June 28, 2021 Nyasa Times Reporter 6 Comments
Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera’s order that priority in the awarding of contracts must be given to indigenous businesses is being ignored as most contracts are awarded to foreigners and this is being influenced by top government officials, Nyasa Times has established.
Paramount Holdings, one of government’s ‘sweetheart’ contractor, is facing a fight with indigenous firms, which are accusing the company of snatching away public contracts through backdoor dealings with undue influence from some top officials officials in the Tonse Alliance Government.
Paramount Holdings, owned by an Asian, Prakash Ghedia, is among few foreign-owned companies that has been so lucky to be awarded several contracts across sectors; from construction to supply of all sorts of goods and services.
Over three years now, South African consultant firm has still not handed over the Malawi Traffic Information System (MalTIS) to the Ministry of Transport and Public Works after failing to meet three deadlines over that period. Sources say through the delays, the government is losing millions that would be paid to the firm Movesa […]
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Multi-billionaire business mogul, Sabina Abdul Karim Batatawala, has come under the spotlight once again after the Malawi’s Attorney General (AG) Dr. Chikosa Mozesi Silungwe recommended the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Authority (PPDA) to probe the award of a huge contract procedurally. Batatawala is actually registered as a Malawian in […]
Museveni, Africa have to survive political pornography to actual lovemaking
May 19, 2021 President Museveni
There are political lessons from the world of adult pleasure. The French theorist Michel Foucault wrote a seminal book on power, The History of Sexuality with sex as the discursive space.
This widely cited book gives us a uniquely insightful way of seeing lovemaking as a mediation through which power in society is negotiated and organised.
Without attempting to discuss how sex mediates power in Uganda, I want to use lovemaking to appreciate Museveni’s timeless leadership challenge. Part of my ambition is to put psychoanalytical context to the malaise of the African political elite. Framing leadership as lovemaking in the traditional spiritual sense, not simply mounting might perhaps help us see our condition in a different light.