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MCP holds future for Malawi
We left Kasungu two days ago and we are now here in Mchinji for a brief but serious one-day official…
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Information bill: The good, the delays and the fears
In the second part of the series aimed at popularising the Access to Information Bill, currently at the Ministry of…
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Opportunities in intellectual budget
Honarable Folks, what’s an intellectual budget? Finance minister Goodall Gondwe used the term at a pre-budget consultation meeting in Lilongwe…
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Why are you replacing your old Corolla?
The other day one of my brothers came visiting. He looked at our dining set and went: “Wow! But did…
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Malawi cannot sell off ivory
Amid suggestions that the confiscated ivory be sold, director of parks and wildlife, BRIGHTON KUMCHEDWA, tells our reporter BONIFACE PHIRI…
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Privileged yet deprived
By Austine Charles Jere While commemorating this year’s World Water Day in Mzuzu, President Peter Mutharika blamed rhetoric for limited access…
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Tracing third-party depositors
How long should it take a commercial bank to trace a third-party depositor of cash into a bank account, especially…
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Build your career through volunteering
Many people only want to work for money. They will not do things for free. In fact, some of them…
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Before prosperity comes sanity
Life has got its own distinct non-negotiable rules. Take for example; it is a fact that order begets progress and…
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Of the road to Neno
The Daily Times of February 24 2015, carried an article in which the residents of Neno were said to have…
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Why do some steal when others don’t?
The Cashgate saga ought to give us time to reflect on why some people steal when others, apparently in similar…
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Which DD Phiri?
Desmond Dudwa Phiri, known more among Malawians as DD Phiri, is an interesting and controversial man. He is interesting and…
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Ask what you can do…
A politician—a Malawian politician—is just one plunge from political grace away from turning prisoner. In a game of survival that…
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BWB snoring on the job
Honourable Folks, a question to folks at the helm of Blantyre Water Board (BWB): would they, in this 21st Century,…
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Interview: Culture of fear is coming back—Kamlepo
Kamlepo Kalua, one of the fighters for multiparty democracy, shares his experiences in Parliament with our Weekend Nation. Excerpts: How…
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Trust BWB to issue statements that makes sense only to themselves
Blantyre Water Board (BWB) is one of the most confused and confusing companies I have ever known. For some inexplicable…
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Mind the way you look!
You see, one of the greatest challenges of living a lifestyle of financial freedom is determining the exact value of…
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The nightmare that is banking
To customers of most commercial banks in the country, undertaking banking transactions, especially at the end of the month, is…
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People build people
Sometimes we use our energies wrongly. Instead of using our energy and power positively, we expend it negatively. In particular,…
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Where is our chinkhoswe going?
In Africa, an individual’s existence is not nearly as important as that of the community to which that individual belongs.…
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