{"id":42930,"date":"2017-03-21T18:48:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T16:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=42930"},"modified":"2017-03-21T18:48:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T16:48:42","slug":"tnm-withdraws-super-league-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/tnm-withdraws-super-league-sponsorship\/","title":{"rendered":"TNM withdraws super league sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile service provider Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) has withdrawn Super League sponsorship with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TNM has made the decision to fully withdraw from sponsorship of the Super League and let other potential sponsors take part in the continued development of sports in Malawi&#8221; reads TNM statement in part.<\/p>\n<p>The withdrawal follows suspension of the league a week ago, after a determination by the Competition and Fair Trading Commission (CFTC) over contract renewal negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>CFTC instituted a one-year investigation on reports that the contract between Super League of Malawi (Sulom) and TNM was contrary to the Competition and Fair Trading Act.<\/p>\n<p>TNM had invested into the league, a total of MK2.6 billion in the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>For an in-depth analysis of the development, tune in to Times TV and Times Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile service provider Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) has withdrawn Super League sponsorship with immediate effect. &#8220;TNM has made the decision to fully withdraw from sponsorship of the Super League and let other potential sponsors take part in the continued development of sports in Malawi&#8221; reads TNM statement in part. The withdrawal follows suspension of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42932,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42930\/revisions\/42932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}