Malawi cost of living now ‘at least K131,207.00’
Life in Malawi continue to remain unbearable following revelation that for a family to live a comfortable they need K131,207.00 as their monthly income, the Centre For Social Concern(CFSC) a social-research arm of Catholic church says.
CFSC data show that the average basic needs basket for the three cities of Blantyre, Lilongwe and Mzuzu has now shot to K131,207.00.
The report says it is unfortunate that their research have indicated that Malawians salary scales are still low.
Speaking during the Basic Needs Basket Conference in Lilongwe, CFSC Executive director Jos Kuppens said the organisation remains committed in giving research based information on how Malawian families can live the dignified lives.
CFSC data reveal that nurses and clinicians receives K81,059, Projects officers goes home with K132,516, and that on maximum some goes home with K380,000.
According to the data, Malawi journalists goe home with K71,115 as minimum and K154,388 as maximum. While teachers receive K52, 506 and K127, 000 maximum.
Bread Basket Needs is aimed at monitoring cost of living in the four cities and other urban areas.
The BNB also intends to raise awareness among urban dwellers about their right to decent way of living.
According to the CFSC a bag of maize is currently trading at K7,286 in Lilongwe while the same bag is trading at K8,500 in Zomba and K8,400 in Blantyre while the same bag is trading at K6,600 in Mzuzu.
The same data indicate that a 3 bedroom house rentals is at K31,969 in Lilongwe while the same house is at K20,960 in Zomba and K28, 292 in Blantyre while people have to pay the same house K13,286 in Mzuzu.
With these hardships and some nutter is soliciting funds from the public to buy a jet for a man who lives in a palace am I hearing this right or am I dreaming somebody talk to me tell me am dreaming !!!!!
One needs to be clever nowadays.
Staying in your own house, having a small piece of land in the village near the towns for breeding chickens and goats , growing veggies,etc could save people from buying everything. That’s what most people do to survive.
Yes on average taking into account people in the rural areas who form about 80% of the population, the amount of K131,207 is indeed comfortable to them but as others have said in cities that amount is not a comfortable one, should be significantly higher than that.
In cities the level of comfortability varies from one family to another but in Rural areas it is almost the same for each family and higher than cities at such an income.
Life is unberable due to inflation, this inflation is out of control, kwacha depreciation is out of control, but why is nobody answerable, Chuka and his team have to go they are bringing more poverty to already we poor people. Why are they still working boma not see how we are suffering. Lord please answer our prayers bring inflation down as here boma is making no efforts, they are enojoying luxurious life without blackouts while we cant even make ends meet.
Ine ndimalipira one roomed quarters ku 43 K34,000.00. The only good thing is that it’s utility free. Not bad eti.
A 3bedroom house going at 31,000? Ntandire or Mtsiliza may be
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Let us agree that the cost of living is generally gone up. However, we cant agree that one needs at least K131,207.00 to live a comfortable life. . . . How do we define a comfortable life? Coz this can never be a universal definition. If you ask some to live on such an amount, they will die of hunger by the second day of the next month coz the amount only covers their accommodation, utility bills, and transport to and from work. If you further lend them your ear, you will hear voices of wonder as to how… Read more »
Forks, this all depends on type of house and location.
Your data on House rentals in Lilongwe is not correct. A three bed room house decent one is not less than MK60,000 depending on the area….
Houses are very expensive in Lilongwe than Blantyre, Mzuzu and Zomba….
Malawi will be finished now, you mean Jos has replaced Chisoni as spokesperson for catholics. We are finished. I know Jos has just come from Vatican City , Rome.