The Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal will on October 25 hear a case by two civil society organisations (CSOs) want to replace Malawi Law Society (MLS) against Khato Civil, stopping the engineering company to proceed with the $500 million (K400 billion) Salima-Lilongwe water project. Supreme Court judge Lovemore Chikopa earlier gave Khato Civils a lifeline […]
Malawi government has said World Bank has not released the K60 billion budget support from the World Bank, which was expected in August, has not be released, as the donors had raised some issues including the decision to proceed with the Salima-Lilongwe water project – whose contract was given to Khato Civils Limited that unveiled the […]
Malawi government says it will engage the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank on the financing of the Salima-Lilongwe Water project. Ministry of Finance Principal Secretary, Ben Botolo in a statement madeavailable to Nyasa Times said the project was still in the offing and that it has not been abandoned. Major questions have […]
Engineering giants Khato Civils Limited say they are fully set to roll out implementation of Lake Malawi Water Supply Project, which is their flagship undertaking in the country. This dispels a recent newspaper report that hinted of a possible withdrawal from the project after the company’s Executive Chairman, Simbi Phiri, expressed displeasure with some red […]
Simbi Phiri, chairman of Khato Civils, has said he was becoming worried with some Malawi government officials, including Finance minister Goodall Gondwe, who has not signed the K400 billion loan contract that is frustrating a multimillion dollar project to pipe water from Lake Malawi to Lilongwe, the capital city. Khato Civils was awarded a K400 […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) says there are no ‘well-substantiated grounds’ to institute investigations on Khato Civils (Pty) Limited, a Malawian owned South African based design and construction company over the Multi Billion Kwacha Salima – Lilongwe Water Supply project. A very high ranking official at the country’s graft-busting body says the complaints that the bureau has […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has said it will open a probe into a $500 million (K400 billion) Lilongwe-Salima water project to improve water supply in the capital city, after receiving a complaint on the contract. Khato Civils, a construction and engineering company headquartered in South Africa and owned by a Malawian billionaire Simbi Phiri, is appearing […]
Khato Civils is a black-owned African values driven design and construction company committed to contributing towards infrastructure development in the African continent. With its headquarters in Johannesburg Khato Civils has extended its operations beyond the South African borders into countries including Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Namibia. The company’s long-term vision is to have 80% […]
Malawian billionaire business tycoon, Simbi Phiri has undertaken another ‘humanitarian’ construction project in Mchinji to provide decent houses and accommodation for the people of Lumbe Village for free after constructing and furnishing a primary school, including building teachers’ houses in his home village of Chembe in Traditional Authority Mazengera in Lilongwe. Lumbe Village in Traditional Authority […]
In a gesture of remembering his roots, Khato Civils owner, Simbi Phiri has constructed and furnished a primary school in his home village of Chembe, T/A Mazengera in Lilongwe Rural East. Simbi was born and grew up in Chembe before he left for Botswana as a young boy with his father. The new facility which […]
South African-based construction company Khato Civils has vowed to sustain its clean-record of building high quality infrastructure within stipulated time as it expands its operations to many African countries. Khato Civils Executive Chairman Simbi Phiri made the pledge on Friday during the official opening of its multi-million dollar headquarters located at Samrand in South Africa’s […]
Malawi boasts a number of billionaires and two of the super-rich persons are South-Africa based Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and Simbi Phiri and the former has commended the later for being part of the solution to end the water problems in the country through the development of the Salima- Lilongwe Water Supply Project to pump water from […]
South Africa-based Malawian billionaire businessperson Simbi Phiri, who was awarded a multimillion kwacha water project, reportedly plans to construct Malawi’s tallest twin towers in the capital Lilongwe. The structures are projected to stand next to each other at City Centre, Opposite Reserve Bank of Malawi, behind Pacific Hotel. Once complete, the towers will include 20 […]
The Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday October 20 threw out an injunction obtained by Malawi Law Society stopping Khato Civils Ltd from proceeding with the Lake Malawi Water Supply project on the basis that there was no Environmental Impact Assessment. The determination delivered by Justice Lovemore Chikopa faulted both the process through which MLS […]
Khato Holdings Executive Chairman, Simbi Phiri, says his company is set to transform communities along Lilongwe-Salima Road which is coincidentally the designation of the Lake Malawi -Lilongwe Water Supply Project. Khato Civils was contracted by Lilongwe Water Board to implement the K500 Billion project that upon completion will address the perennial water shortages in the […]
Khato Holdings has announced plans to expand its construction business to Africa with Malawi, Botswana, Namibia, Ghana and South Sudan among the countries the conglomerate wants to claim huge stakes. Simbi Phiri, Executive Chairman of the Khato Holdings, which comprises Khato Civils and South Zambezi firms, said this at the company’s Annual General Meeting in […]
Malawian tycoon Simbi Phiri of Khato Civils registered a convincing moral victory in Botswana High Court on September 7, 2017, as he was exonerated from any bad image of suspected money laundering that he was given by some sections of Botswana media with the help of that country’s so-called crime busting agency, the Directorate on […]
South African-based Malawian billionaire businessman Ashan Simbi Phiri of civil engineering company, Khato Civils,has been cleared by Botswana anti-corruption unit, the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime,of money laundering charges. The Botswana anti-corruption unit obtained a restraining order in April 2016 that froze Khato Civils accounts pending an investigation on money-laundering charges. The directorate decided […]