THE ROLE OF WOMEN POLITICIANS IN THE MEDIATION TALKS.

I have followed with keen interest how the mediations on the currently ‘ndale impasse’ (ndale because they are trying to make each other look like failures). The most unpleasant development that I have noted is the missing of women in the opposition and even the government teams conducting the negotiations. Persons like Hon. Patel, Hon. Joyce Banda, Hon.Naccy Morgan Tembo just to mention a few could have ably handled the negotiations even bet that if these women were left to do the negotiations we could , as a nation , have had the deal already in place. It seems Malawians we do not borrow a leaf from our cultural practices. It is a tradition that a chief is chosen by a group of women. It was not by mistake that our fore fathers decided to use this strategy. Try it, we can be surprised of it result. I for one doubt the commitment of the men involved with negotiations. After all women are in the majority in the country hence the import need for them to be in the fore front of the negotiations.