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Are we a socialist economy?
At the peak of the cold war, there were two Germanys— East and West. One had a market based economy,…
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An appropriate solution can be found
In 2015, I had the opportunity to visit a government press of an African country. That time, I was the…
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Unfollowed systems are useless
As I drove through the Haile Selassie Road in Central Blantyre last Sunday evening, a peculiar absence struck me with…
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Leave motor racing to non-passenger vehicles
I travelled to Lilongwe last weekend, leaving Blantyre on Friday afternoon and returning on Sunday morning. I used Kwezy coaches…
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Poverty has the tendency to be self-perpetuating
“Poverty is a crime….. some of the poor black brothers suffer all the time…..” – Andrew Tosh, 1988. While the…
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Our ethnicity should be ceremonial only
Visiting the genocide memorial centre in Kigali, Rwanda, is as sobering as it is harrowing and debilitating. The centre graphically…
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Are we partakers in mankind’s giant leap?
In his speech of May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy of the United States of America stated that America…
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Dowa wheat: Past and present
The recent harvesting of wheat in Dowa has both a historical significance and a future importance. Not many people gave…
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Government should respect private enterprise
We have seen, in the past week or two, an invitation to those who are able, to express their interest…
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Governments are lousy economic players
Last week, a report was presented in Parliament, to the effect that Malawi had lost out on the possibility of…
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We would do well with decent public transport
Our intra city public transport is dogged by many problems— unreliable schedules, arrogance of operators on the roads, ugly scramble…
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Importance of followership – part three
We conclude the discussion of followership this week by focusing on important attributes followers are expected to exhibit— creativity. It…
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The importance of followership–part one
One of our democratic presidents said that leading a country was no child play, meaning that it was not for…
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‘The chicken is a fool’
I get woken up in the morning by the singing of birds that have built their nests in some cavities…
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Whence the prosperity we all desire to get?
When an extraordinary son of a carpenter from Nazareth cal led his followers 2,000 years ago, He did not promise…
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Kamuzu never gave up
We commemorate Kamuzu Day today in honour of the founding father of this nation. Not only was Kamuzu a true…
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Not even in a hundred years
For hundreds of years the nation of Israel waited for a special messenger of God, who would come to introduce…
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We can tame the forex situation
That we have daunting economic problems in Malawi is well documented and needs no further elaboration. Almost all our economic…
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We should match words with action
If we just managed to do half of the things we talk about in Malawi, we would be a great…
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The infamous napolo occurrences
The power of huge volumes of water should never be underestimated. A little water in a bottle or a cup…
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