Reading Time: 3 minutes2021 was a difficult year, nay, a hard hitting one! I lost a number of people I personally knew to COVID during the year. In a space of one week we lost Maria Chidzanja Nkhoma, Wambali Mkandawire, Patrick Semphere, Steven Lungu and, perhaps a less known personality to the public, character called Goli Mwanza. Those who […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesAlmost all of last week was a crazy week for many of us, not just in Malawi but globally. In Blantyre you could see traffic jams as early as 3 in the afternoon, which on normal days happens around 16: 45. It must have been the same in Lilongwe and further afield. Christmas fever was

Reading Time: 3 minutesZambia is planning to replace petrol with 99.9% ethanol as a fuel to propel petrol driven vehicles. Their SURYA Energy plant in Katuba, Central Province, is expected to produce the commodity, according to a recent report on the social media. It is likely that other production plants will also get established to complement the efforts

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you move up and down the country, you come across many Malawians selling all manner of things. As early as 4 am, our streets teem with people mostly on a variety of business errands, trying hard to make ends meet. There is no denying that Malawians are hard workers. That is far as the

Reading Time: 3 minutesThomas Edison is ranked among the greatest inventors of all time, and yet he was acquainted with failure a lot more than most of us. When he was developing the storage battery he conducted over 9,000 (read nine thousand) experiments without success. When his close friend, Walter Malory commented on the lack of results, Thomas retorted, “Results!

Reading Time: 3 minutesTo say that my boss in my previous world was a smoker is an understatement. Tobacco was to him what water is to fish. He was a chain smoker. Tobacco fragrance hit you as soon as you entered his office. One day this boss was bereaved and we, the lesser mortals, were duty bound to

Reading Time: 3 minutesDedza, Zomba and other mountains are not what they used to be. They once adorned what looked like carpets of green from a distance. The carpets covered these mountains so thoroughly that not a single piece of rock could be seen on them, a far cry from the bald features these mountains now are. One of the culprits of

Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently, the World Bank made the suggestion that the power tariff in this country should be revised upwards so that the service providers can gain the capacity to expand the power sector. This is a suggestion that made a lot of financial sense, from a capitalist perspective, but was met with a great deal of

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are countries in this world that do not have much by way of natural resources but have adequate exports to keep their economies ticking. They depend on sheer human ingenuity to generate their exports. Japan is one of such countries. According to 2020 figures, Japan’s highest export sales figures were realised from transport machinery,

Reading Time: 3 minutesLast week I discussed the unstable currency that we have in this country. I stated that this was the case because we do not create adequate foreign reserves. Notice the all inclusive “we” in that statement. It is all of us together, those in government and those outside of government, that should create foreign reserves