The chief executive of cash-strapped state grain trader Admarc has spent about 10 months living in lodges at the corporation’s expense. Ben Botolo, a former secretary to the Treasury who was appointed in December last year, has yet to move into the official house at Mudi residential estate in Blantyre. He says it is not […]
Malawi is dispatching its smallest ever delegation to the United Nations General Assembly, in a dramatic display of austerity as President Peter Mutharika continues his drive to rein in government spending and steady the country’s battered economy. President Mutharika has handed Foreign Affairs Minister George Chaponda the task of leading Malawi’s delegation to the 81st […]
Civil servants have been ordered to pack away their suitcases and cancel their posh hotel bookings as bosses launch a brutal crackdown on cozy government junkets. Top brass at the Office of the President and Cabinet have put an IMMEDIATE stop to all taxpayer-funded workshops, seminars, and lavish away-days outside official work stations. The extraordinary […]
Civil society organisations (CSOs) have accused the government of turning its austerity programme into a public relations exercise, arguing that there is little evidence to show whether the spending cuts have delivered any measurable benefits to the country’s struggling economy. The criticism follows the government’s decision to lift a recruitment and promotion freeze in the […]