My Turn
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Protect jobs and pensions
Covid-19 keeps exerting pressure on the world of work and pension funds. The coronavirus disease has disrupted economies worldwide. Malawi…
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Make breastfeeding work
This week is international breastfeeding week. According to the 2015 Demographic and Health Survey (MDHS), Malawi is experiencing declining exclusive…
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Cementing Covid response
By July 29, Malawi had 107 from 3 858 confirmed coronavirus cases. Locally transmitted cases are higher than imported. Some…
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Tidy cities Umuganda-style
How time flies! Just two decades ago, garbage was a common sight in Kigali and other Rwandan cities. Gone are…
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Sexual harassment at work
T humbs up to Catherine Kunje, the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) employee, for courageously sharing a personal experience with sexual…
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Unlock better Malawi now
With hope and enthusiasm for change, Malawians on June 23 elected Lazarus Chakwera as the sixth President of Malawi and…
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Invest in agri-research
Agriculture is the backbone of Malawi’s economy. It accounts for 31 percent of gross domestic product, 90 percent of its…
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A story in black and white
Malawi is the cover girl among African countries following her political crisis that ended in the continent’s first rerun presidential…
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Power of Africa storytelling
Addressing owners of slaves on `banks of James River in the colony of Virginia on December 25 1712, British slave…
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Greed and Covid-19
Since March 11 when the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus outbreak as a global pandemic, the world…
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Keep first ladies in check
In Malawi, there is no constitutional role for Presidents’ wives, but the citizenry must critically monitor what they do. The…
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Open letter to Chakwera
Dear His Excellency, I hope this letter finds you and Vice-President Saulos Chilima busy drafting your first 100 days’ plans…
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It’s an honour
F ootball unites Malawians and this is the reason newly ejected president Peter Mutharika delivered buses and promises of stadia…
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Adapt to new normal
The coronavirus outbreak is real. Peer reviewed scientific studies attest to this reality. The novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) discovered in…
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Five gaps in Covid projections
The World Health Organisation declared coronavirus a pandemic on March 11. By June, the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) discovered in China…
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Greed wrecks business resilience
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have witnessed an unprecedented and devastating slowdown on business activity worldwide. Of…
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Creating a reading-centered system
In an ideal situation, a child by the age of 10 should at least be able to read and write.…
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Covid-aware social protection
The coronavirus pandemic discovered in Wuhan last December has been termed ‘China disease’ the same way Ebola has been christened…
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Panel beating Malawi
Panel beaters are essential workers. They repair wrecked vehicle bodies back to their factory state. This is what the independent…
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Letter to police commission
Iimplore the Malawi Police Service Commission to start treating its employees equally and urgently put its house in order to…
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