Category: Business

* The majority of people get so scared of ever going on retirement — not because they don’t want to relax after working for years * But it’s because they know that once the salary ends, they will have very little money to live on * There is need to get skills of how one can prepare for a good retirement where money is not a problem By Duncan Mlanjira After a successful wealth creation conference in Lilongwe in…

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Long fuel queues are order of the day * Amidst all the challenges that Malawi is facing, the leadership has chosen to behave as business as usual * Condone mass looting and theft of public resources and executive coverup of corruption * Chakwera pledged and requested the citizens to join him in removing the rubble from the government * We believe that Tonse Alliance is the very same rubble ought to be removed * The proposed demonstrations and national…

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* After a complaint from a consumer who had intended to buy fuel at K35,000 but he was given that worth K31,000 * Our investigation confirmed that your attendant was overcharging customers and demanding tips for them to be sold fuel * Opening of the retail station will be subject to satisfactory implementation of measures taken to avoid re-occurrence of the malpractice By Duncan Mlanjira Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) closed Murray Road Total Filling Station in Lilongwe from…

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* Malawi can learn through the forced process of industrialisation in South Africa based on imports substitution under sanctions * Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa was created to support the creation of industries for self reliance against sanctions * MDC can play as a vehicle for industrial financing through direct lending and equity participation with international partners By Duncan Mlanjira South Africa-based seasoned economist, Chifipa Mhango has written to Malawi Government proposing that Malawi must put itself in…

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Chakwera and Chilima attending the Presidential Charity Golf * It could have been delegated and reduce the high security of cost for attending such an expensive event * Chakwera spent too long in the US for the UNGA for close to 25 days * Leaving behind an economic crisis of scarcity of forex reserves, fuel scarcities all over the country * And at a time when many Malawians are going through one of the worst high cost of living…

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Child labour is common in the tobacco industry * Corporate social responsibility is a tool that could eliminate child labour in the country * While significant progress has been made in reducing child labour over the past years * The progress has been slowed due to poor participation of the corporate world in the fight at the grassroots level By Steven Mkweteza Employers Consultative Association of Malawi (ECAM) says the country stands to eliminate all forms of child labour…

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