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Where is our chinkhoswe going?
In Africa, an individual’s existence is not nearly as important as that of the community to which that individual belongs.…
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Mindset versus public reforms
By Peter M. Muthete The much awaited Public Service Reforms Agenda was launched by President Peter Mutharika on February…
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One year with the threat of Ebola
By Thokozani Kalua It has been a year since the Ebola outbreak was declared by the Guinean government on March…
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Op-Ed: Of hospital user fees in Malawi
Recently there has been a lot of discussion and debate on the intention of government to introduce user fees in…
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Wales: Land of the Red Dragon
Fans of J.K. Rowling will remember that a Common Welsh Dragon featured in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the…
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Our problems are bigger than Escom
When I was a student at Robert Blake Secondary School at Kongwe Mission in the latter half of the 1970s,…
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Waste management lessons from China
China is one of the countries in the world experiencing rapid economic growth. It has grown from being one of…
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Linking the Fisi practice with HIV detracts attention from real issue
Biomedical research on HIV shows the virus is not easily spread and transmission is much lower than is generally perceived…
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Investing in children
I read with keen interest what University of Malawi (Unima) Vice-Chancellor Professor John Saka said at Chancellor College during the…
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The street vending nightmare in Blantyre City
Malawi is a country that is not short of surprises. We can as well celebrate embracing street vending for the…
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Rethinking Malawi’s journalism
Journalism is arguably one of the indispensable professions in the present information-driven world. Just like a midwife is, to a…
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Labour taxes jump 30 percent
Emanuel Kaluluma What was termed labour taxes in The Nation article of January 26 2015; in our everyday language is…
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Time for comprehensive anti-trafficking law
For five months of 2014, two young Malawian girls—age 12 and 13—were forced to work as prostitutes in a Blantyre…
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Why I can’t invest in Malawi
This letter is not about the challenges of the kwacha or the high costs of borrowing. It is not even…
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Public property vandalism in BT City
There are a lot of questions that have come to Blantyre City Council (BCC) from the media and members of…
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Of sour police-military relations
If you think everything is fine between the Malawi Defence Force (MDF) and the Malawi Police Service (MPS) then you…
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The death of Blantyre
Blantyre city is dying a painful death. The beauty of this place, which used to be magnificent in the 1960s…
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Can Malawi be a knowledge society?
A knowledge society (KS) is economically revolutionary as it promotes the free flow and distribution of information and knowledge which…
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MDGs deadline: Progress for children
Compliments of the New Year! After the celebrations and New Year’s resolutions, it is time to look at what 2015…
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Harmonisation of university selection
Let the year 2015 bring sanity where necessary and let it be a year where a spade must be known…
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