The key is with APM
Q : What do you make of the new turn in the DPP wrangles? Thindwa: Unfortunately he does not want...
Politics
Arthur Peter Mutharika
President of the former governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), I would appreciate that the ugly scenes at my party’s press...
‘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...
A member of Parliament
I would take time and reflect on what fellow legislator for Blantyre City South Noel Lipipa posted on his Facebook...
Closing digital gender gap
The digital gender gap is still rife in Africa and women are 50 percent less likely to use the Internet...
‘This is a new era’
Covid-19 has had a huge impact on Malawi’s tourism sector and greatly reduced remittances from Malawians working abroad this year....
Checking accountability in civil society
Malawi has at least 500 registered non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) most of which are funded by...
Lazarus Chakwera or Saulos Chilima
State President and State Vice-President, respectively, I would not ignore the violence that occured in Karonga Central Constituency ahead of...
‘Blame politicians’
Our Features Editor JAMES CHAVULA engages Minister of Civic Education and National Unity Timothy Mtambo on the growing divide between...
From Mangochi with love
The difference between the DPP’s vanquished misrule and the current experiment—for its too early days to call it anything else—is...
