COMMENT (Nation)-Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) board chairperson Charles Mataya has set a good example by stepping down following news that the institution secretly borrowed money from commercial banks to paint a picture that the zero-deficit budget was a success when it actually flopped. Mataya’s action is very rare in Malawi public sector management and will arguably [...]
By George Kasakula OPINION (Nation)-When Balaka South MP George Nnensa drew the attention of the country to the greatest fraud of our time through which MRA borrowed money from commercial banks with the sole aim of cheating that the zero-deficit budget was not a flop it is, the whole DPP bunch of fraudsters were up in [...]
By Ephraim Munthali OPINION (Nation) -”Mr. Speaker, Sir, as the Honourable Members are aware, domestic revenues for the 2011/12 fiscal year were projected at K242.5 billion comprising K203.5 billion tax revenues and K38.97 billion non- tax revenues. The target for the mid-year was that a total of K115.6 billion, comprising K96.1 billion tax revenues and K19.5 [...]
By Brian Ligomeka OPNION (Times)- Politics in many African countries stinks and it will continue to stink because of politicians who after being intoxicated with power exchange their souls, conscience and integrity with lust for more power and money. I recall sometime back some politicians were so intoxicated with power that they declared Kenneth Kaunda was [...]
COMMENT (Nation) -We support the position taken by the Malawi Government on the Sudan Omar al-Bashir saga. Simply put, a Sudanese delegation can indeed effectively represent that country at the forthcoming AU conference in Lilongwe. This, in our view, would be a win-win situation in which Malawi could host the continental gathering, with the attendance [...]
By Chisomo Njewa OPINION (Malawi Freedom Network )-IF you thought Malawians were lazy and that is why we are poor think twice. Generally speaking Malawians are honest and hardworking people who are taken advantage of by a corrupt few and when those in power do nothing about it, the whole society suffers. Malawi doesn’t produce [...]
By Fletcher Tembo OPINION – The past two weeks have thrown Malawi into heated debates on the true meaning of democracy. One key issue is whether the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) MPs who visited President Joyce Banda to express their support at her home on 7 April, well before she took office as Malawi’s new President, abused their [...]
By Kondwani Munthali POINT OF VIEW -I came to know President Joyce Banda after my mother had won the Business Woman of the Year title and the late Mary Kaphwereza Banda was the Minister. I never thought much about that smiling face which patted us on the head. In 2002 when I joined the Malawi [...]
By Adamson Muula BLANTYRE (Nation)-President Bingu Mutharika said he was not Jesus. One thing, however, that Mutharika has shared with the Lord is that when things turned out bad for either of them, trusted disciples betrayed them. Jesus was denied by Simon Peter while Mutharika was denied by various manner of politicians and DPP bigwigs. [...]
LILONGWE -Robert Chasowa’s death is no joking matter – it psychologically affected me and many others, it took a life, it violated several rights and most painfully it went unchecked….here is what those who want to probe Chasowa’s murder should do. I will be quoting from a document that widely circulated on the internet, dont [...]
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