The Malawi Friday, where by public servants were encouraged to put on locally made attires has returned today, almost two years after President Lazarus Chakwera abandoned the initiative for political reasons.
Former President Professor Peter Mutharika introduced the initiative as one way of sustaining the Buy Malawi Strategy.
In the initiative, apart from wearing traditional attires, the public broadcaster MBC was also ordered to be playing Malawian music throughout Fridays as one way of doubling up loyalties for local music makers.
However, the President Chakwera’s Tonse Alliance administration abandoned the initiative on the grounds that it was introduced by the DPP.
Malawi Voice also understands that Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) went as far as banning its presenters and news readers from going on TV with traditional attires.
“We were ordered to go on TV only in suits,” one presenter confided in Malawi Voice.
However, according to one of the local designers plying his trade at Chichiri in Blantyre, Madalitso Thom, the Chakwera administration’s negative stance on the initiative had a negative bearing on their business.
He said: “With APM order, our businesses were blossoming as many civil servants were rushing for new clothes now and then. But the past two years has been bad for us since the current administration showed no interest in us.”
Following the pressure, the current administration has brought back the initiative beginning today as the country commemorates the 7 the anniversary of the Buy Malawi Strategy.
What Tonse Alliance did by scraping the previous regimes ideas wholesale was myopic. There are a number of areas DPP overperformed and indeed delivered. All Chakwera needed to do was to adopt a continuity mode. But by disregarding everything yet they had no pragmatic Blue-print was very disingenuous to Malawians, hence not very surprising that his administration is working in a vacuum, groping around like they are in the dark. Malawi has literally been taken backwards 25 – 30 years. Little by little they have begun swallowing their pride. Whether it is an individual or a party, you can not operate in isolation like an island. You definitely will require advice, assistance from others. That ‘Buy Malawi’ exercise is a phenomenon practiced by many countries. In fact advancing such policies would have helped to cut on EXPORTS and subsequently create JOBS. Ndale zothana is what is damaging this current administration coupled with appointing people for totally wrong offices in order to appease friends, kinsmen, church members, party cadres etc.
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