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Which way youth militias?
Hon Folks, Malawi at 52 still invokes the muse in my head, or is it the heart? First, it‘s government’s…
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Welcome to Malawi at 52
Hon Folks, Malawi at 52 invokes mixed feelings. There’s the pride of being independent the value of which, if…
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Shouldn’t be about laying foundation stones!
Hon Folks, what constitutes development in Malawi? Adamson Muula, in the last issue of Nation on Sunday, observed that development…
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What’s in the cupboard—skeletons?
Hon Folks, when assuming office in 2004 Bingu wa Mutharika won the hearts of many who had denied him the…
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If not for media, do it for voters
Hon Folks, it’s time the honourable members were told, with due respect, that their stand on Access to Information (ATI)…
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More milk from withered teats?
Hon Folks, as MPs are busy scrutinising the trillion kwacha budget bit by bit, it’s worth asking: how come, despite…
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Flip side to 2016 budget
Hon Folks, the K1. 1 trillion fiscal blue-print as presented by Goodall Gondwe last Friday still begs one question: where…
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Will ACB bark for once, please?
Folks, the housing scam in which the office of the Speaker of Parliament is embroidered in needs not drag on…
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Passionate plea for umunthu
Hon Folks, global pressure to uphold the sanctity of life made Kamuzu Banda’s successors champions of the global campaign against…
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Nothing to accept in adulterated ATI Bill
Hon Folks, last weekend Malawian journalists were in Mangochi celebrating their press freedom which remains entrapped in the Constitution. Minister…
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Of empty talk and beggar’s bowl
Hon. Folks, I bet APM has a good reason to accuse his cronies of mediocrity even in their area of…
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What a weird excuse!
Hon. Folks, APM’s decision to act against his campaign pledge to hem the presidency of power excesses including the hiring…
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They threatened consequences, remember?
Hon Folks, the news that London won’t be getting back to budget support even if all the holes on Malawi’s…
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Prayer Warrior President?
Hon Folks, did APM play a prank to make us April fools or was it real? On April 1 the…
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It’s the economy, not lecturers
Hon Folks, a University Council press statement on a 30 percent pay hike demand by Polytechnic lecturers (The Nation of…
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Lesson on simplicity
Hon Folks, did you too see Barack Obama holding an umbrella upon alighting Air Force One in Havana, Cuba recently?…
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Shunning papers? No ‘pulobulemu’!
Hon Folks, for once APM has found some common ground with his nemesis, JB—a pathological hate for Malawian newspapers. At…
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Where’s Malawi we ditched Kamuzu for?
Hon Folks, it’s not right—and definitely not anticipated in the democratic dispensation—for government to tax the little its hard-working citizens…
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Something to learn from Magufuli
Hon. Folks, Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe won an easy applause simply by saying the obvious—we’re broke, can’t squeeze a tambala…
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Tip on ATI Bill: don’t pass it!
Hon Folks, the gazetted Access to Information Bill is grossly adulterated and, if passed by Parliament, will only guarantee access…
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