Youths make dictators, too
The push by young people in Malawi to assume leadership in 2014, is sensible and appealing. The youthful population has...
Columns
Private foreign investment
...Continued from Friday Last week, we discussed arguments in favour of foreign investments. Today, we will look at arguments against...
Disrobing women in public is a crime
It is heartening that other than the lone voices of agreement and the perpetrators of the recent ‘national crime’ of...
Some green shoots?
Of late, the Bingu wa Mutharika administration has started working on specific and concrete measures to deal with our twin...
Let’s manage our stresses – Part 2
Last week, we discussed common causes of job-related stress and we went on to look at some of the key...
Zero tolerance on corruption campaign
Every strategy is expected to have objectives, resources , expected results and an evaluation process. Those who are old will...
On time management
Some of the good people I meet now and again express surprise that I am able to write three articles...
Peeping through 2014
According to the Electoral Laws of Malawi, it is a requirement to have Presidential and Parliamentary elections after every five...
Why food matters more
President Herzberg, the American industrial psychologist, taught that basic needs such as money are hygiene, not motivators. People do not...
My disagreements with Vice President Joyce Banda
From the beginning, I have to say that I am not a Joyce Banda fan. Not that she doesn’t impress...
A fake indicator of fiscal integrity
Ideally, this should have been wonderful news, something to applaud government for. But I can’t. It comes at too high...
Relations between govt and business
Who should be consulted first when you want to plan the economic development of a country? It is the economist,...
Why do we set deadlines anyway?
Have you ever imagined how life would have been without deadlines in everything we do? Deadlines are important as they...
ANC, yes but also, ICU
On the front page of a new magazine titled Northern Life there is a photograph of Chakufwa Chihana with a...
In the face of despair
Edmund Burke, the Anglo-Irish member of the House of Commons, advised those who in the face of hardships lost hope...
‘President should stop scaring investors’
Executive director of Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) ) Undule Mwakasungula, who is also chairperson of Human Rights...
Mitt Romney’s catchy phrase
Honourable Folks, watching American presidential contender Mitt Romney celebrate his victory in New Hampshire primaries early Wednesday morning (CAT) by...
Now we know why Bingu’s doesn’t care
January 4, 2012 Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has time and again shown through word and deed that he does...
Govt must formalise devaluation
You have to feel sorry for the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM). Every day, it is at the receiving end...
Why are we borrowing more?
Five years after international lenders wrote off 90 percent of our country’s $3 billion foreign debt under the Highly Indebted...
