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Makandi Tea & Coffee Estate closed for 7 days until non-compliance to labour laws are addressed

January 28, 2025

* Workers brought to light various challenges at the workplace, such as long working hours exceeding 10 hours per day * Low wages of K3,460 per 60kg harvested in a day and K89,000 wages per month instead of the minimum K90,00 * Lack of pension and holiday benefits and workers making their own sacks for harvesting tea Maravi Express Minister of Labour, Vitumbiko Mumba today discovered several serious non-compliance to labour laws when he inspected Makandi Tea & Coffee…

CFTC discovers 11 companies engaging in excessive pricing and unconscionable conduct

January 28, 2025

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Paramount Holdings Limited was already punished by MBS and CFTC earlier this month * Given interim orders to nine farm input distributors and two poultry feed companies to desist from the unconscionable conduct * Amongst them Paramount Holdings Limited, Export Trading Group (ETG), Farmers World, Malawi Fertilizer Company, Dalitso General Supplies * Optichem 2000 Limited, Rabs Processors Limited, Brussels Fertilizers Limited and Agora Limited and poultry feed companies CP Feeds and Proto Feeds * Failure to comply with the…

56 Malawians amongst a total of over 1.4 million expected to be deported from the US as of November 2024

January 28, 2025

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* Topping the list are countries bordering the US that have had running battles with the US on many immigration issues that include illegal immigration and importation of illicit drugs * Such countries include Honduras, which has over 261,651 illegal immigrants on the list; Guatemala 253,413, Mexico (252,044) * El Salvador (203,822); Nicaragua (45,995); Cuba (42,084); Colombia (27,388) Venezuela (22,749) and Peru (13,769) By Duncan Mlanjira From a total of over 1,445,549 of non-citizens living illegally in the United…

MDF to be deployed on Zomba Plateau to stop alarming theft of trees

January 28, 2025

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This trek of illegal sawyers was captured and went viral on social media * MDF to be given all the powers to deal with anyone found entering the plantation and harvesting timber * This challenging situation in Zomba should have been curtailed by us the stakeholders * But it seems we are also the direct beneficiaries of this illegal act * If the malpractice involves politicians who claim to be powerful, let us know, we will deal with them…

AACC economic justice & accountability champion in Malawi, Rev. Maulidi applauds MERA on its censure of ESCOM’s poor customer service delivery

January 28, 2025

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Rev. Baxton Maulidi * He notices some accountability responses from the two parastatals on three fronts: * MERA expressing its concerns raised from public complaints over poor service delivery; * ESCOM responding to the regulator by taking responsibility of the issues raised; * and ESCOM acknowledging the public’s response to the leaked internal communication from MERA By Duncan Mlanjira All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) Economic Justice Accountability Champion in Malawi, Rev. Baxton Maulidi, has applauded Malawi Energy Regulatory…

Motorists who transacted for traffic services between December 4, 2024 to January 3, 2025 need to go back for verification

January 27, 2025

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* As the MalTIS at the DRTSS which developed a technical error on January 6, 2025 has been restored and is now functioning * But in the course of repair it was noted that transactions that were processed between December 4 and January 3 need verifications By Duncan Mlanjira The Malawi Traffic Information System (MalTIS) at the Directorate of Road Traffic & Safety Services (DRTSS), which developed a technical error on January 6, 2025 — rendering the DRTSS and…

Kenyan Minister raids on an illegal mineral dealership involving Chinese nationals

January 26, 2025

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Hassan Joho inspecting the minerals that were discovered * Discovers a cache of illegally mined minerals worth millions of US$ (Sh200 million) * Some of the minerals confiscated are used in the manufacture of car batteries and spectrometers for detecting minerals that are radioactive * “These are high-value minerals which we are not getting anything from” By Duncan Mlanjira In a style like that of Malawi’s Minister of Labour Vitumbiko Mumba, Kenyan Minister of Mining, Hassan Joho led a…

MEPA engages public on series of hearings on environmental and social impact assessment construction Mpatamanga hydropower construction along Shire River

January 26, 2025

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* Also encourages public to submit comments and opinions on the project through emails, phone calls or letters to Director General * The hearings began in Neno on January 13 with final session to held in Blantyre targeting national stakeholders * Mpatamanga hydro plant’s technical studies are currently underway to inform its final engineering design and prepare the tender documentation By Duncan Mlanjira As part of the continuation of feasibility studies towards the construction of Mpatamanga hydropower station along…

Top Max Malata reopened after complying to some conditions set to adhere to labour laws

January 25, 2025

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The employees now clad in PPEs * Labour Minister Mumba approved its reinstatement following an assessment of the facilities by an inspection team he led * Which comprised Malawi Congress Trade Union, Employers Consultative Association of Malawi Human Rights Defenders Coalition, Labour Commissioner, among others By Yewo Munthali, MANA The Ministry of Labour has reopened Top Max Malata, a company among many in Lilongwe that succumbed to closure on January 16, 2025, for failure to comply to the Malawian…

ESCOM developing sustainable development robust customer-centric and robust faults-clearing systems to supplement existing ones

January 24, 2025

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* In response to serious warning from MERA over poor customer service delivery * We have expressed to MERA’s letter expressing our regret over the issues raised * While detailing steps to address them, and measures to ensure their implementation By Duncan Mlanjira Concerns which Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) raised in a letter to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM), dated January 13, 2025, were already responded to on January 16 to the…