Political Uncensored
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Alliances face stormy test
In June 2020, the Tonse Alliance became Malawi’s first electoral coalition to defeat a sitting President in a poll observers…
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Does UDF need atupele?
Former United Democratic Front (UDF) president Atupele Muluzi has kept tongues wagging about his next move since his return from…
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Politicking with climate change
Malawi has suffered about 20 devastating flooding episodes and seven droughts since 2000. This year, a wave of cyclones claimed…
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Eating back a columnist’s words
Things change fast in politics, maybe more than in any sphere of life. You can imagine the predicament this column…
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Seeing a silver lining
Under pressure for various failures—chief among them—inability to implement a raft of campaign promises that have turned out to be…
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Remember you are mortal!
A month ago, Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Malawian-born businessperson Zuneth Sattar in…
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We can’t breathe
We can’t breathe—commodity prices are skyrocketing. Cooking oil, fuel, groceries, food and everything else is going north, eating into the…
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Morals or bags of cash?
A week or so ago, I had an interactive session with a member of the Palestine lobby group who was…
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The three musketeers
Beyond the president, the country’s fight against corruption hinges around three important offices; the Attorney General (AG), the Director of…
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No price for country
The conviction of Thom Mpinganjira, one of the richest Malawians and owner of the third largest bank in the country…
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Judicial imbroglio…
It must be a huge relief for President Lazarus Chakwera that the Sadc Summit came and went without any incident.…
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Clearing the rubble
When President Lazarus Chakwera was inaugurated as Malawi’s sixth President, he promised to clear the rubble of corruption. “The ruining…
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Chakwera’s way out
President Lazarus Chakwera has just finished a nightmare week. Watching the BBC Hard Talk interview, one would feel an urge…
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Rainbow Nation’s insurrection
Some people’s conclusion for what happened in South Africa last week is both dire and apocalyptic. For them, the image…
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Rainbow Nation’s insurrection
Some people’s conclusion for what has been happening in South Africa the past couple of days is both dire and…
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Tour Dubai
On Thursday, President Lazarus Chakwera admitted that the country’s well-being; the viability of the economy and ability to wade off…
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Careening dangerously like kabaza motorcyclist
Dear judge Mbadwa, My lord, I want to submit that when I declared that the country had embraced Sienta economics,…
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Thieving and cursed
On Wednesday, two bodies of productive Malawians and family men were pulled out of the Kyungu River in Karonga after…
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Mighty mess!
Folks, we are in one hell of trouble. Things don’t look good at all. We are in a twin crisis…
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Managing the dream
The contentious issue of teachers’ Covid-19 risk allowance is not getting away. It’s proving to be a regular nuisance for…
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