Sang N.

8 policies the Government of Malawi should implement to turn the country around

  1. Improvement of #Hospitals: from better Maternity Services, Procurement of affordable medicines and installation of solar across all #Malawi’s hospitals.
  2. Stronger #laws against speeding by motorists across the country’s roads. Accidents on our roads continue to claim too many lives, and not enough is being done. Also, we need a powerful task force to fire (on the spot) #corrupt #traffic #police officers who ask for bribes.
  3. More support and low-interest loans to Small businesses operating in #Malawi, with low levels of collateral being asked.
  4. Lowering the #Tax burden on both citizens and small businesses (a company making K12,000,000, should pay far less tax [or no tax at all] than a company making K500,000,000 a year).
  5. Active collaboration & Investment into #Telecom, #Water and #Energy on a 60:40 basis, with GoM owning 60% of those investments. Look for partners in Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Lithuania, Turkey, Vietnam, the world is a big place, you’ll find companies willing to come and invest. Don’t pay anything upfront.
  6. We need many more investments into local youth sports initiatives across the country. Pump K10 million each into 5 -6 other local leagues across the country and get young people participating and active.
  7. Increased investment and collaboration with private entities operating in rail transport. We need to free up our roads, rail transport is under-used in Malawi. This investment is urgent. People should be able to travel from Blantyre to Lilongwe by train, within 2.5 hours, or from Lilongwe to Salima within 45 minutes. If you can’t build on the ground, build over-ground. We need massive investment into rail infrastructure and services. If the African Development Bank won’t lend you, speak to Vale of Brazil or Swietelsky AG of Austria ,or VolkerRail (UK). You can talk to all of them, and offer each of them interests, even if its 50:50 ownership.
    8 Greater impetus on Buy Malawi initiative with significant investment into infrastructure for adding value and marketing of products like honey, cofeee, moringa, malambe, mango and other Malawian produce. Let’s build factories for young people to work in adding value to all these products.
    It’s not rocket science.

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