Cut the Chaff
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Escom, water boards embarrassing
Our two major and strategic utility companies—Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) and our water boards—are an embarrassment. Their well-documented…
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Of donor half-truths on aid modalities
Let’s cut the crap and the boring diplomatic statements that are dangling both carrots and sticks to the Malawi Government.…
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Leadership we can’t believe in
Malawi is burning and what do the two people we expect to lead us out of the inferno doing? The…
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On Economic ‘Redundancy’ Plan (ERP)
After two weeks in the wilderness, Cut the Chaff  has returned, picking up from exactly where it left off—the Joyce…
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No picture could be smaller, Madam
So, the gospel according to President Joyce Banda is that as long as you can replace an illegally sacked public…
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Bank liquidity management 101
It is not long time ago when I urged the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) to carry out stress tests…
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Fears of price-wage spiral misplaced
Since the devaluation the kwacha (10 percent last August and 49 percent around three months ago) and its subsequent flotation,…
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Msaka, Chimunthu must resign
After dancing around the issue for almost two months, President Joyce Banda has finally made a decision: She will not…
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Some work for Her Excellency
I laughed out loud this week when I saw pictures of the smiling President Joyce Banda receiving musical equipment from…
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Some forgotten issue in 2012/13 national budget
As expected, Parliament on Wednesday passed the K406 billion ($1.6bn) 2012/13 national budget. Of the total planned expenditure, 31.6 percent…
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Of AU last laughs, lazy budgets
To write from a hotel room in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on what should have been the Lilongwe-hosted African Union (AU)…
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Correcting the Chisiza history
I have to say that today’s topic is personal, but it has national significance. After all, it involves the State…
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We need grosterity
I am reliably informed that Finance Minister Dr. Ken Lipenga is likely to present his first national budget, the 2012/13…
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JB deserves credit on fuel
I am fighting the urge to talk about the ponzi-like scheme that a cabal of rogue bureaucrats in the Bingu…
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MRA is a national shame
“Mr. Speaker, Sir, as the Honourable Members are aware, domestic revenues for the 2011/12 fiscal year were projected at K242.5…
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RBM may raise interest rates, LRR
I have stacks of debts with my local banks. If lending rates were raised today, I would be paying more…
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JB must end culture of vain secrecy
On Monday, April 23 2012, we bid the last farewell to our third president, the late Bingu wa Mutharika whose…
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Chaffy AU reasoning
She was for it, then against it and now she is for it again. What a load of flip-flopping hodgepodge.…
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‘Mr Fix-it’ right choice for ST
Declaration of interest: Randson Mwadiwa was my boss, the man I directly reported to when I was public relations specialist…
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RBM must stop these lazy banks
So, it has pleased the Bankers Association of Malawi (BAM) to throw away both the baby and the bath water?…
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