Email a copy of 'Motor tricycles squeeze taxis out of business in Malawi' to a friend

* Required Field






Separate multiple entries with a comma. Maximum 5 entries.



Separate multiple entries with a comma. Maximum 5 entries.


E-Mail Image Verification

Loading ... Loading ...

Sharing is caring!

15 Comments
newest
oldest most voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Eeish
Eeish
8 years ago

We Malawians need to realise that we are a poor country and need to strategically use effective but cost cutting technologies so that we can save and then improve our lives. Use of the three wheelers is very much in order. We also need to borrow a leaf from China, india, Malaysia, Thailand and even Tanzania by making use of Bicyles, scooters, small efficient vehicles. we need to save and not drive or get driven in expensive vehicles as if we are Americans or Germans. Poor African mentality. We shall get driven in big posh cars when we are rich… Read more »

Tobiyasi52
Tobiyasi52
8 years ago

So on a good day, a tricycle operator makes about K20 000 and yet he gets paid K20 000 a month? This is the zenith of exploitation! Assuming kuti woyendetsa a tricycle works 25 days a month, he makes K500 000 for his employer, of which he only gets 4%. These Lebanese and Indians must give better deals to our sons please abale. Ku Ministry of Labor uko kodi mukupanga chani?

gi
gi
8 years ago

The Tricycles are better and its cheap than Taxi

Its high time that the Taxi Drivers and Owners sit down to check their pricing.

Charter
Charter
8 years ago

It’s either you bring down prices or re-invent yourselves! You are slowly getting caught up in a whirlpool of market forces. It’s all about competitiveness. Life is too expensive in Malawi for people to rely on taxis when tinjinga and yobanduka abound!

Max
Max
8 years ago

Daniel has got it all wrong. He thinks the tricycles are a replacement of the taxis. What he doesnt know is that the two teams are serving two totatlly different clienelle. Ask you Daniel, when last did you hire a taxi from the time you started working? My guess is never before. yet you have already taken three four rides on the tricycles. Reason is , not all of us can afford a taxi for with the Maalwian current economic climate, that is for touridts and the rich kids. And what Daniel doesnt know is that even the owners of… Read more »

ujeni
8 years ago

In Uganda, they are a nuisance, they dont follow road rules or regulation. Criss crossing anyhow, typical confused African society, complete chaotic. Ban them in Malawi before we go that route

t
t
8 years ago

SELL YOUR CAR AND BUY THE TRICYCLE, PERIOD THAN THINKING NEGATIVE ON A POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Reasonable Man
Reasonable Man
8 years ago

Seriously? Can’t you just sell your taxi and buy tinjinga tiwiri ku Dubai? Mxiii

makito
makito
8 years ago

Keep on complaining guys. You may stop foreigners from running the business, but Tinjinga ain’t going away. Adapt hoo!

Tengupenya
Tengupenya
8 years ago

the taxi owners should sell off their cars and also buy tinjinga. Adapt or sink!!!

Read previous post:
Murdered man found in Area 23 Lilongwe

Area 23 residents in the city of Lilongwe, Monday morning, woke up to a shocking experience when they found an...

Close