My Diary
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Knowing your weaknesses is a sign of strength
A story is told of how one lawmaker, then deputy Minister of Health, would dodge members of the fourth estate…
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Fearing fear itself
The first democratic president of this country—he is best remembered in those terms—Bakili Muluzi—once said our biggest problem as Malawians…
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Teachers, nurses deserve more money not MPs
It is astounding how members of Parliament (MPs) do not fail to rally together when it comes to issues involving…
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End the impunity first
There was a time prior to the 2009 elections when it was sacrilegious to even suggest that political parties must…
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You should be more than ashamed, Mr President
It is a shame what we Malawians expend our energies on sometimes. If it is not sleeping in Parliament…
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The fight of the most verbose
Two time Prime Minister of Britain, Winston Churchill, well known for his World War II speech once wrote that…
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More needed on press freedom
As journalists the world over celebrated the World Press Freedom Day on Tuesday, many observers—from politicians and diplomats to civil…
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More needed on press freedom
As journalists the world over celebrated the World Press Freedom Day on Tuesday, many observers—from politicians and diplomats to…
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No one likes deadlines, more so APM
In retrospect, the disaster that was the meeting last week between President Peter Mutharika and the Public Affairs Committee (PAC)…
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We must do away with political exhibitionism
Some people were genuinely shocked with the way the Democratic Progressive Party shamelessly turned the human disaster in Mzuzu into…
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God is not President of Malawi
At the opening of the auction floors on Wednesday, President Peter Mutharika was charged for no good reason other than…
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Our fears still haunt us
People’s Party acting president Uladi Mussa should have been smiling ear-to-ear after he got his wish—at least half of it—when…
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Rooted to the spot
On Wednesday, I took it as an early April fool’s day prank when I read that 75 people in the…
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Contradictions of thought
Dear Chachacha I am writing basically because I have problems understanding the reasoning of one APM. I have a few…
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Too hot to handle
President Peter Mutharika is a scared man. For that reason alone, we should be afraid for (and of) him—just like…
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In defence of all men
During commemorations marking the International Women’s Day on Tuesday in Nkhata Bay, Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social…
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Mr President, nili na pulobulemu
I have a problem. And it is that President Peter Mutharika has no problem. Something happened in the presidency last…
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Our circle of treason and the police
Hate them or loathe them, but the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) seem to have cultivated a reputation as past masters…
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Mutharika missing the trick
There is something akin to the surreal about what Tanzania President John Magufuli is said to be doing and achieving…
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Kachali must make up his mind
Khumbo Kachali must make up his mind. And fast! Is his long-term ambition to take over the national leadership…
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