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Population problems
We have often read and heard of the miraculous economic transformations that have taken place in the Asian countries of…
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Mr President, you are losing public trust
I don’t know about you, but where I am standing I can evidently see how full President Peter Mutharika’s tray…
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Build proper office structures for public servants
Court Clerk: All rise! The court of his Lordship Judge Mbadwa is now in session. (The courtroom descends into…
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Talk to the nation Mr. President
As far as Malawi is concerned tobacco is the main forex earner. Experience had it that during the tobacco selling…
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Promote Malawian languages equally
Malawi does not have a clear language policy. This has resulted in government and institutions being insensitive to other languages…
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Faith without reason is disastrous
In recent weeks social media has been awash with stories of a South African pastor who fed live snakes to…
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You just don’t get it President Obama!
I listened intently President Barak Obama’s speech to the “African Union” on July 28 2015 in Addis Abeba (the spelling…
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Let us use the Internet for serious business
What drives the age we are in is information. Since the dawn of human civilisation, information has been the agent…
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Redefining income distribution
Biggie, I am a married mother of two—a lovely 10-year-old son and a seven-year-old daughter. I am married…
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The flies and the honey
A jar of honey was upset and the sticky sweetness flowed out on the table. The sweet smell of the…
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Of snakes and defamation
Hon. Folks, APM has pulled a first on two fronts in the past few weeks but I doubt his overtures…
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On the accountability of NGOs
The question of the accountability of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has a tendency to polarise opinion. NGOs demand others to be…
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African Parks Network given another mandate
Last week the Malawi Government and African Parks Network (APN) signed an agreement in which the latter had been given…
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The evolution of Governor Charles Chuka
Sometime in January 2013—eight months after then president Joyce Banda, Finance Minister at the time Ken Lipenga and Reserve Bank…
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Face your finance fears head on!
Even though I write a lot about personal finance here and elsewhere, I still have a lot of my own…
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Umunthu is a dead philosophy
Sheikh Jean-Philippe LePoison, SC (RTD), Mzee Native Authority Mandela, Abiti Joyce Befu, MG 66 and I, the Mohashoi, are in…
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Sometimes crime pays
Unless I am grossly misinformed—which I am not—encroachment presupposes that a person occupies or enters another person’s property without their…
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Ending human trafficking a must
After being abducted, two young South Africans, one a 20 year-old woman and the other a 14 year-old boy, were…
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The kwacha is not a problem
Over the last week, the Malawi kwacha has lost some ground against our major trading currencies. As is the case,…
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Investing in collective investment scheme
As discussed in our previous articles, the importance of investing cannot be over-emphasised. In our two previous tips, we looked…
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