My Diary
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On President’s pleasure to pardon
April 3 2024 Dear Diary, Pardon, they say, is the best gift one can ever get. Not only does it…
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On President’s pleasure to pardon
April 3 2024 Dear Diary, Pardon, they say, is the best gift one can ever get. Not only does it…
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Lessons from Salima boy story
There is a video that was doing rounds on social media. It showed a boy being punished after he was…
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Deadlines on sugar needed
Dear Diary, Tomorrow, as Plutarch and Shakespeare would tell you, is the Ides of March, the day a soothsayer predicted…
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There are no martyrs among you
Dear Diary, An old American army ballad has been turned into a saying popularized by General Douglas MacArthur: “Old soldiers…
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Corruption as an elephant
February 29 2024 Dear Diary, A story is told of two men who went into a museum way back. In…
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MPs, too, will lose out on passports
Dear Diary, As I write, the heat is so intense as if we were in October. Maize is wilting in…
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For the post turtle politicians
Dear Diary, As I write, Thyolo Thava member of Parliament Mary Navicha has just finished giving a record-breaking one-minute response…
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Oh hail! Che Lilian Patel
Dear Diary, Do they still call it serendipity? I guess so. While I was setting my mind to appreciate the…
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100 ways to miss Atcheya
January 25 2024 Dear Diary, As I write a tent and carpet from State House that were stolen en route…
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Find Chilembwe’s burial place
January 18 2024 Dear Diary, As I write, President Lazarus Chakwera has just finished speaking after a tree-planting exercise in…
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Chithyola Banda’s sosisanomics
Dear Diary, It appears some oddities of 2023 have spilt over into 2024. Look, for instance, at how suicide cases…
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Bring on the arts council
So, Dear Diary, January is wasted four days already! What an eventful year this one promises to be with the…
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Just leave the mountains
21 December 2023 December 11 was International Mountain Day, and this year’s theme was ‘Restoring mountain ecosystem’. There could be…
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Chakwera must try Ching’aning’ani
December 14 2023 Dear Diary, So, it appears the Malawi political circus is just replaying itself. Just this week, we…
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The rise and rise of kaunjika chickens
It has been said time without number that the gap between the rich and the poor is so wide. From…
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Cry the beloved voter
November 23 2023 Dear Diary, like I always say, I forsake some temptations that I don’t succumb to when putting…
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Cushioning devaluation
November 16 2023 So, it would appear Malawi had news from President Lazarus Chakwera on Wednesday night. Apart from news…
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Aboard Chilima’s bullet train
During the fresh presidential elections campaign, UTM leader Saulos Chilima used to talk a lot about the Tonse Alliance introducing…
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Unity, not mere absence of division
Dear Diary, As I write, President Lazarus Chakwera is at the Chilimampunga Ground in Lilongwe’s populous Mtandire. He has been…
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