[civsoc-mw] Women demo on equality.

[Charles Golomoti]

KPD, when I first heard that women were agitating for a countrywide kodo
kodo, I was like: "do these homo sapiens even know how boards are
constituted?".  You know what; a long time ago I attended a meeting where
we were tasked to propose names of individuals to sit on one of the boards
in my field of specialization. We were required to come up with six names
of highly qualified professionals in the country. We chose five men and one
woman as the best combo we could dream of, i.e. our dream team. But the
woman's name was turned down during the first screening process at the
Department of Statutory Corporations, way before the final vetting at OPC,
because she was already a member of another very powerful board, if you
know what I mean. The only other woman we could have chosen to sit on that
particular board, in as far as experience and academic qualifications were
concerned, was a PS in the parent ministry. So anyhow, the PS  woman was
still going to sit on the board as an ex official. To cut the long story
short, we ended up with six men and several ex-officios. Ndiye izi
zomangolirira zili zonse chifukwa chozolowera the infamous kota system
introduced into Mother Malawi by the Bibida Master Bingu,
ndizosathandiza kwenikweni; but merit, merit, and merit. Ndangodutsamo!

CWG


On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 11:16 AM KPD <maluwakpd at gmail.com> wrote:

> As much as I support the concept of equality and protection of women
> empowerment, the only Act of parliament I have seen is on GBV. On boards it
> is only Environment management Board that there is a stipulation on board
> composition.
>
> I want to create CIVSOC forum board, can women here raise their hand so
> that I I include them. If the board comprise KBK,TC, LN, SK, LN, CWG, some
> women somewhere will demonstrate.
>
> Zinthu za maquota maybe politically correct but it is up to us as
> individuals to stand up and be counted. Not because of our noise but our
> worth.
>
> Inu azimai, don't normalise kumamenyedwa mapama. Don't normalise
> kumaumilizidwa kukhala house wife.
>
> Alice Namathanga, I don't know where she is, competed with me for position
> 1 in standard 7 at C.I in Blantyre. Next time ndinamva kuti ku secondary
> school sanapite or she got married. I felt like crying. Why do our girls
> drop by the way side?
>
> We need some sort of conference, commission of inquiry or whatever to look
> and hardships faced by women from girl child to adult. This will allow for
> appropriate intervention.
>
> Osangoti tizingopanga phokoso without dealing with the underlying issues.
>
>

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