{"id":42550,"date":"2017-03-15T09:50:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T07:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=42550"},"modified":"2017-03-15T09:50:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T07:50:51","slug":"too-poor-to-afford-a-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/03\/15\/too-poor-to-afford-a-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Too poor to afford a flag?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Road Traffic and Safety Services is one of the government arms that generate revenue for operations of the state through payments for vehicle certificate of fitness tests, issuance of drivers\u2019 licences and vehicle registration.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, the directorate\u2019s offices should be well-equipped with all the necessities for its operations\u2014being the goose that lays golden eggs.<\/p>\n<p>But the tattered and worn out national flag at the directorate\u2019s Makata Industrial Area in Blantyre paints a picture of poverty in the midst of plenty.<\/p>\n<p>The directorate deposits millions into government\u2019s account Number One but cannot afford a decent national flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Road Traffic and Safety Services is one of the government arms that generate revenue for operations of the state through payments for vehicle certificate of fitness tests, issuance of drivers\u2019 licences and vehicle registration. Ordinarily, the directorate\u2019s offices should be well-equipped with all the necessities for its operations\u2014being the goose that lays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42554,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42550\/revisions\/42554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}