Opinion Posts

Talking Blues with Mapwiya Muulupale: Long live Malawi!

May 10, 2020 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

This last week was simply historic. First, was the submission of nomination papers for the July 2, 2020, Presidential elections. These were as significant as engagement ceremonies because they confirm who goes to bed with… ...

Namadingo’s mashup reunites Billy Kaunda and Peter Mazunda

Feb 17, 2020 Russell Chimbayo 1 &

When Peter Mazunda left Television Malawi-TVM now MBC TV to partner with his friends Maneno Mtawali and Jolly Ntaba in order to form Kings Multimedia Production-KMP in the year 2000, the trio among other things… ...

Ansah should be blamed for her arrogance

Feb 09, 2020 Luke Bisani 0 &

Excellence is what everyone aims when trusted with a task at any organisation, church, company even at the national level. Being given that thumbs up for the good job done is what gives pride to… ...

Life after ConCourt ruling: A time for the Nation to act or forever keep the peace

Jan 29, 2020 Joshua Mphanda - Contributor 1 &

As the country prepares for the verdict on the historic presidential elections case heard at the Constitution Court sitting in Lilongwe, Malawi is at a crossroads right now. The 3rd of February, the day judgement… ...

2019: The year the ghetto audience silenced good local urban music

Jan 02, 2020 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Malawi's popular Urban musicians' fan base is undoubtedly dominated by the ghetto youth since their standards allow them to be glued to local content unlike suburb dwellers who consume more of international content than local.… ...

Talking Blues: Looking into the crystal ball, I see…

Dec 02, 2019 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

Without prejudicing the ongoing case in the Constitutional Court where Lazarus Chakwera and Saulos Chilima are rigorously disputing the results declared by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC); as a ranking citizen, I would be slipshod… ...

Hypocrisy over ESCOM workers suspension

Nov 19, 2019 Luke Bisani 1 &

Malawi’s first citizen Peter Mutharika weeks ago witnessed the sad reality of power outages while presiding over a graduation ceremony at Chancellor College in Zomba. His speech was disrupted not with noise from the graduates… ...

Talking Blues: Chakwera plus Chilima minus egos and greed equals….?

Nov 18, 2019 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

First, let’s commend ourselves for resisting the strong temptation to comment on the proceedings of the ongoing case in the Constitutional Court where Malawi Congress Party (MCP)’s Lazarus Chakwera and United Transformation Movement (UTM)’s Saulos… ...

Talking Blues: With lots and lots of love, from Russia

Nov 04, 2019 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of Russia is a character and a half. Typical of his fellas, he divides opinion. For each million adoring fans he has, there is a million elsewhere that loathes him. In… ...

Sulom’s ‘lawgic-less’ stance

Nov 03, 2019 Malawi24 Reporter 1 &

By Lawyer David Kanyenda Earlier this week, Sulom leadership confirmed a resolution by their executive committee to boycott the nomination of candidates for FAM executive committee (exco) elections. Sulom neither provided the rationale for their… ...

Gwamba’s Akondakitale: An epic fail

Oct 01, 2019 Dave Mankhokwe Namusanya 2 &

Yesterday, Lawi and Gwamba dropped a song. But, that does not read accurate, yesterday Gwamba dropped a song that features Lawi. Also, after listening to the song, that sounds dishonest; so, yesterday there was a… ...

FAM should report Zambia women’s team to FIFA

Aug 08, 2019 Andrew Cane Chilapondwa 7 &

It is clear that Zambia women's national football team fixed their game against Botswana in the Cosafa Castle Cup on Tuesday for the obvious reason of avoiding She-Flames. Before the match, Zambia knew that a… ...

Talking Blues: Petty thieves, we hang; great ones we appoint to high office. Not with Americans

Jul 10, 2019 Mapwiya Muulupale 1 &

To find evidence of corruption in high places in our rotten Malawi, Americans have just proved that a telescope is not a necessity. As per our tradition of putting facts first, let’s take a look… ...

Kajoloweka calls for inclusion of youths in councils

Jun 03, 2019 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Youth and Society (YAS) executive director Charles Kajoloweka has called for the inclusion of young people in district executive committees. In an interview with Malawi24, Kajoloweka said they are already officially engaging the Ministry of… ...

Do we know our candidates?

Apr 20, 2019 Masiya Bingiza Nkhoma 0 &

The much touted and awaited Tripartite General Election (TGE) is few days away. Malawi is going to decide the next five years. The future is in Malawians' hands. A total of seven candidates have put… ...