‘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...
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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...
Caesar milking a very thin cow
It is clear that the Tonse Alliance administration is a talking government, whose delivery is next to zero. For that...
Umunthu, decolonisation of Malawian education
This is the last installment of Professor Augustine Chingwala Musopole’s seminal article on decolonising education in Malawi using the principles...
Increased transparency needed on fuel price levies
In the run up to what was a rarely highly anticipated fuel pump price hike effected on April 10 2022,...
Fake seeds amid low productivity anxiety
Seeds, as tiny as they are, anchor this country and everything in it. Push them out of the farming equation,...
Out devil, devil in
There is something curious about change. Change really changes, yet it is ironic. There is an adage that the only...
Is this worth falling into a frightful ditch for?
Dear judge Mbadwa, When we talk of the ironies of life, my lord, you just don’t have to go very...
My wife is killing me with night shifts
Dear BMW, Call me all sorts of names, but I just have to say it here that if I am...
Mercy Kanyuka: The first female commissioner of Statistics in Malawi
Mercy Kanyuka is a statistician by profession and has risen through the ranks throughout her career. She later rose to...
‘DPP contributing to Tonse Alliance failure’
Many people have described the Tonse Alliance administration as a bit let down for, among other things, failing to fulfil...
Kalindo drunk on something
Once upon a time politician-cum-comedian Bon Kalindo endeared himself to Malawians. This is when he organised demonstrations across the country...
Lost in social media frenzy
Malawi moves at a supersonic speed so much that events overtake our perceptions on the necessary issues. Social media has...
Umunthufication of Malawian education (Part III)
This is the third instalment of the late Professor Augustine Chingwala Musopole’s seminal thoughts on umunthufication of African education…. “In...
