Malawi: cash, politics and dodgy elections Scandal over theft of public funds may have cost Joyce Banda her presidency Chimwemwe Lusungu was one of the first beneficiaries of Malawi’s much- touted economic miracle, the result of a large-scale national programme that subsidises agricultural inputs, mainly fertilisers and seed. Within five years, her maize yields doubled and her life changed: she had enough to feed her six children and surplus to sell. But now the 45-year-old widow from Bunda in Lilongwe has neither maize to feed her family nor cash to buy food or pay other vital expenses such as school…
