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 […]
Market traders in Malawi will be banned from selling second-hand underwear and other items, a move which has received mixed reactions as some traders fear this will negatively impact their economic livelihoods. The decision by the Malawi government to impose a ban on the importation of secondhand underwears is in line with the new Control of […]
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 […]