals down business during working hours. Professionalism none coupled with laz fare attitude disqualifies us from being expats. U can spend hours at a govt office bfo being attended to by either a rude nurse or an angry officer so what is yr story?
I have been working with a consultant from abroad. All he does is coming in office at 9.30 have his 2 packets of cigarettes and at 3.00 goes drinking with prostitutes. He does nothing and he is so lazy. Thanks to the Malawians in his capacity who do all the work for him.
A rare case
The problem here is that our trained engineers are lazy. They are just maintenance engineers. They like contracting each project so that they get something after. Povertly indeed. Everyday you see them in suit and always In office looking at ponngraphic photo on the computer instead of being out the field.