Following her recent elevation from post of Vice President to full president of Malawi after the death of former President Bingu Wa Mutharika,Joyce Banda faces a tough time ahead to solve a lot of issues in this South AFrican country.
Joyce Banda has made history in being the first woman in South East Africa to lead a country that has been in serious economic problems after enjoying a good economic growth and being on a list of countries with the fastest economic growth in Africa.Apart from economic issues,there is shortage of investment,constant power cuts,food shortages,fuel shortages that are contributed by lack of foreign exchange.There is also an issue of tribalism which has come out worse in the previous government by having a group about Lomwe's(a tribe the deceased president belonged to) and human rights abuses.
There are questions to be answered and lots of Malawians are anxious to see what the next president will do.People will definitely give her time to sort the mess out but sooner,people will start pointing accusing fingers if she doesn't play her cards right.
Malawians are ppatient people but a lot hope Joyce Banda has learnt from the late presidents mistakes and will not repeat them.This will also be seen in how she will select her cabinet.Then problem with most of the politicians are all recycled.They have been in the old MCp,then UDF,moved on to DPP but had to quit and joing Joyce Banda's party after getting disgruntled by some issues in the former ruling party.So the question is,will people trust these same people to ran the government or they would be interested in seeing new fresh faces..?
The nation is yet to see and start judging..
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