Off the Shelf
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Bishop opening an old wound
Should we say the devil got the better of the leader of the Redeemed Church International Bishop Henry Bwanali when…
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Criminals belong in a jail!
In the last but one issue of Weekend Nation, Off the Shelf carried an article which among other issues suggested…
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Wake up call for public servants
We are still in the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence (GBV) period. This is the period Malawi…
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Send rapists, defilers to mental hospital first
Sixteen Days of Activism is an annual ritual we observe with so much gusto. During the commemoration Malawi joins the…
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Of AIP woes and Bushiris’ saga
Three issues dominated the media space this week. At the local level, logistical hurdles rocking the distribution of the Affordable…
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Make AIP registration transparent
I may not be very conversant with the nitty-gritty of how the Affordable Input Programme (AIP)—the successor programme for the…
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Tough times; tough decisions
Tough issues require tough decisions. This is the scenario in which President Lazarus Chakwera, exercising his executive powers, has decisively…
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No excuses on cheap fertilizer programme
We have all been hooked to the idea that IMF is an institution that provides policy advice and financing to…
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No more token funding to governance bodies
There is growing voice calling out for adequate funding to governance institutions to fight graft in the country. But if…
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Boards should hit the ground running
First and foremost, my heartfelt congratulations to all those who have made it into various boards of parastatal organisations. President…
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On rejecting abortion Bill and condoms
Members of Parliament as individuals and Parliament as a bloc, recently decided on two things. One very critical, and which…
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Boards should hit the ground running
First and foremost, my heartfelt congratulations to all those who have made it into various boards of parastatal organisations. President…
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Looking beyond the proposed MPs’ houses
In the State of the Nation Address (Sona) President Lazarus Chakwera made last Friday, one of the issues he mentioned…
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How deep is our democracy?
How deep is our democracy? How tolerant are we to one another? One thing I learned from the few times…
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Why DPP should quickly resolve its squabbles
This week’s events in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) show that all is not well in the former ruling party.…
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Threat in seeking to please
22 August 2020 The Greek storyteller Aesop in a fable, The Miller, His Son and Their Son, goes all the…
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Energise ACB, other governance bodies
As the Tonse administration prepares the 2020/21 national budget, it will do well to listen to the voice calling out…
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Crying wolf over spilt milk
Two issues—may be three—have been making the rounds this past week. One is the cost of the election nullification case…
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Don’t forgive thieves, looters
There are quite a few of them around. They do nothing of note other than seeking publicity and speaking for…
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Tonse be ware of rent-seeking behaviour
The Tonse Alliance administration should be wary of getting infiltrated with public purse plunderers in the immediate past administration. The…
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