Know your place in his/her life
Ever wondered why we have rocky relationships between wives and in-laws? From mothers in-law to sisters-in law, we hear about...
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Why can’t we start with implementing the reforms?
Dear judge Mbadwa, What a week we have had, my lord, and we have benefitted from a quiet introspection which...
My wife is a WhatsApp addict
Dear Biggie, Last week, I enjoyed your entry: “My man is a porn addict”. While reading it, I realised that...
Two years of nothing but development rallies
In June this year, the Tonse Alliance-led government will clock two years in power. In human life, two years is...
Tonse government that never was
May 11 2022 Politicians are busy repositioning themselves on how, again, to fool Malawians and get their vote in 2025....
Thank you Kamuzu for our free university education
Kamuzu’s legacy is complex, complicated, and sometimes outright contradictory. To some, Kamuzu Banda was a dictator who did not tolerate...
Blame endorsements on Chakwera-Chilima secret agreement
The past 10 days have seen several senior Malawi Congress Party officials drumming up support for President Lazarus Chakwera’s candidature...
Financial distress, mental health and pathways to peace (Part II)
As we continue looking at the issues surrounding financial distress as well as mental wellbeing, we need to identify another...
Fixing economy needs action, not rhetoric
Fixing economy needs action, not rhetoric It never rains, but pours for the Malawi economy which is literally in the...
Development is the responsibility of all of us
A clip showing a foreign university presenting the Malawi economic case circulated on social media last week. Some of what...
Won’t libido-boosting pills kill him?
Dear BMW, I am 21-year-old college student in Blantyre. I was raised by an auntie who really does not like...
The rubble is piling up
The Tonse Alliance government came to power on the back of promises they made during the campaign that they were...
‘Big Brother’ Chakwera is watching you
May 5 2022 George Orwell’s Animal Farm has always been a call of point for socio-political discourse. The book produces...
Saboteurs on the prawl
Malawians, including those holding demonstrations to force the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general Martha Chizuma to resign from her job,...
The economy will bite, hard
On February 18 2022, Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Sosten Gwengwe told Parliament that he has built this year’s national...
Who pays for breach of budget contract?
Every year, the Minister of Finance tables in Parliament financial estimates which when passed as the Appropriation Act becomes a...
See what the desperation has done
Many times, marriage is perceived to be a woman’s thing. It is believed that the whole essence of a wedding...
AIP: good intention, wrong targeting
The Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee (Mvac) in its recently released report, estimates that about 1.5 million Malawians will need food...
We need to lift our numeracy levels
I was listening to a p r o g r a m m e c a l l e d...
‘If you can’t change the people, change the people’
During a press briefing on Monday this week, President Lazarus Chakwera touched on the working relationship between the Anti-Corruption Bureau...
