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Restriction of political rights: a repeat of history
This week the Deputy Registrar of Political Parties rejected an application by UTM to register as a political party. The…
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Regime under siege: Protection of political speech
News of the withdrawal of criminal charges against Manes Hale, popularly known on social networks as Abiti Manice, represents a…
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A plea for the legal profession to cleanse itself
Last weekend, the legal profession scored an own goal after a conversation among some lawyers admitting to corruption within the…
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A plea for the legal profession to cleanse itself
Last weekend, the legal profession scored an own goal after a conversation among some lawyers admitting to corruption within the…
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Can the judiciary be held accountable by Parliament?
Last week Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee was reported to have announced its plan to haul the Chief Justice before it…
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The Inviolability of Parliament
The unanimous decision Parliament took this week that tough action be taken against a group of party thugs who disrupted…
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Ending the criminalisation of democracy in Malawi
The electoral fever has unmistakably set on, just about a year to general and presidential elections. But what we are…
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MCP’s embarrassing factionalism
T he internal squabbles currently taking place in the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) are at once an indication that the…
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MCP’s embarrassing factionalism
The internal squabbles currently taking place in the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) are at once an indication that the party…
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Lessons from recent presidential elections in Africa
Kenya and Liberia recently held presidential elections which were protracted by legal contestations of the kind we witnessed in the…
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Threat to constitutionalism
As the government continues to drag its feet on the issue of enacting the amply substantiated electoral reforms, it has…
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Of tribal associations and politics in Malawi
It has now become fashionable in Malawi for ethnic groups to form tribal associations. Following the first tribal associations…
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The ‘offensive placard’: Whither progress on gender-based violence?
The struggle to eliminate gender-based violence is essentially a revolt against culture and accepted morality. This is what makes the…
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Injunctions, development and constitutionalism
At a recent State ceremony where two newly-appointed judges of the High Court were sworn in, the President of Malawi…
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The demagogic Western revolt against globalisation
Brexit gave formal expression to the growing public revolt against globalisation in the West. Not to be outdone, the United…
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Oil discovery and expectations
It is easy to be overly excited with the recent hype about the discovery of oil and gas deposits in…
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50+1: A ruse or necessary reform?
One of the electoral reforms the Malawi Law Commission has proposed for parliamentary consideration is that the President must be…
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Chichewa
Agwidwa ‘ukapolo’ ku Ntchisi
Madzi achita katondo kwa T/A Malenga m’boma la Ntchisi komwe Gulupu Malenga, Peku Wakuda ndi Munkana aletsa anthu a…
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The criminal political culture and service provision
Why is it that Malawian politicians feel compelled to steal from the State on a massive scale, repeatedly, with impunity,…
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On the accountability of NGOs
The question of the accountability of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has a tendency to polarise opinion. Some people feel strongly that…
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