Chipiliro Mpinganjira, son to Information and Civic Education Minister and People’s Party (PP) senior member, Brown James Mpingajira, has sparked controversy in squatter township of Ndirande for allegedly creating parallel ward and constituency committees in Blantyre City Central Constituency. Sitting parliamentarian for the area is former labour minister and PP National Executive Committee (NEC) member […]
Malawi government which for the past 14 years has not been forthcoming on the enactment of the Tenancy Labour Act has finally come in the open declaring that it is not interested to bring into Parliament the Bill which one of its objectives is to free thousands of suffering estate tenants who are spread across the country. Ministry of […]
A civil rights activist has asked Malawi government to apologise to the nation following revelations that Lilongwe did not sign an agreement with South Korea on the controversial labour export deal. Habiba Osman told Nyasa Times that Minister of Labour Eunice Makangala or any government officials should make a public apology over the issues. “Someone […]
Head of an NGO National League for Democracy and Development, Billy Mayaya has called for Minister of Labour Eunice Makangala to resign following revelations that Lilongwe did not sign an agreement with South Korea on the controversial labour export. Makangala have been telling the country that South Korea agreed to employ 100, 000 Malawians. But […]
Barely a week after it was revealed that Malawi had no formal agreement to export labour to South Korea, the government has been thrown off balance by last minute indefinite suspension of exportation of labour to Kuwait, it has been reported. The development, according to The Sunday Times, follows a sudden change to conditions for […]
Malawi government has explained that there is no legally binding deal with South Korea to allow up to 100,000 Malawian youth to work in the Asian economic powerhouse but that two countries will soon sign the dotted lines to the pact. Principal Secretary in the ministry of labour, Wezi Kayira said government has only applied […]
South Korea’s government has denied that it agreed with the Malawian government to receive as many tens of thousands of jobless youths to work in the Asian nation’s factories and farms. The Malawi Labour Minister Eunice Makangala told Parliament that PresidentJoyce Banda, struck the deal to export up to 100,000 young workers during a visit […]
Minister of Labour Eunice Makangala said the South Korea labour export under the youth job creation initiative of Joyce Banda’s administration to reduce poverty in Malawi has started and is set to target 100,000 youths country wide. “The whole programme will target 100,000 youths between the age range of 18 and 25. Right now we […]
“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent”– Dionysius of Halicarnassus Vice-President Khumbo Kachali, for sometime, was the undisputed champion of a guy who had the proverbial shoe permanently stuck in his mouth. There was a time he competed with himself to say the most bizarre things one wondered whether he was on […]
Malawi’s Minister of Labour Eunice Makangala says government would soon increase the current minimum wage pegged at r K8 242 (about $20) per month per month for workers. Speaking on Malawi’s state television on Friday evening during the Malawi Lero (Malawi Today) program, Makangala said she is impressed with what the shop owners have done by increasing the monthly salaries […]
Shop and domestic workers in Malawi’s capital city Lilongwe on Tuesday agreed to call off their two day strike after their employers agreed to raise the minimum wage to K18,600 per month with government also promising that it will adjust upward the current minmum wage which at K317 per month. The Lilongwe workers and their […]
Nasawa Technical and Vocational students have asked government to start issuing diplomas and degrees after their 3 years and 4 years training respectively. College Student Union Council president, Halima Makhamba made the call when Minister of Labour, Eunice Makangala visited the college on a familiarization tour to assess the condition of technical colleges in the […]
Journalists, who went to cover the Malawi Congress of Trade Unions (MCTU) 5th Quadrennial Congress at Malawi Sun Hotels in Blantyre on Friday, left the venue a disappointed lot after being released without being given neither lunch nor an upkeep allowance, as it has always been the norm. The scribes were particularly annoyed as the incident […]
Eureka! The Peoples Party-led Government has found a way to find a way of reining in the runaway strikers. Pun intended. It will soon convene an all-inclusive indaba in the hope of finding solutions to the now pandemic of industrial strikes in the public and private sectors and university colleges. According to Malawi’s Labour Minister […]