Category: National

By Duncan Mlanjira In his analysis of President Lazarus Chakwera’s first State of Nation Address (SONA) made in Parliament on Friday, social commentator, Edgar Kapiza Bayani said he summarily sees the SONA as having missed the opportunity to postulate a candid vision to accelerate access to clean electricity for Malawians — based on the Tonse promises. As a community energy sector player, Bayani says in general the country’s leadership seems still obsessed with “big” energy projects, ignoring other equally…

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By Duncan Mlanjira The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC), has written the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) detailing some allegations that the Roads Authority made some payments out of Treasury on the pretext that the money would be advance payment for construction of 10 road projects mainly in the Southern Region. The letter, dated 3rd September, 2020 addressed to ACB Director General Reyneck Matemba, alleges that during the campaign period for the fresh presidential election. HRDC alleges that the total…

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By Duncan Mlanjira Maravi Asian Development Association (MADA), that represents minority businesses in Malawi, have also denounced the draft Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets (Administration of Preferential Treatment) Regulations 2020, describing it as unconstitutional. MADA has joined some concerned citizens, who have also written a petition to the PPDA to remove the expression that states that all bids submitted for national competitive bidding must give preference to 60% Indigenous Black Malawians and 40% to others, describing the…

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By Duncan Mlanjira Concerned citizens have written a petition to the Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Authority (PPDA) to remove the expression that states that all bids submitted for national competitive bidding must give preference to 60% Indigenous Black Malawians and 40% to others. The concerned citizens, who are of Asian origin, coloureds, whites and people living with albinism, contend that the wording ‘Indigenous Black Malawians’ that is in the circular borders on racism. The petition says: “In…

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By Duncan Mlanjira President Lazarus Chakwera told Parliament on Friday in his first State of Nation Address (SONA) that the country’s economic growth measured by the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), is projected to fall to 1.9 percent in 2020 from an initial estimated growth rate of 5.5 percent for the year compared to the 5.0% growth rate achieved in 2019. He attributed this as due to the impact of political uncertainty and instability, occasioned by the rigged elections of…

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By Duncan Mlanjira President Lazarus Chakwera’s Tonse Alliance-led government has embarked on a job creation initiative which was promised for one million jobs in their first year in office promised during the fresh presidential election, Chakwera said to realize this, government has and are treating the creation of a conducive environment for further job creation as an ongoing and multi- sectoral effort. “We are currently consulting with and collecting data from key stakeholders for use in our ongoing assessment…

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