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Martyrs Day: Time to stop mourning?
We are here in Nkhata Bay, the headquarters of Tongaland. Everybody we meet here believes so. Slowly, we have also…
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Of crime, the Budget
So, literally, Malawi is a crime scene. Daily, there is news of robberies, gruesome murders, rape and many other crimes.…
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Is Hoho, Mbang’ombe, Sorjini in the Budget?
As I wrote this article on Thursday, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Sosten Gwengwe was presenting the K3.87 trillion…
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Men need their own space indeed!
It has been talked about, joked about and fantasised. But the idea of having a Men’s Conference in reality was…
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Time for a second green revolution
One of humanity’s biggest achievements in the last century was making a huge increase in food production. From 1900 to…
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Maize rotting in Admarc’s DNA
It has almost become an annual ritual that during the lean period—November to March—government announces that several thousand metric tonnes…
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Parliament: Empty talk show
It was clear from the word go that the 50th Session of Parliament would be the usual kindergatten talk show…
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Men need their own space indeed!
It has been talked about, joked about and fantasised. But the idea of having a Men’s Conference in reality was…
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A year of war against Ukraine
February 24 2022 will forever be remembered as the day Russia started its brutal, unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine.…
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Repairing roads, a headache
February 16 2023 As I write, the rains have reached a stage where the Department of Disaster Management (DoDMA) is…
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