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UDF’s future is still bright—Padambo
The United Democratic Front (UDF), despite riding on the wave of agenda for change, performed dismally in the May 20 Tripartite Elections. In this interview the party’s secretary general Kandi Padambo...
View ArticleBring back the Forfeiture Act
We are in Liwonde, a town that is blessed with warehouses nobody currently needs. In the long term vision of the founders of this country, Liwonde would have been by now the hub of commerce. They...
View ArticleThe condom is being reinvented!
The condom is being reinvented thanks to funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges. Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft, one of the largest information technology companies...
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The rising voice of Ndirande
While Ndirande Township in Blantyre has mostly been popular for the wrong reasons, there are still others in the township who have proved that it is possible to stand out in a crowd and propagate...
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Can Malawi do away with voting on regional lines?
Malawi’s democratic evolution is back in the limelight. The concern after the recent electoral stand-off is the usurp of the democratic process by tribal politics. In the May 20 elections, major...
View ArticleToo early for epitaphs
When I talked about my expectation of lots of drama at the ongoing Fifa World Cup finals in Brazil in my last entry, nothing could have prepared me for what eventually happened. Some of the results...
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Race to succeed Walter begins
Some aspirants have already started posturing for the FAM presidency following incumbent Walter Nyamilandu’s decision not to seek a fourth four-year term during the December 2015 elections. Weekend...
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Tabitha yet to sign contract with Swedish club
Malawi’s first women’s professional football Europe export Thabitha Chawinga is yet to sign a contract with Swedish First Division club Krokom/Dvarsatt IF although she is featuring in competitive...
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Civil servants discouraged from dancing at presidential functions
The Civil Service Trade Union (CSTU) and the Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) have condemned their members who have resorted to dancing at presidential functions during working hours. The call comes...
View ArticleAPM’s bipartisan politics
Honourable Folks, painful as it is that a legal technicality prevented the Malawi Electoral Commission from sorting out irregularities before announcing the winner in the 2014 presidential election,...
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Meet the bride, President proposed to marry her before elections
Kapasule Village in T/A Sawali in Balaka was virtually unknown until last week when it was announced that one of its daughters, Gertrude Maseko, is getting married to the First Citizen—President Peter...
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EU mission explains election anomalies
The European Union 2014 Elections Observation Mission (EU EOM) has attributed wide ranging anomalies that characterised the May 20 Tripartite Elections results to lack of training, general fatigue of...
View ArticleA Cabinet that only trickles
There is a bad joke making rounds in our newsroom and it began the day President Peter Mutharika appointed Goodall Gondwe as Finance and Economic Planning Minister on June 6. It goes something like the...
View ArticleOf electoral, matrimonial tidings
Esteemed Raw Stuffers, the other day a vibrant local hotel chain announced that it had lost about K70 million in cancelled/rescheduled business due to the general malaise and uncertainty that followed...
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No more bad laws—DPP
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) says it is a transformed entity and has pledged to introduce laws that are in the best interest of Malawians. DPP spokesperson in Parliament Dr George...
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Mutharika weds Gertrude Maseko
Malawians braved a cold Blantyre morning to witness the wedding of newly elected President Peter Mutharika who tied the knot to Gertrude Maseko at the historic St Michael and All Angels CCAP Cathedral...
View ArticlePublic accountability for the 2014 elections (Part II)
Public confidence in the electoral process is vital to democracy. Such confidence can easily be eroded by the failure to openly and fully investigate alleged “anomalies”. This is necessary not only for...
View ArticleWhy televise confessions?
It is with confusion that I watch people captured emotionally praying to their God on television, some crying or falling down, as preachers apparently cast out demons.very time I see people publicly...
View ArticleSafintra bus?
One place that many people ignore when it comes to sourcing coordinators is in buses. These places are massive. It is on these buses that you have the chance of sitting very close to them. That way,...
View ArticleOped: DPP, please utilise prisoners for development
This is not a time to talk ill of others, whether in power or not. It is time to bring in new ideas that will help in fishing out the country from economic atrocities it has been going through since...
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