Malawi: Delivering Malawi to Malawians - Atupele Muluzi On Land Bills

They say a man's home is his castle, but when that home that you have spent years of hard work paying for is not on land that you can own, it is a rather hollow investment. This is as true for an international manufacturing company looking to operate in Malawi, as it is a farmer in Mangochi.

Our land is perhaps our most precious and valued asset and as such the legislation that governs how our land is managed impacts every Malawian more than almost any other law. Reforms of this legislation have been discussed and debated since 1996, but with little progress. An initial set of recommendations was approved in 2002 but they did not address the scale of the changes required to ensure a fair, transparent and equitable structure. The aim of these reforms is to ensure that Malawians, who have cultivated, bled and sweat over the land they occupy, will now be able to own that land in perpetuity.

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