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Govt. critic decries 2 police searches in 24 hrs
(Malawi National/Society)
... with public appointments which he said favoured people from the president’s region and he also spoke against a system of selecting students to public colleges. The quota system guarantees each district ...
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No sedition case for Harry the critic; he’s suing
(Malawi National/Politics)
... and the introduction of a method of selecting students to public colleges. The quota system guarantees each district a certain number of places at public institutions of higher learning. But Mkandawire ...
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Reverend strikes DPP: People not toilet paper!
(Malawi National/Politics)
... from cabinet. A medical doctor, Chirambo was Malawi's first eye specialist whose sacking from cabinet took observers by surprise. “Just as we have been crying against quota system (of university selection), ...
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MW charges blunt cleric Rev. Nyondo with sedition
(Malawi National/Society)
... General Secretary Rev. Maurice Munthali and Moderator Rev. Mezuwa Banda, also kept vigil at the police station until morning. "Just as we have been crying against quota system (of university ...
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Govt. to parties: Change lingo then we can talk
(Malawi National/Politics)
... the government office of the Registrar of Political Parties as saying PDM registration couldn't be completed because one of its cardinal aims was to fight the controversial quota education system ...
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DPP suffocating democracy
(Malawi National/District)
... of gender. We should not allow ourselves to narrow the political sphere for the benefit of a specific or particular group. Is it only me who is seeing similarities with the unpopular quota ...
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Muckracking on Sunday w/Raphael Tenthani
(SCOPE/Raphael Tenthani)
... North he got an average of 90 per cent or more per district. But a few months down the line things changed. The (in)famous quota system in university selection riled the North as many believed, ...
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No 3rd term? Hold Bingu’s feet to the fire
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... president is reportedly good in name only for the simple reason that she, like the president’s brother, wants to be president after Mutharika’s term expires in 2014. Opposition to the quota system—a method ...
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We are PDP, says North-based party
(Malawi National/Politics)
... and support for the quota system used in selecting students to public colleges among others--the DPP sacked Mkandawire. His was the first open attack on party leadership accused by some of ...
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Ace in the hole: Bingu courts North
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... all over. Before the change, he slashed and burned all who opposed his support for the quota system. Opening this year’s budget session of parliament, the president said it was time political “enemies” ...
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Muckracking on Sunday w/Raphael Tenthani
(SCOPE/Raphael Tenthani)
... its image as a progressive democratic entity by suspending three of its MPs for merely expressing their constituents' views on the dreaded 'quota' system. Again up to now I don’t see why government ...
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Bingu: 5 'varsities, no quotas in 10 yrs
(Business and Finance/Development)
LILONGWE--The Malawi government plans to set up five new universities within a decade which should bring to an end the controversial system of using quotas to select students into public universities, ...
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Knock it off, Malawi needs donors
(Business and Finance/Development)
... think the quota system is the answer to the North sending more students to public universities than the two other regions? Why is one of the first countries to become independent in Africa and which ...
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Appeal? DPP should just lick its wounds
(SCOPE/Announcements)
... does what it wants, it still doesn’t make the party look good. People haven't yet forgotten how the government went about making its case for the quota system in higher education. While there was a very ...
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Unmuted voices
(SCOPE/General)
... quota system in university selection has put them at cross-purposes with their party. But among common people views fly around without the risk of one Heatherwick Ntaba dubbing them "inexperienced MPs". ...
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Bum rapping MPs, expecting love back
(SCOPE/General)
... of them--work hard to succeed. If the quota system is the answer to some of the ills dogging the poor nation of 13 million, maybe one thing that has eluded northerners all this time could be gotten by ...
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Flagging the truth
(SCOPE/General)
... flag whether we like it or not. The mantra of "whether one likes it or not" has already been used on that other divisive national matter, the "quota"; it will be used again on this new flag. But it is ...
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Executive discrimination?
(SCOPE/General)
... expressed by others without checking when the next train into exile departs. Look, my musings on the suspension of three DPP legislators courtesy of the now (in)famous 'quota' system attracted this angry ...
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Power-drunk DPP acting brand new
(SCOPE/General)
... "quota system"--is a big issue in the North where they come from. Suddenly the three will become heroes for standing up for their people. This will inevitably put added pressure on other MPs from the region ...
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Malawi students in double jeopardy
(SCOPE/General)
... warms his heart to see Malawi's First Citizen happy Listening to the debate on the now (in)famous "quota" or to be politically correct--the equitable access to higher education--one would ...