September 11 2025
Greetings from the Munda wa Chitedze Farm where we relocated from the hustle and bustle of your city. Peace, and only peace reigns supreme here and, unlike you, we don’t suffer in silence.
Things change. Imagine, today is 9-11 and no one at the farm is talking about it! It has all been quiet that we all seem to have forgotten about the attacks on American symbols of economic and military symbols at the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
We are not surprised with the forgotten American shutter of the foundations of their prowess. The hullabaloo around the farm is the run up to the elections.
Dear Diary, the politicians are going left, right and centre leaving no stone unturned to garner votes in next week’s polls.
Whether one likes it or not, it is clear that the real battle is between MCP’s Lazarus Chakwera and DPP’s Peter Mutharika. Not that UTM is written off. Kabambe and his forces are well into the game, if the number of candidates for the National Assembly is anything to go by.
You see, MCP has fielded 219 candidates, while DPP has 195 and UTM has 169. The real battle between MCP and DPP is much evident in the Northern Region, with 38 constituencies, each party has fielded 37 candidates. MCP has no candidate in Mzimba Central where there were controversies over the party’s primaries involving Chakwera’s running mate Vitumbiko Mumba and Adamson Mkandawire.
DPP is not fielding a candidate in Mzimba South and it has no candidate in about 20 constituencies in the Central Region.
You see, there is no empirical evidence that voters will still be driven by the tribal and regional factors.
Dear Diary, we are living in a day and age of opinion polls. We at the farm are taking these opinion polls with a pinch of salt. There are so many gaps in the methodologies used.
And if looking at the gaps in the different researches, it is clear for us that they have no real bearing on the poll.
It is very clear that Mutharika and the DPP are totally confident that they will carry the day come election day. The sea of faces during the whistle stop tours, coupled with the research that has put him on top may bring that shimmer.
Yet, the real issues are left to the wind. Is Mutharika really the alternative government Malawians are looking for?
To say the truth, for a good time the DPP discouraged people from going to register as they advocated that the election was already botched. Over 10 million Malawians were eligible to register, but only seven million registered. These are figures that will actually determine the poll results.
It is a given fact that any Malawian in their rightful mind would question Mutharika’s stance against corruption. We can’t go into detail about how those in his cycle have massive ‘pilferage’ of public coffers haunting them, but the fielding of Jane Ansah as a running mate begs a few questions.
You see, at the Munda wa Chitedze Farm, we have not forgotten how the Constitutional Court ruled that the 2019 election was a mess. This is an election that Ansah presided over!
Now, that is just a typical example why some of us are frowning against his claims to fight corruption.
Dear Diary, we are at the very point of making Malawi better or worse. The right to choose is right between our noses.
So, if you ask us, if, God forbid, Mutharika loses the election, who will cry? It is clear that his inner cycle that made it possible to have his comeback a reality will cry the most.
This is the inner circle that fought to have Kondwani Nankhumwa and Dalitso Kabambe out to form their own parties in frustration. It is this inner circle that even made it impossible for George Chaponda and Bright Msaka to fight from within when Mutharika announced his comeback.
Indeed, it is this very inner circle that is convincing Mutharika that he will win the election outright, much that they demonise Kabambe and the UTM Party.
Excuse me, Dear Diary, for my dear, dear love. Malawians have suffered, but do we see the lesser evil in the picture?
