8 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, November 8th, 1979


tyre, in what I still cannot help calling .Nyasaland, is smart and well cared for and so in the main are its customers. - The condition of the air- ort is an illustration of the


A J OU R N E Y to Malawi via Tanzania tells one a; lot. Dar Es Salaam Airport in Tan­ zania is a grubby mess draped with; unkempt students' en route to and. from; Czechos­ lovakia. Chileka Airport, Blan-


Impressions of Malawi W e s tm in s te r V ie w p o in t


1 by David Waddington Clitheroe Division MP


links with South Africa and. by creating order and stability, has attracted massive foreign' invest­ ment. There have, been no


Excellency the Life Presi­ d e n t , Ngwazi Dr H. Kamuzu Banda” ) has


Malawi economic success story. The state of the cus­ tomer is a consequence of the eccentric Doctor Ban­ da’s ban on long-haired men and trousered women. Dr Banda (full title “His


eschewed , the empty rhetoric and ideology w h i c h h a s n e,a-r- bankrupted two neigh­ bouring countries, Tan­


preaching to a simple people “unity, loyalty, obedience and discipline”, he has been concerned with building up the pros­ per ity of his country rather than with liberation movements and socialist experiments. He has established close


zania and Zambia, and brought chaos to another, Mozambique. An enlightened dictator


attempts at collective farming, but encourage­ ment to the individual vil­ lager to grow more and better his own lot, with the result that in a land-locked country with few natural resources and none of the mineral wealth of, say, Zambia, there., has been a steady increase in the stan- dard of living of the people.


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. The Life President has some decidedly unfashion­ able ideas. He believes in censorship, not of news but of naked thighs —pic­ tures of which in English papers are painstakingly obliterated. He believes in boarding schools, cold baths ana the training of the elite. He encourages his minis­


ters to show tneir worth by building up businesses of their own in their spare time. He asserts that no-


one can call himself , prop­ erly educated without knowledge the


extremely tempore”.


n as “ad hoc” and “ex ■ At the same time he has


ppropriate expletives


of Latin and lengthy


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speeches of his members o f . Parliament are larded with hastily learned and largely inap su icch


and blue national cos­ tumes, many c a r r ie d babies on their backs and every now and then the Life President darted down from the platform waving his fly whisk (a present from the late Jomo kenyatta) in time to their chanting.


set about improving the status of women, princi­ pally by "organising” them to play an important role in the only political party, and at the Mothers’ Day celebrations in the stadium at Blantyre thousands and thousands of women, some of whom had travelled for days in the backs of lorries from remote corners of the land, sang and danced for their leader. Dressed in red, green


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bent forward in a rhythmi­ cal shambling gait crying in Chichewa: “I am very proud of you, Sir”, and, accompanied, by jungle' drums, the good Doctor answered: “I am happy that you are proud”. “Kwacha, ’Kwacha,


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mountains leap up from the plain and sugar-cane is grown. To the east lies Lake Malawi (formerly Lake Nyasa) with hip­ popotami wallowing on the shores. Dr Livingstone reached


the lake in 1859 and set up camp at what became Fort Johnston (now Mangochi). Fort Johnston was a naval base and the first shot fired in anger in the 1914- 1918 war was fired on Lake Nyasa, when the gun boat Gwendolyn sank a German ship. Much of the rest of the


country is high table-land rising to over 7,500 feet in the north, where lies the Nyika game park inhabited by herds of zebra, buck and antelope. Conditions in the vil­


lages are still very primi­ tive, with malaria endemic and long walks to the near­ est well. I asked a head­ man how far he had to walk to get his water and he said: “I don’t have to walk any distance at all. I have eight wives”. In a school I saw a


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ORGANISERS of a suc­ cessful poppy ball for Clitheroe branch of the Royal British Legion, are hoping, with fu r th e r donations and the results of a raffle to be drawn this weekend, to make a profit of £100 for the poppy appeal fund. The event, held in the


British Legion Club in Whalley Road, was well attended, with dancing to music by Mike Cordelia. Guests were the town


Mayor and Mayoress, . Coun and Mrs Bob Ains­ worth; British Legion county chairman Mr Eric Wilkinson and his wife Mary; and poppy


is for an 81b fruit cake made, and iced with a British Legion design and poppy decoration, by Mrs Kathleen Hilary, and a large toy dog made by Mrs Phyllis Garner.


made by the ladies. The draw this weekend


awarded during dancing, and there was a raffle for bottle prizes donated by Mr Sia Parkinson, Mrs Penny, the British Leg­ ion Club, the branch and ladies’ social section. A buffet supper was


read by Mr Wilkinson. Spot p r iz e s w e re


fund organiser Mrs Ethel Penny and husband Bob. The exhortation was


Funeral of


crash victim MANY re la t iv e s and friends attended the fun­ eral at St Mary’s Church, Gisburn, of Mr David Newhouse, of Cowgill Farm, Sawley, who was killed after a head-on colli­ sion in his car. The service, followed by


interment in the chur­ chyard, was conducted by the vicar, Canon S. A. Selby. Mrs Helen Toome was the organist. Hymns were ‘‘The


Lord’s My Shepherd” and “Abide With Me”.


Red Cross help


TWO weeks after launch­ ing an appeal to support International Red Cross efforts to save two million people from starvation in Kampuchea, the Lanca­ shire branch of the British Red Cross has been able to send £290 to help relief work. The county target is £ 1 ,000.


been at the death of Ian McLeod, Colonial Secret­ ary at the time of. the break-up of the Central African Federation and the granting of Independ- ence to Malawi. He counted himself a personal friend and had had Lady McLeod to stay at his palace last year. He thanked us for the


African leaders, was once detained as a guest of Her Majesty’s Government, but he has the warmest affection fo r B r i ta in where, for many years, he practised as a doctor (in L i v e r p o o l a n d in Gateshead). He said how sad he had


farewell to the President at his palace high on a hillside outside Blantyre, we began to reminisce about the past. He, like so many other


' country close to being able to stand on its own feet. When we finally said


aid which Britain has given Malawi over the years and which has now brought his


goodbye, we not only felt sad that we were about to leave a lovely country, we also were left wondering how it would ever be poss­ ible to find someone to follow this truly • remark­ able man as leader of the country.


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