Lets build our country

cool N · Newbie

Lets build our country

abre les ojos · Guru

cool N wrote:

I understand a lot of us From Malawi are not in the near or distant future thinking of going back home. Lets however build a better Malawi for our parents and relatives back home by investing in Malawi. If we all run away then what will we as a people be proud of.

Yeah yeah yeah easy said than done. So what do you think we invest in huh?

micahj3k · Member

abre les ojos wrote:

cool N wrote:
I understand a lot of us From Malawi are not in the near or distant future thinking of going back home. Lets however build a better Malawi for our parents and relatives back home by investing in Malawi. If we all run away then what will we as a people be proud of.

Yeah yeah yeah easy said than done. So what do you think we invest in huh?

well said abres, lol. oh by the way please remind me what we are investing in maybe then i can.
what has malawi left that it owns? when the country has sold most of its bussinesses to libyans and lebanese. I wonder if they havent sold our relatives.
Wow this is serious, lol

Tutu · Member

Two of my patriotic Malawian friends went to Malawi with their post graduate degrees. Guess what? they didn,t even last a year they had to come back. Apparently, life is basically good for those with connections (katangale inclusive) otherwise life in Malawi can be harsh more especially for those who have been exposed to other types of life sytles and culture, let alone the fact that here you can get almost everything with no real big hussles.

sibweni · Senior Member

imagine and create think analytically thus what you are told at uni isn`t it. anthu inu amene munapita ku university mukugwetsa ulesi kwabasi. mukuuwa kwambiri kuti eeh! eeh! ife ntchito kumalawi kulibe. khalani phee ndipo mumvetse. ngati mukufuna kuseta nafe tiyeni tisetele limozi ndipo ndisamve wina akulila.

when you are at university you are not only taught your disciplines you are also taught mangement and other stuff. you are taught to be managers.
so if you uni guys want to go to malawi expecting to be employed and earn loads of money or expecting someone to tell you what to invest then you fools.no wonder tikusetela limozi or kulondela limozi.

magai ngati muli ophunzila go home and use your brains asati kukhala kuno dissing us boasting to us how intelligent you are and yet kumalimbanilana kuseta iya vayani pa chilawezi mukawapase job mamember olila mmayesa ndinu a nzeru?

Pope · Guru

Abre,just a suggestion to you,make plans to set up a research institution in Malawi and you end up employing alot of pipo.For sibweni I think you would rather own one of the toilets the city assy are selling out in LL.For the rest am sure you do better in gardens and probably own an NGO.These are just suggestions.

abre les ojos · Guru

Pope wrote:

Abre,just a suggestion to you,make plans to set up a research institution in Malawi and you end up employing alot of pipo.For sibweni I think you would rather own one of the toilets the city assy are selling out in LL.For the rest am sure you do better in gardens and probably own an NGO.These are just suggestions.

Research what? What would the long (or short) term financial gains be? It's all easier said than done.

Pope · Guru

You will change to other avenues,the fact is you have to help in building the nation

Date: Feb 1, 2006

sibweni wrote:

imagine and create think analytically thus what you are told at uni isn`t it

Good point Sibweni. There's a relevant story from The Nation I think everyone should take a look at.

http://www.nationmalawi.com/articles.asp?articleID=14934

Looks like some people haven't had any trouble finding a place to put there money (over half a billion US Dollars of it) in Malawi.

Mulopwana · Veteran Member

This is the topic that I have always wanted to comment but couldnt find time. I have seen most guys like Abre and Game justifying their stay in UK or USA whichever. I agree with them with some reservations. Much as I appreciate the fact that our economy cannot provide jobs for everyone, I dont agree that some of you who are doing what I would call stupid jobs can fail to get jobs in Malawi. Infact most of you here in this Forum are UNIMA graduates and left good jobs in Malawi before coming to UK with the hope that you will get something better. But unfortunately it never meant to be like that. Then why are you clinging here in Europe or America? Please go back home with your Bunda papers and help the poor farmers. And you a friend of mine from Poly with BACC, BBA, Civil/ Ele/ Mech please go back and have a decent job. I am telling you friends are doing fine at home. Nanga museta azungu mpakana liti? Get me right, I am only urging those guys with papers to go back home. For the rest you can remain in Europe and do whatever you can to survive and remember to send money home for your relatives and investment. Guys imagine somebody with an Extension degree from Bunda expecting to get a job in Europe. Lets be realistic. Osanamiza anthu kumudzi. Pitani kumudzi farmers need you especially this time of hunger. Simungapange ulangizi ku Europe.

skillzmanifest · Senior Member

For a society to continue its existance, it has to insure that its aging members are replaced. The hope for Malawi is in its youth, its future. The low life expectancy (characterised by AIDs etc in the working age groups) should signal or demand rapid job replacement. Sadly, the old timers run Malawi in a way that does not encourage new blood. Naturally, as time passes, those jobs will be replaced. As time passes more people will be educated, there will be more competition, and more job creation.

Its true, you do need connections or good networking skills as part of establishing yourself. But its the same everywhere else. Its not only what you know, but who you know as well, which puts some people at a greater advantage over others.

-- Edited by skillzmanifest at 21:47, 2006-02-01

Ngwazi · Guru

Mulopwana wrote:

Much as I appreciate the fact that our economy cannot provide jobs for everyone, I dont agree that some of you who are doing what I would call stupid jobs can fail to get jobs in Malawi. Infact most of you here in this Forum are UNIMA graduates and left good jobs in Malawi before coming to UK with the hope that you will get something better. But unfortunately it never meant to be like that. Then why are you clinging here in Europe or America? Please go back home with your Bunda papers and help the poor farmers. And you a friend of mine from Poly with BACC, BBA, Civil/ Ele/ Mech please go back and have a decent job. I am telling you friends are doing fine at home. Nanga museta azungu mpakana liti? Get me right, I am only urging those guys with papers to go back home.

Mulopwana,

People like yourself dont stop to amaze me,you try to dictate to another person what type of life/lifestyle s/he has to lead.Why cant you just accept that the person has chosen that lifestyle and you too have your own life to lead?Why is it so hard for people like yourself to accept that what you like and consider good wont appeal to another person?You have to remember that we all have different aspirations and differing dreams and the way we got about achieving such dreams will always be different and the outcomes will differ as well and that is why others are holed up at Chichiri,Mikuyu or Mnzaleka prison for trying to achieve their dream whilst others are here in the UK or the US in pursuit of their dream as well.So stop this nonsese and grow up,stop sulking like a child who is been denied a lollipop,we are here and we are happy and if you are happy in whatever you are doing thats fine as well but dont try to tell us what we should do.

At the end of the day we all have differen solutions to problems we face even when the problems are similar,so whats the fuss about us staying out of Malawi?shut it!

abre les ojos · Guru

Isn't it funny Ngwazi how people can front their so-called self-righteousness and say accuse the likes of us that we don't care about about Malawi? That we should do things for our country and all that bollocks?

Then Ayatollah accuses me of... I don't remember what now... At the end of the day maybe they can show us what THEY'VE done so that we can learn from them.

Personally I'm sick and tired of giving charity to Malawi. Year in year out someone's sending me emails that there is hunger in Malawi!!!! Every year? How long does it take to figure out that the next year it's going to happen and that necessary precautions to avoid it have to be taken. I mean it is a country of 10 million people for chrissakes! And they can't solve a food crises? Come on. This is the 21st century!

I'm ashamed of Malawi. I really am.

Njala! Fcuksake! I've made up my mind never to send money to charity for Malawi unless in extreme circumstances. E.g. AIDS orphans. But for crying out loud they need to get their house in order!!!

Pope · Guru

Abre its Christsake not chrissake......point of correction