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The criminal political culture and service provision
Why is it that Malawian politicians feel compelled to steal from the State on a massive scale, repeatedly, with impunity,…
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Is your spouse getting you into a debt trap?
You are in a relationship. That relationship is starting to get serious. You’re contemplating marriage or some other form…
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Consolidate investment forum gains
From June 29 to 30 2015, Malawi was the hub of activity as men and women clad in designer…
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Managing the boss
This is a very difficult but also very important topic for career people who are employed by a company or…
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Benefits of the new system
The Malawi Government decided to embark on the process of upgrading the system after noting that the old system had,…
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About the Queens and other matters
More than 50 years ago, I was in New York as a member of the Malawi delegation to the United…
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Sycophancy is for the unpatriotic
In his better days, Idriss Ali Nassah was a fierce social and political commentator, sharp in vocabulary but measured in…
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Economic blocs in theory and practice
The signing of the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) in Cairo on June 10 2015 is indeed as bold a…
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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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Bring the mayor in the dock!
Court clerk whispers to his Lordship Justice Mbadwa that the residents of the Big City want their matter to be…
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Critiquing govt is not empty barking
One of the reasons for introducing multiparty democracy in Malawi was, and still is, for Malawians to have alternative views…
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I won’t look the other way
Last week, as I walked from home to Ndirande Market, I was taken aback by the caustic remarks by a…
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I won’t look the other way
Last week, as I walked from home to Ndirande Market, I was taken aback by the caustic remarks by a…
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Nobody lied, just linguistic inexactitude
On June 18 2015, I was reading what would be good news. The story was that Lilongwe City Council was…
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We stand or fall on culture
In 2004, the Blantyre Joint Choir organised a unique performance known as the ‘Sing Malawian Gospel Concert’. A number…
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Reactions to ‘donor fatigue’ revelation
Big Man Wamkulu Having read your lecture of Nation on Sunday 21 June 2015, I would like to personally commend…
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Sweet thing with mother-in-law
Hare married a beautiful girl but found that his mother-in-law was even more beautiful. Hare, therefore, planned to make…
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INTERVIEW: Let Malawians judge Mutharika
CHACHACHA MUNTHALI engaged former President JOYCE BANDA on her involvement in the Cashgate, her ‘exile’ and other issues in this…
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Why red flags couldn’t be detected
Hon. Folks, the Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) audit analytics of May 15 2015 may not have exposed anyone as did the…
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Am I missing something?
I was going through what I think is the abridged “scope of work” of what should have been the…
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