My Diary
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What more rot must happen?
Once again the citizenry is being regalled with news of theft and exploitation of the poor of such disgusting magnitude…
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Making a mockery of public service reforms
As of Monday, the public service has three people enjoying the benefits that come with the Grade A status bestowed…
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Malawians have become timid, too passive
In some parts of Southern Africa, Malawians are known as the most easily duped and conned by smart nationals…
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Politics of the stomach
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is this week supposedly celebrating a coup that in essence is really a curse and…
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There must be an end to the Unima saga
It is now three months since students of The Polytechnic left the campus in protest of the hiked tuition fees…
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If not the Chancellor then who?
At the height of the academic freedom saga in 2011 when lecturers at Chancellor College of the University of…
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US elections thrilled, but remember 2019 beckons
Politics and elections across the Atlantic have come and gone and the world awaits the cold that inevitably comes with…
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How shall we behave?
Life presents us with dilemmas requiring us to make choices. In decision-making, we generally pursue our own interests before the…
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The by-election results were inevitable
Another by-election has come and gone and the results are not shocking. The Vice-President, who was roped in to create…
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Looking on as evil triumphs
It was Irish Parliamentarian Edward Burke who is credited with the quote “the only thing necessary for the triumph of…
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Where was the President in all this?
It is nearly a week since President Peter Mutharika touched down at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwe welcomed by…
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So it takes 12 497km to solve our problems?
In 2016, at the height of satellite communications, a somewhat fast albeit expensive Internet and data connection, it has become…
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Riding a dead horse since 1964
It remains unclear whether there is a grain of truth to the famous tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians which…
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Things falling apart in MCP
The National Executive Committee meeting of the oldest political party in the land, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has come and…
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Practising cronyism with wild abandon
Once upon a time in this country we had 42 Cabinet ministers. At the height of public protests and discontent…
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Who will protect an ordinary Malawian?
There is a tendency by politicians to blow issues out of proportion which in turn the public does not take…
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The tirades are becoming tedious
We are at a stage again where like a school playground, we are watching two boys fighting over whose father…
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10 years of wastage, betrayal
From that 2006 afternoon drama on the tarmac of Kamuzu International Airport when former president Bakili Muluzi was unceremoniously…
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Diversionary tactics will not work, Mr President
In the prelude to the July 20 2011 demonstrations and at the height of the public discontent and planned demonstrations…
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The making of a dictator
It does not bode well for Malawians who lived through the era of Kamuzu Banda to hear a whole Attorney…
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