Back Bencher
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Parastatal reforms or joke?
Hon. Folks, I never lived a moment to doubt that parastatals need changes of reformational — if not outright revolutionary…
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Opportunities in intellectual budget
Honarable Folks, what’s an intellectual budget? Finance minister Goodall Gondwe used the term at a pre-budget consultation meeting in Lilongwe…
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BWB snoring on the job
Honourable Folks, a question to folks at the helm of Blantyre Water Board (BWB): would they, in this 21st Century,…
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How to be self-reliant in 5 years
Honourable. Folks, hats off to government for regaining the confidence of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which has announced the…
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‘Zaboma’ mindset must change
Hon. Folks, allow me to say “thank you” to President Peter Mutharika, former President Bakili Muluzi, Information Minister Kondwani Nankhumwa,…
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On 2nd anniversary of arrest for treason
Honourable Folks, what would make APM, a law scholar to boot, and six ministers—who together make up 35 percent of…
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Why separate holidays for Chilembwe and Martyrs?
Honourable Folks, a younger friend asked me on Wednesday why we commemorate Martyr’s Day on 3rd March and Chilembwe Day…
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My take on APM’s remarks on the media
Honourable Folks, I’m compelled to respond to a by-the-way comment on media relations with government made by HE Prof Arthur…
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Reforms, yes but wait…
Honourable Folks, the power-point illustration was poignant: a flock of birds flying home in an orderly formation, following the leader.…
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Expose the honourable thieves!
Honourable Folks, the February sitting of Parliament is in progress and the public is waiting with bated breath for the…
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On 1% eating half the global cake
Honourable Folks, when I first heard about one percent of the world population owning half of the global wealth, leaving…
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Who to blame for story on fish kill?
Honourable Folks, there is no denying that the sight of dead fish in Lake Malawi in December agitated the folks…
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Why Malawi hasn’t fixed it?
Honourable Folks, I like the direction the discourse on fixing Malawi is taking. DD Phiri on Monday asked: If Burkina…
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Fixing Malawi: The 20:80 Rule
Honourable Folks, we have entered 2015 with the saying “a hungry person is an angry person” going ding dong like…
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Let ‘fix it’ be slogan for 2015!
Honourable Folks, 2014 harboured lots of hope. There were tripartite elections that promised to bring back ward councillors and city…
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Aren’t some demands childish?
Honourable Folks, in 2004 the late Bingu wa Mutharika pledged to adopt a zero-tolerance for corruption policy and won the…
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It is all doom and gloom!
Honourable folks on Thursday Malawian daily papers carried shocking news to all who wish this country well. The papers reported…
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Lutepo vs JB: Who to believe?
Honourable Folks, ever since Oswald Lutepo came out and implicated former president Joyce Banda in the Cashgate, the reaction has…
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Stitching our torn hope for the better
Honourable Folks, the MRA revenue performance report for October (as published both in The Nation and The Daily Times of November 18 2014) shows…
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It’s now ‘trade, not aid’
Honourable Folks, not all of us can have the opportunity to see how the 2015/15 National Budget has rolled out,…
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