Accountability Hub
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Can you speak and read the English language?
One of the new land laws enacted by Parliament last year is the Customary Land Act, 2016. Among other things,…
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What are we about?
Is there anything that makes us special as Malawians? Or we are so unremarkable that soon history will forget who…
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So we can’t even pay for our democracy?
So, the Electoral Commission (EC) has announced that it will not hold the by-elections in Lilongwe and Dedza. This in…
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Oil discovery and expectations
It is easy to be overly excited with the recent hype about the discovery of oil and gas deposits in…
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50+1: A ruse or necessary reform?
One of the electoral reforms the Malawi Law Commission has proposed for parliamentary consideration is that the President must be…
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‘The people’ matter very much!
In one of the books foundational to a religion quite prevalent in this country, a story is told of a…
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The importance of subversion for this democracy
Speaking in Parliament on February 24 2017, Juliana Lunguzi, the Malawi Congress Party MP for Dedza East constituency, suggested that…
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Active citizenship: The missing link
The making of the Constitution of 1994 was preceded by the drama of citizenship. Between 1991 and 1993, Malawi was…
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A dire poverty of leadership
Some may feel hurt but the truth is that Malawi remains a very poor country. We are still in contention…
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The criminal political culture and service provision
Why is it that Malawian politicians feel compelled to steal from the State on a massive scale, repeatedly, with impunity,…
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On the accountability of NGOs
The question of the accountability of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has a tendency to polarise opinion. Some people feel strongly that…
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What Justice Kapindu said in Lutepo’s sentencing?
Lutepo was a young successful businessman and thus contributed positively, for a while at least, to the Malawian economy. He…
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‘It takes a thief to catch a thief’: Plea bargaining in the Cashgate context Part II
There is no doubt that plea bargains are crucial to the administration of justice. Few criminals commit crimes with the…
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‘It takes a thief to catch a thief’: Plea bargaining in the Cashgate context
Media reports about Cashgate suspects who have pleaded guilty and implicated other suspects have divided public opinion on the legality…
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The vice-presidency: A poisoned chalice? (Part III)
In the last two articles of this column, I have tried to make the point that the vice-presidency in Malawi…
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The criminal political culture and service provision
Why is it that Malawian politicians feel compelled to steal from the State on a massive scale, repeatedly, with…
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The vice-presidency: A poisoned chalice? (Part II)
To understand why our Constitution protects the tenure of the vice-president, one needs to grasp two forms of democracy: representative…
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It’s not Mutharika’s project; it’s ours
During the launch of the construction works for Lilongwe Old Airport-Kasiya-Santhe Road on Thursday, there was so much sycophancy on…
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The Vice Presidency: The poisoned chalice? (Part 1)
The vice-presidency in Malawi is a high constitutional office that has been robbed of its significance largely by myopic political…
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On the accountability of NGOs
The question of the accountability of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has a tendency to polarise opinion. NGOs demand others to be…
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