Oblivious to Sun Tzu’s advice in The Art of War exhorting warriors that the supreme art of war means subduing the enemy without firing a single shot, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ill-advisedly invaded Ukraine on… ...
Articles By Mapwiya Muulupale
“I really do not want my pictures in your offices because the president is not an icon, an idol, or a portrait. Hang your kids’ photos instead and look at them each time you make… ...
”In the abundance of water, a fool is thirsty.” - Bob Marley, Rat Race, Rastaman Vibration album According to the OECD, Russia and Ukraine account for 30% of global wheat exports, more than a quarter… ...
Aerial bombs have been dropped on Mariupol, Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24 [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP] No plan survives contact with the enemy is wisdom attributed to Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke… ...
“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed,” - Simone de Beauvoir ~~~~~~~~~~~ My quest this week is to discuss self-inflicted oppression that can only be redressed… ...
“Fellow Malawians, if these cases of fraud and corruption shall not make you and me angry, then what shall?” President Lazarus Chakwera, as Leader of Opposition, rebuking his predecessor’s handling of Maize-gate, 24 January 2017… ...
“Give them an inch; they take a yard. Give them a yard; they take a mile. Once a man and twice a child! And everything is just for a while. It seems like total destruction,… ...
“But it also means admitting that corruption is so deep in our country that many of us may have benefitted from its proceeds without even knowing it,” President Lazarus Chakwera, 24 January 2022. Warren Bennis… ...
“I want to make this country feel uncomfortable with corruption. As it is, it is like it is now part of our lives. So, I would want to see to it that Malawians start feeling… ...
Good day, Mr. President, When these few lines reach you, I hope they find you in the best of health. I am writing to reiterate a few issues that I feel are not getting the… ...
”Similarly, through the office of the Attorney General, working with independent law enforcement agencies, my Administration will not tolerate any of your taxes to be wasted on frivolous claims against the government by businesses whose… ...
Imagine selling one ream of papers to a government ministry at MK100. The ministry pays you. You had bought it at MK40, and so you made MK60. Later, you connive with the minister and invoice… ...
Maverick politician cum entertainer Bon Kalindo has been in the south, centre, north, and recently west – if Mangochi can be categorized thus. The Kalindo-led protests started like a joke. The Blantyre demonstrations did not… ...
“Within the first two years of being president, I will change everything in the way that we run things. If I don’t change everything in two years, I will resign.” Then-leader of opposition, now State… ...
“Corruption costs Malawi K412.5 billion”, “MW2063 agenda faces corruption threat”, “13 suppliers Boycott AIP”, “10 AIP suppliers yet to sign contracts”, “Malawi helpless on price increases”, “Patients forced to skip meals” and “Bureaucracy irks Lazarus… ...