Accountability Hub
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Keeping our politicians honest
If your family’s WhatsApp group admin is up to their job, you will have seen pictures of Amai and members…
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Restriction of political rights: a repeat of history
This week the Deputy Registrar of Political Parties rejected an application by UTM to register as a political party. The…
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Lining up behind our amayi
The primary season is now in full swing. Party members are keenly choosing representatives for the 2019 elections. It is…
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Lining up behind our amayi
The primary season is now in full swing. Party members are keenly choosing representatives for the 2019 elections. It is…
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Regime under siege: Protection of political speech
News of the withdrawal of criminal charges against Manes Hale, popularly known on social networks as Abiti Manice, represents a…
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On quota based selection to public universities
The big bang launch of the United Transformation Movement (UTM) at Masintha Ground in Lilongwe has had one important effect.…
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Into the coffers 3.0
I intended to write about the 145. But I changed my mind and settled on writing about electoral authoritarianism. I changed…
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Into the coffers 3.0
I intended to write about the 145. But I changed my mind and settled on writing about electoral authoritarianism. I…
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Explaining the 145
Three weeks ago, social media was alive with the sound of fury against the Presidency. A leaked report from one…
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A plea for the legal profession to cleanse itself
Last weekend, the legal profession scored an own goal after a conversation among some lawyers admitting to corruption within the…
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A plea for the legal profession to cleanse itself
Last weekend, the legal profession scored an own goal after a conversation among some lawyers admitting to corruption within the…
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Anatomy of Malawi’s politics of anti-development
Lamentations of Malawi’s dismal performance on socio-economic development are widespread and glaring. On social media, the narratives are even hysterical.…
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Anatomy of Malawi’s politics of anti-development
Lamentations of Malawi’s dismal performance on socio-economic development are widespread and glaring. On social media, the narratives are even hysterical.…
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Anatomy of Malawi’s politics of anti-development
Lamentations of Malawi’s dismal performance on socio-economic development are widespread and glaring. On social media, the narratives are even hysterical.…
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Defending the Republic
Our nation is in dire straits. Our children are killed by falling masonry in dilapidated schools; our mothers die in…
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Can the judiciary be held accountable by Parliament?
Last week Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee was reported to have announced its plan to haul the Chief Justice before it…
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Bio constitutional algorithm
The French intellectual, Michel Foucault, expounded a thesis on knowledge and power; and more precisely ‘power–knowledge’. For present purposes and…
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Kicking the rascals out?
In the pantheon of democratic theory and practice, elections are lauded as the ultimate form of accountability for elected duty…
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Serving with purpose
On Saturday March 31, Ian Khama stepped down as the president of Botswana as his term ended ahead of next…
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The Inviolability of Parliament
The unanimous decision Parliament took this week that tough action be taken against a group of party thugs who disrupted…
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