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Of activists and fuel price hike
Some organisations masquerade as rights campaigners. Their job seems to be well cut out as being to demonise and rubbish…
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A promise is a credit, Mr. Attorney General
Tuesday this week, was another dark day for media freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of opinion and right to privacy…
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Who will stop the vultures?
The Malawi Parliament on Wednesday approved the 2022/23 K2.84 trillion National Budget. This effectively gives ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs)…
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‘Let’s finish unbundling Unima and move on’
On September 8 2020, Vice President Saulos Chilima declared: “Let’s finish unbundling Unima (University of Malawi) and move on”. This…
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Don’t frustrate our Martha
As I wrote this article on Thursday, some Malawians, fed up with decades-long lip service by successive regimes to fight…
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Now I know why PAC is baying for someone’s blood
Now this is getting very interesting. The quasi-religious body, the Public Affairs Committee (PAC), wants Secretary to the President and…
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Proof of the pudding is in the eating
My main interest in the 2022/23 national budget is how the money in the national resource envelope will be protected…
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Malawi’s better ranking on corruption could deceive it
Corruption is indisputably one of the biggest vices rocking the 18 million Malawians today. It’s not Covid-19. And it’s not…
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Stormy week at Plot No 1
The past one-and-a half weeks have been a stormy for President Lazarus Chakwera when he has had to deal with…
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Marauding wolves in sheep’s skin
By its mandate and composition, the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) ought to be more proactive as opposed to reactive in…
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Sulking APM should deflate his big ego
Former president Peter Mutharika’s no show at the funeral of former first lady Annie Muluzi shows something is not right…
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A must-do list for Tonse Alliance in 2022
For a majority of Malawians, as shown in mainstream as well as social media, 2021 was a tough year. I…
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Water is not cheap in Malawi
Someone please tell Minister of Forestry, Environment and Natural Resources Nancy Tembo, boards and managements of all water boards in…
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Chisa Mbele, good-for-nothing attention-seeker
There is this man called Joshua Chisa Mbele. I don’t know him very well, and I have never spoken to…
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Smile not at heartless thieves
President Lazarus Chakwera’s resolve for his administration to investigate some government loans acquired before he became President should not be…
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MRA caught flat-footed on VAT
The hullaballoo about VAT on non-banking services is most unfortunate. But perhaps it is not very surprising for the fumbling…
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Welcome to the land of absurd policies
COVID-19 HITS HARD Malawi is a land of absurd policies, so says our life leader of delegation, the one and…
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The devil Tonse must kiss
The country’s public debt evolution shows regimes throw caution to the wind towards and during elections. This has clearly been…
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Of politicising Mulhakho
Why should anyone be surprised that Mulhako wa Alhomwe and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) are one and the same?…
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When you plant yams, you harvest yams
The much-hyped Ras Kansengwa-Makhadzi photographs fiasco, from the Sand Music Festival at Nkopola in Mangochi last weekend, sounds like someone…
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