INTRODUCTIONThe war between Russia and Ukraine which started on 24th February, 2022 is feared by almost all countries that it is and will continue to destabilize the economies of the world because of the interdependence of sovereign nations in this globalized world. Both Russia and Ukraine are key players in the global economy particularly in […]
The President is angry: angry at bureaucrats bent on sabotaging his Hi-Five agenda; angry at his subordinates who sit and wait for someone to tell them what to do – waiting, waiting, waiting; angry at citizens who expect him to run their households for them; angry at cry-babies long on diagnosing the country’s ills but
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Chapter review by Rodwell Katundu Chapter 14 – Pandemics, Politics, and Governance: Contestations over State Management of Covid-19 in Malawi, by Bryson Gwiyani Nkhoma, Gift Wasambo Kayira, and Paul Chiudza Banda (pp.324-346). In this chapter, the authors examine the Covid-19 pandemic in Malawi to understand how public health interventions intersect with the socio-economic and political landscape
Chapter review by Rodwell Katundu Chapter 13 – Rights Without Responsibility: Governance Crisis in the Management of Natural Resources in Malawi, by Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu (pp. 306 – 323) This chapter unveils the relationship between politics, sustainable development, and the management of natural resources in Malawi. The author demonstrates that, as citizens have assumed more
Chapter review by Sainala Kalebe Chapter 12 – Ethnicity, Regionalism, and Nation-Building Challenges in the post-1994 Malawi: Whither a Federal State System, by Gift Wasambo Kayira and Paul Chiudza Banda (pp. 282 – 305) The chapter looks at the inter-related problems of ethnicity, regionalism, and nation-building in Malawi. It goes down in history and looks
Chapter review by Sainala Kalebe Chapter 11 – 50-50 Campaigns- Lessons from 10 years of promotion of gender equality and women’s representation in Parliament, by Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza (pp. 256 – 281) This chapter comprehensively lays out the problem of poor descriptive representation of women in parliament in Malawi. It provides a historical background of
Chapter review by Sainala Kalebe Chapter 10 – Executive Supremacy and the Armed Forces, A case Study of Public Finance Management in Malawi, by Mphatso Jones Boti Phiri (pp. 242 – 255) The chapter scrutinizes the context of Public Finance Management in the Malawi Defense Force (MDF). It first dwells on the concept of good
Chapter Review by Benson Makhuyula Chapter 9: “Guarding the Guardians: Auditing Security Sector Governance in Malawi,” by Dan Kuwali (pp. 220 – 241) In this book chapter, Dan Kuwali, a Malawi law professor based in South Africa, makes an assessment of the security sector governance in Malawi with regard to the operational challenges faced by
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Chapter review by Rodwell Katundu Review of Chapter 7: “Malawi’s Choice of Electoral System and Reform Agenda Quandary,” by Earnest Thindwa (pp. 171 – 196) This chapter is significant for contemporary Malawian politics as it sought to explain not only the rationale for simple plurality as an electoral system of choice for Malawi and attempts
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Chapter review by Sainala Kalebe Chapter 6 -Violence against Women in Elections in Malawi: The Role of Women Leaders as Game Changers, by Anthony Jeckson Malunga, Ngcimezile Mbano-Mweso and Bernadette Wangisa Malunga (pp. 150 – 170) This chapter puts a sobering perspective on the prevalence of violence against women at elections, particularly in the 2019
Chapter review by Mr. Rodwell Katundu Trust in Election Management Bodies, Participation, Demonstration and Willingness to Pay Taxes: Evidence from Malawi, by Martin Limbikani Mwale, Gowokani Chijere Chirwa, Tony Mwenda Kamninga & Laston Petro Manja. (pp. 97 – 113) This chapter investigates, on the basis of data from Malawi, whether cizitens’ trust in the national
Review of Beyond Impunity: New Directions for Governance in Malawi, edited by Kenneth R. Ross, Asiyati L. Chiweza, and Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu, University of Cape Town Press & Mzuni Press, 2022; pp. 396; ISBN 9789996076077 Chapter 1 – A Decade of Governance as “Roving Banditry” The Political Economy of Public Finance Mismanagement in Malawi, 2010-2020 by
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Reviewed by Comfort Musongole Pastor Robert Beaton (PhD) is a missionary, preacher, and theological trainer. In this book, he carries out an ethnographical study to identify the worldviews that animate the use of traditional religious charms. The study was done through the collection of charm-related stories by means of semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and
Reviewed by Anthony Mtuta The book is about the author’s search for an adequate understanding of the practice of what the author calls charm-use among the Christians of the Zambezi Evangelical Churches (ZEC) in Malawi. Dr. Beaton obtained the information on the topic under study through a combination of secondary sources (desk research), participant observation,
In 2015, while serving as an assistant priest at Matero (a high-density suburb in Zambia) I wrote less than fifty pages of reflections on biblical mothers whose faith stories I thought would inspire the twenty-first century Christian mother. The idea of writing this book was ignited by a retreat I had facilitated two years earlier,
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Between 25thMarch 2022 and 1st April 2022 Parliament passed amendments to six land-related Bills[i] to revise the legislation enacted in 2016. The amendments comprise the Land Amendment Act[ii], the Customary Land Amendment Act[iii], the Physical Planning Amendment Act[iv], the Land Survey Amendment Act[v], the Registered Land Amendment Act[vi] and the Lands Acquisition Amendment Act[vii]. These
ABSTRACT In First Merchant Bank v Eisenhower Mkaka& Others[i],the Supreme Court ruled that in terms of section 57(2) of the Employment Act there is no legal obligation for the employer to consult employees where he/she intends to retrench some due to the restructuring of the organization as part of its operational requirements. This was a