There’s panic among residents in Salima district following revelation that Salima Sugar Company Limited has registered nine coronavirus disease (Covid-19) suspects. The company’s Corporate Manager Dr. Charles Thupi confirmed the development in a interview on Wednesday. However, Thupi assured Malawians that the company is do everything possible to ensure the safety of our staff and […]
Salima Sugar Company Limited (SCCL) has donated 4, 000 surgical masks to Covid-19 Response Private Citizens to enable the initiative reach out to district hospitals with response materials in the next two weeks. France-based Malawian Stanley Onjezani Kenani established the initiative to complement the government efforts to mobilize resources for combating the novel coronavirus disease […]
Salima Sugar Company Limited (SSCL) has challenged the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) to provide evidence on the allegations the coalition has reported to the Minister of Trade, Sosten Gwenge, and law enforcement agencies. Last week, HRDC – a self-styled whistle-blower on corruption and bribery in the public service – alleged that the company is […]
Salima Sugar Company Limited has reportedly lost more than MK100 million this year due to illicit fires, vandalism and theft across its sugarcane farms. The company, which is in partnership with the Government of Malawi through Green Belt Authority (GBA) in a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement, has 60 percent shares in the sugarcane growing […]
The simmering tension between smallholder sugar cane growers and Salima Sugar Company Limited–triggered by the latter’s alleged “inability” to buy at least 20 000 tonnes of sugarcane belonging to the former–prompted Agriculture Minister Lobin Lowe to intervene on the matter on Wednesday afternoon in order to find a long lasting solution that would pacify both […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has halted the immediate deportation of 67 Indian workers at Salima Sugar company whom the government said had no work permit. Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda granted the stay for judicial review on their case. This means the court will hear the whole case before making its determination on whether they should […]
A resident magistrate’s court in Lilongwe has granted bail to 76 Indian Salima Sugar Company illegal workers just hours after arresting other illegal foreign workers in the country. Lilongwe resident magistrate Shyreen Chirwa ordered the 67 Indian nationals to pay K100, 000 each as bail bond and K500,000 non cash surety bond. Salima Sugar Company […]
A court in Lilongwe has remanded until Monday pending a bail ruling 67 Indian workers who were arrested on Wednesday at Salima Sugar Company. The foreign workers were arrested by Immigration authorities on allegations that they did not have working permits. The Lilongwe senior resident magistrates Shyreen Chirwa Yona and Florence Msekandiana have reserved their […]
Illigal Indian workers at Salima Sugar Company have appeared in court in Lilongwe just a day after Immigration officials pounced on them. The 67 employees from India who were working at the company without valid official work permits have been formally charged with working without permits. The government has 40 per cent shares in Salima […]
The Immigration Department officials arrested a group of 67 illegal workers – all Indian national – at the Salima Sugar Factory for working without work permits. during a raid on Wednesday barely a day after Minister of Homeland Security Richard Chimwendo Banda paid a surprise visit to the factory . The immigration officers surrounded the […]