My Diary
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Blame it all on DPP
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and People’s Party (PP) share a common headache in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The…
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Our eternal blame game
One needs to go back to January 2010—to the last time Malawi’s public discourse in the New Year was…
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Prayers with no solution
Some police officer has lost his place of privilege and has been shunted off to the middle of nowhere in…
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Plucking low-hanging fruit
Picking on former president Joyce Banda (JB) seems like plucking low-hanging fruit. But sometimes you cannot resist when you realise…
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It was a good effort, but not enough
alawi, as a nation, thrives on conspiracies, particularly on the hostility—perceived or real—between our presidents and their deputies since somewhere…
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Taxes and more: Give us a break!
Early this week, The Daily Times reported a heartrending story of a woman who lost her child at Rumphi…
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ATI is just like any other law
As a citizen—and particularly as a journalist—I should probably be beside myself with joy with the momentum that the…
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Still a long way from sanity
For a party repositioning itself as the platform for reform, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is doing a terrible at it.…
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Mischief has a peculiar name
On Tuesday, when disaffected residents of Rumphi marched on government to demand better treatment of, and for, patients at…
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Of heads of State and the state of heads
I found it mildly amusing the exasperation expressed by various leaders of opposition parties with President Peter Mutharika’s address to…
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Malawi’s first political exile
It is now official: former president Joyce Banda is now a political exile and has little or no desire of…
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Like a tedious song at a party
A motley of human rights and political activists on Wednesday issued a 30-day ultimatum to President Peter Mutharika to deliver…
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Living in its own shadows
A month before he died, President Bingu wa Mutharika claimed he had impeccable intelligence that some foreign donors were plotting…
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What happened to the funds?
The announcement, early this week, by the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, that government’s had scrapped off the…
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It is all your fault, Mr President
Dear Mr President Before you held your presser on Thursday, to appraise the nation on your activities in New York…
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In Mulanje to celebrate Unima, our University
As promised a fortnight ago, we, Abiti Joyce Befu, MG 66, Amai (RTD), Sheikh Jean-Philippe LePoisson, SC (RTD), Mzee Native…
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It’s about Gomanis, not Ngonis
If I had any respect for chieftaincy an as institution worth being associated with or celebrated, I may have been…
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Leaders we get, leaders we deserve
One is inclined to believe that every member of Malawi’s 121-strong delegation to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in…
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Our national love for freebies
Besides our purported warm-heartedness, another characteristic that defines us, as Malawians, is our for love free things. We want donors…
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PP’s inside conundrum
The People’s Party (PP) seems singularly-minded to self-destruct before the next tripartite elections. And, I must admit, they are doing…
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