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Incentives for civil servants
In 1891, the British government grouped tribal States and chiefdom they found south and west of Lake Malawi…
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Youths must fight corruption
The 2008 Population and Housing Census shows that over half of Malawi’s population is under the age of 40.…
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Dog who caught the car
They do all they can to win elections. They rig, lie, bribe, coerce or intimidate to form government. Once in…
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Women are hitting on me
Dear BMW, My friends and I are in that prime age where we attract women from both spectrums—younger ones in…
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Incestuous marriage; the case of yellow, orange and blue
Dear Judge Mbadwa, I want to follow the example of the country’s politicians of rewriting the same script over and…
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Stop blaming rape victims
In recent part, I have read several heartbreaking stories. I single out two—one about a woman raped by her father…
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Is the DPP Government for the people?
Malawi is a democracy. By definition, democracy is a government of the people, by the people and for the people.…
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PP should not take people for granted
The events that have unfolded in Zimbabwe in the past two weeks should have taught selfish Malawian politicians some telling…
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DPP’s fake friends and enemies
Hon Folks, after losing miserably in the October by-elections, DPP has gone on an offensive to isolate and weaken the…
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Another political prostitute surfaces
An apt description of the events of this week came from a man who proudly practices the noblest profession, teaching.…
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Our ambitious MGDS III: What will it take?
The third Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS III) is one ambitious document: it wants to maintain single-digit inflation at…
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In favour of electoral reforms
Let me begin by declaring my interest. I served as a commissioner on the Special Law Commission on the Review…
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‘The NGO space is shrinking in Malawi’
Council for Non-Governmental Organisations (Congoma) has now clocked 32 years in the country, and our reporter FATSANI GUNYA caught up…
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Why Malawians need to get rid of poor leaders
We on the streets are not surprised that Malawi has dropped on the ladder on governance in Africa to position…
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Welcome to Chilumba, welcome to paradise
Mukombe Alhajj Mufti Jean-Philippe LePoisson, SC (RTD), Nganga Maigwaigwa, PSC (RTD), the Most Paramount Native Authority Mzee Mandela, Abiti Joyce,…
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Counting costs of electricity cuts
If you follow Malawians on the social media, it is apparent events in Zimbabwe generated a lot of interest. It…
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On national plans and development
In 1998, the Government of Malawi came up with a long-term development framework that aimed at addressing issues pertaining to…
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Role of subsidies in economic development
With the advent of independence beginning with Ghana in 1957, a number of presidents introduced what they called African…
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Pass National Intelligence Bill
Countries like Malawi, which did not attain her independence through guerilla war or insurgency, do not appreciate the need…
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Our ambitious MGDS III: What will it take?
The third Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS III) is one ambitious document: it wants to maintain single-digit inflation at…
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