Opinion Posts

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… ...

The ‘TB Joshua’ in Malawi’s elections

Apr 10, 2019 Siwela Bonga 0 &

Even though he is no politician and has never visited the nation of Malawi, Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua is a force to be reckoned in the political sphere of the Southern African nation. Since his… ...

MCP will lose because of Chakwera

Apr 03, 2019 David Makasu 5 &

After losing elections in 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, Malawi Congress Party will lose again in 2019 because of Reverend Chakwera's weak and dictatorial leadership. This is the truth but painful. Let me start by… ...

‘Debaters came across as unprepared’

Mar 27, 2019 Deborah Nyangulu 0 &

Deborah Nyangulu's review of the debate as posted on Facebook. The Mzuzu runningmates debate was the best in terms of the robustness of both the questions and follow-up questions asked. The moderator was in control… ...

MCP at it again: plans to fire a big chunk of innocent and vulnerable civil servants if voted into power

Mar 26, 2019 Akimu Nyoni 1 &

A couple of days ago, MCP’s spokesperson Reverend Maurice Munthali made a scathing statement that if MCP wins the May 2019 elections, their first assignment will be to fire civil servants in the name of… ...