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Mutharika’s one-year challenges, prospects
May 2015 marks exactly one year since President Peter Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) were ushered into office.…
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When puppet masters flee
On a day like this last year, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) reclaimed the government from the ill-fated and clumsy…
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Accountability Hub
Malawi has faced the problem of a hung Parliament since the dawn of multiparty democracy. A hung Parliament arises when…
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Cursory look at Malawi in 2015
Honorable Folks, a cursory look at the 2015/16 National Budget shows a shrink both in the recurrent and expenditure sides of…
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Is that job of yours really your passion?
I’ve observed it and can bear testimony over and over again: the people that succeed in a particular career path…
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‘MHRC is guided by loyalty to the Constitution’
The term for current commissioners of Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) is expiring in July this and SAM CHUNGA…
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The tragic cost of irresponsible public debt management
So, the latest debt sustainability analysis for Malawi—jointly carried out by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)—shows…
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Goodall’s honesty, diplomacy and budget
In making the assumptions for the 2015/16 National Budget delivered in Parliament on Friday, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and…
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Reach out to your ‘dependencies’
One of the common reasons most of our work fails to be completed or to be completed on time is…
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So, what have we learnt on elections?
BY LEVI KABWATO The one-year anniversary of our hugely-contested and drama-laden general elections passed this past Tuesday without much pomp…
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Malawi, a de facto kleptocracy?
MWAMANDI CHAPUKWA-MUNTHALI* Many countries in Africa and the Carribean suffer from ‘kleptocratic’ regimes, where the State is controlled and run…
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The last conversation with The Muckracker
Even for a day, in the three years I was close and personal with Ralph Tenthani, we never agreed on…
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Get involved, save life
One day, I was driving from Blantyre to Lilongwe. Some 50 kilometres before Balaka Turn-Off, there was a terrible bus…
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The choice of Barabbas
Scriptures say at the feast the governor Pontius Pilate was accustomed to releasing to the multitude one prisoner whom they…
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She lied that she wasn’t married
She lied that she wasn’t married Dear Big Man Wamkulu, I am in a fix. I am in big trouble…
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Ban Red Lions from Super League
The Minister of Youth Development and Sports Grace Chiumia is right when she says Red Lions Football Club deserve a…
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Looking for a killing
Last week, as I browsed through one of the Sunday papers, something caught my attention. It was the Lonely Hearts…
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The right culture will aid innovations
I have stated elsewhere that as a youths growing up at Nkhoma Mission, my brother and I made several attempts…
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The church in dire need of redemption
The church, or what passes for it, is evidently an institution facing a crisis of existential proportions. With its values,…
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Didn’t I tell you government kills?
There is something going on in this country. Something that we knew has always been on our mind. That our…
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