Category: Business

* 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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Gwengwe during the media briefing * IMF officials arrived in the country the previous week doing economy valuations * IMF’s mission is to give us loans but they can’t give Malawi exceedingly since the country has no capacity for more loans By Temwa Malire, MANA Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Sosten Gwengwe says Government has put in contemplation for the balance payment support initiative which would help solve some of the forex issues that the country was going…

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