Category: National

Finance Minister Mwanamveka during the pre-budget consultation meeting * By digitisation of revenue collection to reduce spillage, corruption, manual errors, or evasion that will lead to its growth * Incentivise business registration to reduce informal enterprises sector, which is at 89% against 11% formal enterprises in the MSME sector * To introduce earmarked taxes on motorcycle (kabaza) operations, whose increasing accidents are constraining health sector in terms of budgetary resources * Restructuring state-owned enterprises (SOEs) into profitable models fiscal…

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* The issues that led to the party being voted out in 2019 have not been forgotten by the public. Corruption, policy inertia, and disregard for accountability remain red lines for many Malawians * If this administration fails to listen, to reform, and to clearly break with past practices, the current goodwill will evaporate quickly * Hope alone is not enough — it must be matched by credible action, transparency and a genuine willingness to govern differently from before…

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The 7th President of the Republic of Malawi, Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika * In a country grappling with deep macroeconomic stress, food insecurity, institutional fatigue and public disillusionment, the first 100 days matter less for dramatic results and more for direction, intent and policy posture * From the outset, President Mutharika has placed governance discipline at the centre of his leadership message * His early rhetoric on corruption, accountability and public service efficiency has been unusually direct Analysis by…

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* Is it poor workmanship or vandalism and stealing of foundation reinforcement bolts and nuts sold to unregulated scrap metal merchants? * Vandals suspected to be street connected groups of people who routinely loiter beneath the billboards — especially two cases that have happened in Lilongwe * Such conduct naturally places them among the prime suspects in the loosening of the reinforcement bolts By Duncan Mlanjira There have been two incidents in the Capital Lilongwe where two huge advertising…

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* Adds Chipiliro Mpinganjira as Gangata’s deputy; Edgar Tembo as Deputy Minister of Industrialisation, Business, Trade & Tourism and Thoko Tembo as Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation & Water Development * Chimwemwe Chipungu elevated to Minister of Lands, Housing & Urban Development from Deputy Minister of Health By Duncan Mlanjira In his first Cabinet reshuffle since he assumed office in October, President Arthur Peter Mutharika has made some changes which include scrapping off the Minister of State portfolio of…

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