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11 years of PFEM hide-and-seek yields cash-gate
Those who have keenly followed fiscal issues in the country will know that reforms on Public Finance and Economic Management…
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‘I believe in professional autonomy’
Malawi National Examination Board (Maneb) executive director Roy Hauya has resigned from his position effective next month. Weekend Nation caught up with…
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Of course, it is a crisis
Malawians do not need IMF or anybody else to tell them whether or not Cashgate is a national crisis. Of…
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Mkwezalamba is pushing it
Honourable Folks, so the cash-gate is a crisis, uh? International Monetary Fund (IMF) may say so but, by their actions,…
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Foreign aid is not free
We are in Ntcheu, the land of the Maseko Ngoni, the land of the descendants of a branch of the…
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Why not Malawi up to 15 years ago
Up to 15 years ago the profile of Africa among other continents of this planet was quiet unattractive. People from…
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Break through the job interview – II
Last week, we began to discuss the five key things that you need to do in order to break through…
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Mera, Escom should spare us roadshows
They are at it again. The Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) and the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) have…
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Surrounded, you are somebody
History is replete with individuals who have achieved great things but, almost without exception, with the help of others. If…
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Lincoln’s famous address 150 years on
Tuesday, November 19 2013, we celebrate and commemorate America’s 16th president’s address, popularly known as the Gettysburg Address. Abraham Lincoln…
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Bad leaders must be Egyptised
Some people, and they are many, have faulted Egyptians for ousting the democratically elected president, Muhammad Morsi. A democratically elected…
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Discussing the shooting of Mphwiyo
I have resisted the temptation to talk or write about the Mphwiyogate because it is just confusing. If I had…
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Thanks KU chiefs, Cedep on gays
Dear Editor, In The Nation of November 11 2013, there was a story titled ‘Chiefs want homo laws reviewed.’ When…
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The folly of blaming the other woman
On Facebook the other day, a distraught married woman told of how a young single woman had wrecked her marriage.…
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‘We want to challenge stigma’
In October this year, Malawi joined the world in commemorating the International Spina bifida and Hydrocephalus Day. Commemorations marking the…
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Aid freeze just as bad as looting
Honourable Folks, while public discourse is centred on the arrests of people in connection with the shooting of budget director…
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Cashgate: Where are civil society, academia?
We promised to stay in Balaka until we at least met or saw and met Mireilla, that songstress whose dreams…
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Why are things different for Kasambara this time?
Once upon a time, well it was last February actually, the arrest of celebrity lawyer Ralph Kasambara evoked so much…
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The golden rule: spend less than you earn
It sounds so simple, doesn’t it? Yet there are many of us burying ourselves in debt (spending more than we…
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This is what thieves have done to us
After scary figures of billions of kwacha that have been stolen in the last 20 years were rattled in the…
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