Collins Mtika

Tax outflows, debt cripples Malawi’s growth

Apr 16, 2018 0

Malawi is struggling to address loss of revenues due to smuggling of minerals, unregulated artisanal and small-scale mining activities, under declaration of taxable income and transfer mispricing by mining companies. Reserve Bank of Malawi statistics… ...

Malawi outshines DRC as the worst on internet connectivity

Mar 02, 2018 25

Malawi has only outshined the DRC positioning itself as the second last both out of 86 countries in the world and among 24 African countries by being among the worst countries in terms of internet… ...

Malawi state agencies deadlocked over arrest of Indians who externalized $4m

Dec 30, 2016 10

Heads of Malawi's six state agencies are yet to append their signatures to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to kick start an operation code named, Operation Kuluma, aimed at investigating and prosecuting financial crimes in… ...

Colonial relic decimating Malawian women

Jul 29, 2016 4

For 154 years now successive Malawian governments have stood by and watched while a British colonial law enacted in 1861 though meant to serve women’s lives – is now sending more Malawian women to the… ...

Panama papers: Press Trust among 46 Malawi businesses in off-shore tax haven

May 17, 2016 5

...Reserve Bank defends 'tax dodgers' ...“We don’t pay tax to Malawi” says Press Trust The Reserve Bank of Malawi has disclosed that it duly approved Press Trust Overseas Limited, a subsidiary of Press Trust, to… ...

The Church advocates for other issues and not HIV prevention

The uncoordinated orchestra – Malawi’s circumcision conundrum

May 12, 2016 1

For 33 years now, Reverend Levi Nyondo, as God’s anointed ‘shepherd,’ has watched HIV/AIDS decimate his ‘sheep.’ Although his homilies have urged sexual abstinence and fidelity, which should slow spread of the disease, he grudgingly admits… ...

Farmers World ‘secretly auctioned’ to a tax haven

Mar 29, 2016 10

A Mauritius domiciled investment fund, Phatisa, has acquired one of Malawi's arguably number one agro- processing group of companies, Farmers World, in a secret deal which has send goose pimples among the company’s 3,000 employees… ...