Salima Sugar Company has been accused of being dodgy employers hiring illegal immigrants from India after Homeland Security Minister Richard Chimwendo Banda’s visit to the factory on Tuesday after arrival of experts from India as the company resumed production. About 60 Indian nationals are working without permits and Minister Chimwendo Banda noted during the visit […]
Sugarcane Growers Association of Malawi (Sugam) has cited increasing sugarcane smuggling and low prices on the international market to be the main challenges to the declining of prices offered by the lone sugarcane buyer, Illovo Sugar Malawi PLC. Sugam chairperson, Frighton Njolomole said Illovo (Plc) indicated that the decline comes following low prices being offered […]
Malawians working for the flagship project – Salima Sugar Company – have accused their Asian managers of practicing racism and demanding sex from female workers in exchange of favours. An undercover investigation by the Nyasa Times recently established that the Asians have been maltreating the local workers while at the same time demanding sexual favours […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) following a tip from the public, intercepted smuggled bales of sugar concealed in five truckloads of salt that were being imported into the country through Mwanza Border on Monday February 11. In the operation, MRA seized a total of 527 bales of smuggled sugar from four different individuals.179 bales belonged […]
Chief Executive Officer for the Green Belt Authority Henri Njolomasays the impact made by Salima Sugar Company in the country is hugeand with more support from all stakeholders, will transform livesof thousands of Malawians. Salima Sugar Company currently has created over 1000 jobs but manymore are also in the offing as the company is still […]
Malawi Police in Chikhwawa have come in to restore order after rampaging cane cutters from vast sugar plantation on Nchalo went amok, demanding K2400 per cane cut from K1150. Police Officer In Charge for Chikhwawa Davie Chingwalu confirmed the running battles between the police and the cane cutters are now over. “The situation is now […]
Sugar manufacturer, Illovo Sugar (Malawi) Limited has silently hiked the prices of the commodity without any justification. The increase comes at a time the country’s inflation is still at single digit and the central bank is touting Kwacha’s stability against major foreign currencies. In a document Nyasa Times has sourced, indicate that Illovo Sugar Malawi […]
Illovo Sugar Malawi’s White Sugar Rush Christmas Promotion has managed to yield results as the commodity’s sales volume increased. The company was forced to stage the promotion due to the decline of white sugar demand. Illovo Head of Domestic Sales, Walter Nyamilandu told the media that the promotion was designed to create awareness amongst consumers […]
U.S. Ambassador to Malawi Virginia Palmer has announced that Malawi’s country-specific allocation of the tariff-rate quota for raw cane sugar imports to the United States has increased by 45% in fiscal year 2017. “Malawi exported $10.7 million worth of sugar to the United States in 2016, an increase of 25% from 2015. This quota increase […]
Sugar prices have risen by about nine t percent effective Monday due national equalisations scheme, according to Illovo Sugar (Malawi) Limited. Illovo public relations officer Irene Phalula said there are justifiable factors that drive sugar prices in Malawi. The price for 50 kilogrames of brown bulk will be at K37 221.75 per bale while white […]
Government has said the shortage of sugar supply that rocked the country for at least the last three weeks, adding that should that not happen it “will take appropriate measures to ensure that sugar is available in the country.” Malawi has faced an acute shortage of sugar prices that saw the price of the commodity […]
The country’s consumer watch-dog, Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) has bemoaned the current sugar scarcity and has since called on the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism to allow traders to start importing sugar from other countries to address the crisis. Malawi is experiencing sugar scarcity, a situation which has made traders, shops and other […]
Malawian consumers are being forced to pay more on sugar following a decision by some unscrupulous traders to hike both wholesale and retail prices which Illovo Sugar Malawi Limited has described as illegal. Illovo last increased sugar prices by an average of eight percent in December, 2016 and has not effected any increment ever since, […]
Illovo Sugar Company has denied rumours going round on social media that the country might experience shortage of sugar on the local market because the company is not crushing any cane since November, 2016. According to Illovo Public Relations Officer, Ireen Phalula, the rumours are not true as the company has always had enough stocks […]
Parliament’s Agriculture Committee officials on Friday left the newly opened multibillion kwacha Salima Sugar Company concerned with the poor working conditions of Malawian workers. Most of the 100 Malawian workers had no working gear or had bad working clothing that could not protect them from the dangers of factories. Chairman of the committee Joseph Chidanti […]
Malawi together with other major sugar exporters in the SADC region got a good deal for their industries with Tanzania committing to allow sugar imports from the region at preferential tariff rates. Additionally, it was agreed that sugar imports from countries outside the region, like Brazil and Europe, which is heavily subsidized will be imported […]
Malawi government, through the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, says it is finalizing the Sugar Bill which will help to regulate and level the playing field in the sugar industry. The Ministry’s Principal Secretary Cliff Kenneth Chiunda said this after touring Illovo Sugar-Dwangwa Estate, Ethanol Company Limited (EthCo) and Carbon Dioxide and Allied Products […]
President Prof. Peter Mutharika on Monday officially commissioned sugar production at the newly established Sugar Company in Salima. The state-of-the-art factory which is situated at Chikwawa Greenbelt Site in the area of T/A Khombedza has become the second sugar company in Malawi after Illovo Sugar which has factories in Chikhwawa and Nkhotakota districts. Speaking to […]