HIGH SCHOOL POLITICS

The countdown to 2014 is constantly cruising. Not slowed down a bit by the persistent fuel drought, or even the stumble in forex malnutrition. Our leaders can tout about their verbal glittering successes and policies that have unfortunately led this country into deep graveyard reality where the citizenry is bulldozed into tinted royalty.  

Leadership is not a posh portfolio. Leadership is both a charisma and a challenge. The issue of nicknames for leaders makes most of us choke with laughter. I am not being sarcastic but am only undressing reality as it is.

I cannot poke at some big kahunas or moyas as these names are protectively condemned and embalmed by the high authority. I would not want to be in contempt. It reminds of secondary school politics, where captains or head boys/girls were untouchables. Branding them with any accord contrary to their taste would be enough a warrant to endless brutal punishments. Such punishments of intolerance would include digging a sizeable deep pit and burying the same… all this, just a showcase of authority to silence those with dissenting views but selfishly disguised as discipline installation measures.

The youth know that most heads and captains into the punitive authoritarian fashion of leadership ended up being accomplished miserable failures because they were so corrupt by power that they sacrificed focus on school or leadership to individual witch hunting just to show their might and power. Sad!

Youngsters, who is our leader? Are we tempted to undermine everything Malawi ever stood for in terms of multiparty democracy? From a distance, Malawi seems to be in even a greater destabilization spiced by a beleaguered economy. Is our silence demeaning the cause for which our freedom fighters sacrificed their lives for?

Verily I say unto you, Malawi under the most high God shall have a new birth of freedom and that fundamental principles of democracy shall not perish.