For Esnart Mshamboza, the confiscation of her business merchandise was more than the loss of goods. It was the crushing of a livelihood she had fought to build—and a moment of humiliation that eventually pushed her story onto social media. The Mtandire woman’s emotional ordeal has now reached the highest levels of local government after […]
Blantyre City Mayor Isaac Jomo Osman has issued a firm warning to traders at Limbe Market that unauthorised structures must be removed by 8 July or face demolition by the council, as the city moves forward with plans to redevelop the market. The mayor convened a meeting with Vice Mayor Gerald Lipikwe, MP Themba Mkandawire […]
Vendors in Mzuzu Bus Depot have questioned the integrity of Mzuzu City Council for giving them just a portion of a range of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) against the Coronavirus disease that was agreed between the two parties. The vendors say out of a number of equipment that they were promised; only two pails have […]
Kasungu vendors who are plying their businesses in the district main market on Thursday agreed to stop paying market fee over the council failure to provide security in their business area. The vendors who said the market has been operating without security for almost seven months said they have been engaging with the council officials […]
Blantyre City Council on Monday night demolished structures for vendors in Limbe town specifically for those who ply their trade in areas deemed illegal for vending. Vendors plying their trade in the demolished stalls reacted with shock when they reported for the days’ business and more police officers were deployed within the city with some […]
Sports journalists in Mzuzu in partnership with Innobuild Private Company Limited, on Friday donated Personal Preventative Equipment (PPs) against COVID-19 to Mzuzu City Market. Over 500 face masks, hand sanitisers, hand washing soap and eight washing buckets were donated to the Kaunjika section of Mzuzu City Market in an initiative dubbed “Walk of the journalist […]
Mzuzu street vendors have challenged a call by Mzuzu City Council to move to designated places. This follows the council’s warning for illegal vendors to move out of streets by Thursday September 3, or face reasonable force. A second-hand clothes vendor in the city, Vera Ng’ambi, said it is the same council which gave her […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said the country need a more lasting solution `to the issue of street vending in the cities and announced his plan to engage councillors to resolve the matter. Sweeping exercises to drive vendors out of the streets and sidewalks to designated places has in recent years faced resistance in the cities […]
Scenes of illegal vending along, and sometimes, in the middle of the street in our cities, are becoming increasingly appalling. Appalling to a point where driving is becoming difficult and, we know, there have been reports of people having their valuables snatched. The vendors are all over and often you feel as if it’s a […]
Director of operations for Trogon Trading Private Limited, Mohan Suresh Kumar a company that is in leather production has bemoaned the tendency of eating animal skins among Malawians which he said is slowing down the leather production industry. Kumar made the statement in an interview, saying the development has led to vendors not to collect […]
Vendors on Friday cleared waste around Mzuzu Main Market which piled up following a two-week sit-in by Mzuzu City Council employees over unpaid salaries. In an interview, Mapini Chicken Sellers chairperson Rajah Mvula said they embarked on the exercise because the place started stinking; hence, not conducive for business. “We hired a vehicle to ferry […]
Market Committees in Chiradzulu have asked the District Council to provide adequate market structures that should help the authority boost revenue collection as most markets fail to collect adequate revenue due to poor facilities in some markets. The market committees made the appeal over the weekend when committees and the Chiradzulu District Council officials met […]
Malawi Police have been forced to spray teargas as they clashed with vendors in Limbe – Blantyre, who were staging protests against a three-weeks coronavirus lockdown which comes into effect at the weekend, vowing to disregard it. The informal traders were burning tyres and blocked the road in protest over the lockdown scheduled to start on […]
Angry Mzuzu City vendors on Thursday took to the streets to protrst against government’s decision to implement a 21-day lockdown as measure to contain Covid-19, the strain of coronavirus disease, saying it will cause more problems for the urban poor. The market and street vendors who started the protests without notifying the authorities as stipulated […]
Blantyre City Council (BCC) has used police force to clear vendors out of the streets as part of its intensified measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The council deployed law enforcers in the streets on Wednesday following the ban issued on Monday. The City Council’s lockdown measures include ban on street vending, bridal showers, […]
Vendors in Limbe and Blantyre continue plying their trade on the streets a day after Blantyre City Council banned vending in the commercial city as a preventive measure against coronavirus. Blantyre City Council (BCC) on Monday instituted a ban on street vending and other social gatherings including wedding ceremonies, engagement ceremonies and parties as a […]
Vendors who operate outside Mpondabwino Market in Zomba City on Wednesday protested against City authorities for victimizing them and damaging their properties. The vendors from inside the market are accusing those selling merchandise outside for contributing to the low turn up of customers inside the market. However, those selling outside the market claim there is no […]
Residents in Lilongwe have asked the City Council to enforce by-laws on illegal vending and also to put regulations on the motorcycle and bicycle taxi ranks in the city. The residents fear the proliferation of illegal vending and opening of motorbike and bicycle taxi ranks could result in rising cases of crime in the city. […]