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Politics Focus on insecurity, high cost of living and a tone-deaf cabinet in Joyce Banda’s Malawi Part II

Politics Focus on insecurity, high cost of living and a tone-deaf cabinet in Joyce Banda’s Malawi Part II

This is, without a doubt, a hangover from the days President Banda spent in the wilderness. With due respect (again) she never had to think through her decisions nor to strategize on issues non-political at a grand level.
Therefore what she needs around her is a team that can help her in this regard and not self-seeking advisors with a praise-choir orientation.

Advice: Replace any advisor that has failed to prove their worth; four months in a two-year term is long enough to separate the wheat from the chaff.

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