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/ 12 November 2004
About 300 Malawian employees of the South African supermarket chain Shoprite Trading Limited have returned to work after their two-week strike failed to win any concessions from the company. The workers, who were striking in support of their demand for better wages, suspended the strike after the company advertised in the local press for workers to replace them.
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/ 10 September 2004
Curbing excessive spending through strict controls and redirecting funds to social services and poverty alleviation schemes are the centrepiece of Malawi’s efforts to woo donors into supporting its 2004/05 budget. Malawi’s Minister of Finance, Goodall Gondwe, unveiled an 85,6-billion kwacha budget in Lilongwe with a warning to government departments that they adhere to his new expenditure control measures.
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/ 3 September 2004
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Justice James Kalaile has quit his post, just three months after the country’s parliamentary and presidential polls. The main opposition Malawi Congress Party and the Mgwirizano coalition (a grouping of five parties) are challenging the presidential results in the high court.
Privatisation of public water utilities came under intense fire at the week-long Third World Water Forum that ended in Japan last Sunday. The World Bank and a handful of European corporations want poor governments to put their water utilities in private hands, ostensibly to improve the management of an ever-scarcer resource.