Economist Betchani Tcheleni from The Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi (Unima), has suggested that the Buy Malawi Strategy which aims at stimulating local production by encouraging Malawians to embrace locally made products, goods as well as services, needs a specific legal framework for its actualisation. Speaking in an interview with Nyasa Times, Tcheleni […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said his Tonse Alliance administration will be implementing policies to ensure there is money in people’s pockets in line with its philosophy by directing all Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government (MDAs) to buy supplies locally. In a televised address on Sunday night, Chakwera said while that comprehensive review lead by […]
Traders in Malawi will be banned from selling second-hand clothes – known as Kaunjika, the Chinyanja word for “bundles” – if calls by textile and garment industry are accepted by government to help the country revive its own textile industry, which was wiped out in the late 1990s as the country started opening its […]
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Resident Representative Maria Jose Torres and Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism Henry Mussa have joined hands to drum up for Buy Malawian campaign during the country’s independence celebrations. In a joint statement, Mussa and Torres encourages all citizens and people resident in Malawi “to think of growing the Malawi […]
Government officials were conspicuously absent from the second anniversary of the ‘Buy Malawi Strategy’ forcing Minister of Trade Henry Mussa to openly condemn the tendency. Only five top officials out of the 20 government ministries and departments attended the anniversary commemorations on Friday in Lilongwe. “The attendance here leaves us with a lot of questions than answers. Organisers of this […]
Minister of Information, Communication and Technology, Nicholas Dausi has called for the support of Buy Malawi initiative to help boost the country’s economy, decrying the tendency by some foreign companies operating in the country to import products at the expense of local ones. Dausi said this on Tuesday at Sun n’ Sand Resort in Mangochi […]
The much awaited Buy Malawi Strategy (BMS) website was this week launched with low turnout of business captains, individuals to patronize the event in the capital Lilongwe. The development angered the Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism Henry Mussa who called Malawians to be patriotic to their country’s developmental agendas government was advancing. The event […]
State Vice President Dr. Saulos Chilima and renowned global South African branding and reputation architect, Thebe Ikalafen, on Friday stressed on the need for Malawians to embrace the ‘Buy Malawi’ campaign. The two made the call in Mangochi at the launch of 2017 Teveta National Executive Conference held at Makokola Retreat where Chief Executive Officers, […]
Large quantities of Irish potatoes from bordering Tanzania are being imported to Malawi through border posts such as Songwe in Karonga and Ilomba in Chitipa, a development that is against the Buy- Malawian Campaign, the country is currently promoting. Spot checks around the border posts of Songwe and Ilomba in Karonga and Chitipa respectively, indicate […]
The Malawi High Commission in London has officially joined the Malawi Scotland Partnership, Just Trading Limited and Satemwa Tea/Rare Tea Company in the inaugural Buy Malawian campaign for the United Kingdom. The six-week campaign will run from March 1 to April 9 2017 and 19th March, 2017 has been designated as Buy Malawi day. This […]
The Malawi chapter of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has revealed plans to launch a competition aimed at discovering a truly Malawian cloth design that will serve as the nation’s national cloth. The competition dubbed ‘Kuvala Kwathu’, will be open to all graphic designers in the country willing to accept the challenge of designing […]
Government says Malawi still imports 80 per cent of its products from South Africa, commodities that can locally be sourced, a situation that is against Buy Malawian concept. Director administration and finance in the ministry of Trade and Industry Joseph Mkandawire said it was a pity that most products consumed in Malawi are manufactured in […]
Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) Executive Director John Kapito has advised President Arthur Peter Muntharika to institute a Consumer Protection Council or else the ‘Buy Malawi Strategy’ (BMS) will flop. Kapito was speaking inside Zodiak radio’s Tuzeni Zoona talk show on Sunday 17th April, 2016. In his opening remarks, Kapito described the ‘Buy Malawi’ Strategy […]
Secretary to the cabinet George Mkondiwa has told the 150000 strong civil service to strictly and religiously follow the ‘Cultural Friday’. In a memo, Mkondiwa says the Cultural Friday, when civil servants are supposed to pit on tradition attire, is aimed at promoting Best buy campaign initiative. “The aim is to make Malawi tradition wear […]
Starting next year, all Malawians shall – on March 18 – wear, eat and use Malawian products as government’s deliberate strategy to support local products and grow the country’s manufacturing base for both local consumption and export. The decree was coincidentally made on Friday March 18 by President Arthur Peter Mutharika when he officially launched […]
Pharmanova Malawi Limited (PLM) which received Best Manufacturers Award at the 27th Malawi International Trade Fair, last year on Friday showcased their products during the launch of the Buy Malawi Strategy which encourages Malawian citizens to support the local industries by buying locally produce goods and services. PLM managing director Yusuf Patel underscored President Peter […]
Malawian President Peter Mutharika was in self praise Friday after his charges narrowly defeated the opposition in a vote that could have trimmed presidential powers. Speaking during the official launch of Best Buy Malawi Strategy in Lilongwe, Mutharika mocked the opposition for the defeat in parliament on Thursday. “Yesterday they failed to take some of […]
Minister of Trade and Industry, Joseph Mwanamveka has urged Malawians to embrace local products for the enhancement and growth of the economy. He said this on Tuesday in Lilongwe after briefing the press of the launch of Buy Malawian, Build Malawi Strategy by President Professor Peter Mutharika on 18 March at the Bingu International Conference […]