Mapwiya Muulupale

Talking Blues: Isn’t President Chakwera proving to be all talk and no trouser?

Nov 16, 2020 0

Facts being to the mind what food is to the body (Edmund Burke), I will start with facts. Justice Dr Chifundo Kachale’s extraordinary leadership in managing the 23 June 2020 Fresh Presidential Election raised our… ...

Talking Blues: Let the MSCE and NOCMA fiascos serve as Chakwera’s wake-up call

Nov 08, 2020 0

Yet to be written is the story of Malawi Congress Party (MCP)’s perseverance when most of its liberation peers have since gone into oblivion. MCP’s history is pregnant with lessons. Not only has MCP survived,… ...

Talking Blues: Sex for grades, sex for upkeep, sex for promotion? What a sick nation we are!

Nov 02, 2020 0

Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Director-General Aubrey Sumbuleta is on forced leave due to sexual harassment allegations which some female members of staff leveled against him. Minister of Information Gospel Kazako confirmed this, saying: “He has… ...

Talking Blues: Team Chakwera debuts in insalubrious corruption-tinged headlines

Oct 25, 2020 0

If rhetoric was all we needed to beat corruption, once we clear the backlog of cases Reyneck Matemba is reeling under, we would have had no reason to keep the Anti-corruption Bureau and the Corrupt… ...

Talking Blues: Hats off to the Malawi Human Rights Defenders Coalition

Oct 18, 2020 0

“We want to destroy everything, not rebuild on the same rubble. We have different ideas. It is like any work. You must start with a clean slate. Then, you have a programme, a new way… ...

Talking Blues: Mr President, shame on you too

Oct 11, 2020 0

Sometimes, wrote Friedrich Nietzsche, people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. Under the so-called Tonse Government, this behaviour is quickly becoming the norm. As I write, there are… ...

Talking Blues: MK754,835,824.14 richer, MK754,835,824.14 poorer – the price the poor pay

Oct 05, 2020 0

In December 2014 former Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development Christopher Makileni commenced a lawsuit against the Malawi Government. He sued for “constructive dismissal” and claimed MK1.1 billion. His grievance… ...