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For close to a year now, Malawians have been struggling to get passports. The Department of Immigration has been saying one thing after another but with no much joy. It has been a year of one lie after the other, blame game and in some cases just silence and confusion because there is no information

A couple of days ago, vendors, especially those trading in second-hand clothes, kaunjika, marched to the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) offices, demanding that the government rescinds its decision on new tax measures on. A few hours after the protests started, gvernment and MRA decided to put on hold the new tax regime on Kaunjika. This

Last week Monday, Speaker of the National Assembly, Catherine Gotani Hara suspended for two days four Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) members of Parliament for disrupting proceedings in the August House. However, by Tuesday morning, the list grew to 24. On Tuesday morning, the DPP was expected to respond to the State of the Nation Address

Some weeks ago when Kondwani Nankhumwa addressed his supporters in Ndirande, Blantyre, he was ready to move on after being expelled from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). He urged his supporters to do the same and promised to let the nation know about his next political move. Those who have been following the DPP infighting

Not a day passes without Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) members dragging each other in the mud. The internal squabbles within, emanating from the party’s unclear succession plan, have gone on for too long. One wishes DPP used the same energy to offer checks and balances on the excesses of the current government’s leadership. In the

What happens when you are hurt by the one you love? Women have many questions about their relationships and are discouraged by the lack of support and information they receive from family and friends. Many times when women try to seek advice from family and friends about an abusive partner, the response and advice from

President Lazarus Chakwera likens himself to a traffic officer whose job is to direct traffic but has no control over the vehicles on the road. He was trying to emphasise a point that as head of the Executive branch of government, he does not have all the powers because some of those powers rest with

President Lazarus Chakwera on Tuesday went to town telling Malawians why he will not publicise the public reforms. Chakwera, in indirect attack on media reports that the reforms were gathering dust, a year after they were commissioned using tax-payers’ money, flamboyantly said the reforms were not for entertainment and public debates which yield nothing but

On June 23 2020, Malawians came out in large numbers as they braved the June cold weather and lined up to cast their vote in the fresh presidential election. They had renewed hope after the nullification of the 2019 presidential election in which Peter Mutharika was declared a winner. Malawians were desperate for change and

The High Court of Malawi on Friday put to a stop the madness surrounding the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general Martha Chizuma’s interdiction. Chizuma has been subjected to what could rightly be described as torture by those whose agenda for leaking the audio was perhaps distract Chizuma and eventually see her out of the ACB