Political Uncensored

The President must not tame snakes, least they grow some venom, teeth and bite him, it has been loudly said....

“Jacques Chirac (President Chirac 1995-2007) could have his mouth full of jam,” once mocked d’Estaing, who was France President between...

If you believe Peter Mutharika, our good immediate past president, Malawians are already having a bout of nostalgia about his...

“The whole government,” once said Paul Mphwiyo, “is a criminal enterprise.” As the Lazarus Chakwera-led administration continues clearing the “rubble”,...

“I knew this was going to end in tears,” an anonymous man who phoned this newspaper on Friday morning mourned....

It must feel good, if you love the country that is, to see the backs of the outgoing regime and...

If anybody had any doubt that the people of this country are determined to reclaim their destiny, if anybody thought...

Walking across the country, hearing the people talk in minibuses, at funerals, churches, bars, homes, you get a feeling there...

After all the hullabaloo about the elections—over whether or not we are going to vote and when—it seems that we...

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...