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One, to turn around the collapsed economy and the reforms I implemented to achieve that, and secondly, that I [reduced] maternal mortality from 675 per 100,000 live births to 460 [per 100,000 live births] in 24 months.

— Joyce Banda

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In any case, you can only have one leader at a time.

Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically, they depend on their husbands.

The legacy depends on how Malawians feel and what they say; it is not dependent on the actions of government.

That is the difference. Therefore, I shall always be proud of what I’ve done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

I don’t like affirmative action because it is like eating raw meat. Even though the numbers are good, it is a shortcut, you haven’t been cooked or grilled.

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