Who empower these foreigners? Government of Malawi, Who bemoans foreigners’ dominance in business? Government, . What do you want us to do ? tell you foreigners are dominating? . The bottom line is in Malawi locals are not trusted with big deals for obvious reasons, akalemela ayelekedwa. Contracts in Government are given to foreigners , NGOs who receive money from international donors for Malawians give all big businesses to Foreigners, The reason is simple, its easy for money to change hands when foreigners are involved in a transaction. Most of these Foreigners came with kachikwama ka zovala but look at… Read more »

I agree that indeed one cannot empower without exporting. The importation of foreign items of different shapes and sizes leaves the private sector no space to operate. Import control of some sort is necessary coupled with an export overdrive.