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Kalindo riding on 2025 campaign wave
It is no longer a secret that politician-cum-comedian Bon Kalindo is not someone to be trusted or taken seriously. Once…
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On Mombera fraud ACB has the simplest of jobs
Interesting things have always been happening about the Mombera University whose name has now changed to Inkosi ya Makhosi M’mbelwa…
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Off the Shelf
Street kids indeed a menace but more to it
This week, I sit back to allow two followers of Off the Shelf, Mwangi Mwamkenenge Musukwa and Reagan Kaluluma, to…
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Off the Shelf
Police, street kids and crime
Streets kids have become a real menace in Blantyre’s central business district (CBD) and residential areas. They have been unleashing…
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Pension for MPs is self-serving, shamelessness
It has been a bad week for the forex, fuel and cement, et cetera-starved Malawi, on the back of a…
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Of the Likaomba Otherathu syndrome
This week, some of the countr y’s pub l i c universities announced fees adjustments for generic undergraduates and mature…
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How incumbency is abused in Malawi
There is no doubt that it is highly rewarding to be a ruling party in Malawi. Bakili Muluzi, the first…
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Benefits of being a governing party in Malawi
There is no doubt that it is highly rewarding to be a ruling party in Malawi. Bakili Muluzi, the first…
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Off the Shelf
Graft fight in 30 years of multiparty dispensation
Governance and accountability institutions such as the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), the Financial Intelligence Authority, the Ombudsman, the Malawi Human Rights…
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Off the Shelf
ED was in Malawi not on holiday
Historically, Malawi has economically benefited more from Zimbabwe than vice-versa. The trend is likely to remain so for the unforeseeable…
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Off the Shelf
Only in Nyasaland do refugees stay like citizens
Some 8 000 refugees are living in rural and urban locations of Malawi, according to the United Nations High Commissioner…
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Off the Shelf
More on SKC 2025 eligibility
My last entry: SKC, 2025 candidacy, law, touched some raw nerves but also excited others. I expected both kinds of…
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High water tariffs to cover inefficiency
This week, Government nodded to the country’s water boards’ request to raise water tariffs. The development comes three months after…
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The flip side of federalism push
The debate on federalism has been simmering for a long time. Unlike in the past when proponents were only keen…
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Cyclone Freddy is history repeating itself
Tropical cyclones are not new in Malawi. Historical records show that in 1946 a cyclone hit the country, causing loss…
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Off the Shelf
Tonse busy fixing what was not broken
“There are also fears that the decommissioning of Aggreko machines will result in massive load shedding but no this is…
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Off the Shelf
Goodall, APM too old for active politics
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), as the government-in-waiting, needs to speak with one voice in and outside Parliament to continue…
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Bottom Up
Barking wrong tree on Flames losses
Catcalls for the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) to fire Flames coach Mario Marinica after the Flames’ back-to-back 2-0 and…
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Mammoth task of returning life to normal after cyclone
So far, the main occupation for government, well-wishers and families following Tropical Cyclone Freddy has been burying the dead—511 as…
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The things we learn when we are dead
The unbridled disdain of and disregard for city by-laws by some citizens can aptly be described as the cause of…
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