It is difficult not to agree with Denis Venter that `For all intents and purposes Malawi was not even a one-party state: it was a one-man state, a political despotism in which the state apparatus was answerable to only one man
Nkovuta kuti tisagwirizane ndi Denis Venter kuti "mwa zofuna ndi zolinga zonse Malawi sanali wa chipani chimodzi: anali wa munthu mmodzi, ndale zankhanza zomwe nthambi za boma zimayankha kwa munthu mmodzi basi"