Minister of Mining John Bande unashamedly lied during a presentation he gave to an international audience attending the world’s largest mining investment conference in South Africa that President Joyce Banda convinced Vale of Brazil to construct a railway line that should pass through Malawi. Bande also told the conference held in Cape Town last Wednesday […]
The High Court in Blantyre has issued an interim restraining order stopping Minister of Mining, John Bande and others from trespassing and encroaching on Angoni Lonjezo Community Based Organization (CBO) orphanage land situated in his constituency, Blantyre City East. The court’s order came about after some of the CBO’s officials complained of been assaulted and […]
Blantyre-based businessman Davie Kanyoza and a protégé of the once mighty business magnate Leston Mulli , has filed for appeal against the Constitutional Court’s ruling to remove him as party in a case where Mulanje charity worker Mary Woodworth is contesting a government decision to lease her piece of land to the businessman. A panel of three […]
The Constitutional Court sitting in Blantyre has rebuffed businessman Davie Kanyoza and a protégé of the once mighty business magnate Leston Mulli from joining a case where Mulanje charity worker Mary Woodworth is contesting a government decision to lease her piece of land to the businessman. A panel of three High Court Judges consisting of Justices […]
Tempers flared Thursday morning at Blantyre City Council (BCC) civic offices when a group of parliamentarians in Blantyre demanded for the resignation of the entire management. This happened during a meeting the council held with the lawmakers who demanded an explanation on why it is taking long for the council to release funds for projects […]
Malawian exhibitors at the Malawian desk at the ongoing 16th summit of the COMESA heads of state and government feels government has abandoned them as no official from Ministry of trade and other government officials or the MCCI has visited their stand ever since they started displaying their merchandise. Minister of trade, John Bande however denied […]
Malawi’s Trade Minister, John Bande has said COMESA is on the right track as far as eliminating non-tariff trade barriers (NTBs) are concerned. In an interview on Thursday in Kampala, Uganda Bande said the COMESA region has grown stronger in the past years because of the consolidation of its internal market through the elimination of […]
Malawi, reeling from years of economic mismanagement, continues to fall on international business rankings as latest figures show the landlocked country has slipped six places from 151 to 157 out of 185 global economies on the 2013 World Bank Doing Business index. According to 10th edition of Doing Business report series released on Monday, Malawi […]
Government is reviewing laws governing business investments to encourage more local investment and increased employment levels among Malawians. Speaking in Blantyre as Chloride Batteries (CB) clocked 45 years of operation since its inception in 1967, Minister of Industry and Trade, John Bande expressed optimism that a postmortem on the laws would promote continued and enhanced […]
Malawians on Sunday welcomed delicacies from Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), one of the most popular chicken restaurants globally, as the chain Opened a restaurant in Malawi’s commercial city, Blantyre. KFC is a US-based company with a global footprint. Afribrands Limited and Yum Africa have the franchise licence to run the business in Malawi. “I know […]
Government has ordered the re-opening of Asian shops which were closed some weeks ago for failing to comply with the competition and fair trading business Act. Minister of Industry and Trade, John Bande personally evoked the licences for some Asian shops in all the three regions of the country, for maintaining high prices of secondhand […]
The Malawi government has asked all wholesalers of second hand clothes known here as ‘Kaunjika’ to immediately slash their retail prices following the recent removal of Import exercise tax on second hand clothes warning that failure to do that would end up in the revocation of their licenses. Kaunjika Traders, many of them women, have […]
Government has closed nine shops belonging to Asians in Mzuzu for either operating illegally or failing to lower their prices after government removed exercise duty on some products in the 2012 to 2013 fiscal year. Minister of Industry and Trade, John Bande, confirmed the closure saying many of the affected shops are those that sell […]
Malawi’s opposition member has asked government of President Joyce Banda to thoroughly investigate several of the former ruling DPP scandals including the housing scam involving the Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) in which former cabinet ministers were involved in buying houses for a song. MCP’s Lilongwe Nsozi south Vitus Dzoole Mwale raised the issue during debate […]
Malawi Government has said it will close down all foreign businesses operating illegally in the country as one way of promoting Malawian small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Minister of Trade and Industry, John Bande, said this Thursday on the sidelines of this year’s International Small and Medium Enterprises trade fair currently underway in Lilongwe He […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has called for a cabinet meeting this (Saturday) evening to, among others, discuss how the country will mourn the country’s departed leader Bingu wa Mutharika. Her Excellency Mrs Banda said at a media briefing Saturday morning at her Area 12 residence in Lilongwe the meeting will focus on Mutharika’s death and […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday arrested former general manager of Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) , Golden Matiya , in relation to a multi-million kwacha housing scam which also involves President Bingu wa Mutharika’s brother, Peter Matiya, who joined MHC on September 15, 2008, left the company recently after government declined to renew his contract recently […]
The Summit of Heads of State and Government in the 19-member Comesa trade group “welcomed positive developments” in the democratisation process in Egypt and Libya, calling on the two North African countries to successfully complete the ongoing transition. In a communiqué issued at the end of the two-day summit in Lilongwe read by Malawi’s trade […]