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OP-ED: Oxfam says user fees not solution to Malawi health financial challenges
While efforts elsewhere in the continent and across the globe are being made to expand universal health access to guarantee…
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Football marketing in Malawi
By Alinafe Chekani Football is a money-spinning business the world over. In such big leagues as the English Premier League,…
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On time management
While the majority of businesspeople repeated the time-worn slogan ‘Time is money’, Benjamin Franklin would say that time is life…
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Healthy finance life
I’ve received so many great pieces of advice over the years, from family and friends, from great books, and from…
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It has been a long journey—Kululanga
On December 18 2014 Professor Grant Kululanga will deliver an inaugural lecture to mark his formal entry into the ranks…
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Aren’t some demands childish?
Honourable Folks, in 2004 the late Bingu wa Mutharika pledged to adopt a zero-tolerance for corruption policy and won the…
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Forest reserves being shaved bare
Before our very eyes, we are watching Viphya Plantations, popularly known as Chikangawa, being wiped off the face of Malawi—literally.…
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Why do Malawi’s presidents not pay tax?
This is a week of questions. Never before have we sat down to interrogate ourselves so intensely on behalf of…
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So Mr Nankhumwa, you lied
Information Minister Kondwani Nankhumwa should issue an immediate public apology for lying with a straight face that government has handed…
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Quench the fire on the mountain
Malawi is a country on fire, and it has to be quenched before the fire sweeps the system from its…
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Unlocking decent jobs
Think of CEOs of a few public institutions whose workers are on strike or threatening to do so. Their high…
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When Malawians create ‘foreign’ jobs
Yet another gloomy headline on Malawi’s negative or skewed trade balance on the international stage graced the Business News pages of The Nation this…
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Evolve with change
There is a well-known saying by an English author Israel Zangwill that says that “Everything changes, except change itself”. Others…
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Promoting universal human rights 365
On December 10 every year, the world commemorates Human Rights Day, the date on which the United Nations General Assembly…
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An exemplary life: Louis Pasteur
During the past 10 years, the image of Africa as a developing continent has changed for the better. We understand…
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Desperate times
The decision by the government to handover the so called cctv footage of meetings between former president Joyce Banda and…
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Mr. President, don’t try fix anything
I read the refutal on Oswald Lutepo’s allegations against former president Joyce Banda by Peoples Party publicity secretary Kenneth Msonda…
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The culture of blaming victims
I was astounded by a statement made this week by an executive director of a non-governmental organisation that apparently promotes…
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Why gifts threaten journalism
Two weeks ago, the nation woke up to the news that journalists had been given K50 000 for attending a…
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Let sleeping Lazarus Chakwera lie
Last Thursday we were so angry that we could have ripped apart a live elephant and eaten it raw. Like…
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