Off the Shelf
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A country that cannot protect its doctors
Malawi has mastered one skill to perfection: holding moments of silence. Whenever tragedy strikes, we lower our heads, issue polished…
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When home offers nothing, Jozi offers a nightmare
The recent, escalating wave of anti-immigrant sentiment and violence in South Africa has resulted in thousands of Malawians fleeing their…
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Bribes, Borders, and Buses from Malawi to South Africa
A relentless conveyor-belt of hopeful Malawians sweeps to the Republic of South Africa daily. Driven by shrinking horizons and tales…
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Letter to govt on paradigm shift
relentless conveyor-belt of hopeful Malawians sweeps to the Republic of South Africa daily. Driven by shrinking horizons and tales of…
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Will the Parliamentary probe deliver closure on plane crash?
Today marks exactly two years and three days since the tragic events of June 10 2024, when a Malawi Defence…
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Stretching nothing into everything
Malawi’s economy is currently trapped in a paralysed cycle of financial crisis and structural comedy. Between the Reserve Bank of…
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Comedic, yet tragic, game of ‘who found it first’
Deeply unsettling contradictions between the Malawi Defence Force (MDF) and the Malawi Police Service (MPS) at the Nthungwa forest crash…
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The frontier of mystical burglary
Welcome to the cutting-edge frontier of mystical body-part burglary. While global scientists waste precious time on engineering artificial intelligence and…
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Why we should all bow to the Jomo-cracy
For all intents and purposes, His Worship Isaac Jomo Osman—the benevolent Mayor of Blantyre and freshly anointed Sovereign of the…
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The PAC-man chronicles: Ghostbusting with Colleen Zamba
It is truly heart-warming to witness the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament in such high spirits. In a world…
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