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Too much for poor Malawi
Honourable Folks, the news that former president Bingu wa Mutharika amassed over K61 billion within the eight years he was…
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Too much for poor Malawi
Honourable Folks, the news that former president Bingu wa Mutharika amassed over K61 billion within the eight years he was…
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No, not again Madam President!
Honourable Folks, so JB is to be the patron of some sort of “mulhako” for her Yao tribe! What’s wrong…
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Thoko: the face of free press
Honourable Folks, the image of a female photojournalist helplessly entrapped in the vice-grip of a Goliath-like security officer, her face…
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Donors have voted for JB
Honourable Folks, the 2013 budget is amazing. Government’s spending has been projected to rise by over 50 percent but it…
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Don’t nationalise poverty
Honourable Folks, the disparity between the haves and the have-nots has been ignored for nearly 50 years we’ve been an…
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The cost of botched elections
Honourable Folks, the other day I asked a friend of mine who is quite senior at the Malawi Electoral Commission…
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The ball is in MPs court
Honourable Folks, that necessity is the mother of invention can be attested to by the awakening of Malawians to the…
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Where shall govt park the Mercs ?
Honourable Folks, government decision to replace ministerial Mercedes Benz cars with Toyota Prados came in the name of cost-cutting, a…
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Forget hand-clapping media
Honourable Folks, way back in 1999, I was among the Sadc journalists who had a stormy session with the region’s…
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Who gains from tripartite polls?
Honourable Folks, it’s now 13 months to go before the tripartite elections. Political parties are busy holding conventions to elect…
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Govt sounds petty on Madonna
Honourable Folks, I’m afraid the statement from State House on pop diva Madonna published by the dailies on Thursday lacks…
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Africa’s changing, Malawi needs 74 years?
Honourable Folks, it’s understandable why JB wants to make us believe her government’s Economic Recovery Plan (ERP) is bearing fruit…
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No more lies on poverty reduction, please
Honourable Folks, I’m not surprised government has not paid much attention to the damning Oxford University study that shows, at…
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Permission to greet supporters!
Honourable Folks, it beggars belief that 20 years after we chose the multiparty political system through a national referendum, and…
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Now’s the time to sweep police cells
Honourable Folks, listening to Nicholas Dausi the other day describe the terrible cell conditions at Lumbadzi Police Station in the…
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Shoddy polls can be costly
Honourable Folks, the one thing Kenya is good at in Africa is the innovative use of information technology. The Cheetahs…
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Indifference or lack of trust?
Honourable Folks, do the incessant labour disputes in the public sector signify a rejection of reforms? For two weeks, civil…
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Try reforms, not honorary degrees
Honourable Folks, it feels good that our President, Joyce Banda, has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree by some university…
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Recovery hinges on more reforms
Honourable Folks, I have never doubted the necessity of devaluation and floatation of the kwacha. Not because these are the…
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