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After needless drama, Martha Chizuma was duly confirmed as the Anti-Corruption Bureau Director-General and boy, does she have a lot on her plate! Even though apart from the inimitable Gustave Kaliwo Esq, no one has excelled in that post, expectations are sky-high. Chizuma: Honeymoon is over for corrupt criminals. Her predecessors came brandishing CVs that dazzled. With Kaliwo’s notable exception, those CVs proved to have disappointingly little or non-existent value vis-à-vis: • Withstanding political pressure, • Exhibiting Kaliwo-like courage when pursuing ‘Che-Jumos’ and • In ge...
April 11, 2021 Mapwiya Muulupale 35 Comments “Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.”- George Canning, British premier, Apr-Aug 1827 I recently stumbled on a fascinating article titled the Anatomy of Military Incompetence. Its thrust is that failure to make any decision is almost as bad as making a poor decision. Expressed mathematically, indecision = lousy decision. The author supports this thesis with a whole platoon of hopeless war generals whose indecisiveness caused disaster, grief, and preventable deaths. Comparing and contrasting what is worse between making a wr...
March 14, 2021 Mapwiya Muulupale 5 Comments Before I cut to the chase, I hereby reproduce, in their entirety, two letters. From: OPC Date: 5 June 2020 LEAVE PENDING RETIREMENT I write in respect of the above matter, My Lord, and wish to advise that according to employment records kept by this office, you were born on 26 December 1956. This means that you will attain the current mandatory retirement age of sixty-five (65) years on 26 December 2021. Our records further show that you have accumulated leave days of Five Hundred and Seventy-Two (572). Therefore, in terms of MPSR 1. 184(...
February 28, 2021 Mapwiya Muulupale 1 Comment As with all Valentine Days, this year’s day was not uneventful. Covid-19 notwithstanding, a lot happened. For fear of opening a Pandora’s Box, I will leave this at that and redirect our discourse elsewhere. On Valentine Day, President Lazarus Chakwera gifted us a bouquet of roses in the form of his first serious statement of intent vis-à-vis reforming our ineffective, self-serving, and generally corrupt public dis-service, which, if truth be told, is the cause of our endemic misery. Now, as one Kahlin Gibran noted, roses divide opinion...