Opinion Posts

The cost of not remitting Pension Contributions

Mar 19, 2017 Joseph Potani 1 &

The recent reports in the media that industrial strikes are on the rise due to employers failing to remit pension contributions to fund administrators should not be taken lightly. It is reported that Blantyre District… ...

The idiocy of MCP: An opposition party with no principle

Feb 25, 2017 Chinsinsi Muchitanji 102 &

Yesterday I was watching the Parliamentary proceedings as they were discussing the issue of inviting Scotland Yard to investigate the death of Issa Njauju and other related matters that unsurprisingly remain unresolved in this country.… ...

Where is Peter Mutharika in all this f*ckery?

Feb 22, 2017 Chinsinsi Muchitanji 71 &

I have been hoping against hope that Peter Mutharika will somehow surprise us Malawians. With each and every passing hour, each and every scandal of Chaponda unraveling, I have been waiting for the news that… ...

Joseph Nkasa takes the road less travelled by, but it has not made any difference

Feb 17, 2017 Wonderful Mkhutche 99 &

When the American poet, Robert Frost, was writing his famous poem, “The Road Not Taken”, little did he know that one Joseph Nkasa in Malawi will also go for the shunned road. When the character… ...

Five greatest songs produced by Chuma Soko

Feb 12, 2017 Wonderful Mkhutche 47 &

Chuma Soko, one of the gifted producers to ever have graced Malawi music died at a young age of twenty five in December, 2003. But in the years he had been in the music industry,… ...

The impact of Malawi music on multiparty democracy

Feb 08, 2017 Wonderful Mkhutche 8 &

A friend, Sam Gikonyo, had read my articles on music and democracy in 1994 and 1999 suggested that I write on something of recent. By recent, he was meant five years ago. In my response,… ...

Namadingo’s Ba Yesu, an old song in a new language

Feb 03, 2017 Mbalume Ziwiri 18 &

I am writing using a pen-name because I know how averse Malawian artists are to honest hard-hitting criticism. Not to create a meal of myself on social media from Namadingo and team, I will remain… ...

VP, Chilima and the media: Any room for speculation?

Jan 26, 2017 Paul Nguluwe 20 &

Rare it is for me to tap the keys on my keypad in a move to exercise my birthright of freedom of expression politically. However, I make this post an exception. Am human thus a… ...

Malawi songs that influenced a general election

Jan 19, 2017 Wonderful Mkhutche 9 &

1993, ‘Mabala’. Healing the wounds: After growing under the wings of his elder brother, Paul, Lucius Banda decided to make a maiden attempt on the music scene through the release of his album, ‘Son of… ...

Malawi war on tax defaulters: Selective justice is injustice

Jan 14, 2017 Wise One From the East 2 &

The embattled Chaponda administration – ooops, that came out wrong; the beleaguered Peter Mutharika administration – sorry this is outright inaccurate; the besieged and corrupt Chaponda/Mutharika administration, reeling under pressure due to its stellar performance… ...

Too much for media freedom…we should all pay our taxes

Jan 13, 2017 William Simango 75 &

Times should not have been closed. Especially not now when it has been busy unravelling the corrupt syndicate that is being presided over by the anointed Peter Mutharika successor, George Chaponda. The closure of Times,… ...

Opinion: Christmas is not the birth of Christ, just a Satanic festivity

Dec 20, 2016 Samuel Majamanda 21 &

So Christmas is here again: a time to share the love, the goodies, the fun and the usual tears and sorrows that come through many bad occasions that are surprisingly and sadly connected to Christmas.… ...

An open letter to Mr. Donald Trump from Malawi

Nov 16, 2016 Martins M'gwazo Ndlovu 154 &

Mr President-elect, first let me congratulate you on your unexpected but resounding victory. We know Americans have found hope in your vision hence their votes for you, though some of us find some of your… ...

Giving Mutharika a news blackout is retrogressive: Mount Soche Declaration is a threat to Malawi’s democracy and press freedom

Nov 16, 2016 Pearson Nkhoma 27 &

The mainstream private media in Malawi have threatened to give President Peter Mutharika a “news blackout” unless press freedom is guaranteed by his administration. The media made this declaration following a meeting convened last week… ...

The Esther in Grace Chinga’s ‘Esther’

Oct 15, 2016 Wonderful Mkhutche 119 &

Grace Chinga died in March 2016, hours after announcing her fourth studio album titled ‘Esther’. It was a highly anticipated project bearing in mind that it had been six years since she came up with… ...