I wish Malawi would listen: Malawi’s most pressing problem is the lack of production. Everything after is a symption. We produce like we are in in 1880, and want to consume like we are in 2025. We need a serious and stern systemic reset.
The population of 20m+ is a GREAT thing IF it can be put meaningfully to work.
Reform the education system. Stop feeding colonizer cycles. Malawi does not need public administrators: it needs workers and creators. Make business thinking mandatory in education programming. Invest in young entrepreneurs. Train them, fund them. And pls for the love of anything that is holy, fix the supply chain.
Some ways to redeem Malawi’s economy but we are not ready for this conversation:
1. 40% cut in civil service head count
2. Stop CDF and AIP
3. Massively invest in irrigation (food) and value addition
4. Crackdown black market cartels
5. Discourage unnecessary imports
I met a lady on the streets while observing my regular prayer walk in the estate a couple of years ago. She initiated a conversation with me when she noticed that I was praying.
She proceeded to inquire about who I was and which brand of GOD I was having a conversation with. I gave her a synopsis of my identity because I had noticed her in the estate, too.
Then, she informed me about her spiritual status. She was a Christian until she lost two of her family members to terminal illnesses. She had prayed, fasted, tithed, and believed God for a miracle, but at last, it ended in graves.
She said God failed her, and she was disappointed in him. She was done serving a horrible father.
I listened to her where we sat on the road, I allowed her to evacuate her heart without trying to defend God or speak Christianese.
She cried during the conversation and brought out a cigarette to puff while I listened calmly.
Forty-five minutes later, she gazed at me and asked if I had anything to say. After all, I am a pastor. I smiled and said NO. Then she uttered the words "HOW COME"?.
I smiled again and responded with the words, 'Your anger is legitimate, I would have reacted the same way if I were in your shoes, so I am not shocked you feel this way I would have been shocked if you felt differently'.
She gave me a suffocating hug, took a deep breath, then mustered the words, 'Thank you. Thank you for listening. Thank you for not throwing scriptures at me. Thank you for not judging me. Thank you for not asking if I pay my tithes and when last I paid.
Those were some of the statements she had heard before our conversation.
My parting words to her were 'Take your time with God, vent at him, vent to him, and while you are at it, I will stand in the gap for you in prayers'. I am also available for more chats.
We met a couple of times, and I am elated to announce that she is back with her father.
@101Raz0rs @nessa_sandraa I promise responses like this irritate me a little, instead of saying you people need to educate yourselves, why don't you instead help by explaining to us how the things actually work, or at least direct us where to go to start educating ourselves.
@pillsho_ @nessa_sandraa Why don't you then educate us with the actual solutions instead of the back and fourth? Give us examples of solutions, we can understand as laymen, since you are an economist. There's more laymen than professionals so in order to work together enlighten us.
@FirstLoveCenter Mark 12:31 GNT
[31] The second most important commandment is this: ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ There is no other commandment more important than these two.” (Self love is not a sin, however it is important to do so, in a way that is directed by the word).
In my defense as a baker 😂 I offer both with cream cheese or with fresh cream...because majority of customers in Malawi request red velvet with fresh cream 🤧
@flyethiopian this is my second day camping at your Blantyre office. I worked so hard to save up to buy the items that you lost. You can’t offer me K68,000 as compensation after losing items around 5 million Kwacha. Please assist ndalama ikuvuta