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Everything must end: I take bow
How do I begin this? I mean, how do you start to say bye to your readers after sharing opinions…
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Interview: Every penny should be tracked—Kubalasa
BONIFACE PHIRI Recently, government, through the Ministry of Finance, established an aid transparency platform termed Aid Management System. I caught…
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Main ‘gates’ from 2014
Welcome. This is Malawi. This is 2015. We are happy that you are happy. We wish well in this year,…
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Fixing Malawi: The 20:80 Rule
Honourable Folks, we have entered 2015 with the saying “a hungry person is an angry person” going ding dong like…
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Will APM master the art of governing in 2015?
By the time you read this, you will already be here—in 2015. I guess congratulations are in order for those…
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Healthy finance life
I’ve received so many great pieces of advice over the years, from family and friends, from great books, and from…
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Welcome 2015, could this be the moment?
If you are reading this piece, then surely, you are among those people God has favoured to make it into…
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Build your Vision 2020
Today we start a new year 2015. By the end of five years, we will be hitting the year 2020.…
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Political prisoners of Zomba
In the mid-1970s onwards in Zomba Prison or Mikuyu, Sam Mpasu found himself in the company of ex-pillars of society…
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Management in place of administration
Sometimes in the 1970s, there were moves among academicians and professionals that the British civil service, to be effective, must…
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What do I do with this cat?
I have one thing in common with one of my neighbours: we both don’t like pets and so, we don’t…
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Pump water from Lake Malawi
One of the issues President Peter Mutharika raised in his State of the Nation Address last week was to assure…
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Should the president get a pay rise?
We have heard, haven’t we, that the State President and the Vice-President will not be collecting their full salary because…
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We need demos on sachets, plastic papers
Let me begin where I will end: It is a violation of human rights to continue producing and selling liquor…
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Acquiring property in Malawi
Acquiring a property could be one of the following three things: buying land, buying a building or building. Provisions of…
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Let ‘fix it’ be slogan for 2015!
Honourable Folks, 2014 harboured lots of hope. There were tripartite elections that promised to bring back ward councillors and city…
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Want Aids money refunded? Ask APM
We are here in Edundu, Mzimba, drinking what all great bottom-up men and women drink during these festive last days…
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Of upside down anti-poverty policies
There is a general agreement in Malawi that poverty is the country’s most ubiquitous and insidious social problem. According to…
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Cama has been generous to BWB
If it were a patient, Blantyre Water Board (BWB) would have been a hopeless terminal case destined for expiry, to…
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Challenging your non-saving mindset
The starting point in a healthy financial life is ‘kuzimana’ (saving). If you are like most people, the thought of…
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