Category: Business

* Malawi’s public institutions must not only be independent and professional, but must also be seen to be independent and professional * Public confidence in State institutions depends heavily on the integrity, fairness, and transparency of public appointments By Duncan Mlanjira Civil society organisation (CSO), Youth and Society (YAS), has condemned “the continued perception and growing pattern of politicised appointments within statutory corporations and public institutions”. In a statement  addressed to Chief Secretary in the Office of the President…

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* These acts of vandalism undermine national development efforts as they disrupt essential services, endangers lives, affects businesses, education, healthcare delivery and economic activities in affected communities * Also place an unnecessary financial burden on ESCOM since resources meant for system expansion and service improvement are diverted to repair damaged infrastructure By Duncan Mlanjira Just this month of May alone, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) has reported three incidents of vandalism of its infrastructure, the latest being on…

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* How do we fold our arms and look away while those chosen to guard our nation’s gates instead open them wide to greed, corruption, and destruction? By Duncan Mlanjira Dr. James Kadyampakeni — a prominent Canada-based Malawian economic policy analyst, researcher, and academic — contends that the citizenry should not “remain silent while watching our beloved country being slowly torn apart by the very hands we entrusted to protect it”. In an open statement posted on his Facebook…

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