Since last week’s stinging observation by United Nations (UN) Special Raportuer on the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter regarding Malawi’s Kayelekera Uranium Mine deal, two elusive culprits remain pretty much intact in their hard shells. It is as if the country’s most guarded contract between government and Australian company, Paladin Africa Ltd has not […]
The controversial Kayelekera Uranium Mine Project in northern Malawi has delivered a 20 percent increase in its annual production, which is four percent above the March quarter with 789 430 pounds (358 tonnes) produced during the June quarter. However, this is despite claims by the owners (Paladin Africa, a subsidiary of Australia’s Paladin Energy) that the […]
Paladin (Africa) Limited has chased one of its ex-employees, whom it fired while on sickbed, out of Mwaiwathu Private Hospital as it revealed could no longer pay his hospital bills, Nyasa Times understands. Francis Mkonda, who was admitted to Mwaiwathu earlier this year after collapsed while working at Paladin’s Kayerekera mine, has been shifted to […]
Uranium miner, Paladin is sailing in troubled waters following Malawi government rejection of its application made by for an Exclusive Prospective Licence extension and the company has of late been dominating headlines for wrong reasons. Paladin applied to Malawi government for an extension of EPL 0168, EPL 0169 and EPL 0170 beyond seven years but […]
Five years ago, Wiliro Health Clinic in Karonga was in a dilapidated state and could not deliver mothers during night because it did not have electricity. Now the situation is different. The health facility was renovated and improved to modern standards and Escom electricity was connected to the site in August 2009, thanks to Paladin […]
Clarifies on royalty as a result of Malawi’s inability to provide geological database Paladin Africa Limited (PAL)—owner of Kayerekera Uranium Mine (KUM) in the northern Malawi district of Karonga— says it will make public the full terms and conditions of the development agreement between Malawi Government and the miner to clear the mist. Critics have been accusing […]
Malawi has been unable to collect 15 percent Non-residence Tax in the royalty payments of the Kayelekera Uranium Mining deal due to negligence as the country lost geological information for the mine , forcing Paladin Africa Limited to buy it outside the country, it has been reported In 1999 when Paladin started negotiating the uranium […]
Australian Miner Paladin Energy Limited, operators of the Kayerekera Uranium Mine in Karonga district have a US$10 million Environmental Performance Bond with two commercial banks in Malawi to among other things cater for rehabilitation costs for signs of default during and after mine life. “Paladin has a MWK 3.9 Billion (US$10 Million) Performance Bond in […]
The business community and other concerned citizens in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga are planning to hold demonstrations from 12 to 26th March 2012 which seeks to force the Australian mining company Paladin to close down Kayelekera Uranium Mine located in the district. In their earlier petition to Malawi government authorities dated 26th January 2013 […]
There was a minor break-in and robbery at Paladin’s Kayelekera uranium Mine in the early hours of Friday and Police in Malawi’s northern district of Karonga has since arrested two suspects believed to have stolen K2 million cash and assorted items . Karonga Police Officer-In-Charge Senior Assistant Commissioner Foster Peter Mangani told Nyasa Times that one of the […]
Despite uranium miner, Paladin Energy limited claiming that its Malawi operations in the northern district of Karonga at Kayelekera are operating on massive losses and that world uranium prices are low, the company’s managing director John Borshoff elected to cash in his leave entitlementment, Nyasa Times has established. Paladin’s annual report reveals that despite Borshoff honouring a […]
Uranium miner, Paladin Energy Limited has confirmed Nyasa Times report that a group of recently retrenched employees entered the Kayelekera Mine in Karonga on Thursday last week claiming they received inadequate pay out. “A group of 32 former employees did enter the Site last Thursday, seeking to complain principally over the decision by commercial banks […]
A group of former miners who were recently retrenched from uranium miner, Paladin, on Thursday stormed the Kayerekera mine in northern border district of Karonga, a claiming they received inadequate pay out. Over 30 ex-mine workers stormed into the mines premises to complain about what they think was a raw deal after being retrenched. The […]
Malawi’s opposition People’s Transformation Party (Petra) has added its voice to the concerns raised by African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) that the government of Malawi had made a bad choice of project given the absence of transparency and accountability in the deal. PETRA president Kamuzu Chibambo told reporters in Blantyre on Monday that his […]
Paladin Africa Limited- Malawi office- has sent on an indefinite suspension two of its employees for allegedly swindling funds meant for buying food staff in Karonga District, Nyasa Times has learnt. The two, Chipiliro Mwenelupembe and Helena Makwakwa, who were working as Food Buying Supervisor and Food Buying Clerk respectively, received their suspension letters last […]
Uranium miner Paladin Energy has dimissed claims by Malawian lawmaker that a child of one of the top government official has pocketed over K40 million bribe from the managers of Kayelekera project in Karonga as one way of gaining favours from the government. Controversial Thyolo Thava parliamentarian Lifred Nawena made the bribery allegations in Parliament last […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Member of Parliament for Nkhotakota Central constituency Edwin Banda on Tuesday took to the floor in the National Assembly the controversial deal government entered with uranium miner Paladin, on Karonga’s Kayerekera project. Two small local nongovernment organisations, Karonga Youth for Justice and Development (KYJD) and Karonga Business Community, had proposed holding a peaceful demonstration […]
While Karonga minority vocal groups and local businesses are unhappy at Paladin Energy’s corporate social responsibility undertakings, Nyasa Times investigations shows that local businesses do benefit significantly from supply contracts with Kayelekera Mine. According to the Development Agreement , the miner should provide opportunities to “legitimate established businesses in Malawi” to tender to supply materials, equipment and services to Kayelekera Mine which meets the specifications of the invitation to tender; is competitive in cost with international sources; meets the delivery requirements of the Project; meets the quality requirements of the Project; and is bona fide. Nyasa Timesinvestigations can reveal that Clause 5.1 (a) of the Development Agreement also obliges the Paladin to assist in establishing or expanding Malawian businesses that may be capable of providing goodsand services to the mine, but such businesses must be uncompetitive with another non-Malawian supplier. Most of the chemical […]