Daniso's Warped Mind

Malawi's president is allergic to her country's papers

2013-04-25T04:59:00.001+02:00

BENJA: What a dressing down! But is the president serious that she doesn't like the sight of our local newspapers?

DANISO: Maybe but then how does she know that they are unkind to her? That her White House sojourn didn't make it to the front pages? Telepathy? Maybe the good prophet TBJ prophesies the stories and phones to brief her.

BENJA: Come on! For all we know, she could be getting press briefings.

DANISO: Maybe, maybe not. By the way, I think the public needn't have seen some of the dirty laundry she brought out. I was also very surprised by her comment about MBC TV. How can she make such a sweeping statement about it being open when, according to her, she only watched it once?

DANISO: MBC TV open? Does she know what she's saying? She should watch it for a whole day and see how much PP fare viewers are forced to watch. And while she's at it, let her browse the Malawi News Agency website as well.

BENJA: MANA is something else. If your only source of news was MANA, you would think there's no opposition in Malawi, that opposition parties aren't holding conventions, that they aren't going round on incessant whistle stop tours, that PP and UDF thugs didn't slug it out in Zomba, that everything in Malawi is going as smooth as Swiss clockwork.

DANISO: I think like every Malawian leader before her, Her Excellency Her Excellency is addicted to praise singing. Anything else is anathema to her.

BENJA: All the more reason she should be watching MBC TV.

DANISO: I think she doesn't realise praise singing gives her a false sense of achievement, a skewed perception of her people's feelings. These she can only genuinely gauge if she were being given press briefings.

BENJA: She also ought to be paying a little more attention to her Facebook page. As far as the world is concerned, it's the president's page.

DANISO: Let's not go there. Please.

BENJA: Ok. Fine. Let's talk football then. What conclusions have you drawn from the recent Champions League earth shuttering results?

DANISO: I think the two-team Spanish League was lulled into a false sense of superiority. They didn't realise that football has since migrate north and been infused with ruthless German efficiency.

BENJA: 4-0, 4-1. Who would've thought? I think bookies have made a killing because nobody could've seen those scores coming.

DANISO: Nobody.

Celebrating a predecessor's death

2013-04-08T19:10:00.000+02:00

DANISO: Now that PP has danced and celebrated on Bingu's grave, what next?

BENJA: It's a shame really. A very mean thing to do.

DANISO: Uncouth. Crass. Cheap. It's like a son who instead of commemorating his father's death, chooses to celebrate the wealth he was willed as result of the death.

BENJA: I sometimes wonder whether JB has advisers.

DANISO: I doubt it, at least not ones who mean her well. If she had, do you think she would've been abusing government machinery to be harassing David's mother?

BENJA: You mean Madonna? I agree. How can she be so mean spirited, a practicing Christian?

DANISO: Whatever happened to 'Love thy neighbour'? Especially a neighbour who's helping you in her own little way?
BENJA: Well, it's been a funny few days. First off the block was DPP lauding Bingu as the best president Malawi has ever had.

DANISO: I think it's in our genes to sanitise the characters of the dead, to gloss over their flaws no matter how tarred. No wonder we call a dead body a chief, even if it's that of a village idiot.

BENJA: No wonder employees fall over themselves praising departed colleagues "who the employer will have great problems replacing, if at all." You've to wonder.

DANISO: So too Bingu. In the year since, we've already forgotten his long list of flaws. The most nepotistic president ever, one who barely tolerated people from certain tribes and took great pleasure in publicly insulting some of them.

BENJA: We've forgotten that the economic mess Malawi is going through today started during his second term when the Kwacha was being artificially propped up. We've totally forgotten that were he still alive today, Malawi would be in a far worse position than it is now.

DANISO: We can't even remember the arson attacks against critics, the arrests, even a murder, his unexplained wealth when not long before he was rescued by his predecessor, he used to be both a driver and a conductor for his own minibus, a man who, according to a man who used to be his cook, would budget for and buy only two chickens a month.

BENJA: I suppose his people have all the right to love him, after all many of them were uplifted along with him. But to foist the second term Bingu on all of us as Malawi's best president, is an insult. An insult to the SMEs whose businesses had to shutdown in the face of an all conquering business juggernaut from his tribe who had to

DANISO: Do you remember the poor orphans whose land was grabbed? Malawi's best president? My foot! Let me have a Green. I'm boiling inside just at the memory of him.

Any lessons from the Kenyan elections?

2013-03-31T00:06:00.000+02:00

BENJA: Daniso, you seem pensive. What's eating you?

DANISO: Some thoughts don't easily lend themselves to conversation, young man.

BENJA: You could've fooled me. I thought if at all there's a man who's capable of verbalising his thoughts, uncensored, that man is you.

DANISO: Sometimes my thoughts are too entangled even for me to unravel.

BENJA: That will be the day. Anyway, what do you think of the Kenyan electoral process right up to the Supreme Court's decision?

DANISO: Uhmm ... let's see now. The electronic registration, voting and transmission of results were a total debacle. Whoever was responsible should've had his ass fried. But in the final analysis, despite a few other minor wrinkles, the result they got is what they would've got even in a glitch free election.

BENJA: I'm of the same opinion.

DANISO: I was also very impressed by two women, bowled over in fact.

BENJA: Really and who are those two?

DANISO: I thought Martha Karua was the best candidate in the first debate, I didn't watch the second one. She was very articulate. But elections are about money and she didn't have lots of that, apparently.

BENJA: You rated her that highly?

DANISO: If I were Kenyan I would've voted for her.

BENJA: Who's the other one? The Registrar of the Supreme Court?

DANISO: I must say she sounded very professional, but no. It's Daina Kethi Kilonzo, the youngest and only woman counsel. She was quite a revelation. In fact she's become quite a sensation even on Twitter.

BENJA: Aren't you holding back something?

DANISO: I'll be the first to admit that her brilliant brain is fronted by an exquisitely sculpted face and her body packaged in such a way that makes even this old man's loins stir. Yes, she's beautiful and very sexy.

BENJA: I knew it. I knew it.

DANISO: But it's her brains that awed me more. You know I'm a sucker for brilliant minds. After all, it's really a woman's mind that a man is in a relationship with, not the body however well packaged.

BENJA: I'm not so sure about that but I'll let it pass. Now, if you were to draw only one lesson from the process, what would it be?

DANISO: That's a hard ask considering that there are a number of things I would wish replicated here in Malawi ... the debates, for example. They were very well organised. But I suppose the main lesson is that if there are any disputes, any resultant court processes should be dispensed with first before a president elect is sworn in.

BENJA: I also liked that part. But then it's in their new constitution.

DANISO: I know. Anyway, enough about the elections. What's the name of that KTN presenter who was at the Supreme Court, do you remember? The woman? She was excellent.

BENJA. The one with a wedding ring?

DANISO: She's married? Damn!

Malawians politicians are all cut from the same cloth

2013-03-29T11:23:00.000+02:00


Lucius Banda composed Ali ndi Njira Zawo

BENJA: What's that song by Soldier Lucius Banda about these people being all the same?

DANISO: Which people now? Minibus drivers?

BENJA: Of course minibus drivers are all the same. But I'm talking about politicians.

DANISO: Oh, I remember now. You mean 'Ali Ndi Njira Zawo'? I love that song. So relevant to our own political setup.

BENJA: Yes, that's the song. All Malawian politicians are really from the same gene pool. They are greedy conniving egoistic kleptocratic plunderers of public resources, with absolutely no vision for our country.

DANISO: You're right. Their vision doesn't extend beyond their feet. But they've a very good sense of smell though.

BENJA: You're kidding, right? Strong sense of smell when they've to mix with so many unwashed bodies during campaign rallies?

DANISO: Not that kind of sense of smell. Our politicians have good noses for homing in on corrupt deals ... not to prevent them, mind you, but to join the plunder.

BENJA: Anyway, what I wanted to say is that Malawian politicians are the same regardless of which parties they belong to. Look at how they abuse MBC, our so called public broadcaster.

DANISO: I don't even listen to it, let alone watch it.

BENJA: Considering that you've neither a radio nor a TV, I'm not surprised ... Hehehehe ... Anyway, each party in power would rather MBC remains on the shortest of leashes.

DANISO: To be unleashed at their whim as a propaganda tool..

BENJA: Very useful during campaign periods. That's why even though the opposition has the numbers in the current parliament to push through private members' bills, none will be introduced that would permanently reform MBC to keep it out of the stifling clutches of future ruling parties.

DANISO: Because they would also like to be abusing it in the same way should they get into power in future elections?

BENJA: Exactly.

Benja and Daniso take pot shots at Chimunthu's challege

2013-03-27T09:52:00.001+02:00

Chimunthu throws down the gauntlet

BENJA: Why is it anathema in DPP for someone to challenge Peter Mutharika to be the party's 2014 torch bearer? Why should all sorts of conspiracy theories be postulated just because someone has dared to throw his hat in the ring?

DANISO: I'm surprised you're surprised. You should know that the 'D' in their name is just there for cosmetic purposes. Scratch beneath the makeup, and you'll find the real Kaliati, ... er, I mean the real DPP.

BENJA: [Laughter]. Kaliati, eh! I'm sure it was your talk of makeup that got you lost in Akweni's image in all her made up glory.

DANISO: I think so. But the truth is DPP is democratic in exactly the same way as the Democratic Republic of North Korea.

BENJA: So maybe they should just drop the 'D' and be known simply as Progressive Party.

DANISO: Progressive! There's nothing progressive in DPP's bone. Each day that passes they're reverting more and more to form. Already we've seen the violence that used to be synonymous with party rear its ugly head again.

BENJA: Just as well considering that there's party that's already known as PP.

DANISO: Maybe they can change to TPIEITP instead?

BENJA: Now that's a mouthful. But what would it stand for?

DANISO: This Party Is Entrenched In The Past.

BENJA: Hey! There's no way they would accept that name. Anyway, talking of challenges, why is Chimunthu pursuing this thankless task? DPP's 2014 candidacy is firmly in Peter's hands. Anyone who thinks he can wrest it away from him is either deluded or high on weed.

DANISO: Well, there's lots of weed where he comes from, no? But in my opinion I think he's just a masochist out to enjoy the pain of experiencing a waste of his time and resources.

BENJA: You think there are virgins out there for people who commit political suicide?

DANISO: I've never been a politician so I wouldn't know.

Daniso unreachable

2013-03-21T09:19:00.000+02:00


Gondolosi, giving a herbal push to Malawian men for generations. Photo courtesy of Elson Kambalu

BENJA: JFK, have you seen Daniso today.

JFK: No, not today. Maybe he has a visitor.

BENJA: You mean A VISITOR.

JFK: Uhmm ... A VISITOR.

BENJA: Not a bad idea considering how chilly Blantyre is today.

JFK: I just hope he doesn't require a herbal push.

BENJA: A herbal push! Daniso? He doesn't strike me as someone who would willfully take mugfuls of anything without a prescription.

JFK: You never know. You see, men your age bother their women almost on a daily basis. Oh, yes. Women even run out of headache themed excuses.

BENJA: No way!

JFK: Oh yes! Women even end up going to nights of prayer just to get away from their demanding husbands. Some even cut a finger or two to produce some blood to use in faking an out-of-sync that time of the month.

BENJA: Don't tell me.

JFK: Uhmm. Anyway, women get tired. But as the years go by, it's the women who do the bothering, and it's us the men who've to come up with excuses. Not on a daily basis, thankfully.

BENJA: You can't be serious?

JFK: Young man, I'm dead serious. Say a man fulfilled his duties on a Friday ... in the wee hours of the morning because he would be applying for a visa for a Fathers' Day outing later in the day ... and on a Wednesday the wife felt like she was due a repeat ...

BENJA: And ...?

JFK: Iwee! "Kodi mai, bwanji kodi?" he would protest. "Sitapanga dzana-dzana lomweli ... yeah, we did it just the other day, not so"

BENJA: Then a herbal push would be the answer, no? Or the blue pill, if one can afford it.

JFK: But not without a prescription, young man. Haven't you ever heard of men orgasming themselves to death?

A perfume called ...

2012-11-27T09:58:00.001+02:00

Was ours what they call a whirlwind romance? One minute we were enveloped by overwhelming feelings, the next it was history.

I knew it was too good to last. [Sigh]

All this floated through my mind as I sat in a minibus. Images of our time together played on and on. I wondered how my salary and me broke up almost immediately after meeting when what we had had seemed so hot, so forever. Still in a state of shock, I couldn't see how I would manage in its absence for the rest of the month.

How?

Then a vendor startled me out of my reverie by tapping on my window. Seeing he had my attention, he held up a package of men's fragrance and started extolling its virtues. But I wasn't really listening. My attention was glued to the name emblazoned on the package.

'BOOS' it read.

And he genuinely expected me to buy it? Who wanted to be booed because I had bought BOOS instead of BOSS?

In any case, hadn't he heard that my salary and I were on separation?

When a friend request spooks an open minded person

2012-09-06T11:57:00.000+02:00

I normally don't fuss over who I accept as friends on social networks. I believe everyone can, in their own way, contribute to my life's journey. But the request I got this morning has made me to rethink my open door policy.

I think I may have to make an exception and ignore the hand of Facebook friendship that has been proffered. My uneasiness with the request is that the profile picture accompanying it is of a totally naked man.

I'm not the narcissistic type who enjoys sitting in front of a mirror admiring himself, after all, truth be told, there aren't that many inches to write home about. So why would I waste time looking at another man's body? Or rather, why should I be forced to be looking at another man's body every time he comments on my status or posts something on my timeline?

No, I'm not squirmish about nakedness. In fact, in my writings I don't 'asterixicise' body parts and such like. I spell them in full because that's the way the reader reads them anyway. Readers don't read 'f**k' as "f ... asterisk ... asterisk ... f" or "f ... star ... star ... f." They read 'fuck' as "fuck".

Like the majority of men, I'm not averse to looking at photos of nakedness. And when confronted with live nakedness, even if it's only a hint, I ogle and even drool.

However, my enjoyment of such photos and live viewings are limited to the female of the species, thank you.

Zakumudzi - Links to news about Malawi --- 21 July

2012-07-21T05:37:00.003+02:00

Malawi Police claim 18% decrease in crime rate, upsurge in robbery and murder
Nico, Airtel Malawi unveil phone policy
Malawi cancels K40bn fertiliser procurement tender
Forex availability improves, says Lipenga
Peter Mutharika to folly up the Thyolo rally with one in Lilongwe
'Malawi Voice' again out to stir regionalism
Madonna's abandoned school to become heroes' acre for national figures
JB asks for prayers for power not to go to her head
Witchcraft based violence a concern, government says
Government calls for measures to cushion urban migration
China pledges to boost Malawi's education sector
Another Linthipe accident: forest official dead, 8 seriously injured
Don’t sell Malawi to illegal Immigrants, JB pleads
Why students in public universities ‘enjoy’ premature closures
Reflections on bank liquidity and rising interest rates in Malawi

Links to international news --- 20 July 2012

2012-07-20T04:52:00.000+02:00

Crops suffer as drought intensifies in U.S. breadbasket
Syrian rebels seize Turkey, Iraq border posts
UK Home Office staff to strike on eve of Olympic games
Tutu calls for end to gay stigma to help tackle HIV
Spelling error in torchbearer's Olympic tattoo
US military allowed to wear uniforms at gay pride march
Microsoft makes its first ever loss
Huge spam botnet Grum is taken out by security researchers
Google reports sales and profits jump
Yahoo's new boss Marissa Mayer could see pay top $70m
CEO gives part of his bonus to employees
Former hospital worker accused of transmitting hepatitis C
Google's Nexus 7 tablet ships this week
Facebook, Wal-Mart chiefs meet to "deepen" relationship
Banks in Libor probe consider group settlement-sources

Zakumudzi - Links to news about Malawi --- 20 July

2012-07-20T04:36:00.000+02:00

President Banda challenged on accountability, ‘declare assets’
Malawians to pay respect to July 20 victims
Mixed messages in the clerk of parliament saga
Malawi Police chief touts shoot-to-disable policy
Malawi's economy still on sick bed
Malawi starts issuing birth certificates
Youths march for implementation of Section 65
MSCE invigilators cry over chopped allowances
Malawi mother wants world to be speaking out on sexual violence in Malawi
Nanzikambe launches arts cafè
Members of the Muslim community start the month of Ramadan
Mikaya challenges Mbalaka for PP regional chairman post

Links to international news --- 19 July 2012

2012-07-19T05:04:00.002+02:00

Prophet Angel’s new Bentley divides church
US food aid programme criticised as 'corporate welfare' for grain giants
US drought wilts crops as officials pray for rain
US sees Assad 'losing control'
Deadly bomb blast hits bus with Israelis in Bulgaria
Tanzania rescue bid as ferry sinks off Zanzibar
Iceberg breaks off from Greenland's Petermann Glacier
US military sued over al-Awlaki Yemen drone death
Olympics: Pickpockets show off 'one-second theft'
Polypill could prevent thousands of hearts attacks and strokes
Texas debuts one-drug execution
Apple ordered to run Samsung 'did not copy iPad' adverts
Some student pilots in U.S. illegally
Dropbox investigating possible security breach
If Marissa Mayer can 'have it all,' can you?
Mexico presidential runner-up alleges money laundering in election
Fear stalks Mali’s refugees despite escape to safety
Economic fears hurting Obama, poll indicates

Zakumudzi - Links to news about Malawi --- 19 July

2012-07-19T04:35:00.001+02:00

It's an insult to say I've not achieved something within the 100 days, says JB
PP government pledges accountability
World Bank's $150 million to help stabilise economy/
China will give $20 billion worth of loans to Africa in the next 3 years
Medical scheme for the more vulnerable
Police assures Malawians of security, launches crackdown on criminals
Bunda College shut down as police tear gas students
Concerned citizens want to meet the President about Lake Malawi oil drilling
PP hold regional election in readiness for a national convention
JB has four personal press assistants
Maneb still undecided on what to do about leaked exams
Involve youths in climate change fight
Chiefs hail the president for reviving the Zomba-Jali-Phalombe-Chitakala road
Zimbabwe loan to be fully repaid by November
Shortage of Carlsberg beer hits Central Region
Vatican and North Korea envoys present their credentials
Civil rights activists calls for the implementation of the Access to Information Bill
Malawians accuse Minibus Owners Association of Malawi accused of failing to deliver
Malawi newspaper giant Times Group losing key staff

Zakumudzi - Links to news about Malawi --- 18 July

2012-07-18T05:08:00.001+02:00

DPP chief hatchet man released on bail
Bunda College students threaten to destroy Principal's house if he isn't removed

Malawi attends China Africa economic forum

Clerk of Parliament Katopola recalled to office

Section 65 is the Speaker's business, says JB

NGOs fault JB's 100 days in office

NGOs not amused with 100 days in office

Malawi on the road to recovery but it won't be easy

Timau: A reflection of the first 100 days of Malawi Presidents

Implications of 31% increase of bank rate on Malawi’s economy

Malawi newspaper giant BP&P face deep job cuts

Mulanje orphans get ‘their land’ back from Mulli

JB calls for emergency meeting after success of DPP rally, claims Malawi Voice

Dausi wants Malawi to have educated leaders (which I suppose rules him out)

Joyce Banda wakhalalira mazira a DPP, says Wakuda Kamanga

Of Pope Benedict and Joyce Banda

Youths vow to rid Mzimba of selfish politicians

Govt Calls for Measures to Cushion Urban Migration

Links to international news --- 18 July 2012

2012-07-18T04:44:00.002+02:00

Syrian defence minister killed in suspected suicide bomb attack

Drinking alcohol, even in moderation, 'a dementia risk

North Korea's Kim Jong-un named marshal

Melbourne Airport goes black

Moving Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 jet engine made from Lego bricks

Pregnant shooter to compete for Malaysia in London games

Suspect in Colorado slaying tried to steal plane in Utah

Flip-flops present feet with a painful problem

Daughter's in love, Dad feels jilted

Washington State to enroll some voters using Facebook app

Texting overtakes talking in UK, says Ofcom study

Inactivity 'killing as many as smoking'

Baby heart risk for hairdressers and nail bar workers?

Gays still not welcome into Boy Scouts of America

Liberal alliance scores wins in Libya poll results

HSBC used by 'drug kingpins', says US Senate

Human Rights Watch attacks 'abuse of power' in Venezuela

Solomon Islands 'launders' exotic birds

Iceberg bigger than Manhattan breaks from Greenland glacier

Steve Flaherty Vietnam war letters arrive 43 years late

Links to international news --- 17 July 2012

2012-07-17T09:17:00.001+02:00

Hundreds of women have their wombs removed unnecessarily
Lagos Makoko slums knocked down in Nigeria
Ethiopia's Meles misses AU meetings due to illness
Mau Mau case: UK government accepts abuse took place
Syria conflict: Central Damascus hit by clashes
Thailand customs seizes $700,000 in ivory from Kenya
Microsoft gives Office a 2013 touch-up
HSBC executives to apologise at US Senate hearing
45-Minute Bus Trip Turns Into a Four-Hour Fiasco
US drug authority approves HIV-prevention drug Truvada
Yahoo's third chief in one year poached from rival Google
The agony of feeling no pain due to congenital analgesia
Sightseeing when you can't see
Deep Purple's Jon Lord dies at 71
US Senate report: HSBC 'allowed drug money laundering'
Needles found in sandwiches, Delta says; FBI to investigate
The battle for Damascus is coming, warns defector
Coast Guard closes Detroit's Ambassador Bridge after threat
Facebook video leads to teens' murder arrests

Zakumudzi - Links to news about Malawi --- 17 July 2012

2012-07-17T08:30:00.003+02:00

UK's assessment of Malawi before Bingu's death
OPINION: Madam President, don't lead thyself into temptation by not declaring your assets
Malawi gets $110 million in agriculture and health support
Can subsidies last?
Police want DPP Cadet Chief committed to prison ASAP
Cops and others arrested in MSCE exams leaks
Mulanje Porters' Race is a Sweet Sixteen
UK gives Malawi ₤25 million additional
65 year old arrested for selling medical drugs without license/
Vaccine Centre Acquires New Plant
Women and Children Victims of Divorce-Law Commission of Malawi
JB attacked over 100 day’s celebrations, govt says no use of public purse
Zambia, Finland envoys present credentials to President Banda
Court lifts MHC boss Mondiwa’s suspension
NGO’s stocktaking Malawi President Joyce Banda’s first 100 days in office
Malawi nominated in best African tourism board category: 2012 Safari awardsNPL raises K11.6m for charity fun run, contribution to health sector
DPP decries the arrest of its Youth Director
JB's 100 days a mixed bag
PP dies blowing K104 million on 100 Days celebrations
DPP created electoral mess, says Phoya
Police arrest DPP ‘panga wielding’ youth leader
Chasowa’s killers arrested, DPP’s Masangwi implicated
Malawi Human Rights Commission prominent lawyer resigns in protest
Tembo says questions to be directed to former DPP regime
Sulaimana's accomplish in Electoral Commission fraud case goes missing
Cotton Growers Worried Over Low Prices
Peter Mutharika says he won't attack personalities
The Muckraker puts JB's 100 days in office under scrutiny

Zakumudzi - Links to news about Malawi --- 16 July 2012

2012-07-16T04:48:00.001+02:00

Bushiri threatens to make a Zodiak reporter go blind
Bunda students demonstrate to force out college Principal

The President is clueless on security
Peter Mutharika takes Thyolo by storm, declares 2014 ambition
Peter Mutharika delacres his 2014 candidacy
PP celebrating 100 days of armed robberies, killings and rapes, says DPP

JB Says Robbers Want to Make Her A Failure-”Come To Sanjika And Fight My Boys”

Wakuda Kamanga says government spent K104 million on JB's 100 Days in Offfice 6 celebrations

University lecture, MACRA official dead in 7-vehicle crash

Mulli under probe for drawing K228 million from National Bus Service illegally

Links to international news --- 16 July 2012

2012-07-16T04:35:00.001+02:00

Syria unrest: Second day of fierce Damascus clashes
Egypt's ex-President Mubarak ordered back to prison
Aspirin a 'no brainer' against cancer after screening
£9bn railway investment announced by coalition
TV habits 'can predict kids' waist size and fitness'
Policy and the Personal
Global recovery still under threat, says IMF outlook
A woman heads the AU at last as Nkosana Dlamini-Zuma replaces Ping
North Korea military head Ri Yong-ho 'relieved of post'
Veterans of 1950s Mau Mau uprising in Kenya seek UK damages
Rwanda and DRC 'agree on international border force'
Tomatoes, shoes, shouts of 'Monica' hurled at Clinton
Report: Heavy fighting in capital

The politics of insults

2012-07-15T10:38:00.001+02:00

Instead of Malawian political leaders competing in the policy arena, they strive for dishonors in the cesspits of insults.

The ruling PP led by example at its Ndirande rally by hurling insults at DPP's leader, poking fun at how he speaks and what not. Not to be outdone in their own territory, DPP clad in 100% Bingu t-shirts sung insults and threats of violence aimed at the President.

Shame!

When will parties learn that there should be no place for the Kachimbwindas and Kamphulusas in politics? When will they understand that it turns off neutral voters. When will they learn that as long as they indulge in gutter politics, Malawi will forever remain a divided country; divided by tribe, region and politics.

Leaders have to tell their followers that insults and intimidation have to stop and stop now.

Or else I'll wish that their pubic areas be afflicted by fleas of a thousand camels and their arms be too short to reach and scratch.

Zakumudzi - Links to news about Malawi --- 15 July 2012

2012-07-15T07:40:00.003+02:00

Professor Mutharika speaks out on alleged coup
Peter Mutharika denies coup plot
Mia apologises to President Banda for ‘bad dream’
ACB boss snubbed to President
Police 4th suspect in Lake Malawi tragedy case
Get circumcised, men urged
Featured » National VP meets Malawians in Ethiopia
Quest for first-class political leadership for a better Malawi
Malawi Catholic priests urged to be true shepherds
Bunda college students petition President Banda over degrees’ issuance authority row
Civil Society to hold July protests commemoration
Atupele Muluzi in PP to gain experience
Teachers bemoan poor salaries and lack of promotion
Who wants to kill Africa's tobacco business?
Mzimba’s health centre goes 3 years without water
No probe on Zomba prison saga
JB's opportunity to set standards
Govt should be cautious when firing top officers

Links to international news --- 15 July 2012

2012-07-15T07:16:00.002+02:00

Iraq war will haunt west, says Briton who advised US military
France's National Front to sue Madonna over Le Pen swastika
US man reunited with lhis Austin-Healey 42 years after it was stolen
Wikipedia: Meet the men and women who write the articles
Jennifer Lopez joins American Idol exodus
Mussolini's bunker: Il Duce's futile search for safety
Syria: Tremseh killings targeted rebels, UN says
Sudan president Bashir meets South Sudan's leader Kiir
Mexico gang attacks Christian youth camp
Springsteen and McCartney silenced at long London gig
Hillary Clinton urges full civilian rule in Egypt
Lagos air crash: 'Engine failure caused Nigeria accident'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18796872
The tactics behind DR Congo's mutiny
Alexander the not so Great: History through Persian eyes
Queen of Soul expresses interest in joining 'American Idol'
For poor children, trying hard is not enough
Qatar Airways is again world's best airline

Zakumudzi - Links to news about Malawi --- 14 July 2012

2012-07-14T04:20:00.003+02:00

The president is accused of derailing ACB operations
Unwanted ACB boss contradicts himself
Britain to continue assisting Malawi in family planning
Blantyre to prep Lilly Alfonso for Africa Fashion Week London
Declare your assets, JB urged
Kaposi Sarcoma is the most common among Malawian men
Plunder of a natural forest in Machinga
Malawi didn’t withdraw from hosting AU summit—Foreign Minister
JB advises vendors to return to designated markets
MESN organizes conference on tripartite elections
Bunda college students petition President Banda over degrees’ issuance authority row
Visiting Chief Yohannes admits impact of $350m energy grant to Malawi will take years to materialize
Mistrust stops policy makers from solving problems
Manganya shoots Kale, Kamuzu's retro

Links to international news --- 14 July 2012

2012-07-14T03:39:00.004+02:00

Clinton meets with Egypt's new president
Better get used to extreme weather
Saudi religious police accused over fatal accident
Japan floods: 250,000 people ordered to leave homes
Oscar-winning producer Richard Zanuck of 'Driving Miss Daisy' dead at 77
Son of Sylvester Stallone, Sage, found dead at 36
Could a hotel on the moon become reality?
A Kentucky man's final wish goes viral, raises thousands for 'awesome tip'
A race for life: Double lung transplant woman sails Atlantic
Afghanistan suicide bomber kills MP at daughter's wedding
Nigeria suicide bomber targets Maiduguri mosque
First Miami-Cuba cargo ship in 50 years reaches Havana
What divorced readers did with their wedding rings
Mitt Romney hits back on Bain questions
Visa and Mastercard make $7.25bn fees dispute settlement
What divorced readers did with their wedding rings
Indie shopping in Dubai
Drought stretches across America, threatens crops
Banks face billions more in Libor losses
Electric car concept drives progress with extended 500-mile range
Has the 3-D hype bubble finally burst?
Alcohol packaging should carry graphic health warnings, urge doctors

Zakumudzi - Links to news about Malawi --- 13 July 2012

2012-07-13T05:17:00.001+02:00

Alleged abuse of office rampant at Parliamentoption
President advised to defend constitution
PP supporters kick out and replace water kiosk operators in Ndirande
MCC cautions Malawi on economic reforms

Twenty to testify in Chasowa's case
Poor sanitation at Area 25's Msungwi market
Zomba prison officers still mum on what happened the night of the fracas
DPP president attacked at his Nyambadwe house?
Peter Mutharika fakes assassination attempt to gain sympathy?
According to 'Malawi Voice', Malawi as a country faces liquidation
Nyakwawa Usiwaswa of the scary sentence infamy promoted to Deputy High Court Registrar
Four cops in court to answer charges of theft
Some areas of Lilongwe probably hit by Carlsberg drought
Malawi prison officers fatally shot some prisoners at Zomba prison Contraceptive prevalence rate to go up to 60%
President Joyce Banda launches 'Feed the Future Project'
Hearing on Chasowa Inquest Adjourned to August 29
It's our time, say PP supporters
Sulaimana's Electoral Commission case in limboHuman rights defenders urged to be vigilant