Reading Time: 3 minutesTucked away somewhere in the English Midlands are the remnants of an eighteenth century factory called Quarry Bank Mill. The mill stands on the bank of River Bollin on the outskirts of Styal in Cheshire. This columnist was privileged to visit Quarry Bank Mill in the late 1980s. I must admit that the visit made […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes“But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy.” – Ezra 3:12 Two groups of people, the young and the

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 1972 two disgruntled Lebanese young men hijacked a South African plane and forced it to land at Chileka Airport. They had grudges against a Mr. Oppenheimer, a South African diamond tycoon, whom they had worked for but apparently never got their dues. They, therefore, wanted to get even with him by hijacking a South

Reading Time: 3 minutesSome of the most astonishing medical breakthroughs have had an African connection.  On 3rd December, 1967, Christiaan Barnard, a white South African, performed the world’s first successful human to human heart transplant. His patient, Lois Wahskansky, suffered from diabetes and a heart disease that had been declared incurable. Christiaan had, at that stage, successfully carried out

Reading Time: 3 minutesMaybe because of lack of financial resources, many Malawians do not venture far beyond their places of origin. Their knowledge of the world therefore is limited by what they know of their homes. If you ask somebody from Waliranji in Mchinji about Nyezelera in Phalombe, for example, chances are they will be blank. Very few

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have seen, in the past week or two, an invitation to those who are able, to express their interest in running mega farms. Should it not be the sole responsibility Government engage in this important activity in order to extend the much needed assistance to its people? Absolutely not! As pointed out a number

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change – Charles Darwin. What is meant by adaptability is the ability to change to suit the environment. The father of evolution made the lofty claim given above after observing

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe past two weeks have been dominated by the news of DSTv having made a decision to exit the Malawi market. This followed a misunderstanding between them and the regulatory authority, MACRA, as to how the latter is supposed to regulate the former. We have yet to know the final outcome of the issue and

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe conclude the discussion of followership this week by focusing on another of the important attributes followers are expected to exhibit: creativity. It would not be an overstatement to say that creativity within the followership is non-negotiable. When I last checked, the price of cooking oil was prohibitively high in our shops, while the price

Reading Time: 3 minutesLast week I focused on attribute of followership, namely courage. This week we shall discuss one more important attribute, namely competency. As a country we are desperately wanting in this attribute. There is no denying that we have a number of competent individuals in various fields, in Social and Natural Sciences, Engineering, Accountancy, Medicine and