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Travel light as you get into and through 2017
Last night was the end of one year and the beginning of another. The year 2016 is now gone. As…
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We need to seriously explore wind energy
The Dutch Reformed Church missionaries, who set up first at Mvera then Kongwe, Nkhoma, Mlanda, Malingunde, Chinthembwe and other places…
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In Malawi motorists are information starved
One day, as I was driving from Lilongwe to Blantyre, I decided to use the by-pass road. From Old Town,…
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We must engage in long-term planning
In our produce markets, Malawians sell all kinds of fruit. The availability of the various types of fruit goes according…
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The walls that separate us must fall
It is in human nature to erect boundaries around themselves and to regard those outside the boundaries as foreign, different…
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Who takes the blame for frequent blackouts?
I was worried when power stayed on all day at home the other day. You kind of get nervous when…
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Ada DE entertained Malawi
The radio would blare out a cool mix of international and local tunes, interspaced with scintillating jokes every morning Monday…
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Strange things happening in our space environment
I went to primary school at William Murray Demonstration School at Nkhoma Mission. Then William Murrray was a Teacher Training…
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Add value, add value, and add value
“Good evening Madam, chocolate made in Ivory Coast, 200 francs,” calls out a vendor to a lady pedestrian, toting…
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Local production is probably the answer
I am writing this article with a heavy heart, having received news to the effect that a friend of mine…
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Exit paraffin, enter solar lamps
It is next to impossible these days to find paraffin at any filling station in Malawi. Apparently, the commodity…
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Something went terribly wrong
In 1975, a local company called the Central African Transport Company (Catco) embarked on a project to manufacture pick-up trucks.…
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There are opportunities all around us
A story is told of a shoe salesman who was deployed to a lakeshore district. When he got there, the…
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As a man thinketh in his heart
A colleague of mine had a daughter in college pursuing a technology degree. It soon dawned on him that…
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Industrial hemp; blessing or curse?
one’s perception of the product and the regulations which will govern its growth. Industrial hemp is not marijuana. The two…
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We must be guided by science, not superstition
Many Malawians will find it hard to believe that several men landed on the moon in the 1960s/70s. You cannot…
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A place called Dziwe la Nkhalamba
Likhubula CCAP Youth Centre is located on the foot of the majestic Mulanje massif, about a kilometre uphill on a…
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We have everything to gain by buying Malawian
I was delighted to learn that the Executive had taken it upon themselves to promote the buying of Malawian…
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Age should never be a barrier to education
In 2013, I wrote an article on Mr Msampha Mwale, then 72 years old, who was a pupil at a…
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No race holds a monopoly over brilliance
In a leaked speech of South Africa’s President Pieter Botha to his Cabinet in 1985, he said categorically that whites…
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