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Using technology to fight crime
The brazen robbery taking place in Malawi is worrying. Robbers are attacking at anytime, anywhere at will. Hardly a day…
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Leave Dulani, Afrobarometer alone
In the ruckus of the 2014 tripartite elections, the research institution Afrobarometer delivered a message that ran counter to the…
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Respect other people’s professions
There is always a tendency among professionals to downplay the importance of professions outside their own. I once worked for…
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Preserving maize
The harvest of Maize—the grain that matter most in Malawi—is bad this year. The figures have seen some people harvesting…
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Go to see a urologist
Q: I recently read your book Sex for Dummies, and I found it very helpful and a very good…
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Paying public servants on 42nd day of month is gross negligence
Court Clerk: All rise! It is honourable justice Mbadwa presiding. You might be public servants of all manner, but we…
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How do we reclaim Blantyre?
I was born in Blantyre. I stay in Blantyre. I have stayed for most of my life in Blantyre. I…
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We are wasting China’s current goodwill
I don’t know about you, but I feel Malawi is failing to put China’s current goodwill to good use. One…
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In love with a man I haven’t met
Big Man Wamkulu, I am in love with a person woti sitinakumanepo, timayakhulana (we have never met in person, we…
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A bundle of sticks
Once an old man was very ill and lay dying in his bed. He had four sons who were always…
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Solid waste: Bomb in making
It has been stated in many fora—political, economic and social—that Malawi is a poor country, actually one of the poorest…
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We need mindset change on food
A staggering 2.8 million Malawians are likely to face hunger this year, so says the Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee (Mvac)…
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The folly of independence celebrations
The Independence Day offers us time to reflect on our history; where we have come from, where we are and…
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Out of chaos rose opportunities
In early March this year, Minister of Transport and Public Works Francis Kasaila raised his hands about the endemic corruption…
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Competition and Fair Trading Commission: Already dead?
We spent last Thursday afternoon in Cashgate City’s Area 44, popularly known as Kauma, where we went to conduct some…
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On being rattled by poll findings
Hon. Folks, it seems harder though he tried, APM could not bear the fact that voters in his own home…
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Mind your money!
Whatever your big goal in life might be, it will fall apart if these three elements are not strongly in…
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‘Trust us with finances’
A preliminary report by the National Audit Office (NAO) early this year raised various issues of financial mismanagement at the…
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The tyranny of numbers
Benjamin Israel, not Bibi, threw a punch line on statistics. “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and…
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Know about 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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