* The 2025 Safety Campaign marks the beginning of a journey toward ensuring that our workers remain healthy and safe here at the estate
* This will be achieved through two key projects — ‘Safety Mindset’, which addresses how people perceive safety
* And ‘Safety Resilience’, which focuses on preventing accidents before they occur—Nchalo Estate General Manager Pilly
Maravi Express
Illovo Sugar Malawi has reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring a healthy and safe working environment for its employees by launching the company’s 2025 Safety Campaign, held under the theme; ‘Muvi Woyang’anira Suchedwa Kulowa Mmaso!-Actions on Time’.
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As part of the campaign launch, employees participated in an awareness parade through the Nchalo Estate residential areas carrying placards with messages promoting workplace safety and health.
Nchalo Estate General Manager, Ricky Pillay emphasised that the campaign demonstrates how much the company values its employees, referring to them as “the sweetest assets.”
“The 2025 Safety Campaign marks the beginning of a journey toward ensuring that our workers remain healthy and safe here at the estate,” he said. “This will be achieved through two key projects — ‘Safety Mindset’, which addresses how people perceive safety, and ‘Safety Resilience’, which focuses on preventing accidents before they occur.”
He added that the company has strengthened security around the estate by hiring more security personnel, working in partnership with the Malawi Police Service, and recruiting safety coordinators — efforts that have significantly reduced cases of assault and robbery.
Pilly further highlighted that Illovo Sugar Malawi is also improving the living conditions of its workers by renovating employees housing on the estate, saying: “We have invested over MK1 billion in rehabilitating our workers’ houses because we understand that another way to ensure their safety is by providing them with better living conditions.”
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Illovo Sugar Malawi, which is listed on the Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE), currently employs over 13,000 people across its various departments, including the factory and agriculture sectors.
The company annually cultivates around 1.8 million tons of cane which together with approximately 350,000 tons produced by Malawian smallholder farmers, results in the production of about 250,000 tons of sugar.
