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Our national love for freebies
Besides our purported warm-heartedness, another characteristic that defines us, as Malawians, is our for love free things. We want donors…
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We are all Lutepos
When Oswald Lutepo was jailed last week for 11 years for money laundering and conspiracy to defraud government, quite a…
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PP’s inside conundrum
The People’s Party (PP) seems singularly-minded to self-destruct before the next tripartite elections. And, I must admit, they are doing…
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Who really killed Bingu?
During a memorial service in honour of former president, the late BinguwaMutharika, in May, former Minister of Information Kondwani Nankhumwa…
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Even cockroaches have leaders
Monday’s coup d’état in the People’s Party (PP) seemed like the right thing to do. PP’s leader, Joyce Banda,…
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Sometimes crime pays
Unless I am grossly misinformed—which I am not—encroachment presupposes that a person occupies or enters another person’s property without their…
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My Diary
Out of chaos rose opportunities
In early March this year, Minister of Transport and Public Works Francis Kasaila raised his hands about the endemic corruption…
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We don’t need chiefs—anywhere
President Peter Mutharika has not achieved much since he was elected in May 2014. In the past fortnight, however, he…
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Front Page
INTERVIEW: Let Malawians judge Mutharika
CHACHACHA MUNTHALI engaged former President JOYCE BANDA on her involvement in the Cashgate, her ‘exile’ and other issues in this…
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Some criminals have all the luck
Something about the arrest of Kondwani Guta, a police officer serving suspension for robbery, and the death of Perekani…
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Not out of the woods yet
President Peter Mutharika should be wondering if his family is afflicted with some curse that everyone should throw ultimatums…
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Confused about trivia, seriously!
President Peter Mutharika just loves to pick fights he cannot win. And, boy, does he love picking them with…
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When puppet masters flee
On a day like this last year, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) reclaimed the government from the ill-fated and clumsy…
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Nankhumwa is no Goebbels
I fail to understand why the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) tries so hard to make itself hated. And they will stop…
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Columns
Folly of political yoyos
Someone should jostle Harry Mkandawire into life. Seriously. While all of us know he is headed, even sleepwalking, towards the…
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Columns
As scandalous as they come
On a scale of one to 10, I am caught in sixes and sevens about which is the most mind-numbing…
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So foul and so violent
When it comes to sabre-rattling, John Kapito, Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) executive director, prides himself as the part master…
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Not just some lousy dinner
What other information does the State House—or even the Democratic Progressive Party—chuck out at us that is either wrong or…
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What Kachama ought to have said
You could say—and probably get away with it—that Inspector General of Police Lexten Kachama is a lucky man whose luck…
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Ask what you can do…
A politician—a Malawian politician—is just one plunge from political grace away from turning prisoner. In a game of survival that…
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