Political Uncensored

The best way to describe what’s happening on the local political scene, is to borrow a famous phrase by the...

They say they are no permanent friends and enemies in politics. In generations to come, that lesson in politics, will...

That Jane Ansah still the chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission—undoubtedly the most important today—yet she has zero shred of...

Two weeks ago, two security agencies—the Malawi Prison Service and Malawi Police Service—both answering to the same minister and commander...

The coronavirus is bad news. Economies are in shambles, thousands of lives lost or bedridden, barely surviving and now dependent...

Jane Ansah has for the past eight months been the most divisive character in public office today. For a good...

The global outbreak of coronavirus is one of the biggest threats mankind has ever faced. Forget the disruptions to economies...

A couple of days ago, I witnessed an interesting exchange between two eight year-olds. They were discussing the global coronavirus...

Just too much fodder for this columnist to write about this week. A lot is happening on the political scene,...

There is a video of Jane Ansah that went viral on Monday, just as the judges of the Constitutional Court...

To become the world’s greatest statesman, Nelson Mandela, Anti-apartheid hero to his people and terrorist to his rivals, had to...

Reyneck Matemba has had enough. Enough of this country failing to comprehend the scale of his mammoth job to fight...

Malawi is at a crossroads. Things are moving faster than one could ever imagine and ultimately, the fate of this...

Letter to Brussels Greetings. By now, it must be clear that you have misjudged us. By now it must be...

There is a particularly irritating and irrational way our government responds to national issues while pushing for its own political...

What a year! In a few days, it will all come to an end. Let it that sink in, like...

Watching the video of rains pouring into makeshift hospital wards at the country’s biggest referral hospital, Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH)...

After the court case—when the question of who has the rightful mandate to govern us is answered—we must go back...

This week, I am grappling with some troubling questions. The drama at the constitutional court has been gripping. The allegations...

A couple of years ago, some ignorant superstitious villagers had hallucinations about some mysterious people ‘sucking’ their blood mostly at night...