‘Don’t arrest DCs just to tick boxes’
The Malawi Local Government Association (Malga) is wary of the scatter-gun arrests catalysed by startling audit findings on the K6.2...
Politics
Malawi needs fairer, humane refugee policy
MICHAEL KAIYATSAHuman Rights Activist In a few days, the government’s ultimatum for all refugees scattered across the country to return...
Opposition to abortion bill is foreign-backed
Local Catholic bishops received money from their US counterparts to lobby Parliament to reject a proposed law that would allow...
‘CDF littered with abuse’
Chitipa South legislator Welani Chilenga’s motion to put Constituency Development Fund (CDF) firmly under parliamentarians’ grip has reignited accountability questions...
If I were Catherine Gotani Hara
Speaker of Parliament, I would consider taking stern and prompt action against members of Parliament for continued absenteeism because this...
Who will save the women?
They know women are dying in large numbers due to backstreet abortion which the Ministry of Health wanted ended when...
A divided opposition, cracks on democracy
For any democracy to thrive, it requires a strong opposition to offer alternatives. The rise of the Tonse Alliance has...
Arthur Peter Mutharika
President of the former governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), I would appreciate that the ugly scenes at my party’s press...
The key is with APM
Q : What do you make of the new turn in the DPP wrangles? Thindwa: Unfortunately he does not want...
‘Every call affects 18m’
Former president Peter Mutharika fished Dr Bright Molande from the University of Malawi’s Chancellor College to become his executive assistant...
Covid-19 rules haunt the poor
In 2017, a vendor moved the Constitutional Court to scrape a colonial law made by Britain in 1924 that empowered...
If I were Lazarus Chakwera
President, I would realise that the Sunday night address on the fight against Covid-19 was more detailed than the previous...
‘We’re overwhelmed’
The death of minister of Transport Sidik Mia and Local Government’s Lingson Belekanyama last week Monday put a human face...
Inside Malawi’s new vision
More precious than our children are the children of our children, so goes an Egyptian saying. Despite all the global...
‘MBC was set up to fail’
Like other regimes before them, the Tonse Alliance administration promised to deliver an improved Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC). But it...
If I were Felix Mlusu
Minister of Finance, I would immediately set out to stop the extravagance at Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) where the...
‘Speed up the judicial system’
Despite the country’s labour laws clearly stipulating the dos and don’ts in workplaces, cases of perceived abuses of workers by...
African agenda in 2021
The past year will, of course, be remembered for the Covid-19 pandemic. Many African countries have handled the public health...
Pandemic of human rights abuses
This year will be forever associated with one story that affected every single country in the world: the Covid-19 pandemic....
Peak at Ziyaye and politics
May 5 2001. Limbe Cathedral, Blantyre. A sunny afternoon it was when Archbishop of Blantyre Tarsizius Ziyaye was consecrated to...
