tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37146313195410731842012-02-16T06:47:49.114-08:0035 years old having been born on May 3 1976 in Mzimba, Malawi.Sojourned to Scotland in 2003 - I now am back home - Malawi - the warm heart of africa - all this in search of some meaning in life, i guess, and some pursuit of happiness. The journey continues to unfold.ISAAC CHEKE ZIBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07260970536608121778noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714631319541073184.post-75611001383287780722009-04-11T14:31:00.000-07:002009-04-11T14:37:33.560-07:00

Muluzi in identity crisis post presidency?By Isaac Cheke ZibaIn just about six weeks the Malawi nation heads to the polls – yes the presidential and parliamentary elections. Once again the nation will be choosing leaders – yes leaders we will entrust the affairs and administration of our country with – a country crying out for serious leadership – leadership that can translate into improved lives

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A BINGU WIN WILL START TO POUR COLD WATER ON POLITICS OF REGIONALISMThe nation – yes Malawi – needs exorcising. The nation needs redeeming. The nation needs re-directing. We are 40+ years old as a self determining lot and yet we are miles and miles away from freeing our people from poverty, disease and in-capabilities that take many forms. I have dared to say, in the not so distant past, that the

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WE NEED RENEWD "NEW" POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN MALAWIIn the run-up to the 1999 presidential and parliamentary elections in Malawi, I had a bitter exchange of letters with Desmond Dudwa Phiri aka DD Phiri. I had just completed my second year of University then and doing some part time vacation work with the Press Corporation Health facility in Blantyre (Chichiri). What prompted me to write DD

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THE CHANGED JZU & THE "CULT OF PERSONAITY" IN MALAWI'S POLITICS“During the decades we have worked together in the ANC, we have had the great fortune that our movement has consistently repudiated the highly noxious phenomenon of the "cult of personality", which we saw manifested in other countries” (Thabo Mbeki 2008 sourced at BBC News 24).This is one of the leaders of Africa pointing to what is

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OF THE YOUNG, POLITICS, DEVELOPMENT AND THE UDF YOUTH WINGI am one of those people, 32 as it is, who think I am not quite ready to take on the political challenges that I see continue to best my country - Malawi - but I remain quite interested in the political goings-on in my country. At 32, I take myself as quite youthful - others may think differently though and I do respect that; and I get

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Can Malawi engage the gear of good governance a bit more? Would this unlock Malawi’s potential of delivering to its people desirable, of-quality, sustainable livelihoods? Can Malawians engage a higher gear of demanding accountability with all the whole marks of answerability and enforceability from their politicians? And can politicians take on the voice of Malawians as they formulate, articulate

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Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world and its economy is agrarian. More than half of the population survives on smallholder farming and lives in poverty and a good section of that is described as ultra poor. Chinsinga and O’brien, 2008 agree as they say “the economic reality is grim, 52% of the population are poor defined as per capita income of less than US$0.40/day. At least 22%

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I have alluded to a few material facts in the course of the past few days about the opposition parties in Malawi on Nyasanet and Malawi Talk - of particular interest are the UDF and MCP. Malawi Congress Party is known for its ruthless (mis)rule for a good 30+ years from 1964 to somewhere in 1992 (allow me to use 1992 – please). They are also known for having resisted to the bone the fast

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Annie, Your sentiments below, well respected but I want to give an alternative argument...you do not have to agree with it. Part of the problem, in my view, is that we want to believe or we have made ourselves believe that our parties have to or do operate on regionalistic lines and as days went and go by, we have told ourselves that this is "normal"...it is not normal, at least in my view, we

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Ambuje, in all our arguments on this issue, you may want to internalise this advice, the advice that one of the leading Lawyers in our land gave us, at Kamuzu College of Nursing, through me and my Executive Committee at the time; he said and I quote: - "The Law is double edged." To put it into context, in our studently (allow me to coin a word as well, see how you are influencing my writing,

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I have kept thinking about this for a long time and I have decided to put "pen to paper" on it. Where I come from, Mjinge Mhlaba Village, I grew up being told that "mwamuna, particularly mwana wa mNgoni, salira." I am not very sure if "chamuna")should be the word definitive of what the UDF found themselves in - was it by design or by default? (of course, tinaamva akuliralira – but then that was

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Dr. Steve Sharra, you have beaten e to it and in a very admirable manner…keep it going. The World has big lessons to learn from the great American who lived to the fullest the ideals of a useful, moral life and what he believed in needs to be held true to this day.My tow tambala worth thoughts on this man are below: -If America wants to be a first class Nation, it can not afford to have second

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Steve and all, I can only guess the figures in the posting above should have an "m" in front of them so it represents "million". If this were to happen as soon as, my prediction would be that MCP would carry the day, I will tell you why I think so, musathamange mwazi kaye: - Of all the parties represented in Parliament today, MCP has had the most stable MPs; there have been very very few

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Who would have thought, if we turned the hands of time to 1991, 1992, 1993, that AFORD would be in the shape it is today? Probably no sane Malawian would except those that have "helped" AFORD to be where it is today. AFORD called the shots in the years prescribed above. Something must have happened on "the way to Damascus" for AFORD, instead of gaining back its sight after 1994 elections when it

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In March 2006, I presented a paper on peronnal experiences of Nurse migration.This was in Geneva at a conference organized by the International Organization on Migration (IOM), World Health Organization and Amnesty International. Talking points of the paper I presented can be viewed on the folowing link for those interested:http://www.old.iom.int/en/PDF_Files/mhr/Presentations/

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